# articles

feed_id: 4017c69ce9f48db8e52909b796bb18c9
title: Terrorist violence reduced in Pakistan
uri: Terrorist-violence-reduced-in-Pakistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Terrorist_violence_reduced_in_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/08/after-years-of-violence-pakistan-is-winning-its-fight-against-terrorism/">Pakistan's
war on jihadis</a> has greatly weakened them, and reduced terrorist
violence there.


feed_id: f68a939e77310388da7edadd978c9b1c
title: Death of visiting researcher in Egypt
uri: Death-of-visiting-researcher-in-Egypt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Death_of_visiting_researcher_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/thousands-of-academics-demand-inquiry-into-cairo-death-of-giulio-regeni">4,600
academics outside Egypt demanded an investigation</a> into the
apparent death by torture of visiting researcher Giulio Regeni.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/egypt-must-look-into-all-reports-of-torture-not-just-the-death-of-giulio-regeni">their
letter</a>.
<p>
The obvious suspects are the thugs and the army.


feed_id: 6578deff62c85d91719875b0f6055090
title: Increasing inequality in the US
uri: Increasing-inequality-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Increasing_inequality_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The US experiences 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/08/inequality-against-democracy-10-facts-about-1-percent">increased
inequality, without wage gains, since 1980</a>, due to policies that
Sanders would change.


feed_id: aa19fbc00208c4f19dd3799fa0e7c72d
title: US Presidents accustomed to luxury
uri: US-Presidents-accustomed-to-luxury
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28US_Presidents_accustomed_to_luxury%29

content:
<p>
Former US presidents get a 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/08/taxpayers-give-big-pensions-to-ex-presidents-precisely-so-they-dont-have-to-sell-out/">pension
of $200,000 a year (plus office staff)</a> so they won't feel a need
for a private income — but presidents since Reagan are accustomed
to so much luxury that they find this insufficient.


feed_id: 6d8d598cd3d942ed8cc64cdf7fff2020
title: Weak rules for more efficient airliners
uri: Weak-rules-for-more-efficient-airliners
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Weak_rules_for_more_efficient_airliners%29

content:
<p>
The proposed rules for more efficient airliners, starting with those
made in 2028, are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/airplane-pollution-emissions-new-global-standards">so
weak that they will be satisfied with no effort</a>.
<p>
This ineffective initiative replaces the flight tax that the EU
imposed, which was shot down by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_September_2013_(US_stopping_EU_from_taxing_airlines_for_CO2_emissions)">business-subservient
states such as the US</a>.


feed_id: 65dfe6ba565771fe1c03b0f53e942309
title: Imprisoned in Burma without charge
uri: Imprisoned-in-Burma-without-charge
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Imprisoned_in_Burma_without_charge%29

content:
<p>
Burma has kept foreigners in prison for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/09/this-is-hell-british-man-held-in-myanmar-for-14-months-without-charge-pleads-for-help">over
a year</a>, using technicalities as an excuse to avoid charging them,
even though it is clear they could not have committed the crime they
were informally accused of.


feed_id: bde2f3c1218f72def6d0e16666036635
title: UK deaths caused by air pollution
uri: UK-deaths-caused-by-air-pollution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28UK_deaths_caused_by_air_pollution%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/09/air-pollution-raises-risk-of-death-for-decades-after-exposure">5%
of deaths</a> in the UK are due to air pollution.


feed_id: d2b6c12b439ccd81d0c90c51ce78875d
title: Australia's disposal of boat people
uri: Australia-s-disposal-of-boat-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Australias_disposal_of_boat_people%29

content:
<p>
Australians are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/09/in-the-pledge-of-the-premiers-a-sign-that-australia-has-had-enough-of-cruelty-without-mercy-to-refugees">starting
to react with their consciences</a> against the policy of disposing of
boat people incommunicado in inaccessible islands.


feed_id: bbe3ed3dc147b88f1f1178bf8c9b4e7b
title: Prison sentence for throwing rocks
uri: Prison-sentence-for-throwing-rocks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Prison_sentence_for_throwing_rocks%29

content:
<p>
Israel has sentenced Palestinian boys to
<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2016/02/despite-total-lack-of-evidence-israeli-court-sentences-hares-boys-to-15-years-in-prison-for-stone-throwing/">15
years in prison</a> after wringing confessions out of them.  They
confessed to throwing rocks.
<p>
Never mind that there is no evidence that any rocks were actually
thrown there and then, or that some of the boys were proved to be
elsewhere at the time.


feed_id: 3f4af3900c8ffbdcd574eb2a55d3810a
title: Media protests killing of journalist
uri: Media-protests-killing-of-journalist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Media_protests_killing_of_journalist%29

content:
<p>
The media
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/09/guinea-press-free-day-journalist-shot-dead">went
on strike for a day in Guinea</a> to protest the killing of a
journalist there.


feed_id: 4ca0512eb4e71804ec0989d36efc0c8f
title: Israel extending collective punishment
uri: Israel-extending-collective-punishment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Israel_extending_collective_punishment%29

content:
<p>
Israel is extending
<a href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770176">collective
punishment of Palestinians that live near some who carried out a
violent attack against Israelis</a>.


feed_id: 8b2b14f5f7da488a14f17ecdd22a57d0
title: Israel sprays herbicide on farmland
uri: Israel-sprays-herbicide-on-farmland
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Israel_sprays_herbicide_on_farmland%29

content:
<p>
Israeli planes
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/20160204_crops_sprayed_with_herbicide">sprayed
herbicide on farmland</a> near the Gaza border, and even on some that
is not so near the border.


feed_id: 97a8a6bd60ae9f42ef80a1b97f378036
title: Israeli Labor Party for apartheid
uri: Israeli-Labor-Party-for-apartheid
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Israeli_Labor_Party_for_apartheid%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli Labor Party has gone
<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/02/israeli-labor-party-adopts-apartheid-mantra-160209082608251.html">on
record</a> for imposing permanent apartheid on Palestinians.


feed_id: bdc3e89dfee80c5f45f66748fcd17073
title: Israel's plan to deaccredit journalists
uri: Israel-s-plan-to-deaccredit-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Israels_plan_to_deaccredit_journalists%29

content:
<p>
The Committee to Protect Journalists
<a href="https://cpj.org/2016/02/cpj-concerned-by-rising-pressure-on-journalists-in.php">rebuked
Israel's plan</a> to deaccredit journalists based on the headlines of
their articles.


feed_id: 8c0b4a71e23d94da01c43042a4e95c79
title: Haitians oppose US-controlled election
uri: Haitians-oppose-US-controlled-election
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Haitians_oppose_US-controlled_election%29

content:
<p>
Haitians have made US-imposed President Martelly step down when his
term ended, and now oppose the new
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/us-intransigent-colonial-forces-haiti-maneuver-count-fraudulent">US-controlled
election plan</a>.
<p>
Here's how the US
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#4_June_2011_(Haitian_Politicians)">imposed
Martelly on Haiti</a>.


feed_id: cb1f226470219abf070919264ec1149b
title: NY Times parody edition
uri: NY-Times-parody-edition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#11_February_2016_%28NY_Times_parody_edition%29
content:
<p>
Here are
<a href="http://itsnotthetimes.com/">the articles</a> in the recent
printed parody edition of the New York Times.


