# articles

feed_id: 510435ca4b3b3cc9266134efb76ec1a3
title: Sep 2001 "remembrance ceremony"
uri: 2015-09-25-Sep-2001-remembrance-ceremony
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Sep_2001_remembrance_ceremony%29

content:
<p>James Roux went to a "remembrance ceremony" for the Sep 2001 attacks
because his father was killed in them.  When he found a "program of
military force", <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/22/son-victim-arrested-protesting-military-exploitation-911">he protested.</a>  Thugs arrested him and framed him
(as usual for thugs), and right-wing media lied about him.


feed_id: 00744dbecc1ec0e25d21001ca4b03ce1
title: Biden opposes abortion
uri: Biden-opposes-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28Biden_opposes_abortion%29
content:
<p>Biden 
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/23/biden-bashes-abortion-defends-religious">
opposes abortion</a>,
 and only reluctantly advocates allowing abortion rights.
</p>
<p>We cannot trust a person like that to defend abortion rights.</p>


feed_id: fbdf61cd2d80025a284e26b9716cee1e
title: Carly Fiorina
uri: Carly-Fiorina
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28Carly_Fiorina%29
content:
<p>Carly Fiorina's supporters have 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/fiorina-planned-parenthood/">
produced a phony video</a>
 to support her false claims about Planned Parenthood.
</p>
<p>In the right-wing echo chamber, lies are as effective as truth.</p>


feed_id: c7759b02285e44858f039599228c40a0
title: Sleeping on buses
uri: Sleeping-on-buses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28Sleeping_on_buses%29
content:
<p>Homeless people must now sleep on the street in London, as the
government's pressure on the poor builds up on all sides.  Some lucky
ones 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/24/homeless-young-people-sleeping-on-night-buses-as-housing-crisis-deepens">
get a bus ticket from a charity</a>
 so they can sleep on a night bus.
</p>


feed_id: a3a27e93e129cfd2b7f17de48d5def2f
title: Terrorism studies
uri: Terrorism-studies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28Terrorism_studies%29
content:
<p>A student in the UK was questioned as a suspect for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/24/student-accused-being-terrorist-reading-book-terrorism">
reading a textbook about terrorism</a>
 in the university library.
</p>
<p>He's lucky to have been reading it in the library, because if he had a
copy
in his possession, he 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-mar-jun.html#01%20June%202008%20(The%20crime%20of%20reading%20a%20book)">
could have been prosecuted</a>
 for it.
</p>


feed_id: 3fdf77ef8c55f6ee981ae755f7616eb0
title: Border thug indicted
uri: Border-thug-indicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28Border_thug_indicted%29
content:
<p>A US border thug has been indicted for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/24/border-patrol-agent-indicted-shooting-mexican-teen">
shooting and killing a Mexican</a>
 standing on the other side of the border fence.
</p>


feed_id: 10a2590d1ad762971cdaf8de2e03d1f8
title: Pope rebuked Congress
uri: Pope-rebuked-Congress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28Pope_rebuked_Congress%29
content:
<p>The pope 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/24/pope-decries-shameful-culpable-silence-arms-sales-drenched-innocent-blood/">
rebuked Congress</a>
 for the military-industrial complex and the wars
that it fuels.
</p>


feed_id: 1a5005d007b1b8e6e1d41bc17288622d
title: Emissions cheating
uri: Emissions-cheating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28Emissions_cheating%29
content:
<p>Many car companies cheat on emissions tests and milage tests, and
European 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/24/volkswagen-vw-carmakers-emissions-tests">
governments are often complicit</a>
 in the cheating.
</p>


feed_id: a2c6ac702b1f061a259358dd8b674731
title: Medical insurance deductable amounts
uri: Medical-insurance-deductable-amounts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Medical_insurance_deductable_amounts%29

content:
<p>US medical insurance deductable amounts (what you have to pay in bills
before you start to be covered) <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/22/health-plan-deductibles-are-growing-seven-times-as-fast-as-wages/">are rising 7 times as fast as wages.</a>


feed_id: bc72678fa53ac1fe10874841a699e27a
title: Volkswagen's disguised pollution
uri: Volkswagen-s-disguised-pollution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Volkswagen%27s_disguised_pollution%29

content:
<p>If Volkswagen used "defeat devices" in all countries,
its cars' disguised pollution is likely to kill <a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/9/23/9383641/volkswagen-scandal-pollution
">between 74 to 400 people per year.</a>
<p>A far larger number become ill, miss days of work, etc.


feed_id: dcbed5fb7e71e144799a6db73e6bc3a3
title: Coral Triangle in danger
uri: Coral-Triangle-in-danger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Coral_Triangle_in_danger%29
content:
<p>100 million people live on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/the-coral-triangle/2015/sep/25/wwf-worlds-richest-reef-system-could-soon-succumb-to-climate-change">seafood</a> from the world's major coral area,
the Coral Triangle.  Global heating puts the reefs, and their usable
animal life, in danger.


feed_id: 500751190cd0b0d5fa0e528c1a339f40
title: Tunisia's economy
uri: Tunisia-s-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Tunisia%27s_economy%29
content:
<p><a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_September_2014_(PISSI)">PISSI</a>'s terror attacks have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/25/tourists-tunisia-june-terror-attack-economy-beach-hotel-sousse">destroyed</a> Tunisia's economy.
<p>Perhaps the US should donate money to employ people in Tunisia, partly
to defeat PISSI and partly to give young Tunisians an alternative to jihad.


feed_id: 274b1e1e7279589f0e8b98688ff929c8
title: Urgent: Call on SEC Chair to recuse self
uri: Urgent-Call-on-SEC-Chair-to-recuse-self
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_SEC_Chair_to_recuse_self%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/mary_jo_white_recuse">Call
on SEC Chair Mary Jo White</a> to recuse herself from choosing an
important subordinate, because of her personal conflict of interest.


feed_id: aa2f1f362b40c70ffb52f73e4f091b44
title: Segregation in US schools
uri: Segregation-in-US-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Segregation_in_US_schools%29
content:
<p>
The Supreme Court under its right-wing majority has 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/parents-tried-to-desegregate-their-schools-the-roberts-court-said-no/">nearly
eliminated the possibility of taking action for school
desegregation</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, US schools are becoming 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_May_2014_(US_public_schools_resegregated)">increasingly
segregated again</a>.


feed_id: 4df92ea91f08300a838de6d430c89cab
title: Lessons in how to please a lover
uri: Lessons-in-how-to-please-a-lover
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Lessons_in_how_to_please_a_lover%29

content:
<p>
Women are publishing, through a web site, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2015/sep/24/women-sexual-pleasure-porn-sex">descriptions
of how to give them sexual pleasure</a>.  It appears that a certain
kind of rough and unrealistic porn has given boys and even men the
wrong idea about the question.  (I think it is a mistake to narrow the
word "porn" to this particular kind of porn.  Any work designed to
arouse sexually is porn.)
<p>
Some teenagers have the good fortune to learn how to please a lover,
and they move on to a life of sexual success.  Others have worse
fortune and have to wait years, even decades, to learn this.  It is so
sad, and so unnecessary.  This is why I think every high school (and
perhaps middle school too) should offer practical hands-on lessons in
how to please a lover.  Every graduate should have a basis to be
confident that, "Anyone that I make love with will be glad we did."


feed_id: ed44e4cc50362df6b99b553662a806d3
title: Released Guantanamo prisoner to be tried in Morocco
uri: Released-Guantanamo-prisoner-to-be-tried-in-Morocco
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Released_Guantanamo_prisoner_to_be_tried_in_Morocco%29

content:
<p>
<p>
Younous Chekkouri was sent from Guantanamo to Morocco, where he 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/24/guantanamo-moroccan-prison-cell/">faces
a likely unfair trial</a>.
<p>
I don't object in principle to handing over prisoners of the US
for trial in other countries.  But we should make sure that the
trial is a fair one.


feed_id: 3a4e9de5bd10ed1a7a03f1ef42662f30
title: Emissions cheating
uri: 2015-09-26-Emissions-cheating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28Emissions_cheating%29
content:
<p>Many car companies cheat on emissions tests and mileage tests, and
European 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/24/volkswagen-vw-carmakers-emissions-tests">
governments are often complicit</a>
 in the cheating.
</p>


feed_id: 76b214c3ca49069e03de697a87fe3761
title: Syrian rebels and al-Qa'ida
uri: Syrian-rebels-and-al-Qa-ida
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Syrian_rebels_and_al-Qa%27ida%29

content:
<p>US-trained Syrian rebels 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/26/us-trained-syrian-rebels-equipment-exchange-al-qaida-affiliates">
traded some of their US-provided supplies</a>
 to al-Qa'ida, in exchange for not having to fight al-Qa'ida.
</p>
<p>The US training activity for Syrian rebels is not a serious effort,
only a pretense.  An "army" so small, and so little pugnacious, that
it faces this sort of extortion would make little difference against
Assad's forces which they are supposedly intended to defeat.</p>


feed_id: b859c5dd0b773e513bad282531ea967a
title: Urgent: tell Democrats not to cave in
uri: Urgent-tell-Democrats-not-to-cave-in
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Democrats_not_to_cave_in%29

content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/shutdown_2015?t=1002&akid=15712.1183552.-cs5KC">
call on Obama and Congressional Democrats</a>
 not to yield to Republican hostage-taking.
</p>


feed_id: 045e97ab546bb12e2073608a2feb6030
title: Growth without gas
uri: Growth-without-gas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Growth_without_gas%29
content:
<p>The OECD countries have had 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/sep/26/oecd-heinrich-boll-international-energy-association-greenhouse-emissions-global-gdp">
16% economic growth</a>
 with a greenhouse gas emissions reduction of 6%, over 10 years.
</p>
<p>Keep in mind that economic growth, as such, does not necessarily make
the economy better for people in general.  That result occurs only
when the growth is distributed so as to reduce poverty and suffering,
which may or may not be the case.  Since 2008, that has generally
<em>not</em> been the case.  This is a separate issue, and doesn't
invalidate the article's point, but we should not say "Growth,
hooray!"</p>


feed_id: fd27e4bf161cb25b2c56ab01ac1bbbc0
title: Mystery disappearance
uri: Mystery-disappearance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Mystery_disappearance%29
content:
<p>A year later, the disappearance of 43 Mexican students is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/26/43-disappeared-mexico-students-justice-iguala">
still a mystery</a>,
 lost among hundreds of such mysteries in a state pervaded by
gang corruption.
</p>


feed_id: a3d653acfc43d7f1be3d8c1ab48750ac
title: Urgent: support Prescription Drug Affordability Act
uri: Urgent-support-Prescription-Drug-Affordability-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_Prescription_Drug_Affordability_Act%29

content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-congress-pass-sanders-bill-prescription-drugs/?source=watchdog-test">
support</a>
 the Prescription Drug Affordability Act.
</p>


feed_id: 354f34597118484372dbe2f863f243c7
title: Urgent: warn EPA against weak regulations
uri: Urgent-warn-EPA-against-weak-regulations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_warn_EPA_against_weak_regulations%29

content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=2FE40E127D3A1A488695CA73F262ED03.app314b?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1787&utm_source=crm&utm_content=PlainTextLink1">
tell the EPA</a>
 that the proposed new regulations for toxic
pesticides are not strong enough.
</p>


feed_id: 990e9fa1f1d41e610a328b5a1ee644c8
title: Urgent: call for climate agreement in Paris
uri: 2015-09-27-Urgent-call-for-climate-agreement-in-Paris
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_call_for_climate_agreement_in_Paris%29

content:
<p>Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=D6F67E2F172C19F939465322578707AE.app312a">
call for a strong climate agreement</a>
 in Paris.
</p>


feed_id: 88e3293658fb6fc1d9882d25ad78e06c
title: Urgent: undo corporations united
uri: Urgent-undo-corporations-united
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_undo_corporations_united%29

content:
<p>US citizens: Call for 
<a href="http://sign.actiontaker.org/page/s/co-sponsor-o2015?source=ecu">
amending the constitution</a>
 to reverse the "Citizens United" decision.
</p>
<p>I think "corporations united" is a more fitting name for it.</p>


feed_id: ec3436fe4a9eeef97cc787f69fbcc335
title: New ivory ban
uri: New-ivory-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28New_ivory_ban%29
content:
<p>The US and China agreed on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/26/china-and-us-agree-on-ivory-ban-in-bid-to-end-illegal-trade-globally">
new rules for ivory</a>,
 to try to discourage the killing of elephants.
</p>


feed_id: ab2b8fa23eff3bd3979a324fb1a94717
title: Aging
uri: Aging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Aging%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cortese20150926">
Aging</a>
 is the great holocaust.
</p>


feed_id: 812d50dab3b38465fc86db74ae675430
title: Timbuktu monuments
uri: Timbuktu-monuments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Timbuktu_monuments%29
content:
<p>A religious fanatic 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/sep/26/alleged-islamic-extremist-accused-of-destroying-timbuktu-monuments-sent-to-hague">
will be tried in the Hague</a>
 for destroying a historic Muslim monument in Timbuktu.
</p>


feed_id: de254ace7dec7c5ad52f352afc747fd1
title: Unproved drug claims
uri: Unproved-drug-claims
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Unproved_drug_claims%29
content:
<p>The major pharma companies are gouging in the US, and their gouging
appears small only when compared with the super-gouging of Daraprim.</p>
<p>Even worse, US drug companies are arguing in court that their "freedom
of speech" 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/martin-shkreli-is-just-a-tiny-part-of-a-huge-problem/">
entitles them to make unproved claims</a>
 about what their drugs will do.
</p>
<p>This is an additional reason why we need a constitutional amendment
that says that human rights do not apply to fictitious "persons" such
as corporations.</p>


feed_id: 550429fa3dd2077e72855d111f158a7c
title: Urgent: free cartoonist Atena Farghadani
uri: Urgent-free-cartoonist-Atena-Farghadani
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_free_cartoonist_Atena_Farghadani%29

content:
<p>Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/free-atena-farghadani-iran-prison-drawing-cartoons-artist">
call on Iran</a>
 to free imprisoned cartoonist Atena Farghadani. 
</p>


feed_id: b2a42b7c01880520fdf11d2d00d5466e
title: VW lieware
uri: VW-lieware
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28VW_lieware%29
content:
<p>The Internet of Things would mean that any "thing" 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rinesi20150925">
might be acting maliciously</a>.
 The VW lieware is the first example.
</p>


feed_id: de9479cded7afde986bc6607f2690ed8
title: Urgent: support referendum on abortion
uri: Urgent-support-referendum-on-abortion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_referendum_on_abortion%29

content:
<p>Citizens of Ireland: 
<a href="http://www.abortionrightscampaign.ie/repealthe8th/">
sign the petition</a>
 for a referendum to legalize abortion.
</p>


feed_id: ec62e2a6c0d7c673e77e5e91037f9c6b
title: Cod recovery
uri: Cod-recovery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Cod_recovery%29
content:
<p>Protection measures have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/25/north-sea-cod-taken-off-red-list-of-fish-to-avoid-as-numbers-improve">
helped cod start to recover</a>
 in the North Sea.
</p>


feed_id: fda8af19355a01b5007a8c949ce6b148
title: Keith McLeod
uri: Keith-McLeod
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Keith_McLeod%29
content:
<p>Keith McLeod was shot dead by a Baltimore thug who claims he had
to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/25/maryland-police-shooting-keith-mcleod-finger-gun">
protect his life from McLeod's pointed finger</a>.
</p>
<p>My first response is to wonder what really happened.  Thugs sometimes
tell the truth, but in situations like this we must not presume they
did.</p>
<p>Supposing things happened as reported, McLeod was asking for some kind
of confrontation, but that is no reason for his summary execution.  A
finger doesn't shoot bullets, and saying "I'm going to kill you" does
not put someone's life in immediate danger.  If the thug reacted as if
they did, he must have been predisposed to kill.</p>


feed_id: b53bafcf4c87ab4173f16ad11e92a911
title: Campus free speech
uri: Campus-free-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Campus_free_speech%29
content:
<p>The University of California may adopt a rule to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/dianne-feinstein-husband-threaten-univ-calif-demanding-ban-excessive-israel-criticism/">
expel students for "antisemitism"</a>,
 interpreted as criticizing Israel in certain ways.
</p>
<p>It is wrong to expel students even for statements of real
antisemitism, or any other form of bigotry, or any other position that
some disagree with.  The very idea of trying to stop "hate speech" is
inimical to human rights.</p>


feed_id: 66a2d43bbc8dfa707fca70bd7d342056
title: Israeli soldiers attack press
uri: Israeli-soldiers-attack-press
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Israeli_soldiers_attack_press%29

content:
<p>Israeli soldiers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/25/israeli-soldiers-attack-agence-france-presse-journalists-west-bank">
attacked journalists</a>
 and destroyed their equipment.
</p>


feed_id: d5bdaa2c1a05b629b00553c8780bb3e5
title: Russian troops in Syria
uri: Russian-troops-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Russian_troops_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>Due to the geography, Russian ground troops in Syria 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/25/russia-troops-syria-could-helping-isis-report">
will mostly fight groups opposed to PISSI</a>,
 rather than PISSI.
</p>


feed_id: b91409458be1d75febb30697cfc7bba6
title: Des poissons peuvent abimer une rivère
uri: Des-poissons-peuvent-abimer-une-rivère
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Des_poissons_peuvent_abimer_une_riv%2526egrave%3Bre%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/french-puns.html#poissons">New pun: Des poissons
peuvent abimer une rivère</a>.


feed_id: eee9b3b2b439fddce5c5f976d30eccd5
title: Waking prisoners every half hour
uri: Waking-prisoners-every-half-hour
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Waking_prisoners_every_half_hour%29

content:
<p>California has limited the use of solitary confinement, but screws
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/25/california-prison-suicide-checks-inhumane-treatment">continue to drive prisoners crazy</a> by waking them every half hour.


feed_id: fd7e17479fdd4ec5b000127a005606c7
title: "Redskins" controversy
uri: Redskins-controversy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Redskins_controversy%29
content:
<p>School officials are "investigating" a teacher who explained the controversy
over the name "Washington Redskins" by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/25/virginia-teacher-placed-leave-racial-epithet-history-lesson">comparing</a> "redskins" with "niggers".
<p>Teachers should not use insulting racial terms, but it is ridiculous
to order them not to explain to their students what racism is.


feed_id: f2b02f3acde18d4c7e06bbd7b8c559ef
title: Aamer to be released from Guantanamo
uri: Aamer-to-be-released-from-Guantanamo
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Aamer_to_be_released_from_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>Shaker Aamer will probably be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/25/last-british-detainee-in-guantanamo-bay-to-be-released">released</a> from Guantanamo in a month.
<p>The US's treatment of him has been <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_August_2015_(Release_Shaker_Aamer)">abominable.</a>
<p>The Obama regime <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/despite-pledge-u-s-still-letting-gitmo-detainees-tell-stories/">continues to conceal</a> what prisoners say about how they are treated.


feed_id: 4e061c00ed5a90769d25933fb6f60173
title: Colombia and FARC peace
uri: Colombia-and-FARC-peace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Colombia_and_FARC_peace%29
content:
<p>Colombia's second-worst terrorist group, the FARC, has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/25/colombia-hope-for-peace-farc">agreed</a> to peace with the state.
<p>The worst terrorist group, the paramilitares that are linked to the
military and to former president Uribe, has only pretended to demobilize.


feed_id: deb46ac653de76067ab3226412114283
title: El Nino and California's drought
uri: El-Nino-and-California-s-drought
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28El_Nino_and_California%27s_drought%29

content:
<p>El Nino's strong rains may not relieve California's drought, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/25/california-floods-wildfires-el-nino-drought">as the water may not soak into the dried earth.</a>


feed_id: 23e508251ec4a6e94c962cd8ecc4573c
title: Social housing sell-off
uri: Social-housing-sell-off
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Social_housing_sell-off%29
content:
<p>Why <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/sep/25/social-housing-sell-off-right-to-buy-privatisation
">the UK</a> Must Fight Tooth And Claw Against Social Housing Sell-Off.


feed_id: 7d2176a687be11381f784b65f83aaa9f
title: 100% renewable energy by 2025
uri: 100-renewable-energy-by-2025
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28100%2525_renewable_energy_by_2025%29

content:
<p>Greenpeace proposes a <a href="media/a65e1d60.Energy-Revolution-2015-Summary.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/climate/2015/Energy-Revolution-2015-Summary.pdf">plan</a> for the world to move to 100% renewable energy by 2050.  This means ending use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy.


feed_id: b84c39dc3b84d0a03670093214a65ed9
title: AVG user data
uri: AVG-user-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28AVG_user_data%29
content:
<p>AVG says that its <a href="https://edri.org/avg-starts-selling-personal-data-to-third-parties/
">anti-virus program</a> will collect data about users for AVG to use.
<p>Simply removing the user's name from a data record does not prevent
others from reassociating it with the user, and in practice <a href="https://www.stallman.org/facebook.html">it is common to do that.</a>
<p>This program is gratis, <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">but not free software.</a>  It is commonplace for such software to <a href="http://gnu.org/proprietary/">mistreat its users.</a>


feed_id: 538ed88ad08e7c72330a1978e4c4a2b0
title: "Safe harbor" fiction
uri: Safe-harbor-fiction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Safe_harbor_fiction%29
content:
<p>The principal advisor of the European Court of Justice said that the
"safe harbor" fiction, which allows European organizations to entrust
personal data to US companies, <a href="https://edri.org/safe-harbor-european-court-advocate-general-says-agreement-should-be-declared-invalid/">should be declared invalid.</a>


feed_id: d48d6ea6dd83402557bb116b5c0d3310
title: Drug-price hikes
uri: Drug-price-hikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Drug-price_hikes%29
content:
<p>Drug-Price Hikes Don't Lead to Better Cures.  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/24/drug-price-hikes-cures-msf-martin-shkreli">We Must Find Another Way Forward.</a>


feed_id: 303e3b5e8bc1df037170d2c97e4835a0
title: Abolish death penalty
uri: Abolish-death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Abolish_death_penalty%29
content:
<p>Pope's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/24/pope-francis-congress-abolish-death-penalty
">Call to Congress</a> to Abolish Death Penalty Comes at a Critical Moment.


feed_id: 9b39e5fcc86f6f73c6c2b046b839631f
title: China cap-and-trade
uri: China-cap-and-trade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28China_cap-and-trade%29
content:
<p>China will start a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/24/china-national-cap-and-trade-deal">cap-and-trade system</a> for carbon emissions.
<p>This could be a big help in curbing global heating, or it might do
nothing at all.  A cap-and-trade system tends to be ineffective when
the economy shrinks, and corruption can make it a no-op <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#21_November_2012_(EUs_greenhouse_emissions_cap-and-trade_system_gamed)">as happened in Europe.</a>
<p>By contrast, a tax on substances and activities that emit greenhouse gases
is easier to enforce, and has its effect even if the economy shrinks.
<p>Here's a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/sep/24/global-goals-climate-change-2c-development-finance-emissions-trading">proposal</a> for a different way to do cap-and-trade, using a fixed
total carbon emissions budget.  Would that avoid the flaws?  I don't know.  But I think it is important
to design the system so that the budget can be reduced.


feed_id: 1c3c71272a0795a8e494e5f510cf2917
title: Chile prevents disaster
uri: Chile-prevents-disaster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#27_September_2015_%28Chile_prevents_disaster%29
content:
<p>
Chile shows how
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/sep/25/how-chile-survive-earthquake-virtually-unscathed">planning,
and enforcing strict building codes</a>, can prevent an earthquake
from becoming a disaster.


feed_id: 7d9b15db41e2eb6e379bfb953df3fab3
title: The term "Anthropocene"
uri: The-term-Anthropocene
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#27_September_2015_%28The_term_Anthropocene%29
content:
<p>
An excerpt from the book "Adventures in the Anthropocene" displays the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/25/gaia-vince-humans-are-causing-untold-damage-to-planet-anthropocene">twisted
pride</a> I warned that the term might inspire.
<p>
It is not too late to change to a name that won't inspire pride, such
as "Thermocene", "Pyrocene" or "Obscene".  All that is required is for
a few prominent scientists to stop believing the self-fulfilling
prophesy that "it is too late".


feed_id: b9eabc6a4ba2e8c780bcfce4ab3bb939
title: Malaysian court lifts ban on publications
uri: Malaysian-court-lifts-ban-on-publications
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#27_September_2015_%28Malaysian_court_lifts_ban_on_publications%29

content:
<p>
A court in Malaysia asserted independence from the authoritarian prime
minister by
<a href="https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2015/09/22/victory-in-malaysia-as-high-court-lifts-ban-on-major-publisher">ordering
that some magazines can resume publication</a>.


feed_id: d502108944cb94b84337c8b08352ad98
title: Gouging the poor in the US
uri: Gouging-the-poor-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#27_September_2015_%28Gouging_the_poor_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The latest clever idea for gouging the poor in the US:
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/23/1424181/-Pay-for-your-ankle-bracelet-or-go-to-jail-the-latest-in-criminal-justice-privitazation">make
them pay to "rent" a radio tracking ankle bracelet</a> from a company,
when on bail.
<p>
Antonio Green decided to go back to jail as the cost of this destroyed
his life.
<p>
You might wonder why they make someone wear a radio tracking device
when on bail for unpaid traffic tickets.  Perhaps the motive for this
practice is to enrich the company.  When officials sign a deal like
this with a company, one must suspect that they have an interest in
it.


feed_id: a28130e96c2a1dd2c14c5be4a5ada684
title: War on Women's rights
uri: War-on-Women-s-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#27_September_2015_%28War_on_Womens_rights%29
content:
<p>
Cruel fallout from the right-wing War on Women's rights: women who
take any sort of drug while pregnant are
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/23/1424281/-One-Valium-Ten-years-in-jail">imprisoned
for many years</a>.


feed_id: 3c6e19f0df85ba9ee0de5d17bdb2ef4a
title: Food stamps for whites, not blacks
uri: Food-stamps-for-whites-not-blacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#27_September_2015_%28Food_stamps_for_whites%2C_not_blacks%29

content:
<p>
Ohio's governor offers food stamps to
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/22/1423910/-Gov-Kasich-waives-food-stamp-time-limit-for-rural-whites-forces-urban-minorities-to-go-hungry">poor
rural whites that vote for him</a>, but not to poor urban blacks that
vote Democrat.


feed_id: 1b1cdc77db14a310ef5219080696aab6
title: Killed for not paying parking ticket
uri: Killed-for-not-paying-parking-ticket
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#27_September_2015_%28Killed_for_not_paying_parking_ticket%29

content:
<p>
David Stojcevski was jailed for not paying a parking ticket, then
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/24/man-jailed-for-traffic-ticket-dies-in-ce">killed
by inhumane treatment by thugs</a> that paid no attention as he died.


feed_id: ede4be3c5652ff6d67886fd4d1451402
title: School privatizers
uri: School-privatizers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#27_September_2015_%28School_privatizers%29
content:
<p>
School privatizers
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/12932">consider municipal
bankruptcy</a> an opportunity to seize and chew up public school
systems.


feed_id: 2ac910a9cce4d9173867dc2cf873125b
title: Secret support for coup in Honduras
uri: Secret-support-for-coup-in-Honduras
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#27_September_2015_%28Secret_support_for_coup_in_Honduras%29

content:
<p>
Hillary Clinton
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/24/hillary-clinton-emails-and-honduras-coup">secretly
supported the coup in Honduras</a>, while publicly claiming to oppose
the coup.
<p>
This continues all the worst foreign policy practices of the US.
I do not want someone like this as president.
<p>
Without Clinton's subtle support, the coup might have been reversed as
recently occurred in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/25/burkina-faso-foiled-military-coup">Burkina
Faso</a>.


feed_id: c5bb741c1f22ff4ec1f260ecaf0f8c38
title: Australia trying to make schools harass
uri: Australia-trying-to-make-schools-harass
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#27_September_2015_%28Australia_trying_to_make_schools_harass%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is trying to make schools
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/24/freekaren-hysterical-campaign-free-australias-hypothetical-eco-terrorist">harass
potential nonviolent environmental "terrorists"</a> who might do
things such as spiking trees to prevent logging.
<p>
This is no surprise.  The Australian government
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_September_2014_(Tasmania_has_permitted_logging)">works
for the companies that do things such as mining and logging</a>.


feed_id: d0443d88bb0cae0372472fb4980bf246
title: Thailand plans internet filter
uri: Thailand-plans-internet-filter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#27_September_2015_%28Thailand_plans_internet_filter%29

content:
<p>
Thailand is planning a
<a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/thailand-aims-to-build-its-own-great-firewall-of-internet-censorship/">new
central filtering system</a> for the internet.


feed_id: 8fe9e5a0e8a93cadcd666fb4191eb624
title: Restraint on thugs undermined
uri: Restraint-on-thugs-undermined
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#27_September_2015_%28Restraint_on_thugs_undermined%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing Supreme Court has
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/think-police-cant-use-illegally-obtained-evidence-against-you-think-again/">undermined
the main restraint on thugs' illegal investigations</a> — the
exclusionary rule.


feed_id: b328839e85b697e1cc5cfd5fdab787f6
title: Cod recovery
uri: 2015-09-28-Cod-recovery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Cod_recovery%29
content:
<p>Protection measures have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/25/north-sea-cod-taken-off-red-list-of-fish-to-avoid-as-numbers-improve">
helped cod start to recover</a>
 in the North Sea.
</p>


feed_id: c52a44dbae8fb2eca1585e02c44d0950
title: Thug response to pointed finger
uri: Thug-response-to-pointed-finger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_%28Thug_response_to_pointed_finger%29

content:
<p>Keith McLeod was shot dead by a Baltimore thug who claims he had to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/25/maryland-police-shooting-keith-mcleod-finger-gun">protect 
his life from McLeod's pointed finger</a>.</p>
<p>My first response is to wonder what really happened.  Thugs sometimes
tell the truth, but in situations like this we must not presume they
did.</p>
<p>Supposing things happened as reported, McLeod was asking for some kind
of confrontation, but that is no reason for his summary execution.  A
finger doesn't shoot bullets, and saying "I'm going to kill you" does
not put someone's life in immediate danger.  If the thug reacted as if
they did, he must have been predisposed to kill.</p>


feed_id: b3d88f92f22877527050256d8f32e9a0
title: Urgent: No mortgages for gougers
uri: Urgent-No-mortgages-for-gougers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#28_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_mortgages_for_gougers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://a.cpdaction.org/page/s/tell-fannie-and-freddie">call
on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac</a> to stop selling mortgages to
gougers.


feed_id: a262430e3ca36723bfaf728011977470
title: Urgent: Student debt
uri: Urgent-Student-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#28_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Student_debt%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.signherenow.org/dont-garnish-social-security/credo/">call
on the Department of Education</a> to declare a moratorium on
garnishing Social Security payments for student debt.


feed_id: 2aecb520d3d6271a4dd279eb9a82cc17
title: Secret lobbying against car emission tests
uri: Secret-lobbying-against-car-emission-tests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#28_September_2015_%28Secret_lobbying_against_car_emission_tests%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/26/uk-tried-to-block-tougher-eu-car-emissions-tests">secretly
lobbied</a> against an EU proposal to require realistic tests of car
emissions.


feed_id: 01429120ecfb6c1afcf4ebb5b2fd431e
title: Snooping Barbie
uri: Snooping-Barbie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#28_September_2015_%28Snooping_Barbie%29
content:
<p>
A Barbie doll 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/magazine/barbie-wants-to-get-to-know-your-child.html">connected
to a company's server</a> can converse with a child and get lots of
personal data about that child.


feed_id: 610ae310b19031e11a8fe66d13c4b172
title: Harlem's homeless people
uri: Harlem-s-homeless-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#28_September_2015_%28Harlems_homeless_people%29
content:
<p>
Harlem residents are pushing homeless people out, while they have
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/25/pope-francis-harlem-homeless-poor-new-york">nowhere
to go</a>.


feed_id: 8247123c04b58192f47781e614971fcd
title: No compassion for immigrant children
uri: No-compassion-for-immigrant-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#28_September_2015_%28No_compassion_for_immigrant_children%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has no compassion for people brought or sent to the
UK as children, without permission, who have no other home to go to.
They are run through an expensive wringer, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/25/undocumented-children-facing-deportation-from-uk">paying
lots of money to file requests that get turned down</a>.
<p>
The US is similar, which is one of the issues proposed for 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#10_October_2013_(Arrest_of_members_of_Congress_supporting_immigration_reform)">immigration
reform in the US</a>.  This stalled a few years ago when Republicans
turned against it.


feed_id: f1ea834597861dbe8ce0254e3413d082
title: Very urgent: Oppose anti-net-neutrality rider
uri: Very-urgent-Oppose-anti-net-neutrality-rider
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_anti-net-neutrality_rider%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stoptheslowdown.net/?src=158449">oppose</a> a new
anti-net-neutrality rider by Sep 30.


feed_id: be698ed54df7187a4423e5d133218fd6
title: Investigation of Saudi war crimes
uri: Investigation-of-Saudi-war-crimes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Investigation_of_Saudi_war_crimes%29

content:
<p>
The UN is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/25/will-saudi-arabia-stop-un-investigating-its-war-atrocities-yemen">considering
investigating Saudi war crimes in Yemen</a>.  The Saudi king is using
its money to try to prevent this.


feed_id: 95512f60684eb7a376dbb017edcb4824
title: US to keep troops in Afghanistan
uri: US-to-keep-troops-in-Afghanistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28US_to_keep_troops_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
The US will keep 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/25/operation-endless-war-us-could-leave-10000-troops-afghanistan-after-2016">10,000
troops in Afghanistan for another year</a>.  Perhaps for another
decade or two.


feed_id: 2800f00fb6f7a6136014238b4914f4d7
title: Pope rebukes austerity
uri: Pope-rebukes-austerity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Pope_rebukes_austerity%29
content:
<p>
Pope Francis, addressing the UN, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/09/25/pope-francis-calls-un-address-oppressive-lending">rebuked
austerity and oppressive lending</a>.
<p>
Many countries are subjugated by repayment of loans that were unjustly
made in the first place.
<p>
He also asserted that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/25/pope-francis-asserts-right-environment-un">the
environment should have rights</a>.  Humanity and the environment are
interconnected, so damaging one damages the other.


feed_id: 17c3953ce6627d18126793e416deeb7d
title: Neglected elderly women in South Korea
uri: Neglected-elderly-women-in-South-Korea
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Neglected_elderly_women_in_South_Korea%29

content:
<p>
In South Korea, old women become prostitutes for old men, because 
<a href="http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_28876273/elderly-prostitutes-reveal-dark-side-south-koreas-rise">they
have no other income</a>.


feed_id: b431ad91aaedcbe7aa5648d452633072
title: Hassled by thugs for wearing shirt
uri: Hassled-by-thugs-for-wearing-shirt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Hassled_by_thugs_for_wearing_shirt%29

content:
<p>
From time to time, Americans are hassled by thugs for 
<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/nyc-cops-question-woman-over-t-shirt-with-arabic-writing-as-she-walks-dog-past-911-memorial/">wearing
a shirt with some Arabic writing on it</a>.
<p>
Ironically, the shirt in question was made by an anti-war group.


feed_id: 8fd0a3c6325f3e59e1d5159491212e34
title: Student union in UK blocks speech
uri: Student-union-in-UK-blocks-speech
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Student_union_in_UK_blocks_speech%29

content:
<p>
A student union in the UK has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/26/student-union-blocks-speech-activist-maryam-namazie-warwick">blocked
Maryam Namazie from speaking at a university</a>.  Namazie defends the
human rights of non-Muslims and ex-Muslims against repressive Muslim
rule.


feed_id: 871dfd77c1f218a57699307d96a89a64
title: Tell Jesus to stop
uri: Tell-Jesus-to-stop
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Tell_Jesus_to_stop%29
content:
<p>
Mother Teresa told a woman, âSuffering, pain, sorrow, humiliation,
feelings of loneliness, are nothing but the kiss of Jesus, a sign that
you have come so close that he can kiss you.â  Her response: âTell
Jesus to stop.â
<p>
Catholic hospitals in the US have a similar 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20150927">attitude
towards suffering patients</a>.


feed_id: 8b1a8dab9e9076da1431aa351b91e447
title: Human rights of migrants in Australia
uri: Human-rights-of-migrants-in-Australia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Human_rights_of_migrants_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
The UN Special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants cancelled a visit
to Australia, because the government would not promise not to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/27/coalition-defends-cooperation-with-un-after-human-rights-official-cancels-trip">prosecute
people for speaking to him</a>.
<p>

Compare this with Israel, that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#3%20September%202010%20(Israel%20accused%20of%20piracy%20in%20flotilla%20attack)">blocked
a UN mission to investigate war crimes</a> in Gaza.


feed_id: 7aad74536e22848edaf39d01b6f01443
title: Peace deal between Islamist rebels and Assad
uri: Peace-deal-between-Islamist-rebels-and-Assad
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Peace_deal_between_Islamist_rebels_and_Assad%29

content:
<p>
Islamist rebels, allied with al-Qa'ida, have made a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/26/syrian-rebels-and-assad-regime-agree-ceasefire">tentative
peace deal</a> with Assad.


feed_id: 5749e80ae0fcc719c5379da913bd1412
title: Right-wing irrationality and obtuseness
uri: Right-wing-irrationality-and-obtuseness
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Right-wing%20irrationality%20and%20obtuseness%29

content:
<p>A clear example of how systematic right-wing irrationality and
obtuseness <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/27/rspca-countryside-alliance-progressives-tea-party">wins battles by repeating false insults.</a></p><p></p>


feed_id: 9e47f8d5efadce8960ecf1b88dcb64d9
title: Republicans
uri: 2015-09-30-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Republicans%29
content:
<p>If Republicans care about human life, why don't they celebrate <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/pope-franciss-endorsement-of-iran-deal-exposes-republican-hypocrisy/">avoiding war with Iran?</a></p><p></p>


feed_id: be90b8e03b3a5cfa9cec47ffac2f3f81
title: Urgent: say no to the TPP
uri: Urgent-say-no-to-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_say_no_to_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/stoptpp-atlanta-/?akid=13923.881131.iUE_ak&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=1002
">say no once again to the TPP.</a>
<p>We have not won yet!


feed_id: a0fe469b69c5e1586b7b7f403906b8d6
title: Urgent: ban privatized prisons
uri: Urgent-ban-privatized-prisons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_ban_privatized_prisons%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/private_prisons?t=1003&akid=15724.1183552.vJvQhK
">call on Congress</a> to ban privatized prisons.


feed_id: 6213b06a7348b86ee7f29a9e108759bd
title: Urgent: tobacco control committee
uri: Urgent-tobacco-control-committee
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_tobacco_control_committee%29

content:
<p>Everyone: <a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-tobacco/
">Urge the Philippines Congress</a> to kick the tobacco industry
representative off the state's tobacco control committee.


feed_id: 8e881025476202da39c917f3940d3f25
title: Cancer near nuclear power plants
uri: Cancer-near-nuclear-power-plants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Cancer_near_nuclear_power_plants%29

content:
<p>The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission <a href="http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2985492/nuclear_power_kills_the_real_reason_the_nrc_cancelled_its_nuclear_site_cancer_study.html">cancelled a study</a> meant to check
for high levels of cancer within a few km of nuclear power plants.
<p>The author of this article <a href="http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2985492/nuclear_power_kills_the_real_reason_the_nrc_cancelled_its_nuclear_site_cancer_study.html">says</a> that this was done to avoid embarrassing
the nuclear industry with a positive result.
<p>I don't know whether the result is likely to be positive, but the
cancellation stinks.


feed_id: 1f022e379d7ea96c6b091d2e861b9e65
title: Imprisonment of mothers of newborns
uri: Imprisonment-of-mothers-of-newborns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Imprisonment_of_mothers_of_newborns%29

content:
<p>US mothers of newborns face imprisonment for long periods of time <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/alabama-chemical-endangerment-drug-war">if they take drugs,</a> even prescription drugs, that are judged harmful to fetuses.
<p>There are many practices that pregnant women would do best to avoid,
but imprisoning women for not avoiding them only makes things worse.


feed_id: 1c5a9e043cfc9219b1d5822fd8e6deab
title: Privacy protection in Europe
uri: Privacy-protection-in-Europe
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Privacy_protection_in_Europe%29

content:
<p>The EU must stop letting European companies entrust their data to
US servers, but that's only the first step.  The EU needs to establish
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/Safe-Harbor-Suspension-by-EU-Court-of-Justice-Is-an-Essential-First-Step
">sufficient privacy protection</a> for users when the data is in Europe.
<p>In my opinion, countries should not allow services to be designed as
excuses to collect data about people.


feed_id: d66967965bf5473e4eac4ed8bc535688
title: Bogus plan to reduce greenhouse gas
uri: Bogus-plan-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Bogus_plan_to_reduce_greenhouse_gas%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/25/the-inconvenient-truth-about-direct-action-comes-from-turnbull-himself">The new prime minister of Australia</a> has committed to defend a bogus
plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ignoring the objections that
he himself pointed out before.


