# articles

feed_id: e05e79f7505820b58206ba6b2e602791
title: Urgent: Stop new offshore drilling
uri: Urgent-Stop-new-offshore-drilling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_new_offshore_drilling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/no_offshore_drilling">call 
on Obama</a> to stop new offshore drilling.


feed_id: 603491c13ddfff75ae7a47203fab410b
title: Europe's "bailout" package for Greece
uri: Europe-s-bailout-package-for-Greece
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Europes_bailout_package_for_Greece%29

content:
<p>
Europe's "bailout" package for Greece
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/06/grexit-back-on-the-agenda-economy-unravels-reforms">has
only tightened the vice</a>.
<p>
It was clear, that this would happen.  The longer Greece waits
to exit the Euro, the weaker it will be.  Have courage!


feed_id: aec6ddff8dadca335fc9f0a144007f19
title: Eritrean refugees
uri: 2016-03-12-Eritrean-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Eritrean_refugees%29
content:
<p>
The UK has distorted researchers' findings to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/07/eritrean-woman-who-fled-to-uk-wins-award-for-helping-other-refugees">fabricate
an excuse to claim that it is safe to send refugees back</a> to
Eritria.


feed_id: e8384ff75b0dee8abe813485eeef0111
title: British rule in India
uri: British-rule-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28British_rule_in_India%29
content:
<p>
In India, British rule meant
<a href="http://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/">high
taxes and deadly famines</a>.
<p>
That's because the British wanted to export the wealth that Indians
produced, rather than keep it locally.


feed_id: 520312b1a014c79f47563699ecadd765
title: Staple crops in Africa face decline
uri: Staple-crops-in-Africa-face-decline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Staple_crops_in_Africa_face_decline%29

content:
<p>
By 2100, many regions of Africa will be unable to grow their current
staple crops, because they
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/07/bananas-bleak-future-staple-african-crops-decline-beans-protein">won't
get enough water</a>.


feed_id: 66ccda2d52921cc420701c6538ffd292
title: "Nation building" in Libya
uri: Nation-building-in-Libya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Nation_building_in_Libya%29
content:
<p>
European armies are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/international-force-ready-for-libya-deployment-as-terror-threat-fears-grow">trying
"nation building"</a> in Libya in order to exclude PISSI.
<p>
It would be a good thing, if they could do it, but this has almost
always failed.  Is there any chance it will work in Libya?


feed_id: 209cb6409d209c82c61acb70064c5060
title: Lead poisoning
uri: Lead-poisoning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Lead_poisoning%29
content:
<p>
Lead poisoning
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/flint-lead-exposure-adult-health-effects">harms
adults, too</a>.


feed_id: 3de20eef1801321e49c4fa2f61c692be
title: British Empire's colonialism
uri: British-Empire-s-colonialism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28British_Empires_colonialism%29
content:
<p>
Protests against statues in Britain are a call to remember the injustice
of the British Empire's colonialism and Britain's
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/students-queen-victoria-statue-cecil-rhodes-colonial-past">history
of slavery</a>.


feed_id: 7d59a01e4ec0aedbc7469d595df8c926
title: Shaming-as-Rehab Programs
uri: Shaming-as-Rehab-Programs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Shaming-as-Rehab_Programs%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/03/religion-used-shame-addicts/471726/">Religious
Roots</a> of Shaming-as-Rehab Programs.


feed_id: 15feb6edf3332aede32d4554ae78ffa9
title: Republicans vote for more pollution
uri: Republicans-vote-for-more-pollution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Republicans_vote_for_more_pollution%29

content:
<p>
Republicans took control of the South Coast Air Quality Management
District in California, and
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/05/3756971/southern-california-air-quality-vote/">immediately
voted for more pollution</a>.


feed_id: 2dbe4c47ac0cabc2a93f7c92e4050e58
title: Federal funds for water in Flint blocked
uri: Federal-funds-for-water-in-Flint-blocked
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Federal_funds_for_water_in_Flint_blocked%29

content:
<p>
One CREOSOTUS (*) is
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/tea-party-senator-single-handedly-holding-federal-relief-funds-flint">single-handedly
blocking federal funds for water in Flint</a>.
<p>
CREOSOTUS = Crazy, Right-Wing, Extremely Oppressive Senator Of The
United States


feed_id: 3e6f2ecf30743081a83b7d09936b91fc
title: Major powers making war on civilians
uri: Major-powers-making-war-on-civilians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Major_powers_making_war_on_civilians%29

content:
<p>
The head of Médecins Sans Frontières says that major
powers are becoming barbaric in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/wars-are-being-fought-as-in-barbarian-times-warns-medecins-san-frontieres-chief">making
war on civilians</a>.
<p>
Ironically, they say they are fighting "terrorism" — but
terrorism is making war on civilians.


feed_id: 9d7c9df890f96f04f7c0684ebeda0ec9
title: dooH niboR policies
uri: 2016-03-12-dooH-niboR-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28dooH_niboR_policies%29
content:
<p>
Economic policies have
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/revealed-30-year-economic-betrayal-dragging-down-generation-y-income">systematically
harmed the generation born from 1980 thru the 1990s</a>, in many
countries.
<p>
The problem is that the brunt of dooH niboR policies fell on them.
But some are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/generation-y-pay-price-baby-boomer-pensions">trying
to blame old people for receiving adequate pensions</a> and distract
criticism from the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_(Thatcher%27s_policies)">rich
people and businesses that no longer pay enough tax</a>.


feed_id: 7c57035a81f6117931ddd45a5f64f8c9
title: Erdo&gbreve;an's opportunity to crush freedom
uri: Erdo-gbreve-an-s-opportunity-to-crush-freedom
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Erdogans_opportunity_to_crush_freedom%29

content:
<p>
With Europe desperate for Turkey's help in blocking Syrian refugees,
Erdo&gbreve;an sees his
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/mar/07/erdogan-the-enemy-of-press-freedom-will-humiliate-the-eu-again">opportunity
to crush freedom in Turkey</a>.


feed_id: deb94e49c794fded590f316cd8a9e82d
title: Support for Sanders
uri: Support-for-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Support_for_Sanders%29
content:
<p>
An independent turned Democrat writes about 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/07/why-bernie-sanders-democratic-partys-best-hope-win-white-house-november">going 
to the Colorado caucus</a> to support Sanders.


feed_id: c1b6e31c067cbceaa7acdcce61fb58df
title: Marshall Islands suing nuclear powers
uri: 2016-03-12-Marshall-Islands-suing-nuclear-powers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Marshall_Islands_suing_nuclear_powers%29

content:
<p>
The Marshall Islands is suing nine nuclear powers for
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/07/small-island-nation-takes-superpowers-court-over-nukes">failing
to carry out the obligation to promote nuclear disarmament</a>.
<p>
The strategy of mutual deterrence worked during the Cold War, in that
neither the US nor the Soviet Union ever intentionally launched a
nuclear war.  With the help of some lucky escapes, when nuclear bombs
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_October_2015_(Nuclear_was_averted_in_1962)">almost
exploded by accident</a> or retaliations were almost launched for
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_October_2015_(Nuclear_was_averted_in_1962)">nonexistent
attacks</a>, it was a success.
<p>
But it is not effective in a world where tiny countries and even
non-state groups could develop nuclear weapons.  How would you carry
out massive nuclear retaliation against al-Qa'ida?  Or North Korea?


feed_id: 508c3e7651ddea428fefa1e3377e9019
title: Clinton's promotion of fracking
uri: Clinton-s-promotion-of-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Clintons_promotion_of_fracking%29
content:
<p>
Clinton, as Secretary of State,
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/03/hillary-clinton-debate-fracking">promoted
fracking world wide</a>.  Now, confronting Sanders, she has to turn
around.


feed_id: 4d0934a8b000786945dc72497d187d97
title: Jobs program designed to help banksters
uri: Jobs-program-designed-to-help-banksters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%28Jobs_program_designed_to_help_banksters%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/hillarys-economic-agenda-sure-looks-payback-wall-st-giving-her-huge-piles-campaign">Clinton's
jobs program</a> is designed to help the banksters, too.


feed_id: 7769569c05fd1cdb477f8dd88e8cc86c
title: 1996 "welfare reform" law
uri: 1996-welfare-reform-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_%281996_welfare_reform_law%29
content:
<p>
The poverty-spreading consequences of President Clinton's "welfare
reform" law are still growing today, as states carry out the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/07/clinton-era-welfare-reforms-american-poor-bernie-sanders">"race
to the bottom" that people warned about</a> in 1996.
<p>
In 1996, we called this law "welfare fraud", and it is why I did not
vote for Bill Clinton in 1996.
<p>
Hillary Clinton endorses the law now, as she did before.  It is one of
many reasons I will not vote for her.


feed_id: 6ef7180513884eb7b72cd99bc4f6469c
title: Urgent: Withdraw FBI demand
uri: Urgent-Withdraw-FBI-demand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Withdraw_FBI_demand%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://act.accessnow.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1921&ea.campaign.id=47827">call
on Obama</a> to tell the FBI to withdraw its demand for Apple to write
software to help break encryption.


feed_id: babd691867646f447181d69e0db71e2e
title: Urgent: Drop charges against Can Dundar
uri: Urgent-Drop-charges-against-Can-Dundar
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_charges_against_Can_Dundar%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://rsf.org/petitions/turquie/petition.php?lang=en">call
on Turkey</a> to drop charges against Can Dündar.


feed_id: 0c8fc0f076b1632af7d706eca9a1ec51
title: Urgent: Progressive Caucus climate resolution
uri: Urgent-Progressive-Caucus-climate-resolution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Progressive_Caucus_climate_resolution%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.signherenow.org/petition/zeroby2050/courage/">support</a>
the Congressional Progressive Caucus climate resolution.


feed_id: 26f825d853c0e9ba9ab46ca3081f6e8c
title: Urgent: Rebuke Turkey
uri: Urgent-Rebuke-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Rebuke_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-criticize-turkey">call
on Congress</a> to rebuke Turkey for crushing the press.


feed_id: b626ad47bb6128058a8d71b1e482fcc3
title: Urgent: Seniors and Veterans Emergency Benefits Act
uri: Urgent-Seniors-and-Veterans-Emergency-Benefits-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Seniors_and_Veterans_Emergency_Benefits_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/save_benefits_act_dems/">support</a>
the Seniors and Veterans Emergency Benefits Act.


feed_id: f9c15e7785d422aedbd63e000045edf1
title: Urgent: Prevent deforestation for palm
uri: Urgent-Prevent-deforestation-for-palm
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Prevent_deforestation_for_palm%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1949&autologin=true">call
on major food companies</a> to get serious about preventing
deforestation caused by their palm oil purchases.
<p>
What we really need is for countries to pass laws banning import of
palm oil that doesn't follow strict strict standards.  If any treaty
gets in the way, kick it aside.


feed_id: 2f07e487005c1f3b96821e656f2fea6c
title: Americans killed by thugs
uri: Americans-killed-by-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Americans_killed_by_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Research suggests that roughly 
<a href="http://granta.com/violence-in-blue/">1/3 of all the Americans
killed by strangers</a> are in fact killed by thugs.


feed_id: 0399d8235db349416449baebc5cfe040
title: Students removed from Trump rally
uri: Students-removed-from-Trump-rally
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Students_removed_from_Trump_rally%29

content:
<p>
The Trump campaign apparently 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/04/1495812/-Police-confirm-Trump-campaign-wanted-peaceful-black-students-kicked-out-of-rally">ordered
some black students removed from its rally</a> at Valdosta State
University, then lied about it.
<p>
Alternatively, the thugs might be lying (they have practice).
But I don't think they would lie to hurt Trump.


feed_id: baf7527b38ffdd2b3f5237033eb7e53c
title: PISSI money
uri: PISSI-money
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28PISSI_money%29
content:
<p>
PISSI must be getting 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/08/oil-revenue-collapse-isis-reliant-gulf-funds-inquiry-hears">big
donations from rich people in Salafi Arabia and other Gulf states</a>.


feed_id: fc4485ecc073b1d768aef286b0acfc9b
title: Thug harasses, attacks, and frames
uri: Thug-harasses-attacks-and-frames
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Thug_harasses%2C_attacks%2C_and_frames%29

content:
<p>
A thug in Cincinnati showed his arrogance as well as his racism by
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/03/07/no-no-no-no-walking-down-street-drinking-cappuccino-while-black-and-then-taking">harassing,
then attacking, then framing Charles Harrell</a>.
<p>
The way other thugs came to the defense of that thug illustrates the
reason why nearly all cops deserve to be called "thugs".  The
exceptions, those who have the courage to denounce thugs' false
accusations, are police officers rather than thugs; but they are few.


feed_id: ae258641da7e168f8436b1fc5cef42aa
title: Internet censorship in Malaysia
uri: Internet-censorship-in-Malaysia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Internet_censorship_in_Malaysia%29
content:
<p>
Malaysian Internet Censorship is 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/malaysian-internet-censorship-going-bad-worse">Going
from Bad to Worse</a>.


feed_id: 85238bbf31d72f2e42be6e3f0572fccf
title: Wars pushed for by Clinton
uri: Wars-pushed-for-by-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Wars_pushed_for_by_Clinton%29
content:
<p>
Clinton pushed for war 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/07/pink-slipping-hillary-remembering-victims-iraq-war">in
Iraq, in Libya, in Syria, and some months ago in Iran</a>.


feed_id: 866d8fa4977780b14006c10f9cd0fdd2
title: Code of ethics for virtual reality
uri: Code-of-ethics-for-virtual-reality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Code_of_ethics_for_virtual_reality%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/vr-code-of-ethics">proposed
code of ethics</a> for virtual reality.
<p>
The article insults Luddites by treating the word as an insult.
I, as a Luddite, denounce the insult.
<p>
The Luddites believed in judging technologies based on their effects
on people in general, rather than letting manufacturers decide
unilaterally which technologies to use.  In the same way, I believe
that certain technologies should be banned — for instance,
fracking and DRM.


feed_id: 5e9204a581a29e8cac084ea9a051dad8
title: How the media machine supports Clinton
uri: How-the-media-machine-supports-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28How_the_media_machine_supports_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
How the media machine supports Clinton: 
<a href="https://shadowproof.com/2016/03/07/excuse-me-im-talking-clinton-campaigns-malicious-attack-on-sanders-after-flint-debate/">cherry-picking
among interruptions</a> and using that to distract from real issues.


feed_id: 00f4617c68a9b24810c86e4d85b43512
title: EFF opposes McCaul-Warner commission
uri: EFF-opposes-McCaul-Warner-commission
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28EFF_opposes_McCaul-Warner_commission%29

content:
<p>
EFF 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/eff-opposes-mccaul-warner-encryption-commission">Opposes
McCaul-Warner Encryption Commission</a>.


feed_id: 5464ccd255747a975906f00f2e3d212b
title: Evictions in American cities
uri: Evictions-in-American-cities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Evictions_in_American_cities%29
content:
<p>
In many American cities, evictions are running fast — poor
people 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/08/one-day-nine-cruel-evictions-how-supersized-inequality-looks-in-the-us">can't
afford any place to live</a>.
<p>
It is clear that a lot of Eagle Moving's income comes from holding its
victims' property for ransom, and selling whatever they don't pay for.
Community organizers have an opportunity here.  If they organize
people to help those evicted by storing their stuff, evictions would
get a lot more expensive.


feed_id: 28a46f0bd4c0d902916727f977481249
title: Demand for contraceptives in Africa
uri: Demand-for-contraceptives-in-Africa
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Demand_for_contraceptives_in_Africa%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/08/rise-use-contraception-global-population-growth-family-planning">Lots
of women in Africa</a> will want contraceptives, if we can give them
access.


feed_id: b966476fb07d9939b9eb2a13c091cab3
title: The CIA torture report
uri: The-CIA-torture-report
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28The_CIA_torture_report%29
content:
<p>
The CIA Torture Report 
<a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/2/the-cia-torture-report-belongs-to-the-public.html">Belongs
to the Public</a>.


feed_id: 040ce1d58c72375f732ee4bca81866d6
title: Spoofing a fingerprint
uri: Spoofing-a-fingerprint
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Spoofing_a_fingerprint%29
content:
<p>
Spoofing a fingerprint can be 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/03/06/hacking-a-phones-fingerprint.html">easy</a>.


feed_id: b2754d6996d8930294f43a74c3fee7ee
title: Policies supported by Nancy Reagan
uri: Policies-supported-by-Nancy-Reagan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Policies_supported_by_Nancy_Reagan%29

content:
<p>
Nancy Reagan's love for her husband did not excuse the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/nancy-reagan-legacy-womens-rights">policies
she supported</a>.


feed_id: 39b2cf25b425372906fd993a0f7a953c
title: Anti-fracking protesters arrested in NY
uri: Anti-fracking-protesters-arrested-in-NY
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Anti-fracking_protesters_arrested_in_NY%29

content:
<p>
50 anti-fracking protesters were 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/07/bill-mckibben-among-50-arrested-upstate-new-york-over-fracking-project">arrested
at a gas storage site</a> in New York.


feed_id: a54e170491b6b1900b00600411e34c45
title: Green Climate Fund
uri: Green-Climate-Fund
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Green_Climate_Fund%29
content:
<p>
Green Climate Fund Must Say No to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/03/07/green-climate-fund-must-say-no-partnerships-hsbc-credit-agricole">Partnerships
with HSBC, Crédit Agricole</a>.


feed_id: cb5aabaa17624ce969645874e17deb57
title: Delegate counts
uri: Delegate-counts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Delegate_counts%29
content:
<p>
Clinton Benefits From US Media's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/07/clinton-benefits-us-medias-misleading-reporting-delegate-counts">Misleading
Reporting Of Delegate Counts</a>.
<p>
Most of the "superdelegates" are Clinton supporters, and they may well
vote for Clinton, but not necessarily.  If Sanders is leading by the
time of the Democratic Convention, public pressure (which we have to
try to create) may oblige them to support Sanders.


feed_id: 5c592979d60454013935bf36042bdbc4
title: Democratic uprisings
uri: Democratic-uprisings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_March_2016_%28Democratic_uprisings%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/07/transformative-power-democratic-uprisings">Transformative
Power</a> of Democratic Uprisings.


feed_id: d2da55257e4adba1e6aa75bb5d1dd485
title: Salafi Arabia armed by Clinton's State Dept
uri: Salafi-Arabia-armed-by-Clinton-s-State-Dept
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Salafi_Arabia_armed_by_Clintons_State_Dept%29

content:
<p>
Hillary Clinton's State Department 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/08/hillary-clintons-state-department-armed-saudi-arabia-teeth">Armed
Saudi Arabia to the Teeth</a>.
<p>
Salafi Arabia (as I call it) is now using those weapons to bombard
Yemen.  Obama is responsible, both for approving what Clinton did
and for supporting the attack on Yemen.


feed_id: 8cf5d4d7c9c8f41c2f4a02c553613003
title: EU refugee deal with Turkey
uri: EU-refugee-deal-with-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28EU_refugee_deal_with_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
The EU has agreed to an 
<a href="
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/08/eu-turkey-refugee-deal-qa">incoherent
refugee deal</a> with Turkey: for each Syrian refugee returned from
Greece to Turkey, the EU will admit one Syrian refugee from Turkey.
<p>
This gives Syrian refugees in Turkey a gigantic incentive to make sure
lots of Syrian refugees arrive in Greece.
<p>
Meanwhile, European governments 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_(Erdogans_opportunity_to_crush_freedom)">won't
dare criticize Erdo&gbreve;an's tyranny</a>.  It's a great deal for
him, a lousy deal for Turkey.


feed_id: 73fe146854360971b2ac8b11baa3df6b
title: Burma's military
uri: Burma-s-military
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Burmas_military%29
content:
<p>
Burma's military is respecting democracy, but its 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/09/myanmar-moment-of-truth-aung-san-suu-kyi">violence
and impunity</a> are still there.


feed_id: 8cd224a115eb8ff78de54a1525fef583
title: Sanders wins Michigan primary
uri: Sanders-wins-Michigan-primary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Sanders_wins_Michigan_primary%29
content:
<p>
Sanders 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/08/bernie-sanders-wins-michigan-primary-hillary-clinton">won
the Michigan primary</a>, which he was expected to lose.


feed_id: be9c06a4778e9dd1d5e67419b7031140
title: Abused pregnant women
uri: Abused-pregnant-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Abused_pregnant_women%29
content:
<p>
Violence and abuse experienced by pregnant women tends to go with
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/09/domestic-violence-pregnant-women-doubles-risk-premature-birth-survey">bad
health for the resulting baby</a>.
<p>
I think right-wingers will not care about this.  Their concern for
fetuses only applies when it provides an excuse to repress women.


feed_id: f91ef5f0a69fe33648ad0e30b97c40be
title: US drone bombings
uri: 2016-03-13-US-drone-bombings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28US_drone_bombings%29
content:
<p>
Al-Shabaab acknowledges that the latest US drone bombing 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/08/al-shabaab-us-airstrike-training-camp-somalia-eyewitness">hit
its training camp</a>.
<p>
I don't see anything to criticize about killing al-Shabaab fighters,
but many other US drone bombings are 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_February_2015_(US_lies_about_victims_of_drone_bombings)">not
so well targeted</a>.
<p>
Al-Shabaab would not exist, if not for the Ethiopian intervention that
destroyed Somalia's previous effective government 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_October_2013_(Where_al-Shabaab_came_from)">under
US sponsorship</a>.


feed_id: 3b6b10fd1812d96e51b50d7bfcf511f2
title: Negative stories from Washington Post
uri: Negative-stories-from-Washington-Post
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Negative_stories_from_Washington_Post%29

content:
<p>
Washington Post Ran 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/08/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories-bernie-sanders-16-hours">16
Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours</a>.


feed_id: 1de9e2b40b0cb4ea838935b43949e519
title: The Primary Debates
uri: The-Primary-Debates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28The_Primary_Debates%29
content:
<p>
The [Republican and Democratic] Parties Are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/08/parties-are-ruining-primary-debates">Ruining
the Primary Debates</a>.


feed_id: 7159e1f11374e70e6a6f88acec281943
title: Surviving as a poor person in the US
uri: Surviving-as-a-poor-person-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Surviving_as_a_poor_person_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
You 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/08/who-are-legitimate-poor">can't
survive as a poor person in the US by being lazy</a>, but many
right-wing Americans think you're poor because you're lazy.


feed_id: 3dad7a31ca271e554802a18360db9786
title: The poisoning of Flint
uri: The-poisoning-of-Flint
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28The_poisoning_of_Flint%29
content:
<p>
Tracing the poisoning of Flint to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/08/what-koch-brothers-have-do-flint-water-crisis">right-wing
billionaires</a>.


feed_id: fd3ef45325b4241ff5ee43a5efef8201
title: Australia's refugee prison
uri: Australia-s-refugee-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Australias_refugee_prison%29
content:
<p>
In Australia's refugee prison in Nauru, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/mar/09/two-offshore-asylum-seekers-placed-under-suicide-or-self-harm-watch-every-three-days">66
prisoners are on suicide watch</a>.  Some are forcibly injected with
sedatives.
<p>
To commit suicide under such a situation is not an indication of
mental illness.  It can be a rational response (depending on details
of one's situation).


feed_id: 9e3db71c8047e708da00e3c36e1a0a26
title: Political decisions
uri: Political-decisions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Political_decisions%29
content:
<p>
Sanders knows that political decisions are a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/08/bernie-sanders-knows-politics-can-save-lives">matter
of life and death</a> for the people affected.


feed_id: 32b2195a264fcc76fdf6edca92a8fc25
title: An economy based on reputation
uri: An-economy-based-on-reputation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28An_economy_based_on_reputation%29
content:
<p>
An economy based on reputation has 
<a href="http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2016/03/cory-doctorow-wealth-inequality-is-even-worse-in-reputation-economies/">all
the bad characteristics of an economy based on money, and worse</a>:
once someone is rich in reputation, he can get more "likes" by
behaving like a jerk.


feed_id: ccfdbbc707f5d1a1a4f0501306aef77f
title: Daily showers
uri: Daily-showers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Daily_showers%29
content:
<p>
Daily showers are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/08/shower-once-a-week-polluting-environment">wasteful
and bad for the skin</a>.


feed_id: 525c4656aa489bb45c289e62b49ad0c1
title: Satellite measurements of global heating
uri: Satellite-measurements-of-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Satellite_measurements_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
How and why satellite temperature measurements required the
recalibration which now shows that 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2016-03-revamped-satellite-global.html">global
heating continued steadily since 2000</a>.


feed_id: c12dc9d800055e677a1105faa5079a81
title: E-books with Javascript that snoops
uri: E-books-with-Javascript-that-snoops
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28E-books_with_Javascript_that_snoops%29

content:
<p>
E-books can contain Javascript code, and sometimes this code 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/08/men-make-up-their-minds-about-books-faster-than-women-study-finds">snoops
on readers</a>.


feed_id: 45057c0e749ae0bb18b0c91469da7d2c
title: UK government propaganda about welfare
uri: UK-government-propaganda-about-welfare
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28UK_government_propaganda_about_welfare%29

content:
<p>
The UK government propagandizes the public with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2016/mar/08/phantom-benefit-cheat-austerity-fraud-hotline">ad
campaigns asking people to report welfare cheaters</a> — so the
public is more worried about welfare cheaters (who are few) than about
disabled or unemployed people suffering terribly (who are many).


feed_id: 3a4baab2ba7f72c68eb3149cc255a822
title: Freedom of Information Act requests
uri: Freedom-of-Information-Act-requests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Freedom_of_Information_Act_requests%29

content:
<p>
Obama proposed reforms to make the government answer Freedom of
Information Act requests faster; then the Justice Department 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/09/obama-transparency-foia-bipartisan-reform-stopped">secretly
pressured Congress to reject the reforms</a>.
<p>
Was the Justice Department betraying Obama, or was it obeying Obama
and the two of them betraying us?


feed_id: 5871c3a42dd59cdddd6ba5c1220059e9
title: Frackers still investing in Clinton
uri: Frackers-still-investing-in-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Frackers_still_investing_in_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
Frackers are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/09/hillary-clinton-wants-to-regulate-fracking-but-still-accepts-a-lot-of-fracking-money/">still
investing money in Clinton's campaign</a>.


feed_id: 79325a1fccd1466734fd222eda43db23
title: Urgent: Reporting civilian casualties
uri: Urgent-Reporting-civilian-casualties
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Reporting_civilian_casualties%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-mandate-transparenc">call
on Congress</a> to enact Obama's proposed reforms for reporting on
civilian casualties of drone attacks.


feed_id: 8dfe4f0a96404600bb7f350f270a4027
title: Urgent: No DRM in WWW specs
uri: Urgent-No-DRM-in-WWW-specs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_No_DRM_in_WWW_specs%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?gid=183&reset=1">sign
this petition</a> against including DRM in the specs for the World
Wide Web.


feed_id: 9dd6c2892e50ab4b64f9ebe7d064d499
title: FBI's arguments based on lies
uri: FBI-s-arguments-based-on-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28FBIs_arguments_based_on_lies%29
content:
<p>
Snowden says that the FBI's arguments for demanding Apple write code
to weaken iThing security are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/08/snowden-fbi-claim-that-only-apple-can-unlock-phone-is-bullshit/">based
on lies</a>.


feed_id: 6b522481bca4e198bc3651b5c5a6d62b
title: Safe passage for Snowden
uri: Safe-passage-for-Snowden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Safe_passage_for_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
PEN Norway Awards Snowden, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/08/pen-norway-awards-snowden-calls-government-grant-safe-passage">Calls
on Government to Grant Safe Passage</a>.


feed_id: 0f98672e7642f27bf5509a4b49c1d87b
title: Urgent: Remove lead from drinking water
uri: Urgent-Remove-lead-from-drinking-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_lead_from_drinking_water%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3977">call
on the US government</a> to remove lead from US drinking water (not
only in Flint).


feed_id: 96bda6ca6365132429d09bc75b5aa002
title: Urgent: Nominate a progressive
uri: Urgent-Nominate-a-progressive
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Nominate_a_progressive%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone the White House and call on Obama to nominate a
progressive who rejects the idea that corporations are necessarily
entitled to human rights.
<p>
The White House comments line is 202-456-1111.</p>


feed_id: c43bb6534c4ca8424ecfb5cf6848c720
title: Urgent: Protect union organizers
uri: Urgent-Protect-union-organizers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_union_organizers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/johnkerry-protect-trade">call
on Kerry</a> to pressure the government of Honduras to protect union
organizers from assassination.


feed_id: 6add70c220c26b4608948b04e26f49aa
title: Disabled Americans killed by thugs
uri: Disabled-Americans-killed-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Disabled_Americans_killed_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/09/3758060/police-shooting-disabilities/">large
fraction</a> of Americans killed by thugs had some sort of disability.


feed_id: de8873dbf239821db0ec9600ae338a64
title: 150 Somalis killed by US
uri: 150-Somalis-killed-by-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28150_Somalis_killed_by_US%29
content:
<p>
The US says it killed 150 Somalis and that they were all fighters for
al-Shabaab.  
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/08/nobody-knows-identity-150-people-killed-us-somalia-most-are-certain-they-deserved">Can
we believe that?</a>
<p>
If they really were al-Shabaab fighters, I would not criticize killing
them, but the sad thing is that we can't trust the US about that.


feed_id: 0ad9835ebcb6de976916cbbb2bc4cf97
title: Murder witness in danger in Honduras
uri: Murder-witness-in-danger-in-Honduras
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Murder_witness_in_danger_in_Honduras%29

content:
<p>
Honduras has forced Gustavo Castro, witness to the murder of Berta
Cáceres, to remain in Honduras, where he remains 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/08/berta-caceres-honduras-blocks-sole-witness-from-leaving-country">in
danger</a>.


feed_id: 9be6008b3dab048ef7c36e330fd98e32
title: Energy use per person
uri: Energy-use-per-person
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Energy_use_per_person%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/10/dangerous-global-warming-will-happen-sooner-than-thought-study">A
trend of increasing energy use per person</a> could get humanity in
hot water (and hot air) as soon as 2030.


feed_id: 562214c4b78396d3dd97dcddf7847bb4
title: Sanders on Israel and Palestine
uri: Sanders-on-Israel-and-Palestine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Sanders_on_Israel_and_Palestine%29
content:
<p>
Sanders said he will try to be 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/09/bernie-sanders-promises-level-playing-field-on-israel-palestine/">even-handed
between Israel and Palestine</a>.


feed_id: a9df8a3b714c3b648f0c689f65a50e3f
title: Rash of murders of activists in Colombia
uri: Rash-of-murders-of-activists-in-Colombia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Rash_of_murders_of_activists_in_Colombia%29

content:
<p>
There has been a rash of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/09/colombia-leftwing-activists-murdered-farc-peace-deal">murders
of human rights activists and indigenous rights activists</a> in
Colombia.
<p>
I suspect that the killers are the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#25_April_2011_(Columbia_Paramilitaries)">paramilitares</a>.


feed_id: c2885a6b970cd48d28739b1f6e6a541f
title: Turkish journalist sentenced to prison
uri: Turkish-journalist-sentenced-to-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Turkish_journalist_sentenced_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
Turkish journalist sentenced to 21 months in prison 
<a href="https://www.cpj.org/2016/03/turkish-journalist-sentenced-to-21-months-in-priso.php">for
insulting Erdo&gbreve;an</a>.
<p>
By acting like a tyrant, Erdo&gbreve;an insults himself worse than
anyone else could.


feed_id: 7cc52459fb3d7ffff0df080ca5b0326c
title: UK activist confronts undercover thug
uri: UK-activist-confronts-undercover-thug
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28UK_activist_confronts_undercover_thug%29

content:
<p>
A UK activist went to Australia to confront the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/09/undercover-uk-police-spy-apologises-after-being-tracked-down-by-woman-he-deceived">undercover
thug who had pretended to love her</a> as a front for infiltrating
environmental activist groups.
<p>
Now he is associated with a training program for thugs, which is
probably part of setting up in Australia to snoop on, sabotage and
provoke protests.


feed_id: 9dadd3a734e32f7fcbee29006bf341e6
title: Hysteria about terrorism
uri: Hysteria-about-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Hysteria_about_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
Hysteria about terrorism is so great in France that 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/08/french-students-smoking-school-terrorism">students
are being encouraged to smoke tobacco inside schools</a> because it is
considered too dangerous for them to stand and smoke in the street.
<p>
Thus, the very large danger (albeit one that takes decades to kill
people) of tobacco is being encouraged for fear of the very small
danger of terrorism.


feed_id: c5ad34efbfa57d6dd5c98e1ce9a7323b
title: Lula charged with hiding property
uri: Lula-charged-with-hiding-property
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Lula_charged_with_hiding_property%29

content:
<p>
Lula, the former Brazilian president, has been 
<a href="
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/10/brazil-former-president-lula-charged-money-laundering-investigation">charged
with hiding property from tax rolls</a>.
<p>
I am disappointed in him over this, because I admire him for making
Brazil's policies better in various areas.


feed_id: c18ff466268f403e6590f1f6c43b9c55
title: Weasel-term in TPP
uri: Weasel-term-in-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Weasel-term_in_TPP%29
content:
<p>
The TPP uses the weasel-term 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/white-houses-claims-tpp-would-curb-internet-censorship-are-fantasy">"free
flow of information"</a>, which sounds like it refers to freedom of
expression for people, but really only defends businesses' data
collection.


feed_id: a8d5bbdf3281185a2793599720c50007
title: Activists attacked at Chechen border
uri: Activists-attacked-at-Chechen-border
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Activists_attacked_at_Chechen_border%29

content:
<p>
Activists from the Committee for the Prevention of Torture tried to
escort journalists into Chechnya, but a gang 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/09/russian-activists-and-journalists-attacked-at-chechen-border/">attacked
them with sticks</a>.
<p>
Putin and Kadyrov are very proud of their torture practices.  Trump
would love them.


feed_id: ae20867f0d4a59facb322d18334a8fdf
title: Military cooperation with Russia
uri: Military-cooperation-with-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Military_cooperation_with_Russia%29

content:
<p>
William Perry says the US under Clinton and Dubya was responsible for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/09/russian-hostility-to-west-partly-caused-by-west">spoiling
the military cooperation with Russia</a> that developed in the first
few years after the fall of the Soviet Union.
<p>
I agree that extending NATO up to the Russian border was a mistake.
It's wise to have a buffer zone.


feed_id: 44c695d2f9060dfb6f3e5c09cb5873b3
title: Democracy movement
uri: Democracy-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Democracy_movement%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/09/six-pieces-real-democracy-movement-weve-never-had">Six
Pieces</a> of a Real Democracy Movement We've Never Had Before.


feed_id: 6225b095672d9086d193882fcfff99db
title: Baltimore school thugs face charges
uri: Baltimore-school-thugs-face-charges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Baltimore_school_thugs_face_charges%29

content:
<p>
Two Baltimore school thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/09/baltimore-school-police-charged-assault-video-beating-student">face
charges for attacking a student</a>.
<p>
There should not generally be thugs in the schools anyway, because
they direct students into the school-to-prison pipeline.


feed_id: 405a01cdc45c688f4ef750ef55406e1b
title: Polish constitutional court overturns a law
uri: Polish-constitutional-court-overturns-a-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Polish_constitutional_court_overturns_a_law%29

content:
<p>
The Polish constitutional court 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/09/poland-constitutional-court-law-and-justice-government-reforms">overturned
as unconstitutional</a> a law that was designed to screw up its
functioning.


feed_id: e122ba09d8a1298912f737eb3e4ea7fe
title: Google ordered to disclose IP addresses
uri: Google-ordered-to-disclose-IP-addresses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Google_ordered_to_disclose_IP_addresses%29

content:
<p>
Google has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/09/google-dutch-court-ip-addresses-fake-reviewers-nursery">ordered
to disclose the IP addresses</a> of people who posted fake reviews of
a daycare facility, which wants to sue them.


feed_id: a5c94890fa3cef9da5e2a7ca668644ac
title: Funds for young people cut by Tories
uri: Funds-for-young-people-cut-by-Tories
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Funds_for_young_people_cut_by_Tories%29

content:
<p>
Tories' method of giving young people better opportunity
is to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2016/mar/09/hypocrisy-savage-cuts-early-intervention-children">cut
the funds to help young people of deprived backgrounds</a>.