feed_id: 5332c030cf67529bd13d370b6d0e5d90
title: Journalist on hunger strike
uri: Journalist-on-hunger-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#11_February_2016_%28Journalist_on_hunger_strike%29
content:
<p>
Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq rejected the meaningless court
decision to
<a href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770130">suspend his
imprisonment without trial (but not free him)</a>, so he continues his
hunger strike.


feed_id: 488428c7732fb9610b49546c93c18da6
title: Activist trainers
uri: Activist-trainers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#11_February_2016_%28Activist_trainers%29
content:
<p>
An activist group trains people to
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/09/quakers-are-making-sure-candidates-are-grilled-on-substantive-issues/">find
opportunities to meet presidential candidates</a> and demand answers
about issues.


feed_id: a553e254926c770702457fec39afa528
title: Mexico's missing students
uri: Mexico-s-missing-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#11_February_2016_%28Mexicos_missing_students%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/09/missing-student-teachers-ayotzinapa-mexico-investigation-evidence-dump">Forensic
Experts Reject Mexico's Claim</a> That Criminals Burned Missing
Students.


feed_id: 8b7a5efbc59fbe8cc9e90dbec70f8a0b
title: Republicans compete to be the worst
uri: Republicans-compete-to-be-the-worst
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#11_February_2016_%28Republicans_compete_to_be_the_worst%29

content:
<p>
Republican candidates compete to pledge the
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/09/gop-candidates-compete-over-who-will-commit-most-war-crimes-once-elected/">gravest
war crimes</a>.


feed_id: 65eb8d4c525487469c26faa253cb80aa
title: Salafi Arabia's attacks on MSF
uri: Salafi-Arabia-s-attacks-on-MSF
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Salafi_Arabias_attacks_on_MSF%29

content:
<p>
Last Call: 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/10/last-call-the-life-and-death-of-an-ambulance-driver-in-yemen/">The
Life and Death of an Ambulance Driver in Yemen</a>.


feed_id: 77f86dc364dea4cc220f63d02fc514f0
title: China's kidnapings of HK publishers
uri: China-s-kidnapings-of-HK-publishers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Chinas_kidnapings_of_HK_publishers%29

content:
<p>
China's kidnaping of people who publish books in Hong Kong has
succeeded in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/10/hong-kongs-business-community-freaking-out-over-chinas-crackdown">intimidating
the whole population</a>.


feed_id: 5b6a324fa5f0d7e4bababebbd5603473
title: The Military-Industrial Complex
uri: The-Military-Industrial-Complex
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28The_Military-Industrial_Complex%29

content:
<p>
Feeding the 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34683-feeding-the-military-industrial-complex">Military-Industrial
Complex</a>.


feed_id: 2db7bce6c6c11325bdc045f6290ba4c3
title: Monsanto lobbyist cash for Clinton
uri: Monsanto-lobbyist-cash-for-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Monsanto_lobbyist_cash_for_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34688-big-campaign-cash-for-clinton-from-monsanto-lobbyist">Big
Campaign Cash</a> for Clinton From Monsanto Lobbyist.


feed_id: 34fa5c29bc5ed632e0a040696e6394c2
title: French users' data in the US
uri: French-users-data-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28French_users_data_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
France wants Facebook to stop 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/09/france_gives_facebook_90_day_deadline_to_stop_collecting_data/">sending
French users' data to the US</a>.


feed_id: f666dab9894315ab11f6a07b4cf3f8aa
title: Obama proposes big cuts to water SRF
uri: Obama-proposes-big-cuts-to-water-SRF
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Obama_proposes_big_cuts_to_water_SRF%29

content:
<p>
Obama proposed a 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/flint-obama-budget-proposal-cut-clean-water-fund">big
cut in US funds to help localities such as Flint cope with water
infrastructure problems</a>.


feed_id: 7c0183a2d1673abe27cf45d179f1ba66
title: Carbon capture and storage
uri: 2016-02-12-Carbon-capture-and-storage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Carbon_capture_and_storage%29
content:
<p>
The UK's carbon emission targets will be difficult to meet without
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/10/scrapping-carbon-capture-support-threatens-uk-climate-targets">carbon
capture and storage (CCS)</a>.
<p>
The problems are that (1) the Tories (who don't seriously intend to
meet those targets) have cancelled the funds for CCS and (2) it is
experimental and might not work practically anyway.


feed_id: 35bb51895747e16573c3d8e0ad7e8932
title: Child labor vs child slavery
uri: Child-labor-vs-child-slavery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Child_labor_vs_child_slavery%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/10/miners-tea-pickers-brides-these-children-are-slaves-not-labourers">Distinguishing</a>
between child labor and child slavery.


feed_id: 97eac2482893ec7d57bcc24d5b39d031
title: Extraction of false confessions
uri: Extraction-of-false-confessions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Extraction_of_false_confessions%29

content:
<p>
Some studies suggest that 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/study-finds-that-sleep-deprivation-leads-to-false-confessions/">sleep
deprivation</a> encourages false confessions.
<p>
In fact, thugs use 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/brendan-dassey-max-soffar-and-false-confession-playbook">many
methods to extract false confessions</a>.
<p>
The article refers to a video on Netflix.  Please 
<a href="https://stallman.org/netflix.html">don't ever use
Netflix</a>.


feed_id: 320005def0b1f092adbeebb447cdb484
title: NFL interference in concussion research
uri: NFL-interference-in-concussion-research
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28NFL_interference_in_concussion_research%29

content:
<p>
The NFL has 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/new-report-outlines-nfl-interference-in-concussion-research/">subtly
interfered</a> in research about concussions and their effects on the
brain.


feed_id: 7cb7d5bd4431f2fec3da54abfff93ffb
title: Canada to support Syrian Kurds
uri: Canada-to-support-Syrian-Kurds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Canada_to_support_Syrian_Kurds%29

content:
<p>
Canada will choose to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/09/canada-end-vengeful-bombing-iraq-and-syria">support
Syrian Kurds</a> rather than adding to air attack against PISSI.


feed_id: 0ab26adb125f1152dc968c6de323841e
title: The Greater Sage-Grouse
uri: The-Greater-Sage-Grouse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28The_Greater_Sage-Grouse%29
content:
<p>
The US bent over backward to cater to business by weakening protection
of the Greater Sage-Grouse, but Utah is now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/09/utah-sues-federal-government-greater-sage-grouse">suing
to get the weakened plan cancelled</a>.


feed_id: d987b45924facd253847731e06e24f53
title: Urgent: Transcanada's lawsuit
uri: Urgent-Transcanada-s-lawsuit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Transcanada%27s_lawsuit%29

content:
<p>US citizens: tell Congress to look at Transcanada's lawsuit and <a href="http://sierra.force.com/actions/National?actionId=AR0032058">reject the TPP.</a>


feed_id: 484dee7884dc9858fc1fd8b9f85a784c
title: Urgent: oil exports
uri: Urgent-oil-exports
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_oil_exports%29
content:
<p>US citizens: call on Obama to use emergency powers <a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2462">to stop oil exports for one year.</a>


feed_id: ed8f30a17317a41c4a69d71882fdc880
title: Urgent: 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act
uri: 2016-02-12-Urgent-21st-Century-Glass-Steagall-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_21st_Century_Glass-Steagall_Act%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/break-up-the-big-banks/">Support</a> the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act.