feed_id: 863f3591f914bd99bbc072bd48962ea8
title: GCHQ profiles of internet users
uri: GCHQ-profiles-of-internet-users
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28GCHQ_profiles_of_internet_users%29

content:
<p>GCHQ profiles the internet usage of nearly every internet user.  This
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/gchq-radio-porn-spies-track-web-users-online-identities/
">includes</a> browsing, searching, emails, internet radio listening, and more.


feed_id: 106ba23e4a66f66b8e1dd6e4733681cd
title: Corporations United decision
uri: Corporations-United-decision
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Corporations_United_decision%29

content:
<p>The Supreme Court's right-wing majority <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-many-sins-of-citizens-united/
">bent over backwards</a> to come up with the Corporations United decision.  (The plaintiffs' organization was officially known as "Citizens United", a demonstration of the dishonesty at the root of their cause.)


feed_id: bcc2d73d496eb542b8e4180d8a35a138
title: Men stab, rape and kill
uri: Men-stab-rape-and-kill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Men_stab%2C_rape_and_kill%29
content:
<p>Men Stab, Rape and Kill Women Because They Can.  It's Time to Say <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/25/men-stab-and-kill-women-because-they-can-its-time-to-say-they-cant">They Can't.</a>
<p>People who claim that those who are raped are responsible for it are
probably failing to <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_(Blaming_the_victim)">distinguish</a> between moral responsibility and practical responsibility.


feed_id: 56f359becf97c579d12a059ffcdd7168
title: Volkswagen lieware
uri: Volkswagen-lieware
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Volkswagen_lieware%29
content:
<p>Volkswagen says that only a small team of engineers was responsible
for the lieware.  <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/09/vw-tries-blame-engine-emissions-fraud-low-level-engineers-and-technicians">Some are skeptical of this claim.</a>


feed_id: 4b235e43b7aa4278cea335e1ed3460c3
title: Netanyahu the fear monger
uri: Netanyahu-the-fear-monger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Netanyahu_the_fear_monger%29
content:
<p><a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1443203393/
">Uri Avnery:</a> Netanyahu the fear monger can't use the hypothetical
Iranian nuke any more, but he will find someone else.


feed_id: 52ecb3882834d00221a073ec07784f98
title: NSA's mass internet spying
uri: NSA-s-mass-internet-spying
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28NSA%27s_mass_internet_spying%29

content:
<p>How the NSA's Mass Internet Spying <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/how-nsas-mass-internet-spying-poisons-society
">Poisons Society.</a>


feed_id: 8612d3e1abd905c67633c33014a22384
title: Increased surveillance
uri: Increased-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Increased_surveillance%29
content:
<p><a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2015/strategic-initiative-technology-how-bnd-wants-to-ramp-up-its-tech-capabilities-for-300-million-euros/">The German government</a> plans to spend lots of money to increase
surveillance of everyone.


feed_id: 85c7014a9215c499df1fa0c99d0575f5
title: Unique IDs and surveillance
uri: Unique-IDs-and-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Unique_IDs_and_surveillance%29
content:
<p>Germany is considering requiring every <a href="https://edri.org/germany-dreams-security-id-for-every-thing-connected/
">"thing"</a> connected to the internet to have a unique ID.
<p>That is a horrible idea, since it would tent to cement total surveillance.


feed_id: 950377f79b55d0214c58eb8e11097936
title: Poisonous snakes
uri: Poisonous-snakes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Poisonous_snakes%29
content:
<p>More than <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/26/snakebites-kill-hundreds-of-thousands-worldwide
">100,000 people a year</a> are killed by poisonous snakes, and no one
keeps track of how many.  And the company that makes antivenin has stopped.


feed_id: 00240b279ce313aed4f03246589f6e57
title: False accusations against Planned Parenthood
uri: False-accusations-against-Planned-Parenthood
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28False_accusations_against_Planned_Parenthood%29

content:
<p>Planned Parenthood supporters threw condoms at <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/26/carly-fiorina-tailgate-interrupted-planned-parenthood-protesters">Carly Fiorina,</a> who made false accusations against Planned Parenthood.


feed_id: d0e977a23935f51b99e8c461024f96ad
title: North Atlantic currents
uri: North-Atlantic-currents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28North_Atlantic_currents%29
content:
<p>An unprecedented <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/25/record-cold-blob-north-atlantic-sign-future-climate-woes
">large mass of cold water</a> in the North Atlantic
threatens to shut down the currents, including the Gulf Stream.


feed_id: 066beef2c642d66e6db5d51659453ff8
title: Erdo&gbreve;an's repression
uri: Erdo-gbreve-an-s-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Erdogans_repression%29
content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an's repression has pervasively 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/28/british-lawyers-warn-of-human-rights-violations-in-turkey">undermined
the Turkish state and courts</a>.


feed_id: 172f2e9b68f688c1f6da55a1f45f9db0
title: UN calls for social media censorship
uri: UN-calls-for-social-media-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28UN_calls_for_social_media_censorship%29

content:
<p>
The UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development calls for state
licensing of social media platforms, which would be required to 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09/24/the-united-nations-has-a-radical-dangerous-vision-for-the-future-of-the-web/">censor
every post before it goes up</a>.
<p>
That goes beyond even the actual Chinese censorship.


feed_id: d7c68947c3421355a0c031696c7cef83
title: UK to send troops to Somalia
uri: UK-to-send-troops-to-Somalia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28UK_to_send_troops_to_Somalia%29

content:
<p>
The UK will send troops to Somalia, ostensibly for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/27/uk-to-deploy-troops-to-help-keep-peace-in-somalia-and-south-sudan">training
the Somali army</a>, and calls this "keeping the peace".
<p>
It is dishonest to speak of "keeping the peace" during a civil war.


feed_id: 0c806bd8110f73c7287b05c9400c7202
title: Cameron addresses pig sex allegations
uri: Cameron-addresses-pig-sex-allegations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Cameron_addresses_pig_sex_allegations%29

content:
<p>
Cameron 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/27/david-cameron-denies-lord-ashcroft-allegations-call-me-dave-dead-pig">says
he never screwed a dead pig</a>.  He was saving himself for when he
would screw millions of living, human non-rich Britons.


feed_id: b1c4abbc8657a797d67f0d3239f73236
title: Conversion of CO2 to useful products
uri: Conversion-of-CO2-to-useful-products
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Conversion_of_CO2_to_useful_products%29

content:
<p>
Some industries convert CO<sub>2</sub> to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/27/making-money-co2">useful
products</a>.  This is a fine thing to do, but we would have to do it
on a tremendous scale for it to slow global heating.


feed_id: 4b777aefbd71e381aaf183d30b716d8a
title: UK gov't exploiting Syrian refugees
uri: UK-gov-t-exploiting-Syrian-refugees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28UK_govt_exploiting_Syrian_refugees%29

content:
<p>
The UK's right-wing government is cynically exploiting Syrian refugees
as an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/26/cameron-called-out-cynically-exploiting-refugee-plight-escalate-war">excuse
to get more involved in war</a>.


feed_id: ceb176c56108392b0f0815bb7d5cca94
title: Lessons from Podemos
uri: Lessons-from-Podemos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Lessons_from_Podemos%29
content:
<p>
Lessons from the Spanish political party, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/27/occupy-spanish-style-big-lessons-us">Podemos</a>.


feed_id: 2f0b2222c854cef365fb5dc8acfba72a
title: Pope in US prison
uri: Pope-in-US-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Pope_in_US_prison%29
content:
<p>
The pope spoke in a US prison and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/27/pope-francis-philadelphia-prison-rehabilitation">called
on the US to care about what happens to prisoners</a>.
<p>
I hope we can make US politicians start funding rehabilitation
programs again.  Putting an end to private prisons, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_(Elimination_of_privatized_prisons)">as
Sanders proposes</a>, is a necessary step but would not, alone, offer
prisoners help in rehabilitation.
<p>
However, we need to further than this.  In order for ex-cons to go
straight, we need to stop excluding them from nearly all opportunity
other than crime.


feed_id: 8c1ba162aa08ca6dd875a8808dea2366
title: EU-US subpoena'd data
uri: EU-US-subpoena-d-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28EU-US_subpoenad_data%29
content:
<p>
The proposed EU-US agreement on cooperation in regard to subpoena'd
data 
<a href="https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2015/09/24/five-things-you-should-know-about-the-eu-us-umbrella-agreement">lacks
basic protections</a>.


feed_id: 5a381f56a5592e96dcd91255ca5800b2
title: Democracy protests in Hong Kong
uri: Democracy-protests-in-Hong-Kong
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Democracy_protests_in_Hong_Kong%29

content:
<p>
The massive democracy protests in Hong Kong a year ago 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/27/hong-kong-democracy-activists-ask-what-protest-achieved-umbrella">did
not achieve their goals</a>; people disagree about whether they have
achieved anything.


feed_id: 681f7c7cce21b0d8d4f770263707b647
title: Bombing PISSI
uri: Bombing-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Bombing_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
Dropping a few bombs on PISSI is now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/27/france-launches-first-airstrikes-isis-syria">de
rigueur for some countries</a>.
<p>
It is dishonest for these countries to claim that they are "defending
themselves" with this.  With the US already bombing PISSI, the extra
bombs those countries can drop will not change anything; it is only
symbolic.  Defeating PISSI can't be done by dropping a few more bombs.


feed_id: adbc0b8559c806e6e21e7981b304a7ac
title: Reparations for slavery
uri: Reparations-for-slavery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Reparations_for_slavery%29
content:
<p>
Jamaica 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/jamaica-calls-britain-pay-billions-pounds-reparations-slavery">Calls
for Britain to Pay Billions of Pounds</a> in Reparations for Slavery.
<p>
France should repay to Haiti 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_(Frances_debt_to_Haiti)">the
ransom it demanded</a> to allow Haiti to escape from slavery.


feed_id: f0ccf3cc4fcc053d1299c0bbbb6f953f
title: Carbon emissions due to shark culling
uri: Carbon-emissions-due-to-shark-culling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Carbon_emissions_due_to_shark_culling%29

content:
<p>
Humans have nearly eliminated sharks; this can have a surprising
byproduct: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/29/shark-culling-climate-change-research">lots
of carbon emissions</a>.
<p>
Humans have nearly eliminated sea turtles, too.  Does that reduce
carbon emissions?


feed_id: 289b49ceddfb5d9beccbe9691a7dec2a
title: Manipulation of metal prices
uri: Manipulation-of-metal-prices
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Manipulation_of_metal_prices%29

content:
<p>
The US and Switzerland are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/28/swiss-watchdog-investigates-bank-collusion-in-precious-metals-market">investigating
large banks</a> for manipulating the price of metals.
<p>
Too bad the US has a policy of not putting banksters in jail.


feed_id: 6edf784a420cc09c743b6f76c0974d9d
title: Social mobility in America
uri: Social-mobility-in-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Social_mobility_in_America%29
content:
<p>
In America, 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/in-america-the-poorer-you-are-the-poorer-your-children-will-be/">the
Poorer You Are, the Poorer Your Children Will Be</a>.  The rich have
nearly eliminated social mobility.


feed_id: 86893cab059ef0dc63e162fdcd36297c
title: UN agency calls for censorship
uri: UN-agency-calls-for-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28UN_agency_calls_for_censorship%29

content:
<p>
UN Women, a UN agency for empowerment of women, has called for a
<a href="media/be4e11d7.cyber_violence_gender20report.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.unwomen.org/~/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2015/cyber_violence_gender%20report.pdf">world-wide
system of censorship</a> to be applied to the internet so that people
can be stopped from threatening or insulting women.
<p>
It does this by conflating insults with "violence".


feed_id: 6e3745de859895e9a79fb2217852431b
title: Urgent: no gifts for Wall Street
uri: Urgent-no-gifts-for-Wall-Street
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_no_gifts_for_Wall_Street%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://action.civilrights.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=4982
">tell Congress</a> not to give Wall Street any gifts.


feed_id: 7975ae9ab63de39f7dbb3f4a3af05bbc
title: "Carbon lock-in"
uri: Carbon-lock-in
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Carbon_lock-in%29
content:
<p>"Carbon lock-in": investment in oil, gas or coal extraction tends to
create <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/sep/28/arctic-oil-drilling-carbon-obama-shell-goldman-sachs">economic forces</a> that demand we extract it.


feed_id: 78eeb4d4581d975e34b8a9ee3d2ca499
title: Fiorina endorsed torture
uri: Fiorina-endorsed-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Fiorina_endorsed_torture%29
content:
<p>Carly Fiorina has endorsed torture, specifically <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/28/carly-fiorina-endorses-waterboarding">waterboarding,</a> and further makes the claim that it gets true information rather than falsehoods.
<p>Shame on the Guardian for suggesting that there is any doubt that it
is torture.
<p>She also brags about <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/carly-fiorina-i-supplied-hp-servers-for-nsa-snooping
">providing servers</a> for the NSA's massive general surveillance.
<p>No one would be safe if she is president.


feed_id: a8282780efcbc64c1cfc6a858abf1a19
title: Harassment by bad players
uri: Harassment-by-bad-players
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Harassment_by_bad_players%29
content:
<p>In a video game, the male players that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/20/men-who-harass-women-online-are-quite-literally-losers-new-study-finds/">harassed female players</a> tended to be those who played badly.


feed_id: ea6c7021aae9f8ed313cb2b1dcd393ad
title: Marine protected area
uri: Marine-protected-area
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Marine_protected_area%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/28/new-zealand-creates-vast-ocean-sanctuary
">New Zealand</a> will create a vast marine protected area.


feed_id: ecd624c69d3679ed4be181a94e34ac73
title: Strike of NHS doctors
uri: Strike-of-NHS-doctors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Strike_of_NHS_doctors%29
content:
<p>In the UK, cuts to doctors' salaries are driving many doctors to quit
the NHS.  But first they are going to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/sep/28/nhs-junior-doctors-forced-out-contract-department-of-health">try going on strike.</a>


feed_id: f21e1160bae323ab9bdd9a6f160f7429
title: Insulting Shaker Aamer in the media
uri: Insulting-Shaker-Aamer-in-the-media
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Insulting_Shaker_Aamer_in_the_media%29

content:
<p>Expect US officials to start insulting Shaker Aamer in the media,
to discredit what he says about <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/28/shaker-aamer-guantanamo
">how he and other prisoners in Guantanamo were tortured.</a>
<p>You may find my song parody, <a href="https://www.stallman.org/guantanamero.html">Guantanamero,</a> pertinent in this context.


feed_id: 2ab3424d60432f1f5a792bad5f4be2e9
title: Lawsuits over environmental damage
uri: Lawsuits-over-environmental-damage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Lawsuits_over_environmental_damage%29

content:
<p>The UK government plans to make lawsuits over environmental damage
so financially dangerous that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/28/green-legal-challenges-heathrow-hs2-cost-caps">people won't dare sue.</a>


feed_id: 0987f898f90734a2a5400a390ba4db6d
title: Security-breaking by US government
uri: Security-breaking-by-US-government
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Security-breaking_by_US_government%29

content:
<p>The US government, when it can justify a warrant, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/28/hacking/">has many ways to get
the data from someone's computer.</a>  Even if we assume it only does
good, and ignore its potential for bad, it can't possibly justify
banning encryption.
<p>Please don't call security-breaking <a href="https://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">"hacking".</a>  The right name for that is "cracking."


feed_id: 27777412da578bf22f865afddc92d356
title: Bombing of wedding in Yemen
uri: Bombing-of-wedding-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Bombing_of_wedding_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>A wedding in Yemen has been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/28/saudi-led-airstrikes-hit-yemen-wedding-party
">bombed.</a>  The article does not say which country's planes did it, but it was some US ally.
<p>In Iraq, the wedding was bombed <a href="media/7e876d65.faith-based-cartoon.jpg" data-original-source="https://www.stallman.org/images/faith-based-cartoon.jpg">by US planes.</a>


feed_id: 0951ef093ec08376932cc1e8aaed9e2a
title: Drilling in Chukchi Sea
uri: Drilling-in-Chukchi-Sea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Drilling_in_Chukchi_Sea%29
content:
<p>Shell <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/28/shell-has-frozen-its-arctic-oil-drilling-but-the-fight-isnt-over
">gave up</a> on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea, saying test
wells did not find enough oil.  Perhaps this is an excuse, a deniable way to yield to public pressure.


feed_id: 5d5fe0cb3082099e6cdf21d02319bac6
title: Pledge for greenhouse gas reduction
uri: Pledge-for-greenhouse-gas-reduction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Pledge_for_greenhouse_gas_reduction%29

content:
<p>Brazil has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/28/brazil-pledges-to-cut-carbon-emissions-37-by-2025
">pledged</a> a big reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.
<p>It is still not enough to save our ecosphere, but at least it is
getting serious.


feed_id: 51d7c45c88aaeeb62dcb6dff1f561ee1
title: Same-sex marriage licenses
uri: Same-sex-marriage-licenses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_%28Same-sex_marriage_licenses%29
content:
<p>The illogically defended Kim Davis's refusal to sign same-sex marriage
licenses, incorrectly calling this <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/28/pope-government-workers-right-refuse-gay-marriage-licences-kim-davis">"conscientious objection".</a>
<p>The concept of "conscientious objection" applies to jobs people are
compelled to do, such as when they are conscripted into the army.
Conscripts that object to killing cannot avoid it by resigning from
the army, so they have campaigned for and won the right to do some
other duty, such as being a medic.
<p>This is not pertinent to Kim Davis because nobody is conscripted to
work as a county clerk.  If Davis doesn't want to do that job, she can
simply resign.
<p>Although the pope continues the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/27/pope-francis-abortion-conservative-catholics">opposition</a> to birth control and abortion, he is putting the main emphasis elsewhere.


feed_id: 56d2ca0efe50b66ed03d7aaecee84968
title: Student union in UK blocks speech
uri: 2015-10-01-Student-union-in-UK-blocks-speech
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_September_2015_%28Student_union_in_UK_blocks_speech%29

content:
<p>
A student union in the UK has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/26/student-union-blocks-speech-activist-maryam-namazie-warwick">blocked
Maryam Namazie from speaking at a university</a>.  Namazie defends the
human rights of non-Muslims and ex-Muslims against repressive Muslim
rule.
<p>
Subsequently the student union 
<a href="https://www.warwicksu.com/news/article/warwicksu/Warwick-SU-to-host-Maryam-Namazie-as-an-External-Speaker/">changed
its decision</a> and will permit Namazie to speak.


feed_id: 6ee00fa24cc0fc2d56fc3e0422ce5e04
title: Urgent: prosecute Exxon
uri: Urgent-prosecute-Exxon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_prosecute_Exxon%29
content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/prosecute_exxonmobil?t=1002&akid=15741.1183552.Rb5KX2">call on Obama</a> to prosecute Exxon for lying about the danger of global heating.


feed_id: d015f8f0e84243fa164b0941e2392e53
title: A share of the reduced pie
uri: A-share-of-the-reduced-pie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28A_share_of_the_reduced_pie%29
content:
<p>Right-wing strategy, after reducing what is available to the non-rich,
is to make them fight among themselves for a share of the reduced pie.
To win, the non-rich <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/29/austerity-generation-old-young-housing-education-care-99">must refuse to be divided.</a>


feed_id: fcfbd6f67734988456661831e9a53528
title: Judging loans based on Facebook data
uri: Judging-loans-based-on-Facebook-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Judging_loans_based_on_Facebook_data%29

content:
<p>Would it be legal for a bank to deny a loan <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/facebooks-new-patent-and-digital-redlining/407287/">based on Facebook data about you?</a>
<p>The article suffers from the common confusion between inventions and
patents.  The method of judging loans based on a person's Facebook data
is an invention.  The patent is a government-created monopoly that
might stop or hinder some companies from using the invention.  Patents on
business practices are really a form of computational idea patent, so
they should not be allowed.
<p>But that is a separate issue from the issue raised by the proposed
method.  Innovations can be good or bad.
<p>What worries me most about this proposed method is that it might
pressure people to be used by Facebook.


feed_id: 967666fe05d8a3d75fefe049cc0e9de6
title: Suing Saudi Arabia
uri: Suing-Saudi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Suing_Saudi_Arabia%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/30/us-judge-dismisses-september-11-victims-case-against-saudi-arabia">US court</a> denied the possibility of suing Saudi Arabia for involvement in
the September 2001 attacks.


feed_id: ba0fa820d1ebf231f07ef241980f7796
title: Records of Syria's past
uri: Records-of-Syria-s-past
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Records_of_Syria%27s_past%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/they-are-barbarians-meet-the-man-maamoun-abdulkarim-defending-syrias-heritage-from-isis">Defending the records of Syria's past</a> from PISSI, and from others that just
want to steal it.


feed_id: c08545a864a2bd7c2f19923b96c29a1a
title: Visa for journalists
uri: Visa-for-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Visa_for_journalists%29
content:
<p>Indonesia threatens to imprison British journalists for five years
for having entered on tourist visas <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/british-journalists-face-five-years-in-indonesian-jail-for-visa-violation">to make a documentary.</a>
<p>It is wrong to require special visas for journalists.  One must
suspect that this is a scheme to conceal dirty deeds.  (In the case of
the other journalists trying to cover West Papua, we can be sure of
that.)  All the governments, <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2003-nov-feb.html#28 December 2003 (journalist Visas)">including the US,</a>  that have such a policy, deserve a rebuke.


feed_id: f43d5db020378189440a917ad056fee6
title: Retaking Kunduz
uri: Retaking-Kunduz
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Retaking_Kunduz%29
content:
<p>The Afghan army has sent <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/taliban-widen-offensive-as-afghan-army-fails-to-retake-kunduz">reinforcements</a> to the outskirts of Kunduz but the soldiers lack the morale and fighting spirit to fight to retake
the city.
<p>As for the death of an important Taliban leader, that sort of thing
causes only a small setback to an army with strong morale.
<p>The Afghan government has the same weakness that the South Vietnamese
government had: everyone knew its main purpose was corruption, so it
could not inspire the sort of loyalty that motivates soldiers to risk
their lives.


feed_id: 34b19eb67b1e7f4f752131ec34747389
title: Thug that shot Zachary Hammond
uri: Thug-that-shot-Zachary-Hammond
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Thug_that_shot_Zachary_Hammond%29

content:
<p>The thug that shot Zachary Hammond first told him, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/29/zachary-hammond-south-carolina-lawsuit-teen-shot-by-police">"I'll blow your...head off,"</a> as Hammond was looking away.


feed_id: 1259c17765336155a9360d2ee8a8eba8
title: Advice to Saudi prisons
uri: Advice-to-Saudi-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Advice_to_Saudi_prisons%29
content:
<p>Corbyn calls on the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/the-uk-interest-in-saudi-prisons-and-why-corbyn-opposes-it">UK government</a> to stop providing advice to Saudi prisons.
<p>Evidently the advice is not doing much, if any, good.


feed_id: 1f5a298a7c93f4ec1cd169bdbaecd588
title: Trump's tax cut for the rich
uri: Trump-s-tax-cut-for-the-rich
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Trump%27s_tax_cut_for_the_rich%29

content:
<p>Trump proposed a big tax cut for the rich.  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/29/donald-trump-tax-plan-analysis-nothing-new">To poor working Americans,</a> he offers to cut their tax rate from 0% to 0%.


feed_id: 6c227d9d61e45f240861230a7d5aebdc
title: Petition to kill TTIP
uri: Petition-to-kill-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Petition_to_kill_TTIP%29
content:
<p>3 million EU citizens have signed a petition to kill the TTIP,
and <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/28/will-ttip-get-terminated-negotiations-falter-europe-balks
">it may get killed.</a>
<p>That would leave several other corporate supremacy treaties in the works:
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_August_2015_(The_TPP)">TPP</a>, <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_June_2015_(The_TISA)">TISA</a>, <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_August_2014_(Canada-EU_free_exploitation_treaty)">CETA</a>, and perhaps others.


feed_id: 44fb838299432465519820ec220ba19b
title: Protecting from pesticides
uri: Protecting-from-pesticides
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Protecting_from_pesticides%29
content:
<p>The EPA has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/28/after-decades-discrimination-farm-workers-get-pesticide-protections">improved regulations</a> for protecting farm workers from pesticides.


feed_id: 422b7c5c7db2c3a592f0cdf66c419648
title: Global heating
uri: 2015-10-01-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>Current pledges for the Paris climate conference <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/28/international-pledges-not-enough-avoid-worst-impacts-climate-change">would still lead to 3.5 C of global heating.</a>


feed_id: 475ae640553bef0cc43a4fa70d2fb96e
title: US laws shaped by rich people
uri: US-laws-shaped-by-rich-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28US_laws_shaped_by_rich_people%29
content:
<p>
Rich people have reshaped US laws and business practices, across the
board, to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/28/why-we-must-end-upward-pre-distribution-rich">benefit
the rich and push the rest else down</a>.
<p>
It is unfortunate that the article uses the confusing term
<a href='http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html'>"intellectual
property"</a>, lumping together laws whose requirements and operation
are totally different.


feed_id: d034bede85b8fdc95f3ba1137de9d64f
title: Tax avoidance by big companies
uri: Tax-avoidance-by-big-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Tax_avoidance_by_big_companies%29

content:
<p>
Big companies have managed to avoid 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/28/painful-facts-state-state-how-were-victimized-corporate-state-tax-avoidance">2/3
of the taxes they ought to pay to US states</a>.  This starves the
state governments of funds.


feed_id: 4b2d093a3fb163943f92173217268dda
title: DEA agents unpunished for taking bribes
uri: DEA-agents-unpunished-for-taking-bribes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28DEA_agents_unpunished_for_taking_bribes%29

content:
<p>
When DEA agents were found with prostitutes in Colombia, the head of
the DEA had to resign, but 
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/28/dea-agents-engaged-in-serious-misconduct">few
agents have been punished</a>.
<p>
I don't think it matters in the slightest if US agents have fun with
prostitutes.  However, if the prostitutes are paid by organized
criminals, that's bribery.  Why haven't those agents been prosecuted
for taking bribes?


feed_id: 36d42147fbfb72d1fe176e831d614d4f
title: Demonizing the poor
uri: Demonizing-the-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Demonizing_the_poor%29
content:
<p>
Republicans have found another way to demonize the poor: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/29/meat-good-eat-food-stamps-us">prohibit
buying meat and fish with food stamps</a>.


feed_id: b742d02d596896f931ed0b647abf55a7
title: UK's "work program"
uri: UK-s-work-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28UKs_work_program%29
content:
<p>
The UK's "work program" 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/29/work-programme-bullying-job-searches">bullies
unemployed young adults to submit useless job applications</a> and be
exploited for no pay.


feed_id: 2998a2929257ade14a5abe0a2d126669
title: Obama And Putin's chilling handshake
uri: Obama-And-Putin-s-chilling-handshake
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Obama_And_Putins_chilling_handshake%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/29/handshake-obama-putin-syria">A
Chilling Handshake Between Obama And Putin, While Syria
Disintegrates</a>.


feed_id: b74aac0d1f6a6601992ed26ac732de60
title: Don't tell stores who you are
uri: Don-t-tell-stores-who-you-are
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Dont_tell_stores_who_you_are%29
content:
<p>
If you give a store your email address, it can now use that to 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/29/new_creepy_google_ad_tools/">give
Google information about your interests</a>.
<p>
Don't be tracked — pay cash, and don't tell the store who you
are.


feed_id: 2232d8a158b2f533c0e85964b02069f6
title: Exxon's harm concealed since 70s
uri: Exxon-s-harm-concealed-since-70s
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Exxons_harm_concealed_since_70s%29

content:
<p>
Now that it is established that Exxon's scientists
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/sep/29/is-the-fossil-fuel-industry-like-the-tobacco-industry-guilty-of-racketeering">recognized
the likelihood and danger of global heating back in the 70s</a>, it is
time for a RICO investigation of these companies for carrying on while
concealing the harm they knew they were doing.


feed_id: 136f13c0cc4fe6c2eb22ebaa1db84db2
title: Courts seek excuses to disregard facts
uri: Courts-seek-excuses-to-disregard-facts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Courts_seek_excuses_to_disregard_facts%29

content:
<p>
Courts everywhere 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/pakistani-man-ansar-iqbal-hanged-murder">seek
excuses to ignore newly presented reasons why someone should not be
punished</a>.  A court in Afghanistan ordered a murderer to be hanged,
although the law said he should not be executed since he was a minor
when he committed the crime.  The court said his birth certificate was
presented too late.
<p>
In other words, the court found an excuse to disregard an undisputed
fact.
<p>
I think it is a distraction to focus on details of the criminal, such
as age or sanity.  The death penalty is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#30_September_2011_(Urgent:_Abolish_The_Death_Penalty)">wrong
in all cases</a>.


feed_id: 8191326906512b118c2276f866b1daf5
title: Kunduz captured
uri: Kunduz-captured
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Kunduz_captured%29
content:
<p>
The Taliban 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/afghanistan-counter-offensive-taliban-kunduz">captured
a provincial capital, Kunduz</a>.
<p>
This is starting to look like Viet Nam.


feed_id: 854b13e90d5bdcb90337b6bcc7f27c06
title: Pope fires up campaign against LGBT rights
uri: Pope-fires-up-campaign-against-LGBT-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Pope_fires_up_campaign_against_LGBT_rights%29

content:
<p>
The pope's meeting with Kim Davis has fired up the antiabortionist
campaign to fight against LGBT rights through 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/pope-francis-meeting-kim-davis-religious-freedom">refusing
to do their jobs</a>.  based on misguidedly 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_September_2015_(Same-sex_marriage_licenses)">applying
the notion of "conscientious objection" to a situation it does not
fit</a>.
<p>
As we fight back against this, we may be able to target other forms 
of religious tyranny in the US, such as the Catholic hospitals that
endanger patients' lives in the name of fetus adoration.


feed_id: e3f0b19721a8771f15664f0c529c5cc7
title: Corrupt banking system
uri: Corrupt-banking-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Corrupt_banking_system%29
content:
<p>
The banking system 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/30/how-the-banks-ignored-lessons-of-crash">almost
crashed in 2007</a> because it had become corrupt in its structure:
every bank trader has an incentive to cheat clients and take mad risks
with its investors' money, and they are so powerful that they defy
governments.
<p>
I am confident we can defeat the banksters, if we have sufficient
political will to cancel any treaties that they try to hide behind.


feed_id: b101010a800a13cab618152378e7a462
title: Homeless people on trial
uri: Homeless-people-on-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Homeless_people_on_trial%29
content:
<p>
Manchester, England, is putting homeless people on trial, saying that
their tents are an illegal protest.  The homeless people say they are
just trying to shelter from rain, after they were stopped from
sleeping under a bridge.  They 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/30/manchester-homeless-people-face-jail-over-city-centre-tent-camps">face
two years in jail</a>.
<p>
If they were not protesting, they should have been, and it is wrong to
punish homeless people for protesting a state that makes them
homeless.
<p>
If you find the presence of homeless people on the street inconvenient
or annoying, remember that being homeless is a lot worse.


feed_id: f631c7663b8cd7f8c5d9732854d6fc04
title: Another flagrant liar running for president
uri: Another-flagrant-liar-running-for-president
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Another_flagrant_liar_running_for_president%29

content:
<p>
Flagrant liar Carly Fiorina 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/29/flagrant-liar-president">should
not be elected president</a>.
<p>
We've had plenty of those as president and they have done lots of
harm.


feed_id: 2eda6816a915bd08426cd8c45020ae2a
title: Obama and Putin both wrong on Syria
uri: Obama-and-Putin-both-wrong-on-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Obama_and_Putin_both_wrong_on_Syria%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/29/why-obama-and-putin-are-both-wrong-syria">Why
Obama and Putin are Both Wrong</a> on Syria.


feed_id: 7114100a01c01774532476fd2c9bf2fe
title: US Border Patrol cruelty cover-up
uri: US-Border-Patrol-cruelty-cover-up
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28US_Border_Patrol_cruelty_cover-up%29

content:
<p>
The US Border Patrol 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/29/judge-sanctions-border-patrol-over-evidence-destruction-abuse-case">destroyed
videos</a>, which a judge had ordered handed over, to cover up its
cruel treatment of prisoners.


feed_id: 434370ff065e79c03d7a9abd8f4263f7
title: Arrests for possession of marijuana
uri: Arrests-for-possession-of-marijuana
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Arrests_for_possession_of_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
Despite decriminalization of marijuana in several states, and
legalization in a few, over 
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/29/pot-busts-rise-for-the-first-time-since">700,000
Americans were arrested in 2014</a> for possession of marijuana.


feed_id: 8f4007140c1225fc0fec919a17da2662
title: Fossil fuel extraction in Alberta
uri: Fossil-fuel-extraction-in-Alberta
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_extraction_in_Alberta%29

content:
<p>
The new elected leader of Alberta talks about winding down fossil fuel
extraction — 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/30/no-long-term-future-in-tar-sands-alberta-rachel-notley">in
a century</a>!
<p>
Doesn't she understand?


feed_id: 9a511df70f4841b28733ce68f33675cf
title: Russia bombs US-supported Syrian rebel group
uri: Russia-bombs-US-supported-Syrian-rebel-group
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Russia_bombs_US-supported_Syrian_rebel_group%29

content:
<p>
Russia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/celebrations-and-fear-in-syria-russian-airstrikes-begin">bombing</a>
one of the Syrian rebel groups that the US supports.


feed_id: c7d7d713017af5dee7d8434d09ae5a51
title: Reducing flow of plastic waste into ocean
uri: Reducing-flow-of-plastic-waste-into-ocean
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Reducing_flow_of_plastic_waste_into_ocean%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/sep/30/dow-chemical-the-ocean-conservancy-ocean-plastics-pollution">plan
to reduce</a> the flow of plastic waste into the ocean.


feed_id: 7240f74bf9380bfeca460a8ddca5b17d
title: Election campaign funding
uri: Election-campaign-funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Election_campaign_funding%29
content:
<p>
Report: 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/30/report-shows-matching-funds-huge-boost-sanders-cruz-carson/">Matching
[government] Funds [for election campaigns]</a> Would Give Huge Boost
to Sanders, Cruz and Carson.


feed_id: 785a50415c528d26f422607632766dce
title: Obama claims to have "ended" wars
uri: Obama-claims-to-have-ended-wars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Obama_claims_to_have_ended_wars%29

content:
<p>
Obama keeps claiming to have 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/30/u-s-bombs-somehow-keep-falling-in-the-places-where-obama-boasts-he-ended-wars/">"ended"
the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq</a>.  As late as July, he made this
claim.


feed_id: 691c015bb49f2f26935c9d59377795e1
title: Off-duty thug and son attacked by thugs
uri: Off-duty-thug-and-son-attacked-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Off-duty_thug_and_son_attacked_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
A thug, off duty and not in uniform, was relaxing with his son when He
saw a driver flee from the scene of a car crash (which is a illegal,
for good reason).
<p>
Instead of shooting the driver, he tackled the driver.  Several more
thugs showed up, so they beat up and arrested the first thug, perhaps
because he is black.  Not yet satisfied, they 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/28/1425598/-Black-ex-cop-files-suit-over-he-and-his-son-being-beaten-by-other-cops">beat
up and arrested his son</a>, who is probably also black.
<p>
I wonder what happened to the driver.


feed_id: c0a234580da372495eda66654cefcc39
title: Don't talk to thugs without a lawyer
uri: Don-t-talk-to-thugs-without-a-lawyer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Dont_talk_to_thugs_without_a_lawyer%29

content:
<p>
In the US, if you have any relationship to a crime, before telling
thugs <em>anything at all</em>, 
<a href="http://www.brownwhitelaw.com/if-i-just-talk-to-the-police-i-can-clear-this-up-the-dangerous-delusion/">always
consult a lawyer</a>.


feed_id: 5b92b80fd3fcf8a3f34b5867159bf339
title: Judge dismissed for shielding refugee
uri: Judge-dismissed-for-shielding-refugee
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Judge_dismissed_for_shielding_refugee%29

content:
<p>
A British judge was put under investigation (and then quit) because he
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/sep/29/magistrate-nigel-allcoat-resigns-after-paying-destitute-asylum-seekers-court-fine">paid,
himself, a destitute refugee's fine for not paying a previous
fine</a>.  The refugee would have been jailed, then charged more fines
for being jailed, unless he managed to steal enough money to pay all
the fines.
<p>
This is similar to the situation that residents of Ferguson, and
millions of Americans, find themselves in, as cities, starved of money
because rich people and businesses no longer pay taxes, find ways to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_September_2014_(Practices_of_Ferguson_thugs)">gouge
the poor</a>.  But this judge, unlike those in Ferguson, recognized it
was wrong.  He followed the law but shielded the refugee himself, and
for this was dismissed.  Shame, England!


feed_id: f8dd4bc1e586aca7c42c58e2952d5169
title: Solitary confinement without trial
uri: Solitary-confinement-without-trial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Solitary_confinement_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
Nidal Abu Aker, imprisoned by Israel without trial in solitary confinement,
has stepped up his hunger strike by 
<a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1045-hunger-striking-prisoner-refuses-water">refusing
to drink water</a>.
<p>
A human cannot live long without drinking.  Perhaps he is willing to
die rather than spend years in solitary confinement under an occupying
regime.


feed_id: 7f4330e3d4df98293cb5cc935c6335e9
title: Independent Palestinian state
uri: Independent-Palestinian-state
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Independent_Palestinian_state%29
content:
<p>
A poll finds that Palestinians have 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinians-increasingly-support-war-with-israel-as-confidence-in-peace-process-fails-survey-10514616.html">mostly
given up hope on negotiating an independent Palestinian state</a>, and
are ready for an armed uprising.
<p>
Armed rebellion against a military occupation is not in itself
terrorism, but they will face the temptation to engage in terrorism as
well.


feed_id: 5d8d7413cc89774608c8267be44ae602
title: Right-wing imposition of unjust policies
uri: Right-wing-imposition-of-unjust-policies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Right-wing_imposition_of_unjust_policies%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/30/reaganism-has-been-problem-bernie-sanders-solution">domination
of US media</a> is crucial to their imposition of a long series of
unjust policies.


feed_id: 3e5cc671dd9a25d1c9983f24209f8606
title: Epidemic response time
uri: Epidemic-response-time
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Epidemic_response_time%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/ebola-inquest-un-united-nations-world-health-organisation">Will
the world react more swiftly</a> to the next epidemic than it did to
Ebola?


feed_id: 611a61a08d8bff335a3dee7fa4f46206
title: Having children is not a necessity
uri: Having-children-is-not-a-necessity
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Having_children_is_not_a_necessity%29

content:
<p>
It is a mistake for the government to support 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/30/womb-transplants-medical-necessity-lifestyle-choice">uterus
transplants with public funds</a>.
<p>
Likewise it is counterproductive for the government to support
in-vitro fertilization, or anything else to help people make babies.
The world does not have a shortage of young humans.
<p>
Having children is not a necessity of life.  It is a desire that some
people have.  We should not treat a lack of children as tragic, any
more than we treat the lack of some cheaper luxury, such as a Humv or
a yacht, as tragic.


feed_id: 4269e2d0f2936efbd0fe52c4c1de1cd6
title: Prohibition of marijuana
uri: Prohibition-of-marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Prohibition_of_marijuana%29
content:
<p>
Prohibition of synthetic substitutes for marijuana, together with
continued prohibition of marijuana in most of the US, may be partly
responsible for the recent 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/synthetic-drugs-washington-dc-marijuana-legalization">increase
in murder rate</a>.
<p>
Has the murder rate increased in Colorado?


feed_id: bf13ddfd29c569353a998af169f91359
title: UK and reparations for slavery
uri: UK-and-reparations-for-slavery
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28UK_and_reparations_for_slavery%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/british-slavery-reparations-qa">FAQ</a>
about the UK and reparations for slavery.
<p>
The UK does deserve credit for banning slavery, a traditional practice
which had existed since long before England came be.


feed_id: ea5915ba7cc60fc706dc62de9c69ce21
title: Indonesia's human rights violations
uri: Indonesia-s-human-rights-violations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Indonesias_human_rights_violations%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia's president Widodo, who promised to confront Indonesia's human
rights violations, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/30/it-is-50-years-since-the-indonesian-genocide-of-1965-but-we-cannot-look-away">has
not kept his promise</a>.
<p>
The article accepts without comment the idea that there is something
bad about being an Atheist.  One of Indonesia's human rights
violations is that being an Atheist is not recognized; citizens must
claim adherence to one of the six officially approved religions.


feed_id: bf19136a661846d6be819e52b2399e31
title: NYC Mayor calls for divestment from coal
uri: NYC-Mayor-calls-for-divestment-from-coal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28NYC_Mayor_calls_for_divestment_from_coal%29

content:
<p>
Mayor de Blasio 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/29/new-york-bill-de-blasio-coal-divestment">called
on the city's pension funds</a> to divest from coal.