feed_id: ec771bdd88cdb83282d9af9bf68e2f85
title: Few wars end
uri: Few-wars-end
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Few_wars_end%29
content:
<p>Nowadays few wars ever end -- most of them just 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/10/end-no-wars">
freeze over</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 428d7ab6ffb3318261803ce79277a111
title: Trump, the political temper tantrum
uri: Trump-the-political-temper-tantrum
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Trump%2C_the_political_temper_tantrum%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/10/trump-the-great-orange-haired-unintended-consequence">
Trump, the political temper tantrum.</a>
</p>


feed_id: e2f62a1cf6e3d5eadc759ed3cbb34473
title: Largest annual CO2 increase ever in 2015
uri: Largest-annual-CO2-increase-ever-in-2015
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Largest_annual_CO2_increase_ever_in_2015%29

content:
<p>2015 saw the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/10/co2-levels-make-largest-recorded-annual-leap-noaa-data-shows">
largest annual CO2 increase</a>
 for as far as we have data for.
</p>


feed_id: 89fd69036f93b9cd4df8906e0a2e92c2
title: Republicans want more prisoners on Guantanamo
uri: Republicans-want-more-prisoners-on-Guantanamo
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Republicans_want_more_prisoners_on_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>Republicans Against Human Rights calls for putting 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/10/cruz-rubio-call-obama-open-guantanamo-new-detainees">
more prisoners into Guantanamo</a>.
</p>
<p>The captured ISIS officer should be treated as a prisoner of war.</p>


feed_id: e03b7eeacc075220b394035400b13b94
title: Pitfalls in UK welfare system
uri: Pitfalls-in-UK-welfare-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Pitfalls_in_UK_welfare_system%29
content:
<p>The UK has put many pitfalls into its welfare system, so that people
can become inelegible and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/10/i-am-well-spoken-and-not-an-addict-how-homelessness-can-happen-to-anyone">
forced into destitution</a>
 on the street.
</p>
<p>Increasingly, the homeless face repression.
</p>
<p>For right-wingers, such as the Tories, homeless people are an
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/10/nastiness-crime-homeless-homelessness-local-authorities-public-spaces-protection-orders">
inconvenience</a>
 and the place to put them is the cemetery.</p>


feed_id: 83ce11252db749bb58b85f0de5b7dbbb
title: Violence against black man at Trump rally
uri: Violence-against-black-man-at-Trump-rally
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Violence_against_black_man_at_Trump_rally%29

content:
<p>At a Trump rally, a supporter 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/10/black-protester-punched-donald-trump-rally-north-carolina">
punched a black man</a>
 as the local thugs were forcing him out of the hall.  The thugs responded
by physically
attacking the victim and arresting him.
Nothing was done against the puncher, but it is not too late to
prosecute him if his identity can be determined.</p>
<p>Trump incites such violence frequently.  He should be charged
for this.</p>


feed_id: b74f3bcf48263add85aaa5d5c1b36789
title: Guber funds referendum to exempt itself from regulation
uri: Guber-funds-referendum-to-exempt-itself-from-regulation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Guber_funds_referendum_to_exempt_itself_from_regulation%29

content:
<p>Austin, Texas, applied to Guber the same regulations that apply to
other transportation companies.  Guber 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/10/uber-lyft-austin-ann-kitchen-sxsw-texas">
funded a referendum</a>
 to exempt companies such as Guber from these regulations.
</p>
<p>Then Republicans saw an opportunity to start a recall election against
the city council member that implemented the decision, piggybacking it
on Guber's campaign.</p>
<p>Unlike her, I don't want to work with Guber.  Unless it allows
passengers to be anonymous, and stops requiring nonfree software,
Guber should not be allowed to exist.</p>
<p>For your own freedom's sake, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/uber.html">
don't ever use Guber</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 410da882c3a3984ccfb962162c38d89e
title: UK NHS cuts could lead to deaths
uri: UK-NHS-cuts-could-lead-to-deaths
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28UK_NHS_cuts_could_lead_to_deaths%29

content:
<p>The UK's National Health System is so overwhelmed that patients could
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/10/nhs-hospitals-overwhelmed-patients-could-die-top-doctor">
die for lack of treatment</a>. 
</p>
<p>Unable to provide children with psychotherapy, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/11/children-prescribed-antidepressants-funding-cuts-mental-health-problems">
it gives them drugs</a>.
</p>
<p>This results from lack of funds, and it was the Tories' plan all
along.
Next they will offer to put in some of the lacking funds, but only
through
privatization.</p>


feed_id: 4690abded86186c75a994e33c715bfa2
title: Denied compensation for 31 years imprisonment
uri: Denied-compensation-for-31-years-imprisonment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Denied_compensation_for_31_years_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>Tim Atkins was framed by thugs, and imprisoned for 31 years.  Now
exonerated,
he is 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/tim-atkins-was-wrongfully-imprisoned-for-31-years-why-is-california-denying-him-compensation/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=daily">
denied compensation</a>
 for his wrongful imprisonment.
</p>
<p>Have we made enough reform to assure that other people are no longer
being framed as Atkins was?  I don't think so.</p>


feed_id: a738595e23c54a565aa024213cf6fd35
title: John Perkins on Guantanamo
uri: John-Perkins-on-Guantanamo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28John_Perkins_on_Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>John Perkins, the confessed Economic Hit Man, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/09/deeper-darker-meaning-behind-not-closing-guantanamo">
relates what he did</a>
 (and many others, including Obama and Clinton, still do) to Guantanamo
prison.
</p>


feed_id: 57024f6211588d249df9b90408bccce1
title: Military drones have been used in US
uri: Military-drones-have-been-used-in-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Military_drones_have_been_used_in_US%29

content:
<p>The US government has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/09/war-zone-tactics-come-home-pentagon-admits-domestic-spy-drone-use">
used military drones</a>
 to spy on the US, but won't say where or when.
</p>


feed_id: 3c0c53aecbf2ad72820871bbf614648c
title: Break Free from Fossil Fuels
uri: Break-Free-from-Fossil-Fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Break_Free_from_Fossil_Fuels%29
content:
<p>The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/09/climate-coalition-vows-peaceful-escalated-actions-until-we-break-free-fossil-fuels">
Break Free from Fossil Fuels</a>
 campaign plans a series of protests
and civil disobedence against the planet roasters.
</p>


feed_id: 6d5acd1abd4128a864cb6a448a066f27
title: Urgent: end garnishment of Social Security
uri: Urgent-end-garnishment-of-Social-Security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_end_garnishment_of_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call for an 
<a href="http://www.signherenow.org/petition/stop-raiding-social-security/ssw/?refcode=191395&utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=191395">
end to garnishment</a>
 of Social Security benefits to pay back loans.
</p>


feed_id: 7c63169699451a3d70bc43aea2a91d50
title: Urgent: tell Office of Management and Budget to protect workers
uri: Urgent-tell-Office-of-Management-and-Budget-to-protect-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Office_of_Management_and_Budget_to_protect_workers%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on the Office of Management and Budget to 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/632/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=8341">
implement protection for workers</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 0f4332d438aea19fcddac386af09b886
title: Urgent: tell Democrats to defend CFPB
uri: Urgent-tell-Democrats-to-defend-CFPB
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Democrats_to_defend_CFPB%29

content:
<p>US citizens: tell the Democrats, and Rep. Wasserman Schultz, to 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/standwithwarren/?t=1002&akid=7536.1906019.fX2yQ7">
defend the CFPB</a>,
 not payday loan companies.
</p>


feed_id: 61419f82e5bb6279961e19ccddc162ac
title: Urgent: tell W3C not to approve DRM
uri: Urgent-tell-W3C-not-to-approve-DRM
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_tell_W3C_not_to_approve_DRM%29

content:
<p>Everyone: tell the World Wide Web Consortium 
<a href="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?gid=183&reset=1">
not to approve DRM</a>. 
</p>


feed_id: c11d143dabc3687b2921cce08255ab67
title: Global heating destroying pastures in Mongolia
uri: Global-heating-destroying-pastures-in-Mongolia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Global_heating_destroying_pastures_in_Mongolia%29

content:
<p>Global heating is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/10/climate-change-mongolia-destroying-pastures-nomadic-herders-dzud">
destoying the pasture</a>
 for the herds of Mongolian nomads.
</p>


feed_id: 47e1811fa7e70227d74002b6101141eb
title: Dagestan's gender war
uri: Dagestan-s-gender-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Dagestan%27s_gender_war%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/10/dagestan-daptar-gender-war-russia">
'Funny' Stories from the Frontlines of Dagestan's Gender War.</a>
</p>
<p>I think there should be no forgiveness or forgetting for the men
that carry out this violence.  When the state does not give justice,
private revenge is not only legitimate, it is also necessary
to change the practices.</p>


feed_id: 0d173805eb42e38818800e462c409e93
title: Urgent: reject bills to help companies cheat
uri: Urgent-reject-bills-to-help-companies-cheat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_reject_bills_to_help_companies_cheat%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/house_shred_wall_street_reform?t=1005&akid=17107.1183552.CPXbZu">
reject bills</a>
 to help companies
get away with cheating the public and their investors.
</p>


feed_id: 4b1a57c29fc900b46c4359a375f92312
title: Volunteer
uri: 2016-03-16-Volunteer
url: https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc
content:
<p>I am looking for people to help spec out a project (not write code).  If you are a Jitsi
     expert and want to do this, please write to me.</p>


feed_id: 2f417cfb5c1a6d592cd90231ad249604
title: Few wars end
uri: 2016-03-16-Few-wars-end
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Few_wars_end%29
content:
<p>Nowadays few wars ever end — most of them just 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/10/end-no-wars">
freeze over</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 15438027f35834e046826eb6bf332817
title: Urgent: end garnishment of Social Security
uri: 2016-03-16-Urgent-end-garnishment-of-Social-Security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_end_garnishment_of_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call for an 
<a href="http://www.signherenow.org/petition/stop-raiding-social-security/ssw">
end to garnishment</a>
 of Social Security benefits to pay back loans.
</p>


feed_id: c1f7eab1111582693fe6aeacebd673f0
title: Urgent: tell Democrats to defend CFPB
uri: 2016-03-16-Urgent-tell-Democrats-to-defend-CFPB
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Democrats_to_defend_CFPB%29

content:
<p>US citizens: tell the Democrats, and Rep. Wasserman Schultz, to 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/standwithwarren/">
defend the CFPB</a>,
 not payday loan companies.
</p>


feed_id: 34fefee308a82f00c94748651ed7f17e
title: Urgent: reject bills to help companies cheat
uri: 2016-03-16-Urgent-reject-bills-to-help-companies-cheat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_reject_bills_to_help_companies_cheat%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/house_shred_wall_street_reform">
reject bills</a>
 to help companies
get away with cheating the public and their investors.
</p>


feed_id: 7f7311fc8b9966e75c9c2968c2100f24
title: Veterans say no to militarism
uri: Veterans-say-no-to-militarism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#17_March_2016_%28Veterans_say_no_to_militarism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35121-veterans-urge-presidential-candidates-to-say-no-to-militarism">Veterans
Urge Presidential Candidates</a> to Say No to Militarism.


feed_id: aadbadc192230485df904881e1f6dc6a
title: Unionization of Guber drivers
uri: Unionization-of-Guber-drivers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Unionization_of_Guber_drivers%29
content:
<p>
California is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/11/california-bill-collective-bargaining-gig-economy-workers-uber-lyft">considering
a bill</a> to allow Guber drivers to unionize.


feed_id: ebbe1d9d0697e5023b3f93a87cb1f92c
title: Obama's last attack on our security
uri: Obama-s-last-attack-on-our-security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Obamas_last_attack_on_our_security%29

content:
<p>
The FBI plans to demand Apple 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/11/fbi-could-force-apple-to-hand-over-private-key">hand
over its signature key to authorize software to run in an iThing</a>.
This is Obama's last attack on our security.
<p>
Users of iThings can't decide on their own what operating system to
install: they are forced to trust Apple to do it, because Apple can
sign systems to run in the product.  If the FBI prevails with that
argument, users of iThings will be forced to trust Big Brother too.


feed_id: b78a2a739310fbf4a253eb8e80058c06
title: New War of Poverty
uri: New-War-of-Poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28New_War_of_Poverty%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/11/new-war-poverty">New
War on Poverty</a>.


feed_id: eb033808f156c4ca1c2726088f356131
title: Phony "crisis pregnancy centers"
uri: Phony-crisis-pregnancy-centers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Phony_crisis_pregnancy_centers%29
content:
<p>
The state of Georgia will provide funding for phony "crisis pregnancy
centers" whose purpose is to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/12/georgia-bill-pregnant-women-fake-abortion-clinics">mislead
women about abortion</a>.


feed_id: 8d895209abf19d9d9d7786ad4df6bf54
title: Poison gas attack in Iraq
uri: Poison-gas-attack-in-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Poison_gas_attack_in_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
PISSI 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/12/isis-launches-two-chemical-attacks-in-northern-iraq">reportedly
attacked with poison gas</a> in Iraq today.


feed_id: 291bb0304e81e46a4b21fb0b6c4cf047
title: Trump's $50m golf club
uri: Trump-s-50m-golf-club
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Trumps_50-million-dollar_golf_club%29

content:
<p>
How Trump's $50m Golf Club 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/12/donald-trump-briarcliff-manor-golf-course-tax">Became
$1.4m When It Came Time to Pay Tax</a>.


feed_id: a9b844f618359bb52440624e6938c161
title: Marketing guns to children
uri: Marketing-guns-to-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Marketing_guns_to_children%29
content:
<p>
Why Does the Gun Lobby 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/why-does-the-gun-lobby-en_b_9440156.html">Encourage
Small Children to Handle Guns</a>?
<p>
The article offers an answer: it's part of a business campaign
to market guns to children.


feed_id: b2d0d39d6583efadacf5108534fd1291
title: Foreign policy questions for candidates
uri: Foreign-policy-questions-for-candidates
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Foreign_policy_questions_for_candidates%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/12/five-foreign-policy-questions-us-election-candidates">Five
Foreign Policy Questions</a> Every Candidate Should be Asked.


feed_id: 5d31d1d8bfc3c7a3c65a219b992f877d
title: Computer defeats champion Go player
uri: Computer-defeats-champion-Go-player
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Computer_defeats_champion_Go_player%29

content:
<p>
A computer has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/12/alphago-beats-lee-sedol-in-third-consecutive-go-game">defeated
the world champion Go player</a>.
<p>
This means that the political issues raised by AI can't be put off.


feed_id: f10c92f272af8810a25889d0eb250df5
title: Nancy Reagan's handling of AIDS
uri: Nancy-Reagan-s-handling-of-AIDS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Nancy_Reagans_handling_of_AIDS%29
content:
<p>
Clinton 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/03/11/hillary-misspeaks">praised
Nancy Reagan's handling of AIDS</a>, and was hit by lots of criticism.


feed_id: 2ea23fca272998ff22d2c77c54e65c08
title: Banking for the Common Good
uri: Banking-for-the-Common-Good
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Banking_for_the_Common_Good%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/10/people-demand-banks-common-good-overthrow-multinational-behemoths">Banking
for the Common Good</a>, proposed to replace commercial big banks.


feed_id: 294e9d8521b6591d05356974abd74a35
title: Access to NSA's data collections
uri: Access-to-NSA-s-data-collections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Access_to_NSAs_data_collections%29
content:
<p>
Obama is 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/obama-administration-closing-in-on-rules-to-let-nsa-share-more-freely-with-fbi-cia/">arranging
for various government agencies to look through the NSA's data
collections</a> to fish for opportunities to prosecute Americans.
<p>
The lesson is, "emergency" powers that the government takes to cope
with some mind-clouding threat will 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/03/10/surprise-nsa-data-will-soon-routinely-be-used-for-domestic-policing-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-terrorism/">tend
to be used for everything</a>.


feed_id: 549dc74628174db9fbc61d36e6cadd94
title: Sanders endorses carbon tax
uri: Sanders-endorses-carbon-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Sanders_endorses_carbon_tax%29
content:
<p>
Sanders endorses a carbon tax 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/10/pushing-carbon-tax-and-fracking-ban-sanders-lays-down-gauntlet-climate">and
banning fracking</a>.


feed_id: 1a4a6a7eba4ea4278b891882640110db
title: Damage caused by "welfare reform"
uri: Damage-caused-by-welfare-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Damage_caused_by_welfare_reform%29
content:
<p>
A part of President Clinton's "welfare reform" is about to take
delayed effect, 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/congress-is-about-to-take-food-away-from-the-poorest-people-in-america/">cutting
off food stamps for at least half a million long-term-unemployed
Americans</a>.
<p>
We have not yet seen the full damage that that law will eventually do,
but Hillary Clinton still supports it.


feed_id: c4b4672be77bdfe5115f1db234e508bb
title: Thailand's dictatorship
uri: Thailand-s-dictatorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Thailands_dictatorship%29
content:
<p>
Thailand's dictatorship 
<a href="https://cpj.org/blog/2016/03/thailand-aims-to-hollow-out-foreign-press-with-new.php">plans
to restrict foreign journalists</a> like China.


feed_id: 6f39bcb841ff2cbf82426b6fa1c0bd1b
title: School privatization
uri: 2016-03-17-School-privatization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28School_privatization%29
content:
<p>
UK "academies", somewhat like US charter schools, tend to have the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/10/academy-chains-come-under-fire-from-ofsted-chief">same
problems</a> as the ordinary state schools they replace.
<p>
In the US, the impetus for school privatization comes from those who
desire to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_December_2015_(Charter_schools_in_the_US)">divert
public funding into their pockets</a>.  I suspect there is an ulterior
motive in the UK as well.


feed_id: 6763e5516681d3fc50803e91df300992
title: Phone customers' data
uri: Phone-customers-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Phone_customers_data%29
content:
<p>
The FCC wants to make cable and phone companies ask customers'
<a href="http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/c10739f7f8cc4848b0bb823b5d53baac/US--Broadband-Privacy">permission
for some uses</a> of data collected about their communications.
<p>
I am not impressed.  The real danger here is that the data are
recorded at all, because they are 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">always
available to Big Brother</a>.


feed_id: 71250a73e9495cbc2108740fd5d9060f
title: Zoning laws harmful
uri: Zoning-laws-harmful
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Zoning_laws_harmful%29
content:
<p>
Zoning laws are used to
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/09/1498740/-Connecticut-s-wealthy-trying-to-keep-non-traditional-family-out-of-neighborhood-using-zoning-laws">keep
unrelated people from sharing housing</a>.
<p>
The general effect of zoning laws is to make housing expensive.
Thus, I think they are harmful.


feed_id: 635cd4782542f37313d62649e5ff4302
title: New Kansas law for impeachment of judges
uri: New-Kansas-law-for-impeachment-of-judges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28New_Kansas_law_for_impeachment_of_judges%29

content:
<p>
Kansas Republicans passed a law to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/9/1498693/-For-Those-Who-Had-Any-Doubts-Kansas-Has-Officially-Gone-Insane">impeach
any judges that rule a law is unconstitutional</a>.  This is meant to
get rid of the last obstacle to eliminating public education and
public services.


feed_id: e361ffc1a66f874886d9c0237d907ae4
title: Former presidents on the "war on drugs"
uri: Former-presidents-on-the-war-on-drugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Former_presidents_on_the_war_on_drugs%29

content:
<p>
Former presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico state that the "war
on drugs" is an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/11/war-drugs-unmitigated-disaster-former-latin-american-heads-state">"unmitigated
disaster"</a>.
<p>
When a war gets on drugs, it starts attacking everyone at random.


feed_id: e52f9e815f5bad0be79ef9c2a12de11a
title: US reactors with same design as Fukushima's
uri: US-reactors-with-same-design-as-Fukushima-s
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28US_reactors_with_same_design_as_Fukushimas%29

content:
<p>
The US has 30 reactors that use the same design as those of Fukushima
and has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/11/five-years-after-fukushima-us-woefully-unprepared-nuclear-disaster">neglected
the danger for 5 years</a>.


feed_id: c112e14e5726822650efe4a762a500ba
title: Venezuelan editor sentenced to prison
uri: Venezuelan-editor-sentenced-to-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Venezuelan_editor_sentenced_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
CPJ: Venezuelan editor sentenced to 
<a href="http://cpj.org/2016/03/venezuelan-editor-sentenced-to-4-years-in-prison-f.php">4
years in prison for criminal defamation</a>.
<p>
This is an injustice regardless of what he said, or whether it was true.


feed_id: 879dbcac47bb2d66dcc5c1e7a85e9272
title: Sanders and Clinton after Michigan
uri: Sanders-and-Clinton-after-Michigan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Sanders_and_Clinton_after_Michigan%29

content:
<p>
Sanders and Clinton After Michigan: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/11/sanders-and-clinton-after-michigan-look-map">A
Look at the Map</a>.


feed_id: aaad6b076a64c1844a30a8ea1a243dc5
title: The fuel for the Syrian civil war
uri: The-fuel-for-the-Syrian-civil-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28The_fuel_for_the_Syrian_civil_war%29

content:
<p>
Oxfam and other organizations accuse 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/11/us-among-world-powers-adding-fuel-fire-syria">the
US and Russia</a>, among others, of fueling the Syrian civil war.


feed_id: bc9d1eb7f9fa407006ffc7484b2e1468
title: The debate about BDS
uri: The-debate-about-BDS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28The_debate_about_BDS%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Neither side of the debate about BDS calls for 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1457710016/">peace
between Palestine and Israel</a>, but that must be the goal.


feed_id: ec7ba9f3f0bd05586ae373f29dae8104
title: Violence outside of Trump rally
uri: Violence-outside-of-Trump-rally
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Violence_outside_of_Trump_rally%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/11/trump-rally-st-louis-violence-racial-slurs">Violence</a>
erupted outside of a Trump rally.
<p>
Then a rally in Chicago was cancelled, because the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/12/donald-trump-rally-called-off-in-chicago-amid-protests-violence-and-chaos">protesters
were so numerous that the supporters didn't dare attack them</a>.
<p>
Trump's complaint, "Cancelling my event violates my freedom of
speech," is one I would usually agree with.  When protesters bring
about cancellation of an event, their intimidation has succeeded.
<p>
In Trump's case, however, he's the one who has been using intimidation
against protesters, so the fault is his.  He has 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/11/trumps-good-old-days-when-battering-protesters-was-celebrated-in-the-white-house/">regularly
called on his supporters to be more violent</a>.
<p>
Finally one of his violent supporters has been 
<a href="http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/15177-trump-supporter-who-punched-protester-next-time-we-might-have-to-kill-him">charged</a>,
but it's time to charge Trump too.


feed_id: f795ce39f3eb466df3dfcefd6b6ab54a
title: Clinton's role in Iran and Syria
uri: Clinton-s-role-in-Iran-and-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Clintons_role_in_Iran_and_Syria%29
content:
<p>
Clinton's role, in regard to Iran and later Syria, has been 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-clinton-and-the-s_b_9231190.html">to
encourage war</a>.


feed_id: 016870539db50bdc78ab81cbda913999
title: Activist faces charges for helping refugees
uri: Activist-faces-charges-for-helping-refugees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Activist_faces_charges_for_helping_refugees%29

content:
<p>
A Danish children's rights activist faces charges for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/11/danish-childrens-rights-activist-lisbeth-zornig-people-trafficking">giving
food and a lift</a> to a family of Syrian refugees that she found
walking along the road.
<p>
This exemplifies a pattern we have often seen from states and bullies.
I think the best term for it is "conspicuous cruelty."


feed_id: 6852c5f1f12ead3d0be3c8cabc80c31a
title: Antibiotic drug resistance
uri: Antibiotic-drug-resistance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Antibiotic_drug_resistance%29
content:
<p>
If we cease to have effective antibiotics, infections will kill 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/11/antibiotics-drug-resistance-is-not-theoretical-threat-real-immediate">ten
million people a year</a>.  (In addition, many operations won't be
done because of the danger of infection.)


feed_id: 36b7e3d8e9cd43b955dfc2f59c1ad444
title: Lead in water of Newark public schools
uri: Lead-in-water-of-Newark-public-schools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Lead_in_water_of_Newark_public_schools%29

content:
<p>
Newark public schools were found to have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/10/lead-discovery-forces-water-ban-newark-public-schools">high
levels of lead</a> in the water.


feed_id: 7fb414dcd28ed7a76a563afc3c0c2d5c
title: Israel wants to punish relatives of attackers
uri: Israel-wants-to-punish-relatives-of-attackers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Israel_wants_to_punish_relatives_of_attackers%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli government 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/03/09/accursed-place-israel-moves-deport-innocent-families-its-most-ravaged-penal">wants
to punish the relatives</a> of Palestinian attackers by imprisoning
them in Gaza.


feed_id: 695983c3fb08796297fec577c65bb4ce
title: Projected sea-level rise
uri: Projected-sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Projected_sea-level_rise%29
content:
<p>
The latest, refined models say we are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/mar/11/sea-level-rise-is-accelerating-how-much-it-costs-is-up-to-us">on
track for a whole meter of sea-level rise by 2100</a>.  That in itself
will be disaster world-wide.


feed_id: 5b0927bcf6f7091b167bfbca2e47177f
title: Libya repeats lesson of Iraq
uri: Libya-repeats-lesson-of-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Libya_repeats_lesson_of_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
Libya repeats the lesson of Iraq: that overthrowing a tyrant is easy,
but you 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/11/libya-barack-obama-imperialism-lite-david-cameron">don't
know what will pop up instead</a>.


feed_id: 42d74929b700bcba28a64db46f82bf3b
title: Trump on Tien An Men protests
uri: Trump-on-Tien-An-Men-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Trump_on_Tien_An_Men_protests%29
content:
<p>
Trump faced criticism for calling the Tien An Men protests a "riot"
and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/11/donald-trump-tiananmen-square-china-playboy-interview">praising
the "strength" of the Chinese government</a>.
<p>
I think that interview represented his real thoughts.  He wasn't
running for president then.


feed_id: a3758ddcb746e505edfc682fbefab94c
title: Zero-hour contracts
uri: Zero-hour-contracts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Zero-hour_contracts%29
content:
<p>
Zero-hour contracts 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/09/zero-hour-contract-is-not-flexiblity-but-exploitation-and-its-rising">continue
increasing in the UK</a> even though supposedly employment has
"recovered".
<p>
New Zealand has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/11/zero-hour-contracts-banned-in-new-zealand">banned
zero-hour contracts</a>.
<p>
This is a big step in the right direction, but I think there needs
to be protection against demanding people work at short notice.
Workers must be free to plan other activities and not be required
to cancel them at the last minute in order to work instead.


feed_id: d8a47567f3e7597c124fe6f4ee258edb
title: HK film disappears from theaters
uri: HK-film-disappears-from-theaters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28HK_film_disappears_from_theaters%29

content:
<p>
A Hong Kong film projecting future Chinese tyranny has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/11/ten-years-the-terrifying-vision-of-hong-kong-that-beijing-wants-obscured">disappeared
from movie theaters</a>.  Chinese threats are suspected.
<p>
It is a shame that people who want to see it are obliged to be used by
Facebook.


feed_id: e4acec800a9eebc9f7ed4644cdd8ca5c
title: Fukushima meltdown cleanups
uri: Fukushima-meltdown-cleanups
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Fukushima_meltdown_cleanups%29
content:
<p>

Five years later, cleaning up the Fukushima meltdowns is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/11/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-reactors-decommission-cleanup-japan-tsunami-meltdown">going
slowly</a>, and it will take many decades to finish (using methods yet
to be developed).
<p>
If civilization collapses due to global heating, and the melted fuel
is still there, it could have a nuclear fizzle and spew a lot more
fallout than it did the first time.
<p>
The Fukushima reactors had known safety flaws that made it vulnerable
to an earthquake.  Many other reactors have them too.  These flaws
were 
<a href="www.gregpalast.com/fukushima-they-knew-4/">covered up for the
sake of the company's profits</a>.


feed_id: ca313ae84f8f7142a14a03c94e0daf27
title: Israel investigating video of killer thug
uri: Israel-investigating-video-of-killer-thug
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Israel_investigating_video_of_killer_thug%29

content:
<p>
Israel is investigating a video that appears to show that a thug shot
and killed a Palestinian that was lying wounded on the street.


feed_id: 458e48ce28b8569eb2e13fde10e67ed4
title: Anti-coal march in Bangladesh
uri: Anti-coal-march-in-Bangladesh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Anti-coal_march_in_Bangladesh%29
content:
<p>
Anti-coal activists in Bangladesh are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/10/now-or-never-400-kilometer-march-begins-bangladesh-oppose-coal-plants">going
to march 400km</a> (around 270 miles) to call attention to the harm
done by burning coal.


feed_id: 6bdaa1ec542a03f1fad765d29efc1ea7
title: Families' wells polluted by fracking
uri: Families-wells-polluted-by-fracking
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Families_wells_polluted_by_fracking%29

content:
<p>
A fracking company will have to pay 4 million dollars to families
whose wells it polluted, but there is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/10/david-vs-goliath-fracking-case-families-handed-major-win">no
way to restore the water to its former drinkable state</a>.


feed_id: 7428756a7b225b881c9946230a37eb4c
title: Obama and Trudeau on greenhouse emissions
uri: Obama-and-Trudeau-on-greenhouse-emissions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_March_2016_%28Obama_and_Trudeau_on_greenhouse_emissions%29

content:
<p>
Obama and Trudeau said that the US and Canada would 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/10/us-canada-promise-lead-world-low-carbon-economy-obama-trudeau">lead
the world towards lower greenhouse gas emissions</a>.
<p>
I wish I could have confidence this is more than just talk.
Not long ago, Trudeau 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_(Investing_in_tar_sands_pipelines)">called
for more pipelines to export tar sands oil</a>.


feed_id: 8f20980f5a92fbaa2fda3d23cbdbb822
title: Pitfalls in UK welfare system
uri: 2016-03-17-Pitfalls-in-UK-welfare-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Pitfalls_in_UK_welfare_system%29
content:
<p>The UK has put many pitfalls into its welfare system, so that people
can become ineligible and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/10/i-am-well-spoken-and-not-an-addict-how-homelessness-can-happen-to-anyone">
forced into destitution</a>
 on the street.
</p>
<p>Increasingly, the homeless face repression.
</p>
<p>For right-wingers, such as the Tories, homeless people are an
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/10/nastiness-crime-homeless-homelessness-local-authorities-public-spaces-protection-orders">
inconvenience</a>
 and the place to put them is the cemetery.</p>


feed_id: 5370d244c1a3ca1f5416ed9aef85687e
title: Break Free from Fossil Fuels
uri: 2016-03-17-Break-Free-from-Fossil-Fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Break_Free_from_Fossil_Fuels%29
content:
<p>The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/09/climate-coalition-vows-peaceful-escalated-actions-until-we-break-free-fossil-fuels">
Break Free from Fossil Fuels</a>
 campaign plans a series of protests
and civil disobedience against the planet roasters.
</p>


feed_id: e0612927b38a2dddea368fee7a7b625a
title: Global heating destroying pastures in Mongolia
uri: 2016-03-17-Global-heating-destroying-pastures-in-Mongolia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#14_March_2016_%28Global_heating_destroying_pastures_in_Mongolia%29

content:
<p>Global heating is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/10/climate-change-mongolia-destroying-pastures-nomadic-herders-dzud">
destroying the pasture</a>
 for the herds of Mongolian nomads.
</p>


feed_id: 03eaa77326ca6e9aada1cf2b7ac4c29c
title: Urgent: Oppose pandering to AIPAC
uri: Urgent-Oppose-pandering-to-AIPAC
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#17_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_pandering_to_AIPAC%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/hillaryclinton-tell-aipac">tell
Clinton (and Congress)</a> that Israel's colonies in Palestinian
territory are not Israel.


feed_id: 89a3319a881dffccb146c433675c3a69
title: Torture supported by Clinton
uri: Torture-supported-by-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#17_March_2016_%28Torture_supported_by_Clinton%29
content:
<p>
Clinton doesn't speak in favor of torture but she has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/10/hillary-clinton-stalwart-friend-worlds-worst-despots-attacks-sanders-latin-american">supported
it for many years</a>.


feed_id: 31492df4d7d26c40fff82f6854abe070
title: Urgent: Block "tax inversion" plans
uri: Urgent-Block-tax-inversion-plans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#17_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Block_tax_inversion_plans%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.signforgood.com/stoppfizer/">call on Obama</a> to
block Pfizer's "tax inversion" plans.


feed_id: 18b60c4d9c394245a5e8170198193c12
title: Urgent: Oppose making slaughter factories faster
uri: Urgent-Oppose-making-slaughter-factories-faster
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#17_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_making_slaughter_factories_faster%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/high_speed_slaughter_dems/">call
on the Department of Agriculture</a> to drop the idea of speeding up
the production lines in pig slaughter factories.


feed_id: bc7d67e2d34cb3172da8c795350a00ff
title: Urgent: Ban "conversion therapy"
uri: Urgent-Ban-conversion-therapy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#17_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_conversion_therapy%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Ban_Conversion_Therapy">call
on the FTC</a> to ban "conversion therapy", which claims to make
homosexuals into heterosexuals, as a fraud.


feed_id: 3b4fba12928d44d45142a804b69eadf6
title: Urgent: Identify political donors
uri: Urgent-Identify-political-donors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#17_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Identify_political_donors%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/comcau/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=554">support</a>
legal requirements to identify political donors.


feed_id: 71334029fa3a5adea1b62a6019cdd568
title: Legalizing carrying guns in classrooms
uri: Legalizing-carrying-guns-in-classrooms
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#18_March_2016_%28Legalizing_carrying_guns_in_classrooms%29

content:
<p>
Legalizing carrying guns in college classes 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/03/the-steep-cost-of-allowing-guns-in-the-college-classroom/472296/">tends
to intimidate professors</a>.  This might be exactly what Republicans
aim for.


feed_id: 2222e5da3ee5176a975f5691d81ca412
title: Most Israelis want to exile Arab citizens
uri: Most-Israelis-want-to-exile-Arab-citizens
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#18_March_2016_%28Most_Israelis_want_to_exile_Arab_citizens%29

content:
<p>
Most Israelis want to exile the Arab citizens who constitute 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/08/israel-becoming-more-deeply-divided-survey-finds">20%
of the population</a>.


feed_id: 224a30a7194f807e4e11b835d7a16bbf
title: FBI's access to NSA database
uri: FBI-s-access-to-NSA-database
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#18_March_2016_%28FBIs_access_to_NSA_database%29
content:
<p>
The FBI is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/08/fbi-changes-privacy-rules-accessing-nsa-prism-data">already
searching at will</a> through the NSA's giant data base of Americans'
communications.


feed_id: d5cd3dc6acbf3e57903149d2c24b0d55
title: Obama and Salafi Arabia
uri: Obama-and-Salafi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#18_March_2016_%28Obama_and_Salafi_Arabia%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/obama-has-refreshingly-clear-eyed-view-allies-saudi-arabia">Reportedly
Obama inwardly understands</a> that Salafi Arabia is not America's
friend and should not get much US support.
<p>
If this is true, it doesn't seem to show in his actions, such as
supporting Salafi Arabia in bombarding Yemen.


feed_id: f467a46f7614d4011a0fc4b8d9dd6586
title: Profitable US companies that paid no taxes
uri: Profitable-US-companies-that-paid-no-taxes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#18_March_2016_%28Profitable_US_companies_that_paid_no_taxes%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/03/07/27-giant-profitable-companies-paid-no-taxes/81399094/">27
Giant Profitable [US] Companies</a> Paid No Taxes in 2015.


feed_id: a0ce11ae865a826ec19fcdfe6123d41e
title: Plot to destroy VA
uri: Plot-to-destroy-VA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#18_March_2016_%28Plot_to_destroy_VA%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/koch-fueled-plot-destroy-va">Koch-Fueled
Plot</a> to Destroy the Veterans' Administration.


feed_id: 487d6de1f71c0be5bc509b8fb38e9b5d
title: Toddlers shoot and kill more than terrorists
uri: Toddlers-shoot-and-kill-more-than-terrorists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#18_March_2016_%28Toddlers_shoot_and_kill_more_than_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
In the US, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/13/the-macabre-truth-of-gun-control-in-the-us-is-that-toddlers-kill-more-people-than-terrorists-do">toddlers
shoot and kill more people than terrorists</a>.


feed_id: 4957b98fb3776a09a9579d6ef8843507
title: Convention against cluster bombs
uri: Convention-against-cluster-bombs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#18_March_2016_%28Convention_against_cluster_bombs%29

content:
<p>
The US should sign the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/12/us-should-stop-making-and-selling-cowards-bombs">convention
against cluster bombs</a> and stop making them.


feed_id: c3bf156d5493b5a9d2a1114fc5a51728
title: How the FBI investigates dissidents
uri: How-the-FBI-investigates-dissidents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#18_March_2016_%28How_the_FBI_investigates_dissidents%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/03/08/45th-anniversary-break-exposed-cointelpro-60-groups-demand-congressional">Calling
for a Congressional investigation</a> of how the FBI investigates
dissidents.


feed_id: 5ee14ce98bef744a2a9441c9ddbe1565
title: Mistreatment by Baltimore thugs
uri: Mistreatment-by-Baltimore-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#18_March_2016_%28Mistreatment_by_Baltimore_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Near where Freddie Gray was arrested and killed, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/10/baltimore-police-survey-abuse-results-freddie-gray-neighborhood">1/3
of the people surveyed</a> reported being mistreated by thugs.


feed_id: 4641798475eec0eb8f5c13415753c278
title: Religious extremist Cruz
uri: Religious-extremist-Cruz
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#18_March_2016_%28Religious_extremist_Cruz%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/12/ted-cruz-lesser-evil-to-donald-trump">Don't
assume that Senator Cruz is less bad than Trump</a>.  Cruz is a
religious extremist that has no respect for the human rights of people
that don't follow his religion.


feed_id: ab39342e3178d9bde88ed182d1db1de3
title: Republican hatred
uri: Republican-hatred
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#18_March_2016_%28Republican_hatred%29
content:
<p>
Trump is the culmination of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/12/blowing-biggest-political-story-last-fifty-years">decades
of Republican hatred</a> which usually is presented in disguised form.


feed_id: ef8d6060b9d82ce9972149779d63c3bc
title: The Icelandic Pirate Party
uri: The-Icelandic-Pirate-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28The_Icelandic_Pirate_Party%29
content:
<p>
The Icelandic Pirate Party is now the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/03/14/we-want-you-charge-icelands-pirates-now-largest-political-party">largest
in the country</a>, with support from 38% of the voters.


feed_id: 3796e5e1b293a81250d5c25b0fc055a1
title: Putin withdrawing troops and planes
uri: Putin-withdrawing-troops-and-planes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Putin_withdrawing_troops_and_planes%29

content:
<p>
Putin is 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/russia-decides-its-time-declare-victory-and-get-out-syria">withdrawing
Russian troops and planes from Syria</a>.  It looks like the
intervention was always intended to be temporary.
<p>
Maybe Putin chose this moment in order to pressure Assad to be more
flexible in the peace talks.  If the US and Russia have both decided
that the fighting among the non-Jihadi parties in Syria is bad for
everyone, maybe there is a path to a good outcome.


feed_id: 87d9c1ad16c6d68080493edbcac66fbb
title: Deaths caused by pollution
uri: Deaths-caused-by-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Deaths_caused_by_pollution%29
content:
<p>
Environmental pollution contributes to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/15/environmental-risks-killing-126-million-people-who-study-says">1/4
of human deaths</a>.


feed_id: 7d4690b17b20664446bab082784197f3
title: Book about toxicity of "burn pits"
uri: Book-about-toxicity-of-burn-pits
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Book_about_toxicity_of_burn_pits%29

content:
<p>
The Pentagon is 
<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/pentagon_trying_to_cover_up_toxic_effects_of_its_deadly_burn_pits_20160313">trying
to stop soldiers from buying a book about the toxicity of the "burn
pits"</a> in Iraq and Afghanistan where it burned all sorts of
rubbish.


feed_id: c9259f0a28f9ef3ad7f842e8d732b7a5
title: Mexico's "free trade"
uri: Mexico-s-free-trade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Mexicos_free_trade%29
content:
<p>
With 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/14/mexicanization-united-states">"free
trade"</a>, the US is following a path that we can observe in Mexico.


feed_id: 885defecb932bcb916f72b5d5e5cb93c
title: Proprietary DNA analysis software
uri: Proprietary-DNA-analysis-software
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Proprietary_DNA_analysis_software%29

content:
<p>
People Are Going To Prison Thanks To DNA [Analysis] Software —
But
<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/dna-software-code">How
It Works Is Secret</a>


feed_id: dbe341aa351ffbc91cacd8a2f9f1bf24
title: The death penalty
uri: 2016-03-20-The-death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28The_death_penalty%29
content:
<p>
A man who was sentenced to death, then exonerated, challenged 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/14/shame-clinton-defends-death-penalty-man-who-wrongly-served-years-death-row">Clinton's
support of the death penalty</a>.


feed_id: bdd90183138a02e6a2fd4b71e16c9a31
title: Michigan's "emergency manager" law
uri: 2016-03-20-Michigan-s-emergency-manager-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Michigans_emergency_manager_law%29
content:
<p>
Michigan's "emergency manager" law is being 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/03/14/civil-rights-attorneys-challenge-michigan-law-led-poisoning-flint-water">challenged
on civil rights grounds</a>.


feed_id: 14baf885feae7ff08334d83c84a3d26f
title: Antibiotic resistance
uri: 2016-03-20-Antibiotic-resistance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Antibiotic_resistance%29
content:
<p>
Some areas of medicine are already
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/mar/14/antibiotic-resistance-nhs-fda-agriculture-health-pfizer">coping
with the absence of antibiotics</a>.


feed_id: 4da9f12e0a8bb6394e034c1194a8564a
title: Rising seas
uri: 2016-03-20-Rising-seas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Rising_seas%29
content:
<p>
A model suggests that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/14/climate-change-us-coast-homes-2100-great-migration">13
million Americans may be forced to move</a> by rising seas during this
century.
<p>
Far larger numbers are likely to be affected world-wide, but the focus
on Americans is useful: when they realize what it will do to them,
they may take action to stop it.
<p>
Exploitative real estate developers continue 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/14/developers-dont-get-it-climate-change-need-retreat-coast">building
in places that will surely be flooded</a>.  Some of them are building
commercial establishments that might have a hope of repaying the
investment before they are wiped out.  The rest must intend to sell to
suckers.


feed_id: 237a6f551b7e84688214759ff85f72f3
title: Disguise systems for military vehicles
uri: Disguise-systems-for-military-vehicles
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Disguise_systems_for_military_vehicles%29

content:
<p>
Advanced kinds of disguise systems for military vehicles would 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/14/military-invisibility-cloaks-stealth-could-breach-geneva-conventions">violate
the laws of war</a> if they make the vehicles appear to be civilian.


feed_id: 65a265136920a4e4a3d79f9e6cf5074d
title: "Non-lethal" weapons used by thugs
uri: Non-lethal-weapons-used-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Non-lethal_weapons_used_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
The "non-lethal" weapons that thugs use against protesters 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/10/3758553/nonlethal-police-weapons/">cause
lots of injury, even death</a>.


feed_id: be39909adddc1f2530657d100cb583d8
title: Bernie Sanders' solutions
uri: Bernie-Sanders-solutions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Bernie_Sanders_solutions%29
content:
<p>
How 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-bernie-sanders-solutions-would-dramatically-improve-wages-poverty-and-inequality">Bernie
Sanders' Solutions</a> Would Dramatically Improve Wages, Poverty and
Inequality.


feed_id: bd1d4103027a8dfd539202bf092ffd23
title: Urgent: Oppose "open carry" laws
uri: Urgent-Oppose-open-carry-laws
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_open_carry_laws%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.everytown.org/sign/stop-campus-carry-2/">oppose
"campus carry" laws</a> that allow guns in college campuses.


feed_id: f95f85df434a45aee3790a0579a811c5
title: Urgent: End fracking the US
uri: Urgent-End-fracking-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_End_fracking_the_US%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2536">call
on Obama</a> to end fracking in the US.


feed_id: ddb18b9e93232aea5cd49630db1d89b6
title: February 1.35C hotter than usual
uri: February-1-35C-hotter-than-usual
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28February_1.35C_hotter_than_usual%29

content:
<p>
February was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/14/february-breaks-global-temperature-records-by-shocking-amount">1.35C
hotter</a> than the usual temperature for February.


feed_id: 98e526145c892d129b62f8f7da8962b5
title: Prison for pregnant drug addicts
uri: Prison-for-pregnant-drug-addicts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Prison_for_pregnant_drug_addicts%29

content:
<p>
Tennessee's response to pregnant drug addicts is to put them 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/tennessee-drug-use-pregnancy-fetal-assault-murder-jail-prison-prosecution">in
prison after they give birth</a>.
<p>
To steer them towards abortions would give better results.


feed_id: 6c9716eb9ae154561778a0c58e59cf1e
title: World Bank
uri: World-Bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28World_Bank%29
content:
<p>
The World Bank's Weird Way of Helping the Poor — 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/get-3-night-stay">Investing
in Luxury Hotels</a>.
<p>
More 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/world-bank-ifc-fund-luxury-hotels">information</a>.
<p>
It's a great 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/risky-business-ifc-wealthy-beneficiaries">handout
for a few millionaires</a>.