feed_id: f5ae0ba1f952c16278000b8ef9c908ed
title: Urgent: non-primary Democratic Party delegates
uri: Urgent-non-primary-Democratic-Party-delegates
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_non-primary_Democratic_Party_delegates%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on the non-primary Democratic Party delegates <a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-the-democratic-superdel">to heed what primary voters decide.</a>


feed_id: 5002ed85b3b5ad010b54b1776305ffaf
title: Urgent: confront the banksters
uri: Urgent-confront-the-banksters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_confront_the_banksters%29

content:
<p>US citizens: state your support for <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1614?detail=action">Sanders' plan</a> to confront the banksters.


feed_id: dfcb1a69eeac0980103ccff5d267a9fd
title: "Emergency medical services"
uri: Emergency-medical-services
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Emergency_medical_services%29
content:
<p>Cleveland is trying to charge Tamir Rice's family $500 for "emergency medical services" <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/10/tamir-rice-shooting-cleveland-police-emergency-medical-expenses">as he was dying from the shots fired by a Cleveland thug.</a>


feed_id: d7bd28f185a5c3d2be222ce9a82f127b
title: Former guard at Auschwitz
uri: Former-guard-at-Auschwitz
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Former_guard_at_Auschwitz%29
content:
<p>A former guard at Auschwitz will be tried as an accessory to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/11/auschwitz-guard-trial-concentration-camp-germany-reinhold-hanning">170,000 murders.</a>


feed_id: f46bdf1bc3ae8f38b7103a88a8c4ed5d
title: "Clothing banks"
uri: Clothing-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Clothing_banks%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/11/britain-clothes-banks-poverty-sharewear">With Tory success</a> in keeping wages down and boosting rents, working people now need to get clothing for their children from "clothing banks".
<p>The Tories are <a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">lower than vermin.</a>
<p>Repeating that slogan is vital to inform Britons that they should blame the Tories, not themselves, for their difficulties.


feed_id: 44dd6e41e0498450b4261e8ce406d412
title: Citizenship laws
uri: Citizenship-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Citizenship_laws%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/11/sex-citizenry-malaysian-law-women-children-limbo-nationality-citizenship">50 countries</a> have citizenship laws that discriminate against women.  In some countries, female citizens have children who can't get citizenship in any country.


feed_id: ffca6a25135b420dec014f86de0f6052
title: Putin and the EU
uri: Putin-and-the-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Putin_and_the_EU%29
content:
<p>George Soros claims that Putin is trying to make the EU disintegrate by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/11/putin-threat-europe-islamic-state">sending lots of Syrians fleeing there.</a>
<p>In the long term, I think PISSI is more of a threat to Europe than Putin.  For Putin, what approach to take towards Europe is purely a matter of expediency, and he might change it any day.


feed_id: 805b11eed769b37646f39f9217b3c205
title: "Snooper's charter"
uri: Snooper-s-charter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Snooper%27s_charter%29
content:
<p>The Tories' "snooper's charter" is set up to collect all data about everyone, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/11/nick-clegg-russia-style-dragnet-surveillance-continue-snoopers-charter-privacy">a recipe for tyranny.</a>


feed_id: 35688b8211d917fbf25c10540ec51e90
title: Don't believe Governor Kasich
uri: Don-t-believe-Governor-Kasich
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Don%27t_believe_Governor_Kasich%29

content:
<p>Don't believe Governor Kasich when he claims to be a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/11/john-kasich-ohio-moderate-voting-record-republican-president-campaign">"moderate".</a>
<p>He wants to hurt women and the non-rich much like other Republicans, only he is a little less crazy about it.


feed_id: 93c3d275b2822eda8d0156a343ad6af9
title: Privatized prisons
uri: 2016-02-12-Privatized-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Privatized_prisons%29
content:
<p>The privatized prisons that hold families for deportation from the US are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/11/us-immigration-central-america-texas-pennsylvania">unacceptable places to put a child.</a>  The US government is scurrying to set up a licensing system that would eliminate the requirements these prisons fail to meet.


feed_id: 61db420dbe20c4f6e4ec41237661fbeb
title: Climate Science Denial Clangers
uri: Climate-Science-Denial-Clangers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Climate_Science_Denial_Clangers%29

content:
<p>Checking <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/feb/11/checking-ted-cruzs-climate-science-denial-clangers">Ted Cruz's</a> Climate Science Denial Clangers.


feed_id: c96d7e64762c2b8d53e2ced72bdd18b6
title: Criminal justice reforms
uri: Criminal-justice-reforms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Criminal_justice_reforms%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/10/ferguson-department-of-justice-lawsuit-police-reforms">Department of Justice</a> Will Sue Ferguson to Force Criminal Justice Reforms.


feed_id: 8138a799495dfb5244cb93b483710569
title: Syria's population
uri: Syria-s-population
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Syria%27s_population%29
content:
<p>Almost half of Syria's population is displaced, and 1 in 9 have been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/11/report-on-syria-conflict-finds-115-of-population-killed-or-injured">killed or injured by fighting.</a>


feed_id: 3e09fe622220b4617337a040c18a43fe
title: Criticizing candidates
uri: Criticizing-candidates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Criticizing_candidates%29
content:
<p>Criticizing candidates for acknowledging that the US has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/10/missing-days-when-candidates-pretended-we-had-no-big-problems">serious problems.</a>


feed_id: 9d66e5e33aa728fa76b6b2f21ed0dcc3
title: Peace Action PAC
uri: Peace-Action-PAC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Peace_Action_PAC%29
content:
<p>Peace Action PAC <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/10/largest-peace-group-endorses-sanders">has endorsed Sanders.</a>


feed_id: 864c81b146dcfea1dc02ed258e6ed041
title: Extinction of mosquitos
uri: Extinction-of-mosquitos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Extinction_of_mosquitos%29
content:
<p>Should we engineer the extinction of the mosquitos that spread <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/feb/10/should-we-wipe-mosquitoes-off-the-face-of-the-earth">Zika, Dengue, Malaria and so on?</a>
<p>In principle, I am in favor of wiping out Aedes aegypti and other
mosquito species that transmit diseases to humans.  They will be no
great ecological loss.  In principle, the loss of any species is
a loss to the world, but sometimes it is justified.
<p>However, we had better be very careful not to make a mistake that
would backfire.
<p>Meanwhile, we are wiping out thousands of other species
unintentionally through carelessness and inattention.  Let's put an
end to that!