feed_id: 5a912fab415adf088fca744f09c758ea
title: Americans' fingerprints taken by crackers
uri: Americans-fingerprints-taken-by-crackers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Americans_fingerprints_taken_by_crackers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/stealing-fingerprints">5
million Americans' fingerprints</a> were taken by crackers out of the
US government's records.
<p>
Thus, as the FBI 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_(FBI%27s_fingerprint_database)">collects
and holds ever more Americans' fingerprints</a>, even from Americans
not accused of any crime, it exposes Americans to danger from
criminals as well as from the state.


feed_id: 0636a695c953b0c022d42f38419a4bc3
title: UK locks barn door after the jihadis are out
uri: UK-locks-barn-door-after-the-jihadis-are-out
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28UK_locks_barn_door_after_the_jihadis_are_out%29

content:
<p>
The UK's
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/families-isis-jihadis-dismiss-un-sanctions-grandstanding">sanctions
against Britons that went to fight for PISSI</a> are ludicrous —
locking the barn door after the jihadis have got out.
<p>
PISSI deserves all the hate it gets (though it makes no sense to
exempt Saudi Arabia), but purely symbolic public expressions of hate
won't defeat it.


feed_id: eda9cf7020e3195ac99139a0a4d6fc72
title: US wants to expand search powers
uri: US-wants-to-expand-search-powers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28US_wants_to_expand_search_powers%29

content:
<p>
The US wants to expand its search powers so that it can subpoena a
part of the data on a hard drive, then 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/feds-say-your-hard-drives-are-for-the-governments-keeping/">fish
through all the rest of the data for something to prosecute</a>.


feed_id: 9d17332c99d2f4f054bd47aa6c341119
title: Campaign helps surveillance agents quit
uri: Campaign-helps-surveillance-agents-quit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_%28Campaign_helps_surveillance_agents_quit%29

content:
<p>
A campaign supported by whistleblower Thomas Drake offers to 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/09/campaign-help-surveillance-agents-quit-nsa-gchq/">help
surveillance agents quit the NSA and GCHQ</a>.


feed_id: 63dbabc8d0c83510ee472f53035eecf3
title: Microsoft malware
uri: Microsoft-malware
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Microsoft_malware%29
content:
<p>
Microsoft accidentally posted a "test" upgrade for Windows 7 which seems
to have 
<a href="https://threatpost.com/suspicious-windows-7-update-actually-an-accidental-microsoft-test-update/114860/">a
lot more malware in it than ordinary Windows</a>.  There is no way to
tell just what it does.
<p>
Everyone makes mistakes, and I don't think this mistake constitutes a
reason to condemn Microsoft in particular.  (There are plenty of such
reasons in things that Microsoft intentionally does, from 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">making
nonfree software</a> to many 
<a href="http://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html">malware
functionalities</a>.)
<p>
However, this does show that forced automatic unblockable updates,
such as imposed in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_October_2014_(Windows_10_total_snooping)">Windows
10</a>, is not the security solution that people take it for.


feed_id: 6b5425d535f4ed62d61b1a29c50ebf85
title: War on Sex Trafficking
uri: War-on-Sex-Trafficking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28War_on_Sex_Trafficking%29
content:
<p>
The War on Sex Trafficking 
<a href="https://reason.com/archives/2015/09/30/the-war-on-sex-trafficking-is">threatens
to enmesh large numbers of Americans who are not traffickers</a>.
This article compares it to the War on Drugs.
<p>
The two cases are not identical.  People who are forced into
prostitution suffer a real wrong, whereas drugs are not human and
can't suffer.  However, in both cases a conservative drive to punish
whenever they can find an excuse comes into play, and provokes a
response that can do great injustice.


feed_id: 44b6d3ac626f22758b5df96f54e7da46
title: Jailed mentally ill Americans
uri: Jailed-mentally-ill-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Jailed_mentally_ill_Americans%29
content:
<p>
Many Americans with mental illness are jailed for a long time over
minor crimelets.  Jamycheal Mitchell was jailed for 5 months for
stealing a few snacks, waiting for transfer to a mental hospital, and
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/30/another-man-dies-of-neglect-in-jail-cell">died
of neglect</a>.


feed_id: 7e89cd0f9097b2050d3ff536a37089cd
title: Teaching "yes means yes" in high school
uri: Teaching-yes-means-yes-in-high-school
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Teaching_yes_means_yes_in_high_school%29

content:
<p>
Teaching the idea of "yes means yes" in high school 
<a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/students-342158-ocprint-consent-sexual.html">respects
human rights</a>, unlike imposing that as a standard for punishment in
college, and will reach far more people.
<p>
It could also provoke less hostility and be received better.


feed_id: de267422dc0eade83dd5671abdc6ea52
title: UNESCO world heritage sites threatened
uri: UNESCO-world-heritage-sites-threatened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28UNESCO_world_heritage_sites_threatened%29

content:
<p>
Mining and fossil fuel extraction 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/01/mining-and-oil-threatens-one-in-three-natural-world-heritage-sites-report">threaten
nearly 1/3 of the natural UNESCO world heritage sites</a>.


feed_id: 22daf47d8e313ff47ff5c0dd07ae77df
title: Rio de Janeiro bans Guber
uri: Rio-de-Janeiro-bans-Guber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Rio_de_Janeiro_bans_Guber%29
content:
<p>
Rio de Janeiro has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/rio-de-janeiro-brazil-uber-ban">banned
Guber</a>.
<p>
I call it Guber because it pays drivers peanuts,
but it does many other things that are likewise unjust,
including 
<a href="https://stallman.org/uber.html">surveillance of its
users</a>.


feed_id: 3605b77b4e539937145593bec3df8624
title: Sheriff of Tulsa County indicted
uri: Sheriff-of-Tulsa-County-indicted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Sheriff_of_Tulsa_County_indicted%29

content:
<p>
The sheriff of Tulsa County has been indicted for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/30/tulsa-county-sheriff-stanley-glanz-resigns-indicted-eric-harris-shooting">trying
to protect a killer thug from prosecution</a>.
<p>
It is extremely important to show thugs that there are consequences
for this sort of thing, since this is the most widespread thuggish
practice found among thugs.  Most thugs are not disposed to commit
violence themselves, but nearly all will support the lies that violent
thugs tell to gain impunity for their violence.


feed_id: 556892af558baecba0d85cd892d41bbd
title: Cities facing annihilation
uri: Cities-facing-annihilation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Cities_facing_annihilation%29
content:
<p>
Several cities face slow annihilation, many of them due to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/oct/01/what-world-most-vulnerable-city-battle-survival-nature">global
heating effects or local ecosystem degradation</a>.
<p>
It appears Miami's politicians represent the fools that hope to sell
their assets to a bigger fool who won't realize it's a rip-off.


feed_id: fbede0694e9c251f40e517cd2ff08ec2
title: Afghan army recaptures most of Kunduz
uri: Afghan-army-recaptures-most-of-Kunduz
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Afghan_army_recaptures_most_of_Kunduz%29

content:
<p>
The Afghan army says it has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/afghan-forces-recapture-kunduz-from-taliban">recaptured
most of Kunduz</a> after heavy fighting.
<p>
I'm impressed.


feed_id: fed048e0848825311e408b68f56de7fb
title: Prisoners tortured by Assad's men
uri: Prisoners-tortured-by-Assad-s-men
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Prisoners_tortured_by_Assads_men%29

content:
<p>
Smuggled official photos show that Assad's men 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/they-were-torturing-to-kill-inside-syrias-death-machine-caesar">tortured
lots of prisoners to death</a>.


feed_id: 26027ffe42a8733d0bbc4108a3ef274a
title: Treacherous Plutocratic Poison
uri: Treacherous-Plutocratic-Poison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Treacherous_Plutocratic_Poison%29

content:
<p>
Various plutocratist governments are trying to finish the TPP, but
there is a disagreement about 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/01/you-tpp-was-bad-heres-how-it-gets-even-worse">whether
it should allow tobacco companies to sue governments about laws to
reduce smoking</a>.
<p>
This is not a quirk.  It reflects the basic spirit of the treaty,
which is why it is a mistake to think that fixing a few details might
make it better than nothing.  It is Treacherous Plutocratic Poison,
and its purpose is to give companies more power against democracy.
<p>
We must kill it!


feed_id: 7976eaed928138927c7a56a104ce5493
title: Moscow winding down war in Ukraine
uri: Moscow-winding-down-war-in-Ukraine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Moscow_winding_down_war_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Moscow is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/as-russia-enters-war-in-syria-conflict-in-ukraine-begins-to-wind-down">winding
down the war in Ukraine</a>, and might be considering peace.
<p>
It seems that Putin started it for political purposes, and is willing
to throttle it up and down as suits him politically.  The economic
sanctions could even be working (which they wouldn't if Putin
considered the war inherently important).


feed_id: 23c237eb8f3313af01b8da1cd9ee1969
title: Mexican gangsters extradited to US
uri: Mexican-gangsters-extradited-to-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Mexican_gangsters_extradited_to_US%29

content:
<p>
Mexico has extradited some gangsters to the US, since even Mexico's
highest-security prison is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/mexico-extradites-drug-lords-to-us">too
corrupt to hold them</a>.


feed_id: 2cb827e906422fc56514a3d51604e034
title: Rio de Janeiro thugs
uri: Rio-de-Janeiro-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Rio_de_Janeiro_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in Rio de Janeiro have been arrested for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/brazil-rio-police-arrested-video-altering-crime-scene">killing
a teenager and putting a gun in his hand</a>.  They were so careful as
to shoot the gun after that, to create false evidence supporting their
claim that he had fired it.


feed_id: 86d78b5b1e8b0fb56541b0ca0a615745
title: Britons demand license for cancer drug
uri: Britons-demand-license-for-cancer-drug
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_October_2015_%28Britons_demand_license_for_cancer_drug%29

content:
<p>
Britons demand that the state issue a compulsory license for a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/01/health-secretary-breast-cancer-drug-nhs-kadcyla">very
expensive cancer drug</a>, that the NHS can't afford.


feed_id: 433d3c3f7af66f048d8a90212e82a6dd
title: Humanitarian assistance
uri: Humanitarian-assistance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Humanitarian_assistance%29
content:
<p>The need for humanitarian assistance is ballooning, and the
organizations that
provided it are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/oct/02/humanitarian-system-stretched-to-its-limits-says-new-research">
stretched to the limit</a>.
</p>
<p>This is not surprising: too much human footprint is pushing everything
to the limit.</p>


feed_id: ce264d8ac9d815d58408e2d1e8eca48f
title: Pope did not support Davis
uri: Pope-did-not-support-Davis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Pope_did_not_support_Davis%29
content:
<p>The Vatican says that Pope Francis 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/02/vatican-pope-kim-davis-same-sex-marriage">
did not give support</a>
 personally to Kim Davis.
</p>


feed_id: add4f8f3e35f7c35435d897990de9716
title: Vigilante virus
uri: Vigilante-virus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Vigilante_virus%29
content:
<p>A vigilante virus 
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/10/01/vigilante-malware-makes-you-safer/">
tightens the security</a>
 of systems it enters, and appears to do nothing nasty.
</p>
<p>To be truly ethical, it should make all its source code available
(under a free license, of course), and should ask before it changes
things.</p>


feed_id: c3a36a387317f90e0166d15a9e6ad2d1
title: Ebola still active
uri: Ebola-still-active
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Ebola_still_active%29
content:
<p>Ebola is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/oct/02/ebola-sierre-leone-friends-died-from-the-virus-they-fought-against">
still infecting people</a>
 in Sierra Leone.
</p>
<p>Is the vaccine ready?</p>


feed_id: 99ad4aced945b6bc45ae8c9a0d886756
title: Hypocrisy regarding Saudi regime
uri: Hypocrisy-regarding-Saudi-regime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Hypocrisy_regarding_Saudi_regime%29

content:
<p>The US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/02/befriending-saudis-highlights-us-hypocrisy-human-rights">
smears its name</a>
 by supporting the Saudi regime, whose cruelty resembles PISSI.
</p>
<p>The Saudi regime even 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#22%20April%202006%20(Bonfire%20of%20the%20hypocrisies)">
destroys ancient relics</a>
 too — mainly those from early Islam.
</p>


feed_id: 6e7d98d29490846ac33ff7d5bf8d5bfd
title: Data protection ruling
uri: Data-protection-ruling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Data_protection_ruling%29
content:
<p>The European Court of Justice ruled that an internet-based company
which specifically markets to any particular country and has operates
in that country 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/02/landmark-ecj-data-protection-ruling-facebook-google-weltimmo">
must follow that country's data protection rules</a>
 for citizens of that country.
</p>
<p>This decision looks correct to me.  The multinational Companies should
not be able to shop around between countries for the weakest data
protection and apply that to everyone.  Meanwhile, smaller companies that
operate in one country will still be covered only by that country's law,
even though they sell to people in other countries.</p>


feed_id: 28a2863e7d5714cc337c8826aa25a556
title: Amazon monopoly
uri: Amazon-monopoly
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Amazon_monopoly%29
content:
<p>Amazon will 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/10/01/amazon_blocks_sale_of_apple_tv_and_google_chromecast_to_boost_its_own_prime.html">
try to kill Google and Apple video streaming products</a>
 by not listing them for sale.
</p>
<p>Those products are just as proprietary, and probably just as nasty, as
what Amazon offers.  People shouldn't buy or use any of them.
However, that doesn't detract from the main point of the article: that
Amazon's market power is dangerous.</p>
<p>I urge people 
<a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html">
not to buy anything from Amazon</a>
 under any circumstances.
I have never done so.
</p>


feed_id: 8b2787811f8ce7da30ebc79cde2e65f8
title: Corruption of private medicine
uri: Corruption-of-private-medicine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Corruption_of_private_medicine%29
content:
<p>An NHS physician 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/02/profit-not-patients-risks-private-medicine">
describes the corrupting influence</a>
 of private medicine.
</p>


feed_id: 0baa7b65aea7ea792ecda392aff9e421
title: No drone apology
uri: No-drone-apology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28No_drone_apology%29
content:
<p>The Obama regime is going to the mat to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/02/yemen-faisal-bin-ali-jaber-no-apology-drone-strike">
avoid apologizing to Faisal bin Ali Jaber</a>,
 whose family was killed in a drobe attack in Yemen.
</p>


feed_id: 710a2df51a87b35da82507d82259077f
title: Bogus arguments
uri: Bogus-arguments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Bogus_arguments%29
content:
<p>Robert Reich: the Washington Post attacked Sanders' plans for health
care
and education, with 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/02/why-washington-posts-attack-bernie-sanders-bunk">
bogus arguments</a>
 based on misrepresentation
of the facts.
</p>


feed_id: e784374a4641ee60f92f5423f877c63d
title: Miles per gallon lieware
uri: Miles-per-gallon-lieware
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Miles_per_gallon_lieware%29
content:
<p>Many cars advertise high miles per gallon and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/sep/26/as-volkswagen-crashes-into-crisis-drivers-attack-official-mpg-figures">
don't seem to deliver</a>.
</p>
<p>Is this 
<a href="http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21667918-systematic-fraud-worlds-biggest-carmaker-threatens-engulf-entire-industry-and">
another case of lieware</a>,
 or do they use only physical hacks?
</p>
<p>DRM and the DMCA are 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/09/25/not-just-emissions-manufactur.html">
additional barriers</a>
 to investigating lieware.
</p>


feed_id: 79a7430e9efc7febf3992dc38641ac6f
title: Academic PR of GMOs
uri: Academic-PR-of-GMOs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Academic_PR_of_GMOs%29
content:
<p>A 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/09/monsanto-professors-gmo-PR">
collection of emails</a>
 revealed by a freedom-of-information request
seems to show Monsanto organizing many professors to publish and speak
in favor of GMOs, often claiming dubious benefits.
</p>


feed_id: 20dc981e8e45813b26cd888be822f43d
title: Helping al-Nusra
uri: Helping-al-Nusra
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Helping_al-Nusra%29
content:
<p>Richard Parry 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/02/should-us-ally-al-qaeda-syria">
says that Israel is secretly helping al-Nusra</a>
 (a part of al-Qa'ida) in Syria.
</p>
<p>It doesn't state evidence; I would not put this past Israel but I
don't consider the claim proven.</p>
<p>The larger question is, what should the US do in Syria?
The article does not even consider the possibility of aiding the one
side that isn't monstruous — the revolutionary Kurds.</p>


feed_id: 7286aeab212d19f962f6d5881e52a0c4
title: Expensive drugs
uri: Expensive-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Expensive_drugs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://fair.us10.list-manage2.com/unsubscribe?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8cf7adc7d2&e=23c9f65d66&c=3ad68fb715">
'We Could Have All These Drugs Available at Generic Prices'.</a>
Bad policies, which cater to Big Pharma, make drugs too expensive.
</p>


feed_id: 2d19cfa90ac278ed10ea562cb9b59812
title: Temporary workers
uri: Temporary-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Temporary_workers%29
content:
<p>Toys 'R Us used 
<a href="Http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/toys-r-us-brings-temporary-foreign-workers-to-us-to-move-jobs-overseas.html?_r=0">
special visas to bring in temporary workers</a>
 to study American workers' jobs.  Then it fired those workers.
</p>
<p>Workers need to have the guts to say "I will quit now rather than
later."  And the fortitude to organize unions.  And to vote against
any anti-union politicians.</p>


feed_id: 4f58273e511776c6667d47884fbec0e5
title: Reaganism
uri: Reaganism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Reaganism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/30/reaganism-has-been-problem-bernie-sanders-solution">
Reaganism Has Been The Problem — Bernie Sanders Is The
Solution.</a>
</p>


feed_id: d9e59d8a713e6685481b8faa30873dcb
title: Crime to collect data
uri: Crime-to-collect-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Crime_to_collect_data%29
content:
<p>Wyoming has made it a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/30/groups-challenge-wyomings-downright-un-american-censorship-laws">
crime to collect data</a>
 (for instance, pollution
measurements) from open land and report the data to government agencies.
</p>
<p>The law's motivation was undisguised corruption by businesses that
want to pollute.</p>


feed_id: 7e95ba6af06eaa6d927506bebcecceac
title: Funding for abortions
uri: Funding-for-abortions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Funding_for_abortions%29
content:
<p>Organizations 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/30/women-demand-bold-counter-offensive-assault-abortion-access">
campaign to repeal the law</a>
 banning federal funding for abortions.
</p>
<p>It is vital to demand more than mere preservation of the status quo.
To defend the status quo is to set up a discussion in which every
possible compromise is a change for the worse.</p>


feed_id: 220d3547522a5f8735297934c570917c
title: Fertilizer lobby
uri: Fertilizer-lobby
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Fertilizer_lobby%29
content:
<p>The "fertilizer lobby" 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/30/exxons-agriculture-wielding-power-block-real-climate-solutions-report">
campaigns against plans to reduce global heating</a>
due to agriculture.
</p>


feed_id: 41bba949987852e3ea7c6ce76173c0a8
title: Thugs tracking politicians
uri: Thugs-tracking-politicians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Thugs_tracking_politicians%29
content:
<p>UK thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2015/oct/02/police-facing-hard-questions-over-covert-monitoring-of-jeremy-corbyn-and-other-mps">
tracked MPs</a>
 including Jeremy Corbin.
</p>
<p>Snooping on Labour politicians has a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_(Political_activity_of_UK_spy_agencies)">
long history</a>
 in the UK.
</p>


feed_id: 5f8d19f223330aaf272a02fee586b01f
title: Pretend peace negotiations
uri: Pretend-peace-negotiations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Pretend_peace_negotiations%29
content:
<p>Israel's most senior diplomat has recently 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/02/israels-deputy-foreign-minister-heckles-jordanian-counterpart-at-un-meeting">
rejected outright the idea</a>
 of a Palestinian state.
</p>
<p>Netanyahu did this around the time of the election.  The US can no
longer
go along with Israel's pretend peace negotiations.  It looks like Obama
has
decided to completely drop the question.</p>
<p>I think this calls for an
increased level of private pressure on Israel
to make peace.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, students that criticize Israeli policy face 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/30/how-us-colleges-have-become-ground-zero-suppression-palestine-solidarity">
organized censorship and intimidation on campus</a>,
 including false accusations of "antisemitism".
</p>
<p>The New York Times 
<a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8301d9013f&e=23c9f65d66">
understates the success</a>
 of their movement.
</p>


feed_id: 2e51cfdc7f71cc34e338a3a9acf620ac
title: Killer robots
uri: 2015-10-04-Killer-robots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Killer_robots%29
content:
<p>Killer robots are 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/lagrandeur20151002">
already being built</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 68698487fbf1af40e816933beaf624eb
title: Scientist fired for criticism
uri: Scientist-fired-for-criticism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Scientist_fired_for_criticism%29
content:
<p>Canadian scientist Tony Turner was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/02/canadaman-protest-song-harperman-stephen-harper">
fired for criticizing</a>
 right-wing science saboteur Harper outside work, 
so he will spend full time
campaigning against the Conservatives.
</p>


feed_id: 1dd8dfceb8a476806a3825e57129cd81
title: Growing privacy concern
uri: Growing-privacy-concern
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Growing_privacy_concern%29
content:
<p>Americans are 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/privacy-in-the-digital-age/407887/">
becoming more concerned</a>
 about how digital technology harms their privacy.
</p>
<p>If we want to get privacy back, we need to stop giving companies the
choice about how much privacy we can have.</p>


feed_id: 2851a3ed26b94127d9c5e80750779709
title: Mass shootings
uri: Mass-shootings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Mass_shootings%29
content:
<p>Mass shootings (four or more people shot) are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/01/obama-oregon-college-shooting-routine">
happening over once a day</a>
 in the US.
</p>
<p>The overall US murder rate is still much lower than it was in the 90s.
But the rise in mass shootings indicates a systemic problem.</p>


feed_id: ec2ee1b0a366d5a0c113cceab1d4c0e9
title: Indian electricity pledge
uri: Indian-electricity-pledge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Indian_electricity_pledge%29
content:
<p>India 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/02/india-pledges-40-percent-electricity-renewables-2030">
offers a pledge</a>
 to get 40% of electricity from renewables by 2030.
</p>
<p>This is comparable to many other inadequate pledges.  Electricity is a
small
fraction of energy use in India.</p>


feed_id: 46bcce7ed2a14825ed35f9c271c9e564
title: Eliminating the NHS
uri: Eliminating-the-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Eliminating_the_NHS%29
content:
<p>The legal framework for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2015/oct/02/nhs-one-way-road-privatisation">
eliminating the NHS in the UK</a>
 has already been put in place, with no public debate.
</p>
<p>Actual privatization and elimination is proceeding rapidly.</p>
<p>The Tories' 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_February_2015_(Privatization_of_the_NHS)">
goal</a>, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#14_November_2011_(Privatising_NHS_In_UK)">
all along</a>,
 has been to eliminiate most medical care
for the people that don't matter to them (the non-rich).  They don't
admit this, but their 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_(UK_Government_is_twisting_up_NHS)">
actions</a>
 show it.
</p>


feed_id: e0b2dfe7a704fec83d1123a747e1fdcb
title: Thugs macing students
uri: Thugs-macing-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Thugs_macing_students%29
content:
<p>A court says Birmingham thugs violated students constitutional rights
when 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/10/01/3707806/court-macing-high-school-students-for-cursing-at-teachers-is-unconstitutional/">
pepper-spraying them for arguing</a>.
</p>
<p>The vicious cruel intentions of the thugs are proved by the way they
acted afterward to maximize the students' suffering.</p>


feed_id: bbb86aae7857ef322b70a4ddcbd39397
title: Perils of self-driving cars
uri: Perils-of-self-driving-cars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Perils_of_self-driving_cars%29
content:
<p>Self-driving cars offer tremendous advantages.  We must fight to
<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mathonan/googles-cute-cars-and-the-ugly-end-of-driving#.yvrGvxNqOO">
prevent them from imposing dangers</a>,
 such as total surveillance of the
passengers, and proprietary software for the driver or the passengers.
</p>
<p>We must prevent them from being operated as a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/uber.html">
Guber-style taxi system</a>
 if, as Guber does, it requires users to run nonfree software to call a
car and to pay for the ride.
</p>
<p>We must insist that, if you buy a car, you can change the software in
it.</p>


feed_id: 849cbf7bf4e0a762775604cdebd7fb92
title: Campaign finance reform
uri: Campaign-finance-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Campaign_finance_reform%29
content:
<p>Sanders is raising a lot of campaign funds in small donations, not from
billionaires — but 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/sanders-is-crowdfunding-a-campaign-but-that-doesnt-diminish-the-need-for-campaign-reform/">
we need campaign finance reform</a>
 anyway.
</p>


feed_id: 28026a0c408298c347efb88ecc3a5651
title: Alabama voting rights
uri: Alabama-voting-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Alabama_voting_rights%29
content:
<p>Alabama passed a law requiring voters to have state ID, then 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/alabama-birthplace-of-voting-rights-act-once-again-gutting-voting-rights/">
closed the offices where most blacks live</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 7e6588bfec973c371a53aaf90b954667
title: Media refugee hype
uri: Media-refugee-hype
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Media_refugee_hype%29
content:
<p>An 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/oct/01/now-we-can-see-the-calais-crisis-for-what-it-was-a-media-made-myth">
artificial media hype bubble</a>
 about refugees collecting in Calais to
push their way into the UK has vanished, illustrating how the media
can focus attention on distractions by making them look big.
</p>


feed_id: 4e06fb4c0c11b03261bdc9edd4c60873
title: Indonesian massacre
uri: Indonesian-massacre
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Indonesian_massacre%29
content:
<p>50 years ago, the Indonesian army 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/its-been-50-years-biggest-us-backed-genocide-youve-never-heard">
stirred up a massacre</a>
 that killed up to a million people, with implicit US support.
</p>
<p>The numbers killed are uncertain because Indonesia has discouraged
investigation of the massacre.</p>


feed_id: a0238ebe18f57ac2c1bf9146c7883620
title: Turkish journalist attacked
uri: Turkish-journalist-attacked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Turkish_journalist_attacked%29
content:
<p>Turkish journalist Ahmet Hakan, who has criticized the regime, was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/prominent-turkish-journalist-beaten-up-in-organised-planned-attack">
attacked by a gang</a>
 outside his home.  This was clearly a targeted
political move, presumably arranged by Erdoğan's thugs.
</p>


feed_id: 6e500a0b73e056a2ee3d5826d4e6dcc7
title: Dangers of lieware
uri: Dangers-of-lieware
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Dangers_of_lieware%29
content:
<p>Samsung TVs seem to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/01/samsung-tvs-appear-more-energy-efficient-in-tests-than-in-real-life">
burn more energy in real use</a>
 than in official tests.
Is it because of lieware?
</p>
<p>There are gray areas at the edges of lieware, which mislead in the
same way but perhaps were not designed specifically to do so.</p>
<p>Compare with the issue of how banks 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_August_2013_(Algorithms_trained_from_data)">
could generate illegal practices</a>,
 such as refusing home loans to blacks or in certain neighborhoods,
through algorithms without explicitly programming them to exclude
specific groups or neighborhoods.
</p>


feed_id: 40ebb207e9ededc65b78724fa1bd3e76
title: Endocrine disruptors
uri: 2015-10-04-Endocrine-disruptors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Endocrine_disruptors%29
content:
<p>The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics warns that
we are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/10/human-reproduction-threatened-pollution">
filling the environment with chemicals</a>
 that can have harmful effects at very low levels.
</p>
<p>I presume this refers to endocrine disruptors, among others.</p>
<p>These chemicals are not poison in the usual sense; there is no danger
you will ingest enough today to make you immediately sick.  Rather,
they cause birth defects, cancer, and various impairments, over the
long term.</p>


feed_id: b4c98dd6043223b8497915137ee9e0f3
title: Canada Surveillance
uri: Canada-Surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Canada_Surveillance%29
content:
<p>Canadian artists say <a href="http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/canadian-artists-fear-c-51s-chill-on-expression/">they will vote for whoever will repeal the recent
massive surveillance law.</a></p><p></p>


feed_id: 21eb1c45278574da30abb81c7cbc32ac
title: Global [heating]
uri: 2015-10-04-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Global_Heating%29
content:
<p>World's Energy Systems <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/01/worlds-energy-systems-at-risk-from-global-warming-say-leading-firms">At Risk From Global [heating],</a> Say Leading Firms.</p><p></p>


feed_id: b7ee25ef9d7d172555ce4c12f705f19b
title: UK poverty
uri: UK-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28UK_poverty%29
content:
<p>Today's UK workers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/sep/30/huge-pension-shortfall-facing-uks-young-adults">will face poverty when they retire.</a></p><p></p>


feed_id: 5471b9cb35628d21598b345a28844333
title: Death penalty
uri: 2015-10-04-Death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Death_penalty%29
content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/execution-drugs-oklahoma-richard-glossip-virginia-alfredo-prieto">enormous
dispute</a> has arisen about how to get drugs for executions in the
US.
<p>
I can't see why people object to the specific method, rather than
objecting to the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-sep-dec.html#17%20December%202006%20(Executing%20prisoners%20in%20Florida)">death
penalty</a>.


feed_id: e9d9c0874adebef854955aa77067d1d3
title: Harassment by "child protection" agencies
uri: Harassment-by-child-protection-agencies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Harassment_by_child_protection_agencies%29

content:
<p>
We are shocked at reports of how "child protection" agencies harass
and threaten white parents, but they do it 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/has-child-protective-services-gone-too-far/">a
lot more often to black parents</a>.
<p>
They need to relearn that their job is to deal with abuse of children,
and failure to overprotect is not abuse.


feed_id: 194b358a05cdb62ac72da2fb011ecd4c
title: French mass surveillance bill
uri: French-mass-surveillance-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28French_mass_surveillance_bill%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/Civil-rights-groups-condemn-draft-mass-surveillance-bill-to-be-adopted-in-France">Civil
Rights Groups Condemn Draft Mass Surveillance Bill to be Adopted in
France</a>.


feed_id: eb8605ec3c0a360fe5e6839cb3dd8dc3
title: Gentrification
uri: 2015-10-04-Gentrification
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Gentrification%29
content:
<p>
How gentrification is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/01/kill-a-complex-city-chase-out-poor-people-their-food">making
New York and other great cities boring</a>, except for the very rich.


feed_id: fef17da11546904650d24971a003676d
title: Dumb, unbiased systems
uri: Dumb-unbiased-systems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Dumb%2C_unbiased_systems%29
content:
<p>
A dumb system is an 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/virtues-dumbness">unbiased
system</a>.  If they make it "smart", we can't trust it to be fair.
<p>
However, the recommendation for "transparent" code in cars is
insufficient — what we need is free software, 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">software
that the users control</a>.


feed_id: d3cf1a48800cca9a14fd25ebba04c3ba
title: When a man loves a bonobo
uri: When-a-man-loves-a-bonobo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28When_a_man_loves_a_bonobo%29
content:
<p>
When a man loves a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/01/my-husband-fell-in-love-bonobo">bonobo</a>.


feed_id: 3fa47924f5ba5034a697e52533d5761b
title: Religious extremism in Saudi Arabia
uri: Religious-extremism-in-Saudi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Religious_extremism_in_Saudi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
Saudi Arabia benefits from Western support so it can carry out its
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/30/youths-imminent-execution-shines-light-cozy-ties-between-saudis-and-west">barbaric
religious extremism</a>.


feed_id: 005f36286d4720187b3c370d4a5b817b
title: Bans on GM food crops in Europe
uri: Bans-on-GM-food-crops-in-Europe
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Bans_on_GM_food_crops_in_Europe%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/01/half-of-europe-opts-out-of-new-gm-crop-scheme">14
European countries</a> have decided to ban genetically modified food
crops.
<p>
Genetically modified food crops are not inherently and inevitably bad.
In practice, they tend to do harm because they (1) use lots of
pesticide and (2) spread patent pollution.  With companies pushing for
them, their effects on consumers, farm workers and wildlife are
not tested properly.


feed_id: 92740d047d59e953873a343f99696e81
title: Liberal Mormons
uri: Liberal-Mormons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Liberal_Mormons%29
content:
<p>
Liberal Mormons can 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/01/women-lgbt-mormons-community-of-christ">switch
to an alternative church</a>.


feed_id: 9e04e932922f250b257d22ca9298b1b2
title: Rape not regarded as crime by Kenyan thugs
uri: Rape-not-regarded-as-crime-by-Kenyan-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Rape_not_regarded_as_crime_by_Kenyan_thugs%29

content:
<p>
In Kenya, the thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/oct/01/sexual-violence-in-kenya-to-the-police-wasnt-a">do
not regard rape as a crime</a>.


feed_id: b930d86651d8b1c3394559ce103a3003
title: Mandatory minimum sentences
uri: 2015-10-04-Mandatory-minimum-sentences
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Mandatory_minimum_sentences%29
content:
<p>
A bipartisan senate bill 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/oct/01/mandatory-minimu-sentencing-reform-bill-us-senate-bipartisan">proposes
to cut back</a> on mandatory minimum sentences.
<p>
It 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/01/a-criminal-justice-reform-bill-mandatory-minimums-not-enough">doesn't
do enough</a>.


feed_id: cfc57f534ba6016e98ef26f1bf608ffb
title: Planned Parenthood
uri: 2015-10-04-Planned-Parenthood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Planned_Parenthood%29
content:
<p>
Planned Parenthood provides 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/01/planned-parenthood-defunding-men">medical
services for men</a>, too.


feed_id: 1d955ea01af96e64fc4e723127e855bc
title: Charlie Hebdo
uri: Charlie-Hebdo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Charlie_Hebdo%29
content:
<p>
People outside France rushed to criticize the satire in Charlie Hebdo
without understanding its 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/blackford20150930">anti-fascist
basic idea</a>.
<p>
I don't personally know Charlie Hebdo very much; I never read it
myself.


feed_id: 181b4b88fac56b4d0d2b1b593b4d7325
title: Burundi
uri: Burundi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_October_2015_%28Burundi%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/burundi-protest-pierre-claver-mbonimpa">Burundi
Is Burning</a> — Help Us Put Out the Fire Before It's Too Late.
<p>
I don't know enough about Burundi to have any idea what sort of help
might make things better rather than worse.


feed_id: 7c15abe9db8efdef1aebc3b2ae2bfc6d
title: No drone apology
uri: 2015-10-04-No-drone-apology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28No_drone_apology%29
content:
<p>The Obama regime is going to the mat to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/02/yemen-faisal-bin-ali-jaber-no-apology-drone-strike">
avoid apologizing to Faisal bin Ali Jaber</a>,
 whose family was killed in a drone attack in Yemen.
</p>


feed_id: 92f3ee46b8a715247b17b2d1e37e965c
title: Helping al-Nusra
uri: 2015-10-04-Helping-al-Nusra
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Helping_al-Nusra%29
content:
<p>Richard Parry 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/02/should-us-ally-al-qaeda-syria">
says that Israel is secretly helping al-Nusra</a>
 (a part of al-Qa'ida) in Syria.
</p>
<p>It doesn't state evidence; I would not put this past Israel but I
don't consider the claim proven.</p>
<p>The larger question is, what should the US do in Syria?
The article does not even consider the possibility of aiding the one
side that isn't monstrous — the revolutionary Kurds.</p>


feed_id: 62d655ec364790c4cfcf64d5fb670387
title: Eliminating the NHS
uri: 2015-10-04-Eliminating-the-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_%28Eliminating_the_NHS%29
content:
<p>The legal framework for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2015/oct/02/nhs-one-way-road-privatisation">
eliminating the NHS in the UK</a>
 has already been put in place, with no public debate.
</p>
<p>Actual privatization and elimination is proceeding rapidly.</p>
<p>The Tories' 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_February_2015_(Privatization_of_the_NHS)">
goal</a>, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#14_November_2011_(Privatising_NHS_In_UK)">
all along</a>,
 has been to eliminate most medical care
for the people that don't matter to them (the non-rich).  They don't
admit this, but their 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_(UK_Government_is_twisting_up_NHS)">
actions</a>
 show it.
</p>


feed_id: f0330da359890cee71ccc29e7fc21ec0
title: Urgent: support gun control laws
uri: Urgent-support-gun-control-laws
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_gun_control_laws%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/call/call_guns_congress/?source=e151002_1316-v1-sidechart&t=1001&akid=29390.636740.q0vu-X">phone your congresscritter</a> to support gun control laws.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: 6a066da486d2b81dc54b08c3209c7dd9
title: Urgent: support diplomacy in Syria
uri: Urgent-support-diplomacy-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_diplomacy_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/senators-standwithhimes?source=c.em&r_by=1135580
">call on the Senate</a> to support diplomacy in Syria.


feed_id: 9db350b831ac41cfd9bcd9918acfdb33
title: Federal Trade Commission
uri: Federal-Trade-Commission
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Federal_Trade_Commission%29
content:
<p>The Federal Trade Commission is starting to act against companies that
make customers sign promises <a href="https://popehat.com/2015/09/29/in-roca-labs-case-ftc-takes-novel-stand-against-non-disparagement-clauses/">not to criticize the company.</a>
<p>This practice is part of a larger range of unjust practices, which
also includes imposing arbitration agreements on customers or on
employees.


feed_id: 48591b07bbb1ec13d47dd2038d23a3ac
title: Black children in Wisconsin
uri: Black-children-in-Wisconsin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Black_children_in_Wisconsin%29
content:
<p><a href="http://fusion.net/story/203830/wisconsin-african-americans-juvenile-arrests/
">Wisconsin is hell for black children.</a>  Madison, the capital, is
egregious: around 3200 black children age 10-17 live there, and thugs
arrested such black children 1000 times last year.  They are arrested for protesting, for running, for picnicking.


feed_id: 1852e4ab218a592e2d28d6062a774ac8
title: Vulnerable to enslavement
uri: Vulnerable-to-enslavement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Vulnerable_to_enslavement%29
content:
<p>The US issues special visas for temporary immigrant workers that are <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/these-guestworkers-just-won-20-million-back-from-the-company-that-trafficked-them/
">tied to a single employer,</a> which makes them vulnerable to enslavement.


feed_id: 46dafe48f94ad892a7b99cfb443bddc5
title: Impossible to release from Guantanamo
uri: Impossible-to-release-from-Guantanamo
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Impossible_to_release_from_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/01/bass-ackwards-detainee-transfer-provision-fy2016-ndaa
">Congress</a> is trying to make it essentially impossible to release anyone
from Guantanamo prison, even prisoners who have been officially cleared
of all suspicion.
<p>The US must release or try each and every one of the prisoners in
Guantanamo, because imprisonment without trial is tyranny.


feed_id: 0e19e41c84707858894fa2d784924cc0
title: Standards for ozone pollution
uri: Standards-for-ozone-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Standards_for_ozone_pollution%29
content:
<p>The EPA has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/10/01/epa-rejects-doctors-advice-limits-ozone-pollution
">tightened</a> standards for ozone pollution a little, but it's far less
than doctors say is needed to protect human health.


feed_id: 661a4397db7d29dd5a3560ce33bc37fc
title: Exclude tobacco from TPP
uri: Exclude-tobacco-from-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Exclude_tobacco_from_TPP%29
content:
<p>There is a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/01/you-knew-tpp-was-bad-heres-how-it-gets-even-worse
">proposal</a> to exclude tobacco from TPP rules — the ones
that would allow companies to sue governments over any laws that
interfere with their profits.  But tobacco companies are pressing hard
to be included, so they can block measures to restrain the promotion
of their deadly product.
<p>This is just a sample of the evil spirit of Treacherous Plutocratic Poison.


feed_id: 0194d9fe8512ce30853574536bac76f5
title: Philanthrocapitalism
uri: Philanthrocapitalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Philanthrocapitalism%29
content:
<p>Billionaire "philanthrocapitalism" is so powerful that it buys the support
of entire fields of endeavor; hardly anyone dares question its <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/philanthrocapitalism-a-self-love-story/">decisions.</a>
<p>When Gates referred to opponents of computational idea patents
as "communists", I think he meant me.
<p><a href="http://www.cnet.com/au/news/bill-gates-and-other-communists/">This</a> was my response.
<p>Unfortunately the article falls into repeating the confusion term <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
">"intellectual property"</a> that Gates himself uses.  Please don't ever use that term.


feed_id: c40b196b8040a675006cdbbf53c09384
title: Resolving the Syrian civil war
uri: Resolving-the-Syrian-civil-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Resolving_the_Syrian_civil_war%29

content:
<p>The Nation's views on resolving the Syrian civil war through <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-syria-crisis/
">negotiation.</a>
<p>I mostly agree, but I think we should support the revolutionary Kurds more.
<p>They are the only side in Syria that isn't made of monsters.


feed_id: 2ea045a9d12e5e4a43770f9f324dab70
title: Thugs with SWAT training
uri: Thugs-with-SWAT-training
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Thugs_with_SWAT_training%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/02/st-louis-county-minorities-police-ferguson
">Ferguson's thug department</a> made itself more repressive by overpromoting
thugs with SWAT training.
<p>In other words, the psychological side effect of militarization was
what counted.