feed_id: 831face0ee0ea4b97a54b3b93533aeab
title: Decryption of WhatsApp messages
uri: Decryption-of-WhatsApp-messages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Decryption_of_WhatsApp_messages%29
content:
<p>
The Obama regime seems to be 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/next-front-new-crypto-wars-whatsapp">planning
to order WhatsApp to decrypt messages</a> that it can't decrypt.


feed_id: cf0f058a34f895ff7fdc6f6be8b8d585
title: Mechanical systems
uri: Mechanical-systems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Mechanical_systems%29
content:
<p>
Old-Fashioned Mechanical Systems, Plus Humans, 
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/cybersecurity-the-best-insurance-may-be-analog">May
Help Avert Catastrophic Breaches</a>.


feed_id: 88a72cafab8385ce59aefcfb73bfde00
title: Torture of Babar Ahmad
uri: Torture-of-Babar-Ahmad
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Torture_of_Babar_Ahmad%29
content:
<p>
Babar Ahmad never supported terrorism, but the Obama regime
effectively ordered the UK to jail him for years then hand him over
for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/12/babar-ahmad-jihad-bosnia-us-police-interview">trial
for "terrorism" based on a technicality</a>.
<p>
He still wants the UK thugs to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/12/terror-suspect-babar-ahmad-scotland-yard-met">apologize
for torturing him</a>.  An apology would be more important than the
money they paid as compensation.
<p>
The US-UK extradition treaty is fundamentally unjust.  The US Congress
was right to refuse to ratify it.  The UK has a duty to repudiate it.


feed_id: eda7998109bf53a96128869692f353a3
title: Sanders challenges Clinton
uri: Sanders-challenges-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Sanders_challenges_Clinton%29
content:
<p>
Sanders challenges Clinton to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/12/sanders-accepts-challenge-kill-tpp-if-elected-nothing-clinton-so-far">commit
to killing the TPP</a>.


feed_id: 126abfc5371eb7f6fdbf7e77084d1fb3
title: The intervention in Libya
uri: 2016-03-20-The-intervention-in-Libya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28The_intervention_in_Libya%29
content:
<p>
Clinton's emails show 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/13/exposing-libyan-agenda-closer-look-hillarys-emails">the
real motive</a> for the intervention in Libya: not Qadhafi's tyranny,
but his strengthening of Libya.


feed_id: 8f33acb92cabdb4b921944d8db0b9661
title: Trump's choice of cities to visit
uri: Trump-s-choice-of-cities-to-visit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Trumps_choice_of_cities_to_visit%29

content:
<p>
Rachel Maddow: Donald Trump Chose to Visit 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/13/rachel-maddow-donald-trump-campaign-violence-no-accident">Cities
with Recent Racial Unrest</a>.


feed_id: 1107958779b0de579b3cf101ef3848fe
title: Tories' next target
uri: Tories-next-target
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Tories_next_target%29
content:
<p>
The Tories' next target is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/13/cuts-will-see-200000-disabled-people-lose-3000-a-year">Britons
who need help to dress themselves or use the toilet</a>.
<p>
This is one step in a series that has run many years already and is
surely intended run many years more.  The overall goal is more
important than any one step, but the Tories don't admit what their
goal is, so we have to guess.
<p>
My guess is that disabled people's "care" will be in circumstances
that kills them pretty fast.  Same with support for the unemployed.
Poor children will be sent to schools that are really prisons as a
path to putting them in real prisons.  After all, they won't be needed
as workers any more.
<p>
The Tories are lower than vermin — Aneurin Bevan.


feed_id: 5e2b3294008355ecd00e5d8619fa0c2f
title: Urgent: Agua Zarca devestment
uri: Urgent-Agua-Zarca-devestment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Agua_Zarca_devestment%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/berta-fmo-bank-divest/">Call for
devestment</a> in the Agua Zarca dam that Berta Cáceres was
killed for opposing.


feed_id: 33f12ca926b16b1f5ed51f7351c7c36d
title: Urgent: Fire thugs
uri: Urgent-Fire-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Fire_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-mayor-de-blasio-fire-officer-richard-haste/">call
on New York City Mayor de Blasio</a> to fire the thugs that
participated in killing Richard Haste and/or in covering that up.


feed_id: 9ab58ee07d81045025311a7f6fc05c63
title: Urgent: Presidential appointments
uri: Urgent-Presidential-appointments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Presidential_appointments%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/presidential-appointments-matter/">call
on presidential candidates</a> to commit to appointing officials that
will get tough on Wall Street.


feed_id: 764adbed47021fc8c059ad0d438be80e
title: Urgent: Message to AIPAC
uri: Urgent-Message-to-AIPAC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Message_to_AIPAC%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/berniesanders-tell-aipac">call
on Sanders</a> to affirm that Israel's colonies in Palestinian
territory are not Israel.


feed_id: 938db5ad7634603a7a76edc44fac9f31
title: Urgent: No new undersea oil drilling
uri: Urgent-No-new-undersea-oil-drilling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_No_new_undersea_oil_drilling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://sierra.force.com/actions/National?actionId=AR0037737">call
on Obama not to allow any new undersea oil drilling.


feed_id: efc0420b851ba149b65e16d6de45ceb9
title: Urgent: Cancel oil drilling in Arctic
uri: Urgent-Cancel-oil-drilling-in-Arctic
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_oil_drilling_in_Arctic%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1963">call
on Obama</a> to cancel oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean.


feed_id: 9f7bcc61d2a3e877e21e9f46e0eba894
title: Disappeared HK booksellers/publishers
uri: Disappeared-HK-booksellers-publishers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Disappeared_HK_booksellers%252Fpublishers%29

content:
<p>
Disappeared Hong Kong booksellers/publishers have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/four-detained-hong-kong-booksellers-chinese-tv">charged
with illegally selling books</a> in China.  Reportedly the books they
supposedly sold were made by the Chinese state in order to frame them.


feed_id: 6dff29c8535908b2b0f34a2b93bff51c
title: NSA snooping
uri: 2016-03-22-NSA-snooping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28NSA_snooping%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/17/five-big-unanswered-questions-about-the-u-s-s-worldwide-spying/">Unanswered
questions</a> about the scope of NSA snooping.


feed_id: 9cde3b4bc8d05a90ead14dd0540ac157
title: Food exported during Irish famine
uri: Food-exported-during-Irish-famine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Food_exported_during_Irish_famine%29

content:
<p>
As thousands starved during the Irish famine, plenty of food was
produced in Ireland but the farm owners 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/17/real-irish-american-story-not-taught-schools">exported
it</a>.
<p>
This is what happens when the rich dominate society.  Similar things
are happening today, though not in Ireland.


feed_id: d0bdf583c1ea42c7381013ea222bd2c2
title: US war on painkillers
uri: US-war-on-painkillers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28US_war_on_painkillers%29
content:
<p>
US states are escalating the war on painkillers: states are passing
laws 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/17/cdc-guidelines-against-prescribing-opioids">making
it hard to prescribe them enough to treat some peoples' pain</a>.
<p>
Millions of people are likely to face horrible suffering from this.
In effect, the law not only authorizes but requires torture.


feed_id: f9e66d9237d042ffeb48bf9e5cb7ad6a
title: Erdo&gbreve;an's excuse to arrest PKK supporters
uri: Erdo-gbreve-an-s-excuse-to-arrest-PKK-supporters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Erdogan%27s_excuse_to_arrest_PKK_supporters%29

content:
<p>
A splinter group took responsibility for a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/17/ankara-car-bomb-kurdish-militants-claim-responsibility-attacks">bombing
in Ankara that was aimed at civilians</a>.  This group split off from
the PKK, which does not attack civilians.  Naturally, Erdo&gbreve;an
used the bombing as an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/16/turkey-plans-to-make-praising-violent-acts-in-media-a-terror">excuse
to arrest supporters of the PKK</a>.
<p>
In Turkey, no one is safe from prosecution for "supporting terrorism";
even those that call for a cease fire can be imprisoned.  But that's
not broad enough.


feed_id: 1655719e13f89558655bf9958d0beec2
title: Gun control laws
uri: Gun-control-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Gun_control_laws%29
content:
<p>
A study suggests that certain gun control laws 
<a href="http://m.slashdot.org/story/308469">could greatly reduce the
rate of killings with guns</a>.


feed_id: fdd0a562fa7d1754609d8de4d297fa89
title: Dealing with North Korea
uri: Dealing-with-North-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Dealing_with_North_Korea%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/17/north-korea-existential-threat-michael-kirby-un-human-rights">UN
experts' suggestions</a> about dealing with North Korea.


feed_id: c6edb43dacc621a50542d8cffe0ed461
title: Global clean energy
uri: Global-clean-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Global_clean_energy%29
content:
<p>
Doubling global clean energy by 2030 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/17/doubling-global-renewables-2030-save-42tn-research-global-warming">would
save trillions of dollars and save millions of lives</a>, as well as
curbing global heating.
<p>
However, I suspect it may be too small a target.  With a real effort
we could do much more than double it, and we had better do so,
double-time.


feed_id: b6e1853f07a4e90a0ac2e87b150a1a11
title: Dallas thugs arrested
uri: Dallas-thugs-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Dallas_thugs_arrested%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in Dallas have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/17/dallas-police-officer-arrested-murder-charges-death-teenager-ken-johnson">arrested
for murdering fleeing suspects</a>.
<p>
Maybe they deserved to be arrested, but not killed.


feed_id: 9b0746804e866dcbc4f654162f13f314
title: Evidence of lying by FBI agents
uri: Evidence-of-lying-by-FBI-agents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Evidence_of_lying_by_FBI_agents%29
content:
<p>
There is some evidence that FBI agents are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/16/oregon-militia-lavoy-finicum-fbi-killing-cover-up">lying
about the killing of LaVoy Finicum</a>.
<p>
They are thugs, so why wouldn't they lie?


feed_id: 4858cc023a6704233b4e45849b8cc341
title: Gang attacks Russian human rights activists
uri: Gang-attacks-Russian-human-rights-activists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Gang_attacks_Russian_human_rights_activists%29

content:
<p>
A Russian human rights activist was 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/16/russian-anti-torture-activist-assaulted-in-chechnya/">attacked
by an organized gang</a> in Chechnya.


feed_id: f8abbd583a7b3429a6410a4118f4022a
title: Arms export embargo on Salafi Arabia
uri: Arms-export-embargo-on-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Arms_export_embargo_on_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
The Netherlands has imposed an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/16/netherlands-votes-saudi-arms-embargo-over-human-rights-violations">arms
export embargo</a> on Salafi Arabia.


feed_id: b722fed98c968599e23a1187b29ef01a
title: Repression in Turkey
uri: Repression-in-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Repression_in_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
An expat professor was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/16/british-academic-deported-over-kurdish-new-year-invitations">deported
from Turkey for possessing leaflets</a> inviting people to a Kurdish
new year celebration.
<p>
Mere friendship with Kurdish culture is intolerable for the repressive
regime.


feed_id: 363b4e68cc5dd1294bd24e0639c7476e
title: NC voter suppression law
uri: NC-voter-suppression-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28NC_voter_suppression_law%29
content:
<p>
North Carolina's voter suppression law is hitting 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/15/right-vote-jeopardy-north-carolina">substantial
numbers of minority group members</a>.


feed_id: 1ba72304ab2c93ccd28685581094b67a
title: Democratic primaries
uri: Democratic-primaries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Democratic_primaries%29
content:
<p>
Clinton got the majority of the delegates in the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/15/sanders-stumbles-touts-radical-politics-telling-truth">latest
Democratic primaries</a>.
<p>
However, Sanders may win the large states that come next.


feed_id: e99e2e4222ac9f74cc7a38de5a555cf2
title: $40,000 for permission to hold conference
uri: 40-000-for-permission-to-hold-conference
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%2840%2C000_for_permission_to_hold_conference%29

content:
<p>
Professors are suing Southampton University because it 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/15/academics-take-southampton-university-court-over-israel-conference">demands
they pay around 40,000 dollars for permission</a> to hold their
conference on Israeli policies.


feed_id: 9b3a58a39f5332baced520ec9fa47045
title: Why Naomi Klein does not trust Clinton
uri: Why-Naomi-Klein-does-not-trust-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Why_Naomi_Klein_does_not_trust_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
Naomi Klein 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/15/naomi-klein-how-clinton-failed-climate-megaphone-test">explains
why</a> she does not trust Clinton.


feed_id: b92dcd001f893bfd203b092afbf9311b
title: UK public schools
uri: UK-public-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28UK_public_schools%29
content:
<p>
The UK now 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/15/every-english-school-to-become-an-academy-ministers-to-announce">plans
to remove all public schools from local control</a>, making them
effectively unaccountable.


feed_id: 77f1d665acb6625094cdc03e56cb0226
title: Rising temperatures and drought
uri: Rising-temperatures-and-drought
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Rising_temperatures_and_drought%29
content:
<p>
Rising temperatures and associated drought have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/16/drought-high-temperatures-el-nino-36m-people-africa-hunger">caused
36 million people in Africa to be short of food</a>.


feed_id: fb350ffc6fcfc1338a29d5eee92a4b96
title: Bassel Khartabil
uri: Bassel-Khartabil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Bassel_Khartabil%29
content:
<p>
Syrian liberal activist Bassel Khartabil was imprisoned in 2012.  Now
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2016/mar/16/jimmy-wales-the-world-needs-to-ask-whereisbassel">the
Assad regime refuses to state his whereabouts</a>, and he might be
killed.


feed_id: 7ea15ac3416522397ea333a5406fe457
title: Dalits
uri: Dalits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Dalits%29
content:
<p>
In parts of India, 
<a href="http://www.nyoooz.com/bhopal/391620/dalits-face-disparity-in-ambedkars-native-state">villages
don't allow Dalits to get water from the public well with the public
pump</a>.


feed_id: 936fe3ab760b304c660885afe6265b14
title: French Pun
uri: 2016-03-22-French-Pun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28French_Pun%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/french-puns.html#chardonnay">New pun: "Pour
l'&eacutemir, le chardonnay"</a>.


feed_id: 7102cf1a1c91602590651a4f3fa1dbb5
title: Urgent: Prosecute Exxon
uri: Urgent-Prosecute-Exxon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Prosecute_Exxon%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://environmental-action.webaction.org/action/wrapperProcessAction2.jsp">call
on Obama</a> to prosecute Exxon for its climate fraud.
<p>
On the <a href="/articles/exxon.html">correct pronunciation of
"Exxon"</a>.


feed_id: 3f9a921aa778ba88401c29a3f4dca374
title: Urgent: Student load profit scandal
uri: Urgent-Student-load-profit-scandal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Student_load_profit_scandal%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/warren_doe_navient">tell the
Department of Education to come clean</a> about the student loan
profit scandal.


feed_id: 9d8607e0d1b888de7811874ca972fa6c
title: Urgent: Stop arms sales to Salafi Arabia
uri: Urgent-Stop-arms-sales-to-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_arms_sales_to_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=47501">call
on Obama and Congress</a> to stop arms sales to Salafi Arabia.


feed_id: 31eff35b4334443dd356c6e40cd50759
title: Urgent: Voting Rights Amendments Act
uri: Urgent-Voting-Rights-Amendments-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Voting_Rights_Amendments_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/vra_vote">demand that
Republicans allow a vote</a> on the Voting Rights Amendments Act.


feed_id: c3b74cc6ac46958303a9ae746b639fe2
title: Chicago thug-protecting DA defeated
uri: Chicago-thug-protecting-DA-defeated
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Chicago_thug-protecting_DA_defeated%29

content:
<p>
Kim Foxx
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/16/black-lives-matter-movement-midwest-elections-victories">defeated
thug-protecting Anita Alvarez</a> for DA of Chicago.


feed_id: 065db211fd16fcda6b62d1b68a3857e3
title: Smoothies
uri: Smoothies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Smoothies%29
content:
<p>
A smoothie is
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/03/are-smoothies-devil">not
as good for you as the fruit it is made from</a>.


feed_id: fa71c24ac4e45c2d5202e8f60fa31bda
title: Humans' CO2 emissions
uri: Humans-CO2-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Humans_CO2_emissions%29
content:
<p>
Humans' CO2 emissions
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/16/climate-hopes-raised-as-global-energy-emissions-stall-for-second-year">did
not increase in 2015, which is good</a>, but evidently not good enough
since temperatures continue to rise dangerously.


feed_id: 83771f2288df712350b041d73c95a6ed
title: Anti-protest laws
uri: Anti-protest-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Anti-protest_laws%29
content:
<p>
Coal protesters in Australia
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/mar/16/anti-protest-laws-giving-police-greater-powers-pass-nsw-parliament">face
harsh punishments</a> if their protests cause any inconvenience.
<p>
This is what it looks like what government is in the pocket of
business.  You will see it in many places including the US.


feed_id: ccd44362c06eaec193d6d8cb28372c92
title: Malaysian news reporting shutdown
uri: Malaysian-news-reporting-shutdown
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Malaysian_news_reporting_shutdown%29

content:
<p>
News reporting in Malaysia is shutting down in response to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/16/the-press-has-become-too-free-for-the-government-of-malaysia">harsh
repression</a>.


feed_id: 66160e611d600617ffede96a113f540c
title: Towns with debtors' prisons on notice
uri: Towns-with-debtors-prisons-on-notice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Towns_with_debtors_prisons_on_notice%29

content:
<p>
Towns That Jail People Because They're Poor Are
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/03/14/3759676/doj-debtors-prisons/">Put
On Notice</a>.


feed_id: d42f361086bec72ea596b66abc8af613
title: Trump's volunteer contract
uri: Trump-s-volunteer-contract
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Trumps_volunteer_contract%29
content:
<p>
Donald Trump's Volunteer Contract
<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/politics/donald-trump-volunteer-contract-nda-non-disparagement-clause/">Forbids
All Criticism of Trump for Life</a>.


feed_id: e68bf8e4fb2201fbd51acdc3a86fd814
title: Tory Cruelty
uri: Tory-Cruelty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Tory_Cruelty%29
content:
<p>
Tory Cruelty: Disability Cuts Threaten to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/15/disability-cuts-cutbacks-destroy-independent-living-budget">Destroy
Independent Living for Thousands</a>.


feed_id: e68f49359ec03bb130a75e3d68e8a073
title: US civil officials subservient to military
uri: US-civil-officials-subservient-to-military
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28US_civil_officials_subservient_to_military%29

content:
<p>
US civil officials are too subservient to the military
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/15/pentagon-excess-has-fueled-civil-military-crisis">on
questions of whether to fight wars</a>.


feed_id: 690c277ba58e799a5a2344cda2cb9d2b
title: Deaths caused by Russian bombs in Syria
uri: Deaths-caused-by-Russian-bombs-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Deaths_caused_by_Russian_bombs_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Russian bombs in Syria have killed
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/15/russian-airstrikes-in-syria-killed-2000-civilians-in-six-months">2000
civilians in the 6-month period of intervention</a>.


feed_id: aa259c0ac555904d0a7c625b68f45c9d
title: Punishment for defiance in US schools
uri: Punishment-for-defiance-in-US-schools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Punishment_for_defiance_in_US_schools%29

content:
<p>
US schools sometimes
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35173-paddles-stun-guns-and-chemical-sprays-how-us-schools-discipline-students">punish
students in cruel ways</a> for the smallest defiance.
<p>
I am not surprised that this happens more often to black male
students.  Unconscious racism would be enough to cause that.


feed_id: 7eac8eccea2e7e67cac637601ca2596f
title: First year in Arctic without winter
uri: First-year-in-Arctic-without-winter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28First_year_in_Arctic_without_winter%29

content:
<p>
In the Arctic,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/15/record-breaking-temperatures-have-robbed-the-arctic-of-its-winter">2016
was the year without a winter</a>.
<p>
Or, perhaps we should say, the <em>first</em> year without a winter.


feed_id: e5976ae5d29987b3f1d1a4cb955e1610
title: Baltimore crime rates after thug attacks
uri: Baltimore-crime-rates-after-thug-attacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Baltimore_crime_rates_after_thug_attacks%29

content:
<p>
Baltimore had no increase in crime after Michael Brown was shot in
Ferguson, Missouri, but did have a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/15/ferguson-effect-baltimore-freddie-gray-effect-crime">spurt
in crimes after thugs in Baltimore killed Freddie Gray</a>.


feed_id: 64c02e0a2a225f85ebc444551256bba1
title: McGill graduates returning diplomas
uri: McGill-graduates-returning-diplomas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28McGill_graduates_returning_diplomas%29

content:
<p>
McGill graduates are returning their diplomas,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2016/mar/15/why-graduates-of-a-top-canadian-university-are-returning-our-diplomas">demanding
divestment from fossil fuels</a>.


feed_id: 294636566924d28f1a73850fa2b12a33
title: The "terrorist watch list"
uri: The-terrorist-watch-list
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28The_terrorist_watch_list%29
content:
<p>
People arrested in the US for the smallest reasons may be
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/15/terrorist-watchlist-errors-spread-to-criminal-rap-sheets/">denied
bail</a> if they are in the "terrorist watch list", which is compiled
in a slipshod manner.


feed_id: e7c5bbb866a2e7bd33c95939c35604d7
title: Volkswagen whistleblower
uri: Volkswagen-whistleblower
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Volkswagen_whistleblower%29
content:
<p>
A whistleblower says that Volkswagen
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/14/volkwagen-whistleblower-deleted-documents-emissions-tests">deleted
documents</a> when the emissions test fraud was discovered.


feed_id: 74c1f60f269a7e0174148ca4759605d8
title: Thugs get search warrants for "practice"
uri: Thugs-get-search-warrants-for-practice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Thugs_get_search_warrants_for_practice%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in Washington DC
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/14/dc-police-raided-hundreds-of-homes">got
search warrants by citing "practice"</a> as the reason.


feed_id: 585a874eac4e42d866f12ce165599710
title: Robot "carers"
uri: Robot-carers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Robot_carers%29
content:
<p>
With robot "carers", old people who can't leave the house
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/14/robot-carers-for-elderly-people-are-another-way-of-dying-even-more-miserably">will
be able to survive for years without talking to another human
being</a>.


feed_id: a4004b75a75f136f9f24f50de173d597
title: Arctic marine reserve
uri: Arctic-marine-reserve
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Arctic_marine_reserve%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/15/marine-reserve-status-for-whole-arctic-region-is-best-way-to-protect-it">Make
the whole Arctic region a marine reserve</a>, then license specific
fisheries when they are safe.


feed_id: a7efe68bd5f72623832bac972646d723
title: Labour Party and antisemitism
uri: Labour-Party-and-antisemitism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Labour_Party_and_antisemitism%29
content:
<p>
Calling on the Labour Party to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/15/antisemitism-israel-policies-labour-activist-vicki-kirby">firmly
reject antisemitism</a>, while criticizing Israel's occupation
policies.


feed_id: c0b6c9f445aa99495d050125aaaccb8d
title: Isle de Jean Charles vanishing
uri: Isle-de-Jean-Charles-vanishing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Isle_de_Jean_Charles_vanishing%29
content:
<p>
The Isle de Jean Charles, in Louisiana, is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/15/louisiana-isle-de-jean-charles-island-sea-level-resettlement">vanishing
under rising seas</a>, and the last 85 inhabitants are asking for a
place to move to.
<p>
When we have to move millions of people from Miami, it won't be so
easy.


feed_id: 87f6a03a746678de6fd101b3704a98b2
title: Aid to Burundi government suspended
uri: Aid-to-Burundi-government-suspended
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28Aid_to_Burundi_government_suspended%29

content:
<p>
The EU has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/15/eu-suspends-aid-to-burundi-government">suspended
direct aid</a> to Burundi's tyrannical government.


feed_id: 5bd768e2c8a55e2bfc58947eae712fa7
title: Russian show trial
uri: Russian-show-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Russian_show_trial%29
content:
<p>
A Russian show trial found a captured Ukrainian solder guilty of war crimes,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/21/ukrainian-pilot-nadezhda-savchenko-guilty-russian-court-journalists">disregarding
evidence that she was somewhere else at the time</a>.
<p>
The way to understand Putin: think of Donald Trump, only clever.


feed_id: 12d455860d27493effb2d86deb9fc3d2
title: Record-breaking temperatures
uri: Record-breaking-temperatures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Record-breaking_temperatures%29
content:
<p>
Current Record-Shattering Temperatures Are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/mar/21/current-record-shattering-temperatures-are-shocking-to-even-climate-scientists">Shocking
to Even Climate Scientists</a>.
<p>
When this El Niño ends, temperatures will go down somewhat.  We
can expect the planet roasters to say, "This shows we're safe!"
That's because they are playing for time: time to sell more fossil
fuels, time to lock more investment into future fossil fuels.


feed_id: e64566cb0b858c326e731044aa6adab6
title: Extreme poverty in the US
uri: 2016-03-24-Extreme-poverty-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Extreme_poverty_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
A foreign visitor in the US is struck by the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/21/with-so-much-poverty-hidden-in-plain-sight-you-have-to-ask-is-this-still-america">stark
and extreme poverty</a>.  It's the same feeling I got when I first
visited India and saw the shanty towns in the middle of the city.
<p>
This is what plutocracy does.


feed_id: cfc39801480bc13d3f58a4e73716cb82
title: Tasmania won't log "world heritage" forests
uri: Tasmania-won-t-log-world-heritage-forests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Tasmania_wont_log_world_heritage_forests%29

content:
<p>
Criticism from the UN 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/21/plans-to-log-tasmanias-world-heritage-forests-dropped-after-un-criticism">made
the extractionist government of Tasmania back down</a> from an plan to
log forests that are labeled as "world heritage".


feed_id: a9dba3367979cfd393523f6f1d58f49e
title: Murder witness target of arson attack
uri: Murder-witness-target-of-arson-attack
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Murder_witness_target_of_arson_attack%29

content:
<p>
A witness to the murder of a Palestinian family by Israeli extremists
was the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/20/fire-west-bank-home-key-witness-duma-arson-attack-jewish-extremists-palestinian-family">target
of an arson attack</a>.


feed_id: 818e2281329324e10fb746a152c6ccd2
title: Accessing blocked sites in Russia
uri: Accessing-blocked-sites-in-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Accessing_blocked_sites_in_Russia%29

content:
<p>
Putin's regime is 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-holders-want-site-block-circumvention-advice-banned-160319/">planning
to make it a crime</a> to post information about how to access blocked
sites.
<p>
In a state that regularly tramples all sorts of human rights, this is
nothing special.  But the multinational companies that want this in
Russia will try to impose it elsewhere.


feed_id: e9ee8762d8d1986fc6ea35d0c06694df
title: Ukraine LGBT festival forcibly shut down
uri: Ukraine-LGBT-festival-forcibly-shut-down
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Ukraine_LGBT_festival_forcibly_shut_down%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing extremists in Ukraine 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/20/lgbt-festival-in-ukraine-abandoned-after-far-right-protest">forcibly
shut down an LGBT festival</a>.


feed_id: 4bf4255db303ebd9333b5a56f51d0cfd
title: Urgent: Protect Grand Canyon watershed
uri: Urgent-Protect-Grand-Canyon-watershed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_Grand_Canyon_watershed%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama to 
<a href="http://sierra.force.com/actions/National?actionId=AR0021722&id=70131000001MBSrAAO">protect
the Grand Canyon watershed</a>.


feed_id: f82adec0f6954dee62bd3825b17e79bc
title: Lobbying group flouting US lobbying law
uri: Lobbying-group-flouting-US-lobbying-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Lobbying_group_flouting_US_lobbying_law%29

content:
<p>
A lobbying group is flouting US lobbying law by 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/20/mysterious-powerful-lobbying-group-wont-even-say-who-its-lobbying-for/">refusing
to say what businesses it represents</a>.  SCROTUS allow this to
continue because they are working for the same businesses.


feed_id: b18fefeeabec87360f279022129aef44
title: Homeless people in Dallas
uri: Homeless-people-in-Dallas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Homeless_people_in_Dallas%29
content:
<p>
Dallas now deals with homeless people that have other major problems
by first 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/20/tiny-home-dallas-homeless-housing-first-strategy">giving
them a place to live</a>.
<p>
Too bad they don't do this for the homeless people who are not
mentally ill.


feed_id: 8d6130bc9924b85dfa3921cebf1b9d54
title: The TTIP
uri: 2016-03-24-The-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28The_TTIP%29
content:
<p>
The TTIP would give the US government a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/18/latest-leak-confirms-ttip-serious-threat-democracy-we-know-it">veto
over EU legislative proposals</a>.


feed_id: 761d1088642053d05c44a0f1b8b6f0c9
title: Progressive movement by Sanders
uri: Progressive-movement-by-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Progressive_movement_by_Sanders%29
content:
<p>
Sanders Must Build a Progressive Movement 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/19/sanders-must-build-progressive-movement-all-way-convention-and-beyond">All
the Way to the Convention and Beyond</a>.


feed_id: fb80f6452d2cd4411e8ea4902dd619cf
title: Dishonest attacks against Sanders
uri: Dishonest-attacks-against-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Dishonest_attacks_against_Sanders%29

content:
<p>
Clinton Campaign Boosted By More 
<a href="https://shadowproof.com/2016/03/19/clinton-campaign-relies-on-more-rumors-and-dishonest-attacks-against-sanders/">Rumors
And Dishonest Attacks</a> Against Sanders.


feed_id: eb2e5137df78f412c5d80b1c33f17c04
title: Australians demonstrate for compassion
uri: Australians-demonstrate-for-compassion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Australians_demonstrate_for_compassion%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/mar/20/thousands-rally-to-call-for-end-to-offshore-detention-of-asylum-seekers">50,000
Australians</a> demonstrated for compassion for asylum seekers.


feed_id: 03a0760a13ffaa085711daa663c7ea91
title: Urgent: Full tracing of seafood
uri: Urgent-Full-tracing-of-seafood
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Full_tracing_of_seafood%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.oceana.org/sign/iuu-task-force_traceability-all_2016">call
on Obama's task force</a> to advocate full tracing of seafood for
commercial sale.


feed_id: 364b249b327213232142b0f7da6f897c
title: New solar-powered street lamps
uri: New-solar-powered-street-lamps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28New_solar-powered_street_lamps%29
content:
<p>
New solar-powered street lamps 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/20/energy-efficient-street-lights">provide
surplus electricity</a> as a side benefit.
<p>
Governments with a proper sense of urgency about coming climate mayhem
would install these lamps in large quantities as a crash program.


feed_id: 1176c7a8003c51e961e51b5ea994ab8a
title: Overdrinking
uri: Overdrinking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Overdrinking%29
content:
<p>
Letting bars stay open later in the UK increased total alcohol
consumption very little; but it led a significant fraction to
occasionally go in for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/20/opening-hours-binge-drinking">bigger
binges</a>.
<p>
Is there, I wonder, a way to discourage overdrinking?


feed_id: bbf35d6adecdcd18af40be8d31fa90e9
title: Cuts that UK gov't wants to make
uri: Cuts-that-UK-gov-t-wants-to-make
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Cuts_that_UK_govt_wants_to_make%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/19/iain-duncan-smith-welfare-cuts-morally-indefensible">Even
some Tories have trouble stomaching the cuts</a> that the UK
government wants to make now.


feed_id: 76ddd95ec72d575dd0d184f22726c2e6
title: National water crisis in the US
uri: National-water-crisis-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28National_water_crisis_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Those who track patterns of sickness see a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/19/we-are-all-flint">national
water crisis</a> in the US, developing over the timescale of decades.
<p>
The causes of the water problems are many, but the root cause is
simple: plutocracy.  Take Flint, for instance.  Why did all the jobs
in Flint disappear?  Why did Flint go bankrupt?  Why did Michigan
Republicans impose the emergency manager law?  Why did Snyder impose
an emergency manager on Flint?  Why did the emergency manager decide
to use the unsafe water from the Flint river?  Plutocracy is at work
in each case.


feed_id: 73259c1b144023ca67903637d04b12d1
title: Whistleblowers
uri: 2016-03-24-Whistleblowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Whistleblowers%29
content:
<p>
Thousands of US government employees are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/18/chelsea-manning-insider-threat-surveillance-government-employees">subject
to constant investigation</a> to see if they might perhaps be
whistleblowers.


feed_id: 0611023f11d22dd162c5ac3fdb3230ab
title: Hatred stirred up by the Tories
uri: Hatred-stirred-up-by-the-Tories
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28Hatred_stirred_up_by_the_Tories%29
content:
<p>
The Tories have stirred up so much hatred towards people who get
welfare payments that many carry out 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/18/poor-benefits-savings-government-scroungers">random
hate crimes</a> against them.


feed_id: 9e469d42927cbbc35214e005d53e7ed5
title: New nuclear power plant in UK
uri: New-nuclear-power-plant-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#24_March_2016_%28New_nuclear_power_plant_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
The UK government 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/18/hinkley-point-c-nuclear-deal-22bn-poison-pill-taxpayer">wants
to promise it will pay an extra 30 billion dollars</a> to the owners
of its new nuclear plant if it shuts the plant before 2060.
<p>
A future British government will have to impose a life sentence on the
employees of any company that tries to collect compensation for
shutting down a power plant.
<p>
The plant is so expensive that makes no economic sense except as a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2016/mar/18/five-ways-to-power-the-uk-that-are-far-better-than-hinkley-point">giveaway
from governments to their cronies</a>.


feed_id: 8569a549e4baffe0244fedbbcc7aaf38
title: Urgent: Preserve food stamp support
uri: Urgent-Preserve-food-stamp-support
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Preserve_food_stamp_support%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/2016_food_stamps">call on
Congress</a> to preserve food stamp support for people that are
looking for jobs or training, even when they can't find those.


feed_id: 513407bca46157aa105a8cc8eaa1db6a
title: Unjust law in France
uri: Unjust-law-in-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Unjust_law_in_France%29
content:
<p>
An unjust law in France 
<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/french-high-court-bds-activists-guilty-of-discrimination/">prohibits
calling for boycotting any country</a>.
<p>
While the murder of Charlie Hebdo's cartoonists was more bloody, the
biggest enemy of freedom of expression in France is the French state.


feed_id: a2e634666dde8034b249342dc528a8e1
title: Proprietary software
uri: 2016-03-24-Proprietary-software
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Proprietary_software%29
content:
<p>
The US government has made companies hand over proprietary software
source code so it can 
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-government-pushed-tech-firms-to-hand-over-source-code/">search
for bugs to attack</a>.
<p>
With proprietary software, you're forced to put your trust 100% in a
company that couldn't protect you if it wanted to.  And code-signing
by the company won't do any good if the NSA forces some employee to
hand over the signature key.
<p>
With free software, you are assured that the NSA can't get anything
that you don't get.


feed_id: a3958a597f42404e009d24a479d60c1f
title: A Terrifying Nation for Women
uri: A-Terrifying-Nation-for-Women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28A_Terrifying_Nation_for_Women%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/18/us-becoming-terrifying-nation-women">The
US (or rather part of it)</a> Is Becoming a Terrifying Nation for
Women.


feed_id: bfb3a7866466f1995d2b867f4e91311b
title: Protesting against right-wing extremists
uri: Protesting-against-right-wing-extremists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Protesting_against_right-wing_extremists%29

content:
<p>
Protesting against right-wing extremists and Trump 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/18/how-empathy-not-protest-can-defeat-trump-and-right-wing-extremism">sometimes
plays into their hands</a>.  Sometimes it is better not to give them
what they want.


feed_id: 142011d090e97d6bc4f513bcf5e153f2
title: Amazon accounts
uri: Amazon-accounts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Amazon_accounts%29
content:
<p>
Amazon 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/18/banned-by-amazon-returning-faulty-goods-blocked-credit-balance">closes
customers' accounts</a>, which implies confiscating their money, if
they return too many defective products.
<p>
The company refuses even to discuss why.


feed_id: 72275fc793f80879ed6f5774b87397e4
title: Pentagon contracts and inventory
uri: Pentagon-contracts-and-inventory
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Pentagon_contracts_and_inventory%29

content:
<p>
The Pentagon 
<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/03/17/19428/you-could-buy-australian-island-what-pentagon-says-it-would-cost-take-inventory-one">does
not have effective control</a> of its contracts or its inventory.


feed_id: 2ca12737fb0e03dd5c384c32fdafec71
title: Censorship by Facebook
uri: Censorship-by-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Censorship_by_Facebook%29
content:
<p>
WikiLeaks accused Facebook of 
<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/wikileaks_accuses_facebook_of_censhorship_20160318">blocking
useds from following links to Clinton's email release</a>.


feed_id: 33efdc11a138730e6b013b247fd53ab9
title: Defamation in Turkey
uri: Defamation-in-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Defamation_in_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
It's not just insulting Erdo&gbreve;an that can get you imprisoned in Turkey.
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/19/turkey-newspaper-cartoon-editors-jailed-women-libel-1927">Defaming
women in general is also a crime</a>.
<p>
I disapprove of statements that insult women, but they are covered by
freedom of speech.


feed_id: a5c49628cb3b655fe5c5ad8af03ba549
title: Facebook guesses race of useds
uri: Facebook-guesses-race-of-useds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Facebook_guesses_race_of_useds%29
content:
<p>
Facebook 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/facebooks-ad-platform-now-guesses-at-your-race-based-on-your-behavior/">guesses
the race of each used</a>, and companies use this to show people
different ads.


feed_id: 5a62fa41164b502b971e5762c39b6772
title: The Lavabit case
uri: The-Lavabit-case
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28The_Lavabit_case%29
content:
<p>
How Ladar Levison dragged his feet when the FBI 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/crypto-keys-printout-of-edward-snowdens-email-service-lavabit-ladar-levison">ordered
him to betray all Lavabit's customers</a>.
<p>
The 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/lavabit-snowden-forgotten-encryption-fight-looms-over-the-apple-fbi-case">Apple
encryption cases</a> parallels the Lavabit case.
<p>
When the US government says, "Let us spy on everyone — we'll only
look at that one target?"  Whether the one target is a terrorist, or a
hero like Snowden, we know from many examples that we can't trust the
US government with such power.  When you give those snoops an inch,
they 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_August_2013_(Urgent:_Investigate_dishonest_use_of_NSA_materials)">take
a mile</a>.


feed_id: 2d45661f9999a3b1b4f9bf6166941ac4
title: First amendment and encryption software
uri: First-amendment-and-encryption-software
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28First_amendment_and_encryption_software%29

content:
<p>
If applying the first amendment to Apple's encryption software gives a
good result, it will be the exception to a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/18/apple-first-amendment-defense-big-pharma-tobacco-tech-companies">long
string of horrible decisions resulting from that bad practice</a>.


feed_id: d195f4ac65a235ae155fd29f2719c6a5
title: China mandates errors in digital maps
uri: China-mandates-errors-in-digital-maps
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28China_mandates_errors_in_digital_maps%29

content:
<p>
China requires all digital maps to have 
<a href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/digital-maps-skewed-china">pervasive
random errors</a>.
<p>
I suppose the US government has made accurate maps of China from
satellite data, but they are not available to the Chinese.  At least,
not today.  It would be a great propaganda coup for the US to publish
them.
<p>
Is Open Street Map at work on China?  Contributions would have to be
made in secret, but they could be made.
<p>
The most disturbing statement in the article is that GPS devices have
back doors so that China can order them to shut down or give erroneous
answers.  Of course, China would impose this on products sold in
China; perhaps on all products made in China, such as iThings.  And
that would include most devices — but are there no exceptions?


feed_id: 3b1e80609f9bdd3eb973291c2e0b94ca
title: EU deal with Turkey
uri: EU-deal-with-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28EU_deal_with_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
The EU made a deal with Turkey about 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/18/eu-strikes-deal-with-turkey-to-send-back-refugees-from-greece">sending
back Syrian refugees that arrive in Greece by sea.
<p>
The deal includes the absurd agreement to consider EU membership for
Turkey just as it is being turned into an explicit tyranny.  Why not
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#09_October_2012_(Repression_of_dissidents_in_Belarus)">Belarus</a>,
and Russia too?


feed_id: 5222d24b23971190e4f29cd2b914179a
title: Newspaper with crush on Trump
uri: Newspaper-with-crush-on-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Newspaper_with_crush_on_Trump%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/18/sheldon-adelsons-israeli-tabloid-crush-donald-trump/">Sheldon
Adelson's Israeli Newspaper</a> Has a Crush on Donald Trump.


feed_id: be46cf20099542faf8e29e8bc9b7518a
title: The harm of Olympics
uri: The-harm-of-Olympics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28The_harm_of_Olympics%29
content:
<p>
"What price an Olympics that protects the 
<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/18/olympic-games-2016-rio-de-janeiro-child-rights-families'>rights
of children and their families</a>?"
<p>
Olympic games do harm in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#14_March_2012_(Olympic_Burden)">many
ways</a>.  I am glad that the people of Boston pushed away the
olympics bid that was planned, and I urge the people of every city to
organize against such plans.