feed_id: e5b468544984b2822ca270cb299bb4e1
title: Obama's clean power plan
uri: Obama-s-clean-power-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Obama%27s_clean_power_plan%29
content:
<p>Supreme Court Ruling on Obama's Clean Power Plan Just a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/10/supreme-court-ruling-obama-power-plant-emissions-clean-energy-impact">'Bump in the Road'.</a>


feed_id: b8ab105f5692e42bbf82219e227bb6ad
title: Environmental racism
uri: Environmental-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Environmental_racism%29
content:
<p>Due to environmental racism, many mostly-black communities in the US have <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/10/flint-isnt-only-place-racism-water">bad water supplies.</a>


feed_id: 5935ce98e22f97ea316fc4b8959552b8
title: Global heating could affect investments
uri: Global-heating-could-affect-investments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Global_heating_could_affect_investments%29

content:
<p>Fund managers that ignore the risk that global heating could affect their investments <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/10/fund-managers-who-ignore-climate-risk-could-face-legal-action">could be sued by their clients.</a>


feed_id: 6935cf2524bdc1ca77620875c8fcf3d2
title: Tidal lagoon energy storage
uri: Tidal-lagoon-energy-storage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Tidal_lagoon_energy_storage%29
content:
<p>The UK government has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/10/swansea-tidal-energy-scheme-faces-disastrous-setback-from-government-review">effectively canceled</a> a tidal lagoon energy storage plan by delaying the decision.  This method is somewhat experimental, whereas burning oll is a time-tested method for frying our ecosphere.


feed_id: fe843f762fc93d95253c983a46266bc0
title: MP can't afford a house
uri: MP-can-t-afford-a-house
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28MP_can%27t_afford_a_house%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/10/housing-prices--conservative-mp-william-wragg-back-home-to-mum">A Tory MP</a> can't afford to buy a house and had to move in with his parents.  And it isn't even in London!


feed_id: 93d632d95503c070ab058c4a5a172b3e
title: Inconvenient legal obstacles
uri: Inconvenient-legal-obstacles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Inconvenient_legal_obstacles%29
content:
<p>Obama wants to eliminate inconvenient legal obstacles to giving <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/10/obama-proposes-removing-human-rights-conditions-on-aid-to-egypt/">Egypt's tyrannical government</a> tear gas and such.


feed_id: 3ce3740a8ff382fa1300ff7bfd1c8179
title: Urgent: No more offshore drilling
uri: Urgent-No-more-offshore-drilling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_No_more_offshore_drilling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.350.org/sign/offshore-drilling/">call on
Obama</a> to allow no new offshore drilling for gas or oil.


feed_id: 598543344def1786e00a80ee4b2578d4
title: Urgent: Protect wildlife refuges
uri: Urgent-Protect-wildlife-refuges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_wildlife_refuges%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3037">call
for the strongest possible rule</a> to protect wildlife refuges from
oil drilling.


feed_id: 89a438a353f1a5d98b5486f5c6be6333
title: Inequality in America
uri: Inequality-in-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Inequality_in_America%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/10/how-corporate-bamboozlers-intend-widen-inequality-america">How
Corporate Bamboozlers Intend to Widen Inequality in America</a>.
(Hint, it's a three-letter treaty.)
<p>
The only way they will let any wealth trickle down to the rest of us
is if we squeeze them.


feed_id: 7308ae962678e91c28c076fd8551b432
title: Sanders victory in New Hampshire
uri: Sanders-victory-in-New-Hampshire
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Sanders_victory_in_New_Hampshire%29

content:
<p>
Sanders won a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/10/support-across-voting-blocs-sanders-makes-history-new-hampshire">landslide
victory</a> in New Hampshire, beating Clinton by 22 percent.
<p>
Sanders' conclusive victory 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/10/new-hampshire-populist-uprising">demonstrates
Clinton's electability problem</a>.


feed_id: 2bd40f68484423f376f6997fa50130d5
title: "Social welfare" certification for dark money
uri: Social-welfare-certification-for-dark-money
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Social_welfare_certification_for_dark_money%29

content:
<p>
IRS Gives Up, Grants Karl Rove's Dark Money Group 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/02/13039/irs-gives-grants-karl-roves-dark-money-group-social-welfare-certification">"Social
Welfare" Certification</a>.


feed_id: e11854a8c41331f650ab684d675938ca
title: Delhi thugs beat up journalist
uri: Delhi-thugs-beat-up-journalist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Delhi_thugs_beat_up_journalist%29

content:
<p>
Delhi thugs beat up a journalist who was 
<a href="https://cpj.org/blog/2016/02/i-kept-telling-them-im-a-journalist-but-they-kept-.php">covering
a protest of Dalits</a>.


feed_id: 864719ed391587cb5231d3d6cc60f5c9
title: Thug chasing teenagers who make nude selfies
uri: Thug-chasing-teenagers-who-make-nude-selfies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Thug_chasing_teenagers_who_make_nude_selfies%29

content:
<p>
A thug chief in Pennsylvania is searching for all teenagers that have
made nude selfies, in order to 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/09/cop-says-kids-who-take-nude-selfies-are">prosecute
them</a>.


feed_id: cac4f7924e84565e59e933dc1d961aa2
title: Drug trafficking
uri: Drug-trafficking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Drug_trafficking%29
content:
<p>
The Fiction That Drug Trafficking Is 'Inherently Violent' Could Harm
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/09/the-fiction-that-drug-trafficking-is-inh">Sentencing
Reform</a>.


feed_id: a0c564320804cd8235fb683962398dde
title: Government snooping
uri: Government-snooping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Government_snooping%29
content:
<p>
Encryption is 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/02/09/report-encryption-is-no-hurdle-to-target">not
stopping the US from monitoring anyone in particular</a>, but it is
somewhat of an inconvenience for monitoring everyone at once.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/09/internet-of-things-smart-devices-spying-surveillance-us-government">Internet-connected
devices</a> are already being used to snoop on people, by government
agencies and by others.


feed_id: cc7e2c87a8d1d90578358424024ec763
title: Imprisoned for being at protest
uri: Imprisoned-for-being-at-protest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_February_2016_%28Imprisoned_for_being_at_protest%29

content:
<p>
Bahrain has 
<a href="https://cpj.org/2016/02/bahrain-upholds-prison-sentence-against-photograph.php">imprisoned
a journalist for being present at a protest</a>.
<p>
Bahrain has 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#18%20February%202011%20(Protesters%20Killed)">repressed
protests cruelly</a>.


feed_id: 99c453bf44a6048f175cfe2bcfcfc053
title: Wisconsin's corrupt supreme court
uri: Wisconsin-s-corrupt-supreme-court
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Wisconsins_corrupt_supreme_court%29

content:
<p>
Wisconsin's corrupt supreme court has issued several 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/02/13040/JohnDoe_order_Wisconsin">arbitrary
orders to block prosecutors</a> from appealing its decision to the US
Supreme Court.
<p>
The decision they intend to appeal was to shut down a criminal
investigation that might inculpate plutocratist Governor Walker.


feed_id: 621fc86da00013d3c96a8012299c540f
title: UK ministers and international agreements
uri: UK-ministers-and-international-agreements
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28UK_ministers_and_international_agreements%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/feb/11/no-10-legal-challenge-ministerial-code-rewrite-international-law">quietly
erased the policy that ministers have an "overarching duty" to carry
out international agreements</a>.
<p>
I agree with this campaign as regards human rights.  Ministers must
respect them.  However, I think there are some international
agreements that every minister has a duty to stuff in the toilet --
the business supremacy agreements.


feed_id: f6b82509e01408e362955196b5258a1e
title: Omitted Google search results
uri: Omitted-Google-search-results
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Omitted_Google_search_results%29

content:
<p>
Google will omit search results based on the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/11/google-extend-right-to-be-forgotten-googlecom">"right
to be forgotten from searches"</a> for any access from a machine
believed to be in Europe.