feed_id: 4aa39a4dee0c225c64f1198300d9d577
title: When a baby's life begins
uri: When-a-baby-s-life-begins
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28When_a_baby%27s_life_begins%29
content:
<p>Why Science <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/10/science-cant-say-babys-life-begins/">Can't Say</a> When a Baby's Life Begins.
<p>I think it is better not to try to save a premature baby
if it will probably have major defects.  If it makes sense
to prohibit harming a fetus, that should apply to this.


feed_id: bea555bfd1cc96e93db8a8ecb8822527
title: "Internet of things" means snooping
uri: Internet-of-things-means-snooping
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Internet_of_things_means_snooping%29

content:
<p>The "internet of things" could mean being snooped on by <a href="https://medium.com/@DesignCouncil/will-the-internet-of-things-set-family-life-back-100-years-18ce46b96646">roommates or family.</a>  It could promote even more intrusive and pressuring control 
of children by their parents, with never a moment on their own.


feed_id: 6049ca8bbffb11d7ecdcf722c6e2581f
title: Tuberculosis drug development
uri: Tuberculosis-drug-development
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Tuberculosis_drug_development%29
content:
<p>
Although millions have tuberculosis, 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/drug-resistant-tuberculosis-is-a-global-crisis-why-are-we-doing-so-little-to-fight-it/">drug
companies are not interested</a> in developing new drugs to cure it.
They want to develop drugs people will have to take over and over.


feed_id: 3ebe14d4ec7efb4bd3c1ac584f84d4a9
title: Innocent people forced to plead guilty
uri: Innocent-people-forced-to-plead-guilty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Innocent_people_forced_to_plead_guilty%29

content:
<p>
The UK has made innocent people plead guilty by means of US-style 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/sep/30/criminal-courts-charge-fines-respect-for-law-legal-thinktank">plea
bargaining and heavy fines</a> for those who don't plead guilty.


feed_id: 1a6d8e39dea9f57de8733e414a2b36af
title: Time for New New Deal?
uri: Time-for-New-New-Deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Time_for_New_New_Deal%29
content:
<p>
In the US, Is It Time for a 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=188674">New New
Deal</a>?
<p>
Increasing the birth rate would be bad, but proper gratis provision of
birth control and abortion would be able to prevent that byproduct.


feed_id: a85d3234562a6e1efabe58a09f1a6c50
title: US bombs Médecins Sans Frontières
uri: US-bombs-Médecins-Sans-Frontières
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28US_bombs_Medecins_Sans_Frontieres%29

content:
<p>
The US bombed Médecins Sans Frontières in Kunduz 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/03/kunduz-charity-hospital-bombing-violates-international-law">for
over 30 minutes</a> as the charity's staff called for a halt.
<p>
It is impossible to completely avoid such errors in war, but the US
may not have done enough to avoid the attack or to halt it.


feed_id: 64ae0693228f1514901caae9ad336242
title: Right to do computer security research
uri: Right-to-do-computer-security-research
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Right_to_do_computer_security_research%29

content:
<p>
Berkeley report on 
<a href="media/4b1f07c8.cybersec-research-nsf-workshop.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/files/cybersec-research-nsf-workshop.pdf">US
legal threats</a> to the right to do computer security research.


feed_id: 04a921dd7f3395bc4dd0877838c6c9bf
title: Copyright
uri: Copyright
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Copyright%29
content:
<p>
Argentina has proposed a 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/argentina-proposes-100-year-plus-copyright-extension-photography">horribly
long extension of copyright for photos</a>.  Via Libre, a good free
software organization, is organizing against this.
<p>
The Bern Convention is bad, and rather than scurrying to obey it,
countries should tear it up.


feed_id: 92bff1b58023823d35d57194fbbf2ea6
title: Intermediary liability protections
uri: Intermediary-liability-protections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Intermediary_liability_protections%29

content:
<p>
EFF: Breaking 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/breaking-section-230s-intermediary-liability-protections-wont-fix-harassment">Section
230's Intermediary Liability Protections</a> Won't Fix Harassment.


feed_id: 676cdbc1c20ad8b28c1d35de8e6ba884
title: Opponents of raising minimum wage
uri: Opponents-of-raising-minimum-wage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Opponents_of_raising_minimum_wage%29

content:
<p>
How Opponents of Raising Minimum Wage 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/03/opponents-raising-minimum-wage-workers">Pit
Workers Against Each Another</a>.


feed_id: dd2eb9100a0c41dd50fca9affeb02c32
title: Stopping gun massacres in the US
uri: Stopping-gun-massacres-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Stopping_gun_massacres_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/03/oregon-shooting-aftermath-eight-ways-to-stop-gun-massacres-in-the-us">Eight
Ways</a> to Stop Gun Massacres in the US.


feed_id: 2c831086c784b138b79ff997876d3fe3
title: The Diderot effect
uri: The-Diderot-effect
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28The_Diderot_effect%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/02/shopping-diderot-effect-oliver-burkeman">Diderot
effect</a>: buying one "cool" product can manipulate you into feeling
you need a bunch of other "cool" products to add up to a new "cool"
lifestyle.
<p>
I think it's silly to buy anything with the idea it will change
something else.


feed_id: 0f6cd46c99403532653347a8aeb8e7e9
title: Teenage prisoners bribed by prison thugs
uri: Teenage-prisoners-bribed-by-prison-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28Teenage_prisoners_bribed_by_prison_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Miami prison thugs made a habit of bribing teenage prisoners to beat
up other teenage prisoners.  Then one was 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/01/1426662/-5-Miami-officers-fired-after-being-caught-bribing-incarcerated-teens-to-brutally-assault-each-other">beaten
to death</a>.


feed_id: 528b8d35202cf36be7705e98a378c582
title: The Logo Sea Turtle
uri: The-Logo-Sea-Turtle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_October_2015_%28The_Logo_Sea_Turtle%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/logo-sea-turtle.html">Proposing
the Logo Sea Turtle — for Whales</a>


feed_id: d01aef8eba0e75df5b0389c74b9dadab
title: GMO cotton and farmers' suicides
uri: GMO-cotton-and-farmers-suicides
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28GMO_cotton_and_farmers%27_suicides%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/09/no-gmos-didnt-create-indias-farmer-suicide-problem">complicated
relationship</a> between GMO cotton and farmers' suicides in India.
<p>
Based on the information in the article, it appears that Bt cotton was
among the last steps in the process that led farmers to ruin in
some regions.


feed_id: 9ab63a30b299653de4ce08e2c88f3017
title: Dairy farming
uri: Dairy-farming
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Dairy_farming%29
content:
<p>
Dairy farming, when carried to excess, causes
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/05/think-dairy-farming-is-benign-our-rivers-tell-a-different-story">major
environmental degradation</a>.
<p>
Don't forget the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_June_2015_(Greenhouse_gas_emissions)">methane</a>
that the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_August_2015_(Mass_extinction)">cattle
produce</a>.


feed_id: 18dc8324d76d644911e7636d0f3df4b3
title: CIA-shielded Salvadorean officer
uri: CIA-shielded-Salvadorean-officer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28CIA-shielded_Salvadorean_officer%29

content:
<p>
The CIA continues to shield the
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/10/el-salvador-military-cia-lawsuit-ochoa-perez">Salvadorean
officer whose troops committed a US-backed massacre in 1981</a>, now
that he faces a criminal investigation for it at home.


feed_id: 1e6867186e011774c56caef676a538e9
title: US publishes excuses for bombing hospital
uri: US-publishes-excuses-for-bombing-hospital
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28US_publishes_excuses_for_bombing_hospital%29

content:
<p>
The US has published a
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/10/05/the-radically-changing-story-of-the-u-s-airstrike-on-afghan-hospital-from-mistake-to-justification/">series
of false excuses</a> for bombing the MSF hospital in Kunduz,
suggesting that they are inventions rather than facts.


feed_id: 3f716b54dae76183f0b83a47be2e20c2
title: Lords Resistance Army weakened
uri: Lords-Resistance-Army-weakened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Lords_Resistance_Army_weakened%29

content:
<p>
The Lords Resistance Army has been weakened, but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/05/lords-resistance-army-uganda-joseph-kony">remains
dangerous</a>.  We should finish it off.


feed_id: 06e1be8bf4149739f236259df5103792
title: Easter Island no-fish zone
uri: Easter-Island-no-fish-zone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Easter_Island_no-fish_zone%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/05/chile-creates-one-of-worlds-largest-marine-parks-around-easter-island">Making
a giant no-fish zone</a> around Easter Island.


feed_id: 87de8e50b4f45c4c270c24aab292e900
title: Urgent: Careful investigation of GMO corn
uri: Urgent-Careful-investigation-of-GMO-corn
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Careful_investigation_of_GMO_corn%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2353">call
for a careful investigation</a> of Monsanto's new pesticide-resistant
GMO corn.


feed_id: 854c008e932d0773a50414a03165ed12
title: Urgent: Ban toxic fire-retardants
uri: Urgent-Ban-toxic-fire-retardants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_toxic_fire-retardants%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1781">call
on the Consumer Product Safety Commission</a> to ban toxic
fire-retardants.


feed_id: 6aa12cf752de5619662a91f87a115068
title: Universal total surveillance
uri: Universal-total-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Universal_total_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
China uses universal total surveillance to
<a href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/10/in-china-your-credit-score-is-now-affected-by-your-political-opinions-and-your-friends-political-opinions/">punish
people who communicate with dissidents</a> or other undesirables.


feed_id: 0738cf673a87336c368f0bcc2ce32966
title: Banksters colluding to manipulate market
uri: Banksters-colluding-to-manipulate-market
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Banksters_colluding_to_manipulate_market%29

content:
<p>
Banksters have been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/28/swiss-watchdog-investigates-bank-collusion-in-precious-metals-market">found
colluding</a> to manipulate a market — again.


feed_id: a26ec287169592a262c8c7b9581311b6
title: Computer imitation of people's voices
uri: Computer-imitation-of-people-s-voices
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Computer_imitation_of_peoples_voices%29

content:
<p>
Computers can now imitate a chosen person's voice
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-09-automated-voice-imitation-humans-machines.html">well
enough to fool software and other persons</a>.


feed_id: 706154c591b1421e2d7cb93aa50877f8
title: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
uri: Computer-Fraud-and-Abuse-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act%29
content:
<p>
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Wants to Make the Computer Fraud and Abuse
Act
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/senator-sheldon-whitehouse-wants-make-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act-even-easier">Even
Easier to Abuse</a>.


feed_id: acfdde9e884a88956433dd4992a7196e
title: Lead in the water in Flint, Michigan
uri: Lead-in-the-water-in-Flint-Michigan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Lead_in_the_water_in_Flint%2C_Michigan%29

content:
<p>
The water in Flint, Michigan, has so much lead that it
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/04/flint-michigan-lead-water-children-health">poisons
children who drink it</a>.


feed_id: 0f233820a44f1a803a3c77c7a10ef471
title: Massive protest against cruel UK policies
uri: Massive-protest-against-cruel-UK-policies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Massive_protest_against_cruel_UK_policies%29

content:
<p>
A
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/04/anti-austerity-protestors-march-manchester-demonstration-conservative-party-conference">massive
protest</a> against cruel policies greeted the Conservative Party
meeting in the UK.


feed_id: 4eff520bd35f20641bc71d6780cf6d31
title: US bombardment of MSF hospital
uri: US-bombardment-of-MSF-hospital
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28US_bombardment_of_MSF_hospital%29

content:
<p>
The US
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/04/afghan-hospital-bombing-msf-labels-us-airstrike-a-war-as-it-withdraws-staff">claims</a>
that Taliban were firing from the MSF hospital.  MSF says this is
false.
<p>
Afghan officials say the Taliban were in the hospital's "extensive"
garden; if so, why did the US keep bombarding the hospital instead?


feed_id: dfcfc1ce317a18c65bca3ff2e0a64201
title: Helping Planned Parenthood
uri: Helping-Planned-Parenthood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Helping_Planned_Parenthood%29
content:
<p>
For
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/four-ways-you-can-support-planned-parenthood-right-now/">ways
people can help</a> Planned Parenthood.


feed_id: 7bd0fee2a4a92a2c5ad8f98950e7ffb7
title: Student suspended for bag of sugar
uri: Student-suspended-for-bag-of-sugar
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Student_suspended_for_bag_of_sugar%29

content:
<p>
Akros Middle School suspended student Iverson Sibley for having a bag
of sugar and flavoring.  The staff had thought at first that the bag
contained cocaine.  When they found out what it really was, they felt
that
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/02/teen-suspended-for-dealing-drugs-oh-wait">a
punishment already decided on had to be carried out</a>.
<p>
Some courts and officials take the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_October_2015_(Courts_seek_excuses_to_disregard_facts)">same
attitude towards the death penalty</a>.  "The system, by definition,
can't be wrong."


feed_id: ad738ba00413cd7b82be2fa6bd147368
title: The TPP
uri: 2015-10-07-The-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28The_TPP%29
content:
<p>
The disputes among the governments in the TPP negotiations are about
how to manage and control trade —
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/02/trans-pacific-free-trade-charade">for
the benefit of which companies</a>?


feed_id: b7d14318466973c2586147cd8a275d54
title: Guns on campus
uri: Guns-on-campus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Guns_on_campus%29
content:
<p>
State laws that require colleges to allow guns on campus
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/04/oregon-shooting-state-universities-campus-gun-laws-concealed-carry">did
not prevent the Oregon school shooting</a>.


feed_id: 7422ac009a44c61d82734a4251762234
title: Ai Weiwei finds suspected listening devices
uri: Ai-Weiwei-finds-suspected-listening-devices
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Ai_Weiwei_finds_suspected_listening_devices%29

content:
<p>
Ai Weiwei found suspected listening devices in his studio, and posted
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/04/ai-weiwei-finds-listening-devices-hidden-in-beijing-studio">photos
of them</a>.


feed_id: fa6ec7ba86931bd6a1204711f60a4960
title: Guns
uri: Guns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Guns%29
content:
<p>
Guns give people an
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/04/america-addicted-to-guns-illusion-strength-security">illusion
of strength and security</a>.


feed_id: 7c6167b4d662196dde67209d11962135
title: UK and Saudi Arabia bad for human rights
uri: UK-and-Saudi-Arabia-bad-for-human-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28UK_and_Saudi_Arabia_bad_for_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
The UK and Saudi Arabia made a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/29/uk-and-saudi-arabia-in-secret-deal-over-human-rights-council-place">deal
to get themselves voted onto the UN Human Rights Council</a>.
<p>
The UK is not as bad as for human rights Saudi Arabia, but it is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_August_2015_(UN_rebukes_UK_for_massive_surveillance)">getting</a>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_(UK_secret_trials)">there</a>.


feed_id: da5e4523957bfc8bbe655241c39e01fc
title: The danger faced by Americans
uri: The-danger-faced-by-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28The_danger_faced_by_Americans%29
content:
<p>
"In the United States, you're more likely to be
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-most-exceptional-thing-about-america-is-our-paranoia/">crushed
by falling furniture</a> than killed by a terrorist—but try telling
that to Washington."
<p>
It might appear that Americans are safe and secure, if you ignore the
big danger we face: poverty spread by plutocracy.


feed_id: e1f01e329e4a63d0e99db02639aa2ecf
title: Urgent: warrants for phone location data
uri: Urgent-warrants-for-phone-location-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_warrants_for_phone_location_data%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0151-0200/sb_178_bill_20150910_enrolled.htm
">call on California</a> to require search warrants for phone location data.


feed_id: a8d83f70226fffb1961b478e3564bf00
title: Urgent: oppose bigger intervention in Syria
uri: Urgent-oppose-bigger-intervention-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_bigger_intervention_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>US citizens: Phone your senators to oppose a bigger intervention in Syria.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.
<p>I am not opposed to all kinds of intervention in principle.  I'm opposed
to useless bloodshed, and Syria is not worth fighting Russia over.


feed_id: e96beb8fc6de7011645349e7df360505
title: Urgent: confirming federal judges
uri: Urgent-confirming-federal-judges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_confirming_federal_judges%29

content:
<p>US citizens: phone Senator McConnell's office at 202-224-2541 and say,
start confirming federal judges.


feed_id: 65a1d008fed495de4111737c0157b8b9
title: Nauru refugee 'release'
uri: Nauru-refugee-release
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Nauru_refugee_%27release%27%29
content:
<p>Nauru Refugee 'Release' Shows Neither Detention (of refugees) Nor
Drawn-Out Processing <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/06/nauru-refugee-release-shows-neither-detention-nor-drawn-out-processing-were-ever-necessary">Were Ever Necessary.</a>


feed_id: 65cf76199f921c6222e71a5155379718
title: Final TPP deal
uri: Final-TPP-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Final_TPP_deal%29
content:
<p>Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal — <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/users-have-been-betrayed-final-tpp-deal-help-us-tell-washington-how-you-feel">Help Us Tell Washington How You Feel.</a>


feed_id: dbad4494ce21235477c980ab125589bd
title: Facebook's "authentic names"
uri: Facebook-s-authentic-names
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Facebook%27s_authentic_names%29
content:
<p>A <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/global-coalition-facebook-authentic-names-are-authentically-dangerous-your-users
">campaign</a> to pressure Facebook to stop requiring its users to give their "authentic names".


feed_id: b72d2fa222c29a23ec0fe75b83da17b9
title: Legalized assisted suicide
uri: Legalized-assisted-suicide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Legalized_assisted_suicide%29
content:
<p>California has legalized assisted suicide, but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/05/california-assisted-dying-legal-fifth-state">only for the terminally ill.</a>  People who are bedridden and condemned to years of useless suffering are
excluded.


feed_id: 589abc5b7c6b05ee97e6d670252b48ce
title: Pentagon bombing of hospital
uri: Pentagon-bombing-of-hospital
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Pentagon_bombing_of_hospital%29
content:
<p>The Pentagon is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/05/pentagon-spins-us-media-doctors-without-borders-demands-accountability-bombing">having trouble</a> spinning its bombing of the MSF hospital
so as to deny its responsibility for the act.
<p><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2015/10/04/afghan-doctor-slaughter-pulls-back-curtain/">Afghan Doctor Slaughter Pulls Back Curtain</a> (on the casualties US interventions keep on causing).
<p>Occasionally war is an intelligent and necessary policy, but most US
wars don't make anything better.


feed_id: 4f843b89dbfb96ea0b628c4bcb7cd406
title: Dropping leaflets over NSA
uri: Dropping-leaflets-over-NSA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Dropping_leaflets_over_NSA%29
content:
<p>Drone Flies Over <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/10/05/drone-flies-over-nsa-complex-in-germany-dropping-pamphlets/">NSA Complex in Germany,</a> Dropping Leaflets.


feed_id: f2c3bd445c8ef4c837cd7df8bbc7582a
title: Syria's "moderates" disappeared
uri: Syria-s-moderates-disappeared
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Syria%27s_moderates_disappeared%29

content:
<p>Syria's "Moderates" Have Disappeared … and <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/05/syrias-moderates-have-disappeared-and-there-are-no-good-guys">There Are No Good Guys.</a>
<p>Actually, there are <em>some</em> (mostly) good guys: the
revolutionary Kurds.


feed_id: e97d90165b128fb357d4061a5970c252
title: Earth's rising population
uri: Earth-s-rising-population
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Earth%27s_rising_population%29
content:
<p>Earth's Rising Population <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/05/earths-rising-population-spells-trouble-ahead
">Spells Trouble Ahead.</a>


feed_id: 87a36bfdefe2eff27f60de7818fcb7ce
title: Violence against Israelis
uri: Violence-against-Israelis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Violence_against_Israelis%29
content:
<p>Palestinians are so <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/05/third-palestinian-intifada-on-way-or-already-begun
">desperate and hopeless</a> that some of them are engaging in random acts of violence against Israelis.
<p>Negotiations are hopeless as long as Israel is dead set against peace,
but the US could change that.


feed_id: 0e59a48c2c2d29fbadbf4dc5f6e2724b
title: US method of intervention
uri: US-method-of-intervention
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28US_method_of_intervention%29
content:
<p>"Arm the opposition" has become a standard simplistic US method of
intervention.  But it usually <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/10/heres-why-arming-opposition-usually-doesnt-work
">does not work.</a>


feed_id: f8df5f9eb73d44e3cef4a62a702b6279
title: Record-breaking rain and floods
uri: Record-breaking-rain-and-floods
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Record-breaking_rain_and_floods%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/05/south-carolina-floods-climate-change
">Global heating</a> made the record-breaking rain and floods in South Carolina worse.


feed_id: dc15aecfb6d5b5ebc931657a056d0cb5
title: Offshoring of profits
uri: Offshoring-of-profits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Offshoring_of_profits%29
content:
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/05/oecd-hopes-reforms-will-end-era-of-aggressive-tax-avoidance
">New tax rules</a> to stop offshoring of profits were weakened by UK lobbying.


feed_id: e72ed7458eff11a4adce75006057e4ed
title: Suffering in Yemen
uri: Suffering-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Suffering_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>US officials won't turn their attention to the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/05/america-yemen-crisis-is-partly-our-fault">suffering</a> the US is helping Saudi Arabia to cause in Yemen.
<p>This could be related to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/10/05/saudi-arabia-continues-hire-politically-connected-american-lobbyists-public-relation-firms/">Saudi Arabia's paid PR in the US.</a>


feed_id: 96777c6cc97115a9ea238867846d093a
title: Radiation around Chernobyl
uri: Radiation-around-Chernobyl
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Radiation_around_Chernobyl%29
content:
<p>The residual radiation around Chernobyl is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/05/wildlife-thriving-around-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-despite-radiation">not as bad for wild animals</a> as the presence of humans would be.
<p>It is good news that the radiation doesn't do worse harm, but this
doesn't imply that we should consider the area safe to live in or
farm.


feed_id: f599623bfda0484485e9413f3237c5ec
title: Shaker Aamer's torture
uri: Shaker-Aamer-s-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Shaker_Aamer%27s_torture%29
content:
<p>Britain's Role in Shaker Aamer's Torture <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/05/britain-torture-role-inquiry-mi6-rendition-shaker-aamer">Demands an Inquiry — Now.</a>


feed_id: 88fe20680efc261d4813c77990ed7c5a
title: Endangered cactus
uri: Endangered-cactus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Endangered_cactus%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/05/nearly-a-third-of-worlds-cacti-face-extinction-says-iucn
">1/3 of the world's cactus species</a> are endangered by human demand for exotic houseplants.


feed_id: abab930a0f0e8432d3490947faac01dc
title: Racism by white people
uri: Racism-by-white-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Racism_by_white_people%29
content:
<p>We're All Racist. But Racism by White People <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/05/racist-racism-racially-white-ethnic-minorities">Matters More.</a>


feed_id: 87a73e894089694353e0ef8ec71333f9
title: Organized American Atheists
uri: Organized-American-Atheists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Organized_American_Atheists%29
content:
<p>Organized American Atheists are starting to campaign for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/05/abortion-opposition-religious-atheists-must-help-fight-for-choice">abortion rights.</a>


feed_id: 8434082a53f6b3d9ed4afecddbd84d77
title: Definition of "terrorist"
uri: Definition-of-terrorist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Definition_of_terrorist%29
content:
<p>The <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article37411218.html">US and Russia</a> both twist the definition of "terrorist".
<p>Terrorists are people that try to gain their ends by threatening or
committing violence against civilians.  Maybe all the armed groups in
Syria are terrorists, except perhaps the Kurds.


feed_id: 7a041ea58496b7a9bf1d19d76cd575a0
title: Mayor of Stockton's computer
uri: Mayor-of-Stockton-s-computer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Mayor_of_Stockton%27s_computer%29

content:
<p>The Committee for Public Safety (officially "Department of Homeland
Security" <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151002/15583732429/homeland-security-detains-stockton-mayor-forces-him-to-hand-over-his-passwords.shtml">confiscated</a> the computer of the Mayor of Stockton, then kept him
prisoner until he handed over the passwords).
<p>I don't think they have a legal right to demand passwords.


feed_id: bb151797b0ea93d7c303cccb4586f3c8
title: Computer companies that endorse the TPP
uri: Computer-companies-that-endorse-the-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Computer_companies_that_endorse_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
Computer companies that 
<a href="http://tppcoalition.org/about/">explicitly endorse the
TPP</a>: Apple, Facebook, HP, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Qualcomm,
Xerox.
<p>
Supporters also include Disney, Time Warner, Wal-Mart, Target, Gap,
Exxon, Chevron, Mars, Kraft, Coca Cola, Monsanto, Procter & Gamble.


feed_id: c06e2e347dea9995225b14fdaf919c67
title: Using the Hobby Lobby decision
uri: Using-the-Hobby-Lobby-decision
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Using_the_Hobby_Lobby_decision%29

content:
<p>
People with religious convictions in favor of abortion rights might be
able to use the Hobby Lobby decision to 
<a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2014/07/this-one-weird-trick-nullifies-all-abortion-restrictions/">justify
ignoring the Republican laws that make it hard to operate an abortion
clinic</a>.


feed_id: 5d29ee1a57d5a2e06c02d35a6c6aa5f2
title: The TPP
uri: 2015-10-08-The-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28The_TPP%29
content:
<p>
Why is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/06/why-is-donald-trumps-tax-plan-ridiculed-but-the-tpp-deal-gets-a-pass">Donald
Trump's tax plan ridiculed</a> but the TPP deal gets a pass?


feed_id: 498601f44c2bc4cfabe29971a82aa33a
title: US bombing of Médecins Sans Frontières
uri: US-bombing-of-Médecins-Sans-Frontières
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28US_bombing_of_Medecins_Sans_Frontieres%29

content:
<p>
The US has now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/doctors-without-borders-airstrike-afghanistan-us-account-changes-again">changed
its story 4 times</a> about bombing Médecins Sans
Frontières.
<p>
It is difficult to hit a moving target.
<p>
This attack was 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/10/06/why-bombing-kunduz-hospital-was-probably-a-war-crime/">probably
a war crime</a>.


feed_id: f8ebf4775df2141b0564271f64869258
title: Europeans' personal data on Facebook
uri: Europeans-personal-data-on-Facebook
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Europeans_personal_data_on_Facebook%29

content:
<p>
The European Court of Justice ruled that Facebook (and other
companies) 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-10-austria-max-schrems-high-tech-giants.html">cannot
send Europeans' personal data to the US</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/06/safe-harbour-ruling-growing-chasm-us-eu-data-protection">More
information</a>.


feed_id: 704f774df2746fb90e9a34d344cb7b40
title: Fiorina's "abortion" video
uri: Fiorina-s-abortion-video
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Fiorinas_abortion_video%29
content:
<p>
Fiorina's "abortion" video 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/video-boosted-by-carly-fiorina-looks-like-miscarriage-not-abortion-experts">actually
shows a miscarriage</a>, not an abortion.


feed_id: 9e96d44ded778f652d8f9d72f1afe0bb
title: Israeli "outposts"
uri: Israeli-outposts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Israeli_outposts%29
content:
<p>Netanyahu's government has <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.678500
">retroactively authorized</a> large "outposts" built by Israelis in Palestine, without Israeli authorization.
<p>Thus he demonstrates that Palestinian President Abbas's statements are correct.


feed_id: 67bf58e77bd44e21dcd95843736c57fe
title: Supporters of Palestinian BDS
uri: Supporters-of-Palestinian-BDS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Supporters_of_Palestinian_BDS%29
content:
<p>Supporters of the Palestinian <a href="http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/modern-day-mccarthyists-are-going-extremes-slime-activists-fighting-israels?akid=13536.1074977.sO3Kbn&rd=1&src=newsletter1043311&t=5">boycott-divestment-sanctions movement</a> face systematic harassment from an organized group which says it aims to intimidate people.  The harassment is often followed by threats of violence.
<p>The University of California is being pressured to impose <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/are-pro-israel-bullies-us-campuses-planning-dirtier-tactics/14872">unconstitutional censorship.</a>


feed_id: 4845707774093efc00e5e432b40deafa
title: History of Israel/Palestine
uri: History-of-Israel-Palestine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28History_of_Israel%252FPalestine%29

content:
<p>A textbook that presented Israeli and Arab descriptions of the history
if Israel/Palestine, side by side, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/06/jewish-arab-history-teacher-muslim-alevel">was rejected in both Israel and Palestine.</a>


feed_id: b3a55e2c46b028aeaca29ff003d6a366
title: Destruction by climate mayhem
uri: Destruction-by-climate-mayhem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Destruction_by_climate_mayhem%29
content:
<p>Australia has killed a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/07/un-drops-plan-to-create-group-to-relocate-climate-change-affected-people">UN plan</a> to help people move to escape destruction by climate mayhem of the land where they live.
<p>The Australian government, while cutting back on efforts to curb
global heating, thus endeavors to make people drown on the islands and
shores that will be flooded.
<p>I suspect the specific reasoning behind this is that supporting this
plan would mean admitting that global heating will cause a problem.


feed_id: c462ad063c4e8c5cb1c23f7c393c74b0
title: Israeli raid of Hospital
uri: Israeli-raid-of-Hospital
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Israeli_raid_of_Hospital%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4707005,00.html">Israeli troops in disguise</a> raided a hospital in Palestine and carried off a patient.  The troops tried to disable the security cameras but did not get them all.


feed_id: 1985791e3f9f3698d48893710dd1cdc4
title: MSF hospital in Kunduz
uri: MSF-hospital-in-Kunduz
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28MSF_hospital_in_Kunduz%29
content:
<p>Medecins Sans Frontieres demands an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/07/afghan-hospital-bombing-msf-demands-investigation-under-geneva-conventions">independent investigation</a> of whether the US violated the Geneva conventions by bombarding
the MSF hospital in Kunduz.
<p>Why is U.S. refusing an independent investigation if it's so clear its hospital airstrike was an <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/10/07/why-is-u-s-refusing-an-independent-investigation-if-its-so-clear-its-hospital-airstrike-was-an-
accident/">"accident"?</a>
<p>Other US attacks on <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/10/07/a-short-history-of-u-s-bombing-of-civilian-facilities/
">civilian facilities.</a>
<p>In Vietnam, the US <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/look-for-hospitals-as-targets/">sought out hospitals</a> as targets for bombing.


feed_id: 9fb423aada8aee20ce866219bdacca6e
title: Mentally ill people
uri: Mentally-ill-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Mentally_ill_people%29
content:
<p>In the UK, all the services that helped mentally ill people cope with life
mean that requiring them to work is in some cases <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/07/fitness-for-work-tests-national-catastrophe-suicides-vulnerable-people">killing them.</a>
<p>Britons, the banksters will kill you, one way or another, if you don't
defeat them.


feed_id: 8d47fc8c26c32d3121859927a533f736
title: In prison for "endangering" the fetus
uri: In-prison-for-endangering-the-fetus
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28In_prison_for_endangering_the_fetus%29

content:
<p>Amanda Kimbrough was sentenced to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/07/alabama-chemical-endangerment-pregnancy-amanda-kimbrough">ten years in prison</a> for "endangering"
the fetus she was carrying.  This is the latest right-wing excuse
for punishing women by pretending that a fetus is a human being.
<p>Ms Kimbrough did something very bad: she chose not to abort a fetus
known to be badly deformed.  However, she wasn't prosecuted for that
(and it doesn't serve the right-wing agenda to prohibit that).


feed_id: 22782fa4d53b84d2701e68894d882078
title: Apple's $181B overseas
uri: Apple-s-181B-overseas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Apple%27s_%24181B_overseas%29
content:
<p>If Apple Didn't Hold $181B Overseas, <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/apple-google-microsoft-hold-more-than-336b-overseas-via-legal-tax-loopholes/">It Would Owe $59B in US Taxes.</a>  And many other big companies likewise.


feed_id: dcda194bc547aadb97da327f6e4e0548
title: Indonesian forest fires
uri: Indonesian-forest-fires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Indonesian_forest_fires%29
content:
<p>Indonesian Forest Fires on Track <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/07/indonesian-forest-fires-on-track-to-emit-more-co2-than-uk">to Emit More CO2 Than UK.</a>


feed_id: 5c2a8e4689fa3bed506e5c36a2e47b71
title: Imprisoned for miscarriages
uri: Imprisoned-for-miscarriages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Imprisoned_for_miscarriages%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/these-salvadoran-women-went-to-prison-for-suffering-miscarriages/">Women in El Salvador</a> have been sentenced to as much as 40 years in prison for having miscarriages, which were presumed by the state to be abortions.


feed_id: 32fcc2e758eff4e95afb1c08f57e2134
title: Federal aid for South Carolina
uri: Federal-aid-for-South-Carolina
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Federal_aid_for_South_Carolina%29

content:
<p>Senator Graham wants federal aid for South Carolina, which has been
hit hard by a hurricane, and can't recall why he voted against giving
aid to New Jersey when it was in a <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/06/1428176/-Lindsey-Graham-seeking-aid-for-home-state-says-he-can-t-remember-why-he-voted-against-Sandy-relief?detail=email">similar situation.</a>


feed_id: 0e95cae7149fc74b3d4f6511a7a89a34
title: Cindy Hahn's video of thugs
uri: Cindy-Hahn-s-video-of-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Cindy_Hahn%27s_video_of_thugs%29
content:
<p>Cindy Hahn made a video of thugs and suffered <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/05/1427896/-Lawsuit-CA-mom-punched-arrested-in-front-of-children-after-complaint-against-officer-VIDEO?detail=email">violent retaliation,</a> followed by false accusations.


feed_id: d35d434591658f96b9281703ae74f6aa
title: Access to abortion
uri: Access-to-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Access_to_abortion%29
content:
<p>Bills in various US states would impose <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/12/1073566/-Women-legislators-turn-the-tables-and-introduce-bills-regulating-men-s-reproductive-health?detail=email">restrictions</a> on obtaining viagra
or vasectomies.  The idea is to illustrate the wrong of laws that impede access to abortion.
<p>I think these bills are good as argument, but it would be wrong to adopt them,
just as it is wrong to adopt laws to impede abortion.


feed_id: 5eb110220aaf61521f6b59b72336c0c4
title: Structure of the economy
uri: Structure-of-the-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Structure_of_the_economy%29
content:
<p>A futurologist <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/07/children-today-could-work-until-they-are-100-predicts-futurologist">unwittingly shows</a> how bad the current changes in the structure
of the economy could be, if we don't use democracy to stop them.


feed_id: 2e6ba7b2a870971b4e405744e2648c94
title: Tracking by Verizon
uri: Tracking-by-Verizon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Tracking_by_Verizon%29
content:
<p>Verizon, sued for inserting tracking headers into users' web browsing,
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/verizon-has-quietly-made-its-tracking-supercookies-a-lot-more-powerful
">is about to track them even harder.</a>


feed_id: 9569e6af9f32a80ee78f8ff93ea56249
title: Traditional freedoms of readers
uri: Traditional-freedoms-of-readers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Traditional_freedoms_of_readers%29

content:
<p>A major UK bookstore chain will stop the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/06/waterstones-stop-selling-kindle-book-sales-surge">self-defeating sales</a> of the Amazon Swindle.
<p>The Amazon Swindle <a href="media/6ab1192a.ebooks.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.stallman.org/ebooks.pdf">swindles</a> users out of the traditional freedoms of
readers of books.


feed_id: 8c4280512da769b9605c612b27f679f3
title: Tax reforms
uri: Tax-reforms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#9_October_2015_%28Tax_reforms%29
content:
<p>"An unfair global tax deal backed by the world's richest countries 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/oct/08/tax-reforms-corporate-avoidance-poor-countries-denied-billions-small-beer">
will
do little</a>
 to curb tax dodging by multinational firms in developing
nations."
</p>


feed_id: 843400952e5ff838e046010d34a20080
title: Saudi planes attack party
uri: Saudi-planes-attack-party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#9_October_2015_%28Saudi_planes_attack_party%29
content:
<p>Saudi planes 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/08/saudi-led-coalition-suspected-killing-three-grooms-in-yemen-rocket-attack">
attacked</a>
 a Yemeni wedding party and killed three men who
were going to get married.
</p>
<p>Amnesty International 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/amnesty-international-united-states-yemen-weapons">
has condemned this intervention and called on the
US to stop supporting it</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: b5a17e9bb4c9c2e4f1663d67acccec29
title: New financial crisis
uri: New-financial-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#9_October_2015_%28New_financial_crisis%29
content:
<p>The IMF 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/07/next-financial-crash-is-coming-imf-global-stability-report">
suggests</a>
 that another financial crisis is coming because
bubbles will have to pop.
Furthermore, governments have failed to fix the broken banking system.
Banksters have resisted fixing it.</p>


feed_id: 17d344791aafec7830adbdf17b3c27dc
title: UK solar power industry
uri: UK-solar-power-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#9_October_2015_%28UK_solar_power_industry%29
content:
<p>The UK government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/07/solar-panel-installer-goes-into-administration-costing-1000-jobs">
is triumphing</a>
 over the UK solar power
industry.
</p>


feed_id: b6d60cefc8541c518023e733637d852f
title: Israel and Palestine
uri: 2015-10-09-Israel-and-Palestine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#9_October_2015_%28Israel_and_Palestine%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/oct/07/violence-israel-palestinian-territories-guardian-briefing">
Violence</a>
 in Israel and the Palestinian Territories: "Can leaders on
both sides contain the violence?"
</p>
<p>Containing the violence cannot be the sole goal: justice is required
too,
and that means ending Israel's occupation of Palestine.</p>


feed_id: 186f4525e12b10636b846ae6a3dbb98c
title: England rivers
uri: England-rivers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#9_October_2015_%28England_rivers%29
content:
<p>We don't think of England as arid, but in parts of England rivers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/08/are-we-killing-our-rivers">
sometimes
dry up</a>
.
Where they do flow, they're poisoned.</p>


feed_id: 538720b23aaff0409215ee4485aa9327
title: Civil disobedience at Paris summit
uri: Civil-disobedience-at-Paris-summit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#9_October_2015_%28Civil_disobedience_at_Paris_summit%29

content:
<p>Massive civil disobedience 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/08/activists-promise-largest-climate-civil-disobedience-ever-at-paris-summit">
is planned</a>
 for the Paris climate
conference, to demand that they really solve the problem.
</p>


feed_id: b3a32bce6c4adbd5204c6d38c769bb14
title: Putin's men torture
uri: Putin-s-men-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#9_October_2015_%28Putin%27s_men_torture%29
content:
<p>Russia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/oct/08/ngo-alert-russias-committee-against-torture-bankrupted-by-state-fines">
has forced</a>
 the Committee Against Torture to close, through unjust fines.
</p>
<p>Now Putin's men can torture just like CIA agents.</p>


feed_id: 3329159eb9ff6799aa778f6212bd3ec0
title: Fossil fuels
uri: 2015-10-09-Fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#9_October_2015_%28Fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>Investments in equipment and infrastructure for using fossil fuels