feed_id: 8ea3458d9ff2a2896dfba77b355478bb
title: Corruption in Brazilian political parties
uri: Corruption-in-Brazilian-political-parties
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Corruption_in_Brazilian_political_parties%29

content:
<p>
The main Brazilian political parties are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/18/brazil-is-engulfed-by-ruling-class-corruption-and-a-dangerous-subversion-of-democracy/">full
of corruption</a>, and the elite-supported major media are using this
to try to replace the corrupt Workers' Party with the corrupt
elite-supported parties.
<p>
The judge investigating them is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/18/brazil-judiciary-democracy-sergio-moro-impeach-dilma-rousseff">not
acting very well either</a>.


feed_id: abde5f4677adc9d7ae24fb8c702187b0
title: A lawyer that sues climate scientists
uri: A-lawyer-that-sues-climate-scientists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28A_lawyer_that_sues_climate_scientists%29

content:
<p>
A lawyer that sues climate scientists to cause trouble for them was
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/03/13062/chris-horner-revealed-counsel-coal-company-alpha-natural-resources">paid
by a coal company very recently</a>.


feed_id: 9f82ca9da7172eb9148a682aee0b4911
title: Americans grasping global heating danger
uri: Americans-grasping-global-heating-danger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Americans_grasping_global_heating_danger%29

content:
<p>
Americans are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/18/climate-change-record-concern-us-global-warming-poll">starting
to grasp</a> how dangerous global heating is.


feed_id: 7ab87689b3f1f0c73613a5080f04dd8f
title: Reasons why Clinton could lose this Fall
uri: Reasons-why-Clinton-could-lose-this-Fall
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Reasons_why_Clinton_could_lose_this_Fall%29

content:
<p>
Think Again Hillary Democrats: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/18/think-again-hillary-democrats-10-reasons-why-she-could-lose-fall">10
Reasons</a> Why She Could Lose this Fall.


feed_id: 4474f3fd4cf11c1b2a852725767995e1
title: Barriers to divestment campaign against Israel
uri: Barriers-to-divestment-campaign-against-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28Barriers_to_divestment_campaign_against_Israel%29

content:
<p>
US states are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/18/critics-of-israel-boycott-warn-of-harm-to-u-s-corporate-interests/">passing
laws to try to stop participation</a> in the Palestinians' Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel.


feed_id: b112ba1e1a7e3cf923f9701696a6b658
title: Urgent: CARERS Act, S.683
uri: Urgent-CARERS-Act-S-683
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_CARERS_Act%2C_S.683%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/demand-vote-medical-marijuana">call
on Senator Grassley</a> to bring the CARERS Act, S.683, for a vote in
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
<p>
This would protect some state-legal medical marijuana activities from
federal interference.


feed_id: 01fe86ec82f9e75b38b9734c9bdd49d6
title: Urgent: Oppose browsing history tracking
uri: Urgent-Oppose-browsing-history-tracking
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_browsing_history_tracking%29

content:
<p>
British citizens: 
<a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ditch-internet-connection-records-from-the-investigatory-powers-bill">oppose</a>
plans to track everyone's browsing history.


feed_id: 4ae6f40a4ce6023fea5a97898d8fb7ac
title: Urgent: Political spending disclosure
uri: 2016-03-24-Urgent-Political-spending-disclosure
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Political_spending_disclosure%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/vanguard_big_money">call on
Vanguard retirement fund</a> to vote in favor of stockholder
resolutions for companies to disclose political spending.


feed_id: 17243fdfd932f364b8dd60eff96cef88
title: Venezuelan opposition newspaper shut down
uri: Venezuelan-opposition-newspaper-shut-down
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Venezuelan_opposition_newspaper_shut_down%29

content:
<p>
An opposition newspaper in Venezuela had to shut down because it 
<a href="https://cpj.org/2016/03/venezuelan-government-newsprint-squeeze-forces-new.php">could
not buy paper</a>.


feed_id: 43ba284be85f8ad63202d865fabb97d6
title: Pledges of militaristic loyalty in India
uri: Pledges-of-militaristic-loyalty-in-India
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Pledges_of_militaristic_loyalty_in_India%29

content:
<p>
In India, airlines and legislators are 
<a href="https://humanpapers.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/all-hail-or-else/">pressured
to make public pledges of militaristic loyalty</a>.


feed_id: 5adf9327ead6f25bf1223743817f0b32
title: Yazidis cannot go home
uri: Yazidis-cannot-go-home
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Yazidis_cannot_go_home%29
content:
<p>
Because of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2016/mar/17/even-after-escaping-isis-the-suffering-of-the-yazidis-persists">landmines
and murderous neighbors</a>, the Yazidis cannot go home even though
their home is no longer controlled by PISSI.


feed_id: 819e625cb550a55550da25b8b8250df1
title: Hesbollah
uri: Hesbollah
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Hesbollah%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Hesbollah is not a terrorist organization, 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1458312541/">if
you judge by its actions</a>.  It suits politicians to pretend about
this.


feed_id: d5faa35c0bc6737ae0503e75ad6ce149
title: US attack on all users of Lavabit
uri: US-attack-on-all-users-of-Lavabit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28US_attack_on_all_users_of_Lavabit%29

content:
<p>
Confirmed: the US attacked all the users of Lavabit 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/18/redaction-fbi-target-ladar-lavabit-spy-edward-snowden">specifically
to get at Snowden's email</a>.


feed_id: 1ec8f92104af58e3afe6f99f1ee01a72
title: Bombardment of MSF hospital
uri: Bombardment-of-MSF-hospital
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Bombardment_of_MSF_hospital%29
content:
<p>
The Pentagon says it has identified the soldiers responsible for the
bombardment of the MSF hospital in Kunduz, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/18/us-military-face-punishment-afghan-hospital-strike-kunduz">says
it was only errors</a>.
<p>
Human rights groups say they consider this a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/18/rights-groups-pentagons-wrist-slap-kunduz-hospital-bombing-insult">slap
on the wrist</a>.
<p>
If they really were errors, rather than intentional acts, it would not
be right to treat those responsible as criminals.  But it would be
just like the US Army to diminish the seriousness of their
responsibility.  Without some external investigation, we don't know if
there were crimes.


feed_id: 9e585119d902c27b6a091b930b27c306
title: Drought in eastern Mediterranean
uri: Drought-in-eastern-Mediterranean
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Drought_in_eastern_Mediterranean%29

content:
<p>
The drought in the eastern Mediterranean appears to be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/mar/18/worst-mediterranean-drought-in-900-years-has-human-fingerprints-all-over-it">the
worst in 900 years</a>.


feed_id: e0fddc3920c71ef970b0e6d6b0a019c1
title: B'liar's houses
uri: B-liar-s-houses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Bliars_houses%29
content:
<p>
Tony B'liar is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/mar/18/tony-blair-profiting-housing-crisis-investment-property">making
lots of money from the houses he owns</a> in the UK.
<p>
Clearly anyone that owns substantial property has a conflict of
interest with anyone that wants a place to live.


feed_id: e05059b6ba92fc8fde0bf047580bc6ae
title: US cities with high levels of lead in water
uri: US-cities-with-high-levels-of-lead-in-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28US_cities_with_high_levels_of_lead_in_water%29

content:
<p>
Several US cities, and even states, 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/congress-proves-yet-again-theyre-worse-useless">have
high levels of lead in the water</a> and have had it for a long time.


feed_id: 08b72dc5e4d22f1994cb98658e31da67
title: Honduran journalist sentenced to prison
uri: Honduran-journalist-sentenced-to-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Honduran_journalist_sentenced_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
The Clinton-installed post-coup government of Honduras has sentenced a
journalist to prison 
<a href="https://www.cpj.org/2016/03/honduran-journalist-sentenced-to-10-years-in-priso.php">for
insulting a prosecutor</a>.


feed_id: f758d3c4a99f891682455241acc15095
title: Racism and job interviews
uri: Racism-and-job-interviews
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Racism_and_job_interviews%29
content:
<p>
Americans of Asian or African descent 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/17/jobs-search-hiring-racial-discrimination-resume-whitening-callbacks">double
their chances getting a job interview by disguising their
ancestry</a>, thus demonstrating that racism is operating.


feed_id: dfa4f9bfe5cb2740aa14f4b45b7ce416
title: University endowments in speculative hedge funds
uri: University-endowments-in-speculative-hedge-funds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28University_endowments_in_speculative_hedge_funds%29

content:
<p>
Rich universities entrust endowments to speculative hedge funds 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/universities-are-becoming-billion-dollar-hedge-funds-with-schools-attached/">whose
managers make more money than they spend on education</a>.  They
invest in companies that attack and drain society.


feed_id: f1d6d874fbbf808d22f2db92e42d4489
title: Motivation to keep fighting
uri: Motivation-to-keep-fighting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Motivation_to_keep_fighting%29
content:
<p>
People ask me why I am motivated to keep fighting, for free software
and other causes.  This article presents 
<a href="http://littleatoms.com/society/cory-doctorows-manifesto-hope">the
reasons</a> clearly.


feed_id: 8ac2646aa375227701b05071bf947d9d
title: Cost of increasing trade with China
uri: Cost-of-increasing-trade-with-China
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Cost_of_increasing_trade_with_China%29

content:
<p>
Increasing trade with China cost the US 
<a href="http://news.mit.edu/2016/united-states-lost-millions-jobs-china-0309">millions
of jobs</a>, and the workers who are not very highly skilled were hit
especially hard.


feed_id: 78497cf630ad4bb3e1a511ec95e22d32
title: Obama's nominee for Supreme Court
uri: Obama-s-nominee-for-Supreme-Court
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Obamas_nominee_for_Supreme_Court%29

content:
<p>
Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court is 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/how-hard-will-the-liberal-grassroots-push-to-confirm-merrick-garland/">no
progressive</a>.  The best thing you can say about him is that he is
better than Scalia.


feed_id: 6f41bda8452a3eec1e85f58075300012
title: Obama the plutocrat
uri: Obama-the-plutocrat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Obama_the_plutocrat%29
content:
<p>
Obama the plutocrat is 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/03/obama-bernie-sanders-clinton-private-donors">telling
big donors that Sanders has lost and they should support Clinton the
plutocrat</a>.
<p>
What else would you expect from a plutocrat?


feed_id: 27a979774ca93991cc8ee4f0a73be3b1
title: Effect of stop-and-search on crime rate
uri: Effect-of-stop-and-search-on-crime-rate
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Effect_of_stop-and-search_on_crime_rate%29

content:
<p>
A massive temporary expansion of stop-and-search in London had 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/mar/17/mass-stop-and-search-police-crime-study">no
measurable effect</a> on the crime rate.


feed_id: 3748b9beafafe70709a5dfa7c6721713
title: Hospitals where blacks live
uri: Hospitals-where-blacks-live
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Hospitals_where_blacks_live%29
content:
<p>
Why do blacks die at a higher rate than whites from heart attacks?
Because the hospitals where the blacks live are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/study-reasons-heart-attacks-death-black-people-ambulance">overloaded
and slow</a>.


feed_id: 999b0365e71d3f71c66430f16f1ff2d4
title: Systemic racism in US appeals courts
uri: Systemic-racism-in-US-appeals-courts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28Systemic_racism_in_US_appeals_courts%29

content:
<p>
Systemic racism in US appeals courts: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/mar/17/black-judge-effect-race-bias-overturning-court-cases">decisions
by black judges are more likely to be overturned</a>.


feed_id: 6234c3ec4c3fb4ebf29c21b01cdaec4e
title: US Senate rejects DARK Act
uri: US-Senate-rejects-DARK-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#22_March_2016_%28US_Senate_rejects_DARK_Act%29
content:
<p>
The US Senate 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/16/huge-victory-american-consumers-senate-rejects-dark-act">rejected
the DARK Act</a> that Monsanto sought.


feed_id: 9c637d51c68f64c2a59167b71ab0b2bd
title: French Pun
uri: 2016-03-24-French-Pun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_%28French_Pun%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/french-puns.html#chardonnay">New pun: "Pour
l'émir, le chardonnay"</a>.


feed_id: aafa0ecd7827062c45398a76d58fca00
title: EU deal with Turkey
uri: 2016-03-25-EU-deal-with-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28EU_deal_with_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
The EU made a deal with Turkey about 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/18/eu-strikes-deal-with-turkey-to-send-back-refugees-from-greece">sending
back Syrian refugees that arrive in Greece by sea</a>.
<p>
The deal includes the absurd agreement to consider EU membership for
Turkey just as it is being turned into an explicit tyranny.  Why not
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#09_October_2012_(Repression_of_dissidents_in_Belarus)">Belarus</a>,
and Russia too?


feed_id: 23ac05879da2ad7f6d9f1ffeee319460
title: The harm of Olympics
uri: 2016-03-25-The-harm-of-Olympics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_March_2016_%28The_harm_of_Olympics%29
content:
<p>
"What price an Olympics that protects the 
<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/18/olympic-games-2016-rio-de-janeiro-child-rights-families'>rights
of children and their families</a>?"
<p>
Olympic games 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#14_March_2012_(Olympic_Burden)">do
harm in many ways</a>.  I am glad that the people of Boston pushed
away the olympics bid that was planned, and I urge the people of every
city to organize against such plans.


feed_id: 23f41597a327cc95f5d6ca51a214b82a
title: Urgent: Oppose Charter-Time Warner merger
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Charter-Time-Warner-merger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Charter-Time_Warner_merger%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/call/FCC_Commissioners_calls/">phone
the FCC</a> to oppose the merger of Charter and Time Warner Cable.


feed_id: 87ade0456dab77415d4e361d967e9c40
title: Response to Brussels bombings
uri: Response-to-Brussels-bombings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Response_to_Brussels_bombings%29
content:
<p>
Our Response to the Brussels Bombings 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/22/response-brussels-bombings-patience-restraint">Requires
Patience And Restraint</a>.
<p>
I fear that a frenzied and frustrated public will give some
politicians an excuse to attack human rights in Belgium.


feed_id: 9aa042e075e693b909e54478a4a6a78d
title: Obama in Cuba
uri: Obama-in-Cuba
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Obama_in_Cuba%29
content:
<p>
Obama in Cuba 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/22/obama-in-cuba-under-pressure-to-criticise-human-rights-violations">under
Pressure to Criticise Human Rights Violations</a>.
<p>
Cuba has 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_August_2013_(Oswaldo_Paya%27s_relatives_have_sued)">repressed
dissidents harshly</a>.  On the other hand, the Cuban revolution has
spared Cubans the horrible experiences of plutocratic rule, that we
can see in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Colombia.  The
multinationals that US plutocrats serve would like Cuba to go down
that path.


feed_id: 93f2e8a88a820476da2a33c58da7a70d
title: Butterfly species in decline
uri: Butterfly-species-in-decline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Butterfly_species_in_decline%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/22/small-copper-butterfly-decline-survey">Several
species of butterflies in Britain</a> are declining gravely in
population for no obvious reason.  Global heating is suspected as a
cause.


feed_id: 5df0c3b6a30a2cd0834a8bb73b346e57
title: Facebook racially profiling useds
uri: Facebook-racially-profiling-useds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Facebook_racially_profiling_useds%29

content:
<p>
Facebook is effectively 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/facebook-explains-that-it-is-totally-not-doing-racial-profiling/">racially
profiling its useds</a>, in an indirect and deniable way.


feed_id: ebc4cade928f672e9b6235e264fe0f45
title: Sea level rise
uri: 2016-03-26-Sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Sea_level_rise%29
content:
<p>
James Hansen predicts 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/22/sea-level-rise-james-hansen-climate-change-scientist">several
meters of sea level rise within 50 to 150 years</a>.  This is a
controversial result, since other reputable climate scientists
forecast only one meter.
<p>
We don't really need to know the answer, because the implications in
either case are the same: we need a crash program to cut
CO<sub>2</sub> emissions (and methane emissions), not the
lackadaisical approach adopted so far.


feed_id: ecc43ffc2068f46a4f1607e76c97c770
title: Unjust arrest of Britons in 2003
uri: Unjust-arrest-of-Britons-in-2003
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Unjust_arrest_of_Britons_in_2003%29

content:
<p>
Britons were unjustly arrested in 2003 to stop them from protesting
against Dubya's invasion of Iraq.  They fought in court for 10 years
for compensation.  Now it appears one of them was an undercover thug,
who
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/21/police-concealed-role-undercover-officers-case-from-judges">concealed
evidence about their case</a>.


feed_id: 83ac4f6d97448bf5751496f58bc6c946
title: Burglars in Flint City Hall
uri: Burglars-in-Flint-City-Hall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Burglars_in_Flint_City_Hall%29
content:
<p>
Burglars in Flint City Hall 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/21/amid-water-crisis-suspicious-flint-city-hall-break-declared-inside-job">pulled
out the documents about lead poisoning and strew them around the
room</a>.  It is impossible to tell whether they stole any documents,
but surely they must have intended to.


feed_id: 04545955969689a85cff5cb142992128
title: Candidates on nuclear power
uri: Candidates-on-nuclear-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Candidates_on_nuclear_power%29
content:
<p>
Sanders Says 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/21/sanders-says-never-nuclear-power-clinton-claims-us-needs-it">'Never'
to Nuclear Power</a>, Clinton Claims US Needs It.


feed_id: 77c252c47507748b8eec3e1673abac0e
title: Terrorism deployed against Cuba
uri: Terrorism-deployed-against-Cuba
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Terrorism_deployed_against_Cuba%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/21/us-terrorized-cuba-not-other-way-around">deployed
terrorism against Cuba</a> for many years.
<p>
The "Cuban 5" were 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#21_April_2012_(The_Cuban_Five)">convicted 
of espionage in the US for spying on terrorists shielded by the
US</a>.


feed_id: c4851cc04113f62f4becee9b5b9c3384
title: Crackdown on freedom of press in Turkey
uri: Crackdown-on-freedom-of-press-in-Turkey
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Crackdown_on_freedom_of_press_in_Turkey%29

content:
<p>
The Committee to Protect Journalists is 
<a href="https://www.cpj.org/europe/turkey/">carefully documenting
how</a> Erdo&gbreve;an cracks down on freedom of the press in Turkey.


feed_id: f11bb6f2369b083bb08eb61e2be56a5c
title: Cuts in UK funds for energy efficiency
uri: Cuts-in-UK-funds-for-energy-efficiency
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Cuts_in_UK_funds_for_energy_efficiency%29

content:
<p>
Cuts in UK funds for energy efficiency in homes have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/21/household-efficiency-installations-uk-plummet-cuts-heating-energy">80%
effective in reducing the number of such improvements</a>.
<p>
The Tories intend to crush renewable energy, but they don't want to
admit this is their goal, so they are changing the policies a step at
a time.


feed_id: bea5c8b9878b982be0d05838f344bcbe
title: Eat less meat
uri: 2016-03-26-Eat-less-meat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Eat_less_meat%29
content:
<p>
Eat Less Meat 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/21/eat-less-meat-vegetarianism-dangerous-global-warming">to
Avoid Dangerous Global [Heating]</a>, Scientists Say.


feed_id: f2e2f52507e3aaa2a636abeca6b4c7d4
title: Alex Nieo's killing by SF thugs
uri: Alex-Nieo-s-killing-by-SF-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Alex_Nieos_killing_by_SF_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Gentrification in San Francisco may be part of the cause of Alex
Nieto's killing by thugs, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gentrification-the-killing-that-shamed-san-francisco">as
he sat eating in a park</a>.


feed_id: 2ac1f7d40409d2427373270071a06a7a
title: Too Big to Audit
uri: Too-Big-to-Audit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Too_Big_to_Audit%29
content:
<p>
Uncontrollable — 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/17/uncontrollable-pentagon-and-corporate-contractors-too-big-audit">Pentagon
and Corporate Contractors</a> Too Big to Audit.


feed_id: b469523bd7f541b679f9103fe6a62532
title: Free Trade
uri: Free-Trade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Free_Trade%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/14/whats-problem-free-trade">
Explaining the fallacies</a> in economists' arguments for "free trade".
<p>
They have a rational argument that free trade tends to increase the
overall efficiency of production; then they want us to presume that
this will benefit everyone.  That second step is false; as we know,
<a href="https://stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html">
the business supremacy treaties</a> with which they implement free trade
tend to shift wealth to the rich and impoverish the rest of
us.


feed_id: 2f78a87a88d3f7eed45ab9d75a4c5115
title: Restricting Contraception
uri: Restricting-Contraception
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Restricting_Contraception%29
content:
<p>
Amnesty International
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/zika-epidemic-reproductive-rights-women-latin-america-amnesty-international">
condemned Latin American governments for
restricting contraception</a> and for threatening women with violence
for having abortions.


feed_id: c172a8fb23e76e39d1d08d99a5b14423
title: Paid Speeches
uri: Paid-Speeches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Paid_Speeches%29
content:
<p>
Now
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/23/hillary-clinton-now-says-shell-only-release-big-bank-speeches-if-the-republicans-do/">
Clinton will only release her paid speeches if Republicans do</a>.
<p>
In effect, she says, "Compare me with Republicans, not with Sanders."


feed_id: 55f37c84cfc70c1ebedbfdf78b6bd18c
title: Out to sea
uri: Out-to-sea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Out_to_sea%29
content:
<p>
Australia has inspired other countries to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/feb/24/australia-among-30-countries-illegally-forcing-return-of-refugees-amnesty-says">
tow boats full of refugees
out to sea</a>.


feed_id: 16b422ec0c4903a39ce951d2ecf52ec7
title: Coastal floods
uri: Coastal-floods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Coastal_floods%29
content:
<p>
A study
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-human-fingerprints-on-coastal-floods-20050">
tied thousands of coastal floods</a> to the human activities that
are causing global heating.
<p>
And sea level is
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/study-reveals-acceleration-of-sea-level-rise-20055">
faster than at any time we have records for</a>.
<p>
This article makes it clear that we don't have records before 2800
years ago.


feed_id: 45aec963f6c37a9268846a4ed9689987
title: Snooping digital devices
uri: Snooping-digital-devices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Snooping_digital_devices%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34880-what-if-tomorrow-your-insurance-company-controlled-your-lifestyle">
Snooping digital devices</a> could enable insurance companies to control
people's lives.
<p>
Just as we must forbid ISPs to offer cut-price access only to some
sites, we must forbid insurance companies to offer cut-price insurance
to people who accept such control.


feed_id: 223aa99c55b055af97020c3158414cd9
title: Kidney disease
uri: Kidney-disease
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Kidney_disease%29
content:
<p>
Fatal kidney disease has become surprisingly common in a few regions,
and
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34899-monsanto-s-pesticide-is-top-suspect-behind-mysterious-kidney-disease">
Roundup might be responsible</a>.


feed_id: 758f3239cf64817c20eee9f6446a71c5
title: Sedition
uri: Sedition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Sedition%29
content:
<p>
India's government is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/23/india-student-arrested-sedition">
persistently attacking freedom of speech</a>
by arresting people for "sedition".


feed_id: 67c15f5332217bc0e631cf3ad9562e16
title: Without Trial
uri: Without-Trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Without_Trial%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/23/sanders-praises-obama-gitmo-plan-clinton-stays-silent">
It appears Sanders praised</a> Obama's plan to shift imprisonment without
trial to US territory.
<p>
I hope that is not really the position he took.  In any case, I still
support him, because defeating plutocracy is crucial.  He is the first
chance
we have had in many years to shift the "range of acceptable opinion"
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34913-with-hillary-clinton-corporate-america-defines-the-limits-of-acceptable-opinion">
outside what plutocrats are willing to pay for</a>.


feed_id: c604e2ddb59a4a477e07bd4fa3651da3
title: Drone Policies
uri: Drone-Policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Drone_Policies%29
content:
<p>
Obama's Lethal Drone Policies
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/23/obamas-lethal-drone-policies-still-shrouded-secrecy-report">
Still Shrouded in Secrecy</a>.


feed_id: d13f75cd4efef111ecc18a24697f092f
title: The issue of surveillance
uri: The-issue-of-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28The_issue_of_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/23/running-for-congress-surveillance/
">
Some US congressional candidates</a> are campaigning on the issue of
surveillance.


feed_id: ef87343941950ef70d9dfedcd8ccfe58
title: Robert Smalls
uri: Robert-Smalls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Robert_Smalls%29
content:
<p>
Congressman Robert Smalls showed compassion to the aged, demented
widow
of the man who had formerly owned him —
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/23/south-carolina-primary-robert-smalls-slavery-reconstruction-race-relations">
after his freedom was secure</a>.


feed_id: 9d1fecffcf5f940cd978478648bfea28
title: Guber outsourcing
uri: Guber-outsourcing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Guber_outsourcing%29
content:
<p>
As Guber outsources its customer service reps, it also has them call
drivers
to
<a href="http://qz.com/619601/uber-is-using-its-us-customer-service-reps-to-deliver-its-anti-union-message/">
propagandize against unionization</a>.


feed_id: c246e2eccb7aae148e2cc527ef76d116
title: Profound lifestyle changes
uri: Profound-lifestyle-changes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Profound_lifestyle_changes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/15/europe-climate-change-goals-need-profound-lifestyle-changes-european-commission">
Proposed European emissions cuts</a> to curb global heating at 1.5C will
require "profound lifestyle changes".
<p>
In the US, it will require smaller houses.  I wonder if it will be
possible to insulate some interior walls so that some rooms can be
excluded from heating or cooling.


feed_id: 75d9d55c8dd1a46644bc07e583b3d5c2
title: Encryption Backdoors
uri: Encryption-Backdoors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Encryption_Backdoors%29
content:
<p>
UK Parliament Report
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/11/uk-parliament-report-rejects-encryption-backdoors-other-parts-sweeping">
Rejects Encryption Backdoors</a>, Other Parts of
Sweeping
Surveillance Bill.


feed_id: b92687ae76882f90945a41cfb699567a
title: Political revolution
uri: Political-revolution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Political_revolution%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/17/sanders-forges-ahead-no-one-said-political-revolution-would-be-easy">Sanders
Forges Ahead</a>: 'No One Said a Political Revolution Would Be Easy'.


feed_id: 1807661325fbf4f78ead16dcc6576995
title: Rate of greenhouse emissions
uri: Rate-of-greenhouse-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Rate_of_greenhouse_emissions%29
content:
<p>
Our rate of greenhouse gas emissions is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/21/carbon-emission-release-rate-unprecedented-in-past-66m-years">more
than at any time since the extinction of the dinosaurs</a>, 66 million
years ago.


feed_id: c216f0f2281b938b883f04ca644c6679
title: Former vice president of Zaïre convicted
uri: Former-vice-president-of-Zaïre-convicted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Former_vice_president_of_Zaire_convicted%29

content:
<p>
The International Criminal Court has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/21/icc-finds-ex-congolese-vice-president-jean-pierre-bemba-guilty-of-war-crimes">convicted</a>
the former vice president of the DR Congo (formerly Zaïre).


feed_id: 396fd7c3e8347ba0acf26d43cb18be11
title: Ending HIV in drug users
uri: Ending-HIV-in-drug-users
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Ending_HIV_in_drug_users%29
content:
<p>
To End HIV in Drug Users, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/21/end-hiv-drug-users-drug-free-world-harm-reduction">Stop
Chasing the Dream of a Drug-Free World</a>.


feed_id: 4979ec28afafdbe412123b18db1ee505
title: PISSI committing genocide
uri: PISSI-committing-genocide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28PISSI_committing_genocide%29
content:
<p>
PISSI is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/21/isis-genocide-britain-yazidis">committing
genocide</a>: we should recognize this now.
<p>
I don't think it changes much of the conclusions, because even without
this, PISSI is clearly a great evil.


feed_id: 434c9cf527d637bea50ed2b00541bc4f
title: Another computational idea patent
uri: Another-computational-idea-patent
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Another_computational_idea_patent%29

content:
<p>
Amazon has another obnoxious computational idea patent
on 
<a href="http://recode.net/2016/03/14/amazon-wants-the-patent-for-pay-by-selfie/">paying
by identifying yourself with a photo</a>.
<p>
On the one hand, this might have the good effect of discouraging use
of that foolish practice.  On the other hand, it might also help
Amazon, which is bad.
<p>
Regardless of the specific consequences of this patent,
it is one more example of why we 
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">should
not allow patents to apply to software</a>.


feed_id: 1945c835a97cc02cb262befc12a903fd
title: NRA-approved Supreme Court justice
uri: NRA-approved-Supreme-Court-justice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28NRA-approved_Supreme_Court_justice%29

content:
<p>
McConnell: No New Supreme Court Justice 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/20/3761908/mcconnell-no-new-supreme-court-justice-until-the-nra-approves-of-the-nominee/">Until
The NRA Approves Of The Nominee</a>.


feed_id: d3ac043b95fe422e57cabe7c58e98343
title: Maryland thugs
uri: Maryland-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Maryland_thugs%29
content:
<p>
[Thugs] in Maryland Routinely 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/20/3761930/excessive-taser-use-maryland/">Used
Tasers When Suspects Posed No Threat to Their Safety</a>.


feed_id: 07d683e49df27dfd3b5824a09305a258
title: Tories' attack on disabled people
uri: Tories-attack-on-disabled-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Tories_attack_on_disabled_people%29

content:
<p>
The webmaster of a group for disabled Tories will join the Labour
Party in response to the Tories' 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/21/huge-injustice-conservative-disability-graeme-ellis-labour">latest
attack on disabled people</a>.
<p>
The people that run Britain have no compassion for people who are not
rich.  Cameron probably cares about his disabled son, but non-rich
disabled strangers mean no more to him that non-rich able strangers.


feed_id: a79ce1bbd0426671e991cf3a8d2dc439
title: Tyrant of Chechnya
uri: Tyrant-of-Chechnya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Tyrant_of_Chechnya%29
content:
<p>
The tyrant of Chechnya is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/21/russia-committee-to-prevent-torture-igor-kalyapin-chechnya-journalist-attack">battling
all-out against the Committee to Prevent Torture</a>.
<p>
Cruz and Trump would just love Chechnya.


feed_id: 7adf889aa337ddffdbc30e7db34538f6
title: "Night mayors"
uri: Night-mayors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_%28Night_mayors%29
content:
<p>
Some cities in Europe have appointed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/21/night-mayor-amsterdam-holland-mirik-milan-night-time-commission">"night
mayors"</a> (what an unfortunate term!) to manage coexistence between
nightime music/booze establishments and the other residents.


feed_id: b7811a21330fcdfaaa1b9a8859e6f88c
title: Urgent: Rhinos
uri: Urgent-Rhinos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Rhinos%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3987">call
on President Zuma</a> not to legalize trade in rhino horn in South
Africa.


feed_id: d444c450310fdb49f851ce9f63acd999
title: Urgent: Message about nuclear weapons
uri: Urgent-Message-about-nuclear-weapons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Message_about_nuclear_weapons%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.globalzero.org/take-action/nuclear-weapons-summit">Tell
world leaders</a>, 15000 nuclear weapons add up to no nuclear
security.


feed_id: 76bdcae6b7b7af3a8e200255dec0737b
title: Urgent: Fight practice of wage theft
uri: Urgent-Fight-practice-of-wage-theft
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Fight_practice_of_wage_theft%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/fight_wage_theft">call on
Congress</a> to fight the practice of wage theft.


feed_id: 704b3db51a412bd948924ab1452563f2
title: Melting Greenland ice cap
uri: Melting-Greenland-ice-cap
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Melting_Greenland_ice_cap%29
content:
<p>
Bacteria living on the Greenland ice cap 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/23/bacteria-speeding-up-darkening-greenlands-ice-climate-change">may
be speeding up the melting</a>.


feed_id: 4ad0fb58d34234853a5591c2d99b108a
title: Ash trees
uri: Ash-trees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Ash_trees%29
content:
<p>
Nearly all ash trees in Europe are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/23/ash-dieback-and-beetle-attack-likely-to-wipe-out-all-ash-trees-in-uk-and-europe">likely
to be killed by a fungus and a beetle</a>.  Many species that live on
ash trees will go extinct.


feed_id: ac419293467fb4c90ce7e03e8e44177f
title: Oxfam aiding poor people in UK
uri: Oxfam-aiding-poor-people-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Oxfam_aiding_poor_people_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
Oxfam is now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/23/damage-cuts-and-sanctions-oxfam-wales-austerity">aiding
poor people in the UK</a>.
<p>
The Tories have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/23/pip-u-turn-billions-of-pounds-welfare-cuts">cut
billions for welfare funding</a> since the election last year even
though they have just been forced to back off from further cuts.
<p>
Since poor people in the UK are on the edge of destitution, many of
them are going to be forced onto streets or into cemeteries.
<p>
The Tories are 
<a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">lower than
vermin</a> — Aneurin Bevan.


feed_id: 4cc82792fa813147ecd4229a4f553abb
title: UK thug infiltration of dissident groups
uri: 2016-03-28-UK-thug-infiltration-of-dissident-groups
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28UK_thug_infiltration_of_dissident_groups%29

content:
<p>
The UK thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/23/police-abuses-brought-to-light-undercover-officers-spied-on-me">must
come clean</a> about their infiltration of dissident groups.


feed_id: 2cd0d72122f65c9f4b68b5ce5e0fe190
title: Vietnamese protest trial of blogger
uri: Vietnamese-protest-trial-of-blogger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Vietnamese_protest_trial_of_blogger%29

content:
<p>
Courageous Vietnamese 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/23/protests-as-vietnamese-blogger-goes-on-trial-for-anti-government-posts">protested
the trial of a blogger</a> accused of publishing things that the
government doesn't like.


feed_id: d4754c5b6a2c6549c01663876895bdad
title: Renewable energy in Australia
uri: Renewable-energy-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Renewable_energy_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
The Australian government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/mar/23/the-good-the-bad-and-the-shell-game-what-turnbulls-clean-energy-shift-means">plans
a big cut in spending on renewable energy</a>.


feed_id: 173d2a32ef4f6b9c8d161c50a51cf182
title: More US troops sent to Iraq
uri: More-US-troops-sent-to-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28More_US_troops_sent_to_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
Obama has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/22/revelation-secret-iraq-base-belies-claim-no-boots-ground">quietly
sent more US troops to Iraq</a>, and it's not clear what they do.  Are
they running artillery?


feed_id: 2215a3d839e2a671dbaec14aeaed1e22
title: Eavesdropping with 'audio beacons'
uri: Eavesdropping-with-audio-beacons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Eavesdropping_with_audio_beacons%29

content:
<p>
Creepy Ad Company Says It Will Stop Eavesdropping With 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/silverpush-ftc-stop-eavesdropping-with-audio-beacons">'Audio
Beacons'</a> (to tell what TV shows or podcasts are playing nearby).
<p>
That's good, but how can we stop other companies from taking up the
practice?  We need to demand free software, so that the community can
check for malicious functionalities, and the community can remove
them.
<p>
See 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html</a>.


feed_id: d21f8e5da29405821824caa428bb470f
title: Privatization of UK schools
uri: Privatization-of-UK-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Privatization_of_UK_schools%29
content:
<p>
Making all UK schools into "academies" is privatization, disguised as
"applying higher standards" by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/20/michael-rosen-on-academy-schools-local-democracy-bites-the-dust">eliminating
local democracy</a>.


feed_id: 78bfc5b84179a6cc305da1c40b870b1a
title: Trampling of human rights in US and Cuba
uri: Trampling-of-human-rights-in-US-and-Cuba
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Trampling_of_human_rights_in_US_and_Cuba%29

content:
<p>
When we criticize Cuba for trampling human rights (which it does), we
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/22/hypocrisy-over-cubas-human-rights-record">must
not pretend that the US or other countries respect them properly</a>.
<p>
The US respects human rights more than Cuba does.  A person who
rejects injustice really can run for president in the US and at least
have a chance at winning.  In Cuba, that is impossible.  In the US,
people campaign to influence government policy (see the Urgent Action
notes on this site); in Cuba, though the constitution says that is
allowed, in practice people are treated terribly for doing that.


feed_id: 5ab14436a53013c0fece763023e96e50
title: Sarkozy to face trial
uri: Sarkozy-to-face-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Sarkozy_to_face_trial%29
content:
<p>
Sarkozy will face trial for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/22/nicolas-sarkozy-loses-appeal-against-wiretaps-corruption-case">selling
political influence</a>.
<p>
It is no surprise to me that he would do this.


feed_id: 3e408c326ae0b042ad01b460183b6af3
title: Israel breaks rules of Oslo Agreement
uri: Israel-breaks-rules-of-Oslo-Agreement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Israel_breaks_rules_of_Oslo_Agreement%29

content:
<p>
The "limited autonomy" of the Palestinian Authority is a fraud,
as Israel breaks the rules of the Oslo Agreement 
<a href="http://972mag.com/the-unravelling-illusion-of-palestinian-autonomy/117964/">whenever
it wants</a>.


feed_id: 1a49bfa7a99d718e55d6c2b87bc5e5ae
title: Plutocratic Democrat challenged
uri: Plutocratic-Democrat-challenged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Plutocratic_Democrat_challenged%29
content:
<p>
Tim Canova is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/21/establishment-dems-hobbling-dnc-chairs-grassroots-challenger">challenging
Rep. Wasserman Schultz</a>, a plutocratic Democrat, in the Democratic
primary.  The Florida Democratic Party has denied him access to the
party's voter data base.


feed_id: 172619c8cc5afd8f164bd5cf1f642e3f
title: Sanders' tax on Wall Street speculation
uri: Sanders-tax-on-Wall-Street-speculation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Sanders_tax_on_Wall_Street_speculation%29

content:
<p>
A group of economists say Sanders' tax on Wall Street speculation
would bring in
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/22/major-research-findings-sanders-tax-wall-street-plan-would-raise-300-billion-and">300
billion dollars</a> and would create millions of jobs.
<p>
His plan is a form of the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#17_April_2011_(Robin_Hood_Tax)">"Robin 
Hood" tax</a>, which was proposed originally by
Tobin to stabilize the stock market.


feed_id: 23c00ef5cbc39056d441a13016fcce0e
title: Sanders declines to pander to AIPAC
uri: Sanders-declines-to-pander-to-AIPAC
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Sanders_declines_to_pander_to_AIPAC%29

content:
<p>
Sanders 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/22/sanders-declines-pander-israel-lobby-speech-prepared-aipac">Declines
To Pander To Israel Lobby</a> In Speech Prepared For AIPAC.
<p>
Sanders supports Israel, but 
<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/absent-from-aipac-sanders-slams-israeli-occupation-disproportionate-use-of-force/">does
not support the occupation on Palestine</a>.
<p>
Here is the text of 
<a href="https://berniesanders.com/sanders-outlines-middle-east-policy/">Sander's
statement</a>.


feed_id: c4354a0da21c0cb91bd209113be0eeef
title: Fighting hate
uri: Fighting-hate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Fighting_hate%29
content:
<p>
"Islamic State canât win in Brussels — 
<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/22/islamic-state-brussels-jihadis'>we
are fighting hate with love</a>."


feed_id: fba1d2d6fa6f9ea0e99b0e0e39e75e2a
title: Bombardment of Yemen
uri: Bombardment-of-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Bombardment_of_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
Salafi Arabian bombardment of Yemen continues
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/22/families-were-blown-up-scenes-from-a-saudi-led-bombing-in-yemen/">killing
lots of civilians</a>.


feed_id: 24a9343bf714671773adc09d6f4449d0
title: Brain-damaged babies due to Zika
uri: Brain-damaged-babies-due-to-Zika
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Brain-damaged_babies_due_to_Zika%29

content:
<p>
WHO says humanity needs to plan to cope with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/22/who-zika-virus-implicated-in-large-numbers-of-brain-damaged-babies">thousands
of brain-damaged babies</a> (due to Zika).
<p>
I think it would be smarter to plan to prevent the birth of those
thousands of brain-damaged babies.


feed_id: f49039c0b8f35ac6784ca57548267e23
title: Bahraini dissident imprisoned
uri: Bahraini-dissident-imprisoned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Bahraini_dissident_imprisoned%29
content:
<p>
Bahraini dissident Zainab al-Khawaja has been imprisoned 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/22/imprisoned-with-her-baby-bahraini-activist-is-victim-of-u-s-silence-sister-says/">for
tearing up a picture of the brutal, repressive king</a>.
<p>
May all his pictures be torn up soon.


feed_id: c038dddbcf6f4f4a60d5b779ca71490f
title: Full neocon Clinton
uri: Full-neocon-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Full_neocon_Clinton%29
content:
<p>
Hillary Clinton Goes Full Neocon at AIPAC, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/22/hillary-clinton-goes-full-neocon-aipac-demonizes-iran-palestinians">Demonizes
Iran, Palestinians</a>.
<p>
Clinton told AIPAC that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/21/trump-has-no-business-being-president-because-he-would-be-neutral-israel-clinton">criticism
of Israel's occupation policy is antisemitism</a>.


feed_id: 7a1e65be28557a7b7f8f3550f172503f
title: US general apologizes for bombing hospital
uri: US-general-apologizes-for-bombing-hospital
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28US_general_apologizes_for_bombing_hospital%29

content:
<p>
A US general 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/22/us-nato-commander-asks-for-forgiveness-medecins-sans-frontieres-bombing">apologized
to the victims</a> of the bombing of the Kunduz hospital.