feed_id: 7cfafd37973caccc3380e6c4aa23fde2
title: Biodiversity loss
uri: Biodiversity-loss
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Biodiversity_loss%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/10/biodiversity-loss-and-doomsday-clock-invisible-disaster-almost-no-one-talking-about">Biodiversity
Loss</a> and the Doomsday Clock: An Invisible Disaster Almost No One
is Talking About.


feed_id: 3411b509eb52b93144444e25f3c423a9
title: Prominent US blacks support Sanders
uri: Prominent-US-blacks-support-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Prominent_US_blacks_support_Sanders%29

content:
<p>
Two prominent US blacks, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michelle Alexander, have
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/two-prominent-black-intellectuals-just-came-out-bernie-sanders">announced
support for Sanders</a>.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/10/why-hillary-clinton-doesnt-deserve-black-vote">the
article by Michelle Alexander</a>.


feed_id: 283d4459f656fffdcc86084677b4ae12
title: Erdo&gbreve;an trying to blackmail Europe
uri: Erdo-gbreve-an-trying-to-blackmail-Europe
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Erdogan_trying_to_blackmail_Europe%29

content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an is trying to blackmail Europe by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/12/turkish-president-threatens-to-send-millions-of-syrian-refugees-to-eu">threatening
to send Syrian refugees to Greece and Bulgaria</a>.
<p>
What he demands is a free hand abolishing human rights in Turkey, and
perhaps attacking Kurds in Syria too.
<p>
On the other hand, Turkey has a legitimate demand that other countries
share in the cost of caring for the millions of Syrian refugees there.


feed_id: 5b0117a6d3df2c51aac168f5b97915b9
title: Jailing protesters
uri: Jailing-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Jailing_protesters%29
content:
<p>
The UK opposition warns that jailing protesters would be a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/12/jailing-heathrow-13-poses-massive-threat-to-peaceful-protest-rights">blow
against human rights</a>.
<p>
Of course, that's what the Tories are after.  That's why they created
the crime of "aggravated trespass", i.e.,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#17%20January%202011%20(Harassing%20Activists)">protesting
in an inconvenient way</a>.  Now that they have
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_December_2015_(UK_Tories_adapting_Republican_gerrymandering)">adopted
Republican voter suppression techniques so they can't lose</a>, they
don't fear political opposition; an inconvenient protest is the only
effective response to their abuses of power.
<p>
The Tories are lower than vermin.


feed_id: bfd344c0c9ead1e8b3ca5e0c1ae97115
title: Syrian factions agree on cease fire
uri: Syrian-factions-agree-on-cease-fire
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Syrian_factions_agree_on_cease_fire%29

content:
<p>
The Syrian factions have agreed on a cease fire
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/12/syria-ceasefire-munich-talks-us-russia">starting
in a week</a>.
<p>
It is not clear Russia will stop bombing, and if it doesn't stop, the
cease fire won't really take effect.
<p>
The cease fire does not include PISSI and al-Nusra.


feed_id: cfd9dd20496ad5dd5fb65272620d7c1c
title: Sanders' civil rights activities
uri: Sanders-civil-rights-activities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Sanders_civil_rights_activities%29

content:
<p>
Bernie Sanders
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/bernie-sanders-core-university-chicago">helped
organize civil rights activities in Chicago</a> for two or three
years.


feed_id: fc8ddc976f5cf51d5f6ef11873f7d545
title: Effect of lead on children
uri: Effect-of-lead-on-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Effect_of_lead_on_children%29
content:
<p>
We now know how lead causes permanent brain damage, making boys
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health">less
intelligent and more impulsive</a> (thus more likely to commit
crimes).  When will we learn to keep American children, both poor and
not, safe from lead?


feed_id: 96e9f52782d5feb06d2207ac5b664f32
title: Use of US funds to pay for abortions
uri: Use-of-US-funds-to-pay-for-abortions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Use_of_US_funds_to_pay_for_abortions%29

content:
<p>
Sanders and Clinton said they
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders-abortion-policy">would
allow US funds to pay for abortions for women that have been raped or
when necessary for their health</a>.
<p>
Sanders said he would entirely eliminate the restrictions on use of US
funds to pay for abortions, if we elect a Congress that will support
this.


feed_id: 57e5e9e7fe3f27c447152ca7ce4f933f
title: Wildlife refuge occupiers surrender
uri: Wildlife-refuge-occupiers-surrender
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Wildlife_refuge_occupiers_surrender%29

content:
<p>
The last occupiers of the Malheur wildlife refuge office have
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/11/oregon-militia-standoff-final-surrender-met-with-shouts-of-hallelujah">surrendered</a>.
<p>
Please do not endorse their claim to be a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_January_2016_(The_occupiers_of_Oregon_wildlife_refuge)">"militia"</a>;
that gives them dignity they are not entitled to.
<p>
More about
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/11/oregon-armed-militia-standoff-ends-surrender-fbi-youtube-livestream-cliven-bundy-arrest-malheur-wildlife-refuge">how
the FBI approached the matter</a>.


feed_id: fea6fb1abe12aae632bd4dbbd4273709
title: Use of cell phone trackers by NYC thugs
uri: Use-of-cell-phone-trackers-by-NYC-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Use_of_cell_phone_trackers_by_NYC_thugs%29

content:
<p>
New York City thugs have used cell phone trackers
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/11/new-york-city-police-tracked-cellphones-without-warrants-stingrays">1000
times since 2008</a>.


feed_id: bc397ab8e572e05b4226643bf0a0ce29
title: Georgia thugs push speeding cars
uri: Georgia-thugs-push-speeding-cars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Georgia_thugs_push_speeding_cars%29

content:
<p>
Georgia thugs regularly push a speeding pursued car into an
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/11/pit-maneuver-how-police-use-anti-terrorism-tactic-to-end-pursuits/">unpredictable
spin</a>.  When this kills people in the car, the thugs hold its
driver responsible.


feed_id: 1ed6b1764c5a0570bda9e0bf2899109d
title: UK contract on junior doctors
uri: UK-contract-on-junior-doctors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28UK_contract_on_junior_doctors%29

content:
<p>
The UK government says it will impose a contract on the junior doctors.
They say
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/11/junior-doctors-say-they-may-leave-the-nhs-after-contracts-imposed">they
will strike</a>, and if that fails, quit.
<p>
Someone seems to have falsely signed NHS officials names to a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/12/health-chief-letter-whatever-necessary-contracts-not-agreed">letter
backing the imposition of a contract</a>.  Half of them have said they
reject the letter; some say the text was altered after they agreed.
<p>
What else would you expect from Tories?


feed_id: 20ab40c7cb99df6637f7f0b4774ac09a
title: Teaching about global heating
uri: Teaching-about-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Teaching_about_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
US schools do a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/11/two-thirds-of-us-students-are-taught-climate-change-badly-study-finds">lousy
job of teaching about global heating</a>.  Most students are not
taught that human beings are causing it.
<p>
The teachers are
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/our-children-learning-about-climate-change">not
very well educated about the issue</a>.


feed_id: abf4d56ccd6c16762c3fcc51056d08c7
title: MySpace user data
uri: MySpace-user-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28MySpace_user_data%29
content:
<p>
MySpace has been bought — to mine its
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/11/time-inc-buys-what-is-left-of-myspace-for-its-user-data">user
data</a>.
<p>
Even if a company has a firm policy about not mistreating its users
(unlikely), that is unlikely to bind whatever company acquires it.
It also won't bind crackers that steal the data, or Big Brother armed
with a national security letter.
<p>
The best thing is not to let the company get any data about you.
I do my purchases anonymously.