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/08/cars-aviation-steel-stranded-assets-risk-spreads-far-beyond-fossil-fuel-firms">
risks</a>
 being a total loss.
</p>


feed_id: e7316a7c3dd25f10c0f54bc0634e3ae1
title: China's Citizen Scores
uri: China-s-Citizen-Scores
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#9_October_2015_%28China%27s_Citizen_Scores%29
content:
<p>China's Nightmarish Citizen Scores 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/chinas-nightmarish-citizen-scores-are-warning-americans">
Are a Warning</a>
 For Americans.
A warning of what Facebook could be turned into.</p>


feed_id: 30734980a01cc03604d2a2374532ba71
title: Homeless suing Sarasota
uri: Homeless-suing-Sarasota
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Homeless_suing_Sarasota%29
content:
<p>The ACLU is helping homeless people 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/10/07/3709664/sarasota-homeless-lawsuit/">
sue Sarasota, Florida</a>,
 to overturn the law prohibiting sleeping in public.
</p>
<p>
<1>Police Sweep Dozens Of Homeless Out Of Former Seattle Times HQ Where 
Developer Plans High-Rises.</a>
</p>


feed_id: cc53dc387e30d078f3a9fc764dcf073a
title: Patriot Coal
uri: Patriot-Coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Patriot_Coal%29
content:
<p>Patriot Coal's bankruptcy will 
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/bankruptcy-lawyers-strip-cash-from-coal-miners-health-insurance">
deprive some coal workers</a>
 of their health care.
</p>
<p>This "coal company" was split off specifically so as to go bankrupt
so that Peabody Energy would escape paying their pensions.</p>


feed_id: f3ad860f124a5d2e07b2336c189dc04d
title: Assault on the poor
uri: Assault-on-the-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Assault_on_the_poor%29
content:
<p>Cameron's "
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/07/camerons-assault-on-poverty-pledge-undone-by-new-figures">
assault on poverty</a>"
 will help poverty in the UK
by making 200,000 additional working families poor.
</p>


feed_id: 42d551c5350bab6d04ade24bc525458c
title: Clinton doubts the TPP
uri: Clinton-doubts-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Clinton_doubts_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>Clinton has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/07/hillary-clinton-opposes-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp">
started expressing doubts</a>
 about the TPP, though not on fundamental grounds.
</p>
<p>I am glad about this change, because it will help defeat the TPP, but
I think she is making a political calculation, unlike Sanders' sincere
stand.</p>


feed_id: f2c8054b954d53f23469ec7fc2e117dc
title: Urgent: block oil drilling in Mexican Gulf
uri: Urgent-block-oil-drilling-in-Mexican-Gulf
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_block_oil_drilling_in_Mexican_Gulf%29

content:
<p>US citizens: tell Obama 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-gulf/">
not to allow</a>
 more oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico.
</p>


feed_id: 191000bd9dda3702dbccdc4a50fe42e2
title: Canned pumpkin slump
uri: Canned-pumpkin-slump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Canned_pumpkin_slump%29
content:
<p>Global heating is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/07/pumpkin-pie-climate-change-christmas-crops">
gradually harming the production</a>
 of canned pumpkin.
This year, due to bad luck, there won't be enough.
</p>


feed_id: ffed94f4d9830263231c5bf6b26de29f
title: Urgent: tell Chicken of the Sea to clean up
uri: Urgent-tell-Chicken-of-the-Sea-to-clean-up
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Chicken_of_the_Sea_to_clean_up%29

content:
<p>Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=13E562D38B08400B507E470B780CA7AF.app360b?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1871">
tell Chicken of the Sea</a>
 to clean up its treatment of fish and fishermen.
</p>


feed_id: 15dd9f2c4efd2cdda0db54423b06d35d
title: Urgent: support gun control
uri: Urgent-support-gun-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_gun_control%29
content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/NRA_Congress">
tell Congress</a>
 that your "thoughts and prayers" are not
enough — we want real action to control guns.
</p>


feed_id: 7a5d29b53c75d606af4c9afd6a8e5cf4
title: Urgent: oppose DARK Act
uri: Urgent-oppose-DARK-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_DARK_Act%29
content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=14115">
phone your senators</a>
 to oppose the DARK Act.
It would abolish state and local regulations on GMOs, including
requirements to label them in food.</p>


feed_id: d7a84e0ac0bc7c0ee0c06a0a235392ae
title: Urgent: oppose intervention in Syria
uri: Urgent-oppose-intervention-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_intervention_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stand-with-obamasanders?source=c.url&r_by=1135580">
oppose the Republican-Clinton proposals</a>
 for a bigger military intervention in Syria.
</p>


feed_id: e9a1000eb9f14d45b71aab62105e2369
title: Urgent: call for rejection of TPP
uri: Urgent-call-for-rejection-of-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_call_for_rejection_of_TPP%29

content:
<p>Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/no-to-tpp/">
call for rejection</a>
 of the TPP.
</p>


feed_id: f0c2a5234f21dd7f116543ae9b173342
title: Prosecution of repressive politicians
uri: Prosecution-of-repressive-politicians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Prosecution_of_repressive_politicians%29

content:
<p>
The UN works with the government of Guatemala to 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/this-is-one-of-the-most-innovative-programs-in-the-uns-toolbox/">prosecute
corrupt and repressive politicians</a>.


feed_id: a5698d10f3deff5a67363bd9fb876c20
title: Inequality in South Africa
uri: Inequality-in-South-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Inequality_in_South_Africa%29
content:
<p>
Although apartheid has ended, inequality in South Africa 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/06/piketty-south-africa-inequality-nelson-mandela-lecture">keeps
increasing</a>.


feed_id: 607871ee15d40f93255d0596bd26d405
title: Oil extraction from Bolivian land
uri: Oil-extraction-from-Bolivian-land
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Oil_extraction_from_Bolivian_land%29

content:
<p>
Indigenous people in Bolivia are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/oct/06/guarani-people-turn-to-the-law-fight-latest-battle-bolivia-authorities">campaigning
to stop oil extraction from their land</a>, and meeting with
repression from the thugs.


feed_id: d63a1cbd04041f19a951f3831e039a3f
title: Israel demolishing family houses
uri: Israel-demolishing-family-houses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Israel_demolishing_family_houses%29

content:
<p>
Israel is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/06/israel-demolishes-homes-palestinian-attackers-clashes-escalate">punishing
the families of Palestinians that killed Jews</a>, by demolishing
their family houses.
<p>
Collective punishment is repression, not justice.


feed_id: ac6c2865d152a0cc73bf40fc797573ee
title: Autonomous killer robots
uri: 2015-10-09-Autonomous-killer-robots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Autonomous_killer_robots%29
content:
<p>
The US and UK are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/06/autonomous-weapons-un-delay-robot-wars">trying
to block or delay</a> a UN treaty to limit autonomous killer robots.


feed_id: b4d8716889f279f47967e213fd2107e2
title: Killings by thugs
uri: Killings-by-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Killings_by_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Prematurely ruling some killings as "suicide by cop" prejudges 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/suicide-by-cop-the-counted">the
question of whether the thugs were justified or not</a> in killing
those people.


feed_id: 6902d7866127b0220bdd35891e15fd46
title: US nurses denounce the TPP
uri: US-nurses-denounce-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28US_nurses_denounce_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
US nurses 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/10/05/rns-call-congress-reject-latest-trade-pact">denounce
the TPP</a>.


feed_id: 2b14bbfc17cf2f543b77f6f86520caf6
title: The US empire
uri: 2015-10-09-The-US-empire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28The_US_empire%29
content:
<p>
Howard Zinn on the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/05/empire-or-humanity">US
empire</a>.


feed_id: 45c81bb2f9b63339289640b0432836dc
title: BP to get tax deduction
uri: BP-to-get-tax-deduction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28BP_to_get_tax_deduction%29
content:
<p>
Billionaire Polluters has to pay 20 billion dollars for the Big Spill,
but it will get 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/05/will-bps-record-gulf-spill-settlement-amount-record-tax-break">5
billion back as a tax deduction</a>.


feed_id: ded55173d440bc8a3b2473e33f6f047a
title: Protesters "observed" through sniper rifles
uri: Protesters-observed-through-sniper-rifles
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Protesters_observed_through_sniper_rifles%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in Manchester, UK, were posted to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/05/outrage-stirred-police-deploy-snipers-observe-anti-austerity-march-uk">"observe"
protesters through the telescopes of sniper rifles</a>.
<p>
The thugs' spokesman said, "Don't worry, they aren't there to shoot."
<p>
But why is it necessary to observe protesters through powerful
telescopes?


feed_id: 2bdd58b85f271e6df5a4a70e55b27dae
title: Thugs get backlash in donut stores
uri: Thugs-get-backlash-in-donut-stores
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Thugs_get_backlash_in_donut_stores%29

content:
<p>
Thugs got some 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/dunkin-donuts-police-officers-new-england">backlash
from Black Lives Matter in donut stores</a>.  Donut unto
others…
<p>
To refuse to serve thugs is going too far, but reminding them of their
responsibilities is legitimate.


feed_id: b34caa2f98e87052c434934212b3a2a6
title: Effective handling of guns
uri: Effective-handling-of-guns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Effective_handling_of_guns%29
content:
<p>
It is hard to use your own gun to stop a massacre.  It 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/combat-vets-destroy-the-nras-heroic-gunslinger-fantasy/">takes
special training to stay calm and not be confused by the stress and
fear</a> people feel in such situations.  In practice, you usually
shouldn't even try.
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/03/1427420/-Armed-Vet-proves-NRA-wrong-and-explains-why-he-didn-t-confront-Oregon-Killer-with-Good-Guy-Gun">More
information</a>.


feed_id: 88e0d8c1f8e10d4f73142d2758deb873
title: Guns vs abortion
uri: Guns-vs-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Guns_vs_abortion%29
content:
<p>
Imagine treating men that want to get a gun 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/03/1427451/-How-about-we-treat-every-young-man-who-wants-to-buy-a-gun-like-every-woman-who-wants-to-get-an-abort">like
women that want to get an abortion</a>.


feed_id: e4d32bc6ee53c3a14bba8f3927e9d245
title: SCROTUS cancels national park fund
uri: SCROTUS-cancels-national-park-fund
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28SCROTUS_cancels_national_park_fund%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_June_2015_(S.C.R.O.T.U.S.)">SCROTUS</a> cancelled the 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/02/1427213/-Republican-extremists-allow-most-successful-parks-program-die">fees
that offshore oil and gas extractors paid</a> to fund national parks.


feed_id: 7cafbf19cd6a057d62d426783ebfe0ac
title: "Supply-side Jesus"
uri: Supply-side-Jesus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Supply-side_Jesus%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing US Christians worship the 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/03/1427402/-Bill-Maher-In-order-to-be-both-Republican-Christian-they-had-to-create-an-entirely-new-Jesus">"supply-side
Jesus"</a>.


feed_id: 8d7a6cf26b695eef17cdacc4def27c8a
title: Assassination ordered by US-backed dictator
uri: Assassination-ordered-by-US-backed-dictator
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_October_2015_%28Assassination_ordered_by_US-backed_dictator%29

content:
<p>
Chilean dictator Pinochet directly ordered the assassination of exile
Orlando Letelier, who
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/08/pinochet-directly-ordered-washington-killing-diplomat-documents-orlando-letelier-declassified">was
in exile in the US</a>.
<p>
The US backed Pinochet
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_September_2013_(American_reporter_killed_shortly_after_Sept_11_coup_in_Chile)">before
and during his coup</a>, and afterwards too I suppose.


feed_id: 8c0842eb9331fd3dfb4f3950d38f895c
title: Urgent: Suspend loans to Uzbek government
uri: Urgent-Suspend-loans-to-Uzbek-government
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Suspend_loans_to_Uzbek_government%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://www.walkfree.org/uzbek-slavery/">Call on the World
Bank</a> to suspend loans to Uzbek government because of its use of
conscript labor.
<p>
With Javascript disabled, it was not immediately clear that the page
had worked, but it had in fact worked — I got a confirmatory
email.


feed_id: e9e927264c2540c4af851d7f0b85ff04
title: Insulting religions
uri: Insulting-religions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_October_2015_%28Insulting_religions%29
content:
<p>
Salman Rushdie warns that western intellectuals
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/23/salman-rushdie-on-islam-we-have-learned-the-wrong-lessons">cater
too much</a> to Muslims that demand others not insult them or their
religion.
<p>
I see
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_(Human_freedom_threatened_by_religion)">plenty
to disapprove of in lots of religions</a>, though some of them are
quaint.


feed_id: 6d99a686a5e62820e5ce549c5a810d77
title: Urgent: Investigation of attack on MSF
uri: Urgent-Investigation-of-attack-on-MSF
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Investigation_of_attack_on_MSF%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/justice_for_dwb/">call on
Obama</a> to allow an independent investigation of the attack on
Médecins Sans Frontières in Kunduz.


feed_id: 11d5664961c2df206b13ae730d3abff7
title: Urgent: Ban fracking on public lands
uri: 2015-10-10-Urgent-Ban-fracking-on-public-lands
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_fracking_on_public_lands%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for
<a href="http://signforgood.com/banfracking/?code=presente">banning
fracking</a> on public lands.


feed_id: 5d6b2ad7c1d5fd160e3475413549d68a
title: Mass coral bleaching event
uri: Mass-coral-bleaching-event
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_October_2015_%28Mass_coral_bleaching_event%29
content:
<p>
The current
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/08/worlds-oceans-facing-biggest-coral-die-off-in-history-scientists-warn">mass
coral bleaching event</a> could result in the biggest coral die-off
humans have recorded.
<p>
But it will only get worse in subsequent decades.  By 2030, such
events could occur annually.
<p>
In addition to thousands of species that live in them, coral reefs
provide a value to the human economy estimated at
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/08/coral-reefs-worth-four-times-as-much-as-uk-economy-earth-index-finds">6
trillion dollars per year</a>.  Around a billion human beings live on
sea food, and a lot of that food
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_September_2015_(Coral_Triangle_in_danger)">comes
from coral reefs</a>.


feed_id: 1f3f1e7329b2b63e26a4aac9f8d32e3a
title: Urgent: Mountaintop removal standards
uri: Urgent-Mountaintop-removal-standards
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Mountaintop_removal_standards%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1791">demand
strict environmental standards</a> for mountaintop removal coal
mining.


feed_id: e1cccc697b5556eafb4afa9f2a3f7138
title: Mobbing a shooter to stop the shooting
uri: Mobbing-a-shooter-to-stop-the-shooting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_October_2015_%28Mobbing_a_shooter_to_stop_the_shooting%29

content:
<p>
Ben Carson is being condemned for recommending that people
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/07/ben-carson-oregon-community-college-shooting-comments">mob
a shooter to stop the shooting</a>.
<p>
Carson could be right on that point: fighting back, the crowd could
limit the number of people that the shooter can kill.  When the
shooter's magazine is empty, the crowd will stop him from reloading.
<p>
It is a mistake to claim that that statement blames the victims.  It
isn't about blame at all — it is practical advice.  As for the
blame, that falls on the killer in any case.
<p>
I think this advice applies to many situations where people are
subject unjustly to violence.  Think of the Stonewall riot.  Think of
evictions.
<p>
The rest of what Carson said is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_(Effective_handling_of_guns)">mistaken</a>.


feed_id: fbc29a7996ecfd96c71ecc365d0b08fb
title: New Democrat Party
uri: New-Democrat-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_October_2015_%28New_Democrat_Party%29
content:
<p>
Canadians, <a
href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/10/tpp-negotiations-conclude-what-next-for-the-trade-deal-without-a-public-text/">vote
for the New Democrat Party</a> — it is the most likely to reject
the TPP.
<p>
I wish it took a firm stand, but even partial opposition is better
than none.
</p>


feed_id: acc1378ee9f821d6dbad923ba121b523
title: Homeless suing Sarasota
uri: 2015-10-10-Homeless-suing-Sarasota
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Homeless_suing_Sarasota%29
content:
<p>The ACLU is helping homeless people 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/10/07/3709664/sarasota-homeless-lawsuit/">
sue Sarasota, Florida</a>,
 to overturn the law prohibiting sleeping in public.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/10/01/3708086/seattle-times-headquarters-homeless/">Police Sweep Dozens Of Homeless Out</a> Of Former Seattle Times HQ Where 
Developer Plans High-Rises.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 40f587553a0981042f21c3d3be24569d
title: Israeli "outposts"
uri: 2015-10-10-Israeli-outposts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Israeli_outposts%29
content:
<p>Netanyahu's government has <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.678500
">retroactively authorized</a> large "outposts" built by Israelis in Palestine, without Israeli authorization.
Thus he demonstrates that Palestinian President Abbas's statements are correct.


feed_id: f699a0d94667b274d6f5ea6be3bd1e9d
title: Helping Planned Parenthood
uri: 2015-10-10-Helping-Planned-Parenthood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_October_2015_%28Helping_Planned_Parenthood%29
content:
<p>
Four
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/four-ways-you-can-support-planned-parenthood-right-now/">ways
people can help</a> Planned Parenthood.


feed_id: 5db41807a6787336e9cc7dd2f0759f27
title: Book fair rebukes Saudi Arabia
uri: Book-fair-rebukes-Saudi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Book_fair_rebukes_Saudi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>It falls to a book fair to rebuke Saudi Arabia for its <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/turin-international-book-fair-drops-saudi-arabia-guest-of-honour">plan to execute a protester.</a>


feed_id: 151d34676fb83c4d773da575405bc6bd
title: Bias against blacks
uri: Bias-against-blacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Bias_against_blacks%29
content:
<p>The American Bar Association's president <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/09/black-americans-legal-system-paulette-brown-american-bar-association">explains</a> many ways that the US legal system is biased against blacks.


feed_id: b7df18c3a7425bad8f4435a463c5019b
title: Student unions' "no platform" practice
uri: Student-unions-no-platform-practice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Student_unions%27_no_platform_practice%29

content:
<p>Julie Bindel <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/09/no-platform-universities-julie-bindel-exclusion-anti-feminist-crusade">condemns</a> the student unions' "no platform" practice that hasbanned her from debates at UK universities.
<p>I disagree with Bindel about sex work and some other issues.  As for
whether posing nude is a way to liberate women, that's complicated
because patricarchy is complicated.  It includes pressure for women to
be ashamed of their bodies, and a tendency to judge women solely in terms
of sex and attractiveness.  Posing nude resists the former but may
promote the latter.
<p>Regardless of whether I agree with her, I think it is wrong to exclude
her from speaking at UK universities.


feed_id: 165ac90a204425e0d825fc57f8ad2132
title: Campaign finance laws
uri: Campaign-finance-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Campaign_finance_laws%29
content:
<p>Wisconsin Republicans are embarrassed that Scott Walker apparently
violated campaign finance laws, so they are going to <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/10/12946/wi-gop-begins-retroactive-decriminalization-scott-walker">repeal the laws.</a>


feed_id: f633344a074190b603a051dee08de6ff
title: Companies repeat wrongdoing
uri: Companies-repeat-wrongdoing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Companies_repeat_wrongdoing%29
content:
<p>Why do companies repeat the same wrongdoing <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/oct/09/vw-bp-corporate-scandals-emissions-tests-oil-spill-horsemeat-rana-plaza">after being caught?</a>
<p>I'd say it's because the punishments are insufficient to dissuade
them.


feed_id: b263c8c37e9cc0084f1eb9302a987d74
title: Violence by Jews and Arabs
uri: Violence-by-Jews-and-Arabs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Violence_by_Jews_and_Arabs%29
content:
<p>Individual Jews and Arabs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/hamas-leader-gaza-declares-intifada-deadly-attacks-continue">continue violent attacks.</a>
<p>I wonder why Israeli soldiers shoot to kill when Palestinians throw stones
or roll burning tires at a fence.  Wouldn't tear gas suffice?


feed_id: 361f00c3d47b4c0e8a8cf935e55cda52
title: Ebola's long-term damage
uri: Ebola-s-long-term-damage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Ebola%27s_long-term_damage%29
content:
<p>Many Ebola survivors have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/pauline-cafferkey-case-know-little-ebola-virus-long-term-effects">long-term damage,</a> and they may transmit the virus sexually.


feed_id: 248d1d1bc409e39027409c2909037a71
title: Work harder and die younger
uri: Work-harder-and-die-younger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Work_harder_and_die_younger%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/09/jeremy-hunt-wants-us-work-harder-die-younger-have-some-self-respect
">The Tories</a> want Britons to work harder and die younger, like Americans.


feed_id: 791df20a252299013537e0220b895642
title: Use of microbeads
uri: Use-of-microbeads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Use_of_microbeads%29
content:
<p>California has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/09/california-bans-microbeads-to-protect-marine-life
">banned</a> use of microbeads in some products, because they get into waterways and harm wildlife.


feed_id: 7772787ca26b5a052deb1be9d8734b5a
title: California's snowpack
uri: California-s-snowpack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28California%27s_snowpack%29
content:
<p>California's snowpack is at a record low level; apparently it has
never been so low <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/oct/09/global-warming-is-shrinking-californias-critical-snowpack">in 500 years.</a>
<p>Global heating appears to be involved.


feed_id: 7c85f11b66fb9ca3c5bce45e2c919df5
title: Price of Daraprim
uri: Price-of-Daraprim
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Price_of_Daraprim%29
content:
<p>Shkreli said he would reduce the price of Daraprim, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/10/martin-shkreli-still-hasnt-dropped-price-daraprim">but then he didn't.</a>
<p>This seems to have been a PR manipulation false promise,
like when Amazon <a href="https://www.stallman.org/amazon.html">promised</a> to stop remotely erasing books in Swindles.


feed_id: bd1d3f701fc91fd3ce38732fc9eb4e0d
title: Restarting the Gulag
uri: Restarting-the-Gulag
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Restarting_the_Gulag%29
content:
<p>Svetlana Alexievich: The Gulag can be restarted <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/oct/09/svetlana-alexievich-stalin-and-the-gulag-are-not-history">at a moment's notice.</a>


feed_id: dd26a7483ca0eb7b153fa4549338cd04
title: Boarding pass bar codes
uri: Boarding-pass-bar-codes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Boarding_pass_bar_codes%29
content:
<p>The bar codes on airplane boarding passes have 
<a href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/whats-in-a-boarding-pass-barcode-a-lot/">
lots of personal information</a>.
Don't just throw them away.
</p>


feed_id: f36cde935d57f41da03673587f892d59
title: Punished for complaints
uri: Punished-for-complaints
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Punished_for_complaints%29
content:
<p>Prisoners in Pennsylvania that file legal complaints about abusive
treatment are 
<a href="http://www.vice.com/read/unauthorized-group-activity-0000772-v22n10">
punished with violence</a>,
 torture, and self-contradictory
criminal charges.
</p>


feed_id: ceb9a12d2a77942ea4b8dccdb451d704
title: Driving while black
uri: 2015-10-11-Driving-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Driving_while_black%29
content:
<p>NYC thugs 
<a href="Http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/shes-banker-owns-bmw-and-obama-follows-her-twitter-ny-cops-still-threw-innocent">
put Kamilah Brock in a mental hospital</a>
 because she claimed
to work in banks and own the BMW she was driving — while black.
</p>


feed_id: c54f00cd1573147b6fe0cad885aa79c8
title: Right to inspect code
uri: Right-to-inspect-code
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Right_to_inspect_code%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/10/06/defendants_should_be_able_to_inspect_software_code_used_in_forensics.html">
Defendants Should Have the Right to Inspect the Software Code Used to
Convict Them.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 0eb30f822aa9fc6fa0d114d48b3729fc
title: Nuclear data waste
uri: Nuclear-data-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Nuclear_data_waste%29
content:
<p>Collections of 
<a href="http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm">
personal data compared with nuclear waste</a>:
 potentially dangerous for a long time.
</p>


feed_id: b0e56d4031aae55ef8de6d25aa94aebf
title: Organised censorship campaign
uri: Organised-censorship-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Organised_censorship_campaign%29
content:
<p>US students and professors that criticize Israel's occupation of
Palestine 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/major-report-exposes-insidious-campaign-against-pro-palestine-activists-on-us-campuses/">
face pressure from an organized network</a>
 that uses gifts,
threats, and bogus legal complaints to promote censorship in schools.
</p>


feed_id: 733bb2e9bba9a7c35709f3d6b9ee36ed
title: TPP standards without enforcement
uri: TPP-standards-without-enforcement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28TPP_standards_without_enforcement%29

content:
<p>The TPP has labor and environmental standards, but 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/tpp-prioritizes-rights-of-corporations-over-workers-the-environment-and-democracy/">
without enforcement</a>,
 so countries could ignore them.  Meanwhile, the power it
gives to foreign companies has a strict enforcement mechanism
attached.
</p>


feed_id: 19b164ed984be4a36ec189613b1d8d94
title: Punishment by smoke
uri: Punishment-by-smoke
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Punishment_by_smoke%29
content:
<p>A French prisoner 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/ex-prisoner-sues-france-for-putting-him-in-cell-with-smokers-and-wins">
won damages</a>
 because he had to share a poorly ventilated
cell with smokers.
</p>


feed_id: 120be06328dffcaabc46456e4ed6caad
title: 3d printed gang war
uri: 3d-printed-gang-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%283d_printed_gang_war%29
content:
<p>The biggest crime gang in Japan has split, and if it develops into
a gang war, they might 
<a href="https://news.vice.com/article/a-yakuza-war-is-brewing-in-japan-and-the-police-are-taking-sides">
use drones or 3d-printed guns</a>
 to fight it.
</p>
<p>It seems plausible that sophisticated gangs will make and use
3d-printed guns, but I have a feeling (though I can't prove it) that
most crazy mass shooters will be deterred by the difficulty.</p>
<p>I am almost certain that few depressed people will 3d-print guns in
order to shoot themselves.  If you're depressed, you're not going to
go to such effort.</p>
<p>Thus, I don't believe that 3d printing makes gun control obsolete.</p>
<p></p>


feed_id: 8794aac700e51eb70fb354df99b62539
title: Effect of prohibiting drugs
uri: Effect-of-prohibiting-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Effect_of_prohibiting_drugs%29
content:
<p>One 
<a href="https://reason.com/archives/2015/10/05/prohibition-kills">
effect of prohibiting drugs</a>
 is that you can't be sure the drug is
pure.  This has killed at least a thousand Americans, perhaps far more.
</p>


feed_id: 6687ff900adaf42d2c2912a2c2e0e77f
title: Predatory lenders
uri: Predatory-lenders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Predatory_lenders%29
content:
<p>12 congresscritters 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/how-predatory-lenders-paid-a-dozen-lawmakers-to-hobble-elizabeth-warrens-cfpb/">
got "donations" from payday lending companies</a>
 just before or after they sponsored bills to restrain the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau from curbing the companies' abuses.
</p>


feed_id: 5dac2f92240fa9735f79a9c600388087
title: Fetal tissue research
uri: Fetal-tissue-research
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Fetal_tissue_research%29
content:
<p>US religious nuts (who are numerous) want to 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/fetal-tissue-bans-are-all-about-making-abortion-providers-look-like-monsters/">
ban research using fetal tissue</a>
 because the tissue comes from abortions.  Since this research
is necessary for progress in some areas of medicine, their fanaticism
could kill your children or even you.
</p>


feed_id: 9f3b2bab3119301e0d80da299f8b1370
title: Ben Carson's gun fantasy
uri: Ben-Carson-s-gun-fantasy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Ben_Carson%27s_gun_fantasy%29
content:
<p>Ben Carson claims that Jews could have prevented the Holocaust,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/09/ben-carson-claims-jewish-people-might-have-stopped-holocaust-if-they-had-guns">
if only they had had guns</a>.
</p>
<p>This is an absurd fantasy.  The Jewish minority in Germany could not
have defeated the state and the majority of Germans with personal
guns.  Nor could Jews have defeated the occupying German army in other
countries.  It took a stronger army to do that.</p>
<p>Some Jews who were young and fit joined resistance groups, but those
groups could not defeat the German army on their own.  They could only
weaken it with guerrilla tactics.  They could not have protected the
rest of the Jews.</p>
<p>In the Warsaw ghetto, the Jews did have guns, and they fought
tenaciously for their lives.  They threw back a German division
… but ultimately they lost.  The Germans had reinforcements and
resupply, while the Jews did not.  I think those Jews realized that
the best they could hope for was to go down fighting.</p>


feed_id: 39c55979809b518cb835d96e5468381c
title: Burma peace talks
uri: Burma-peace-talks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Burma_peace_talks%29
content:
<p>Burma has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/myanmar-official-accuses-china-of-meddling-in-peace-talks-with-rebels">
accused China</a>
 of asking rebel groups to reject a peace deal.
</p>


feed_id: eb262d4667bbc20c4b574f8bae3adcb9
title: Abortion stigma
uri: Abortion-stigma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Abortion_stigma%29
content:
<p>Eight women 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/why-we-need-to-talk-about-abortion-eight-women-share-their-experiences">
talk about their abortions</a>,
 to reject the stigma on abortion.
</p>


feed_id: c2476ec06bba85c19e9c102c8296e896
title: Belarusian media repression
uri: Belarusian-media-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Belarusian_media_repression%29
content:
<p>Belarus continues to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/independent-media-under-attack-ahead-of-belarus-presidential-election">
repress the media</a>.
</p>


feed_id: d8b1166df714586e1b26a900fa1bfb22
title: Malaysia arrests lawyer
uri: Malaysia-arrests-lawyer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Malaysia_arrests_lawyer%29
content:
<p>Malaysia arrested a lawyer who 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/detained-malaysian-lawyer-starts-hunger-strike-amid-pm-finance-scandal">
criticized</a>
 the prime minister's corruption.
</p>


feed_id: c17d7cbdffa551b8115607036030feae
title: OECD proposals
uri: OECD-proposals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28OECD_proposals%29
content:
<p>The OECD's 
<a href="media/529766ce.beps_-_patching_up_a_broken_tax_system_0.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.actionaid.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/beps_-_patching_up_a_broken_tax_system_0.pdf">
proposals for reform</a>
 of how businesses are taxed are small
changes and would not solve the problem.
</p>
<p>I have 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">
a solution</a>
 for this.
</p>


feed_id: 74888a9cb88781b0bc8483a1091d960f
title: US gives up on Syrian rebels
uri: US-gives-up-on-Syrian-rebels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28US_gives_up_on_Syrian_rebels%29
content:
<p>The US has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/us-freezing-of-syrian-rebel-training-scheme-shows-western-disarray">
given up</a>
 on training non-jihadi Syrian rebels,
since that didn't work.  But it does not have a better plan.</p>
<p>The only useful plan that I can envision is to reinforce the Kurds,
but it is clear that the US is unwilling to do that.</p>


feed_id: e6ed3c2ebe576ac1e01588f85e6d95e0
title: Compromised crypto
uri: Compromised-crypto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Compromised_crypto%29
content:
<p>The Obama regime 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-opts-not-to-force-firms-to-decrypt-data--for-now/2015/10/08/1d6a6012-6dca-11e5-aa5b-f78a98956699_story.html">
has backed off</a>
 on the idea of requiring back-doors in
products that do encryption.
</p>
<p>They may try again at any time.</p>


feed_id: a164bab779e2cb8e0db2b19668fef932
title: Urgent: support the Dingell-Ellison letter
uri: Urgent-support-the-Dingell-Ellison-letter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_the_Dingell-Ellison_letter%29

content:
<p>US citizens: phone your congresscritter to support the Dingell-Ellison
letter, calling on Obama <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/Dingell-Ellison-protect-Yemeni-civilians">to restrain Saudi the attack on Yemen and pursue diplomacy.</a>
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: 64872161f21413737dc5411cc4cb5dfb
title: Urgent: Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act
uri: Urgent-Sentencing-Reform-and-Corrections-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Sentencing_Reform_and_Corrections_Act%29

content:
<p>US citizens: support the <a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/reform-our-drug-sentencing-laws
">Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act.</a>


feed_id: 77da587005478001c59cbec90d4359e3
title: Urgent: vote against TPP
uri: Urgent-vote-against-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_vote_against_TPP%29
content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://www.usalone.com/formhelp4b.htm?pnum1236=Vote%20Against%20The%20Trans%20Pacific%20Partnership
">call on representatives</a> to vote against the TPP.


feed_id: dcab701dede9881aa64daedb15ba0c8c
title: Urgent: Support regulation of guns
uri: Urgent-Support-regulation-of-guns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Support_regulation_of_guns%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://www.usalone.com/formhelp4b.htm?pnum1235=It%27s%20Time%20To%20Actually%20Regulate%20Murder%20Weapons
">support regulation of guns.</a>


feed_id: 783bdf086f723630ce60d19e5581db15
title: Search warrants for data
uri: Search-warrants-for-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_October_2015_%28Search_warrants_for_data%29
content:
<p>California has a new law requiring that the state get search warrants
before accessing people's digital data, <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/victory-california-gov-brown-signs-calecpa-requiring-police-get-warrant-accessing">in their own devices and in onlne services.</a>
<p>This is good, but it is not enough to excuse avoidable collection of data
about people.  I will continue to pay cash so as not to be tracked.


feed_id: 0eb30d9e581f84aca0ba8b917341f647
title: Libya's rival governments
uri: Libya-s-rival-governments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_October_2015_%28Libya%27s_rival_governments%29
content:
<p>Libya's two rival governments <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/libya-national-unity-government-announced-by-un-after-months-of-talks">have agreed to unite.</a>
<p>I hope that this works.


feed_id: cb8e28a64a6abe18e645ea4c79ead7b3
title: Sony Music rootkit
uri: Sony-Music-rootkit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_October_2015_%28Sony_Music_rootkit%29
content:
<p><a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/10/08/its-been-ten-years-since-son.html">It's been ten years</a> since Sony Music infected the world with its rootkit.


feed_id: 1c2ede2702a989d05f605db2bef941b1
title: Copyright on yoga poses
uri: Copyright-on-yoga-poses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_October_2015_%28Copyright_on_yoga_poses%29
content:
<p>A US appeals court ruled that a sequence of yoga poses (such as Bikram yoga) <a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/10/08/court-tells-yoga-troll-that-po.html">cannot be copyrighted.</a>
<p>Copyright law explicitly covers only creative details of expression,
not anything with practical significance.


feed_id: 08fd4fe49c2b8fac3755dd15327d8f49
title: Video of a public talk destroyed
uri: Video-of-a-public-talk-destroyed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_October_2015_%28Video_of_a_public_talk_destroyed%29

content:
<p>Purdue University destroyed the video of a public talk, on US
government orders, because <a href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/bgellman/classified-material-in-the-public-domain-whats-a-university-to-do/">the talk's slides showed material from Snowden revelations.</a>
<p>This is part of the US government's policy of refusing to recognize
that formerly secret information has been published.  It sounds like
sheer insanity, but it has <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_(US_government_secrecy)">real repressive consequences.</a>
<p>Universities must reject secret government research entirely
if it comes with conditions that apply to the rest of the university.


feed_id: 4abbbd8f066d3756e1120dd2ce4214aa
title: Companies' arbitration systems
uri: Companies-arbitration-systems
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_October_2015_%28Companies%27_arbitration_systems%29

content:
<p>The US Supreme Court has given companies more power by allowing them
to impose their choice of arbitration systems <a href="http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/we-now-have-a-justice-system-just-for-corporations">on employees and even customers.</a>


feed_id: fb21b10f700cc7a497225c4a493c4caa
title: Reasons for Amerindian alcoholism
uri: Reasons-for-Amerindian-alcoholism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_October_2015_%28Reasons_for_Amerindian_alcoholism%29

content:
<p>The reasons Amerindians have high rates of alcoholism are <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/2/9428659/firewater-racist-myth-alcoholism-native-americans">high rates of stress, trauma, and poverty.</a>


feed_id: 7e71bff681b40981d6e82cf2d584b20f
title: Pope meeting with Kim Davis
uri: Pope-meeting-with-Kim-Davis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_October_2015_%28Pope_meeting_with_Kim_Davis%29
content:
<p>Conjecture: conservative Catholic officials <a href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38440/pope-francis-swindled-kim-davis-meeting/">tricked the pope</a> into meeting with Kim Davis.


feed_id: 9bbf5ee8922fbd328b0a698126b95285
title: Prohibiting collecting data
uri: Prohibiting-collecting-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_October_2015_%28Prohibiting_collecting_data%29
content:
<p>Wyoming has <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/there-are-laws-making-it-illegal-to-collect-data-on-open-land/">adopted a law</a> specifically prohibiting collecting data (such as water quality) to report to government agencies.


feed_id: 70dd432a4e924ed85985a78034c09417
title: Sanders gun control
uri: Sanders-gun-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_October_2015_%28Sanders_Gun_Controll%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/11/bernie-sanders-democrat-gun-control-record">Sanders explains his views on gun control.</a></p><p></p>


feed_id: 1d376f18d6d9503b3ef205c09e420b28
title: Urgent: tell Chicken of the Sea to clean up
uri: 2015-10-12-Urgent-tell-Chicken-of-the-Sea-to-clean-up
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Chicken_of_the_Sea_to_clean_up%29

content:
<p>Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1871">tell Chicken of the Sea</a>
 to clean up its treatment of fish and fishermen.
</p>


feed_id: 4e304fd8f1991cdd95ed028882f60211
title: Supporters of Palestinian BDS
uri: 2015-10-12-Supporters-of-Palestinian-BDS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_October_2015_%28Supporters_of_Palestinian_BDS%29
content:
<p>Supporters of the Palestinian <a href="http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/modern-day-mccarthyists-are-going-extremes-slime-activists-fighting-israels">boycott-divestment-sanctions movement</a> face systematic harassment from an organized group which says it aims to intimidate people.  The harassment is often followed by threats of violence.
<p>The University of California is being pressured to impose <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/are-pro-israel-bullies-us-campuses-planning-dirtier-tactics/14872">unconstitutional censorship.</a>


feed_id: 8dd3729a3eaa63584d2396fe542ce2bc
title: Chicago convicts probably innocent
uri: Chicago-convicts-probably-innocent
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Chicago_convicts_probably_innocent%29

content:
<p>Four men convicted of murder in Chicago were probably innocent,
according to a city investigation, but the prosecutor insists on
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/07/1428795/-Say-what-Investigation-proves-these-4-men-are-innocent-but-must-serve-their-life-sentences-anyway?detail=email">keeping them in prison anyway.</a>


feed_id: 653baf628f36afdf11305db36a232288
title: Clevelend thugs may be fired
uri: Clevelend-thugs-may-be-fired
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Clevelend_thugs_may_be_fired%29
content:
<p>The Clevelend thugs that killed an unarmed couple in their car will not
be punished, but they may be fired.  <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/07/1429020/-After-firing-137-shots-at-an-unarmed-couple-it-s-doubtful-any-Cleveland-Police-will-even-be-fired?detail=email">Or maybe not.</a>


feed_id: 1b8abf6fd3f76a55320977f00e6f5bda
title: Protest against TTIP
uri: Protest-against-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Protest_against_TTIP%29
content:
<p>250,000 people protested in Berlin against the proposed corporate supremacy, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/10/berlin-anti-ttip-trade-deal-rally-hundreds-thousands-protesters">TTIP</a>  (This Treaty Is Plutocratic).


feed_id: 24871d0f8067b269120ea081f49eb2de
title: Bomb in a peace march
uri: Bomb-in-a-peace-march
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Bomb_in_a_peace_march%29
content:
<p>A bomb in a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/10/ankara-attacks-innocent-hearts-beating-for-peace-are-brutally-stopped">peace march in Turkey</a> killed dozens of people.
<p>The regime could have set this bomb; it has engaged in lots of other
violence, including (it appears) the attack that was its <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#28_August_2015_(Turkey_helping_PISSI)">excuse</a> for resuming war with the PKK.
<p>Turks are protesting, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/10/turkey-hit-by-protests-over-government-response-to-suicide-bombs">blaming the state for this attack</a> and condemning Erdogan's suppression of media criticism.


feed_id: 651269002f6775376cd70508b45b8343
title: Head of the FDA
uri: Head-of-the-FDA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Head_of_the_FDA%29
content:
<p>Sanders rejects Obama's nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/09/sanders-opposes-fda-chief-nominee-over-ties-greedy-big-pharma
">who has ties to big Pharma.</a>


feed_id: b26547197d9655ff5b26b382bfc3da84
title: Extracting natural gas sets off earthquakes
uri: Extracting-natural-gas-sets-off-earthquakes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Extracting_natural_gas_sets_off_earthquakes%29

content:
<p>Extracting natural gas in the Netherlands sets off earthquakes, and these
have made many houses <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/10/shell-exxon-gas-drilling-sets-off-earthquakes-wrecks-homes">uninhabitable.</a>


feed_id: 211302574bf4036f34f8f20fb60d1592
title: Punished for not praying
uri: Punished-for-not-praying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Punished_for_not_praying%29
content:
<p>Parents in Swainsboro, Georgia, are <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/10/07/3709974/public-elementary-school-allegedly-waged-shame-campaign-against-students-who-dont-believe-in-god/">suing</a> because their child was punished for not joining in prayers.


feed_id: 54efb38d38305ad3f833738d051cc611
title: "Damaging" a military vehicle
uri: Damaging-a-military-vehicle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Damaging_a_military_vehicle%29
content:
<p>Vyara Glaser is being prosecuted in London for "damaging" a military vehicle.
She wrote on it with <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/08/woman-faces-court-for-damaging-truck-with-washable-ink-at-arms-fair">washable ink,</a> as a protest.


feed_id: 5038b960d61f4d027b23db82013fd2e4
title: HD party refuses to respond with violence
uri: HD-party-refuses-to-respond-with-violence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28HD_party_refuses_to_respond_with_violence%29

content:
<p>
The HD party has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/12/turkey-bombs-peace-rally-turkish-government-hdp">refused
to respond with violence to Erdo&gbreve;an's violence</a>.
<p>
Even if the AK party didn't arrange the Ankara bombing and the one in
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#28_August_2015_(Turkey_helping_PISSI)">Suruç</a>,
plenty of other violence against the opposition is clearly its
responsibility.


feed_id: 9a5d2e9927589f283ce2fa35140b0794
title: Journalist faces prison in Thailand
uri: Journalist-faces-prison-in-Thailand
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Journalist_faces_prison_in_Thailand%29

content:
<p>
A journalist faces prison in Thailand
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/12/hong-kong-photographer-anthony-kwan-hok-chun-trial-thailand">for
having a flak jacket and helmet</a>, which are sensible tools for
covering violence committed by others.


feed_id: 026ac2427e80bd6b78e393fb92ad5942
title: The US's hospital bombardment
uri: The-US-s-hospital-bombardment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28The_USs_hospital_bombardment%29
content:
<p>
Oxfam and 23 other charities support MSF's
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/oct/12/aid-agencies-investigation-horrific-us-attack-msf-hospital-kunduz">demand
for an investigation</a> of the US's hospital bombardment by the
International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission.


feed_id: 4ad57d0bb1e9e8527a023977e6e9cbda
title: American college students
uri: American-college-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28American_college_students%29
content:
<p>
American college students nowadays have
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/staggering-ways-america-rigged-traumatize-and-impoverish-kids-coming-out-college">trouble
coping</a>.  Perhaps it is due to helicopter parents, but it might
also be because they are rationally anxious about the harsh and
hopeless plutocratist society they will graduate into.