feed_id: effdfd4ccd7f5b0f057def8e4d22aaf0
title: Response to Clinton's insults
uri: Response-to-Clinton-s-insults
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Response_to_Clintons_insults%29
content:
<p>
Jewish anti-occupation activists 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/22/clinton-attacks-israeli-boycott-movement-in-aipac-speech/">respond</a>
to Clinton's insults.


feed_id: a26b006683a7a2213ec9a02f166c5dcc
title: 13 years after conquering Iraq
uri: 13-years-after-conquering-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%2813_years_after_conquering_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
13 years after conquering Iraq, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/22/after-invading-iraq-13-years-ago-us-still-making-same-mistakes">the
US has not learned much</a>.


feed_id: 22a3d78a83879d720456432761a9155b
title: Climate scientists' warnings
uri: Climate-scientists-warnings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Climate_scientists_warnings%29
content:
<p>
Climate scientists warnings that global heating would damage coral
terribly were
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/22/climate-change-warnings-coral-reef-great-barrier-reef-experts-projections-scientists">right
on target</a>.


feed_id: bc8a883952fb3aa0e90f7f61b9768bab
title: Sex
uri: Sex
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Sex%29
content:
<p>
Porn, often violent, is giving young people a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/22/porn-generation-problems-hardcore-pornography-teenage-boys">warped
idea of what sex is like</a>.
<p>
They need to see the spectrum of what non-violent mutually pleasing
real sex is like.  The way you get information that is by having sex
with various kind and compassionate people that know considerably more
than you do.


feed_id: 8c5e96c9b9780faeaba617537f51aaf4
title: UK policies making people sick
uri: UK-policies-making-people-sick
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28UK_policies_making_people_sick%29
content:
<p>
UK policies that hurt the poor are making people
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2016/mar/22/austerity-physically-sick-economically-deprived">physically
sick</a>.


feed_id: 5fed7ec33fa79f17ef880297ac0f8673
title: NY millionaires ask for higher tax
uri: NY-millionaires-ask-for-higher-tax
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#26_March_2016_%28NY_millionaires_ask_for_higher_tax%29

content:
<p>
New York's Millionaires to Governor Cuomo: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/21/new-yorks-millionaires-governor-cuomo-raise-our-taxes-please">'Raise
our Taxes, Please'</a>.


feed_id: 1ef8c66b1e3099c2dadcd9d3136f43b7
title: Balinese protest
uri: Balinese-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#26_March_2016_%28Balinese_protest%29
content:
<p>
Balinese
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/the-coral-triangle/2016/mar/22/mounting-opposition-to-bali-mass-tourism-project">protest
a plan to convert a bay into artificial islands</a> for tourists to
visit.
<p>
The article errs in stating that the 1906 puputan occurred in the
"final years of Dutch rule".  On the contrary, that was when the Dutch
took control of Bali: many rulers and their courtiers committed
suicide-by-invading-army rather than surrender.  The final years of
Dutch rule occurred after World War II, when the Dutch tried to
reclaim control.


feed_id: e7320734ac123d9284974a94f3638865
title: Students blocked from voting
uri: Students-blocked-from-voting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#26_March_2016_%28Students_blocked_from_voting%29
content:
<p>
Many students in Illinois were 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/21/3761656/illinois-student-voting/">arbitrarily
blocked from voting</a>.


feed_id: 1246cb64efe84c60265509cf43524775
title: Excuse for gerrymandering
uri: Excuse-for-gerrymandering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#26_March_2016_%28Excuse_for_gerrymandering%29
content:
<p>
Using disenfranchised prisoners as an excuse for gerrymandering has
been 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/21/3761659/florida-prison-gerrymandering-case/">ruled
unconstitutional</a>.


feed_id: 89ab7770e137582c300e378bff429739
title: Urgent: Oppose use of fracking wastewater
uri: Urgent-Oppose-use-of-fracking-wastewater
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_use_of_fracking_wastewater%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.cornucopia.org/frack-wastewater-petition/">call on
the government</a> to forbid using fracking wastewater to grow organic
food.
<p>
If you have Javascript disabled, this page may appear not to work, but
in fact it does work.


feed_id: d536f349d7bb44114a1ee1a242f1abdc
title: The TPP
uri: 2016-03-28-The-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28The_TPP%29
content:
<p>
The TPP 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/21/selling-tpp-farm-economy-drops-cliff">will
not help farmers</a>.


feed_id: 8e1519409a3ded134f4c56e4d9540344
title: Us e of Brussels bombs as excuse
uri: Us-e-of-Brussels-bombs-as-excuse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Use_of_Brussels_bombs_as_excuse%29
content:
<p>
Politicians that hate our freedoms, in the US and Europe, are already
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/23/after-brussels-calls-ditch-europes-freedoms-security">using
the Brussels bombs as an excuse</a>.
<p>
Eliminating the nuclear family, presented here as a joke, might be a
good idea.


feed_id: b4c8fe84812724785d1d4c10a6a10fd2
title: PISSI's bombings
uri: PISSI-s-bombings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28PISSI%27s_bombings%29
content:
<p>
PISSI 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/23/islamic-state-bragged-that-its-attacks-would-help-break-up-the-european-union/">intends
its bombings in Europe to undermine international cooperation</a> such
as the Schengen agreement and to make European countries waste lots of
money on "security" measures.


feed_id: 3546f68855373fd56f170a8b89eda040
title: Reports of indiscriminate bombing by Russia
uri: Reports-of-indiscriminate-bombing-by-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Reports_of_indiscriminate_bombing_by_Russia%29

content:
<p>
Reports from the modern city of Palmyra say Russian planes are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/23/assad-forces-islamic-state-palmyra-syria-isis-russia">bombing
indiscriminately</a>.


feed_id: 2d2c8eb9e8ef5e77e5b8b1cc94a48014
title: Ted Cruz's plan for Muslim neighborhoods
uri: Ted-Cruz-s-plan-for-Muslim-neighborhoods
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Ted_Cruzs_plan_for_Muslim_neighborhoods%29

content:
<p>
Ted Cruz proposes a sure plan way to make Muslims angry and resentful:
to 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/03/ted-cruz-calls-patroling-muslim-neighborhoods">"patrol
Muslim neighborhoods"</a>.


feed_id: 207da39e521ff1f4c2065068d7830549
title: Attack on free speech in Croatia
uri: Attack-on-free-speech-in-Croatia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Attack_on_free_speech_in_Croatia%29

content:
<p>
Croatia's government has cancelled a satirical TV show, 
<a href="http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/satiric-show-pulled-from-croatian-tv-for-intolerance-03-17-2016">calling
it "hate speech."</a>
<p>
Prohibiting "hate speech" leads straight to attacking free speech.


feed_id: 11b5d0f8140bf8c99997268962a05a5b
title: Arizona voter suppression
uri: Arizona-voter-suppression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Arizona_voter_suppression%29
content:
<p>
Arizona's voter suppression 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/23/clinton-claims-victory-arizonas-voting-fiasco-dubbed-national-disgrace">hit
Latinos heavily</a>.


feed_id: 61fc20111a9b201b84ef01dfa459bdb1
title: Result of removing top predators
uri: Result-of-removing-top-predators
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Result_of_removing_top_predators%29

content:
<p>
When humans remove the top predators from an ecosystem, the result
can be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/23/the-serengeti-rules-sean-b-carroll-review">extinction
of many other species</a>.


feed_id: 2a2345e52a2923cb8986f6b83460a8dd
title: What our greenhouse emissions are doing
uri: What-our-greenhouse-emissions-are-doing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28What_our_greenhouse_emissions_are_doing%29

content:
<p>
What our greenhouse emissions are doing to the world 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/23/condemning-our-grandchildren-real-life-video-game">would
be scary enough in a computer game</a>.


feed_id: 7556fbc9c08b7ae2544e8ccaddfacadc
title: Growing season for plants lengthened
uri: Growing-season-for-plants-lengthened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Growing_season_for_plants_lengthened%29

content:
<p>
In Britain, the growing season for plants is now
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/23/plant-growing-season-uk-one-month-longer-1990-met-office">one
month longer than it was in 1960-1990</a>.
<p>
In a few more decades, there will effectively be no winter for plants,
just a not-quite-summer.


feed_id: 8d57a82675de8ceb18dec520364d6796
title: Exit strategy for fossil fuels
uri: Exit-strategy-for-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Exit_strategy_for_fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/23/industrialised-nations-must-lead-an-exit-strategy-for-fossil-fuels">Industrialised
Nations Must Lead</a> an Exit Strategy for Fossil Fuels.


feed_id: b5d5df5686ba0f580e55d2250430b17c
title: Madres de la Plaza de Mayo condemn Obama
uri: Madres-de-la-Plaza-de-Mayo-condemn-Obama
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28Madres_de_la_Plaza_de_Mayo_condemn_Obama%29

content:
<p>
The Madres de la Plaza de Mayo condemn Obama for planning a speech in
Buenos Aires 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/23/argentina-barack-obama-mothers-plaza-de-mayo-1976-coup">on
the date of their annual large march for justice</a>.


feed_id: 28e16524cfb463f18b607d726699ff6b
title: UN failure to protect civilians
uri: UN-failure-to-protect-civilians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_%28UN_failure_to_protect_civilians%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/23/un-united-nations-held-to-account-for-failing-to-protect-civilians-south-sudan">Can
the UN be held accountable</a> for the failure to protect civilians?
<p>
It seems to me that the root of the failure in South Sudan is that
only a much larger mission could have protected more than a small
fraction of the civilians there.  Basically, peacekeeping missions
depend on the prestige of the name, "United Nations Peacekeeping
Mission", which depends over the long term on the willingness
of the Great Powers to use their might against those who disrespect
those missions.  The Great Powers had better do their job.


feed_id: 1c8603367eceb51e4bd3ef5ce41373ee
title: Prosecution of Turkish journalists
uri: Prosecution-of-Turkish-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Prosecution_of_Turkish_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Turkish journalists will be prosecuted for their work
in a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/25/turkish-journalists-can-dundar-erdem-gul-secret-trial-revealing-arms-deliveries-syria">secret
trial</a>.


feed_id: 702c7054c74e67123e7a0a8d82f41525
title: Proof of murder by Israeli soldier
uri: Proof-of-murder-by-Israeli-soldier
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Proof_of_murder_by_Israeli_soldier%29

content:
<p>
Now that there is video proof of one cold-blooded murder by an Israeli
soldier, we 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/25/rare-or-routine-video-captures-cold-blooded-execution-israeli-soldier">must
not let it be dismissed as an isolated incident</a>.


feed_id: 419b57d3bf16313038e5ca796af52937
title: British arms sales to Salafi Arabia
uri: British-arms-sales-to-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28British_arms_sales_to_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
British Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/25/british-arms-sales-saudi-arabia-immoral-illegal-yemen">Immoral
And Illegal</a>.
<p>
The US arms sales to Salafi Arabia are just as immoral,
whatever the law says.


feed_id: 5acabaf3af5c7fbe1b580055a03d6d3a
title: British and Jordanian troops in Libya
uri: British-and-Jordanian-troops-in-Libya
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28British_and_Jordanian_troops_in_Libya%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/25/sas-deployed-libya-start-year-leaked-memo-king-abdullah">British
troops and Jordanian troops</a> are fighting in Libya.
<p>
The UK government refused to discuss this with Parliament.


feed_id: d66f1e2562d79c062aec7c6ce6e0fa8d
title: Egyptian thugs
uri: 2016-03-29-Egyptian-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Egyptian_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Egyptian thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/25/egypt-police-shoot-dead-suspects-giulio-regeni">say
they identified the people who killed Giulio Regeni and shot them
dead</a>, every one of them.
<p>
Sounds like a case of "Now shoot the usual suspects!"


feed_id: f69fa897b8023b881c293f52a4e180dc
title: Climate protections
uri: Climate-protections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Climate_protections%29
content:
<p>
How the World's Biggest Polluters are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/24/how-worlds-biggest-polluters-are-two-trade-deals-away-steamrolling-climate">Two
Trade Deals Away from Steamrolling Climate Protections</a>.


feed_id: 9c9a8df847f99ebdad1844b72898fcb7
title: Native Americans fighting for voting rights
uri: Native-Americans-fighting-for-voting-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Native_Americans_fighting_for_voting_rights%29

content:
<p>
Native Americans Are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/native-american-voting-rights-lawsuits">Taking
the Fight for Voting Rights to Court</a>.


feed_id: e9cc095df6be920c6e875083e19ba801
title: Protesters at Indian university
uri: Protesters-at-Indian-university
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Protesters_at_Indian_university%29
content:
<p>
Protesters at an Indian university were arrested and have been
<a href="http://www.catchnews.com/national-news/no-bail-for-27-hcu-students-and-2-profs-till-monday-1458872356.html">kept
incommunicado</a>.


feed_id: 008324b3bbd32c7ad576b8e213b724d3
title: 60% of Great Barrier Reef bleached
uri: 60-of-Great-Barrier-Reef-bleached
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%2860%20percent_of_Great_Barrier_Reef_bleached%29

content:
<p>
A flight over a large part of the Great Barrier Reef found that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/25/great-barrier-reef-aerial-survey-reveals-extent-of-coral-bleaching">60%
of the coral was bleached</a>.
<p>
Coral that bleaches is likely to die, unless it gets an unstressed and
cool period to recover.


feed_id: 6d1883d633cb408d3bd3dc041d3042f5
title: Nonprogressive Supreme Court nominee
uri: Nonprogressive-Supreme-Court-nominee
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Nonprogressive_Supreme_Court_nominee%29

content:
<p>
Obama and Biden proudly announce they tried to choose a nonprogressive
Supreme Court nominee
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/24/joe-biden-merrick-garland-supreme-court-nomination-republicans-senate">to
satisfy Republicans</a>.
<p>
They chose someone not worth going to bat for.
<p>
Obama is no progressive, and this was always obvious.  That's why I
never voted for him.


feed_id: 7440511de7a1bcc835aa241be461177c
title: Palestinian suspect killed in cold blood
uri: Palestinian-suspect-killed-in-cold-blood
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Palestinian_suspect_killed_in_cold_blood%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/24/israeli-rights-group-releases-video-soldier-executing-wounded-palestinian-suspect/">Video
proves</a> that an Israeli soldier killed a wounded, helpless
Palestinian suspect in cold blood.
<p>
The Palestinian was suspected of stabbing a soldier.  Perhaps he did
it, but that is no reason for summary execution.


feed_id: 7c2f5b8e451704a77b1fcc4a5c88d625
title: Election
uri: 2016-03-29-Election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Election%29
content:
<p>
Electing people who hate government
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/24/how-breaking-government-hurts-children">gets
you a government that does not do its job right</a>.
<p>
They are happy with that result, because they can use it to get
reelected.  And the rich people they serve can buy their way out
of the problems, more or less.


feed_id: efa797cbfe7479f6fa212dcc104f86ac
title: Online editor sentenced for "sedition"
uri: Online-editor-sentenced-for-sedition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Online_editor_sentenced_for_sedition%29

content:
<p>
Singapore Court
<a href="https://cpj.org/2016/03/singapore-court-sentences-online-editor-for-sediti.php">Sentences
Online Editor for Sedition</a>.
<p>
If "sedition" is a crime, the country stands convicted.


feed_id: b9fc7e34d1290236f2586445d31cb864
title: Online banking
uri: Online-banking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Online_banking%29
content:
<p>
The head of the London thugs says he
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/24/dont-refund-online-victims-met-chief-tells-banks">wants
bank customers to be left with the losses due to online fraud</a>.
<p>
I don't do online banking, and Professor Ross Anderson, a security
expert, says
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_November_2015_(Talking_to_bank_over_internet_unsafe)">you
shouldn't</a>.


feed_id: 4eace9b4fd6677685e1414a50e995a0b
title: Trial of Radovan Karad&zcaron;i&cacute;
uri: Trial-of-Radovan-Karad-zcaron-i-cacute
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Trial_of_Radovan_Karadzic%29
content:
<p>
The trial of Radovan Karad&zcaron;i&cacute; helped lead to a better
understanding of the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/mar/24/karadzic-verdict-criminal-tribunals-yugoslavia">significance
of such atrocities</a>.


feed_id: 34748fd217f6b27a727271773144e239
title: Urgent: Fossil-fuel-free 401k plans
uri: Urgent-Fossil-fuel-free-401k-plans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Fossil-fuel-free_401k_plans%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/51199/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17835">call
on employers</a> to offer fossil-fuel-free 401k plan options.


feed_id: 7ca40d9fe399be4cee869176e1f17c19
title: Urgent: End money bail
uri: Urgent-End-money-bail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_End_money_bail%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/BailBonds/">call for an
end</a> to money bail.
<p>
It discriminates heavily against the poor.


feed_id: df769281564de51c5eb835e0de43fdb9
title: Divestment from fossil fuels
uri: 2016-03-29-Divestment-from-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Divestment_from_fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/24/global-coal-and-gas-investment-falls-to-less-than-half-that-in-clean-energy">Most
investment has moved</a> from fossil fuels to clean energy.
<p>
We can call this the end of the beginning.  Alas, the world has so
much fossil fuel generating capacity already, pumping out so much CO2
each day, that we need to get rid of most of it in order to be safe.


feed_id: cb21533e2d98218fce5883c9db4cbd3d
title: Jailed over two hot dogs
uri: Jailed-over-two-hot-dogs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Jailed_over_two_hot_dogs%29
content:
<p>
Texas Mothers 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/24/texas-mothers-jailed-five-days-louisiana-over-two-hot-dogs">Jailed
Five Days in Louisiana</a> over Two Hot Dogs (which they say they
didn't take).
<p>
Just because they pled not-guilty, they were going to be jailed for
two months.  The prosecutor defended this pointless harm by saying
they do it all the time.


feed_id: 46a42d4fadf709c9d41216d130ad7f45
title: Enslavement of workers in Qatar
uri: Enslavement-of-workers-in-Qatar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Enslavement_of_workers_in_Qatar%29
content:
<p>
The International Labor Organisation is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/24/un-gives-qatar-year-end-forced-labour-migrant-workers">moving,
slowly, against Qatar</a> for encouraging enslavement of workers.


feed_id: 1189cc710e052fd50d46490a5d8e9028
title: Radovan Karad&zcaron;i&cacute; sentenced for genocide
uri: Radovan-Karad-zcaron-i-cacute-sentenced-for-genocide
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Radovan_Karadzic_sentenced_for_genocide%29

content:
<p>
Radovan Karad&zcaron;i&cacute; Sentenced to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/24/radovan-karadzic-criminally-responsible-for-genocide-at-srebenica">40
Years for Genocide at Srebrenica</a>.


feed_id: 9acd9f1394c6047cff23dd8d5adb6873
title: The US's only barrier reef
uri: The-US-s-only-barrier-reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28The_USs_only_barrier_reef%29
content:
<p>
There's a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/24/florida-coral-reef-new-port-philippe-cousteau-fort-lauderdale">plan
to dredge the US's only barrier reef</a> in order to improve access to
the port of Fort Lauderdale.
<p>
Fort Lauderdale is less than 3 meters above sea level — about
two feet higher than Miami, which already floods regularly.  If James
Hansen is right about 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_March_2016_(Sea_level_rise)">projected
sea level rise</a>, Fort Lauderdale won't even be there for much
longer.  Any investment in it is folly.


feed_id: e3ea332463be21176ca082c55f67a26d
title: Surveillance on buses
uri: Surveillance-on-buses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Surveillance_on_buses%29
content:
<p>
Some buses in the US record passengers' conversations — 
<a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2016/03/23/seen-and-heard-bus-surveillance-stirs-controversy">all
conversations</a>.
<p>
If the state recorded everything everyone says and does, that would be
perfect for catching all criminals, except those that the state
doesn't want to catch.  It would also be tyranny.  Catching criminals
is not as important as some other goals.


feed_id: 0b31a04dae2864140af5b5cdaaf187eb
title: TSA "explosive" sniffers
uri: TSA-explosive-sniffers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28TSA_explosive_sniffers%29
content:
<p>
TSA "explosive" sniffers detect 
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/21/tsa-full-body-scanners-patdowns-gitmo-fourth-amendment-privacy-column/81779330/">hand
sanitizer</a>.


feed_id: e68b122101ac4c80a3dfabe086c2d4d0
title: Iranian artists face imprisonment
uri: Iranian-artists-face-imprisonment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Iranian_artists_face_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
Three Iranian artists 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/24/filmmaker-two-musicians-three-years-prison-iran">face
imprisonment for their work</a>, after a joke of a trial where they
were not allowed to talk with lawyers.


feed_id: 6ff04f6d4aa36769c3c024c3c1283efa
title: Sanders gets more delegates
uri: Sanders-gets-more-delegates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Sanders_gets_more_delegates%29
content:
<p>
On Tuesday, Sanders 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/23/two-out-three-tuesday-sanders-revolution-proves-resilient-strength">won
two of the three primaries</a>.
<p>
More importantly, he got more delegates than Clinton did.


feed_id: 5698c7c9560a79b023471a65bdc96a6d
title: Natural gas
uri: 2016-03-29-Natural-gas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Natural_gas%29
content:
<p>
"Far from being a bridge to the future, natural gas turns out to have
been a 
<a href='http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/23/benign-fossil-fuels-mckibben-says-theres-no-such-thing'>costly
detour</a>."
<p>
The US must entirely stop fracking to meet its greenhouse gas targets.


feed_id: d1c066a7e8819f03c851a7e630bf9199
title: "Civil forfeiture"
uri: 2016-03-29-Civil-forfeiture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Civil_forfeiture%29
content:
<p>
An appeals court ruled that 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/23/appeals-court-rejects-cops-hunch-based-t">thugs
can't seize people's cash based on vague suspicions</a> they are
engaged in some sort of crime.
<p>
It is a step in the right direction, but not far enough.  "Civil
forfeiture" is an excuse for punishment without trial.


feed_id: beeec4d1e4e896fa9b4d177ccae2e468
title: Legalizing all recreational drugs
uri: Legalizing-all-recreational-drugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Legalizing_all_recreational_drugs%29

content:
<p>
Legalizing all recreational drugs could solve a lot of problems, and
<a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/">would
not necessarily mean much more abuse of them</a>.
<p>
I am not sure I advocate unrestricted sales of physically addictive
drugs.  A half-way step would be to prescribe them only to addicts.
But if legalization works — if the problems of use are not much
bigger — it would be better.


feed_id: a2fa1eca2b8332a0d4c4b53dabd35363
title: EU's proposed business tax reform
uri: EU-s-proposed-business-tax-reform
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28EUs_proposed_business_tax_reform%29

content:
<p>
The EU's proposed business tax reform is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/23/eu-tax-transparency-plans-campaigners-google-amazon">far
too weak</a>.  It covers only payments to other companies based in the
EU.


feed_id: 06497983ddf6d493b91b53812ac51a21
title: Rescuing capitalism
uri: Rescuing-capitalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Rescuing_capitalism%29
content:
<p>
"To rescue capitalism 
<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2016/mar/23/labour-jeremy-corbyn-challenge-rescue-capitalism-arrogance-elite'>from
its own arrogance</a>."


feed_id: 4112df4311a9adb96c9876c22395d8e9
title: Rockefeller to divest from fossil fuel
uri: Rockefeller-to-divest-from-fossil-fuel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Rockefeller_to_divest_from_fossil_fuel%29

content:
<p>
The Rockefeller family charity says it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/23/rockefeller-fund-divestment-fossil-fuel-companies-oil-coal-climate-change">will
divest from all fossil fuel companies</a>.


feed_id: f253569acb60cd97a36665fd3ddd664c
title: Football and traumatic brain disease
uri: Football-and-traumatic-brain-disease
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Football_and_traumatic_brain_disease%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2016/03/15/3760165/nfl-admits-football-cte-link/">NFL
Finally Admits A Link</a> Between Football And Traumatic Brain
Disease.


feed_id: c5ec3ee992c913746d020ac76ab0ac6c
title: Anti-privacy bill
uri: Anti-privacy-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Anti-privacy_bill%29
content:
<p>
Anti-privacy senators are pushing a bill to give the state power to
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-legislation-idUSKCN0WN2B1">order
companies to break whatever encryption they provide for people to
use</a>.
<p>
If this bill passes, it would be great for free software, since no
other software could offer encryption that can't be broken.  Until,
that is, the day that they ban free software.


feed_id: dfabf95400bfeff3d6cbc3a15ff267f3
title: Promoting secularism
uri: Promoting-secularism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_March_2016_%28Promoting_secularism%29
content:
<p>
Promoting secularism in African schools, to 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pellissier20160322">reduce
religious war, disease and abandoned babies, and encourage practical
problem-solving</a>.


feed_id: 49788b13c3cf6c507d847eef689cfc7e
title: Urgent: Election official's resignation
uri: Urgent-Election-official-s-resignation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Election_officials_resignation%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/helen">call on Arizona election
official Helen Purcell</a> to resign.


feed_id: 27a4c8452e21a70b59e491a934e1bb31
title: Urgent: Investigate voter suppression
uri: Urgent-Investigate-voter-suppression
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_voter_suppression%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/az_voter_suppression">call on
the US government</a> to investigate Arizona voter suppression
apparently aimed at Latinos.


feed_id: 84b58fb62c0b29de173271eb1908600f
title: Urgent: Reject non-budget riders
uri: Urgent-Reject-non-budget-riders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_non-budget_riders%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/budget_2016">call on
Democrats</a> to reject non-budget riders in budget bills.


feed_id: 4e4061c57d135dd0034821590942064e
title: Biggest threat to Great Barrier Reef
uri: Biggest-threat-to-Great-Barrier-Reef
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Biggest_threat_to_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

content:
<p>
The Australian minister in charge proposes to work hard to protect the
Great Barrier Reef from all the major threats, except for the biggest
one:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/21/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-threat-raised-to-highest-level">global
heating</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, the same CO<sub>2</sub> that causes the heating will
eventually kill all coral by
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#25_February_2016_(Ocean_acidification)">making
the ocean too acidic for them</a>.


feed_id: 6ecb2c95cdad62bfb9d4b9fd53476f02
title: Chinese journalist jailed
uri: Chinese-journalist-jailed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Chinese_journalist_jailed%29
content:
<p>
Chinese journalist Jia Jia was, apparently, jailed for a few days
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/27/missing-chinese-journalist-released-from-custody-says-lawyer">for
warning colleagues</a> it might be dangerous to republish the
anonymous open letter that called for strongman Xi Jinping to resign.


feed_id: 09a9b1d86c7e87ae12b705a3bf5bf396
title: $353,000 for access to Clinton
uri: 353-000-for-access-to-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28%24353%2C000_for_access_to_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
Clinton's fund raiser offers rich people access to her for
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/25/oceans-16-sanders-campaign-blasts-350k-dinner-clooneys-obscene">$353,000
each</a>.
<p>
This shows what sort of president she would be.


feed_id: 8916edfe43e54d133b8a54ebadab9fb3
title: Belgian state's attitude in 2013
uri: Belgian-state-s-attitude-in-2013
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Belgian_states_attitude_in_2013%29
content:
<p>
The Belgian state's attitude in 2013 was,
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/27/belgian-mother-betrayed-by-government-and-isis-when-sons-went-to-syria'>Let
those radicals leave for Syria</a>, and good riddance."
<p>
It turned out to be a mistake, but it wasn't obviously wrong at the
time.


feed_id: 53c36229874721bb0303337031f62595
title: DNA databases
uri: DNA-databases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28DNA_databases%29
content:
<p>
If you let a company sequence your DNA,
<a href="http://wtop.com/science/2016/03/law-enforcement-investigators-seek-out-private-dna-databases/">the
state will use that against you</a>.


feed_id: 552da2918675423b5aa5163f7a9e6965
title: The panic reaction
uri: The-panic-reaction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28The_panic_reaction%29
content:
<p>
PISSI made an
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/25/isis-plans-export-chaos-europe-paris-brussels">explicit
plan to spread terror around the world through underground suicide
squads</a>.
<p>
PISSI expects Europeans to panic and play into PISSI's hands with
harsh security measures.  Instead, people should
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/26/after-brussels-attacks-develop-coping-strategy">learn
to cope</a> with the occasional occurrence of medium-scale terrorist
attacks.
<p>
After all, they are
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_(Big_dangers_and_small_dangers)">rather
small</a> compared with the other dangers.
<p>
It would be a mistake to give up on trying to curb people's
disproportionate, irrational responses to these attacks.  If we even
help a few people to avoid panic, that is good in itself; further, it
can make the difference between passing or defeating a foolish unjust
law.
<p>
The first step is to stop legitimizing and supporting the panic
reaction.


feed_id: 780a8f5e13cfb8361470f69b6ce9158a
title: Carry guns
uri: Carry-guns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Carry_guns%29
content:
<p>
A petition <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/28/republican-convention-gun-petition-change-org">demanding the right to carry guns at the Republican Convention</a>
hoists gun nuts on their own petard.


How about a petition to allow people to carry petards (bombs) at the
Republican Convention?


feed_id: 4f3c02048e6ba10c0d0e2f5add71ddd6
title: Bryan Sanders
uri: Bryan-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Bryan_Sanders%29
content:
<p>
Bryan Sanders, who was punched by a Trump supporter at a Trump rally,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2016/mar/28/donald-trump-rally-punch-hate-violence">says Trump is the one responsible</a>.


feed_id: 036c57c72c5b7026e8326c4609735e1c
title: Colombia
uri: Colombia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Colombia%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/28/colombia-arrest-army-general-henry-torres-false-positives">A Colombian general is being prosecuted</a> for killing civilians.


feed_id: ce004984791a3a1d29b5f198ef8b53e7
title: Turkey
uri: 2016-03-31-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Turkey%29
content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/28/turkish-president-erdogan-british-diplomat-selfie-journalists-trial">condemned a foreign diplomat</a> for being photographed with one
of the persecuted Turkish journalists.


Poor Turkey, saddled with a president that insults Turkishness.


feed_id: 70b98988e98e2cb7e532066b51d6d877
title: Melting Arctic
uri: Melting-Arctic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Melting_Arctic%29
content:
<p>
Melting Arctic ice <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/28/us-canada-arctic-cruise-ship-titanic-emergency-training-coast-guard">is an invitation</a> for cargo and cruise ships to risk
causing deaths and oil spills.


feed_id: b614b1fa66ba955560600bdd72f295cb
title: Georgia
uri: Georgia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Georgia%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/28/georgia-governor-to-veto-religious-freedom-bill-nathan-deal">Georgia's governor says he will veto</a> the pro-discrimination law
just passed by the legislature.


I think it should be vetoed, but I find it disturbing that businesses
exercise so much power to block laws.  There are other laws that we
need to adopt, to reduce businesses' power, that they also want to block.


feed_id: 9461a95df60a62f3050b61ed2a5ae795
title: Angola
uri: Angola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Angola%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/28/angola-jails-17-activists-rebellion-public-book-reading">Angolan protesters have been sentenced</a> to years in prison for publicly
reading from a book by Gene Sharp.


feed_id: 9c2fdfd09c278f9dd9216b0c78572933
title: Ralph Nader
uri: 2016-03-31-Ralph-Nader
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Ralph_Nader%29
content:
<p>
Ralph Nader: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/27/why-bernie-sanders-was-right-run-democrat">Why</a> Bernie Sanders was Right to Run as a Democrat.


feed_id: 9442c5cab9213e10c1b36bf401fa40c2
title: Gustavo Castro Soto
uri: Gustavo-Castro-Soto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Gustavo_Castro_Soto%29
content:
<p>
Gustavo Castro Soto, colleague of Berta Cáeres who witnessed her
assassination, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/28/berta-caceres-murder-witness-honduras-appeals-to-mexico">fears the US-backed Honduran state</a> will frame him
for killing her.


Clinton, I see you!

To be sure, I don't think that Clinton suggested framing him, or
suggested killing her.  The point is that she helped put in power the
power-at-all-costs elites for whom this is typical practice.


feed_id: e005c709acb4a7410cc3538a404e631c
title: UK
uri: 2016-03-31-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28UK%29
content:
<p>
The UK <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/28/ban-legal-highs-people-will-use-harder-drugs-law-changes">is about to criminalize</a> a wide range of currently legal drugs.


feed_id: 4dbd301319cac0de20bb42833b831d6b
title: Israeli products
uri: Israeli-products
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Israeli_products%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://settlement-products.wikia.com/wiki/Settlement_Products_Wikia">A guide for identifying products</a> made by Israeli companies
in colonies in Palestine.


  They often try to hide this.


feed_id: 4a4780714c50538eaa8fd1ebc7837959
title: Global heating
uri: 2016-03-31-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/mar/28/new-survey-finds-a-growing-climate-consensus-among-meteorologists">American meteorologists now firmly recognize</a> that human activities
cause global heating.


feed_id: c28be33d80d0ac57724e815d54dc7a50
title: Israel
uri: 2016-03-31-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Israel%29
content:
<p>
Israel <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/28/israel-backs-down-in-row-with-brazil-over-ambassador-dani-dayan">has backed down on trying to make Brazil accept a prominent
anti-peace politician</a> as ambassador.


Netanhayu now plans to use him to foist a similar gesture of fealty on the US.


feed_id: 487d2e521b3fde04872de4b0fcd9bb55
title: Pro-discrimination law
uri: Pro-discrimination-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Pro-discrimination_law%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/28/bank-of-america-microsoft-denounce-north-carolinas-anti-lgbt-law-but-fund-politicians-who-passed-it/">Microsoft and some other large companies decry</a> North Carolina's new
pro-discrimination law, but their repeated donations to Republicans
are the cause of it.


feed_id: b8642d66a1d3c77c1d92c128a66fd246
title: CIA
uri: 2016-03-31-CIA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28CIA%29
content:
<p>
Before the CIA handed prisoners to other countries that were
considered likely to torture them, the CIA <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/28/cia-photographed-naked-detainees">took nude photos of them</a>
to serve as proof that the torture wasn't done by the CIA itself.


Why it should matter whether the CIA maimed someone directly
or through an subcontracted government is beyond me.
Either way, the US is culpable.


feed_id: f460df7abb7f8a02640d897ada58c9f2
title: Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
uri: Privacy-in-the-Age-of-Surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Privacy_in_the_Age_of_Surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/26/chomsky-snowden-greenwald-privacy-age-surveillance">Chomsky, Snowden, Greenwald</a> on Privacy in the Age of Surveillance.


Snowden's remarks, as quoted here, seem to consider an omniscient
state as a reasonable option, and objects only to failing to ask the
public for consent.  As I've shown in
http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html, an
omniscient state means no democracy.


feed_id: 27ac4ab537df4715f3ba2476a1af6c57
title: Bosnia-Herzegovina
uri: Bosnia-Herzegovina
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Bosnia-Herzegovina%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/28/radovan-karadzic-sentenced-bosnia-herzegovina-bosnian-serb">Bosnia-Herzegovina needs to escape from the nationalist fragmentation</a>
that the peace arrangements of the 1990s have left it in.


feed_id: 31f609eafdcef02e2c18c4a1c2d77070
title: Zhang Ping
uri: Zhang-Ping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Zhang_Ping%29
content:
<p>
Chinese expat journalist Zhang Ping says <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/28/chinese-dissident-chang-ping-says-brothers-abducted-over-letter-criticising-president">his brothers in China have
been jailed</a> as hostages; the Chinese government demands he withdraw an
article he published.


feed_id: ad00de3bc66e2554e46cf3af3b06e91c
title: Nelson García
uri: Nelson-García
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Nelson_Garcia%29
content:
<p>
Honduras <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/27/honduran-activist-nelson-garcias-murder-suspect-arrested">has arrested a suspect in the murder</a> of environmental
activist Nelson García, who was killed shortly after Berta Cáeres.


feed_id: 3fc15767b1eec257bf6462954dc14bf6
title: Hungry students
uri: Hungry-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Hungry_students%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/27/three-quarters-teachers-pupils-come-to-school-hungry-nasuwt-survey">Most British teachers have students</a> who come to school hungry.


feed_id: c522e4408eab788d8b6d1d1f88268219
title: Revolutionary mural in Cairo
uri: Revolutionary-mural-in-Cairo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Revolutionary_mural_in_Cairo%29
content:
<p>
A large revolutionary mural in Cairo, part of the little that al-Sisi
has not crushed, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/23/struggle-cairo-egypt-revolutionary-graffiti">is being torn down by the American University</a>
as part of a construction plan.


feed_id: 77479d404be13ee467e72e0802a70d2b
title: FBI
uri: 2016-03-31-FBI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28FBI%29
content:
<p>
If the FBI gets the power to order proprietary software developers to
make changes, it will use that to do more than snoop on you.  It will
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/21/apple-fbi-encryption-battle">take over your digital devices' proprietary software</a> and do to you
whatever it wants.


The argument about a car directed to bomb the White House is invalid,
because that car is no more or less dangerous than one driven by a
suicide bomber.  I presume the Secret Service has already arranged
measures to stop either one.

Even if laws stop the FBI from turning all your devices against you,
the software's developers could do it.  So could rogue employees,
blackmailed employees, and crackers that have broken the company's
security.

There is only one real solution, and <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">that is to shun nonfree software</a> in
these devices.  You can never trust a nonfree program.


feed_id: 3d751b0eff91d296e719feecb5882e8b
title: Big tech firms
uri: Big-tech-firms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Big_tech_firms%29
content:
<p>
If <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/27/tech-firms-run-western-politics-evgeny-morozov">"democratic" states cede power and responsibility</a> to big tech firms,
there may be no way to prise them back.


feed_id: 411e3cfe4087c7db14962b3477987caf
title: Federal Energy Regulatory
uri: Federal-Energy-Regulatory
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Federal_Energy_Regulatory%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://beyondextremeenergy.org/its-time-for-the-rubber-stamp-rebellion/">Protests are planned in May</a> against the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, which should stop rubber-stamping every request that the fossil
fuel industry makes.


feed_id: b503975824993939851ce757221c133b
title: Autonomy
uri: Autonomy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Autonomy%29
content:
<p>
Some psychological studies suggest that <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/03/people-want-power-because-they-want-autonomy/474669/">most people want autonomy</a>
rather than control over others.


feed_id: 897b9737c0daa68d3ddfc5b0d0d5bbb4
title: Sanders
uri: 2016-03-31-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Sanders%29
content:
<p>
Sanders <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/03/13068/easter-rebellion-three-states-give-bernie-sanders-landslide-victories">won landslide victories</a> in caucuses in Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii


  and has reduced the delegate gap from 300 to 200.


feed_id: 226a7b56ba8d16003fe76c29a9ec4e95
title: Commercially available servers
uri: Commercially-available-servers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Commercially_available_servers%29
content:
<p>
Apple designs its own servers, from concern that <a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/report-apple-designing-its-own-servers-to-avoid-snooping/">commercially
available servers have been modified</a> by the NSA to enable snooping.


I am also concerned about this threat.

The Federal Trade Commission <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/feds-tells-app-developers-to-warn-consumers-they-spy">warned app developers to inform</a> users
about snooping on them.


While this is well-intentioned, I don't think it goes far enough to solve
the problem.


feed_id: 2d1d7643926c02a8aa58f5e18fd60093
title: Laurence Faulkenberry
uri: Laurence-Faulkenberry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Laurence_Faulkenberry%29
content:
<p>
Lawrence Faulkenberry's security cameras <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/video-clears-texas-man-of-assaulting-cop-did-police-commit-perjury/">proved that the thugs who
beat him up and gave him permanent injuries</a> also tried to frame him.


So where's the prosecution for perjury?  We must not let these thugs
get away with these lies.


feed_id: f56feb77a6d193632c9ede5a1d420820
title: Africa
uri: Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Africa%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/igwe20160327">The Challenge</a> of Secularism and Human Rights in Africa.


feed_id: 6d432ad310bc2adc8ead76d3853ce3ae
title: Palmyra
uri: 2016-03-31-Palmyra
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Palmyra%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/27/syrian-regime-forces-retake-all-of-palmyra-from-isis">Assad's forces say they have recaptured Palmyra</a>.


feed_id: 29fa0aae1658d92ec977c51d02bdf344
title: Trump's supporters
uri: 2016-03-31-Trump-s-supporters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Trump%27s_supporters%29
content:
<p>
Trump's supporters <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/26/donald-trump-classy-loser-hadley-freeman">are people</a> he despises as "losers".


feed_id: 695cabc8e5b4b6e7cfe01f026ac51899
title: Train system in Miami
uri: Train-system-in-Miami
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Train_system_in_Miami%29
content:
<p>
Does it make sense to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/26/miami-light-rail-project-mass-transit-hitachi-ansaldo">invest almost 400 million dollars</a> in a train system
for Miami?


For other cities, I'd say it is important to invest in reduced fossil
fuel use.  In the case of Miami, will people live there long enough
for this system to be worth the cost?  (The reduction in greenhouse
gas emissions can be counted as part of the repayment.)  Even though
the train line itself will be elevated, it won't be much use once
flooding starts making people leave.