feed_id: 0230e9a19fa5008e87faf422d604de84
title: Who would MLK support?
uri: Who-would-MLK-support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Who_would_MLK_support%29
content:
<p>
If Martin Luther King Jr were alive,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/11/reality-check-democrats-would-martin-luther-king-be-supporting-bernie">he
would probably support Sanders</a>.


feed_id: f19b28f88a4bea2acefcbce6f8c85bcd
title: NSA
uri: 2016-02-14-NSA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28NSA%29
content:
<p>
The NSA
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/nsas-credibility-takes-another-hit">merged
the department for defending computer security with the department for
breaking security</a>.


feed_id: 6a66aeb67ebd8771deafff0e8cc34db2
title: Trump and Cruz on torture
uri: Trump-and-Cruz-on-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Trump_and_Cruz_on_torture%29
content:
<p>
Ted Cruz used to understand that torture is wrong, and said so.  But
when he felt pressured to compete with Trump to endorse torture, he
did so by
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/11/ted-cruzs-definition-of-torture-is-so-extreme-his-fathers-torture-might-not-even-qualify/">redefining
torture so narrowly that not much would qualify</a>.
<p>
Trump and Cruz are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/10/donald-trump-ted-cruz-torture-republican-sleep-deprivation">promoting
the false assumption</a> that torture is an effective way to get
information from a suspect, as well as the immoral idea that it is
justified.


feed_id: e0a756acf6aaa61dbc3ff7207a5eecd0
title: Investment advisers
uri: Investment-advisers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Investment_advisers%29
content:
<p>
Investment advisers are
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/11/elizabeth-warren-catches-investment-advisors-fibbing/">telling
the US government that requiring them to serve their clients' interest
would be disastrous</a>, and telling their stockholders that they
would cope with it just fine.


feed_id: df6258bb0d1c76c3d38c6d50250b52aa
title: Popular vote vs nomination
uri: Popular-vote-vs-nomination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Popular_vote_vs_nomination%29
content:
<p>
Even if Sanders Wins the Popular Vote, Clinton
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/11/even-if-sanders-wins-popular-vote-clinton-could-still-get-nomination">Could
Still Get the Nomination</a>.


feed_id: 06aed31e0ea1e318be52b67a236b4ee4
title: Up to US to stop provoking violence
uri: Up-to-US-to-stop-provoking-violence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Up_to_US_to_stop_provoking_violence%29

content:
<p>
It is
<a href="http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/terrorWar2.html">up
to the US to stop</a> its violence-provoking deadly violence against
Muslim countries.


feed_id: 80fbb6a2b12c167dae964f6f87936a83
title: Special passports for "sex offenders"
uri: Special-passports-for-sex-offenders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Special_passports_for_sex_offenders%29

content:
<p>
The US now has a law to give "sex offenders"
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/10/lawsuit-says-scarlet-letter-passports-fo">special
passports that will expose them to harassment</a>.
<p>
This lumps rapists together with teenagers that sext (which may be
foolish but should not be a crime at all).
<p>
Some states are thinking of converting sexting into a misdemeanor.
While that might reduce the harm done by prosecuting them, it is
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/10/will-reducing-penalties-for-sexting-enco">not
a real solution</a>.
<p>
It also occurs to me that if having a copy of your own nude photo
becomes a felony when you reach 18 years of age, many will become
felons without noticing.


feed_id: 2f6a80c20605de4543709bf722a364ed
title: Imprisoning and torturing protesters
uri: Imprisoning-and-torturing-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Imprisoning_and_torturing_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Egypt's foreign minister, visiting the US,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/10/egypts-foreign-minister-defends-mass-imprisonment-us-visit">defended
Egypt's practice</a> of imprisoning people by the hundreds for
protesting, then torturing them in jail for years pending a farce of a
trial.
<p>
Isn't it a shame that such a person gets invited to meet the US
government?
<p>
Isn't it a bigger shame that the US's own conduct does not provide a
clear rebuke to Egypt?


feed_id: 548ec6bf25e7c17fb0d4b9cf6eb1946f
title: Sanders winning the internet
uri: Sanders-winning-the-internet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#13_February_2016_%28Sanders_winning_the_internet%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://medium.com/@hillaryrettig/why-bernie-sanders-is-winning-the-internet-1d4ec1edad88">Why
Bernie Sanders is Winning the Internet</a>.


feed_id: 633e72d8c6be14fa7e5317fac8042f9a
title: Get a map!
uri: Get-a-map
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Get_a_map%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/16/02/11/1957210/drivers-need-to-forget-their-gps">Stop
relying on a navigation system</a>, and get a map!


feed_id: 2adfd9ac845177e969f53518b164cf57
title: Kissinger and Clinton
uri: Kissinger-and-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Kissinger_and_Clinton%29
content:
<p>
Kissinger was involved in
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/12/henry-kissingers-war-crimes-are-central-to-the-divide-between-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders/">launching
wars and planning murders</a>.  With her hawkish views, it is no
surprise that Clinton is following his advice.
<p>
The Clintons have had a
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/hillary-clinton-kissinger-vacation-dominican-republic-de-la-renta">close
personal relationship with Kissinger</a> for years.
<p>
What this says to me is that if Clinton disapproves of anything
Kissinger did, she does not take the matter very much to heart.


feed_id: 8e7782d650f310710c6689629e1e3608
title: Bernie Sanders changing Hillary Clinton
uri: Bernie-Sanders-changing-Hillary-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Bernie_Sanders_changing_Hillary_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
Bernie Sanders Is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/12/bernie-sanders-changing-hillary-clinton-one-day-and-one-debate-time">Changing
Hillary Clinton One Day (and One Debate) at a Time</a>.
<p>
While Clinton has started saying things that are more progressive, I
don't believe she means them sincerely, and I expect she would revert
to plucratism if she got elected.


feed_id: 7ec81a76141f4d56f9681a4bde8d38fb
title: Political "compromise"
uri: Political-compromise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Political_compromise%29
content:
<p>
Political "compromise", nowadays, means
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/12/hillary-clintons-pay-play-reality">meeting
the banksters 90% of the way</a>.  We need a president and a congress
that will give the banksters the opposite of what they want.


feed_id: 20282640193ee5a8d4ec821608af7fd5
title: Water shortages
uri: Water-shortages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Water_shortages%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/water-shortages-drought-crisis-scarcity-conflict">2/3
of the world's people</a> face a water shortage for part of the year.
<p>
We are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/12/4-billion-people-risk-water-table-dropping-all-over-world">using
up groundwater</a> as if there were an unlimited supply.
<p>
Let's
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">stop increasing
the world's population</a>!


feed_id: 1b2a05e77b03955401dff6f198302577
title: Assad rejects peace agreement
uri: Assad-rejects-peace-agreement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Assad_rejects_peace_agreement%29

content:
<p>
Assad has rejected a peace agreement and says he
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/12/syrian-president-bashar-al-assad-vows-to-retake-whole-country">intends
to retake all of Syria</a>.