feed_id: 2235f68bf2578c43596ccf1ab996b8ab
title: Children kidnaped and brainwashed
uri: Children-kidnaped-and-brainwashed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Children_kidnaped_and_brainwashed%29

content:
<p>
Terrorists kidnap children to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/10/the-day-i-met-the-other-victims-of-extremism-boys-brainwashed-to-kill">brainwash
them into suicidal fanatics</a>.


feed_id: dbd8001eeda2fa631e02fc59bfba93f7
title: PISSI's hatred of ancient buildings
uri: PISSI-s-hatred-of-ancient-buildings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28PISSIs_hatred_of_ancient_buildings%29

content:
<p>
PISSI's hatred of ancient buildings
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/11/west-rightly-condemns-isis-vandalism-ancient-sites-not-when-saudis-do-it">comes
from Saudi Arabia</a>.


feed_id: 15d8a1f221efaae8e7fc07621720db6a
title: Urgent: ban golden parachutes
uri: Urgent-ban-golden-parachutes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_ban_golden_parachutes%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Obama to 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Obama_Golden_Parachutes/?t=1002">
insist on no "golden parachutes"</a>
 for anyone he appoints to federal office.
</p>


feed_id: 953b39a90fadb282209e8ba81755183a
title: Not showing up to testify
uri: Not-showing-up-to-testify
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Not_showing_up_to_testify%29
content:
<p>A woman has been 
<a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-florida-judge-jails-domestic-violence-20151008-story.html">
jailed in Florida</a>
 for not showing up to testify to
the trial of the man she lived with, who she accused of attacking her.
</p>
<p>What I think about is, why is she unwilling to testify?  Is it due to
financial dependence on him?  Is she terrified he will take revenge?
What is needed to really help her?</p>


feed_id: aaf8c1db3b0cd0da9da91c5668717853
title: Bankster prosecution
uri: Bankster-prosecution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Bankster_prosecution%29
content:
<p>An Irish bankster who 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/11/banker-david-drumm-former-aib-boss-held-in-us-custody-and-faces-extradition">
helped cause the financial crisis</a>
 faces prosecution.
</p>


feed_id: b79d9ce1899c88b73b24b16b757223f1
title: Turkey internet censorship
uri: Turkey-internet-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Turkey_internet_censorship%29
content:
<p>Turkey 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ankara-terror-attack-turkey-censors-media-coverage-of-bombings-as-twitter-and-facebook-blocked-a6689036.html">
censored the internet very hard</a>
 to block discussion of the bombing of a peace march.
</p>


feed_id: ddb68cafa9af3d2e8574e006796ecda8
title: Tobacco lobby
uri: Tobacco-lobby
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Tobacco_lobby%29
content:
<p>The European Union has an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/11/tobacco-eu-delay">
explicit policy</a>
 of giving businesses special influence in how to regulate them.  
Turns out the tobacco companies lobbied hard for that.
</p>


feed_id: 07d96eedb957640917126fb6e49317a1
title: UK teacher shortfall
uri: UK-teacher-shortfall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28UK_teacher_shortfall%29
content:
<p>UK schools are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/10/teacher-shortfall-schools-overseas-recruits">
running short of teachers</a>.
</p>
<p>This article does not say why, but I suspect it's due to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/aug/29/secret-teacher-resign-after-disappointing-gcse-results">
harsh policies</a>
 that the state has imposed on schools and teachers.
</p>


feed_id: 959835ce885c606d97c2b471db0d32b1
title: Bottled water waste
uri: Bottled-water-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Bottled_water_waste%29
content:
<p>How bottled water companies are 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/07/13/how-big-water-is-trying-to-stop-the-national-park-service-from-cleaning-up-plastic-bottles/">
trying to stop US national parks</a>
 from putting an end to bottled water sales.
</p>
<p>In the US and other countries with safe water supplies, bottle water
is
a foolish waste.  Please stop buying bottled water!</p>


feed_id: 4225b30c4204f4f678ab9350e29ebfa5
title: Disastrous TTIP
uri: Disastrous-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Disastrous_TTIP%29
content:
<p>What I said before about the TPP and secrecy was an understatement.
It appears the TPP 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/10/09/leaked-final-tpp-intellectu.html">
really says</a>
 that country A can order country B to
quash a lawsuit, to cover up the secrets of country A.
</p>
<p>This would be another nail in democracy's coffin.</p>
<p>The TPP imposes 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared">
unjust US-style copyright</a>
 rules, so in the US it would
be an obstacle to repeal of the DMCA.  In addition, it attacks
journalism.
</p>
<p>The leak also shows that the TPP would give pharma companies
additional
power (though not as much as they demand).  This would 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/09/new-leak-final-tpp-text-confirms-attack-freedom-expression-public-health">
kill people</a>.
</p>
<p>Some of these articles make the mistake of adopting the pharma
companies' and copyright industry's 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">
propaganda term</a>,
 "intellectual property".
That term spreads confusion
every time it is used.  If others use it, we should not help our
enemies by repeating it.</p>


feed_id: f76664aa313084536540542eaf141593
title: Urgent: investigate MSF hospital bombing
uri: Urgent-investigate-MSF-hospital-bombing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_investigate_MSF_hospital_bombing%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/support-independentinvestiga?source=c.em&r_by=1135580">
support the Ellison-McGovern-Lee-Grijalva letter</a>
 for an independent investigation
of the bombing of the MSF hospital in Kunduz.
</p>


feed_id: 6e0be8489bbce42abf5e9974449792b2
title: Uploading brains
uri: Uploading-brains
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Uploading_brains%29
content:
<p>We are 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/will-you-ever-be-able-to-upload-your-brain.html">
very far from being able</a>
 to capture all the crucial information
in a brain, which would be needed to upload it.
</p>
<p>The article speaks only of neurons, but the astrocytes also engage
in communication in ways that we don't understand very well.  They too
may be part of what makes you you.</p>


feed_id: cceced9ef651401d77c672f2ea4d488b
title: Erzats Nobel prize
uri: Erzats-Nobel-prize
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Erzats_Nobel_prize%29
content:
<p>Despite having an ersatz "Nobel" prize, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/11/nobel-prize-economics-not-science-hubris-disaster">
economics is not a science</a>.
</p>


feed_id: c30553acb68ad60d8ddbbe3e9c322fbd
title: Indigenous Peoples Day
uri: 2015-10-13-Indigenous-Peoples-Day
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Indigenous_Peoples_Day%29
content:
<p>Some US states and cities 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/11/indigenous-peoples-day-columbus-day-native-americans">
celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day</a>
 as well as, or instead of, Columbus Day.
</p>
<p>It is true that there was discrimination against Italian-Americans,
but
that is fortunately a thing of the past, and no reason to cling to
Columbus Day now.</p>


feed_id: d16953b6418d33d537bc139f46332096
title: Overthrowing Assad
uri: Overthrowing-Assad
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Overthrowing_Assad%29
content:
<p>The US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/11/stop-trying-overthrow-assad">
shouldn't try to do more</a>
 to overthrow Assad.  It is paying too much
attention to that goal already.
</p>


feed_id: 6ce4274c82b0b22d379e41b4af0c08ac
title: Urgent: global heating action
uri: Urgent-global-heating-action
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_global_heating_action%29

content:
<p>In the US: participate in a global heating action protest on Oct 14
if you can find one near you.
<p>The site where they are announced does not work without Javascript
so I cannot recommend looking there.


feed_id: 56524a5d095dcce3972778ed14b9588f
title: Urgent: deforesting Indonesia
uri: Urgent-deforesting-Indonesia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_deforesting_Indonesia%29

content:
<p>Everyone: <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/pepsico-indofood/">call on Pepsico</a> to stop deforesting Indonesia.


feed_id: bcd0ae5ebbb55493e443a354166f1d08
title: Urgent: investigate voter-suppression move
uri: Urgent-investigate-voter-suppression-move
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_investigate_voter-suppression_move%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Attorney General Loretta Lynch to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/alabama_voting_doj/?t=1001">investigate Alabama's latest voter-suppression move.</a>


feed_id: 630e1a0ec0f9c7731222bbe75856dbbd
title: Urgent: oppose the TPP
uri: Urgent-oppose-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>Canadians: <a href="https://secure.canadians.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1899&ea.campaign.id=42907">call on your political parties</a> to oppose the TPP.


feed_id: 387701800310a158eee13a4c1ba50be7
title: Israel's Domination of Palestinians
uri: Israel-s-Domination-of-Palestinians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Israel%27s_Domination_of_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>Israel's Domination of Palestinians <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/11/israel-domination-palestinians-violence-inevitable">Makes Violence Inevitable.</a>
<p>Don't forget that Israeli "settlers" have been carrying out violence against
Palestinians regularly for some years — so-called <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#18_July_2012_(Israeli_laws)">"price tag"</a> attacks.
<p>That's not to mention the seizure of Palestinians' land and water.


feed_id: 45458901068f74e92e663b2f9aec09cb
title: Dalits in Berdo Ka Baas
uri: Dalits-in-Berdo-Ka-Baas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Dalits_in_Berdo_Ka_Baas%29
content:
<p>Dalits in Berdo Ka Baas <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/in-a-rajasthan-village-dalit-children-are-afraid-to-go-to-school-1230415">are afraid to go to school,</a> after the teacher beat up one of them for touching a plate of food belonging to a non-Dalit.


feed_id: 0597cfef89260ce94503fc58c8f78b23
title: Antibiotics to farm animals
uri: Antibiotics-to-farm-animals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Antibiotics_to_farm_animals%29
content:
<p>California has restricted administration of antibiotics to farm animals.
<p>This will now <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/11/california-brings-in-strict-limits-on-use-of-antibiotics-in-livestock-farming">require a prescription.</a>
<p>Thus, they can be used to cure specific animals but could not be given
by default to all animals.
<p>If only we had adopted this law 30 years ago, we might still have some
antibiotics that no diseases are resistant to.


feed_id: 45c6df2c71784fa9953d65ade57503b2
title: Dirt on Clinton
uri: Dirt-on-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Dirt_on_Clinton%29
content:
<p>Bradley Podliska, former investigator for the Congressional probe into
what went wrong when Benghazi was attacked, says that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/10/benghazi-investigation-hillary-clinton-fired-employee">SCROTUS</a> told him to look for dirt on Clinton rather than to do an unbiased investigation.
<p>There are signs that Clinton did bad things, such as supporting the
coup in Honduras, but SCROTUS is not interested in investigating
those.


feed_id: caea9eb5dc787c46f5eea1eb9cee410f
title: Abolish tax havens
uri: Abolish-tax-havens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Abolish_tax_havens%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/11/inequality-will-continue-until-corporations-stop-avoiding-tax
">We must abolish tax havens.</a>


feed_id: 8e642fa0ea2b97824f5f58ad9d40d740
title: Coral reefs are vital
uri: Coral-reefs-are-vital
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Coral_reefs_are_vital%29
content:
<p>Coral Reefs Are Not Just Pretty — <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/11/threat-to-coral-reefs-climate-change">They Are Vital to Life.</a>


feed_id: 3a0a59e9660236e8f0e3e0b252cd7881
title: Greenhouse gas pledges
uri: Greenhouse-gas-pledges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Greenhouse_gas_pledges%29
content:
<p>Experts warn: the greenhouse gas pledges offered so far for the Paris
conference are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/10/climate-2c-global-warming-target-fail
">insufficient</a> to keep heating within 2C.
<p>We don't know that keeping heating under 2C will avoid disaster.
If we are wise, we will do even more to reduce the heating as much as we can.
<p>Research suggests that global heating might lead to big sudden climate
changes when <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/are-disaster-movies-predicting-our-future/
">certain tipping points are reached.</a>


feed_id: 5b1eaf5c32beb477b017944a73d820e5
title: "Letter from Moscow"
uri: Letter-from-Moscow
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Letter_from_Moscow%29
content:
<p>A forged "letter from Moscow", which helped defeat Labour in the
1920s, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/10/outcast-mi6-agent-zinoviev-letter-alexis-bellegarde
">was written by someone who later worked for MI6.</a>
<p>This gives rise to suspicions that MI6 helped arrange for the forgery,
helping the Tories against Labour.


feed_id: 3758dd9d80a3ad1807bc013b9c311178
title: Russian air strikes
uri: Russian-air-strikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Russian_air_strikes%29
content:
<p><a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_September_2014_(PISSI)">PISSI</a> took advantage of Russian air strikes <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/10/russian-airstrikes-help-isis-gain-ground-in-aleppo">to capture territory</a> from other enemies of Assad.


feed_id: 1ac75158cf1271dfebdbd89bddebcdfb
title: Sectarian and ethnic lines in Iraq and Syria
uri: Sectarian-and-ethnic-lines-in-Iraq-and-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Sectarian_and_ethnic_lines_in_Iraq_and_Syria%29

content:
<p>Israelis strategists have proposed since the 1980s the goal of making
Iraq and Syria split along sectarian and ethnic lines.  <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/10/us-russia-syria-problem-faking-it">Perhaps the US intended to do this.</a>
<p>Other countries such as Saudi Arabia might have wanted it too, and
influenced Dubya to invade Iraq.


feed_id: ae4d3637f7fdfb7a71e3be1521713383
title: Divest from coal
uri: Divest-from-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Divest_from_coal%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/08/big-win-divestment-movement-california-public-pensions-dump-coal
">California</a> has required pension funds to divest from coal.


feed_id: c026937c1e622c79b68c7cca2e2cfa24
title: Thugs that attacked Thabo Sefolosha
uri: Thugs-that-attacked-Thabo-Sefolosha
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Thugs_that_attacked_Thabo_Sefolosha%29

content:
<p>New York thugs broke Thabo Sefolosha's leg for the hell of it, then
prosecuted him on false charges.  <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/nypd-on-trial-nba-player-thabo-sefolosha-fights-back-after-police-beating/">This time, they lost.</a>
<p>A lawsuit against the city will not punish the individual thugs that
attacked Sefolosha.  Didn't they commit gross bodily harm?  Jail them
for it!
<p>Imagine a world in which thugs can't get away with breaking anybody's
leg.


feed_id: 5ecb2ff7138e9216b076f5ddab513bc0
title: Supporting dictators in the Middle East
uri: Supporting-dictators-in-the-Middle-East
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Supporting_dictators_in_the_Middle_East%29

content:
<p>The US has returned to its old policy of supporting dictators in the
Middle East in the name of <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-biggest-winners-of-the-arab-spring-dictators/
">"stability".</a>
<p>With secular opposition crushed, people may turn to jihadis as the only
plausible way to oppose the dictators.


feed_id: e3a02d902a645cba37e269f05a66d8a3
title: TPP "intellectual property" chapter
uri: TPP-intellectual-property-chapter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28TPP_intellectual_property_chapter%29

content:
<p>Wikileaks has published the final TPP "intellectual property" chapter, and
it is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/09/wikileaks-releases-tpp-intellectual-property-rights-chapter
">even worse than we knew.</a>  It says that countries can suppress lawsuits
in order to keep companies' embarrassing information secret.
<p>The term "intellectual property" represents <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">fundamental confusion,</a> so
any agreement, law or plan formulated based on that term is sure to be a bad one.  


feed_id: 08efe1e8ecb4fc7a2c3817a28138f146
title: Cleveland thugs may be fired
uri: Cleveland-thugs-may-be-fired
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_October_2015_%28Cleveland_thugs_may_be_fired%29
content:
<p>The Cleveland thugs that killed an unarmed couple in their car will not
be punished, but they may be fired.  <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/07/1429020/-After-firing-137-shots-at-an-unarmed-couple-it-s-doubtful-any-Cleveland-Police-will-even-be-fired?detail=email">Or maybe not.</a>


feed_id: 9ff5fb2eec444bc805bef405f1be1627
title: Search warrants for data
uri: 2015-10-13-Search-warrants-for-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_October_2015_%28Search_warrants_for_data%29
content:
<p>California has a new law requiring that the state get search warrants
before accessing people's digital data, <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/victory-california-gov-brown-signs-calecpa-requiring-police-get-warrant-accessing">in their own devices and in online services.</a>
<p>This is good, but it is not enough to excuse avoidable collection of data
about people.  I will continue to pay cash so as not to be tracked.


feed_id: d1d6d2af5a9d0238107d4c35d9c0f412
title: Student unions' "no platform" practice
uri: 2015-10-13-Student-unions-no-platform-practice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_October_2015_%28Student_unions%27_no_platform_practice%29

content:
<p>Julie Bindel <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/09/no-platform-universities-julie-bindel-exclusion-anti-feminist-crusade">condemns</a> the student unions' "no platform" practice that has banned her from debates at UK universities.
<p>I disagree with Bindel about sex work and some other issues.  As for
whether posing nude is a way to liberate women, that's complicated
because patriarchy is complicated.  It includes pressure for women to
be ashamed of their bodies, and a tendency to judge women solely in terms
of sex and attractiveness.  Posing nude resists the former but may
promote the latter.
<p>Regardless of whether I agree with her, I think it is wrong to exclude
her from speaking at UK universities.


feed_id: f5cb33bbdda007fb28f57aef0e86505d
title: Giving voice commands to a computer
uri: Giving-voice-commands-to-a-computer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Giving_voice_commands_to_a_computer%29

content:
<p>
Giving voice commands to a computer means that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/13/google-voice-activity-listen-delete-recordings">a
server records them all</a>.
<p>
In this case, I won't accuse Google of snooping, since users know
that they are talking to a Google server.  But I do think it is foolish
to use such a thing.


feed_id: 6398694404044268aca85dae4fa2575a
title: Yes Men's Snowden hoax
uri: Yes-Men-s-Snowden-hoax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Yes_Mens_Snowden_hoax%29
content:
<p>
A new Yes Men hoax: presenting Edward Snowden, live in the US, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/10/13/obama-pardons-snowden-bi-partisan-crowd-goes-wild">saying
he had been pardoned</a>.


feed_id: 04190663cd611e19a64924deca74ab55
title: Women confront taboo and stigma
uri: Women-confront-taboo-and-stigma
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Women_confront_taboo_and_stigma%29

content:
<p>
Women directly confront the taboo and stigma attached to many aspects
of 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20151013">their
bodies and sexuality</a>.


feed_id: 62a8c7e5ce82ba015150d083e6ef1147
title: Gender roles
uri: Gender-roles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Gender_roles%29
content:
<p>
Not everyone wants to live the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/13/greater-transgender-visibility-hasnt-helped-nonbinary-people-like-me">male
or female gender roles</a>.


feed_id: e00c555838ff60a0e0cc66b63612ded8
title: Cambodian daughters rented for "domestic work"
uri: Cambodian-daughters-rented-for-domestic-work
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Cambodian_daughters_rented_for_domestic_work%29

content:
<p>
In Cambodia, parents 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/oct/13/secret-aid-worker-10-of-the-village-girls-have-been-sold">regularly
rent their 13-year-old daughters for 2 months of "domestic work"</a>,
then everyone is disgusted when the girls return from 2 months of
prostitution.
<p>
Note how irrational condemnation of non-virgin girls plays a crucial
role in this system.


feed_id: d5fb6d510cfbc0e1aa28f8e9366505a8
title: Afghan women campaign against misogyny
uri: Afghan-women-campaign-against-misogyny
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Afghan_women_campaign_against_misogyny%29

content:
<p>
A group of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/oct/13/the-peshawar-women-fighting-the-taliban-we-cannot-trust-anyone">300
Afghan women</a> campaigns against the Taliban ideology of misogyny.


feed_id: ca83ec97630e93e876b9a932ebdb4a71
title: UK cancels plan to operate Saudi prisons
uri: UK-cancels-plan-to-operate-Saudi-prisons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28UK_cancels_plan_to_operate_Saudi_prisons%29

content:
<p>
The UK has cancelled its 
<a yref="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/uk-ditches-plan-to-bid-for-saudi-arabia-prisons-contract">offer
to operate prisons for Saudi Arabia</a>, rejecting the way Saudi
Arabia treats prisoners.


feed_id: c8ffb6eb19c38bd09220b90f58542d35
title: Flight MH17 shot down by Buk missile
uri: Flight-MH17-shot-down-by-Buk-missile
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Flight_MH17_shot_down_by_Buk_missile%29

content:
<p>
The official investigation concludes that flight MH17 was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/mh17-crash-report-plane-partially-reconstruced-blames-buk-missile-strike">shot
down by a Buk missile</a>. It did not address the question of who
fired it.
<p>
I think it is pretty clear that the Russian proxy rebels fired it,
thinking they were firing at a Ukrainian fighter plane.
The rebels did not have fighter planes, so Ukraine's army would have
had no occasion to make that sort of mistake.
<p>
In an apparent coverup, someone operated on the flight captain's
corpse, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/mh17-report-suggests-efforts-were-made-to-cover-up-causes-of-disaster">removing
some of the foreign objects that killed him</a>.  The only ones in a
position to do that were the rebels.


feed_id: 4be3b8cfe4693d9e4b9cd0b8fb629cc3
title: Designers of CIA torture sued
uri: Designers-of-CIA-torture-sued
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Designers_of_CIA_torture_sued%29
content:
<p>
Torture victims and relatives of a dead victim have 
<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article38870496.html">sued
the psychologists</a> who designed the CIA's torture.


feed_id: 8c73a6385d21cbd58bfee5c5af66529d
title: Methane release from melting permafrost
uri: Methane-release-from-melting-permafrost
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Methane_release_from_melting_permafrost%29

content:
<p>
IPCC climate models do not take account of the effects of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/oct/13/methane-release-from-melting-permafrost-could-trigger-dangerous-global-warming">methane
release from melting permafrost</a>.
<p>
What that means is, avoiding 2C of heating requires even more
emissions reductions than previously supposed.
<p>
The reductions plans now on the table were already 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_August_2015_(Reduce_methane_emissions)">insufficient</a>.


feed_id: dd789a0d5872aba466f86d12a5675ad7
title: Dildo protest in Texas
uri: Dildo-protest-in-Texas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Dildo_protest_in_Texas%29
content:
<p>
Students in Texas, where it is a crime to carry a dildo but legal to
carry a gun, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/12/texas-guns-prompts-debate-over-dildos">will
protest carrying dildos</a>.
<p>
"[Dildos are] just about as effective as [guns in] protecting us from
sociopathic shooters, but much safer for recreational play."


feed_id: a125db8afa3d3db551664ced9041a06c
title: Melting Antarctic ice
uri: Melting-Antarctic-ice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Melting_Antarctic_ice%29
content:
<p>
Antarctic Ice is Melting So Fast the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/12/antarctic-ice-melting-so-fast-whole-continent-may-be-at-risk-by-2100">Whole
Continent May Be at Risk by 2100</a>.


feed_id: 53be8aafce25b6e33cc36aadf117fe30
title: Jason Rezaian
uri: 2015-10-14-Jason-Rezaian
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Jason_Rezaian%29
content:
<p>
Reporter Jason Rezaian has been convicted of espionage in Iran, after
a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/12/jason-rezaian-conviction-iran-court-washington-post-reporter">bizarre
and unfair trial</a>.
<p>
If the US gets its hands on Edward Snowden, it will convict him of
espionage after a bizarre and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_(Clinton_and_Kerry_want_Snowden_to_submit_to_a_trial)">unfair
trial</a>.


feed_id: b587906db799505897bccdf6e4587b0c
title: Monsanto's "science"
uri: Monsanto-s-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Monsantos_science%29
content:
<p>
Monsanto claims its critics are opposing science.  But Monsanto seems
to have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/12/emperor-has-no-clothes-and-neither-do-monsantos-scientists">bent
scientists</a> to make that appear to be the case.


feed_id: 105f75a034750bce0bb20cea9f7c71e5
title: Contradictions of US policies
uri: Contradictions-of-US-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_October_2015_%28Contradictions_of_US_policies%29
content:
<p>
Five 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/12/five-great-american-hypocrisies">ironic
contradictions</a> of US policies.


feed_id: 935adf4006c6fe1ed674b4c4b0f81c2e
title: Urgent: More debates for candidates
uri: Urgent-More-debates-for-candidates
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_More_debates_for_candidates%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/DNC_primary_debates/">call
on the Democratic Party</a> to hold more debates for the candidates.


feed_id: f456e6517b2dac9fdae7ea10bff0a28c
title: Urgent: Prescription Drug Affordability
uri: Urgent-Prescription-Drug-Affordability
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Prescription_Drug_Affordability%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/pharma_bros">support</a> the
Prescription Drug Affordability Act.


feed_id: ec9ced5bd852c2ec091cfc4669252c6c
title: Big business designing tax loopholes
uri: Big-business-designing-tax-loopholes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_October_2015_%28Big_business_designing_tax_loopholes%29

content:
<p>
Now the Tories Are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/13/tories-big-business-tax-loopholes">Allowing
Big Business to Design Their Own Tax Loopholes</a>.


feed_id: b51e43f6ce436bc60a7f53aaf3ddd23f
title: Marine food chains
uri: Marine-food-chains
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_October_2015_%28Marine_food_chains%29
content:
<p>
Marine Food Chains 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/13/marine-food-chains-at-risk-of-collapse-extensive-study-of-worlds-oceans-reveals">At
Risk of Collapse</a>.


feed_id: 4ec0c39a44f818f7905d806032bf57a1
title: Amnesty International condemns Syrian Kurds
uri: Amnesty-International-condemns-Syrian-Kurds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_October_2015_%28Amnesty_International_condemns_Syrian_Kurds%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty International condemns the Syrian Kurds of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/us-backed-kurdish-forces-committing-war-crimes-against-syrian-civilians">driving
Arabs to flee their villages</a>.
<p>
The Kurds say this is because there were PISSI supporters in those
villages.


feed_id: 8a3a957c0da9833bf7d74f027a3a0aa9
title: Erdo&gbreve;an's tyranny
uri: Erdo-gbreve-an-s-tyranny
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_October_2015_%28Erdogans_tyranny%29
content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/13/ankara-bombing-anti-terror-laws-state-violence">censorship
and "anti-terror" tyranny</a> makes it hard for Turks to voice their
opposition, and their distrust for the state.
<p>
Turkish opposition says the government left the peace rally 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/12/suspicion-mounts-in-turkey-as-peace-activists-bury-their-dead">without
protection</a>.


feed_id: fff94551823a3cb64f200a0094ce100a
title: The Japanese massacre in Nanjing
uri: The-Japanese-massacre-in-Nanjing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_October_2015_%28The_Japanese_massacre_in_Nanjing%29

content:
<p>
Japan 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/japan-threatens-to-halt-unesco-funding-over-nanjing-listing">condemns
UNESCO</a> for recognizing the Japanese massacre in Nanjing.
<p>
Whether the victims numbered 300,000 or merely 100,000 is a detail
there is no need to argue about.  Japan should stop denying its war
crimes, just as the US and other countries should.


feed_id: 0cd5a37a491ab8b0371f4ca4362d8bee
title: The sugar/food lobby
uri: The-sugar-food-lobby
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_October_2015_%28The_sugar%252Ffood_lobby%29
content:
<p>
How the sugar/food lobby 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/umbrello20151014">campaigns
against efforts to discourage excess sugar consumption</a>, which is
very harmful to health.


feed_id: 8f1ca74928265cafbc839fba91362f02
title: Hawking on robots and wealth
uri: Hawking-on-robots-and-wealth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_October_2015_%28Hawking_on_robots_and_wealth%29
content:
<p>
Stephen Hawking agrees: if the robots make our goods without need for
our work,
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/09/1429956/-Stephen-Hawking-Machines-won-t-be-the-problem-in-the-future-capitalism-will-be">the
goods must be provided to all</a>.


feed_id: 1a6544302fa723cae95d7c7d62393780
title: Chinese students used as unpaid workers
uri: Chinese-students-used-as-unpaid-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_October_2015_%28Chinese_students_used_as_unpaid_workers%29

content:
<p>
Chinese schools force their students to 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-secret-weapon-for-cutting-costs-at-chinese-factories-interns/">work
in factories without pay</a>.


feed_id: ed35e393ed741a8da08da7c52aedb0ab
title: Israel and Palestine
uri: 2015-10-15-Israel-and-Palestine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_October_2015_%28Israel_and_Palestine%29
content:
<p>
Israel has 
<a href="http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=29515">arrested
and imprisoned 650 Palestinians in October</a> and the month is less
than half over.  The arrested people have been denied basic human
rights.
<p>
Since Palestinian violence against Israeli civilians who are doing
nothing wrong is well reported, it should be noted that Israeli
violence against Palestinian civilians who are doing nothing wrong has
been going on for a few years now, and 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/73304">continues</a>.


feed_id: 062f6183087fd6cea10d7d52bc50a21a
title: No DRM in JPEG
uri: No-DRM-in-JPEG
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_October_2015_%28No_DRM_in_JPEG%29
content:
<p>
There's No DRM in JPEG — 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/theres-no-drm-jpeg-lets-keep-it-way">Let's
Keep It That Way</a>.


feed_id: cc76ffc7c8ae97c4693f53c4e60e8723
title: Imprisonment without trial in the US
uri: Imprisonment-without-trial-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_October_2015_%28Imprisonment_without_trial_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Obama is trying to "close the Guantanamo prison" by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/us-defense-department-colorado-prisons-guantanamo">shifting
imprisonment without trial to the US</a>.
<p>
That would make things even worse, in principle.  However, it's
possible that the prisoners' presence on US territory would lead the
Supreme Court to rule that they must be charged or freed.  On the
other hand, the Supreme Court might essentially abolish the rule of
Habias Corpus.


feed_id: d879cc43940f505752f4a796e46e04c3
title: Voting in Wisconsin
uri: Voting-in-Wisconsin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_October_2015_%28Voting_in_Wisconsin%29
content:
<p>
Wisconsin Republicans want to permit unlimited secret money in
political campaigns, cripple ethics and election law enforcement and
make it 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/10/12949/wi-gop-creates-perverse-online-voter-registration-bill-making-it-harder">harder
for many people to vote</a>.
<p>
In the Republican Party's ideal world, only millionaires could vote.


feed_id: b9c4239917ad8735addf01770a400ab1
title: Putin and Obama's war tactics
uri: Putin-and-Obama-s-war-tactics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_October_2015_%28Putin_and_Obama%27s_war_tactics%29

content:
<p>The history of 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/how-putin-adopted-obamas-way-of-war/">
Obama's war tactics</a>,
 now adopted by Putin in Syria.
</p>


feed_id: 09759f799c8882f163a326c3ae12cb8d
title: Vietnamization of Iraq and Afghanistan
uri: Vietnamization-of-Iraq-and-Afghanistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_October_2015_%28Vietnamization_of_Iraq_and_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>The US-trained Afghan army, like the US-trained Iraqi army, shows a 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/iraq-and-afghanistan-have-officially-become-vietnam-2-0/">
tendency to panic and run</a>
 when attacked by numerically inferior forces.
</p>
<p>I predicted 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2004-may-aug.html#29%20June%202004%20(Iraqization)">
years ago</a>
 that this would follow the path of Vietnamization.</p>


feed_id: 8dad8bafa41979e3ae6ea95eacc3151c
title: Republican hurricane damage
uri: Republican-hurricane-damage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_October_2015_%28Republican_hurricane_damage%29
content:
<p>Years of 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/12/1430988/-This-is-what-your-state-on-Republicanism-looks-like?detail=email">
Republican misrule</a>
 set up South Carolina to make the hurricane
do a lot more damage.
</p>


feed_id: d477ee233944c5b4aa691991d13a1e9d
title: Tortured to death
uri: Tortured-to-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_October_2015_%28Tortured_to_death%29
content:
<p>Thugs in Savannah 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/13/1431428/-Bloody-strapped-to-chair-video-shows-police-tasering-Matthew-Ajibade-in-the-testicles-before-death?detail=email">
tortured Matthew Ajibade to death</a>,
  The torture included
tasing his genitals while he was strapped down.
</p>


feed_id: 0f15f5c87993511bf7be447a088583a0
title: Listed town destroyed
uri: Listed-town-destroyed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_October_2015_%28Listed_town_destroyed%29
content:
<p>Saudi Arabia has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2015/oct/13/yemen-war-shattered-medieval-city-of-saada-in-pictures">
destroyed a UNESCO-listed medieval town</a>
 in Yemen.
</p>
<p>This town was not as precious as the 1800-year-old city of Palmyra,
which in turn was not precious as the 4000-year-old sites in Iraq
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-jul-oct.html#30%20October%202004%20(Bush%20allowed%20looting%20in%20Iraq)">
that were looted</a>
after the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2003-nov-feb.html#7 January 2004 (our forces)">
Bush forces</a>
 conquered Iraq.
But that does not excuse the Saudi actions.</p>


feed_id: 568a879158e99d732883be37650d1eea
title: Keeping Antarctica cool
uri: Keeping-Antarctica-cool
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_October_2015_%28Keeping_Antarctica_cool%29
content:
<p>It's not too late to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/14/antarctic-ice-sheets-face-catastrophic-collapse-without-deep-emissions-cuts">
stop Antarctica from melting</a>
 … if we try really hard.
</p>
<p>It is 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-10-sea-swallow-miami-orleans.html?utm_source=menu&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=item-menu">
too late to save Miami and New Orleans</a>
 from eventual inundation.
But many other cities can still be saved, if we act strongly enough.
</p>


feed_id: 7ffcbdb5aa67ddb17a58c7871075c757
title: Urgent: Voting Rights Amendment Act
uri: Urgent-Voting-Rights-Amendment-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Voting_Rights_Amendment_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/congress-repair-voting-act">support</a>
the Voting Rights Amendment Act.


feed_id: 4a4e691eca115838c96817c31dc34514
title: Evictions in Bologna
uri: Evictions-in-Bologna
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_October_2015_%28Evictions_in_Bologna%29
content:
<p>
Right wing government in Bologna is evicting anarchist squats to make
room for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/oct/14/bologna-eviction-atlantide-red-city-political-legacy">emptiness</a>.


feed_id: 81a4495d65433278a195c732dc408408
title: Goodness and unselfishness
uri: Goodness-and-unselfishness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_October_2015_%28Goodness_and_unselfishness%29
content:
<p>
People 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/14/selfish-proof-ego-humans-inherently-good">generally
underestimate</a> the goodness and unselfishness of most other people.


feed_id: 0d68bd4909fa6d2f403635139db0028f
title: Earlier biological spring
uri: Earlier-biological-spring
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_October_2015_%28Earlier_biological_spring%29
content:
<p>
Biological spring will happen 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/14/spring-coming-earlier-in-us-scientists">3
weeks earlier</a> (in most of the US) by 2100.


feed_id: 821de038080b519d0d1e801663a9f3d8
title: Facebook income tax in the UK
uri: Facebook-income-tax-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_October_2015_%28Facebook_income_tax_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Facebook has started paying income tax in the UK.  
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/12/facebook_corporation_tax_uk_2014/">About
$6,000 worth</a>.


feed_id: efa02539e51bf89a2be09e3bcf50feab
title: Election fraud in Canada
uri: Election-fraud-in-Canada
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_October_2015_%28Election_fraud_in_Canada%29
content:
<p>
Election fraud in Canada, 
<a href="https://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/action.handleViewInBrowser.do?broadcastId=91321&templateId=67822">tied
to Conservative Party</a>.


feed_id: 4e03fbc65beee59a1ba391bbb7c836a8
title: Killer thug acquitted
uri: Killer-thug-acquitted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_October_2015_%28Killer_thug_acquitted%29
content:
<p>
One of the thugs that killed Matthew Ajibade was 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/georgia-deputies-caught-camera-tasing-restrained-mentally-ill-man-groin">already
acquitted of manslaughter</a>.
<p>
Ridiculous!


feed_id: 4057e1e6c8a0b6ca4f44a56292f553a7
title: Journalists threatened by Taliban
uri: Journalists-threatened-by-Taliban
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Journalists_threatened_by_Taliban%29

content:
<p>
The Taliban openly say they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/oct/14/taliban-threaten-afghan-tv-journalists-with-elimination">will
make war on journalists</a>.
<p>
Bad as the US has been in Afghanistan, the Taliban is much worse; it
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#21_February_2013_(Civilian_casualties_in_Afghanistan)">kills 
a lot more civilians, too</a>, and rejects on principle the idea that
it shouldn't do so.