Perhaps it would be wiser to invest in moving people to higher
ground -- perhaps in Georgia.


feed_id: 0d01cec44a26bf5c629abd9b3cb81852
title: Right to speech
uri: Right-to-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Right_to_speech%29
content:
<p>
The Briton charged with a crime for saying he asked a Muslim woman to
"explain Brussels" <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/26/charges-dropped-against-man-in-explain-brussels-tweet-row">has had charges dropped</a>, for now.


It seems that the thugs bring such charges on their own; higher
officials must approve it.  So the charges have been dropped.
It is conceivable that he will be charged again.

We must defend his right to say these things even if we don't agree
with them.


feed_id: d18154f3294f696458e2736ac9e1b743
title: Loud parties
uri: Loud-parties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Loud_parties%29
content:
<p>
A California city <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/03/25/anti-partying-law-turns-innocent-kids-in">wants to make it a crime</a> to be present at a loud party.


feed_id: 6e506a3f827311e4cd9d07cb2633514f
title: Indiana's abortion law
uri: Indiana-s-abortion-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Indiana%27s_abortion_law%29
content:
<p>
Indiana's new abortion <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/25/indianas-chilling-new-anti-abortion-law-one-nations-worst">law bans choosing to abort</a> because the fetus
has a medical problem.  It is also calculated to expose doctors to
terrorism.


How about aborting because the fetus has a different kind of problem?
Can we detect fetuses that are likely to turn out to be religious
fanatics?


feed_id: 7da639141493a7ba090087b5d2f04dc1
title: US domestic spying
uri: US-domestic-spying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28US_domestic_spying%29
content:
<p>
Some US congresscritters call on the NSA to cease and desist from its
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/representatives-say-nsa-must-end-plans-to-expand-domestic-spying/">plans to expand</a> spying on the US.


feed_id: e89c2eb9262787e61dd54a18357f4dbe
title: Recreational drugs
uri: Recreational-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Recreational_drugs%29
content:
<p>
A committee of experts as called for <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/25/decriminalization-first-and-urgent-step-fix-failed-war-drugs">decriminalization</a> of using
recreational drugs, to avoid the deaths and sicknesses caused by the
War on Drugs.


feed_id: 34dbda636ffd86baa30344f462e5ebe4
title: Wildfire
uri: Wildfire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Wildfire%29
content:
<p>
It's only barely the start of Spring, but there's already a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/26/kansas-oklahoma-wildfire-military-helicopters">record-breaking wildfire</a> in Kansas.


<p>   


feed_id: a5a69d76041f7c9a02272ad67021acaa
title: Republican suppression methods
uri: Republican-suppression-methods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Republican_suppression_methods%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/25/arizonas-primary-voting-fiasco-foretells-further-disenfranchisement-general-election">The primaries in North Carolina and Arizona show</a> that Republican voter
suppression methods are effective enough to steal an election.


feed_id: cf7a581ea10addf72c035fc2c214012f
title: US poors
uri: US-poors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28US_poors%29
content:
<p>
In the US nowadays, <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20160326">being poor means</a> 13 or 14 years less life
expectancy.


feed_id: 74fffcbc8c875378e27c915cb8ece254
title: UK public schools
uri: 2016-03-31-UK-public-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28UK_public_schools%29
content:
<p>
The UK government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/20/michael-rosen-on-academy-schools-local-democracy-bites-the-dust">plans</a> to turn all public schools into "academies",
which means eliminating local control and for the most part
privatizing them.


Teachers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/23/teachers-quit-george-osbornes-academy-plans">say that they expect less pay for more work</a> under more pressure,
so many of them plan to quit.


A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/26/national-union-of-teachers-backs-ballot-on-strike-action-brighton">strike</a> is in the works.


feed_id: 5df9ac3fb507e2a0cf0327e0f397d65a
title: Cancer
uri: Cancer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Cancer%29
content:
<p>
When you meet someone with cancer, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/26/do-not-tell-cancer-patients-cures-they-could-be-doing">don't urge</a> a quack remedy.
It's at best condescending, at worst victim-blaming.


I have never had cancer, but I've faced similar annoyances over much
lesser problems: for instance, people who insist on trying to be
helpful by telling me background information I already know.  They are
not helping me at all, only creating an excuse to feel they are being
helpful.

If you can't help someone, there's no good in pretending you can.


feed_id: f8a0d41abee336f9e128edea7de24f86
title: Florence Hartmann
uri: Florence-Hartmann
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Florence_Hartmann%29
content:
<p>
French anti-genocide investigative journalist Florence Hartmann revealed
that the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/mar/26/french-journalist-florence-hartmann-jailed-by-war-crimes-tribunal--srebrenica-massacre">Bosnian war crimes tribunal had withheld information from the
International Criminal Court</a>.  The war crimes tribunal has now jailed her
and is subjecting her to 24-hour sleep deprivation.


feed_id: 16cf63182c40bafd49c0047238c3b7b6
title: Muslims
uri: 2016-03-31-Muslims
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Muslims%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/26/obama-brussels-attacks-rejects-stigmatize-muslims-trump-cruz">Obama strongly condemned attempts to stigmatize</a> Muslims in general.

I agree completely.  I just wish he would also avoid bombing Muslims
in many countries.


feed_id: 64e0710f7be7f91d9a2744da6f2a9cc1
title: Wen Yunchao
uri: Wen-Yunchao
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Wen_Yunchao%29
content:
<p>
Wen Yunchao <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/26/chinese-activists-family-taken-away-over-letter-calling-for-xi-jinping-to-quit">says China has disappeared his parents and brother</a> because
someone claimed he was the author of a published letter that called on
Chinese ruler Xi Jinping to quit.


The Chinese state apparently suspects him of writing the letter.
If true, it would be no excuse to arrest or disappear anyone.


feed_id: 72378f5d96901d0d2088e0acc9df1a49
title: Poland Large-Scale Logging
uri: Poland-Large-Scale-Logging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Poland_Large-Scale_Logging%29
content:
<p>
Poland <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/26/poland-approves-large-scale-logging-in-europes-last-primeval-forest">Approves Large-Scale Logging</a> in Europe's Last Primeval Forest.

It might be the right decision if it prevents beetles from causing
even worse harm.  But that sort of defense doesn't often work.


feed_id: a93c83e702722a8fc9a69a3696e3df71
title: Sanders
uri: 2016-03-31-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Sanders%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/25/remarkable-bernie-sanders-journey-will-overcome-crowning-clinton">Many ways that the establishment has tried to block</a> Sanders from a fair
chance against Clinton.


feed_id: 1949e346fe120d36288c8fe221b59692
title: Mass Expulsion
uri: Mass-Expulsion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Mass_Expulsion%29
content:
<p>
Humanitarian Groups <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/24/humanitarian-groups-refuse-partake-mass-expulsion-refugees">Refuse to Partake</a> in 'Mass Expulsion' of Refugees from Greece to Turkey.


feed_id: 67714bf192a5aebfd9cbdf279a760f18
title: Brazil's Workers
uri: Brazil-s-Workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Brazil%27s_Workers%29
content:
<p>
\u2018This Is a Coup\u2019: Brazil\u2019s <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/25/coup-brazils-workers-party-faces-its-greatest-test">Workers Party Faces</a> Its Greatest Test.


feed_id: 890709f03e90c1ecd44ca9c83987ca99
title: Mass protests in Washington
uri: Mass-protests-in-Washington
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Mass_protests_in_Washington%29
content:
<p>
Mass protests for democracy <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/25/stand-and-sit-democracy">are planned</a> for April in Washington DC.


feed_id: b44a588c20bdcde63c212df2207530d8
title: Unconstitutional law
uri: Unconstitutional-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_March_2016_%28Unconstitutional_law%29
content:
<p>
North Carolina's law that requires toilets to be designated
for people's biological sex <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/25/north-carolina-lgbt-rights-transgender-discrimination-law-violates-us-constitution">may be unconstitutional.</a>


feed_id: 3d86ad436f663b822b6ef2ee3fc8b651
title: Urgent: Stop Arch Coal
uri: Urgent-Stop-Arch-Coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_Arch_Coal%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1847">stop
Arch Coal</a> from building roads in the Sunset Roadless Area.


feed_id: 66e22755b1a42e739caad240670abb6e
title: Urgent: End fracking on public lands
uri: Urgent-End-fracking-on-public-lands
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_End_fracking_on_public_lands%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.350.org/sign/obama-fracking/">call on Obama</a> to
end fracking on public lands.


feed_id: c329ac697612d3078aafd17d0584a1f9
title: Urgent: Release of Clinton speeches
uri: Urgent-Release-of-Clinton-speeches
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Release_of_Clinton_speeches%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://actnow.io/1wrKiiv">tell Clinton</a>, release your
speech texts.


feed_id: d55f593ea5e09fc857f12a408a460032
title: Urgent: Gun manufacturer responsibility
uri: Urgent-Gun-manufacturer-responsibility
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Gun_manufacturer_responsibility%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.signforgood.com/gunaccountability/">call on
Congress</a> to hold gun manufacturers responsible when their
negligence gets someone shot.
<p>
Simply making a gun does not constitute negligence, and the gun
manufacturer should not automatically be liable when someone is shot,
just as a car manufacturer should not automatically be liable when
someone is hit with a car.  However, the gun manufacturer should not
get an automatic free pass which the car manufacturer doesn't get.


feed_id: 36b3322b1538daaca4c3e049e22d7bc0
title: Urgent: DNC sanctions on TPP supporters
uri: Urgent-DNC-sanctions-on-TPP-supporters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_DNC_sanctions_on_TPP_supporters%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/dnc-sanction-democrats">call
on the Democratic National Committee</a> to impose sanctions on
Democrats that support the TPP in a lame-duck session of Congress.


feed_id: 3beecb9dad87694c4c1b82e2ed3d7dd3
title: Urgent: Raise solar "net metering" limit
uri: Urgent-Raise-solar-net-metering-limit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_solar_net_metering_limit%29

content:
<p>
Massachusetts citizens: 
<a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/speaker-deleo-get-solar-back-on-track/">call
on House Speaker DeLeo</a> to raise the "net metering" limit, which
limits selling solar-generated electricity to the grid.


feed_id: b0d4885ff56f834b6e3a506f8a534b66
title: News reporting
uri: News-reporting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28News_reporting%29
content:
<p>
News reporting 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/25/highlighting-western-victims-while-ignoring-victims-of-western-violence/">should
present the thousands of dead and mutilated victims of US-supported
bombing</a> the way it presents the dozens of dead and mutilated
victims of PISSI's bombings.


feed_id: 06727cca496f74efed185aca61d797a7
title: People in Yemen need aid
uri: People-in-Yemen-need-aid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28People_in_Yemen_need_aid%29
content:
<p>
After months of bombardment by Salafi Arabia (with US support), 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/25/saudi-arabia-campaign-leaves-80-of-yemen-population-needing-aid">80%
of the people in Yemen need aid</a>.
<p>
The bombardment and the blockade have caused shortages of food and
medicine.


feed_id: 8ea11c6e4b784b02446e8859286430d7
title: Briton faces criminal charges for tweet
uri: Briton-faces-criminal-charges-for-tweet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Briton_faces_criminal_charges_for_tweet%29

content:
<p>
The UK spits on freedom of expression: a Briton actually 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/25/man-charged-tweet-confront-muslim-woman-brussels-attacks">faces
criminal charges for tweeting</a> that he asked Muslim to "explain
Brussels".
<p>
That tweet expresses hostility towards Muslims in general, which I
don't think is justified.  But that's of no relevance — freedom of
expression includes the right to express hostility, whether justified
or not.


feed_id: e1fb6f70105dfce2ecfbbe74cdf7ffc3
title: Big dangers and small dangers
uri: Big-dangers-and-small-dangers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_March_2016_%28Big_dangers_and_small_dangers%29
content:
<p>
In Belgium, each month, around 60 people are killed by traffic
accidents [1], around 15 by murderers [2], and around 150 by tobacco
[3].  Heart attacks kill around 400 a month [4].
<p>
By comparison, a terrorist attack once in a while is simply not a big
danger.  Sure, it's worth some effort to investigate so as to prevent
terrorism, because there's a good chance of having some success at it.
But it's not something to freak out about, and not worth surrendering
freedom for.</p>
<p style="padding-left:1.5em; text-indent:-1.5em;">
[1] WHO, Global Health Observatory data repository. Website.
Table: Estimated number of road traffic deaths & Estimated road traffic 
death rate (per 100 000 population), 2013
<p style="padding-left:1.5em">
URL for table: 
<a href="http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A997">http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A997</a></p>
<p style="padding-left:1.5em; text-indent:-1.5em;">
[2] United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Accessed through the
'UNdata' database. Source for figures: UNODC Homicide Statistics 2012
Table: Intentional homicide,number and rate per 100,000 population
<p style="padding-left:1.5em">
URL for table:
<a href="http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=UNODC&f=tableCode%3a1">http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=UNODC&f=tableCode%3a1</a></p>
<p style="padding-left:1.5em; text-indent:-1.5em;">
[3] WHO, "Global Report - Mortality Attributable to Tobacco", page 60. 
Report, published in 2012.</p>
<p style="padding-left:1.5em">
URL for Website:
<a href="http://www.who.int/tobacco/publications/surveillance/rep_mortality_attributable/en/">http://www.who.int/tobacco/publications/surveillance/rep_mortality_attributable/en/</a><p>
<p style="padding-left:1.5em">
URL for PDF (4.6 MiB)
<a href="media/37ff86d2.9789241564434_eng.pdf" data-original-source="http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2012/9789241564434_eng.pdf">http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2012/9789241564434_eng.pdf</a></p></p>
<p style="padding-left:1.5em; text-indent:-1.5em;">
[4] WHO, "European Detailed Mortality Database". Database, last updated 
in Dec. 2015.</p>
<p style="padding-left:1.5em">
URL for website:
<a href="http://data.euro.who.int/dmdb/">http://data.euro.who.int/dmdb/</a></p>


feed_id: 2ee2146b5cd137a28e3a2058cf26c283
title: Urgent: New wildlife refuge
uri: Urgent-New-wildlife-refuge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_New_wildlife_refuge%29
content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3060">Support</a>
a new wildlife refuge in Massachusetts.


feed_id: a7d566514d880f0625f664342e8a16fd
title: Urgent: Cherelle Baldwin
uri: Urgent-Cherelle-Baldwin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Cherelle_Baldwin%29
content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/cherelle_baldwin/">call
on Connecticut</a> to drop charges against Cherelle Baldwin.


feed_id: a659ab0257676e1302a93d4fe88b66d9
title: Urgent: Investigate voter suppression
uri: 2016-04-01-Urgent-Investigate-voter-suppression
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_voter_suppression%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/dept-of-justice-investigate-1">call
on the Department of Justice</a> to investigate Arizona voter
suppression.


feed_id: 2e4d64c60f5d203575ebba01c79851db
title: Urgent: No funding attacks on Syrian Kurds
uri: Urgent-No-funding-attacks-on-Syrian-Kurds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_No_funding_attacks_on_Syrian_Kurds%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-dont-fund-groups">call
on Congress</a> not to fund groups that attack Syrian Kurds.


feed_id: 7a83b32461bed49154aad82337666781
title: Hiding who owns British land
uri: Hiding-who-owns-British-land
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Hiding_who_owns_British_land%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/30/tories-land-registry-sell-off-open-data-privatisation">Why
Do the Tories Want to Hide Who Owns British Land?</a>


feed_id: e8fd2a04d815c8990dfa3b6c8c29a3db
title: US and Russia cooperating
uri: US-and-Russia-cooperating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28US_and_Russia_cooperating%29
content:
<p>
The US and Russia are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/russia-and-us-planning-military-coordination-against-isis-in-syria">cooperating
to fight PISSI in Syria</a>.
<p>
Evidently, Russia is not withdrawing all its forces from Syria
quite so fast.
<p>
This cooperation is useful.  It also demonstrates that the US and
Russia don't need to be enemies.  To be sure, Putin is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_(Putin_admits_ordering_military_conquest)">capable
of various sorts of aggression</a>.  Nonetheless, if the US avoids
pushing too hard (for instance, inviting parts of the former Soviet
Union to join NATO), the US and Russia need not be in conflict.
<p>
It will still be a shame that Putin has done away with
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#11_May_2012_(Russian_Protests)">democracy</a>,
the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_March_2014_(Putin_taking_tight_control_of_the_Russian_press)">independent
press</a>, and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_October_2014_(Putin_to_shut_down_human_rights_organization)">other
human rights</a> in Russia.  But the US is not in a position to do
much about that.
<p>
I am concerned that Russian bombardment of Raqqa will be
indiscriminate, a series of war crimes.  The US makes some effort to
avoid killing civilians, though it denies these killings when they
happen.  Russia hardly bothers to try to avoid killing civilians.


feed_id: dde10a4103364c72ef299ea0e804de19
title: Fight for environment and blue-collar jobs
uri: Fight-for-environment-and-blue-collar-jobs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Fight_for_environment_and_blue-collar_jobs%29

content:
<p>
The Fight for the Environment And the Fight for Blue-Collar Jobs Are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/30/the-fight-for-the-environment-and-the-fight-for-blue-collar-jobs-are-one-and-the-same">One
And the Same</a>.
<p>
In both cases, it's a fight for democracy against plutocracy.


feed_id: 82852eb579fa0288d2fa0c294030814c
title: Great Barrier Reef bleaching
uri: Great-Barrier-Reef-bleaching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Great_Barrier_Reef_bleaching%29
content:
<p>
Link between Fossil Fuels and Great Barrier Reef Bleaching
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/mar/30/link-between-fossil-fuels-and-great-barrier-reef-bleaching-clear-and-incontrovertible-say-scientists">'Clear'
And 'Incontrovertible'</a>, Say Scientists.


feed_id: aa56d549a26841fdd50d7817978b5eea
title: Attempt to kill single-payer health care
uri: Attempt-to-kill-single-payer-health-care
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Attempt_to_kill_single-payer_health_care%29

content:
<p>
Koch Brothers
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35353-koch-brothers-attempt-to-kill-single-payer-health-care-in-colorado">Attempt
to Kill Single-Payer Health Care in Colorado</a>.


feed_id: 2cf974e9a19e7964a5f7a7eeb49a56ad
title: FBI wants reports on troubled youths
uri: FBI-wants-reports-on-troubled-youths
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28FBI_wants_reports_on_troubled_youths%29

content:
<p>
The FBI wants prominent people in the Muslim community to counsel
troubled youths, and
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35405-fbi-faces-criticism-for-plan-to-turn-muslim-community-leaders-into-snitches">report
in detail on them</a>.
<p>
One might expect them to report any actual criminal plans
that they learn about, but this demand goes for beyond that.


feed_id: 4dcde7c1ad45ca674ee97f6968cf0f95
title: Investment in coal-fired power plants
uri: Investment-in-coal-fired-power-plants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Investment_in_coal-fired_power_plants%29

content:
<p>
A
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/30/1tn-could-be-wasted-on-unneeded-new-coal-plants-report-warns">trillion
dollars in planned investment</a> in new coal-fired power plants will
be a wasted and the money lost, assuming we save civilization from
disaster by not actually using those power plants.


feed_id: 6fa814a504025ef2978aa40c3bf9c4ad
title: British colonization of Australia
uri: British-colonization-of-Australia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28British_colonization_of_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Was the British colonization of Australia an
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/postcolonial-blog/2016/mar/30/its-not-politically-correct-to-say-australia-was-invaded-its-history">invasion</a>?
<p>
Colonization is not synonymous with invasion.  The British
colonization of Massachusetts started very slowly and did not
become a violent conflict until many years had gone by.
<p>
The colonization of Australia, starting 170 years later, went much
faster; exiled were sent by thousands.  "Invasion" could be an
accurate term for that.


feed_id: 9c7b62fa964bf1958c29e777165599fa
title: Vicious fanaticism in Pakistan
uri: Vicious-fanaticism-in-Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Vicious_fanaticism_in_Pakistan%29
content:
<p>
Thousands of Pakistanis are rallying in favor of a religious fanatic
who murdered an official for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/mumtaz-qadri-protesters-islamabad-defy-calls-disperse">advocating
tolerance</a>.
<p>
Pakistan is one of the countries I absolutely refuse to visit,
because it is a hotbed of vicious fanaticism.


feed_id: 6b67edef034964a36f57e945134f7a4b
title: Repression in Thailand
uri: Repression-in-Thailand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Repression_in_Thailand%29
content:
<p>
Repression in Thailand has reached absurd levels: posting a photo with
a gift from exiled former PM Thaksin Shinawatra brought a woman
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/thai-woman-charged-with-sedition-over-photo-of-provocative-red-bowl">prosecution
for "sedition"</a> and a possible sentence of 7 years in prison.
<p>
Perhaps they will sentence her to one year in prison and ask to be
admired for how merciful they are.  However, the very idea of
prosecuting someone for "sedition" is evil, never mind what the
punishment is.


feed_id: 068b6878c1da77ad89f809aa077f2ad4
title: Growing up in deprivation
uri: Growing-up-in-deprivation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Growing_up_in_deprivation%29
content:
<p>
Rich people like to think poor people have genes for stupidity, rather
than admit that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/30/intelligence-mental-health-genes-nurture">growing
up in deprivation holds them back</a>.


feed_id: c3b06e1e4d14012c8b500faa85e342e6
title: Prosecuted for fantasy terrorism
uri: Prosecuted-for-fantasy-terrorism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Prosecuted_for_fantasy_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
An FBI informant won Khalil abu Rayyan's heart, then
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/30/fbi-honeypot-ensnares-michigan-man/">got
him to talk about fantasy terrorism</a> to impress her.  Now he is
being prosecuted.


feed_id: 2884ce160e1be200a676f246dd3f82b6
title: Persecuted for writing about persecution
uri: Persecuted-for-writing-about-persecution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Persecuted_for_writing_about_persecution%29

content:
<p>
Writer Akram Aylisli is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/30/azerbaijan-akram-aylisli-airport-incroci-di-civilta-festival">being
persecuted in Azerbaijan</a> because he wrote about the persecution of
Armenians.


feed_id: 33ff8228e864c0da74b18556314f9466
title: Plastic waste killing Sperm whales
uri: Plastic-waste-killing-Sperm-whales
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Plastic_waste_killing_Sperm_whales%29

content:
<p>
Sperm whales are dying from
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/30/plastic-debris-killing-sperm-whales">filling
their stomachs with floating plastic waste</a>.


feed_id: 6533d140d49411fb047f84d8b87df7a1
title: Heatwaves, floods, and illness
uri: Heatwaves-floods-and-illness
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Heatwaves%2C_floods%2C_and_illness%29

content:
<p>
Global heating will cause bigger heat waves and floods, which could
cause large numbers of people to get sick at once.  The
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/30/british-health-systems-unprepared-for-devastating-effects-of-climate-change">UK's
medical system could be overwhelmed</a>.  That is probably true in
other places as well.


feed_id: 185e22682f853001bbd73892f3a5f863
title: Plans to revoke citizenship defeated
uri: Plans-to-revoke-citizenship-defeated
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#01_April_2016_%28Plans_to_revoke_citizenship_defeated%29

content:
<p>
France's plans to punish convicted terrorists by loss of citizenship
have been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/francois-hollande-drops-plan-to-revoke-citizenship-of-dual-national-terrorists">defeated</a>.
<p>
Hooray!  Alas, some other countries have similar plans, but this may
deal them a setback.
<p>
This measure was never conceived as a rational scheme to reduce
terrorism.


feed_id: 948bf8aaa874785655f2a607decba699
title: Message pushed by Israeli leaders
uri: Message-pushed-by-Israeli-leaders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Message_pushed_by_Israeli_leaders%29

content:
<p>
"When Israeli leaders keep pushing
<a href="http://972mag.com/nobody-should-be-shocked-at-the-hebron-execution/118138/">the
message that killing Palestinian attackers is a laudable act</a>, is
it any wonder that the shooters become our national heroes?"


feed_id: ce9d7e123e6ef834a6b93f59218ccd47
title: Right-wing phony scandal
uri: Right-wing-phony-scandal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Right-wing_phony_scandal%29
content:
<p>
Breaking the Silence, which organizes former Israeli soldiers to
witness the crimes they committed or saw other soldiers commit, is now
the
<a href="http://972mag.com/why-netanyahu-is-so-threatened-by-breaking-the-silence/118026/">target
of a right-wing phony scandal</a>, comparable to the one cooked up
against
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_January_2016_(Anti-abortion_activists_indicted)">Planned
Parenthood</a> and previously against
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-jul-oct.html#31%20October%202008%20(False%20accusations)">ACORN</a>.


feed_id: 7d75ed3aa2063b365321426820eab00a
title: Israel tax law
uri: Israel-tax-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Israel_tax_law%29
content:
<p>
Israel has adopted
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/29/israel-passes-law-to-cap-bankers-salaries-pay-gap">higher
taxes for bank executives' pay above a certain limit</a>.
<p>
It is a step in the right direction, but I would do it in a more
general way, by adding higher tax brackets with higher tax rates.


feed_id: 0ac6e07c76a586afc9cef61e8962b378
title: US Girl Scouts' rules
uri: US-Girl-Scouts-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28US_Girl_Scouts_rules%29
content:
<p>
US Girl Scouts' rules say that even 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/29/do-teenage-girl-scouts-really-require-ad">high
school students are not allowed to sell cookies without an adult's
supervision</a>.


feed_id: 078617e2b94bb6625b7fa9fe7a7ab162
title: China considers blocking most of internet
uri: China-considers-blocking-most-of-internet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28China_considers_blocking_most_of_internet%29

content:
<p>
China is considering 
<a href="https://thestack.com/world/2016/03/29/china-proposes-foreign-domain-name-censorship/">blocking
access to all non-Chinese internet domains</a>.
<p>
This would amount to cutting China off from most of the world's
internet entirely.


feed_id: 9aa657ce2da5fbaea088bd07af179625
title: Boroughs spreading in the UK
uri: Boroughs-spreading-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Boroughs_spreading_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Spreading in the UK: boroughs 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/29/academy-shut-sixth-form-a-level-provision-uk-borough-knowsley">where
no state school even offers the advanced high school classes that
universities expect entering students to take</a>.
<p>
This results from the combination of two aspects of Tory plutocracy:
<ul>
<li>Children of low-income families are not worth spending money on.
<li>They should be content with precarious low-skill jobs on zero-hour
contracts.
</ul>


feed_id: bf9dcd709a9b1a9f4c202b43b5192789
title: Exxon's climate lies
uri: Exxon-s-climate-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Exxons_climate_lies%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/29/turning-point-climate-fight-ags-unite-target-exxon-crimes">20
US states</a> are investigating Exxon's climate lies together.


feed_id: d661818d628c21aa1038645185ee5049
title: Prices of medicines in the US
uri: Prices-of-medicines-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Prices_of_medicines_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The American College of Physicians 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/29/us-doctor-group-demands-price-controls-out-control-drug-industry">calls
for the US government to keep the prices of medicines down</a>.
<p>
The natural way to do this, used by most other wealthy countries, is
to have a national health service that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_December_2013_(Pharmaceutical_Extortion:_Pay_Up,_or_Die)">negotiates
with manufacturers on behalf of all patients</a>.


feed_id: 2ae38821f9e107748d0de97919818726
title: AP's cooperation with Nazi Germany
uri: AP-s-cooperation-with-Nazi-Germany
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28APs_cooperation_with_Nazi_Germany%29

content:
<p>
The Associated Press got permission to keep operating in Nazi Germany
by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/associated-press-cooperation-nazis-revealed-germany-harriet-scharnberg">serving
as Hitler's propaganda outlet to the US, and aiding Nazi propaganda in
Germany</a>.
<p>
Many US companies and business leaders eagerly helped the Nazis.
IBM's cooperation is famous, and there was also
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2003-nov-feb.html#15%20November%202003%20(Bush%20family%20history)">Mr
Bush</a>.


feed_id: 26b2c09c852d5bd95e223e0b467331bb
title: Urgent: Oppose cable company merger
uri: 2016-04-01-Urgent-Oppose-cable-company-merger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_cable_company_merger%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://nomoremergers.com/call/">phone the FCC</a> to oppose
the merger of Charter and Time Warner Cable.


feed_id: dde2cd4829b052184bfbb82e9794fd21
title: Palmyra
uri: 2016-04-01-Palmyra
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Palmyra%29
content:
<p>
Most of the ancient city of Palmyra is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/28/palmyra-after-isis-images-taken-following-syrian-recapture-offer-hope-amid-ruins">still
in good condition</a>.
<p>
We should recall that Assad's bombers have 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#23_January_2013_(Turkish_govt_demands_ancient_artifacts)">destroyed
other ancient urban areas</a>.


feed_id: 290a4321dc3d2c3e192564986f060be3
title: Urgent: Dump Trump
uri: Urgent-Dump-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Dump_Trump%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/NikeDumpTrump/">Call on
Nike</a> to stop renting a big store in Trump Tower.


feed_id: 31f9a5eb67d5082d2b67f2812ec4d71d
title: Palestinians dehumanized in Israel
uri: Palestinians-dehumanized-in-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Palestinians_dehumanized_in_Israel%29

content:
<p>
A poll reports that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/29/most-israelis-support-soldier-accused-of-shooting-palestinian">most
Israelis support the recent murder</a> of an incapacitated
Palestinian.
<p>
They have dehumanized Palestinians to the point of being ready
to kill them with hardly a thought.


feed_id: 1247139e9dd6c78ecef444df98f0f6ef
title: Anesthesia for abortions
uri: Anesthesia-for-abortions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Anesthesia_for_abortions%29
content:
<p>
Utah has found a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/28/utah-bill-anesthesia-abortions-20-weeks">creative
way to endanger pregnant women</a> with fetuses with severe birth
defects: requiring anesthesia for their abortions.


feed_id: 46003ff0de3ea13cea26af4ce5c280b3
title: STD Zika
uri: STD-Zika
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28STD_Zika%29
content:
<p>
Brazil should 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/28/zika-virus-brazil-std-who-cdc-aids-hiv">recognize
Zika is a sexually transmitted disease</a>, and promote condom use.


feed_id: 0a83f9cdc89547743bd7af45746023d3
title: FBI backs off one case
uri: FBI-backs-off-one-case
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28FBI_backs_off_one_case%29
content:
<p>
The FBI
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/28/apple-fbi-case-dropped-san-bernardino-iphone">backed
off</a> from demanding Apple write software to facilitate decrypting
data on an iThing.
<p>
However, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_February_2016_(FBI_trying_to_break_computer_security)">other
such cases</a> are still pending.


feed_id: 2d9461ec2e5d2fd7bd0bf17f0db2cd5b
title: Record for least Arctic ice in winter
uri: Record-for-least-Arctic-ice-in-winter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Record_for_least_Arctic_ice_in_winter%29

content:
<p>
The Arctic set a record, this February, for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/28/arctic-sea-ice-record-low-winter">least
ice in winter</a>.  This broke the previous record, set last year.
<p>
The lack of ice is not just a sign of global heating, it also tends to
cause more heating.


feed_id: 373cb50170535658b6c129d133a3a18f
title: Summary execution by Israeli soldier
uri: Summary-execution-by-Israeli-soldier
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#31_March_2016_%28Summary_execution_by_Israeli_soldier%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing Israelis cheered the 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/28/israelis-reject-murder-charge-army-medic-killed-wounded-suspect/">summary
execution by a soldier of an incapacitated Palestinian suspect</a>.
Perhaps a majority of Israelis support the murder.
<p>
Next the Israeli state will punish the deceased's family by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_November_2015_(Collective_punishment)">destroying
its home</a>.
<p>
Some during the 70s and later in the second intifada Palestinian
militants often treated Israelis as vermin.  They have mostly stopped
doing so.  Now the Israelis have taken over that attitude.


feed_id: 4643e07cc6d9ec355d8c5f97c94b76c4
title: Obama choosing drug treatment
uri: Obama-choosing-drug-treatment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Obama_choosing_drug_treatment%29
content:
<p>
Obama is choosing drug treatment over drug repression, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/29/obama-administration-opioid-heroin-funds">to
reduce heroin addiction</a>.
<p>
This much is good, but I am still concerned about the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_March_2016_(US_war_on_painkillers)">War
on Pain Sufferers</a>.


feed_id: a24cf1cf7de57145924adb5f5fad2445
title: Cooper Union toilets without gender signs
uri: Cooper-Union-toilets-without-gender-signs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Cooper_Union_toilets_without_gender_signs%29

content:
<p>
Cooper Union has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/29/gender-bathrooms-cooper-union-college-new-york">removed
all gender signs from its toilets</a>.
<p>
It would be useful, however, to indicate which ones have urinals,
since some people may want to use a urinal, and others may prefer
not to see exposed penises.


feed_id: 2ef32e8d0a49d077ac113a7404073824
title: Sanders
uri: 2016-04-02-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Sanders%29
content:
<p>
Sanders is the only candidate that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/29/sanders-socialism-and-shafted-generation">recognizes
the precarious nature of work for young Americans</a>.


feed_id: b36c50da64ed4a10b2f42687082d9f46
title: Hollywood romantic comedies
uri: Hollywood-romantic-comedies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Hollywood_romantic_comedies%29
content:
<p>
Hollywood romantic comedies teach people to expect, even demand, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/29/romcom-fantasy-egypt-hijack-news">behavior
that is rather twisted</a>.


feed_id: dc061813d1c37df8b6ac678f2326465f
title: Medical care in Louisiana prisons
uri: Medical-care-in-Louisiana-prisons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Medical_care_in_Louisiana_prisons%29

content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch accuses Louisiana of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/29/louisiana-prisons-hiv-human-rights-watch">denying
prisoners access to medical care for HIV</a>.


feed_id: 51520798476ae6dbea1f7f9f704de45d
title: Protection of Alaska predators
uri: Protection-of-Alaska-predators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Protection_of_Alaska_predators%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/29/scientists-back-federal-plan-protect-alaska-predators">Top
Scientists Back Federal Plan</a> to Protect Alaska Predators.
<p>
The predators to be protected are animals that prey on animals (not
multinational mining companies.)


feed_id: 9ddbb05ed8150cb3df7a8d9f2e740d92
title: Sale of arms to Salafi Arabia
uri: Sale-of-arms-to-Salafi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Sale_of_arms_to_Salafi_Arabia%29
content:
<p>
A lawsuit tries to stop 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/29/growing-international-movement-seeks-to-place-arms-embargo-on-saudi-arabia/">Canada's
sale of arms to Salafi Arabia</a>.


feed_id: c733316351a7fd736e7b1da3ed0747fb
title: Trump's campaign manager faces charges
uri: Trump-s-campaign-manager-faces-charges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Trumps_campaign_manager_faces_charges%29

content:
<p>
Trump's campaign manager faces 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/29/trump-campaign-manager-corey-lewandowski-charged-assault">criminal
charges for grabbing and yanking a journalist</a>.


feed_id: 104f8dd5d31016e84f68718c5968ad30
title: Erdo&gbreve;an orders deletion of video
uri: Erdo-gbreve-an-orders-deletion-of-video
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Erdogan_orders_deletion_of_video%29
content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an petulantly 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/29/turkey-german-video-mocking-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan">ordered
the German ambassador to have a satirical German video deleted</a>
because it makes fun of him.


feed_id: 90006509a66e2f617a5944c0aa5b470c
title: Trump's merit
uri: Trump-s-merit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Trumps_merit%29
content:
<p>
Trump, despite all that is bad about him, has the merit of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/29/what-right-gets-about-free-trade">attacking
business supremacy treaties constantly</a>.
<p>
I am reluctant to trust that he would really try to get rid of them,
however.  Trump is more manipulative than honest.  The people who
support Trump for this reason should support Sanders instead.


feed_id: 705778ed5f07c19790c5f6216f498892
title: Avoiding accusations of sex crime
uri: Avoiding-accusations-of-sex-crime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Avoiding_accusations_of_sex_crime%29

content:
<p>
US government standards, being effectively imposed on colleges, say
that it's not enough to say "yes" to sex — 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/28/how-the-government-stole-sex">only
an "enthusiastic" agreement is enough</a> to avoid accusations of
crime.
<p>
It won't take much more to reach a 1950-style "abstinence only" rule.


feed_id: e56218cb9ae2bf2c3712cb7eceab728a
title: "Free trade" in Africa
uri: Free-trade-in-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Free_trade_in_Africa%29
content:
<p>
The idiotic arguments that have put the US and Europe in danger of surrender
to plutocrats are now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/29/new-trade-deals-challenge-africa-step-on-to-global-stage">being
deployed against Africa</a>.


feed_id: c2a445df7fc514835c9d59c48cafa08d
title: Biological basis of anorexia
uri: Biological-basis-of-anorexia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Biological_basis_of_anorexia%29
content:
<p>
Understanding some of the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/29/anorexia-you-dont-just-grow-out-of-it">biological
basis</a> of anorexia.


feed_id: c9ddf957378457a5ea4b95eee48b0ca4
title: The Smart Con
uri: The-Smart-Con
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28The_Smart_Con%29
content:
<p>
The Smart Con: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/28/smart-con-clinton-vs-trump">Clinton
vs. Trump</a>.


feed_id: 8b6868a2b7564dc62e66006c2de256ba
title: The Clinton Campaign
uri: The-Clinton-Campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28The_Clinton_Campaign%29
content:
<p>
Clinton Campaign: 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/clinton-campaign-says-no-more-debates-until-bernie-starts-be-nicer">No
More Debates Until Sanders Starts Being Nicer</a>.


feed_id: ae2e6102e20c88c49d9e6aa4153e172b
title: Advertising that tracks people
uri: Advertising-that-tracks-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Advertising_that_tracks_people%29
content:
<p>
The FCC told some app developers to stop working with SilverPush.  It
seems that SilverPush is claiming to have stopped this practice, while
also 
<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/25/advertisings-hottest-surveillance-software-silverpush/">continuing
to offer it to advertisers</a>.
<p>
The root cause of this practice comes from advertising that tracks
people.  We need to put an end to that, totally.


feed_id: 7718b0720460e3c23855044984cd66b2
title: Farmers fight back against Monsanto
uri: Farmers-fight-back-against-Monsanto
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_April_2016_%28Farmers_fight_back_against_Monsanto%29

content:
<p>
Monsanto is pressuring the government of Nigeria to grow Bt cotton,
but farmers are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/03/29/nigerians-overwhelmingly-reject-monsantos-risky-gm-maize-and-cotton">fighting
back</a>.


feed_id: 87bbe8a55a1f343ac486ee27255d4edc
title: Urgent: Company pay scale disclosure
uri: Urgent-Company-pay-scale-disclosure
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Company_pay_scale_disclosure%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support the rule to require companies to 
<a href="http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/eeoc_equal_pay/">report
how their pay scale varies with employees' gender and race</a>.


feed_id: 7ac607cad35a1e05ce449c8831a8cb18
title: Star Trek fan film
uri: Star-Trek-fan-film
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Star_Trek_fan_film%29
content:
<p>
Movie companies are 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-does-not-protect-the-klingon-language-court-hears-160330/">suing
to eliminate a Star Trek fan film</a>, and trying to stretch copyright
law in the process.


feed_id: d0b4b18f5791d3e5ff81e47d77fffd0a
title: Manipulation of elections
uri: Manipulation-of-elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Manipulation_of_elections%29
content:
<p>
An imprisoned computer manipulation operative says he helped
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/31/mexico-presidential-election-enrique-pena-nieto-hacking">manipulate
elections in Mexico and several other countries</a>.


feed_id: 242b3b2cb5f9b88e3f7155a6f6948231
title: Trump's history of misogyny
uri: Trump-s-history-of-misogyny
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Trumps_history_of_misogyny%29
content:
<p>
Donald Trump's Most Recent Attacks on Women Point to a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/31/donald-trump-abortion-comments-women-history-of-misogyny">History
of Misogyny</a>.


feed_id: c7b11150c022bbd8461054e949167ec7
title: Corporations United
uri: 2016-04-04-Corporations-United
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Corporations_United%29
content:
<p>
The Corporations United decision 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/31/foreign-money-is-flowing-into-u-s-elections-alitos-lying-lips-notwithstanding/">allowed
foreign companies and people to fund US election campaigns</a>.
<p>
The corporations called their organization "Citizens United", but
there is no reason to support their falsehood.


feed_id: 1a4c79fe0bff8bc911a36493d086a23b
title: Polish gov't wants to ban abortions
uri: Polish-gov-t-wants-to-ban-abortions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Polish_govt_wants_to_ban_abortions%29

content:
<p>
Poland's right-wing government is also fanatically Christian
and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/31/polish-prime-minister-favours-ban-on-abortion">wants
to ban all abortions</a>.


feed_id: 57365259c0c7b2d760581fce6fa21558
title: Religious discrimination and hatred law
uri: Religious-discrimination-and-hatred-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Religious_discrimination_and_hatred_law%29

content:
<p>
Mississippi is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/31/mississippi-religious-freedom-bill-lgbt-discrimination-same-sex-marriage">passing
a law privileging religious discrimination and hatred</a>.
<p>
This shows the nastiness at the heart of common American versions of
Christianity.