feed_id: 02bbaa38928fdb4a79a7f9901dd78647
title: Recipe for homelessness
uri: Recipe-for-homelessness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Recipe_for_homelessness%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/12/houses-assets-homes-housing-tenants-evicted">Treating
houses "as assets rather than homes"</a> is a recipe for homelessness
and suffering.


feed_id: c4a2acbcd89996a70a2d78c2c83199d4
title: Dreams and aspirations
uri: Dreams-and-aspirations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Dreams_and_aspirations%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/12/dear-americans-please-stop-dreaming-better-nation">"Dear
Americans, please stop dreaming of a better nation."</a>


feed_id: 4e47d1d8a8fcd7d84c85236e4d4d2102
title: Internet of Things
uri: 2016-02-15-Internet-of-Things
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Internet_of_Things%29
content:
<p>
The Internet of Things: How Your TV, Car And Toys Could
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/10/internet-of-things-surveillance-smart-tv-cars-toys">Spy
On You</a>.


feed_id: b5b9a15dbd0b04087d62872bb56982e0
title: UK laws harming aid efforts
uri: UK-laws-harming-aid-efforts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28UK_laws_harming_aid_efforts%29
content:
<p>
UK
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/12/uk-counter-terrorism-laws-hampering-islamic-charities-humanitarian-work-syria">Counter-Terrorism
Laws</a> 'Harming Aid Efforts of Islamic Charities'.


feed_id: 86a746e3fa0a384aa796676946c1f4f4
title: Governor Snyder
uri: Governor-Snyder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Governor_Snyder%29
content:
<p>
If poisoning children in Flint was not bad enough, Governor Snyder set
up a system that automatically accused thousands of people of fraud in
unemployment insurance.  Only about
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/12/michigan-unemployment-insurance-benefit-automated-system-fraud-penalties">8%
of the accusations were valid</a>.


feed_id: 59caa240f691d8f1f78f0370d7d613e9
title: Urgent: Regulate untested chemicals
uri: Urgent-Regulate-untested-chemicals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Regulate_untested_chemicals%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://leftaction.com/dangerous-chemicals">call for strong
regulation</a> of possibly toxic chemicals.


feed_id: 4586c5feee0a313b86645a378a35f402
title: Urgent: Stop prison abuse of immigrants
uri: Urgent-Stop-prison-abuse-of-immigrants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_prison_abuse_of_immigrants%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/stopCARprisons3">call on
Congress</a> to stop private prisons from abusing immigrants.


feed_id: 482c01156c68d97d37cda964dd56e4f0
title: Greek farmers and professionals protest
uri: Greek-farmers-and-professionals-protest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Greek_farmers_and_professionals_protest%29

content:
<p>
Greek farmers and professionals are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/12/greek-farmers-and-riot-police-clash-in-athens">having
large protests</a>.


feed_id: 587cd4ba4226b0d89f609a62e7df6cf3
title: Oral and anal sex prohibited in Michigan
uri: Oral-and-anal-sex-prohibited-in-Michigan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Oral_and_anal_sex_prohibited_in_Michigan%29

content:
<p>
Michigan's senate
<a href="http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/johnwright/michigan_senate_passes_bill_saying_sodomy_is_a_felony">passed
a bill prohibiting oral and anal sex</a>, in order to prohibit sex
with animals.
<p>
It is wrong to criminalize sex with animals if the animals are willing
and not injured.  I've read about people that smear on their genitals
something that dogs find tasty, to get the dogs to lick them.  That is
sex with an animal.  The animal clearly chooses to do it.  What part
of that deserves punishment?


feed_id: 9d9791d8283664b4bf7f7356eb41b21e
title: Ambulance bill for Tamir Rice's family
uri: Ambulance-bill-for-Tamir-Rice-s-family
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Ambulance_bill_for_Tamir_Rices_family%29

content:
<p>
Cleveland has
<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cleveland-apologizes-for-500-ambulance-bill-sent-to-tamir-rices-family/">apologized</a>
for trying to charge Tamir Rice's family for the ambulance.


feed_id: 257c65ce72775f694f2f8574d718b19d
title: AirBnB makes false claims
uri: AirBnB-makes-false-claims
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28AirBnB_makes_false_claims%29
content:
<p>
AirBnB sanitized its New York City listings on one day in order to
make
<a href="http://insideairbnb.com/how-airbnb-hid-the-facts-in-nyc/">false
claims about its usual practices</a>.
<p>
I won't use AirBnB because I refuse to identify myself to
internet services.


feed_id: 6cf3dc3aa5c837aca3d4469f09142897
title: State-installed surveillance cameras
uri: State-installed-surveillance-cameras
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28State-installed_surveillance_cameras%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/feds-nail-webcam-on-utility-pole-for-10-weeks-to-spy-on-suspect/">Appeals
courts disagree</a> on whether the state can set up a semipermanent
camera to watch someone, without a warrant.
<p>
I believe no one should be allowed to install a semipermanent remotely
viewable camera (a surveillance camera) looking at a public place
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">without
a court order</a>.  However, in this case, a security camera which
makes local recordings with no remote viewing could have done the same
job.
<p>
I think that that use of the security camera is legitimate.  A
security camera serves to get information about any crimes visibly
committed in a place, and that's what was done here.
<p>
However, it wouldn't hurt to require the state to get a warrant to set
up an outdoor security camera to snoop on a particular person.


feed_id: 528c08251728d567556fdf762944e253
title: Former LA sheriff covered up corruption
uri: Former-LA-sheriff-covered-up-corruption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Former_LA_sheriff_covered_up_corruption%29

content:
<p>
The former sheriff of Los Angeles County pled guilty to lying to the
FBI; he led and covered up
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ex-l-a-county-sheriff-baca-jail-scandal-20160210-story.html">pervasive
systemic corruption including abuse of prisoners</a>.


feed_id: d352c87d7d97febb0c7a45b4b2265cd5
title: Honda demands news site user information
uri: Honda-demands-news-site-user-information
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Honda_demands_news_site_user_information%29

content:
<p>
Honda
<a href="http://jalopnik.com/hondas-lawyers-want-us-to-dox-one-of-our-readers-we-sa-1755277599">demands
that news site Jalopnik delete comments</a> that report problems in a
Honda product, and demands information about the person who posted
them.  Jalopnik stands firm.
<p>
This shows the importance of not keeping records about your users!


feed_id: 08c42ae1e66f566aa5e2c468d05795c5
title: Prison criminals in Romania
uri: Prison-criminals-in-Romania
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Prison_criminals_in_Romania%29
content:
<p>
A Romanian Communist prison commander has been convicted of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/10/romanian-prison-governors-conviction-for-crimes-against-humanity-upheld">crimes
against humanity</a>.
<p>
However, other prison criminals are
<a href="http://www.balkanalysis.com/romania/2015/01/11/the-media-vs-historical-accuracy-how-romanias-current-communist-trials-are-being-misrepresented/">not
being prosecuted</a>.


feed_id: aeabace3a07274fea8b2d4146cad3777
title: The Pentagon
uri: The-Pentagon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28The_Pentagon%29
content:
<p>
Imperial Affluenza: The Pentagon as the
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/11/imperial-affluenza-pentagon-worlds-deadliest-spoiled-brat">World's
Deadliest Spoiled Brat</a>.