feed_id: 13b85314886f7207f28dcac3310a0d9d
title: Angolan rapper on hunger strike
uri: Angolan-rapper-on-hunger-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Angolan_rapper_on_hunger_strike%29

content:
<p>An Angolan dissident rapper, imprisoned for "planning to overthrow the
government", has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/16/angola-rapper-hunger-strike-luaty-beirao-interview">
been on hunger strike</a>
 so long that his health is affected.
</p>


feed_id: 7794564ab714937d7be914d139b0f7f9
title: Secret courts and laws in UK
uri: Secret-courts-and-laws-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Secret_courts_and_laws_in_UK%29
content:
<p>The UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/oct/15/secret-court-case-application-numbers-more-than-double-in-year">
increasingly uses secret courts</a>
 and develops a body of secret laws.
</p>


feed_id: 84b5830511e98c8686abe667e1dd8f4b
title: Opting for war without end
uri: Opting-for-war-without-end
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Opting_for_war_without_end%29
content:
<p>Obama pledged to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan, but he can't
find a way to do it without letting the Taliban win, so he is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/15/obama-afghanistan-war-end-nowhere-in-sight-troops">
opting for a war without end</a>.
</p>


feed_id: cbdb8a0d1faad1b0f3f48f14267626ec
title: Australian intelligence defied prime minister
uri: Australian-intelligence-defied-prime-minister
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Australian_intelligence_defied_prime_minister%29

content:
<p>The prime minister of Australia in 1974 ordered Australian intelligence
to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/16/asio-chief-defied-gough-whitlams-order-cut-ties-cia-1974">
cut its ties</a>
 with the CIA.  Australian intelligence disobeyed the order.
</p>


feed_id: 7a6a79480a0b05c3b5a2e9c3eca3504b
title: Europe-wide VW recall
uri: Europe-wide-VW-recall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Europe-wide_VW_recall%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dw.com/en/vw-announces-europe-wide-mass-recall-over-emissions-fix/a-18785596">
VW Announces Europe-Wide Mass Recall Over Emissions Fix.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 6d6da376d84344d61f4ed0bc9a35d4c2
title: Sequencing the DNA of newborns
uri: Sequencing-the-DNA-of-newborns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Sequencing_the_DNA_of_newborns%29

content:
<p>A hospital 
<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/diagnostics/new-genetic-technologies-diagnose-critically-ill-infants-within-26-hours">
sequences sick newborns' DNA</a>
 to diagnose them in 26 hours.
</p>
<p>The article suggests that in the future hospitals should sequence
every baby's DNA.  This could be a bad idea.  There's a chance that
the data will be medically helpful to them, a chance it will hurt
their prospects for insurance, and a chance of exposing them to state
injustice.</p>


feed_id: fca792fc66f40b24a2e7e0e7f8f086f8
title: Microwave camera to see through walls
uri: Microwave-camera-to-see-through-walls
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Microwave_camera_to_see_through_walls%29

content:
<p>A 
<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelectronics/mits-3d-microwave-camera-can-see-through-walls">
microwave camera</a>
 being developed at MIT can see people through walls.
</p>
<p>What do we need to put in our walls to block this camera?
I think screens on a window will probably block microwaves
except perhaps for the lowest wavelengths.</p>


feed_id: 6b8efc679b7eb830f5df4d0261f7ecd1
title: Ugandan presidential candidate under house arrest
uri: Ugandan-presidential-candidate-under-house-arrest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Ugandan_presidential_candidate_under_house_arrest%29

content:
<p>A presidential candidate in Uganda has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/uganda-opposition-leader-besigye-house-arrest-stop-rallies">
placed under house arrest</a>
 to stop him from holding public campaign rallies.
</p>


feed_id: 751d6bfef9c73956cf981bb7901e630b
title: EPA to reduce use of hydroflourocarbons
uri: EPA-to-reduce-use-of-hydroflourocarbons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28EPA_to_reduce_use_of_hydroflourocarbons%29

content:
<p>Obama will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/15/white-house-environmental-initiative-hydroflurocarbons">
direct the EPA</a>
 to reduce use of hydrofluorocarbons, which are
immensely powerful greenhouse gases.
</p>


feed_id: 2e76b571f3345b77e1afc0ca1735edd5
title: Rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
uri: Rise-of-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Rise_of_antibiotic-resistant_bacteria%29

content:
<p>Many common surgical operations, and chemotherapy for cancer, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/16/antibiotic-resistance-routine-surgery-impossible-study">
will become dangerous</a>
 if we don't stop the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
</p>
<p>If we end the tightly-packed factory farms for meat, and eat less
meat, we will need fewer operations, and we will be less likely to die
of an infection when we do need one.</p>


feed_id: 132751ec5009f5fd499af773b1c295c9
title: Restaurants to abolish tipping
uri: Restaurants-to-abolish-tipping
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Restaurants_to_abolish_tipping%29

content:
<p>Some notable New York restaurants will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/15/danny-meyer-us-restaurant-group-no-tipping-policy">
abolish tipping and pay higher wages</a>
 to waiters.
</p>
<p>I am totally in favor of this.</p>


feed_id: 4482daf3fb42f34bdb47a2e65c0ad1a8
title: Saudi siege deprives Yemen of drinking water
uri: Saudi-siege-deprives-Yemen-of-drinking-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Saudi_siege_deprives_Yemen_of_drinking_water%29

content:
<p>A Saudi siege has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/saudi-arabia-strike-response-houthi-scud-attack-forgotten-war">
deprived Yemen of drinking water</a>,
 which risks making many people sick.
</p>
<p>This could kill more people than the bombs.</p>


feed_id: e81236ad982fd8e4e1b2ccb2fec89072
title: Fetal tissue research
uri: 2015-10-18-Fetal-tissue-research
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Fetal_tissue_research%29
content:
<p>Planned Parenthood decided to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/15/planned-parenthood-fetal-tissue-payments">
stop accepting reimbursements</a>
 for collecting
fetal tissue for research — for no reason except that right-wing
lies
have made it appear dirty.
</p>
<p>I hope this will not crimp the supply
of fetal tissue for research
to 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_July_2015_(Planned_Parenthood)">
develop cures for diseases</a>.
</p>


feed_id: a29194dd0b5ba1c004dd03714b7968c0
title: ECHR rules on genocide denial ban
uri: ECHR-rules-on-genocide-denial-ban
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28ECHR_rules_on_genocide_denial_ban%29

content:
<p>The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Switzerland could not
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/oct/15/swiss-authorities-wrong-to-prosecute-politician-for-denying-armenian-genocide-court-rules">
make it a crime</a>
 to deny the genocide of the Armenians.
</p>
<p>This may overturn the French law that prohibits denying the genocide
of the Armenians.  Alas, the court found an excuse not to apply this
principle universally to all questions about history.</p>
<p>Here in the US, we can speak freely on the issue.  From what I have
read, I do believe there was a genocide of the Armenians.  However,
freedom of speech includes the right to say otherwise.  I greatly
admire 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/hrant-dink.html">
Hrant Dink</a>,
 who was assassinated for affirming the genocide
of the Armenians, and condemned the French law because he respected
the freedom to state the opposite opinion.
</p>
<p>Many nations have committed great crimes — Turkey is far from
unique.  Every nation should admit its crimes, so it can pay its debt
to humanity and move on.</p>


feed_id: f83e417d2616346e287bd2cb0f1b3854
title: Hong Kong thugs
uri: Hong-Kong-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Hong_Kong_thugs%29
content:
<p>Hong Kong thugs have been charged with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/hong-kong-charges-seven-police-assault-activist-ken-tsang">
beating up a protester</a>.
</p>
<p>Hong Kong is not really a democracy, but here it is putting the US to
shame.</p>


feed_id: 526d7e81ff30a20c4b33e9ebf4709175
title: Sex workers kept back by criminalization
uri: Sex-workers-kept-back-by-criminalization
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Sex_workers_kept_back_by_criminalization%29

content:
<p>"Sex work criminalization means potential employers and landlords treat
me as a person who was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/15/im-a-sex-trafficking-survivor-americas-laws-wont-let-me-leave-my-past-behind">
arrested for prostitution</a>,
 not a survivor."
</p>


feed_id: 7d782c18dc07f32159deb9cefb63edfb
title: Catholic hospital risks woman's life
uri: Catholic-hospital-risks-woman-s-life
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Catholic_hospital_risks_woman%27s_life%29

content:
<p>A Catholic hospital put a woman's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/15/catholic-hospital-denies-michigan-woman-treatment-on-religious-grounds">
life in danger</a>
 by refusing her a tubal ligation because "that's sterilization".
Catholic doctrine says that women should get pregnant even if it is
likely to kill them.</p>
<p>We should give Catholic hospitals three choices: disconnect from
religious
rules, sell to secular owners, or shut down.</p>


feed_id: 61f6952c5e95c3245e703e1b1c801035
title: Lumping in Kurds with PISSI
uri: Lumping-in-Kurds-with-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Lumping_in_Kurds_with_PISSI%29
content:
<p>Erdoğan's men are trying to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/ankara-bombings-10-more-people-arrested-suspected-isis-pkk-links">
associate Kurds with PISSI in the public mind</a>
 by talking about them together.
</p>
<p>Never mind that the Kurds are secularist rather than Jihadi, and that
the Kurds and PISSI are at war in Iraq and in Syria.</p>


feed_id: 92186b35c1ad036c482668d4ba3abbc4
title: Pharma companies neglect less profitable diseases
uri: Pharma-companies-neglect-less-profitable-diseases
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Pharma_companies_neglect_less_profitable_diseases%29

content:
<p>As pharma companies merge, they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/oct/15/pharma-industry-neglecting-tropical-diseases-snake-bite">
neglect diseases that kill lots of poor people</a>
 in favor of trying to make the next viagra.
</p>
<p>The idea of giving these companies "incentives" to do research is a
dead end.  They spend the money instead on advertising, and on
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_(GlaxoSmithKline_is_accused_of_bribing_doctors_in_China)">
corrupting doctors</a>, 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2009-jul-oct.html#9%20August%202009%20(Corrupt%20pharmaceutical%20industry%20practices)">
research</a>, 
 and 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#14%20May%202009%20(Disguise%20advertisements%20for%20drugs)">
scientific journals</a>.
</p>
<p>We should tax the companies more so we can fund the research that
is really important.</p>
<p>Human beings that care only about their own gain are antisocial.  We
rebuke them, even shun them.  It is a mistake to acquiesce to totally
selfish behavior from a company.  Indeed, the idea that a company's
only duty was to its shareholders is a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#18_April_2012_(Shareholders)">
recent change imposed by right-wing domination</a>;
 in the 1970s, companies were supposed to value
others, such as employees, customers, and the public.
</p>


feed_id: 84f5063ba9d0cc7ef2689e1a444740d4
title: Random violence against Arabs
uri: Random-violence-against-Arabs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Random_violence_against_Arabs%29
content:
<p>An Israeli wanted to carry out random violence against Arabs, so he
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/stabbed-israeli-mistaken-arab-lashes-out-escalating-violence">
stabbed a stranger</a>
 who turned out to be an Israeli.
</p>
<p>This is an unusual example, but killing of Arabs goes on all the
time.</p>


feed_id: 93f9b100baf4fa15e50a179432fe561e
title: Lack of birth control kills
uri: Lack-of-birth-control-kills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Lack_of_birth_control_kills%29
content:
<p>Lack of birth control 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/oct/15/family-planning-religious-leaders-leap-of-faith">
kills thousands of women and children</a>;
 religious organizations must act on compassion and offer birth control.
</p>


feed_id: c9100aacaaebcad289a47e73ddfd69dc
title: Conservative climate reporting
uri: Conservative-climate-reporting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Conservative_climate_reporting%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/oct/15/propaganda-trumps-journalism-in-conservative-media-climate-reporting">
Propaganda Trumps Journalism in Conservative Media Climate
Reporting.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 23acd1d0e8524cb231634d92c7286fce
title: Death penalty in Indonesia
uri: Death-penalty-in-Indonesia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Death_penalty_in_Indonesia%29
content:
<p>In Indonesia, people are tortured into signing confessions, convicted
in careless trials, then 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/amnesty-report-grim-view-of-joko-widodo-death-penalty-indonesia">
executed</a>.
</p>


feed_id: d2f88b1d49d29f8a38dc91eb4fc1e83b
title: Graffiti drone
uri: Graffiti-drone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Graffiti_drone%29
content:
<p>A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/oct/15/mexico-droncita-rexiste-collective-president-enrique-pena-nieto">
graffiti drone in Mexico</a>
 campaigns against the president.
</p>
<p>It is a fun hack, but I think automating graffiti
in unfair.  If we stand for it, businesses will do it.</p>


feed_id: 7929e05f868ba0eb11b290a3297b35c1
title: Not so independent consultants
uri: Not-so-independent-consultants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Not_so_independent_consultants%29

content:
<p>The "independent" consultants that said it was "reasonable" to shoot
Tamir Rice dead are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/13/question-when-shooting-12-year-old-child-reasonable">
not really independent</a>,
 and they closed their eyes to important questions.
</p>


feed_id: 77de186536aeaeaedf636207e400b42a
title: Parents organise against climate change
uri: Parents-organise-against-climate-change
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Parents_organise_against_climate_change%29

content:
<p>Parents are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/13/global-parents-unite-protect-children-climate-catastrophe">
organizing to protect the climate</a>
 for their children.
</p>


feed_id: 86bdde53d996ed5d2832847183faab8e
title: Brazilian internet tracking bill
uri: Brazilian-internet-tracking-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Brazilian_internet_tracking_bill%29

content:
<p>
Brazil is considering tracking all internet users and
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/brazils-terrible-pl215">blanket
deletion of criticism</a> of any person or organization.


feed_id: 1867deb1956a2261a9381d1d637bcdf4
title: The barbarism that threatens Canada
uri: The-barbarism-that-threatens-Canada
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28The_barbarism_that_threatens_Canada%29

content:
<p>
The barbarism that threatens Canada 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2015/oct/14/canadas-real-barbarism-stephen-harpers-dismembering-of-the-country">comes
from the Conservative Party</a>.
<p>
Canadians, look at the US, see how bad right-wing policies are, and
save your country from them.


feed_id: 1d7ba443cf0680c43406b71974122f2a
title: Tracking drivers' emotions
uri: Tracking-drivers-emotions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Tracking_drivers_emotions%29
content:
<p>
State Farm Insurance envisions 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nerdwallet/state-farm-plans-to-get-i_b_8294164.html">tracking
drivers' emotions</a> as well as their driving.
<p>
Getting a patent on this noxious idea does not mean implementing it.
Patents on business methods should not be allowed, not even on
business methods that should not be used.


feed_id: 8e66d5edaf0a67f431a831dd2f9ae1fc
title: NYC building more flood defenses
uri: NYC-building-more-flood-defenses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28NYC_building_more_flood_defenses%29

content:
<p>
New York City is building more flood defenses, but refuses to confront
the certainty that they 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/3-years-after-hurricane-sandy-is-new-york-prepared-for-the-next-great-storm/">won't
be enough a few decades from now</a>.
<p>
If it did, it might lend more impetus to the vital efforts to reduce
sea-level rise.


feed_id: 00ed6d11e0bd914a766bf0eac792bb97
title: Repression in Morocco
uri: Repression-in-Morocco
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Repression_in_Morocco%29
content:
<p>
Morocco systematically 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/world/africa/moroccan-government-cracks-down-on-journalists-and-activists.html">represses
journalists and human rights defenders</a>.


feed_id: ec75058b18dc8b51a1a50f37ed3ac7d8
title: MRI scan for Julian Assange
uri: MRI-scan-for-Julian-Assange
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28MRI_scan_for_Julian_Assange%29
content:
<p>
Ecuador 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/15/ecuador-asks-britain-to-allow-julian-assange-safe-passage-for-mri-scan">Asks
Britain to Allow Julian Assange 'Safe Passage'</a> for MRI Scan.


feed_id: 2199024b62ab7b97b10b9b57a082d955
title: Playboy's suppression of nude women
uri: Playboy-s-suppression-of-nude-women
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Playboys_suppression_of_nude_women%29

content:
<p>
Playboy's suppression of nude women is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/14/playboy-abolishes-nude-defeat-art-history">step
back towards medieval repression</a>.  Fortunately it won't change
much.


feed_id: ecc21460e4a1c248f3adfff67877780f
title: Wealth inequality
uri: Wealth-inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Wealth_inequality%29
content:
<p>
The 1% of wealthiest people now own
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/13/half-world-wealth-in-hands-population-inequality-report">50%
of the world's wealth</a>.


feed_id: e8d98e2b2f9a35ed3f13ccea365901a8
title: Injured US woman sues nephew
uri: Injured-US-woman-sues-nephew
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Injured_US_woman_sues_nephew%29
content:
<p>
An injured US woman 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/14/aunt-nephew-broken-wrist-lawsuit-homeowners-insurance">sued
her nephew</a> — perhaps to get her medical bills covered by his
family's homeowner's insurance.


feed_id: 54830d14a4ad82220ec67108f2086fe7
title: Checkpoints set up in Jerusalem
uri: Checkpoints-set-up-in-Jerusalem
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Checkpoints_set_up_in_Jerusalem%29

content:
<p>
Checkpoints have been set up in Jerusalem to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/14/new-checkpoints-and-fears-divide-jerusalems-jews-and-palestinians">keep
Palestinians out of Jewish neighborhoods</a>.
<p>
This is likely to make daily life difficult for thousands of
Palestinians; they may be unable to get to work.
<p>
There will be no checkpoints to protect Palestinians in Palestine
from fanatical Israeli "settlers" and their 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#18_July_2012_(Israeli_laws)">"price
tag" attacks</a>.


feed_id: 522a99f9cc69df6126b982628ed2f402
title: Risk Is Essential to Childhood
uri: Risk-Is-Essential-to-Childhood
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Risk_Is_Essential_to_Childhood%29

content:
<p>
Risk Is Essential to Childhood — As Are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/14/risk-essential-childhood-children-danger">Scrapes,
Grazes, Falls And Panic</a>.
<p>
Which means that the state had better stop forbidding parents to let
children play on their own.


feed_id: 5191f69913b64dc5a339f52284a530b1
title: Massive surveillance in Australia
uri: Massive-surveillance-in-Australia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Massive_surveillance_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Australia has imposed 
<a href="https://redflag.org.au/article/metadata-retention-and-how-avoid-it">total
tracking of internet contacts and phone locations</a>, pretending as
is customary that this is to "fight terrorism".
<p>
The US has a similar system of massive surveillance of internet
contacts and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_December_2013_(NSA_collects_5_billion_cell_phone_locations_per_day)">phone
locations</a>.  Wherever it is done, it is the same injustice.


feed_id: eefd5b595a5b1d412ee0a566cca19207
title: The Web becoming dangerously ephemeral
uri: The-Web-becoming-dangerously-ephemeral
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28The_Web_becoming_dangerously_ephemeral%29

content:
<p>
The Web is becoming 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/">dangerously
ephemeral</a> and may be unsuited to the purpose of keeping humanity's
knowledge.


feed_id: 4620d9572c3abe61bc87ff2f212dd23b
title: Subtle lies spread about Snowden
uri: Subtle-lies-spread-about-Snowden
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Subtle_lies_spread_about_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
Clinton, in the debate, spread 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/10/14/what-did-clinton-mean-when-she-said-snowden-files-fell-into-the-wrong-hands/">subtle
lies</a> about Snowden.


feed_id: 98628865bc7dcd063e39831cf576d537
title: India's Hindu-sectarian gov't
uri: India-s-Hindu-sectarian-gov-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Indias_Hindu-sectarian_govt%29
content:
<p>
India's Hindu-sectarian government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/14/indian-writers-return-awards-in-protest-against-climate-of-intolerance">encouraging
violence against secularists and non-Hindus</a>.  Leading Indian
artists are calling attention to this.


feed_id: 7aafa601c7e6c77570d60b1c3851db24
title: Turkey's motives in Syria
uri: Turkey-s-motives-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Turkeys_motives_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
Turkey, Russia, PISSI and the Kurds — 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/turkeys-double-game-and-the-uss-double-standards/">and
the US</a>.


feed_id: 48835f5845ef3e6805fe44ba007ab137
title: When a thug shoots an innocent person
uri: When-a-thug-shoots-an-innocent-person
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28When_a_thug_shoots_an_innocent_person%29

content:
<p>
When a thug shoots an innocent person, the legal standard 
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/12/we-live-in-a-world-where-experts-say-the">assumes
that the thug's life is the only one that matters</a>.


feed_id: 55e21f5363f365a7e4e568d1210cfb88
title: DNA collection
uri: 2015-10-18-DNA-collection
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28DNA_collection%29
content:
<p>
Ancestry.com is 
<a href="
http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/12/9487685/ancestry-com-dna-test-kit-disease-risk-fda">collecting
DNA from the public and sequencing it</a>.
<p>
If your relatives do this, it could be 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/10/familial-dna-evidence-turns-innocent-people-into-crime-suspects/">dangerous
for you</a>.


feed_id: bc1f46f37bddfd9137ebd166c2df2c6e
title: Being near a bank while black
uri: Being-near-a-bank-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Being_near_a_bank_while_black%29
content:
<p>
DC thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/jason-goolsby-protest-police-washington-dc">grabbed
Jason Goolsby violently</a> after someone thought it was suspicious
that two black youths would be seen near a bank.
<p>
Aren't blacks supposed to use ATMs to withdraw money?


feed_id: 62591cf2c560b920038b080e7c5ffac7
title: Anticipation of climate mayhem
uri: Anticipation-of-climate-mayhem
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Anticipation_of_climate_mayhem%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/14/pacific-nations-beg-for-help-for-islanders-when-calamity-of-climate-change-hits">Pacific
Nations Beg for Help</a> for Islanders When 'Calamity' of [climate
mayhem] Hits.


feed_id: c82ccdf62f0b0be7ccbe49c7a2200861
title: Exxon's global heating lie
uri: Exxon-s-global-heating-lie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Exxons_global_heating_lie%29
content:
<p>
Exxon's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/14/exxons-climate-lie-change-global-warming">global
heating lie</a> was an unparalleled act of evil.


feed_id: 2c46db33efe30b58d01f129a5bcc374b
title: Charities abolished by Egyptian gov't
uri: Charities-abolished-by-Egyptian-gov-t
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Charities_abolished_by_Egyptian_govt%29

content:
<p>
The Egyptian government has abolished the charities of the Muslim
Brotherhood, on which many poor people depended, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/oct/14/the-egyptian-government-is-waging-a-war-on-civil-society">equated
defense of human rights with "terrorism"</a>.  All with 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_(US_military_support_for_Egypts_regime)">US
support</a>.


feed_id: b44fcb3dbb8df81eac30655f51180beb
title: GCHQ allowed to spy on parliament members
uri: GCHQ-allowed-to-spy-on-parliament-members
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28GCHQ_allowed_to_spy_on_parliament_members%29

content:
<p>
GCHQ has been given 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/14/gchq-monitor-communications-mps-peers-tribunal-wilson-doctrine">official
permission</a> to spy on members of parliament.
<p>
This will be a big help to them in constructing false accusations to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_(Political_activity_of_UK_spy_agencies)">sabotage
the parties they don't like</a>.


feed_id: 1fd15d694a0de5a32fa7bf33cdb4a23e
title: Very urgent: EU citizens: net neutrality
uri: Very-urgent-EU-citizens-net-neutrality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_EU_citizens%3A_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens: phone your MEPs to defend net neutrality.  A
recommendation from the Pirate Party says to tell your MEPs, "Please
in any case make a stand FOR net neutrality on 27th of October; this
means: If Martin Schulz allows amendments to the telcom-package, which
regulates net neutrality & roaming, then vote for the amendment of
Julia Reda, and if Martin Schulz doesn't allow amendments to the
telecom-package, then vote against the telecom-package."
<p>
It came with this link for making a call gratis:
<p>
<a href="https://piphone.lqdn.fr/campaign/call2/NetNeutrality_2015_2">https://piphone.lqdn.fr/campaign/call2/NetNeutrality_2015_2</a>


feed_id: 69915439282d297ce6d3d00b7ff43163
title: Very urgent: Canadians: defeat the Conservatives
uri: Very-urgent-Canadians-defeat-the-Conservatives
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Canadians%3A_defeat_the_Conservatives%29

content:
<p>
Canadians: 
<a href="http://24percentmajority.blogspot.ca/2015/10/2011-2015-harper-government-wrap-up.html">dozens
of reasons</a> to defeat the Conservatives, and a suggestion for how.


feed_id: c97e106809d6c9164d4cc64fc7ad7693
title: Sanders rejects donation from drug gouger
uri: Sanders-rejects-donation-from-drug-gouger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_October_2015_%28Sanders_rejects_donation_from_drug_gouger%29

content:
<p>
Sanders 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/16/bernie-sanders-rejects-donation-turing-ceo-martin-shkreli">rejected
a donation offered by drug gouger Shkreli</a>.


feed_id: 8031ee8011a06c9d698ff62a573cdd9c
title: CISA
uri: CISA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_October_2015_%28CISA%29
content:
<p>
Many large internet companies have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/10/15/trade-group-representing-google-facebook-yahoo-t-mobile-sprint-netflix-says-it">come
out against CISA</a>, the "cybersecurity" bill that would encourage
those companies to "voluntarily" hand over people's data to Big
Brother.


feed_id: c5e6cdc513b5c3db24cbaa6d6afb6b90
title: Clinton "supports" social security
uri: Clinton-supports-social-security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_October_2015_%28Clinton_supports_social_security%29

content:
<p>
Clinton says she "supports" social security, but there is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/15/trojan-horse-clintons-pledge-enhance-social-security">something
fishy in the details</a>.


feed_id: a41908782697a00bdd3c983ebfb3b82f
title: Polls suggest Sanders won debate
uri: Polls-suggest-Sanders-won-debate
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_October_2015_%28Polls_suggest_Sanders_won_debate%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/15/bernie-won-corporate-media-crowned-hillary-victor-all-same">Polls
suggest that Sanders won the debate</a>, but pundits say it was
Clinton.


feed_id: e5743437e2de03f3a8a85b5e0de63b64
title: Obama's drone-based assassination program
uri: Obama-s-drone-based-assassination-program
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_October_2015_%28Obamas_drone-based_assassination_program%29

content:
<p>
The leaks about 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/15/drone-papers-leaked-military-documents-expose-us-assassination-complex">Obama's
drone-based assassination program</a> show that the "precise" system
for finding targets is actually quite unreliable, and the "limited"
criteria are actually sloppy.
<p>
Drones, used on the battlefield, are not morally different from
airplanes or artillery.  Drones used for assassination are a
completely different issue.
<p>
What sort of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/15/rights-groups-demand-congressional-probe-following-release-assassination-docs">investigation</a>
is needed?


feed_id: 5d9193738e487bbecd38800f4893344e
title: FBI persecuting sex workers
uri: FBI-persecuting-sex-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_October_2015_%28FBI_persecuting_sex_workers%29
content:
<p>
The FBI is 
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/15/fbi-sponsors-operation-cross-country-ix">persecuting
sex workers</a> and disguises it as freeing victims of trafficking.
<p>
Occasionally the campaign does free victims of trafficking, which is a
good thing, but they could do that without persecuting other sex
workers.


feed_id: 86141d963123a1147283a41c1c738796
title: Urgent: Oppose voter suppression
uri: Urgent-Oppose-voter-suppression
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_voter_suppression%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/comcau/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=961">Call
on Alabama</a> to cancel its efforts to stop blacks from voting.


feed_id: 739afbf0ceb6c21212721ddd30eb1b3f
title: In the spirit of Mother Teresa
uri: In-the-spirit-of-Mother-Teresa
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28In_the_spirit_of_Mother_Teresa%29

content:
<p>
India has legalized adoptions by unmarried people.  In response,
Mother Teresa's orphanage has shut down all adoption of it inmates, in
effect 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/16/indias-catholics-slam-rules-allowing-single-people-to-adopt">using
them as hostages</a>.
<p>
This is entirely 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20150927">in the
spirit of Mother Teresa</a>, who 
<a href="http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20130301-mother-teresa-anything-but-a-saint.html">used
poor Indians to boost the Catholic Church</a>.


feed_id: 2397c2e8934fbecf25ab2756dedab403
title: Copyright on science experiments
uri: Copyright-on-science-experiments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Copyright_on_science_experiments%29

content:
<p>
Selfish scientists use copyright to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2015/oct/16/roadblocks-to-successful-scientific-replications-materials-sharing-copyright">prevent
replication of an experiment</a>.


feed_id: 73b37c798c860bb8d991f155621160e4
title: Abortion
uri: 2015-10-19-Abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Abortion%29
content:
<p>
Connie Bryson describes 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/16/i-had-an-illegal-abortion-in-1953-we-need-roe-v-wade">the
abortion that she had, illegally</a> — a horrible experience
that no women should have to have recourse to.


feed_id: fa49b4e08e8dea9455f5a0874eb6d77f
title: Microsoft forcing Windows 10 on users
uri: Microsoft-forcing-Windows-10-on-users
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Microsoft_forcing_Windows_10_on_users%29

content:
<p>
Users report Microsoft is 
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2993490/windows/windows-10-upgrades-reportedly-appearing-as-mandatory-for-some-users.html">forcing
them to replace Windows 7 and 8</a> with all-spying Windows 10.
<p>
This seems to involve use of a back door in Windows 7 and 8.


feed_id: 3994f0732820be423870fa879dcc5269
title: Australian treatment of refugee
uri: Australian-treatment-of-refugee
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Australian_treatment_of_refugee%29

content:
<p>
Australia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/16/australia-secretly-flies-pregnant-asylum-seeker-back-to-nauru-before-hearing">dumped
Somalian refugee Abyan in Nauru, where she was raped, and brought her
back to Australia for an abortion</a> — then sent her back to
Nauru before a court could rule on whether she could stay there.


feed_id: 2b1a9a6045a0a12b36f4964560206898
title: Egypt to discourage an oppressive practice
uri: Egypt-to-discourage-an-oppressive-practice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Egypt_to_discourage_an_oppressive_practice%29

content:
<p>
Egypt's government will require women to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/16/egypt-niqab-ban-women-oppression">uncover
their heads in certain special circumstances</a>.
<p>
I think limited measures of this sort are a legitimate way to
discourage oppressive practices imposed by social pressure.
<p>
The article is wrong about the goddess Isis — far from being
crushed by worship of Ra and turned into a demon, her cult spread
along with that of her brother/husband Osiris, and then under Roman
rule spread around the empire (without Osiris).  It was intolerant
Christianity that put an end to worship of Isis.


feed_id: 78ebf44c62d6fb49205ce7c07715a521
title: Babies dying in the UK
uri: Babies-dying-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Babies_dying_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/oct/16/homeless-children-dying-at-the-sharp-end-of-the-housing-crisis">Babies
in homeless families</a> are dying in the UK.
<p>
As the government tightens the vice on the non-rich in general, some
people inevitably get squeezed out the sides of the vice.  It's part
and parcel of what the Tories want to achieve.


feed_id: ee217f8a8e4756563dd62190bf89b7a5
title: Making war to win domestic support
uri: Making-war-to-win-domestic-support
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Making_war_to_win_domestic_support%29

content:
<p>
If Chinese become restive, future Chinese rulers decide to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/16/us-relations-china-war-america">attack
someplace to win domestic support</a>.


feed_id: 294fae6751f6bbec82b0afdb153e7d1e
title: Urgent: regulate methane strictly
uri: Urgent-regulate-methane-strictly
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_regulate_methane_strictly%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2663">call on the EPA</a> to regulate methane strictly.


feed_id: 82cea32f6b670e729783917b88cc8ecf
title: Urgent: end predatory prison phone charges
uri: Urgent-end-predatory-prison-phone-charges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_end_predatory_prison_phone_charges%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call for an end to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/fcc_prison_phone_rates/?source=email-fulldp]&t=1001]&akid=3701.96703.OTBfHn">predatory prison phone charges.</a>


feed_id: 8e4cb8a51750403ffe5adac552832833
title: Web advertising
uri: Web-advertising
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Web_advertising%29
content:
<p>Web advertising that tracks users <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/10/stop-malvertising.html">also exposes them to attacks.</a>


feed_id: 4c263fa681b0da9402a5df84f9ea87cb
title: Long duration of copyright
uri: Long-duration-of-copyright
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Long_duration_of_copyright%29
content:
<p>The long duration of copyright hampers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/oct/15/arthur-miller-writers-estates-theatre-directors-literary-executors">creative production</a> of the great plays of the 20th century.


feed_id: ec08737c6b2e80b400009d35eb5521cc
title: Writing the TPP
uri: Writing-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Writing_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>Obama says that "we" are writing the rules of the TPP.  But this "we" <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/14/we-are-writing-rules-says-obama-whos-we">does not include you or me.</a>
<p>The TPP is not really about trade anyway.  It's really an
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_(TPP)">antidemocratic corporate supremacy treaty</a> with a little about trade on the side.


feed_id: 9dac27417e9775161834456e28301504
title: Fracking and premature births
uri: Fracking-and-premature-births
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Fracking_and_premature_births%29
content:
<p>A study found that pregnant women in Pennsylvania were <a href="http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2015/study-fracking-industry-wells-associated-with-premature-birth.html">40% more likely</a> to give birth prematurely if they live near a very active frack well.


feed_id: a45bfe246a6ab69242359be6d427dd03
title: Stop the fanatical "settlers"
uri: Stop-the-fanatical-settlers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Stop_the_fanatical_settlers%29
content:
<p>Uri Avnery: <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1445000540/">the real battle for Israel</a> is to stop the fanatical "settlers" from taking over.


feed_id: 952168091e8bc8e6d8ef142ffecd0bc3
title: Ethiopian bloggers acquitted
uri: Ethiopian-bloggers-acquitted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Ethiopian_bloggers_acquitted%29
content:
<p>Ethiopian bloggers were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/16/four-ethiopian-bloggers-cleared-of-terror-charges
">acquitted of charges.</a>


feed_id: 823b8bc44ed757e31c023073c30006fb
title: Planting forests to make El Nino milder
uri: Planting-forests-to-make-El-Nino-milder
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Planting_forests_to_make_El_Nino_milder%29

content:
<p>Deforestation makes El Nino more severe; <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/16/rainforests-hold-key-to-taming-el-ninos-destruction">planting large forests can make it milder.</a>


feed_id: a37f0f1aa62cc3d15c564c19e441bb66
title: US Border Patrol
uri: 2015-10-19-US-Border-Patrol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28US_Border_Patrol%29
content:
<p>US Border Patrol agents can search anyone's car; they just have to say <a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/15/border-patrol-complaints-highlight-the-m">the dog told them to do it.</a>


feed_id: e4a0c653d08e4d036fd1b348ea90a45a
title: Casualties from drone attacks
uri: Casualties-from-drone-attacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Casualties_from_drone_attacks%29
content:
<p>An <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/16/drone-documents-whistleblower-edward-snowden-daniel-ellsberg">anonymous whistleblower</a> reveals that the US is systematically lying about casualties from drone attacks.
<p>In particular, US authorities knowingly label unidentified civilian
dead as "enemy combattants", thus inflating the "body count" while
disguising the numerous civilian casualties.
<p>Amnesty International says this calls for a <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/10/us-congress-must-launch-urgent-inquiry-into-obamas-drone-use/">specific investigation.</a>


feed_id: a0a31a55277cd59b30f71d81835709e4
title: Alternatives to imprisonment
uri: Alternatives-to-imprisonment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Alternatives_to_imprisonment%29
content:
<p>Texas is using alternatives to imprisonment, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/16/texas-prison-rehabilitation-revolution-michael-gove">as a way to save money.</a>
<p>It could save additional money by investing in education, in prenatal
care, in abortion, in contraception, and in a welfare system that
saves families from stress.


feed_id: 5b383d3764234612dc319f011e2fbbbf
title: CIA's water torture
uri: CIA-s-water-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28CIA%27s_water_torture%29
content:
<p>The CIA used a form of water torture on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/oct/16/cia-torture-water-dousing-waterboard-like-technique">additional prisoners.</a>


feed_id: 090cfe0108046c2a1e84446fa716be37
title: Not so independent consultants
uri: 2015-10-19-Not-so-independent-consultants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Not_so_independent_consultants%29

content:
<p>The "independent" consultants that said it was "reasonable" to shoot
Tamir Rice dead are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/13/question-when-shooting-12-year-old-child-reasonable">
not really independent</a>,
 and they closed their eyes to important questions.
</p>


feed_id: 8cd475be72fa5ca56ae77e1e4aea84db
title: Parents organize against climate catastrophe
uri: Parents-organize-against-climate-catastrophe
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_October_2015_%28Parents_organize_against_climate_catastrophe%29

content:
<p>
<p>Parents are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/13/global-parents-unite-protect-children-climate-catastrophe">organizing 
to protect the climate</a> for their children.</p>


feed_id: c81b0671415573b10e3595d88388c22f
title: Ban on drilling in American Arctic waters
uri: Ban-on-drilling-in-American-Arctic-waters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_October_2015_%28Ban_on_drilling_in_American_Arctic_waters%29

content:
<p>
Obama has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/16/obama-blocks-new-arctic-oil-drilling-cancels-leases">effectively
banned</a> oil drilling in American Arctic waters.
<p>
We pushed and pushed for this, and he eventually did it.


feed_id: 7247c874a711307c5253612f2e4e246f
title: Book scanning ruled fair use
uri: Book-scanning-ruled-fair-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_October_2015_%28Book_scanning_ruled_fair_use%29
content:
<p>
Google's book scanning has been 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/big-win-fair-use-google-books-lawsuit">ruled
fair use</a>.
<p>
I was one of many who objected to the proposed settlement
between the Authors' Guild and Google, which would have given Google
alone the right to do such scanning.


feed_id: 885f7e83887f842f5f669d1ad650c46f
title: Ankara bombing
uri: Ankara-bombing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_October_2015_%28Ankara_bombing%29
content:
<p>
Ankara Bombing And the 
<a href="https://opendemocracy.net/umut-ozkirimli/ankara-bombing-and-end-of-turkish-republic">End
of the Turkish Republic</a>.


feed_id: 6557c13f1474fc2a945e4aa300e3d570
title: Pictures and videos of food
uri: Pictures-and-videos-of-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_October_2015_%28Pictures_and_videos_of_food%29
content:
<p>
Pictures and videos of food 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2015/oct/16/is-food-porn-making-us-fat">can
make people overeat</a>.


feed_id: e93f0526ff544b70dff40ed266234260
title: UK thug corruption or racism?
uri: UK-thug-corruption-or-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_October_2015_%28UK_thug_corruption_or_racism%29
content:
<p>
Did corruption play a role in getting UK thugs to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/16/stephen-lawrence-inquiry-hunts-police-alleged-to-have-shielded-killers">try
to frame someone for the murder of Stephen Lawrence</a>, or was it
solely racism?


feed_id: 4d720ccd54cbf27a37afd022c19f73da
title: Small children and guns
uri: Small-children-and-guns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_October_2015_%28Small_children_and_guns%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/14/people-are-getting-shot-by-toddlers-on-a-weekly-basis-this-year/">About
once a week</a>, a small child in the US shoots people with a gun.


feed_id: e52622618bd0a9ccbc4fd1adf8b5c59b
title: "Defamation" of parliament a crime in Kenya
uri: Defamation-of-parliament-a-crime-in-Kenya
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_October_2015_%28Defamation_of_parliament_a_crime_in_Kenya%29

content:
<p>
Kenya has made it a 
<a href="http://www.enca.com/africa/dismay-kenya-passes-press-law">crime
to "defame" members of parliament</a>, for instance accusing them of
corruption.


feed_id: 9dcdbedd5cd2ae24968b1bb08d3a39b5
title: Slot machines
uri: 2015-10-20-Slot-machines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_October_2015_%28Slot_machines%29
content:
<p>
How slot machines are designed to be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/17/ka-ching-pokies-documentary-reveals-what-makes-the-machines-so-addictive">addictive
for a certain segment of the population</a>.


feed_id: 819e6f9ed0463ba685c65906d46205ea
title: Snowden refutes Clinton's false claims
uri: Snowden-refutes-Clinton-s-false-claims
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_October_2015_%28Snowden_refutes_Clintons_false_claims%29

content:
<p>
Snowden 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/16/edward-snowden-hillary-clinton-false-claim-whistleblower-protection">refutes
Clinton's false claims</a> about what he could have done.


feed_id: 0dd234c477fc2fdd1a7201c33d3d8925
title: Corporate supremacy treaties
uri: 2015-10-20-Corporate-supremacy-treaties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_October_2015_%28Corporate_supremacy_treaties%29
content:
<p>
The new wave of corporate supremacy treaties, which 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/16/ttip-revolution-against-international-law">allow
foreign companies to sue governments in secret</a>, "is tantamount to
a revolution against law, it is retrogression in terms of legality and
predictability, a no-man's land of arbitrary arbitrations."


feed_id: 347d74645e5114d2c96f188ec3cd4c38
title: Urgent: Remove US troops from Afghanistan
uri: Urgent-Remove-US-troops-from-Afghanistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_US_troops_from_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/drawdown_2015">call on
Obama</a> to remove US troops from Afghanistan.
<p>
We achieve no good by propping up a government that can't inspire
enough loyalty to defeat the Taliban.


feed_id: c6403dc31c8137211a6f9bebf1e64c39
title: TPP calls for destroying your computer
uri: TPP-calls-for-destroying-your-computer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28TPP_calls_for_destroying_your_computer%29

content:
<p>
The TPP calls for 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/10/15/trans_pacific_partnership_could_thwart_computer_security_research_and_tinkering.html">destroying
your computer, if you break DRM</a>.  This would even apply to
security researchers who study devices with DRM or that have
locked-down software.


feed_id: 6ed4ec40f29e97deb5a10fe51a17f740
title: Unreplicable economics research
uri: Unreplicable-economics-research
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Unreplicable_economics_research%29

content:
<p>
A study finds that 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/10/12/economics-research-considered.html">half
of economists' papers' results can't be replicated</a> even with
cooperation from the authors.
<p>
Professor Sussman taught me in the 1970s that publishing the data that
the paper is based on is part of proper science.


feed_id: 3112a1302924f8dd41afc6bbc7430d8a
title: Thug tases store clerk for no reason
uri: Thug-tases-store-clerk-for-no-reason
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Thug_tases_store_clerk_for_no_reason%29

content:
<p>
A thug 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/dashcam-refutes-cops-story-fearing-his-life-shows-him-taser-man-parking-ticket">tased
store clerk Damian Words for no reason</a>, then lied about it.
<p>
Words is suing the city, but that will not punish the thug.  If Words
wins the suit, the city's taxpayers will pay, not the culprit.  Thugs
that lie must be prosecuted for it, and jailed.


feed_id: e847ad4d1e462561996c96782d27a704
title: Google Books fair use victory
uri: Google-Books-fair-use-victory
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Google_Books_fair_use_victory%29
content:
<p>
More about the Google Books 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/10/16/titanic-victory-for-fair-use.html">fair
use victory</a>.


feed_id: f8ab2f0a02056a6f481f8ca863a68d9f
title: Faux News "terrorism expert"
uri: Faux-News-terrorism-expert
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Faux_News_terrorism_expert%29
content:
<p>
A Faux News "terrorism expert" who claimed to have worked for the CIA
was
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-16/fox-news-terrorism-expert-arrested-for-pretending-to-be-cia/6859576">arrested
for telling the same lie to the US government</a>.


feed_id: 3872ac9ed524dd53442187358c14b6dd
title: Fewer arrests for marijuana in the UK
uri: Fewer-arrests-for-marijuana-in-the-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Fewer_arrests_for_marijuana_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
Budget cuts in the UK have one great benefit:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/18/steep-fall-cannabis-possession-offences-silent-relaxation-of-drugs-policy">fewer
people are being arrested for possession of marijuana</a>.


feed_id: 2bc7f24204a9306bbb959a28af2056cd
title: UK fawns over Chinese ruler
uri: UK-fawns-over-Chinese-ruler
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28UK_fawns_over_Chinese_ruler%29
content:
<p>
The UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/18/china-royal-royal-xi-jinping-chinese-president">goes
to great lengths</a> to welcome the ruler who is crushing freedom in
China.  "This fawning insults the people of both countries."


feed_id: 0ea01348b44459348a6315e56b331338
title: Egypt's parliamentary election
uri: Egypt-s-parliamentary-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Egypts_parliamentary_election%29
content:
<p>
Egypt's parliamentary election has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/18/egypt-parliamentary-elections-shore-up-sisi">no
real opposition candidates</a>.


feed_id: 85c00424dc54d771a0cf577abbb56e54
title: Appeal for peace from a Palestinian
uri: Appeal-for-peace-from-a-Palestinian
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Appeal_for_peace_from_a_Palestinian%29

content:
<p>
A Palestinian appeals to Israelis and Palestinians to choose
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/18/palestinians-israelis-two-state-united-nations">peace
instead of military occupation</a>.


feed_id: c3012bbd3e48fcf456a945a51c1dc17a
title: Canadian tar sands pipeline blocked
uri: Canadian-tar-sands-pipeline-blocked
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Canadian_tar_sands_pipeline_blocked%29

content:
<p>
Indigenous peoples in Canada are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/18/canada-indigenous-first-nations-tar-sands-pipeline-oil">blocking
a tar sands export pipeline to the Pacific Ocean</a>.


feed_id: 443e91f9781b051c616936ed03fc3fda
title: Refugee dumped by Australia
uri: Refugee-dumped-by-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Refugee_dumped_by_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Refugee Mohammad Albederee, dumped by Australia in Papua New Guinea,
has been on hunger strike for six months because he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/18/manus-island-asylum-seeker-on-hunger-strike-says-he-is-close-to-death">could
not get medical care</a>.