feed_id: 31e2327f16ca0ec92871380d03ad547d
title: Bigotry against Dalits
uri: Bigotry-against-Dalits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Bigotry_against_Dalits%29
content:
<p>
Hindu nationalists 
<a href="http://www.minoritiesofindia.org/californiahinducirriculum/">failed
in their attempt to excise coverage of bigotry against Dalits from
California textbooks</a>.


feed_id: 3bbed64f85abee24a2aa4e57af237299
title: Delivering abortion drug by mail
uri: Delivering-abortion-drug-by-mail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Delivering_abortion_drug_by_mail%29
content:
<p>
Delivering an abortion drug by mail 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/31/new-us-program-abortion-without-clinic-mifepristone-mifeprex">can
avoid many of the artificial impediments</a> imposed by right-wing
state legislatures.


feed_id: 6d0bf46ce4a0f083995e885dc45d3eb3
title: Political prisoners in Azerbaijan
uri: Political-prisoners-in-Azerbaijan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Political_prisoners_in_Azerbaijan%29

content:
<p>
If Azerbaijan Is a Democracy, Why Were We 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/31/azerbaijan-democracy-imprisoned-political-prisoners-president-america">Imprisoned
for Our Views</a>?


feed_id: 1722b07e3bec91e324f74f9e4c5a475d
title: US ex-officers condemn Trump
uri: US-ex-officers-condemn-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28US_ex-officers_condemn_Trump%29
content:
<p>
US ex-officers condemn Trump for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/31/donald-trump-geneva-conventions-the-problem-military-foreign-policy">rejecting
the Geneva Conventions</a>.
<p>
Soldiers understand that they depend on the Geneva Conventions as much
as, or more than, civilians do.


feed_id: a3b9858def0dce94d13dc35b5ae3d4de
title: Killer thugs won't be prosecuted
uri: Killer-thugs-won-t-be-prosecuted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Killer_thugs_wont_be_prosecuted%29
content:
<p>
The thugs who shot Jamar Clark while he was handcuffed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/31/jamar-clark-police-killing-no-charges-minneapolis-protesters">will
not be prosecuted</a>.


feed_id: de01191faa72ccafa38d4533177d5905
title: City of Nantes moving to LibreOffice
uri: City-of-Nantes-moving-to-LibreOffice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28City_of_Nantes_moving_to_LibreOffice%29

content:
<p>
The city of Nantes is 
<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/150244">moving its
administration completely to LibreOffice</a>.  I hope this will be
followed by moving to GNU/Linux.
<p>
The article uses the confused term 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">"intellectual
property"</a> which refers to a dozen or so unrelated laws and
misleadingly suggests they are similar.  Too bad.


feed_id: 507e7ba2649ff3a2a54de4e3c2bad70e
title: "Moderate" prosecutor
uri: Moderate-prosecutor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Moderate_prosecutor%29
content:
<p>
Merrick Garland is a "moderate" in the sense that he 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/03/30/merrick-garland-extremist">decides
cases to support the power structure</a>.  He was a prosecutor, so his
decisions tend to support the state over people and especially accused
people.


feed_id: 16d7c0a083d3ecd13723b1ce2f436b61
title: Assaulted because of hair style
uri: Assaulted-because-of-hair-style
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Assaulted_because_of_hair_style%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/30/black-student-assaults-white-teen-becaus">Watch
a Black Student Assault White Teen Because His Dreadlocks Are Cultural
Appropriation</a>.
<p>
No person or group is entitled to own a hair style or any other
cultural practice.
<p>
Imitating practices that in some other group have a meaning you don't
understand can in some cases be insensitive, and doing so might make
you look foolish -- but that doesn't entitle them to stop you.  And
some practices, such as your hair style, don't have any meaning unless
you say they do.


feed_id: e7a11f0c81c8cddaf80314c2ee2bf39f
title: Proposed sexting law
uri: Proposed-sexting-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Proposed_sexting_law%29
content:
<p>
Colorado 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/30/supposedly-enlightened-colorado-bill-cou">proposes
to make sexting a misdemeanor for teenagers</a>, which could result in
more prosecutions of teenagers for sexting.
<p>
Laws concerning teenagers and sex or reproduction tend to be twisted
up by prudish irrational impulses.


feed_id: f64bd53e67b12bade27493b4d163571f
title: Arrest of public defender by SF thugs
uri: Arrest-of-public-defender-by-SF-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Arrest_of_public_defender_by_SF_thugs%29

content:
<p>
San Francisco thugs 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160313/12001133892/complaint-board-finds-police-officers-violated-policy-arresting-public-defender-who-demanded-they-stop-questioning-her-clients.shtml">stopped
a public defender from protecting her clients' rights</a> by arresting
her on false charges.
<p>
To reclaim our cities from these thugs, we need to teach them a
lesson.  We need to put them away for periods of many years.


feed_id: b5783f9a2d1354c6f491044ddf28372f
title: Mass transit in the US
uri: Mass-transit-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Mass_transit_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Mass transit in the US is scraping to a halt for 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-immobile-masses-why-traffic-is-awful-and-public-transit-is-worse">lack
of maintenance funds</a>.  We need to increase the gasoline tax
— but the politicians in the pocket of the planet roasters will
never allow that.


feed_id: 1ccb5e4f595fd39e747f0ff6d07dfd1f
title: Japan's meager public pensions
uri: Japan-s-meager-public-pensions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Japans_meager_public_pensions%29
content:
<p>
Japan's public pensions are so meager that 
<a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/27/japans-elderly-turn-to-life-of-crime-to-ease-cost-of-living.html">old
people can only survive by stealing and getting in jail</a>.


feed_id: 4ab73c62bbec39dd0747903e4eb771b2
title: Brand-name drug prescriptions
uri: Brand-name-drug-prescriptions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Brand-name_drug_prescriptions%29
content:
<p>
"The more 
<a href='https://www.propublica.org/article/doctors-who-take-company-cash-tend-to-prescribe-more-brand-name-drugs'>money
[or gifts] doctors receive from drug and medical device companies</a>,
the more brand-name drugs they tend to prescribe, a new ProPublica
analysis shows."


feed_id: 2e638bb612debfee096d969272905f1c
title: EFF fighting more strongly against DRM
uri: EFF-fighting-more-strongly-against-DRM
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28EFF_fighting_more_strongly_against_DRM%29

content:
<p>
The EFF is 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/interoperability-and-w3c-defending-future-present">starting
to fight more strongly</a> against Digital Restrictions Management.


feed_id: 7b013ae31bbcd30fb14562d3ba34e16a
title: Senator Wyden to block anti-encryption bills
uri: Senator-Wyden-to-block-anti-encryption-bills
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Senator_Wyden_to_block_anti-encryption_bills%29

content:
<p>
Senator Wyden 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/30/oregon-senator-ron-wyden-filibuster-encryption-rightscon">will
personally block</a> bills to require software developers to block
their encryption.


feed_id: 36038cc2bf5d4756f292cd44a05d0d21
title: Drought in Venezuela
uri: Drought-in-Venezuela
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Drought_in_Venezuela%29
content:
<p>
Drought is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/mar/30/weatherwatch-hambling-venezuela-hydroelectric-dam-guri-dry-reservoirs-colombia">crippling
hydropower</a> in Venezuela.
<p>
This is likely to be a world-wide problem — it will rain too
little, except where it rains too much.


feed_id: da4584d9561bbfa72908c1d484c3a659
title: Prosecution for repeating rumors
uri: Prosecution-for-repeating-rumors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Prosecution_for_repeating_rumors%29
content:
<p>
Now people in Turkey are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/31/turkish-army-threatens-legal-action-erdogan-coup-rumours">threatened
with prosecution</a> for repeating rumors.
<p>
This resembles China and Thailand.


feed_id: af6baa14841a2b2edaf179c34bd59c1d
title: Queers still face repression in Ukraine
uri: Queers-still-face-repression-in-Ukraine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Queers_still_face_repression_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Queers still face 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/31/new-ukraine-government-lgbt-activists-gay-rights-zoryan-kis">repression</a>
in Ukraine; the pro-Western (but somewhat fascist) government is no
better than the previous pro-Russian government.


feed_id: fffff129a7e2db5753e1536a01c69e5e
title: Subcontracting
uri: Subcontracting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Subcontracting%29
content:
<p>
Subcontracting is increasing in Silicon Valley, and this is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/30/silicon-valley-subcontracting-income-inequality-worse-report">spreading
poverty</a>.


feed_id: c00e166a27edde2e8541fabc92705195
title: Formal investigation of Shell launched
uri: Formal-investigation-of-Shell-launched
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Formal_investigation_of_Shell_launched%29

content:
<p>
Shell's Headquarters Raided and Formal Investigation Launched over
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/03/30/shells-headquarters-raided-and-formal-investigation-launched-over-billion-dollar">Billion
Dollar Nigerian Oil Deal</a>.


feed_id: 9cdec9b7afd9a54012d5619db705e8f5
title: What the burqa stands for
uri: What-the-burqa-stands-for
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28What_the_burqa_stands_for%29
content:
<p>
The French minister for women's rights 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/french-womens-rights-minister-laurence-rossignol-accused-racism-negro">compared
women that wear burqas to American blacks that supported slavery</a>.
<p>
I agree.  Those women are entitled to wear what they wish — it
should not be prohibited — but we should recognize what the burqa
stands for.
<p>
Meanwhile, there is nothing insulting about the word "negro".
The fuss about the minister's word choice is foolish.


feed_id: 93e92983ebc3a39d4f29ec9fca655bec
title: Pakistan's vicious blasphemy law
uri: Pakistan-s-vicious-blasphemy-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Pakistans_vicious_blasphemy_law%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan's government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/pakistan-parliament-protesters-disperse-following-negotiations">promised
religious fanatics it would not repeal</a> the vicious blasphemy law.
<p>
This crowns with success the murder they rallied to support.


feed_id: 7e2d1a81d896b2f3383d5c73a17d037b
title: Ability to read maps
uri: Ability-to-read-maps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Ability_to_read_maps%29
content:
<p>
Depending on a GPS navigator leads you to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/30/satnav-users-risk-losing-their-natural-navigational-skills-expert-warns">lose
your ability to read maps and understand where you are</a>.


feed_id: d3163328ebf79a904924a38b340fd0d8
title: Sea level rise
uri: 2016-04-04-Sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Sea_level_rise%29
content:
<p>
A new study, considering more processes that affect the Antarctic ice,
estimates an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/30/sea-levels-set-to-rise-far-more-rapidly-than-expected">additional
meter of sea level rise in this century</a>.
<p>
Sea level will rise further after 2100.  Many coastal cities are
likely to be swamped sooner or later.


feed_id: c07ae5ef42369a1dceb59d6a3ce17b3b
title: Censorship in France
uri: 2016-04-04-Censorship-in-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_April_2016_%28Censorship_in_France%29
content:
<p>
France is trying to extend the so-called "right to be forgotten",
i.e., right to exclude articles from searches for your name,
into a 
<a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001160.html">global
censorship regime</a>.
<p>
The French state has a pattern of attacking freedom of speech.  It is
forbidden to say there was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/hrant-dink.html">no genocide of
the Armenians</a>, as well as to say there was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jan-apr.html#18%20January%202007%20%28Germany%20to%20make%20holocaust%20denial%20a%20crime%29">no
genocide of the Jews</a>.
<p>
I reject both of those statements (see 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/mar/30/diana-markosian-best-photograph-movses-haneshyan-interview">evidence
for the genocide of the Armenians</a>) but we must defend people's
right to say these things even if they are incorrect.
<p>
You can also be 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_(Boycotting_Israels_colonies)">prosecuted
for saying "Don't buy from Israeli companies."</a>
<p>
That goes somewhat beyond my form of opposition to Israel's occupation
policies, but the right to advocate a boycott is part of human rights.
<p>
Even saying "I am not Charlie Hebdo" can get you 
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/01/16/in-france-you-can-go-to-jail-for-saying">harassed
by thugs</a>.
<p>
When France, a supposed champion of freedom, imposes persistent and
ever-extending censorship, that clears the path for tyrants such as
Putin and Erdo&gbreve;an to impose their own forms of censorship.


feed_id: 1db3965f27b4e02b3e31ab56ca0d47e4
title: Chronic fatigue syndrome
uri: Chronic-fatigue-syndrome
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_April_2016_%28Chronic_fatigue_syndrome%29
content:
<p>
Medicine is recognizing that chronic fatigue syndrome is a physical
illness often resulting from some sort of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/04/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cfs-taken-seriously">infection</a>.


feed_id: cdcbb8d8527e8bed078b684e37876862
title: Mandatory headscarves in Iran
uri: Mandatory-headscarves-in-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_April_2016_%28Mandatory_headscarves_in_Iran%29
content:
<p>
The Air France flight attendants' union 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/03/air-france-faces-staff-mutiny-in-headscarf-row">rejects
the company's order</a> for female flight attends to cover their heads
while stopping over in Iran.
<p>
I suggest a way to protest this: the male flight attends can wear
headscarves saying, in French and Farsi and English, "Solidarity
with all women in Iran."


feed_id: ac43394d32d38f5754f1003ac29bcb38
title: Lobbying by proprietary software maker
uri: Lobbying-by-proprietary-software-maker
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_April_2016_%28Lobbying_by_proprietary_software_maker%29

content:
<p>
The company that makes proprietary software for filing US tax returns
also 
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing">lobbies
heavily to stop the US government from providing any easier automatic
method</a>.
<p>
I refuse to run proprietary software.  I fill out my tax returns by
hand.  It is not terribly hard — the main work is collecting the data
on my income and deductible expenses, which I would have to do anyway.


feed_id: 9d4d17671ef0fb051042bce4ecdbf528
title: US media
uri: US-media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_April_2016_%28US_media%29
content:
<p>
The US media 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/30/disappearance-hillary-clintons-healthcare-platform">don't
subject Clinton's health care proposals to scrutiny</a>.  Perhaps
because they are so vague it is hard to evaluate them at all.


feed_id: 92ab73f6e69a8c082d690754c33000ac
title: Privatization of US schools
uri: Privatization-of-US-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_April_2016_%28Privatization_of_US_schools%29
content:
<p>
The real crisis in US education consists of setting up to blame public
schools for social conditions, as an excuse to privatize them, so
businesses can
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/30/education-crisis-and-threat-privatization">wolf
down public funds and cheat the students and the teachers</a>.
<p>
The article uses the word "monetize" to mean "profit from".  I shun
that usage and recommend that you
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Monetize">shun
it too</a>.


feed_id: 8b8b5307a676e1201d1bff71bbeb85e5
title: Gentrification
uri: 2016-04-09-Gentrification
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_April_2016_%28Gentrification%29
content:
<p>
Habitat for Humanity proposed to use Federal funds to improve housing
in Bedford-Stuyvesant for poor people.  But gentrifiers 
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-brooklyn-bedford-stuyvesant-poor-lose-homes">took
over the housing</a>.
<p>
What our expensive cities need now is not upgrades to housing.  They
need more places where poor people can afford to live — and that
calls for driving prices and rents down.


feed_id: 988290cbeef5d1a88903c80e11187e66
title: Growing divide between rich and poor
uri: Growing-divide-between-rich-and-poor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_April_2016_%28Growing_divide_between_rich_and_poor%29

content:
<p>
For Older Americans, 
<a href="http://www.futurity.org/economy-older-adults-1128552-2/">Divide
between Rich And Poor Gets Bigger</a>.


feed_id: 32730c2a4f3f6e5657498dddd84b83e1
title: Systematic tracking of mobile phones
uri: Systematic-tracking-of-mobile-phones
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_April_2016_%28Systematic_tracking_of_mobile_phones%29

content:
<p>
One secondary danger of the systematic tracking of mobile phones
is that crackers could 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/04/mobile-phone-users-movements-are-tracked-and-sold-for-profit">steal
the data and use them for criminal purposes</a>.
<p>
However, the worst danger from the data is that the state can get them
easily.  Many countries are using panic inspired by rare acts of
terrorism as an excuse to eliminate all protections.
<p>
Rather than offer users an opportunity to "opt out", the data should
not be collected at all except when the state gets a 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">specific
warrant to track a specific phone</a>.


feed_id: 1b894a7a5247a06d8cba1d7a953ea081
title: Tax havens
uri: 2016-04-09-Tax-havens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_April_2016_%28Tax_havens%29
content:
<p>
Tax havens that enable people and companies to dodge taxes, whether
legally or not, do 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/a-world-of-hidden-wealth-why-we-are-shining-a-light-offshore">great
harm</a>.
<p>
In Africa, the high rate of offshoring wealth 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-mar-jun.html#03%20April%202010%20(Poverty%20in%20Africa)">impoverishes
everyone</a>.
<p>
The claim that corporations' duty to shareholders takes priority over
all other responsibilities was
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#18_April_2012_(Shareholders)">imposed
by a systematic effort starting in the 1970s</a>.  We have no
obligation to grant it any legitimacy.


feed_id: 179c5fd8718461a011a8c2f7dc2c8708
title: Politicians using offshore tax havens
uri: Politicians-using-offshore-tax-havens
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_April_2016_%28Politicians_using_offshore_tax_havens%29

content:
<p>
Leaked documents papers from a company that arranges offshore tax
havens show that many people are hiding lots of wealth, including
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/the-panama-papers-how-the-worlds-rich-and-famous-hide-their-money-offshore">politicians
from many countries</a>.
<p>
One of them is the Prime Minister of Iceland, who 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/iceland-pm-calls-snap-election-offshore-revelations">probably
will face a new election as a result</a>.  The Pirate Party 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_March_2016_(The_Icelandic_Pirate_Party)">has
a chance</a> to form the next government.
<p>
The documents show Putin has enriched his friends and family by 2
billion dollars by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/panama-papers-money-hidden-offshore">making
the state give them preferences and financing</a>.  Alas for Russia,
it doesn't have the option to replace Putin democratically.


feed_id: e81ecd3d7657b063d3083c9972c92eb6
title: Mobile phone location tracking
uri: Mobile-phone-location-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Mobile_phone_location_tracking%29
content:
<p>
Special beacons will make it possible to track a mobile phone's
location to
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/guoguo-is-a-new-indoor-smart-phone-localization-acoustic-gps">within
10 cm</a>, inside buildings.
<p>
More reason to refuse to carry one.


feed_id: 6f3013b3cda9ce583aaa3868469b36a3
title: Urgent: Fetal tissue researchers
uri: Urgent-Fetal-tissue-researchers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Fetal_tissue_researchers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell Congress to
<a href="http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/150329_ppattacks/">stop
exposing fetal tissue researchers to threats from religious
fanatics</a>.  It is doing this with a gratuitous
harassment-investigation, as an extension of the gratuitous
harassment-investigation of Planned Parenthood.
<p>
Fetal tissue research is vital for advancing medicine, including
understanding the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_(Fetal_tissue_essential_for_Zika_research)">effects
of Zika on fetuses</a>.
<p>
Put it all together, and this harassment scheme aims at saddling as
many women as possible with brain-damaged babies.


feed_id: fd667bd1f01f49431df225ace45ccc7e
title: Urgent: Internet radio broadcasting
uri: Urgent-Internet-radio-broadcasting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Internet_radio_broadcasting%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://girl.software/LETTER">ask your congresscritter</a> to
support internet radio broadcasting and stop the RIAA from killing it
off.


feed_id: fd1ea4be82f70bbefd6b5e6d5333b781
title: "Confederate Heritage Month"
uri: Confederate-Heritage-Month
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Confederate_Heritage_Month%29
content:
<p>
The governor of Mississippi has proclaimed April "Confederate Heritage
Month",
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/03/mississippi-confederate-heritage-month-backlash-phil-bryant">showing
no recognition of the evil of slavery</a>, the perpetuation of which
was the purpose of the Confederacy.
<p>
I would encourage Bernie Sanders to propose a rally during this April
to recognize "Confederate Heritage Month" by denouncing all of its
evil forms: slavery, the KKK, lynching, the "Jim Crow" segregation
laws,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_August_2013_(Banksters_paid_a_pittance_over_the_homes_they_foreclosed_fraudulently)">the
great foreclosure fraud of a few years ago</a> (which
disproportionately affected blacks), the many killings of blacks by
thugs who hastily assumed they were criminals, and today's
voter-suppression laws.


feed_id: 0ade93a356247bcb8428cb6a9d12715e
title: British Museum's links with BP
uri: British-Museum-s-links-with-BP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28British_Museums_links_with_BP%29
content:
<p>
British Museum
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/03/british-museum-bp-sponsorship-hartwig-fischer-climate">Must
Sever Its Links With BP</a>.


feed_id: 1b27ac4f09e985712a4ce5ba76fe08e3
title: Destruction of forest in Poland
uri: Destruction-of-forest-in-Poland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Destruction_of_forest_in_Poland%29
content:
<p>
Will No One Stop Poland
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/03/poland-europe-bialowieza-forest-eu">Destroying
Europe's Most Precious Forest</a>?


feed_id: f46475c5ea988853b011306649d34529
title: MPAA opposes ban on revenge porn
uri: MPAA-opposes-ban-on-revenge-porn
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28MPAA_opposes_ban_on_revenge_porn%29

content:
<p>
The MPAA opposes a ban on revenge porn
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/mpaa-opposes-proposed-minnesota-revenge-porn-law-says-it-limits-speech/">in
the name of freedom of speech</a>.


feed_id: 4b649526d67e6b49abc31738e98abf91
title: Worst contract for most NHS doctors
uri: Worst-contract-for-most-NHS-doctors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Worst_contract_for_most_NHS_doctors%29

content:
<p>
The worse contract for most NHS doctors is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/03/david-cameron-women-junior-doctors-contract">especially
hard for women</a> and is likely to drive them out of medicine.


feed_id: c98cb252a530c0f3b169961fbdf03df0
title: Banning people with fervent Abrahamic views
uri: Banning-people-with-fervent-Abrahamic-views
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Banning_people_with_fervent_Abrahamic_views%29

content:
<p>
Trump probably won't be elected president, but he has
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/30/majority-of-americans-now-support-trumps-proposed-muslim-ban-poll-shows/">convinced
most Americans to ban Muslims from visiting the US</a>.
<p>
In principle, it would make sense to exclude people with fervent
Muslim or Christian or Orthodox Jewish views, since they are
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_(Access_to_abortion_drugs_obstructed)">likely
to promote repressive policies towards women</a> if they become
powerful enough here.  However, it is too late, since there are so
many of those people (especially Christians) in the US already.  It
would have been necessary to enact the policy around 1615.


feed_id: f8604d465b89f0f8ed4f95a908935b7e
title: Fines keeping poor kids out of library
uri: Fines-keeping-poor-kids-out-of-library
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Fines_keeping_poor_kids_out_of_library%29

content:
<p>
Poor children in San Jose, who are a large fraction of the city, say,
"My mom wonât let me get a [library] card because she
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/us/in-san-jose-poor-find-doors-to-library-closed.html">doesn’t
want fines</a>."
<p>
I wonder why they so often return books late.  I suspect that children
in poverty face simple practical obstacles to returning books on time,
and I wonder if there are practical solutions.  For instance, could a
system for them to return library books through their school help?


feed_id: de597bbe9f1578eef4b9ea27c62a5007
title: Fabricated article in Hello magazine
uri: Fabricated-article-in-Hello-magazine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Fabricated_article_in_Hello_magazine%29

content:
<p>
Hello magazine admitted its "exclusive interview with George Clooney"
was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/01/george-clooney-hello-completely-fabricated-their-exclusive-interview-with-me">completely
fabricated</a>.
<p>
The magazine says it did not know the article was fabricated, but will
someone be held accountable enough to make sure it doesn't happen
again?


feed_id: 381bc54a811a38a8e0edcf807ec7a492
title: Coal companies' pollution and waste
uri: Coal-companies-pollution-and-waste
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Coal_companies_pollution_and_waste%29

content:
<p>
Coal companies
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/01/coal-crashing-will-polluted-communities-be-left-holding-bag">will
evade the obligation to clean up</a> their polluted strip mines and
mine waste by going bankrupt.


feed_id: a3847f7aab1997acdc7bd300cb46ce50
title: Access to abortion drugs obstructed
uri: Access-to-abortion-drugs-obstructed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Access_to_abortion_drugs_obstructed%29

content:
<p>
Arizona has
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/04/01/arizona-governor-signs-bill-restricting-access-medication-abortion">passed
a law</a> to obstruct access to abortion drugs.


feed_id: b250055d3d3edb38b276a6152fabaca6
title: Knee-jerk reactions
uri: Knee-jerk-reactions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Knee-jerk_reactions%29
content:
<p>
Knee-jerk reactions to a shocking event
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/brussels-terror-attacks-surveillance-isnt-the-answer/">tend
to be bad ones</a>.  The biggest danger to Europe from terrorists is
in the foolish attacks on freedom in Europe that are now threatening.


feed_id: ec09138e775ce9a0dffd0bb273870950
title: A push to make DMCA nastier
uri: A-push-to-make-DMCA-nastier
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28A_push_to_make_DMCA_nastier%29
content:
<p>
The big record companies, through their tentacle the RIAA, are
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/music-industry-u-s-copyright-law-is-obsolete-and-harmful-160401/">pushing
to make the DMCA even nastier</a>.
<p>
Americans have not fought hard enough to demand repeal of the DMCA.


feed_id: 876c0509f0e49344389cd3e7f25bcf84
title: Mass surveillance in retail stores
uri: Mass-surveillance-in-retail-stores
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Mass_surveillance_in_retail_stores%29

content:
<p>
Many physical retail stores have stopped ordering products for
ordinary sale.  Instead, they tell customers to order the product on
the internet, then
<a href="http://twocents.lifehacker.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-retailers-that-offer-free-in-stor-1693681553">show
a government photo ID to pick up the product</a>.
<p>
This is a massive surveillance system.  I won't use it, and I hope you
will reject it too.  Don't reward or encourage surveillance!
<p>
When I buy things, I absolutely refuse to give any personal
information.  The store has a right to my payment.  If the store
demands more, I say "no sale".


feed_id: d285d187b52f82e2390df43f0c3cc171
title: Brazilians rally to defend against coup
uri: Brazilians-rally-to-defend-against-coup
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Brazilians_rally_to_defend_against_coup%29

content:
<p>
"We won't accept a coup": Brazilians
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/03/brazil-beleaguered-rousseff-anthems-protests-fill-streets-impeachment">rally
to defend president Rousseff</a> even though they were not her
supporters.


feed_id: 3f7a515577389c5bb886a100af273791
title: Control over a cultural practice
uri: Control-over-a-cultural-practice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Control_over_a_cultural_practice%29

content:
<p>
Indigenous people do not have a right to demand "return" of everything
that they gave or sold to Europeans, nor a right to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/03/returning-indigenous-artefacts-serves-no-one-british-museum-aboriginal-bark-emu">control
all the ideas of their culture</a>.
<p>
No one has a right to a monopoly over a cultural practice.  An
Australian indigene has no more right to enforce ownership over a
style of artifacts, or all its examples, than an American has the
right to enforce ownership over jazz, rock or rap.  And people have
the right to make <em>fusions</em> of these with other styles, too.
<p>
If you don't like those fusions, don't watch or listen to them.


feed_id: f3e21e810c96afd98cc3a2cb8fb3de46
title: Australian government spending and taxes
uri: Australian-government-spending-and-taxes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Australian_government_spending_and_taxes%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government found a cute way to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/03/malcolm-turnbulls-tax-tactics-an-attempt-to-shift-not-end-the-blame-game">shift
the blame for insufficient spending and taxes onto the states</a>
— so taxes won't be raised, and hospitals and schools will
continue to run short.


feed_id: 9da4ab5dc64828fff99c2340ca210831
title: UK's contempt for disabled shown in art
uri: UK-s-contempt-for-disabled-shown-in-art
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28UKs_contempt_for_disabled_shown_in_art%29

content:
<p>
Disabled artists in the UK use their art to show
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/03/disabled-artists-use-skills-to-highlight-shoddy-treatment-over-benefits">what
the state's contempt for the disabled means</a>.


feed_id: 783c31bd68c415a17c5084de252b9adc
title: Young Turkish Kurds joining PKK
uri: Young-Turkish-Kurds-joining-PKK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Young_Turkish_Kurds_joining_PKK%29
content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an's war of choice is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/03/diyarbakir-kurdish-teenagers-dream-of-becoming-guerrillas">leading
many young Turkish Kurds to join the armed PKK</a>.
<p>
The PKK had had a cease-fire with the Turkish state for any years
until Erdo&gbreve;an broke it.  If he had respected it, those youth
would be campaigning for the human rights party HDK instead of
planning to fight.  Poor Kurds, poor Turks, as long as Erdo&gbreve;an
oppresses them both.
<p>
But that's fascism for you: scapegoat a minority, whip up hatred for
it among the majority, and get its support to impose tyranny on all.


feed_id: bb5ddf362d77cde3106751b1fdd89a12
title: Trump on abortion
uri: Trump-on-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Trump_on_abortion%29
content:
<p>
"Donald Trump's disastrous comments on abortion show that the best way
to undermine irrational politicians is to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/03/donald-trump-abortion-no-platforming-free-speech">give
them a platform to speak</a>."


feed_id: f02b7f9b83fd4683160746aaee11c5ba
title: Patriarchal demand for women to be "modest"
uri: Patriarchal-demand-for-women-to-be-modest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Patriarchal_demand_for_women_to_be_modest%29

content:
<p>
"Modest" fashion, designed to suit
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/03/burkini-islam-fashion-marks-and-spencer">dress
codes imposed on women by male clerics</a>, teaches us about the
patriarchal demand for women to be "modest".


feed_id: 4e19c9d5eafa49ae982c6fdb73f8ef8f
title: Al Qa'ida, PISSI and Netanyahu
uri: Al-Qa-ida-PISSI-and-Netanyahu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#09_April_2016_%28Al_Qaida%2C_PISSI_and_Netanyahu%29
content:
<p>
Al Qa'ida, PISSI and Netanyahu
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/04/02/netanyahu-uses-same-fill-in-the-blanks-response-to-criticism-as-isis-and-al-qaeda/">all
say, "Never mind what we do to people we hate."</a>


feed_id: 7d9cdd07699475e0d9f5c4bd0e01077e
title: Urgent: Thank state attorneys general
uri: Urgent-Thank-state-attorneys-general
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_state_attorneys_general%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: Thank state attorneys general for 
<a href="https://act.climatetruth.org/sign/thank_AGs_investigating_Exxon/">investigating
Exxon's global heating fraud</a>.


feed_id: 025d5897be76729331916e36e069b059
title: Urgent: Fire thugs involved in killing
uri: Urgent-Fire-thugs-involved-in-killing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Fire_thugs_involved_in_killing%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-mayor-de-blasio-fire-officer-richard-haste/">call
on New York Mayor de Blasio</a> to fire all the thugs involved in
killing Ramarley Graham.


feed_id: 664c485e0e6ce2703ba22eaad0230922
title: Urgent: Veto guns-on-campus bill
uri: Urgent-Veto-guns-on-campus-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Veto_guns-on-campus_bill%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.everytown.org/letter/GA-rejection-letter/">call on
the Georgia governor</a> to veto the guns-on-campus bill.


feed_id: ad1dc2671aef71df82e1b6974732c77c
title: Murder witness in Honduras
uri: Murder-witness-in-Honduras
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Murder_witness_in_Honduras%29
content:
<p>
Honduras has decided to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/04/01/travel-ban-gustavo-castro-soto-lifted">allow
Gustavo Castro Soto, witness to the murder of Berta Cáceres, to
leave the country</a>.
<p>
As long as he remains in Honduras, the murderers will have easy access
to kill him too.


feed_id: 1267f590f9650e6ba6a5bbbf2d733e22
title: EPA raises allowed level of cadmium
uri: EPA-raises-allowed-level-of-cadmium
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28EPA_raises_allowed_level_of_cadmium%29

content:
<p>
The EPA raised the allowed level of cadmium in waters, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/04/01/epa-approves-dangerous-water-quality-standard-cadmium">ignoring
its duty</a> to consult about the danger to wildlife.


feed_id: 652adf7e1c82f65776199185cc7863f6
title: Ohio to bail out dangerous power plants
uri: Ohio-to-bail-out-dangerous-power-plants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Ohio_to_bail_out_dangerous_power_plants%29

content:
<p>
Ohio 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/04/01/ohio-forces-customers-bail-out-aging-coal-plants">plans
to make electric customers bail out</a> old and dangerous power
plants.


feed_id: 0acec688a8effe955db67dae80417420
title: Chicago teachers and workers strike
uri: Chicago-teachers-and-workers-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Chicago_teachers_and_workers_strike%29

content:
<p>
Chicago Teachers, Workers Come Together for 'Unprecedented' 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/01/chicago-teachers-workers-come-together-unprecedented-strike-public-funding">Strike
for Public Funding</a>.


feed_id: 0ec0c9e573b16cb612b4f79ecca13e77
title: Wife treated as domestic slave
uri: Wife-treated-as-domestic-slave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Wife_treated_as_domestic_slave%29
content:
<p>
A Briton was convicted of the crime of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/01/man-made-wife-live-like-slave-domestic-servitude-faces-jail">treating
his wife (who arrived from Pakistan) as a domestic slave</a>.
<p>
The Muslim religion and the culture that goes with it is partly
responsible for this crime, because it is pervaded by that attitude
towards women.  Not all Muslim men act this way, but when you teach
men to despise women, some will follow their teaching.


feed_id: 925a0deca8080280e8366bce0888e071
title: Deportation for criticism of policies
uri: Deportation-for-criticism-of-policies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Deportation_for_criticism_of_policies%29

content:
<p>
The Indonesian government 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/01/indonesian-government-threatens-to-deport-leonardo-dicaprio-palm-oil-industry-criticism">spoke
of deporting Leonardo DiCaprio because he criticized</a> the policies
that encourage massive deforestation.
<p>
To consider deporting someone for that reason is disrespect for human
rights.  Indonesia deserves better government than that.


feed_id: b00fefad4b8d8c37cd2c4d24286b151e
title: Domestic violence in Papua New Guinea
uri: Domestic-violence-in-Papua-New-Guinea
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Domestic_violence_in_Papua_New_Guinea%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/dec/16/women-domestic-violence-abuse-papua-new-guinea">Most
women in Papua New Guinea suffer</a> from domestic violence, and most
men participate in gang rapes.  Women are fairly often burned for
"witchcraft".


feed_id: 9e186b6340f9c694ac5137501c288f43
title: NY Times obeys Israeli demand
uri: NY-Times-obeys-Israeli-demand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28NY_Times_obeys_Israeli_demand%29
content:
<p>
The New York Times obeyed an Israeli demand 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/30/complying-with-israeli-censorship-order-nyt-conceals-name-of-soldier-who-shot-wounded-palestinian/">not
to mention the name of the soldier that murdered a Palestinian in cold
blood</a>.
<p>
The other soldiers and medics who saw the murder did not react at all,
suggesting that they were accustomed to witnessing such murders.


feed_id: 3c3c4593e26611515e9b8558f082bc30
title: Censorship imposed on college courses
uri: Censorship-imposed-on-college-courses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Censorship_imposed_on_college_courses%29

content:
<p>
The American Association of University Professors accuses a branch of
the US government of imposing far-reaching censorship on college
courses, based on 
<a href="media/61df1ed9.TitleIX-Report.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.aaup.org/file/TitleIX-Report.pdf">equating
uncomfortable subject matter with harassment</a>.
<p>
In effect, the Department of Education has set up an unofficial system
for censorship, bypassing actual courts, and trying to pretend it
doesn't punish universities while in fact threatening to cut off their
funding if they don't comply.


feed_id: 8a57628dcfca962db92bbfee7a4521b9
title: Laws to boycott companies that boycott Israel
uri: Laws-to-boycott-companies-that-boycott-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Laws_to_boycott_companies_that_boycott_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Some US states have 
<a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1327-u-s-states-academies-crackdown-on-bds">laws
to boycott companies that boycott Israel</a>, or even decide not to
have subsidiaries in Israel.
<p>
When Massachusetts adopted a boycott of companies that did business in
Burma, the US government decided that state purchasing boycotts were
prohibited by the WTO.  I wonder if that will be enforced in this
issue too.  However, I think that states should have the right to
boycott for any criteria.


feed_id: 3bb73c279f39ae97de4222b7b30a14fa
title: Wisconsin's voter-ID law
uri: 2016-04-09-Wisconsin-s-voter-ID-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Wisconsins_voter-ID_law%29
content:
<p>
Wisconsin's voter-ID law 
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-voter-id-law-education-campaign-state-hasnt-funded">called
for a public education campaign so that voters would know how to
comply</a>.  But the Republican legislature disregarded that and never
appropriated funds for it.
<p>
No surprise.  After all, the real purposes of these bills is precisely
to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#21%20May%202011%20(Voter%20Suppression%20Bills)">bar
poor, old, minority and student voters from voting</a>.


feed_id: a31c0c47fb4cd91e6ee7f23215826e33
title: Surveillance and self-censorship
uri: Surveillance-and-self-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Surveillance_and_self-censorship%29
content:
<p>
Awareness of general surveillance 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/28/mass-surveillance-silences-minority-opinions-according-to-study/">leads
people to self-censor their dissenting opinions</a>.


feed_id: 2cae9f3ecd8aef4a1b71258ffab0d364
title: Bernie Sanders
uri: 2016-04-09-Bernie-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Bernie_Sanders%29
content:
<p>
We must seize the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/29/wary-clinton-sarandon-and-silverman-make-case-once-lifetime-sanders-campaign">once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity of Bernie Sanders</a>.  Being cautious will at best
continue the status quo, whose nature is to keep getting worse.


feed_id: 6789d2a7d06b7d1628e357d113ccc043
title: Murder of civilian prisoners in Mexico
uri: Murder-of-civilian-prisoners-in-Mexico
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Murder_of_civilian_prisoners_in_Mexico%29

content:
<p>
The Mexican state couldn't bear the scandal of trying soldiers who
murdered civilian prisoners, so it has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/mexico-soldiers-acquitted-killing-22-people-tlatlaya">stopped
releasing information about such cases</a>.


feed_id: bf1441dcebc23fe0fd602f7d32fe4a78
title: Paid family leave
uri: Paid-family-leave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Paid_family_leave%29
content:
<p>
New York State has given employees paid family leave, but this is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/01/new-york-paid-family-leave-minimum-wage-raise">paid
for by the same employees while they are working</a>.
<p>
It would have been a mistake to make employers pay for this leave for
their employees.  That would have discouraged hiring workers.
<p>
But it is also a mistake to make the employees pay.  That turns it
into a forced savings plan that will be useless to those that don't
have children and don't take time off work to care for parents.
<p>
The right way to fund such programs is by taxing the rich, and
companies in ways that have nothing to do with how many people they
employ.


feed_id: 3f109779194fc7f9e343a55641e73d7f
title: Protesters block road to Trump rally
uri: Protesters-block-road-to-Trump-rally
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Protesters_block_road_to_Trump_rally%29

content:
<p>
Protesters 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35421-when-working-class-white-people-close-the-road-to-trump">chained
themselves to cars</a> to block the road to a Trump rally.


feed_id: 92da99ac1f3987a4f95ffe6d140582e3
title: Arsenic in Texas border towns
uri: Arsenic-in-Texas-border-towns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Arsenic_in_Texas_border_towns%29
content:
<p>
Some towns near the border of Texas supply water with so much arsenic
that it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/02/texas-water-quality-arsenic-levels">isn't
safe to drink</a>.
<p>
This is a extreme case of a general problem in the US: too little
money for infrastructure.  The cause is the success of businesses and
the rich in reducing their tax rate, starting under Reagan.


feed_id: fe558bcc3a3c6c5fb55454d5bb84c4f8
title: Pollution from Trump's golf course
uri: Pollution-from-Trump-s-golf-course
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28Pollution_from_Trumps_golf_course%29

content:
<p>
Pollution Is Now Coming from Donald Trump's 
<a href="http://grist.org/politics/pollution-is-now-coming-from-donald-trumps-golf-course-in-addition-to-his-mouth/">Golf
Course</a>, in Addition to His Mouth.


feed_id: 07c0d8adafcf41f1fe23004f22517879
title: South African president's corruption
uri: South-African-president-s-corruption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_April_2016_%28South_African_presidents_corruption%29

content:
<p>
South African president Jacob Zuma faces calls to resign for his
corruption, including from one of the heroes of the African National
Congress.


feed_id: c0cf4c65bc0e3439af5d7472edb25bcd
title: Report of mass grave in Palmyra
uri: Report-of-mass-grave-in-Palmyra
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#7_April_2016_%28Report_of_mass_grave_in_Palmyra%29
content:
<p>
Assad's forces 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/02/syrian-troops-discover-mass-grave-in-palmyra">report
finding a mass grave in Palmyra</a> containing 42 corpses, over half
of them civilians and including three children.
<p>
One can't entirely trust Assad's forces, but this is a plausible
claim.  Gratuitous cruelty and violence are part of PISSI's ideology
and recruiting method.