feed_id: 6bad0afe892f827638658944b37e2730
title: Deported for taking painkillers
uri: Deported-for-taking-painkillers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Deported_for_taking_painkillers%29

content:
<p>
Australia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/18/quadriplegic-new-zealander-reportedly-deported-by-australia">deported
a paralyzed New Zealander away from his family</a> which lives
entirely in Australia, because he committed the crime of taking
painkillers without prescription.
<p>
The general policy of deporting non-citizen residents that have
committed serious crimes that harmed others seems valid to me, but it
shouldn't be done rigidly.  Taking pain killers doesn't harm others,
anyway.


feed_id: 4a379e00c091a55d698233cfca2e6404
title: Ordinary Palestinians attacking Israelis
uri: Ordinary-Palestinians-attacking-Israelis
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Ordinary_Palestinians_attacking_Israelis%29

content:
<p>
Apparently ordinary Palestinians are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/18/knife-intifada-palestinian-israel-west-bank">suddenly
flipping and attacking Israelis suicidally with knives</a>.
<p>
It seems that they can't bear the occupation any more, and see no
effective way of campaigning to end it, so they do this.
<p>
By contrast, 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#18_July_2012_(Israeli_laws)">when
Israeli "settlers" attack Palestinians</a>, they do it in organized
groups.


feed_id: b797f547f9513d1c14de99394f24e1b4
title: Conservatives defeated
uri: Conservatives-defeated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Conservatives_defeated%29
content:
<p>The Conservatives in Canada were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/sunny-side-canada-justin-trudeaus-light-touch-revives-liberals">defeated by the Liberals.</a></p><p></p>
<p>In regard to global heating, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/20/trudeau-victory-not-signal-u-turn-canadas-climate-policy">it is not clear this is much of an
improvement</a>.</p>


feed_id: d48031bca5ce991015fd98021c15131d
title: Rhino poachers
uri: Rhino-poachers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Rhino_poachers%29
content:
<p>
Kruger Park rangers have killed hundreds of rhino poachers, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/18/rhino-horn-boom-impoverished-african-poachers">more
keep coming</a>.


feed_id: 356a8057b519af6b0f5f5fbcae8b4bff
title: Turkey and Erdo&gbreve;an's oppressive strategy
uri: Turkey-and-Erdo-gbreve-an-s-oppressive-strategy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Turkey_and_Erdogans_oppressive_strategy%29

content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/18/divided-turkey-future-threatened-isis">analysis</a>
of Turkey and Erdo&gbreve;an's oppressive strategy.


feed_id: 0208b98915852a740ef44f49453a4826
title: Historic sites in Kosovo being destroyed
uri: Historic-sites-in-Kosovo-being-destroyed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Historic_sites_in_Kosovo_being_destroyed%29

content:
<p>
Many 
<a href="http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2015&mm=09&dd=28&nav_id=95570">old
Serbian churches and historic sites</a> in Kosovo are being desecrated
or destroyed.
<p>
Since the Albanian Kosovars won control of Kosovo, they should now
put their anger at Serbs to rest.


feed_id: 59cec55882a5c17165b98ea3b8ef41f0
title: Pope supports squatters' group in Rome
uri: Pope-supports-squatters-group-in-Rome
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Pope_supports_squatters_group_in_Rome%29

content:
<p>
The pope send a letter of support to an squatters' group in Rome that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/17/pope-francis-tarzan-squatters-rome-andrea-alzetta">occupies
buildings to help the poor</a>.


feed_id: 8e42f401822480654892df9fae057438
title: Hawaii kicks homeless people out of tent city
uri: Hawaii-kicks-homeless-people-out-of-tent-city
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Hawaii_kicks_homeless_people_out_of_tent_city%29

content:
<p>
Hawaii
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/17/hawaii-homelessness-state-of-emergency">kicked
300 homeless people out of a tent city</a>, and plans to compensate
this by building housing for a fraction of them.
<p>
It would be kinder to build housing first and invite some of the
homeless people to move to it.


feed_id: 338040db7395ef9f2ee9df02f24b33ac
title: Protesters in UK face deportation
uri: Protesters-in-UK-face-deportation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Protesters_in_UK_face_deportation%29

content:
<p>
UK residents from other EU countries face 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/oct/17/law-abiding-activist-faces-deportation-from-uk">deportation
from the UK for participating in nonviolent protests</a>.


feed_id: 0a4bfe882624cf287f8103ce9cb16343
title: Mistaking a fetus for a baby
uri: Mistaking-a-fetus-for-a-baby
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Mistaking_a_fetus_for_a_baby%29
content:
<p>
There is a perverse movement among women to think that they should
carry
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/17/living-with-downs-syndrome-hes-not-list-characteristics">fetuses
with Downs' syndrome</a> to term, rather than abort them and try
again.
<p>
The overall effect is to increase the number of people that have
Downs' syndrome.  I see nothing virtuous in that.  The current fetus
is no more worthy than one without Downs' syndrome that they might
conceive later.
<p>
Next, people will take thalidomide to demonstrate how they can love
babies born without limbs.
<p>
Remember, a fetus is not a baby.


feed_id: 4c4d4ed5238994059b6e79767e53a3f5
title: Collecting newly discovered species
uri: Collecting-newly-discovered-species
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Collecting_newly_discovered_species%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/17/rare-bird-killed-saving-species">Why
scientists need to collect examples</a> of newly discovered species of
birds (and other animals).


feed_id: 222aa2777759b4a882bd122d4e02588c
title: US and Russia both fighting in Syria
uri: US-and-Russia-both-fighting-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28US_and_Russia_both_fighting_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
The US and Russia are both fighting in Syria, and 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/swanson20151018">could
get into war by accident</a>.
<p>
I find it peculiar that people in the West defend Putin's intervention
on behalf of Assad.  Assad is a mass murderer and doesn't deserve
support.  Alas, his main enemies (al-Qa'ida and PISSI) are just as
bad.


feed_id: b0147e92cdaf4fbb702b5eede6349d4f
title: CISA would encourage weak security
uri: CISA-would-encourage-weak-security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28CISA_would_encourage_weak_security%29

content:
<p>
CISA, supposedly a bill to improve companies' cybersecurity, would
actually 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/10/15/why_congress_is_about_to_make_it_way_harder_to_protect_your_personal_data/">encourage
weak security</a>.


feed_id: cbaa011df5200e904da84510f3b4ca1e
title: US gov't to require drone registration
uri: US-gov-t-to-require-drone-registration
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28US_govt_to_require_drone_registration%29

content:
<p>
The US government 
<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-will-require-drones-be-registered-n446266">plans
to require registration of all drone aircraft</a>.
<p>
Does this include even toys?


feed_id: e10d9b0fb78f7ae5c8d643a82ec9d8a4
title: Bernie Sanders' position on US wars
uri: Bernie-Sanders-position-on-US-wars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Bernie_Sanders_position_on_US_wars%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://berniesanders.com/issues/war-and-peace/">Bernie
Sanders' position</a> on the various US wars.


feed_id: 55542ba5ea0a5b244441885b00161ff3
title: Dubya and B'liar's agreement to invade Iraq
uri: Dubya-and-B-liar-s-agreement-to-invade-Iraq
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Dubya_and_Bliars_agreement_to_invade_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
A US document (written by Colin Powell) shows that Dubya and B'liar
agreed to invade Iraq 
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3277402/Smoking-gun-emails-reveal-Blair-s-deal-blood-George-Bush-Iraq-war-forged-YEAR-invasion-started.html">a
year before the actual attack</a> — so their claims this was not
true were lies.


feed_id: f62011d4c4c43249bce6e268f7423c6d
title: Australian government's priorities
uri: Australian-government-s-priorities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Australian_governments_priorities%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is aware that it puts refugees into prisons
where their treatment ranges from cruelty to rape, so its priority is
to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/08/why-cant-we-know-whats-happening-on-nauru-and-manus-island">prevent
any information about this mistreatment from leaking out</a>.  Lawyers
and journalists are kept out by the puppet regime of Nauru.  Workers
who observe crimes are threatened with imprisonment if they report
these crimes.
<p>
Nauru 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/nauru-police-take-phones-and-laptops-from-save-the-children-staff-and-others">confiscated
the employees' phones and computers</a> so that they could not talk to
journalists.
<p>
I suggest that ex-employees seek asylum in another country and then
report the crimes they have seen.


feed_id: 5388b89281c3c0f2be3950481bce3484
title: The TTIP
uri: 2015-10-22-The-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28The_TTIP%29
content:
<p>
The TTIP (This Treaty Is Plutocratic) is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/18/prospect-ttip-deal-undermining-eu-food-standards-gmos">likely
to require Europe to drop its food safety standards</a>.


feed_id: db9fe9e7a1d9f4a45aa5115481168343
title: Feeding homeless people in Houston illegal
uri: Feeding-homeless-people-in-Houston-illegal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Feeding_homeless_people_in_Houston_illegal%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/16/1194591/-In-Houston-It-s-Illegal-to-Feed-the-Homeless-and-for-the-Homeless-to-Feed-Themselves">In
Houston It's Illegal to Feed the Homeless and for the Homeless to Feed
Themselves</a>.
<p>
The law against taking things from garbage bins does wrong to others,
too, including freegans, and would tend to cause more waste of food
and other useful trash.


feed_id: 78bc961f27eee2abc03805b967bd06f3
title: Abortion
uri: 2015-10-22-Abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Abortion%29
content:
<p>
Missouri Republicans 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/17/1352459/-Missouri-GOP-lawmaker-wants-to-require-women-to-get-their-abuser-s-permission-for-abortion">want
to require women to get permission from the father of the fetus</a>
before they can get an abortion.  If they were raped, they would have
to prove it.
<p>
How about requiring women to get permission from the father of the
fetus in order to <em>not</em> get an abortion?


feed_id: ffc135431c441ab485672f7d08456b6f
title: Koch brothers' tar sands lease in Alberta
uri: Koch-brothers-tar-sands-lease-in-Alberta
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_%28Koch_brothers_tar_sands_lease_in_Alberta%29

content:
<p>
The Koch brothers own the 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/20/1286250/-Guess-who-s-the-major-stakeholder-in-Canada-s-oil-sands-Of-course-it-s-the-nbsp-Kochs">largest
tar sands lease in Alberta</a>.  They must be paying politicians to
support Keystone XL.


feed_id: c9e463c240eea2233e176996183969f3
title: Urgent: Oppose use of neonicotinoid
uri: Urgent-Oppose-use-of-neonicotinoid
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_use_of_neonicotinoid%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.pollinatorsandyourplate.org/">call on Pop Secret
and Pop Weaver</a> to use corn made without neonicotinoid pesticides.


feed_id: 9faadc7382e6b3bc9ebd5ad0610e1fff
title: Urgent: Carcinogen classification
uri: Urgent-Carcinogen-classification
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Carcinogen_classification%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.myngp.com/Forms/NoScript/-4496836140766787840">call
on California</a> to classify glyphosate as a carcinogen.


feed_id: d1321eb380f1b347084994aabd1c8042
title: Urgent: Oppose FDA appointment
uri: Urgent-Oppose-FDA-appointment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_FDA_appointment%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Big_Pharma_Califf_FDA">object
to appointing pharma insider Robert Califf</a> as head of the FDA.


feed_id: 55165c0395598cc40ffef6657c04c2f7
title: Prosecution for "hate speech" in France
uri: Prosecution-for-hate-speech-in-France
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Prosecution_for_hate_speech_in_France%29

content:
<p>
The leader of the French extremist party Front National is being
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/marine-le-pen-trial-charged-anti-muslims-hate-speech">prosecuted
for "hate speech"</a>.
<p>
This prosecution is an injustice.  What Le Pen said is a ludicrous
exaggeration, but she has a right to say it.


feed_id: 1c24e9c4559f37d5106a7a9aea3cbe22
title: Wasteful practices considered "masculine"
uri: Wasteful-practices-considered-masculine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Wasteful_practices_considered_masculine%29

content:
<p>
Many American men consider 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/20/if-sustainable-living-feminine-bad-for-planet-and-women">wasteful
practices</a> to be "masculine" and therefore refuse to give them up.


feed_id: 46bb06522b7a3cf6182b73b266b070d7
title: Anti-nuclear activist hounded into exile
uri: Anti-nuclear-activist-hounded-into-exile
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Anti-nuclear_activist_hounded_into_exile%29

content:
<p>
Russia has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/russia-activist-flee-nuclear-tv-witch-hunt">hounded
an anti-nuclear activist</a> into exile.


feed_id: 13d783823b3cd7ff428b6c5db3c5a238
title: Proposed UK laws attack human rights
uri: Proposed-UK-laws-attack-human-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Proposed_UK_laws_attack_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
Proposed UK laws to discourage "extremism" 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/20/theresa-may-protect-fundamental-values-counter-extremism-freedom-of-speech">attack
human rights</a>.


feed_id: e02ef117ba5efd0a07b29c9fad65a3e1
title: Israel continues collective punishment
uri: Israel-continues-collective-punishment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Israel_continues_collective_punishment%29

content:
<p>
Israel continues collective punishment, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/israel-destroys-hebron-home-of-palestinian-convicted-in-fatal-stabbing">demolishing
the homes of families of killers</a>.


feed_id: b4200769403c22ba1d497d40c502c955
title: Conservatives in Canada defeated
uri: Conservatives-in-Canada-defeated
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Conservatives_in_Canada_defeated%29

content:
<p>
The Conservatives in Canada were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/sunny-side-canada-justin-trudeaus-light-touch-revives-liberals">defeated
by the Liberals</a>.
<p>
In regard to global heating, it is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/20/trudeau-victory-not-signal-u-turn-canadas-climate-policy">not
clear this is much of an improvement</a>.


feed_id: 1ac3eaa656cb454744dd9425ba6f0d07
title: Punishing web sites for failing to censor
uri: Punishing-web-sites-for-failing-to-censor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Punishing_web_sites_for_failing_to_censor%29

content:
<p>
It is 
<a href="https://www.cpj.org/blog/2015/10/privatizing-censorship-in-fight-against-extremism-.php">dangerous</a>
to punish web sites or journalists for failing to censor "terrorism".


feed_id: 80bb77b40bcc9465261eba6ee7da0965
title: Nauru allows foreign reporter in
uri: Nauru-allows-foreign-reporter-in
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Nauru_allows_foreign_reporter_in%29

content:
<p>
Finally Nauru allowed a foreign reporter in.  Apparently he was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/chris-kenny-first-foreign-news-reporter-in-18-months-granted-nauru-visa">chosen
for his political views</a>.


feed_id: d9f37e980c96294d662ac7b702eaf18f
title: Japan to continue killing whales
uri: Japan-to-continue-killing-whales
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Japan_to_continue_killing_whales%29

content:
<p>
Japan is going to disregard the World Court and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/20/australia-considers-legal-action-as-japan-snubs-antarctic-whaling-ban">continue
killing whales</a> for bogus "scientific research".


feed_id: 1c541911107357899153690d1ad79a14
title: Failure of Libyan unity government plan
uri: Failure-of-Libyan-unity-government-plan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Failure_of_Libyan_unity_government_plan%29

content:
<p>
The Libyan unity government plan has failed — 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/libya-un-unity-government-power-sharing-rejection">one
government is Islamist and the other isn't</a>.


feed_id: 309f488eab41e3b95d80d35858f8ef14
title: Chicago's Homan Square torture station
uri: Chicago-s-Homan-Square-torture-station
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Chicagos_Homan_Square_torture_station%29

content:
<p>
Some of the victims of Chicago's Homan Square torture station are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/chicago-homan-square-police-abuse-lawsuit">suing
the city</a>.
<p>
It's not enough to make the city government pay for this.
The thugs who tortured people, who denied them access to lawyers,
must be prosecuted for this.


feed_id: 10b163ae7a5642d0c3a5b0380e39ae50
title: US drone registration
uri: US-drone-registration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28US_drone_registration%29
content:
<p>
US drone registration 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/19/faa-private-drones-registration-safety-concerns">may
exempt short-range toys</a>.


feed_id: b06d8bac84f7b53f119bb472e073e879
title: Italian writer charged with "incitement"
uri: Italian-writer-charged-with-incitement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Italian_writer_charged_with_incitement%29

content:
<p>
Italian writer Erri De Luca was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/erri-de-luca-acquittal-turin-lyon-rail-line">charged
with "incitement"</a> after he stated the opinion that sabotaging a
new train tunnel would be legitimate.
<p>
I have nothing against building a fast train line from Turin to Lyon;
indeed, I wish it were operating now.  But it is tremendously
important that people be free to say they think that violating some
law is legitimate.


feed_id: 264a24b04d708866734ad8b4f6ae8755
title: Extradition request used to harm Assange
uri: Extradition-request-used-to-harm-Assange
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Extradition_request_used_to_harm_Assange%29

content:
<p>
After Assange invited Swedish prosecutors to question him in the
Ecuadorian embassy, the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/19/uk-resisted-julian-assange-questioned-london-emails">UK
urged Swedish prosecutors not to do this</a>.  "Please do not think
that the case is being dealt with as just another extradition
request."
<p>
More confirmation that this case — regardless of its actual
merits — is being used as an excuse to harm Assange.


feed_id: e8b16c3d498cda6b0919bf7be14c3d84
title: Censorship in Belarus
uri: Censorship-in-Belarus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Censorship_in_Belarus%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/svetlana-alexievich-nobel-belarus">Defying
censorship</a> in Belarus, where publishers must get state permission
for each new book.
<p>
A similar system in England in the 16th century was the origin of
today's copyright.


feed_id: d88a8c7d7d19a2d86cebb716f851e053
title: UK subsidizing nuclear power
uri: UK-subsidizing-nuclear-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28UK_subsidizing_nuclear_power%29
content:
<p>
The UK is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/18/solar-subsidies-slashed-but-sun-shines-on-nuclear">cutting
subsidies for solar power</a> but pushes ahead with subsidies for
nuclear power.


feed_id: 535d9f6384121548a992bcd712e334b4
title: Dubya and B'liar's agreement
uri: Dubya-and-B-liar-s-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Dubya_and_Bliars_agreement%29
content:
<p>
Even in 2002, as Dubya and B'liar 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/18/tony-blair-warpath-from-early-2002-colin-powell-memo-chilcot-inquiry-invasion-iraq">pretended
they had not already agreed to invade Iraq</a>, there was evidence of
the truth that they had done so.


feed_id: 72e17c96f9b60c16c677a4fad193a6bd
title: Latest bogus argument for burning coal
uri: Latest-bogus-argument-for-burning-coal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Latest_bogus_argument_for_burning_coal%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/19/frydenbergs-moral-case-for-coal-at-odds-with-world-bank-un-and-agencies">latest
bogus argument for burning more coal</a> — for rural poor who
are not on the electric grid and thus can't make use of coal anyway.
<p>
Solar power is what those people could really use.


feed_id: 3bf395ac984780f067993faa25fcc1e6
title: Former CIA agent arrested in Portugal
uri: Former-CIA-agent-arrested-in-Portugal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Former_CIA_agent_arrested_in_Portugal%29

content:
<p>
Former CIA agent Sabrina De Sousa,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/08/former-cia-operative-detained-portugal-kidnapping">accused
by Italy of participating in a CIA kidnaping</a> there, has been
arrested in Portugal and may be sent to Italy.
<p>
She was convicted in absentia, and I think she will get a new trial if
she is delivered to Italy.
<p>
This is so juicy!


feed_id: 9e12af71aebd1012467f058d3165e996
title: Massive non-internet surveillance in the US
uri: Massive-non-internet-surveillance-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Massive_non-internet_surveillance_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The EFF summarizes several systems of governmental massive
non-internet surveillance in the US.
<p>
<a href="media/389c1876.eff_police_tech_primer_-_nacole_2015_v.3.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.eff.org/files/2015/10/06/eff_police_tech_primer_-_nacole_2015_v.3.pdf">https://www.eff.org/files/2015/10/06/eff_police_tech_primer_-_nacole_2015_v.3.pdf</a> - eff-police-primer.pdf
<p>
It doesn't mention remote-viewing cameras mounted at fixed sites,
but these do massive surveillance in places such as New York City.
<p>
Merely putting limits on the use of the massive dossiers that these
systems collect about each person is not sufficient to reduce
our level of surveillance to below that of the Soviet Union.
We need to eliminate  these systems or redesign them so that
they can only "see" court-designated targets.


feed_id: 294424183681cb368f364c439211f227
title: Prosecution of corporations down
uri: Prosecution-of-corporations-down
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Prosecution_of_corporations_down%29

content:
<p>
The US Justice Department prosecutes fewer corporations nowadays,
though the 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/10/13/talk-of-criminally-prosecuting-corporations-up-actual-prosecutions-down/">number
of potential cases has risen</a>.


feed_id: 95d98929ae468f24eef2d4073187f3e7
title: Thug body cameras
uri: 2015-10-23-Thug-body-cameras
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Thug_body_cameras%29
content:
<p>
Putting body cameras on thugs 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/police-body-camera-policy_5605a721e4b0dd8503079683">won't
help without good policies for their use</a>.
<p>
I've proposed an automatic system to 
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/539631/controlling-when-the-cameras-record/">stop
thugs from turning them off before attacking people</a>.


feed_id: 2d59f766082f039846b9200e2f5e7ee5
title: Abortion in Ireland
uri: Abortion-in-Ireland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Abortion_in_Ireland%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/graham-helen-linehan-ireland-abortion-amnesty-international">Campaigning
to legalize abortion</a> in Ireland, where women have been killed by
the ban.


feed_id: 4b1458c63e6a143d8f00d4a542ff883e
title: Interesting political proposals
uri: Interesting-political-proposals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Interesting_political_proposals%29

content:
<p>
An interesting set of 
<a href="http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/platform.html">political
proposals</a>, which I agree with nearly all of.


feed_id: 84fd5133b0b9d1c7ea953ce233627f91
title: Imaginary future US debt
uri: Imaginary-future-US-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Imaginary_future_US_debt%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS have 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/why-is-the-cbo-concocting-a-phony-debt-crisis/">directed
the Congressional Budget Office to publish alarmist figures</a> about
imaginary future US debt.
<p>
SCROTUS: Sleazy Congressional Republicans Of The United States.


feed_id: 15ae51365379b58364c7ab76ee4ce355
title: Permission to post on the internet
uri: Permission-to-post-on-the-internet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Permission_to_post_on_the_internet%29

content:
<p>
The UK government 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/15/trade-union-bill-social-media-vetting-plan-dread-fear-police">wants
to require unions to get advance permission</a> from the state before
posting on the internet.


feed_id: 17b581993f9873a14a38ae292b29d1de
title: UK doctors and teachers quitting
uri: UK-doctors-and-teachers-quitting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28UK_doctors_and_teachers_quitting%29

content:
<p>
The UK's relentless attack on public sector salary and working
conditions is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/18/doctors-teachers-police-public-servants-demoralised">driving
doctors, teachers, and even thugs to quit</a>.


feed_id: a7787cda6c5e9ba9ea25167f36900747
title: Pro-conservation
uri: Pro-conservation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_October_2015_%28Pro-conservation%29
content:
<p>
Sherry Turkle: "I am not anti-technology, I am 
<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/18/sherry-turkle-not-anti-technology-pro-conversation'>pro-conversation</a>".


feed_id: 6f86442f0bdb9f1a35c9842efbcb1b2f
title: Urgent: buying guns
uri: Urgent-buying-guns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_buying_guns%29
content:
<p>US citizens: Obama, <a href="http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/boyfriendloophole/">stop 
abusive boyfriends from buying guns.</a>


feed_id: 28dadd13a4f33da7a716db24152c9b9a
title: Urgent: legal representation for poor people
uri: Urgent-legal-representation-for-poor-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_legal_representation_for_poor_people%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu-action/issues/alert/?alertid=68244701&type=CO?ms=eml_151020_indigent_defense_donors&emsrc=Nat_Appeal_AutologinEnabled&emissue=criminal_law_reform&emtype=action_alert">support an investigation</a> of the lack of proper legal representation for poor people charged with crimes in the US.


feed_id: 62b2fa737ea30a770161d8c409db7eb5
title: Urgent: ban fracking
uri: Urgent-ban-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_ban_fracking%29
content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2319">Call on your state</a> to ban fracking.


feed_id: a408fec3e09fa7517363a2f645d04e8a
title: Urgent: no bottled water in national parks
uri: Urgent-no-bottled-water-in-national-parks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Urgent%3A_no_bottled_water_in_national_parks%29

content:
<p>
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="http://signforgood.com/parksthinkoutsidethebottle/?code=ea">defend</a> bottled-water bans in national parks.


feed_id: ad6b2dc3d552a555869b1259d5966733
title: Dislike for the very rich
uri: Dislike-for-the-very-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Dislike_for_the_very_rich%29
content:
<p>The very rich are <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/19/1435373/-Therapists-for-the-1-offer-glimpse-into-how-totally-hard-it-is-being-the-1?detail=email">very 
lonely</a>, being disliked by the many people they impoverish.
<p>Many of them have a callous attitude towards the non-rich, which will
inspire even more dislike.


feed_id: 9df254dbb125f9dfa1238079ffacde11
title: Pogrom against Palestinians
uri: Pogrom-against-Palestinians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Pogrom_against_Palestinians%29
content:
<p><a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2015/10/settlers-terrorize-palestinian-farmers-in-burin-burn-trees-and-disrupt-olive-harvest">Armed 
fanatical "settlers"</a> launched a pogrom against Palestinians trying
to harvest their olives, wounding some of them, then started a fire.
<p>Israeli troops watched this and told the Palestinians they need a permit
to pick their olives, then kept Palestinian firefighters away.


feed_id: 7d2334fb35ebecdf62266f4ab9f4fa26
title: Growth in CO2 emissions
uri: Growth-in-CO2-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Growth_in_CO2_emissions%29
content:
<p>The proposed Paris pledges would stop the growth in CO2 emissions, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/21/paris-climate-pledges-will-slow-energy-emissions">but would fail to reduce them.</a>
<p>That is still the road to disaster.


feed_id: 467745a80f74486c88230857bd74efd8
title: Historians pound Netanyahu
uri: Historians-pound-Netanyahu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Historians_pound_Netanyahu%29
content:
<p>Netanyahu tries to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/netanyahu-under-fire-for-palestinian-grand-mufti-holocaust-claim">falsely blame</a> the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem for Hitler's decision to exterminate Jews.  Historians pound him for this.


feed_id: b8e50abf88aedf1b9d731c43c5efc6f2
title: Data base of Facebook photos
uri: Data-base-of-Facebook-photos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Data_base_of_Facebook_photos%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/21/facebook-photos-could-be-taken-for-use-in-national-biometric-database-officials">Australia is planning</a> to collect photos from Facebook for a national data base.


feed_id: 6fc59dd254eedee1d4ec7ba4cd4abdb7
title: Janitors in UK's Foreign Office
uri: Janitors-in-UK-s-Foreign-Office
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Janitors_in_UK%27s_Foreign_Office%29

content:
<p>Subcontracted janitors that clean the UK's foreign office have
responded to a series of cruel laws <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/21/woman-low-pay-strike-ballot-union-cleaner-foreign-office">by organizing a union and planning to strike.</a>


feed_id: 5e67ee13c08b9d7d6d42954f6a950b94
title: Sunscreen is killing coral
uri: Sunscreen-is-killing-coral
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Sunscreen_is_killing_coral%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/21/sunscreen-contributing-to-decline-of-coral-reefs-study-shows
">Sunscreen is killing young coral organisms</a> in reefs near tourist areas.
<p>Sunscreen in sewage released into the ocean <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/20/after-sunscreen-protects-humans-it-massacres-coral-reefs/">also contributes to the problem.</a>
<p>But this doesn't matter much if we're going to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#12_September_2011_(Coral_Reefs)">wipe out the reefs entirely.</a>


feed_id: bcf8298a18733843acc7576e64caa62b
title: Carbon pollution
uri: Carbon-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Carbon_pollution%29
content:
<p>Carbon Pollution: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/oct/21/carbon-pollution-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-denial">the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, And the Denial.</a>


feed_id: e47b0b9fe9ecfe28b1b249cd54b9d9bd
title: Harper's attack on science
uri: Harper-s-attack-on-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Harper%27s_attack_on_science%29
content:
<p>Harper's attack on science in Canada went so far that government
scientists' union is campaigning for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2015/oct/21/how-science-helped-to-swing-the-canadian-election">a contract that respects scientific integrity.</a>
<p>The Liberal Party says it will reverse these changes.


feed_id: 12498793c90a2994656225f18c8e7f5d
title: Russian military support
uri: Russian-military-support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Russian_military_support%29
content:
<p>Russia is giving military support <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/russias-involvement-in-afghanistan-increasingly-echoes-syria-campaign">to the Afghan government and that of Tajikistan.</a>
<p>Russia, unlike the US, has a real interest in propping up the Afghan
government indefinitely.
<p>How many ironies there are here.  If the US had not attacked Iraq,
PISSI would not exist and fanaticism in Afghanistan would not go
beyond the Taliban's level.


feed_id: 186bb1806bf946d93002816d8d227c96
title: Pollution by diesel cars
uri: Pollution-by-diesel-cars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Pollution_by_diesel_cars%29
content:
<p>Diesel cars emit <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/21/diesel-cars-emissions-toxic-pollution-than-a-bus-data-reveals">more NOx pollution</a> than a bus or a large truck.


feed_id: f86a91a8346fa0f2f5d063457e4a3269
title: Publicly funded elections
uri: Publicly-funded-elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Publicly_funded_elections%29
content:
<p>Even some executives and lobbyists now advocate <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/21/even-corporate-america-wants-campaign-finance-reform-to-stop-crony-capitalism">publicly funded elections for the US.</a>


feed_id: d67a52b3c8773aaa9d6f36db67a5e403
title: UK nuclear plants owned by China
uri: UK-nuclear-plants-owned-by-China
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28UK_nuclear_plants_owned_by_China%29

content:
<p>The UK has made a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/21/nuclear-power-deal-china-uk">crazy deal</a> to build nuclear power plants to be owned by China.


feed_id: cecb8ff4c18b9686321f5df78bf5b4d7
title: Human rights investigators in Uzbekistan
uri: Human-rights-investigators-in-Uzbekistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Human_rights_investigators_in_Uzbekistan%29

content:
<p>Uzbekistan is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/oct/21/uzbekistan-forced-labour-cotton-harvest-violent-crackdown-activists">arresting and beating up</a> human rights investigators.


feed_id: ce92590e1f2d19a7938ac5f6ef3b3203
title: Israel's territorial expansion
uri: Israel-s-territorial-expansion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Israel%27s_territorial_expansion%29

content:
<p>Israel's <a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=70428">unending war</a> against occupied Palestine is not for its security but for territorial expansion.
<p>In East Jerusalem, Israel's policy amounts to <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/hacohen/2015/10/18/what-israel-is-up-to-in-jerusalem/">gradual, slow ethnic cleansing.</a>


feed_id: d4529c6d975eba38d6a2466c8762f8a5
title: Illegal tax-dodge
uri: Illegal-tax-dodge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Illegal_tax-dodge%29
content:
<p>The EU has ruled that a common <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/20/starbucks-fiat-chrysler-tax-bill-ec-rule-deal-illegal">multinational tax-dodge</a> set up through Luxembourg or the Netherlands is illegal.  Many large companies will
have to pay lots of tax.


feed_id: 08533022cabff1ef8721dc7c83a52e1e
title: Driving out unauthorized immigrants
uri: Driving-out-unauthorized-immigrants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Driving_out_unauthorized_immigrants%29

content:
<p>The UK plans to drive out unauthorized immigrants <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/20/right-to-rent-scheme-nationwide-february-tenant-checks">by making it impossible for them to rent housing.</a>


feed_id: a8dd26018d99a39c9c2ec33cefc9fe5c
title: Voice commands over radio
uri: Voice-commands-over-radio
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Voice_commands_over_radio%29
content:
<p>Clever hackers discovered they can give <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/10/this-radio-trick-silently-hacks-siri-from-16-feet-away/">voice commands</a> silently to other people's phones by radio.


feed_id: 2731f1345c334bc9d36c17d44665189b
title: Sea level rise
uri: 2015-10-23-Sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_October_2015_%28Sea_level_rise%29
content:
<p>
According to conservative models, sea level 
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/10/opinions/sutter-climate-sea-level-facts/">could
rise over a meter by 2100</a>.  This would be disastrous for many
islands, whose people could be forced to stay there and die, and for
big cities such as Miami, New York, Houston, New Orleans, and
Guangzhou (Canton).
<p>
However, these models may be underestimates.  Others say
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_July_2015_(Almost-not-quite_limiting_global_heating)">6
meters of rise</a> is possible in this century.
<p>
This is uncertain; we might get lucky and have just one meter of rise.
Should we bet on that, or should we take precautions?


feed_id: b91eaf1bc8151574c2ad4281d69ed55a
title: UK dumps poor people onto food banks
uri: UK-dumps-poor-people-onto-food-banks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28UK_dumps_poor_people_onto_food_banks%29

content:
<p>
As food banks step in to fill increasing gaps in the UK's welfare
system, the state
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/21/food-banks-a-lifeline-replacing-mainstream-services">dumps
more of the poor onto them</a>.


feed_id: d44e78bf2d1dcd8c30ba9c1fffa7b959
title: ACLU suing Biloxi
uri: ACLU-suing-Biloxi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28ACLU_suing_Biloxi%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU is suing Biloxi, Mississippi, for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/21/mississippi-debtors-prison-poverty-lawsuit">running
a debtor's prison</a>.


feed_id: 462321280e3800b781c0eebc0a143b01
title: Children of non-Catholics in Ireland
uri: Children-of-non-Catholics-in-Ireland
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28Children_of_non-Catholics_in_Ireland%29

content:
<p>
Children of non-Catholics
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/no-baptism-no-school-irish-parents-fight-for-equal-access-to-education">face
exclusion from school</a> in Ireland because around 95% of schools are
run by the churches.


feed_id: ec78db9743aff61fd7285ff629e49b90
title: Crowdfunding for court costs for poor people
uri: Crowdfunding-for-court-costs-for-poor-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28Crowdfunding_for_court_costs_for_poor_people%29

content:
<p>
A crowdfunding project
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/21/lawyer-crowdsourcing-site-court-legal-support">raises
funds for court costs</a> for poor people in the UK to sue.


feed_id: e3759698e03f082d7c2f4be0e8a903a3
title: The good that abortions do
uri: The-good-that-abortions-do
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28The_good_that_abortions_do%29
content:
<p>
Abortion clinics publicize
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/20/we-are-not-ashamed-how-abortion-providers-are-pushing-back-against-stigma-and">the
good that abortions do</a>.


feed_id: 3d6d01627174cc0d7c5410ad8b57cdd7
title: Raids marijuana dispensaries
uri: Raids-marijuana-dispensaries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28Raids_marijuana_dispensaries%29
content:
<p>
A US court
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/20/victory-medical-marijuana-court-tells-doj-lay-legal-providers">ordered
an end to federal raids</a> against state-licensed California medical
marijuana dispensaries.


feed_id: eb960a1032fa3c2794f2ec8e4ea897ec
title: Laws against "hate speech"
uri: Laws-against-hate-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28Laws_against_hate_speech%29
content:
<p>
Laws against "hate speech" are
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/20/how-hate-speech-laws-work-in-practice">dangerous</a>,
in various countries including the US.


feed_id: e1dd5964e76bbe4c47c7c5cd1f1a30e1
title: Waiting for help while black
uri: Waiting-for-help-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28Waiting_for_help_while_black%29
content:
<p>
A thug, not in uniform,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/21/corey-jones-shooting-officer-involved-had-previous-suspension-threat">shot
Corey Jones dead</a> as Jones was waiting for help beside his disabled
vehicle.
<p>
The story told by the thug is not credible, and information is not
being released.
<p>
Thugs are to murder of blacks<br/>
as priests are to sexual abuse.


feed_id: 3e5b509638936268b9e5ae751511f6f9
title: Internet shut off to sabotage protests
uri: Internet-shut-off-to-sabotage-protests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28Internet_shut_off_to_sabotage_protests%29

content:
<p>
The Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/congo-government-allegedly-shuts-off-internet-service-to-squash-protests">shut
off the internet to sabotage protests</a>.


feed_id: e02547b83128c2cfa7b1b16de11dcaa9
title: Back door in Western Digital disk drives
uri: Back-door-in-Western-Digital-disk-drives
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28Back_door_in_Western_Digital_disk_drives%29

content:
<p>
"Self-encrypting" disk drives do the encryption with
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/some-popular-self-encrypting-hard-drives-have-really-bad-encryption">proprietary
firmware</a> so you can't trust it.  Western Digital's "My Passport"
drives have a back door.


feed_id: 65250f45b5dd1e739477720d893960df
title: Nomination for SEC commissioner
uri: Nomination-for-SEC-commissioner
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28Nomination_for_SEC_commissioner%29

content:
<p>
Obama has nominated an
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/10/20/obama-names-lisa-fairfax-to-sec-a-vote-for-wall-street-reform/">SEC
commissioner recommended by Senator Warren</a>.


feed_id: 858780f4136dabf6e48d88fa975f520c
title: Killer robots
uri: 2015-10-25-Killer-robots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28Killer_robots%29
content:
<p>
Killer robots may be just a few years in the future, if we don't set
up a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/20/campaign-to-stop-killer-robots-warning-united-nations">treaty
to stop their development</a>.


feed_id: 3b61e3114664ade17dd97cc2312c270f
title: The US and Russia in Syria
uri: The-US-and-Russia-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28The_US_and_Russia_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
The US and Russia have set up a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/russia-us-sign-memorandum-syria-bombings-airstrikes">system
to avoid fighting each other in the air</a> over Syria.


feed_id: 451bfc5e5926da5f54d65ca9c84bec0f
title: Housing for the poor and homeless in UK
uri: Housing-for-the-poor-and-homeless-in-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28Housing_for_the_poor_and_homeless_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
To provide housing to the poor and homeless, the UK needs to increase
the tax on expensive houses and thus
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/20/ryan-gigs-gary-neville-housing-crisis-property">encourage
the wealthy to release space to others</a>.


feed_id: abafa15fa05f69a3c152cebbb0dff355
title: Fukushima reactor cleanup worker develops cancer
uri: Fukushima-reactor-cleanup-worker-develops-cancer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28Fukushima_reactor_cleanup_worker_develops_cancer%29

content:
<p>
A Fukushima reactor cleanup worker has developed
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/20/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-first-worker-diagnosed-cancer">cancer
attributed to the radioactivity</a>.


feed_id: d7f786dbdf2cbd7d24be1244df43f5b0
title: Homelessness in Hawaii
uri: Homelessness-in-Hawaii
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_%28Homelessness_in_Hawaii%29
content:
<p>
Hawaii Follows Los Angeles in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/20/hawaii-declares-state-of-emergency-homelessness">Declaring
State of Emergency Over Homelessness</a>.


feed_id: 92dcb70de764b0bd43fc0f8763fdb584
title: Arse visits London.
uri: Arse-visits-London
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#26_October_2015_%28A_giant_arse_visits_london%29
content:
<p>A giant Chinese arse <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/25/royal-kisses-flatulent-superpower-state-visit-chinese">visits London.</a></p><p></p>


feed_id: 4ca8d9feffeb1404b9265b67c842679d
title: The felony murder rule
uri: The-felony-murder-rule
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_October_2015_%28The_felony_murder_rule%29
content:
<p>
In most US states, having
<a href="https://justice4juveniles.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/the-felony-murder-rule/">any
sort of connection with a crime, in the course of which someone else
kills someone</a>, can get you convicted of murder.
<p>
This seems thoroughly unjust in most cases.


feed_id: dc64a6292d35509f0a905755713c1285
title: Twitter to help companies track people
uri: Twitter-to-help-companies-track-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_October_2015_%28Twitter_to_help_companies_track_people%29

content:
<p>
Twitter is going to help companies
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/542711/twitter-boasts-of-what-it-can-do-with-your-data/">track
the movements, actions and views</a> of people talking about their
products.
<p>
Perhaps this is part of why Twitter has been making trouble for users
that try to connect through Tor so as not to reveal where they are.
<p>
Twitter will not show those companies the movements of individuals,
but it will have to show those to the US government.


feed_id: 8e089e4cd02fbf3172eb4d4a4a6dd72b
title: Parents of Furkan Dogan sue Ehud Barak
uri: Parents-of-Furkan-Dogan-sue-Ehud-Barak
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_October_2015_%28Parents_of_Furkan_Dogan_sue_Ehud_Barak%29

content:
<p>
The parents of Furkan Dogan, who was killed when Israeli troops
attacked a Gaza aid boat, have
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/former-israeli-prime-minister-sued-in-us-for-raid-on-gaza-flotilla">sued
then-minister-in-charge Ehud Barak</a>.


feed_id: 6c01bc02e986c5a7a83f4ee4ecd31144
title: Best temperature for economic productivity
uri: Best-temperature-for-economic-productivity
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_October_2015_%28Best_temperature_for_economic_productivity%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/21/perfect-temperature-for-economic-success-is-13c-climate-change">best
temperature for economic productivity is 13C</a>.  As the average
temperature rises above that, productivity goes down.
<p>
The US and China are at that peak now, so global heating will harm
productivity in both.  However, places that are already hotter will
suffer a bigger decline.