feed_id: f9cfb5c1bb7fb9fcde85c8a9ab44a7ad
title: Bringing children into the world
uri: Bringing-children-into-the-world
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#6_April_2016_%28Bringing_children_into_the_world%29
content:
<p>
A fool notices that bringing children into the world facing disaster
is not a wise choice, then 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/02/does-climate-change-make-it-immoral-to-have-kids">convinces
himself that it couldn't be wrong because it feels so good</a>.
<p>
You don't have to be foolish like that.
<p>
The idea of a "biological imperative" that constitutes a reason why
you should reproduce is nonsense.  There is a biological
<em>tendency</em> to reproduce, which exists for well-known
evolutionary reasons, but a tendency to do something is not a reason
to do it.  I have a tendency to mislay things and forget where I put
them, but that is no reason why I ought to forget.
<p>
Anything that makes you focus most of your attention on the well-being
of one specific other person — which is almost guaranteed to
call for more money than you can gain honestly — is a road to
cheating or abusing people.  It is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">wiser not to set
foot on that path</a>!


feed_id: 5b3cc9100a6691736577dd8fb37620fa
title: Syrian refugees
uri: 2016-04-09-Syrian-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#6_April_2016_%28Syrian_refugees%29
content:
<p>
The EU-Turkey deal to return Syrian refugees to Turkey without
considering their applications for asylum 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/02/eu-turkey-refugee-plan-could-be-illegal-says-un-official">might
violate treaties about refugees</a>.


feed_id: 482835983b934a8ee691923303a0e182
title: Genital mutilation
uri: 2016-04-09-Genital-mutilation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#6_April_2016_%28Genital_mutilation%29
content:
<p>
Hibo Wardere describes the suffering that genital mutilation caused
her, and continues to cause her now that she is an adult.  She now
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/02/from-fgm-victim-to-teacher-you-are-always-running-from-it-but-you-get-tired-you-have-to-confront-it">dedicates
herself to putting an end to the practice</a>.


feed_id: 3ddc70b6b1c623338c445f8478d8cfe0
title: Sexual abuse accusations
uri: Sexual-abuse-accusations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#6_April_2016_%28Sexual_abuse_accusations%29
content:
<p>
Those accused of sexual abuse, but never tried, have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/02/i-want-to-be-a-voice-for-the-voiceless-says-helen-house-nun-left-in-limbo-over-sex-abuse-allegations">no
way to clear their names</a>.  They are treated in many ways as
guilty.


feed_id: 07a4b7c387470952dd0acab0a6d61d02
title: Self-induced abortions in Texas
uri: Self-induced-abortions-in-Texas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#6_April_2016_%28Self-induced_abortions_in_Texas%29
content:
<p>
In Texas, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/17/texas-women-self-induced-abortions-study">at
least 100,000 women have tried</a> to give themselves abortions due to
the law denying them access to safe abortions.


feed_id: c957b2889b54b64f31ebace23bdd03be
title: Indonesia's forests at risk
uri: Indonesia-s-forests-at-risk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#6_April_2016_%28Indonesias_forests_at_risk%29
content:
<p>
Greenpeace Reveals Indonesia's Forests at Risk as 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/apr/02/greenpeace-palm-oil-logging-indonesia-overlapping-land-claims-greenpeace-forest-fires">Multiple
Companies Claim Rights to Same Land</a>.


feed_id: 634617702f601a986bef35cfad235e4d
title: A good reason for UK to leave EU
uri: A-good-reason-for-UK-to-leave-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#6_April_2016_%28A_good_reason_for_UK_to_leave_EU%29
content:
<p>
Finally, a good reason why the UK should leave the EU: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/02/imf-officials-concerned-brexit-vote-will-put-greek-bailout-at-risk-says-wikileaks">to
thwart the IMF's continuing attack on poor Greeks</a>.


feed_id: f9949f5b34028994e6d42c51d28dc48d
title: Amerindians protest oil pipeline
uri: Amerindians-protest-oil-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#6_April_2016_%28Amerindians_protest_oil_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
Amerindians are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/01/native-american-north-dakota-oil-pipeline-protest">protesting
an oil pipeline that could pollute their drinking water</a>: the
Missouri river.


feed_id: 2c02c65bd2411bb5074ef1685ac770cd
title: Whistleblowers and exile
uri: Whistleblowers-and-exile
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#6_April_2016_%28Whistleblowers_and_exile%29
content:
<p>
Snowden urges future whistleblowers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/01/edward-snowden-whistleblower-russia-exile">not
to regard exile as defeat or disaster</a>.  He says he can campaign
more effectively for freedom from exile than he could have done in the
US.


feed_id: a81c45c24693ecd81b1e387bc42cc6ea
title: "European values"
uri: European-values
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#6_April_2016_%28European_values%29
content:
<p>
Belgium plans to require immigrants and long term visitors to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/01/belgium-to-require-immigrants-to-sign-up-to-european-values">sign
a statement in favor of "European values" and promising to report
plans of terrorism</a>.
<p>
I think this is basically legitimate, but "European values" is too
vague.
<p>
It is self-contradictory to claim (1) that one can take this for
granted so there's no need to raise the issue and (2) it would drive
some immigrants away.
<p>
I think most immigrants will agree with it and sign it, and it will
lead them to reflect on the values they are agreeing to.


feed_id: e80590b13ff3ef87446242d5f9bd75e5
title: Jewish religious fanaticism
uri: Jewish-religious-fanaticism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#6_April_2016_%28Jewish_religious_fanaticism%29
content:
<p>
El Al staff 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/01/renee-rabinowitz-sue-israeli-airline-el-al-orthodox-gender-discrimination">told
a female passenger to change seats</a> because her neighbor, a Jewish
religious fanatic, said that a woman near him was against his
religion.
<p>
This sort of thing has happened on El Al many times before, but now
the defenders of equal rights for women have a good case to fight.
The woman in question was an 81-year-old widow, making the supposed
danger of her attractiveness absurd.
<p>
However, even if she had been a beautiful 21-year-old wearing
something skimpy, that would not give another passenger the right to
demand that she move.  There is nothing wrong about being 21 and
beautiful, and wearing revealing clothing is not an aggression against
anyone.
<p>
If the man had been less arrogant, if his goal had been to follow his
beliefs rather than to subjugate women in general, he might have
looked for someone who would switch seats with him.
<p>
The ultra-orthodox continue looking for ways to oppress women in
Israel, and I fear that as their numbers grow they will eventually
win.  At that point, non-orthodox Jews will face oppression in Israel
and will need to seek a homeland somewhere else.


feed_id: 1f51d61eb9619d663ed10db721a18392
title: Journalist Ben Makuch
uri: Journalist-Ben-Makuch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Journalist_Ben_Makuch%29
content:
<p>
Canadian journalist Ben Makuch says he
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/apr/01/canadian-journalist-ordered-to-reveal-isis-text-messages-to-police">will
go to prison rather than reveal the messages he exchanged with a
source</a> who is now in Syria fighting PISSI.


feed_id: 1479e0517d321a3b5359a8ad219c7b6e
title: The sinking ship of Europe
uri: The-sinking-ship-of-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28The_sinking_ship_of_Europe%29
content:
<p>
Piketty and Varoufakis explain what it takes to save the sinking ship
of Europe, but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/01/chronicles-thomas-piketty-weak-suffer-yanis-varoufakis-review">the
elites are getting into the lifeboats already</a>.


feed_id: 383eb7b4fae4f762d14b9db7d8a34a1a
title: Banks lying about rule change
uri: Banks-lying-about-rule-change
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Banks_lying_about_rule_change%29
content:
<p>
Elizabeth Warren Warns Banks Are
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/03/31/3765249/warren-banks-fiduciary-standard/">Lying
About Upcoming Rule Change</a>, Potentially Breaking The Law.


feed_id: 79c064b501ad2d1ca39fc2adc5e8da2b
title: Erdo&gbreve;an's visit to the US
uri: Erdo-gbreve-an-s-visit-to-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Erdogans_visit_to_the_US%29
content:
<p>
During Erdo&gbreve;an's visit to the US, his bodyguards
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/31/turkish-president-erdogan-washington-dc-brookings">attacked
Turkish journalists</a> as they tried to enter the hall in Washington
where he was going to speak.
<p>
They also threatened to kill one of the journalists.
<p>
It looks like Erdo&gbreve;an and Putin are Trump's role models.


feed_id: ceee93638b4137c477e2256a86d5a4dc
title: Another FBI order to crack iPhones
uri: Another-FBI-order-to-crack-iPhones
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Another_FBI_order_to_crack_iPhones%29

content:
<p>
The FBI has replaced the publicly visible order for Apple to crack
security on an iPhone with another case, which is
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-gang-case-in-boston-is-looking-like-apples-next-big-encryption-battle">being
argued in secret</a>.  The FBI is trying to sneak this past the
American people.
<p>
In this case, the targets of prosecution are gang members, not
terrorists.  In other words, this is part of the cruel and foolish
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#11%20September%202010%20(Bad%20decisions%20lead%20to%20catastrophes)">"War
on Drugs"</a>.
<p>
This should teach people to stop thinking of the FBI's demands as an
"anti-terrorism" measure.  It's an
"anti-anyone-accused-or-suspected-of-anything" measure — exactly
what our constitution is supposed to put limits on, for our freedom's
sake.
<p>
The ACLU defends our constitutional rights.
I'm an ACLU member.  How about joining?


feed_id: dccacbcea2a05ca79c46a3d7ca9d02c8
title: Scorn directed at raped women
uri: Scorn-directed-at-raped-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Scorn_directed_at_raped_women%29
content:
<p>
The scorn directed from all quarters at women who have been raped
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/31/what-makes-women-deny-rape-jessica-knoll-essay">pressures
many of them to deny that it happened</a>.
<p>
Why is it worse to be raped than to be stabbed?  As a physical injury,
the stabbing is worse; but there is no general pattern of scorning
people for being stabbed.
<p>
In a healthy society, the word "slut" would be incomprehensible.


feed_id: e8c072b6aeea4a767832a9973d35a139
title: Memorial for Hanne Lovlie
uri: Memorial-for-Hanne-Lovlie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Memorial_for_Hanne_Lovlie%29
content:
<p>
When a right-wing terrorist killed Hanne Lovlie, her family decided to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/apr/01/we-must-commemorate-the-victims-of-terrorism-with-love-and-hope">help
victims of violence</a> as her memorial.


feed_id: 03f90cbe93fc8679c3051e9bb7112f64
title: UK wants people's passwords
uri: UK-wants-people-s-passwords
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28UK_wants_peoples_passwords%29
content:
<p>
The UK is trying to set a precedent of requiring people to turn over
passwords to them, using someone accused of cracking US computers as a
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/04/01/british-authorities-demand-encryption-keys-in-closely-watched-case/">convenient
example</a>.  It is keeping the trial secret so Britons won't notice
their rights are being threatened.


feed_id: 8c6f19555016c1b1b2de24bba4405585
title: Fossil fuel money taken by Clinton
uri: Fossil-fuel-money-taken-by-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Fossil_fuel_money_taken_by_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
Clinton
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/04/01/bernie-sanders-took-money-from-the-fossil-fuel-lobby-too-just-not-much/">claims
she doesn't take money from fossil fuel companies</a>.  But she has
accepted over a million from their lobbyists.
<p>
Greenpeace organizer Eva Resnick-Day describes
<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/meet-the-climate-activist-who-made-hillary-clinton-mad/">how
she confronted Clinton about this</a>.


feed_id: 2dee1da7638814ea01842776e6740667
title: Military stocks of enriched uranium
uri: Military-stocks-of-enriched-uranium
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Military_stocks_of_enriched_uranium%29

content:
<p>
Obama has worked to improve security for the world's civilian stores
of highly enriched uranium, but has
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/04/01/obamas-nuclear-security-summit-overlooks-98-percent-of-the-worlds-bomb-ready-uranium/">neglected
the far larger military stocks</a>.


feed_id: 05211fb6ce4ccc4f5cb90e14449c27c8
title: Urgent: Democracy Awakening rally
uri: Urgent-Democracy-Awakening-rally
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Democracy_Awakening_rally%29

content:
<p>
In the US: participate in the 
<a href="http://www.democracyawakening.org/">Democracy Awakening
rally</a> in Washington on April 17.


feed_id: fa42a15b006f52b5bd8f00ec930cc1e9
title: Urgent: Quebec's old-growth forests
uri: Urgent-Quebec-s-old-growth-forests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Quebecs_old-growth_forests%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3989">call
on Quebec</a> not to destroy the old-growth forests around the
Broadback River.
<p>
The immediate proposal is to build roads, but companies would use them
to cut down as many trees as they can sneakily get away with.


feed_id: 1943ae8e63c071dd23786204d7529734
title: Urgent: Audit the Pentagon
uri: Urgent-Audit-the-Pentagon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Audit_the_Pentagon%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Pentagon_Audit">call on your
congresscritter</a> to support the bill to audit the Pentagon.


feed_id: 715a8296237ff247bb6b976947974498
title: Urgent: No US fighter jets for Qatar
uri: Urgent-No-US-fighter-jets-for-Qatar
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_No_US_fighter_jets_for_Qatar%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-73-f-15e-fighter">call
on Obama and Congress</a> not to sell fighter jets to Qatar until it
stops funding al-Nusra (the Syrian branch of al Qa'ida).


feed_id: 625a0c7eb400bda6ebe0c59906d91747
title: Syrian refugees in Turkey
uri: Syrian-refugees-in-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Syrian_refugees_in_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
Turkish border guards are accused of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/01/turkey-safe-haven-refugees-shoots-border-illegal-deportations-syrians">shooting
Syrian refugees at the border</a>.
<p>
This is part of a general pattern: it isn't entirely safe to be a
Syrian refugee in Turkey.
<p>
A peace agreement in Syria could enable many of the refugees to go
home.  That should be the goal.


feed_id: 92e69398dd01be14d6a2d20a20939f5f
title: Russia's bombing in Damascus
uri: Russia-s-bombing-in-Damascus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Russias_bombing_in_Damascus%29
content:
<p>
France 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/01/france-accuses-syrian-government-of-violating-ceasefire-damascus-airstrikes">accuses
Russia of bombing civilians</a> in Damascus for purposes of terrorism.


feed_id: 293d079ba611c776f13da82cc8843cc1
title: Arab countries' cooperation with Israel
uri: Arab-countries-cooperation-with-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Arab_countries_cooperation_with_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Many Arab countries 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1459518244/">quietly
cooperate with Israel</a>.  If Israel only were willing to end its
occupation of Palestine, those countries would become its eager
friends.
<p>
Most of them are eager friends with US money, and as a patriotic
American I find the friendship of such tyrants rather embarrassing.
But Israel has less world influence than the US and perhaps shouldn't
be asked to reject possible friends on such grounds.  If Israel simply
pulled back its colonists and ended the occupation, I would have no
criticism of its foreign policies.
<p>
There remains, however, the issue of democracy.  Israel is considering
a law that would allow it to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/01/silencing-arab-members-parliament-israel-democracy-knesset">expel
all the Arab members of parliament</a>.


feed_id: fa25632bae2f84545e0fe70004c5b610
title: Middle-class feminism
uri: Middle-class-feminism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Middle-class_feminism%29
content:
<p>
Middle-Class Feminism Has a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/01/middle-class-feminism-female-cleaners-domestic-low-paid">Blind
Spot over Female Cleaners</a>.
<p>
The many articles about the "glass ceiling" for female executives
strike me as a distraction from the main issue.


feed_id: 741f196eb0138ea35b01128c0376aec8
title: Doctors and teachers in the UK
uri: Doctors-and-teachers-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Doctors_and_teachers_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Doctors and teachers in the UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/01/teachers-doctors-invoke-spirit-1919-strike-in-unison">should
go on strike together</a>.


feed_id: 98040777054dfac062f08c0e57fb4918
title: Gouging in US health care
uri: Gouging-in-US-health-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Gouging_in_US_health_care%29
content:
<p>
Gouging in US health care shows 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/more-47000-emergency-transport-hospital-health-care">why
we need a single universal health care payment system</a>.


feed_id: dcbc62cad50d0e5d7f25e006af0f9cc7
title: Cruel superstition in Nepal and India
uri: Cruel-superstition-in-Nepal-and-India
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Cruel_superstition_in_Nepal_and_India%29

content:
<p>
Women in parts of Nepal and India are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/apr/01/nepal-bleeding-shame-menstruating-women-banished-cattle-sheds">treated
as disgusting when they are menstruating</a>.
<p>
How cruel superstition is.


feed_id: b778b27a5a928e69f69dae7c381ac06e
title: Fetal tissue essential for Zika research
uri: Fetal-tissue-essential-for-Zika-research
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Fetal_tissue_essential_for_Zika_research%29

content:
<p>
Use of tissues from aborted fetuses is 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/31/3765233/fetal-tissue-zika-study/">essential
for research on Zika</a>.


feed_id: 85b055d5c2bae172486ede70b46c2c5a
title: The right not to testify against oneself
uri: The-right-not-to-testify-against-oneself
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28The_right_not_to_testify_against_oneself%29

content:
<p>
Step by step, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/01/man-charged-with-refusing-to-answer-questions-over-curtis-cheng">Australia
abolishes the right</a> not to testify against oneself.


feed_id: f590552204b12d27e7ecf3d27caa52e9
title: Kidnapings in 1970s North Korea
uri: Kidnapings-in-1970s-North-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Kidnapings_in_1970s_North_Korea%29
content:
<p>
North Korea kidnaped people from various countries in the 1970s 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/01/north-korea-abduction-robert-boynton-invitation-only-zone-book">to
force them to train spies</a>.
<p>
The Japanese ruling party calls itself the "Liberal Democratic Party"
but it is really a conservative party.


feed_id: 8cc13bba5fc585a507654866ae3d9372
title: Repression in China
uri: Repression-in-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Repression_in_China%29
content:
<p>
Xi Jinping's grab for total power over China is compelling him to
develop an Erdo&gbreve;an-like sensitivity to criticism, which he implements
with Erdo&gbreve;an-like 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/01/not-fit-to-lead-letter-attacking-xi-jinping-sparks-panic-in-beijing">overt
repression</a>.


feed_id: 20c493a06b0642422741e6b8aa9f5b6b
title: Nuclear power plants
uri: 2016-04-09-Nuclear-power-plants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Nuclear_power_plants%29
content:
<p>
Nuclear Power Plants Are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/31/nuclear-power-plants-are-pre-deployed-weapons-mass-destruction">Pre-Deployed
Weapons of Mass Destruction</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, accidents are still a danger.  The Indian Point nuclear
plants, near New York City, are 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-cantarow/a-fukushima-on-the-hudson-_b_9581932.html">among
the most accident-prone in the US</a>.
<p>
If an accident occurs, it may make New York City unsafe to inhabit,
decades before the rising seas would do so.  However, evacuating 5
million people from New York and surrounding suburbs would be
impossible as well as unsustainable.


feed_id: c902215e4925751afb905d16cc8adaf8
title: College loan payments
uri: College-loan-payments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28College_loan_payments%29
content:
<p>
Senator Warren 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/31/sen-elizabeth-warren-calls-total-overhaul-student-loan-system">called
for replacement of the government's system</a> for collecting college
loan payments.
<p>
Using private companies to do the government's work is inviting fraud.
Each indirection in the chain reduces accountability, and we have seen
the effects here.


feed_id: f60ae40b398ece434039f2525ae94548
title: Drug patents
uri: Drug-patents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Drug_patents%29
content:
<p>
GlaxoSmithKline announced it 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/31/glaxosmithkline-to-lower-drug-prices-to-help-poorer-countries">will
not patent its new drugs in countries that are the poorest of the
poor</a>, such as Afghanistan, Rwanda and Cambodia.
<p>
I wonder, though, whether this apparent magnanimity will have any
practical effect.  I don't think there are generic drug factories in
countries such as Afghanistan, Rwanda and Cambodia.  If the countries
such as India that actually make generic drugs are not covered, if GSK
continues using patents to prevent the manufacture of generic drugs in
those countries, this gift will turn out to be an empty gesture.
<p>
The reason this problem exists is that the World Trade Organization
treaty requires India to allow patents on drugs.
<p>
The real solution for this is to abolish the World Trade Organization.


feed_id: 42e18749d209422c5513760fd2983620
title: Senator Wyden defends encryption
uri: Senator-Wyden-defends-encryption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Senator_Wyden_defends_encryption%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.wyden.senate.gov/download/?id=B5662AFE-E582-46B7-BD61-129B184D6562">Senator
Wyden's speech</a> for a bill to defend encryption from state
interference and to narrow the "third party" doctrine that is the
excuse for so much state surveillance.
<p>
These would be major advances, but what we really need is to prevent
systems from keeping records about what people do.  We should require
digital systems to offer the maximum possible level of anonymity.


feed_id: 6de169bc942af4cffcb4862660668301
title: UK coal policy contradiction
uri: UK-coal-policy-contradiction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28UK_coal_policy_contradiction%29
content:
<p>
The UK pays to discourage coal-fired power plants, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/31/governments-plan-secure-power-generation-capacity-market-unfit-purpose-ippr-report">then
pays to keep them running</a>.
<p>
Such a policy contradiction can also be seen in the area of trade
secrets: the US adopted the patent system explicitly to discourage
trade secrecy, then adopted specific trade secret laws to encourage
trade secrecy.


feed_id: 5b043f784263960d1be4a4743aff26a0
title: UK's foreign aid "for the poor"
uri: UK-s-foreign-aid-for-the-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28UKs_foreign_aid_for_the_poor%29
content:
<p>
The UK's foreign aid "for the poor" is being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/apr/01/uk-aid-budget-consultancy-firms-campaign-group-global-justice-now">diverted
to consultants</a> in the UK.


feed_id: 0d0fe2926cb0bb314cb8dfe82e04fac0
title: California minimum wage
uri: California-minimum-wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28California_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
California has increased the minimum wage.  After several steps it
will reach 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/31/california-minimum-wage-fight-for-15-jerry-brown">$15
in 2022</a>.


feed_id: 7ac2a74441ee7877e63da6912fd7f4d4
title: Prince Edward Island to legalize abortion
uri: Prince-Edward-Island-to-legalize-abortion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Prince_Edward_Island_to_legalize_abortion%29

content:
<p>
Prince Edward Island, in Canada, will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/31/canada-prince-edward-island-ends-abortion-ban">legalize
abortion</a>.


feed_id: 0c90541e26446f177d3a6292cdbd2bfa
title: BPA
uri: BPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28BPA%29
content:
<p>
Some US food companies are going to stop using BPA, a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/mar/31/bpa-chemical-canned-food-general-mills-campbells-soup-del-monte-fda">hormone
disrupter</a>.  But the replacements may be bad for people, too.


feed_id: a1e1dac57d6476964c5308ffe783867e
title: Lack of investigative journalism
uri: Lack-of-investigative-journalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Lack_of_investigative_journalism%29
content:
<p>
After 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160330/00553834052/after-leading-attack-investigative-journalism-president-obama-whines-about-lack-investigative-journalism.shtml">Leading
The Attack On Investigative Journalism</a>, President Obama Whines
About A Lack Of Investigative Journalism.


feed_id: 57572d7e27115518b9c5de9117edbbc1
title: Buying way out of prosecution in Mexico
uri: Buying-way-out-of-prosecution-in-Mexico
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_April_2016_%28Buying_way_out_of_prosecution_in_Mexico%29

content:
<p>
In Mexico, the ability of the rich to buy their way out of prosecution
is now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/31/sex-assault-mexico-veracruz-govenror-javier-duarte">coming
under exposure</a>.


feed_id: 3c11a6418219c3b620811f171e4ab97f
title: Urgent: Marine National Monument
uri: Urgent-Marine-National-Monument
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Marine_National_Monument%29

content:
<p>

Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3999">call
on Massachusetts senators</a> to support designating a Marine National
Monument in the ocean off Cape Cod.


feed_id: d2b491b8f28cf597896e1037ee4467c6
title: Urgent: Stop cover-up of "bycatch"
uri: Urgent-Stop-cover-up-of-bycatch
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_cover-up_of_bycatch%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on NOAA Fisheries not to help fishing boats cover up
the 
<a href="http://act.oceana.org/sign/noaa_sbrm-rule_2016">amount of
"bycatch"</a> (sea animals that they catch inadvertently, and throw
away dead).


feed_id: 4c4f208f29b7eb5bef615f51495868e1
title: Urgent: Lawyers for immigrant children
uri: Urgent-Lawyers-for-immigrant-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Lawyers_for_immigrant_children%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to provide lawyers to 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Fair_Day">represent children
in immigration hearings</a>.  Stop making children as young as five
years old represent themselves.


feed_id: 26726f9ddd400f399c90bf4aad3a9453
title: Urgent: Earth Day meeting for CEOs
uri: Urgent-Earth-Day-meeting-for-CEOs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Earth_Day_meeting_for_CEOs%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/environmental-action/sign/take-the-earth-day-50">call
on the CEOs</a> of the 50 largest companies to come to an Earth Day
meeting and make a plan to curb global heating and environmental
destruction.


feed_id: 943a2cf522bf73792465cb9ee5858f34
title: Urgent: Alaska's predators
uri: Urgent-Alaska-s-predators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Alaskas_predators%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3061">Support
Fish and Wildlife Service</a> for blocking Alaska's plan to kill lots
of predators and screw up ecosystems.


feed_id: 452f041413975ca5b2fb2461533db814
title: Right-wing terrorists in Colombia
uri: Right-wing-terrorists-in-Colombia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Right-wing_terrorists_in_Colombia%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing terrorists in Colombia are having a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/07/colombia-peace-talks-farc-eln-guerrilas-usuga-clan">resurgence</a>.
<p>
The paramilitares have been Colombia's worst terrorist group because
they have connections with the army, with politicians such as
ex-president Alvaro Horrible, and with the elites that think they
should own the country.


feed_id: 811d0268b441dceed139bd7d99f7314b
title: Wall Street lobbyists for Clinton
uri: Wall-Street-lobbyists-for-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Wall_Street_lobbyists_for_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
Wall Street lobbyists are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/04/06/hillary-clinton-fundraiser-hosted-by-all-star-cast-of-financial-regulators-who-left-to-join-wall-street/">raising
funds for Clinton</a> while she quibbles about the details of
Sanders's plan to neutralize the banksters they lobby for.
<p>
Meanwhile, the major US media 
<a href="https://shadowproof.com/2016/04/06/corporate-media-too-dumb-to-understand-sanders-bank-breakup-plan/">didn't
try very hard to understand Sanders' plan</a>.


feed_id: 4728859988af425d5c4efa8ded0f7da3
title: Big banks and rent-controlled buildings
uri: Big-banks-and-rent-controlled-buildings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Big_banks_and_rent-controlled_buildings%29

content:
<p>
Big banks are systematically 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/how-banks-and-developers-collude-to-get-rid-of-new-yorks-affordable-housing/">providing
big loans to the owners of rent-controlled buildings</a>, obviously
expecting the buildings to be converted to condominiums and the
tenants kicked out.


feed_id: 31bd5b5e3b2a99deb274af1b7760a197
title: Lawsuit against Flint governor
uri: Lawsuit-against-Flint-governor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Lawsuit_against_Flint_governor%29
content:
<p>
Flint residents have brought a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/06/flint-water-crisis-racketeering-lawsuit-governor-rick-snyder">racketeering
lawsuit</a> against Governor Snyder and his collaborators.


feed_id: e1e8d672be446d67ab00b9b187f1369c
title: Child on "no fly" list
uri: Child-on-no-fly-list
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Child_on_no_fly_list%29
content:
<p>
One of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the arbitrary and unaccountable
US "no fly" list is a child, 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/04/06/class-action-suit-targets-system-that-added-a-baby-to-terrorist-watchlist/">not
quite 5 years old</a>.
<p>
Apparently he was put on the list when he was 7 months old.


feed_id: af69d889ef51b3ffef72dc170538551c
title: CDC research on gun violence
uri: CDC-research-on-gun-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28CDC_research_on_gun_violence%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/06/cdc-congress-research-gun-violence-public-health">Over
100 Medical Groups Urge Congress</a> to Fund CDC Research on Gun
Violence.
<p>
The obstacle is NRA pressure.


feed_id: 4f1a16fe74e3107cf55e49aec8346740
title: Shutoff of home automatic control products
uri: Shutoff-of-home-automatic-control-products
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Shutoff_of_home_automatic_control_products%29

content:
<p>
Google/Alphabet has intentionally shut off home automatic control
products, 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/nest-reminds-customers-ownership-isnt-what-it-used-be">cheating
the customers who bought them</a>.
<p>
Google/Alphabet had that power because the product depends on a
company server.  The lesson is, don't stand for that!  Insist on
self-contained computers that run free software!
<p>
The article doesn't take a firm line against anything.
How weak that seems to me.


feed_id: 7746f47c104ef972feaf84d929b26871
title: Pfizer cancels merger with Alergan
uri: Pfizer-cancels-merger-with-Alergan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Pfizer_cancels_merger_with_Alergan%29

content:
<p>
Pfizer canceled its merger with Alergan, 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/04/06/government-bites-merger-merger-bites-dust/">once
the US Treasury decided to block the intended tax dodging</a>.


feed_id: 0463bc7df7f8c25eb056556de99dab5b
title: Flint's lead crisis
uri: Flint-s-lead-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Flints_lead_crisis%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.futurity.org/lead-soil-flint-michigan-1128812-2/">Hot
Dusty Weather Makes Flint's Lead Crisis Worse</a>, because lead comes
out of the soil.
<p>
It got into the soil from 
<a href="http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/4/358/htm">burning leaded
gasoline</a>.


feed_id: 64d1803580b93bbcf4c1e199257627d8
title: Social security benefit distribution
uri: Social-security-benefit-distribution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Social_security_benefit_distribution%29

content:
<p>
Americans with lower income get much less social security benefits,
because they 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/wealthiest-americans-live-longer-collecting-more-social-security">die
several years younger</a>.


feed_id: fde9850754c84eb5fb780798f717d153
title: Bangladeshis against coal-fired generators
uri: Bangladeshis-against-coal-fired-generators
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Bangladeshis_against_coal-fired_generators%29

content:
<p>
Thousands of Bangladeshis are protesting plans for coal-fired generators
that would kick them off their land.  Thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/06/bangladesh-coal-plant-protests-continue-after-demonstrators-killed">shot
some of them dead</a>.


feed_id: d00482e4a4a265c0a1a974b398f2d638
title: A bigger tax dodge sanctuary than Panama
uri: A-bigger-tax-dodge-sanctuary-than-Panama
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28A_bigger_tax_dodge_sanctuary_than_Panama%29

content:
<p>
The US is a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/06/panama-papers-us-tax-havens-delaware">bigger
tax dodge sanctuary than Panama is</a>.
<p>
The UK does 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/commentisfree/2016/apr/06/britain-tainted-cash-panama-papers">plenty
of it</a>, too.


feed_id: 51add3e27e952e6181d88025fdb5f900
title: Discrimination legalized in Mississippi
uri: Discrimination-legalized-in-Mississippi
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Discrimination_legalized_in_Mississippi%29

content:
<p>
Mississippi has 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/04/05/3766471/mississippi-governor-signs-anti-lgbt-bill/">legalized
discrimination against people on the basis of almost anything related
to sex</a>, as long as it is motivated by religion.
<p>
In effect, religion is the designated place for hostility to
accumulate.


feed_id: e425e99390c5c7cabc8fd6843104449d
title: Surveillance and harassment
uri: Surveillance-and-harassment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Surveillance_and_harassment%29
content:
<p>
The activists of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition say that there is 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/04/06/l-a-activists-want-to-bring-surveillance-conversation-down-to-earth/">no
sharp boundary between surveillance and harassment</a>.


feed_id: 5f1f87b39f5e36c29d5aa5059c319422
title: Middle-class priced out of cities
uri: Middle-class-priced-out-of-cities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Middle-class_priced_out_of_cities%29

content:
<p>
Our greatest cities are now 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/04/05/middle-class-housing-projects.html">pricing
out even middle-class people</a>.


feed_id: e048991b5156671d6600fd78e4007a6a
title: Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia
uri: Tigers-declared-extinct-in-Cambodia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Tigers_declared_extinct_in_Cambodia%29

content:
<p>
Poaching has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/06/tigers-declared-extinct-in-cambodia">wiped
out tigers in Cambodia</a>.


feed_id: eea3900a6138ada67d64b8dbf0c49fcf
title: Net censorship systems
uri: Net-censorship-systems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Net_censorship_systems%29
content:
<p>
The UK, and China have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/06/great-firewall-of-china-blocked-fang-binxing">similar
net censorship systems</a>, and maybe soon South Korea.


feed_id: 37966f6a5a6f2246a5277c03080cbe97
title: Emissions up after elimination of CO2 tax
uri: Emissions-up-after-elimination-of-CO2-tax
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Emissions_up_after_elimination_of_CO2_tax%29

content:
<p>
After Australia eliminated its tax on CO<sub>2</sub> emissions,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/06/electricity-emissions-surge-by-55-since-removal-of-carbon-price">emissions
went up</a>.


feed_id: 26dec72198f0c8dee9e8f0705a9af4c1
title: HSBC political interference
uri: HSBC-political-interference
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28HSBC_political_interference%29
content:
<p>
It appears that HSBC has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/06/hsbc-accused-of-censorship-for-refusing-hong-kong-student-leaders-account">refused
a bank account to a Hong Kong political party</a> as an act of
political interference.


feed_id: cfbabc71cf070e7b2f96a844576b109d
title: Prudish spirit imposed on US universities
uri: Prudish-spirit-imposed-on-US-universities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Prudish_spirit_imposed_on_US_universities%29

content:
<p>
In the sick and prudish spirit imposed on US universities in the name
of Title IX, even a 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/04/04/prof-wants-uvas-problematic-mural-censor">mural
that refers to sex is considered dangerous and illegal</a>.
<p>
When the "safe space" obsession goes overboard, an 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/04/05/american-university-dean-law-profs-claim">anonymous
political poster is seen as "harassment"</p>.
<p>
Good thing King George III didn't have this idea.  If he had had this
excuse to turn people against anonymous pamphlets, he could have
prevented the American Revolution from starting.


feed_id: bc772a16ba0090f16464f96ac0419b76
title: Rapid destruction of Queensland forests
uri: Rapid-destruction-of-Queensland-forests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#13_April_2016_%28Rapid_destruction_of_Queensland_forests%29

content:
<p>
Queensland in the north of Australia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/06/queensland-tree-clearing-blamed-for-dramatic-rise-in-wildlife-needing-rescue">rapidly
destroying forests and wiping out wildlife</a>.
<p>
An 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_(Extractivist_government_of_Australia)">extractivist 
government</a> made this happen.


feed_id: 5b8af3948d22c19c46adcba183ebd0cc
title: "Care" companies in the UK
uri: Care-companies-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Care_companies_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
In the UK under Tory austerity, "care" companies 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/06/compassion-elderly-care-work-christina-patterson">regularly
cheat their workers</a>, who then mostly cheat the old people they are
supposed to take care of.
<p>
The workers can't possibly afford to spend as much time with the
patients as they are supposed to, since then they'd be paid well below
minimum wage.


feed_id: f016eed21c6c422103586a6752bb030d
title: Support for Israeli extremists tax-exempt
uri: Support-for-Israeli-extremists-tax-exempt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Support_for_Israeli_extremists_tax-exempt%29

content:
<p>
The
US <a href="http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/04/01/washingtons-failure-to-stem-material-support-for-israeli-settler-extremists/">allows
tax-exempt organizations to support violent Israeli extremists</a>.
<p>
I have to point out that while celebrating the assassination of
Yitzhak Rabin is despicable, criminalizing the expression of such
views is disrespect for freedom of speech.
<p>
Rabin was assassinated because he wanted to end the occupation of
Palestine.  There used to be large demonstrations in Rabin's honor,
for as long as many Israelis continued to want peace.
<p>
A few Israelis still want peace, and 
<a href="http://972mag.com/there-is-another-way-palestinians-israelis-march-together-against-the-occupation/118323/">joined
Palestinians for a protest march</a> against the occupation.
<p>
But only a small minority of Israelis still want peace.  For the most
part, anyone like Rabin would be ridiculed in today's Israel.  Most
Israelis don't today celebrate his assassination, but they don't miss
his efforts any more.


feed_id: 51a5d844b8e39ec07fb217cc77236e90
title: Israel considering bill to imprison children
uri: Israel-considering-bill-to-imprison-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Israel_considering_bill_to_imprison_children%29

content:
<p>
Israel is considering a bill to imprison children 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/75412">younger than 14</a>.
Palestinian children only, one understands.


feed_id: e977b3f2be70b26946b1bf9f1c7f9c84
title: Collapse of coal market
uri: Collapse-of-coal-market
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Collapse_of_coal_market%29
content:
<p>
Good news for Australia: the coal market is collapsing so fast that
the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/05/cost-of-stopping-new-coal-and-gas-projects-in-freefall-costings-reveal">cost
of cancelling all planned fossil fuel projects now would be only 1/5
what it was in 2013</a>.


feed_id: bdb35e77263dc4e706c78f810ca7e0ab
title: Overprotection of children
uri: 2016-04-13-Overprotection-of-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Overprotection_of_children%29
content:
<p>
In Tennessee, a mother 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/04/03/mom-who-made-her-kids-walk-to-school-is">faces
punishment</a> for allowing her children to go farther away than arms'
length.
<p>
It's the parents that drive their children around that are negligent.
They are failing to protect their children from obesity and all the
consequent illnesses.


feed_id: 767b8c777d87a4a45974282a1265750f
title: Death threats from nasty men
uri: Death-threats-from-nasty-men
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Death_threats_from_nasty_men%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/06/the-feminist-cupcake-sale-that-led-us-into-the-darkest-depths-of-gender-inequality">cupcake
sale</a> intended to teach about gender and racial inequality in wages
inspired nasty men to post death threats.


feed_id: a5e3d8a8b5f6016901ca2074c10e6980
title: UK economy screwing the poor
uri: UK-economy-screwing-the-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28UK_economy_screwing_the_poor%29
content:
<p>
The UK economy is screwing the poor for the sake of trickle-up to the
rich, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/06/boomers-and-millennials-this-is-not-intergenerational-warfare-its-class-warfare">the
rich confuse the issue</a> by presenting it as a conflict between old
and young.


feed_id: f54cf31546b907b0a550fb2f5583c61a
title: UNESCO World Heritage sites threatened
uri: UNESCO-World-Heritage-sites-threatened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28UNESCO_World_Heritage_sites_threatened%29

content:
<p>
Half the UNESCO World Heritage nature sites are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/06/half-of-world-heritage-sites-threatened-by-development-says-wwf">threatened
by human activities in the vicinity</a>.


feed_id: 61918400cca221424e99e41abc0abd12
title: Protest in Parliament
uri: Protest-in-Parliament
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Protest_in_Parliament%29
content:
<p>
A protest in Parliament took place 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/pmqs-disability-cuts-protestors-esa_uk_56f29ccfe4b04aee1b6fd824">against
UK cuts in benefits to disabled people</a>.
<p>
The Tories 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/23/disability-campaigners-occupy-parliament-over-benefit-cuts">ordered
the BBC to stop broadcasting the protest</a>.


feed_id: 2c60dee61080563922682b47f5be195e
title: Phasing out nuclear power plants
uri: Phasing-out-nuclear-power-plants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Phasing_out_nuclear_power_plants%29

content:
<p>
Sanders plans to phase out nuclear power plants, one by one, 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/04/grist-bernie-sanders-wants-to-phase-out-nuclear-power-plants">by
not relicensing them</a>.
<p>
I would be in favor of continuing to run them, to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, if they were not so dangerous.  Meanwhile, with a
massive campaign to install renewable generation, we can do without
them.


feed_id: e1d27554f32bd81762bf8b06d429d6d0
title: Abortion pills for women in Northern Ireland
uri: Abortion-pills-for-women-in-Northern-Ireland
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Abortion_pills_for_women_in_Northern_Ireland%29

content:
<p>
Goretti Horgan says she 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/05/abortion-activist-goretti-horgan-i-will-still-help-northern-irish-women-buy-pills">will
continue buying abortion pills for women</a> in Northern Ireland.


feed_id: 7fbf3e84a338cd7ff0a0efe158389f4c
title: Treasury rules on "inversions" changed
uri: Treasury-rules-on-inversions-changed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_%28Treasury_rules_on_inversions_changed%29

content:
<p>
The Treasury Department 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/05/blow-big-pharma-treasury-cracks-down-corporate-tax-dodgers">changed
the rules</a> on "inversions" that allow "US" corporations to become
officially foreign corporations and dodge US taxes.