feed_id: 2a85e790a5afc98ee707e9b83525f3a9
title: Snyder ordered lead tests kept secret
uri: Snyder-ordered-lead-tests-kept-secret
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Snyder_ordered_lead_tests_kept_secret%29

content:
<p>
Snyder
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/11/emails-indicate-flint-lead-tests-withheld-public-snyders-command">ordered
Flint's lead tests kept secret</a> while thinking about a smooth way
to break the news.


feed_id: 58e5cd6bcc9eba8a2fb57f456ab3c127
title: When thugs kill blacks
uri: When-thugs-kill-blacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28When_thugs_kill_blacks%29
content:
<p>
When thugs kill blacks, you can always find some excuse to say they
had it coming to them, if you look hard enough.  But looking for flaws
in them is missing the point, because these flaws
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/12/black-deaths-matter-victims-humanity-not-perfection-are-the-reason-to-mourn">don't
justify the killings</a>.


feed_id: 097ab7f116a4f8183228dee9784046e9
title: Miscarriage can put woman in jail
uri: Miscarriage-can-put-woman-in-jail
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Miscarriage_can_put_woman_in_jail%29

content:
<p>
In El Salvador, a miscarriage
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/12/zika-linked-miscarriages-pose-jail-risk-women-el-salvador-activists-say">can
put a woman in jail</a>.  And Zika may cause an increase in
miscarriages.


feed_id: 82cb4e6d38ae59c25304908c45d16120
title: Bigotry
uri: Bigotry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Bigotry%29
content:
<p>
Dalits in India face
<a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/dalits-untouchable-rohith-vemula-caste-discrimination/1/587100.html">bigotry
that extends to basic aspects of life</a>.


feed_id: 7ce57b20cfccd1189ab90921eda819f4
title: Sexism
uri: 2016-02-15-Sexism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Sexism%29
content:
<p>
Sad news: a study demonstrates
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/women-considered-better-coders-hide-gender-github">sexism
in judging contributions to free programs</a>.
<p>
When a patch is visibly offered by a woman, it has less chance of
being accepted by the developers.  But when the developers don't know
she is a woman, women's patches have a higher chance of being
accepted.
<p>
Apparently the women are more competent, on the average, and face
prejudice.


feed_id: ce196157009fc71c8b27c37fe4599dcb
title: Gerrymandering in the UK
uri: Gerrymandering-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_February_2016_%28Gerrymandering_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
The Tories are adopting gerrymandering from the US, creating an excuse
to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/12/number-of-mps-to-cut-from-650-to-600">redraw
districts to their advantage</a>.


feed_id: af58d9a8af7b10851c30fe0afd4825a1
title: Urgent: Update overtime pay limit
uri: Urgent-Update-overtime-pay-limit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Update_overtime_pay_limit%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://signforgood.com/fixovertime/">call on Obama</a> to
update the salary limit for required overtime pay promptly, so SCROTUS
won't get a chance to cancel it.


feed_id: cc10c43eadfbe9371126c5864d4c2d1b
title: Urgent: Protect migrant minors
uri: Urgent-Protect-migrant-minors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_migrant_minors%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for providing the needed resources to 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Migrant_Trafficking">protect
unaccompanied migrant minors</a> from traffickers.


feed_id: 42e31fbead8b1b3b0d7523dd306c1612
title: Urgent: Restrict fossil fuel extraction
uri: Urgent-Restrict-fossil-fuel-extraction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Restrict_fossil_fuel_extraction%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3939">call
on Obama</a> to bar fossil fuel extraction near Western national parks
and in Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.


feed_id: f1c9cdfb44e05eb79f99c6ef6ab49372
title: Urgent: Proposal for curbing global heating
uri: Urgent-Proposal-for-curbing-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Proposal_for_curbing_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://actnow.io/WByp1qE">Support</a> the Congressional
Progressive Caucus proposal for curbing global heating.


feed_id: 654572991a511624e02c90a2b17e8581
title: UK court allows broad snooping by thugs
uri: UK-court-allows-broad-snooping-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28UK_court_allows_broad_snooping_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
In a blow to the traditional rights of Englishpeople, a UK court
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/12/gchq-hacking-does-not-breach-human-rights-investigatory-powers-tribunal">approved
of general warrants allowing the state to snoop on broad classes of
people</a>.


feed_id: a186623a5000831880169ab3a90b464d
title: Unusually high tide nearly floods London
uri: Unusually-high-tide-nearly-floods-London
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Unusually_high_tide_nearly_floods_London%29

content:
<p>
An unusually high tide 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/12/london-flood-alerts-astronomical-tide-levels-thames">nearly
flooded parts of London.</a>  The tide itself comes on top of
sea-level rise.
<p>
Tides are not likely to change much in the next few million years, but
our greenhouse gases are pushing sea-level rise.  In a few centuries,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_(Sea-level_rise)">much
of London will be permanently inundated</a>.


feed_id: 4e0cec45ce849b5a1bb43378005f835b
title: Egyptian thugs attack doctors
uri: Egyptian-thugs-attack-doctors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Egyptian_thugs_attack_doctors%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian thugs attacked two doctors; now doctors are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/13/thousands-of-doctors-in-egypt-protest-after-police-accused-of-attack-on-two-medics">threatening
to strike</a>.


feed_id: 2878ffded222dfe372922c5257606472
title: Israel's parliament
uri: Israel-s-parliament
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Israels_parliament%29
content:
<p>
Israel's parliament is working on a 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1455294093/">plan
to kick out the elected Arab members of parliament</a>.


feed_id: 00b6438f1df3e41a2c63b763badff5c6
title: Scilly Isles seabird population recovery
uri: Scilly-Isles-seabird-population-recovery
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Scilly_Isles_seabird_population_recovery%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/13/bird-population-on-scilly-isles-recovers-after-islands-are-declared-rat-free">Eradicating
rats</a> on the Scilly Isles has allowed seabird populations to start
to recover.
<p>
It's really Scilly to introduce non-native species.


feed_id: 46a36ea86bc83acce41e7d358eed021d
title: Black Lives Matter activist for mayor
uri: Black-Lives-Matter-activist-for-mayor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Black_Lives_Matter_activist_for_mayor%29

content:
<p>
DeRay McKesson, a Black Lives Matter activist, is running for mayor of
Baltimore, and proposes to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/12/deray-mckesson-baltimore-mayor-proposals">abolish
many of the special privileges of thugs accused of violence</a>.


feed_id: 0f429e02f05e66ee37d69848975db0c1
title: Nonfree software makes prohibition easy
uri: Nonfree-software-makes-prohibition-easy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Nonfree_software_makes_prohibition_easy%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia has 
<a href="https://thestack.com/world/2016/02/12/indonesia-moves-to-ban-lgbt-emojis-on-messaging-apps/">prohibited
messaging apps that permit use of LGBT symbols</a>.
<p>
You can blame this on proprietary software.  This prohibition is
effective because the apps are proprietary software and can restrict
what users can say.  A state would find it a lot harder to restrict
people through making demands on free software.


feed_id: 0ffd5e000a98100c90b1dfa50475c359
title: Academics defying copyright law
uri: Academics-defying-copyright-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Academics_defying_copyright_law%29

content:
<p>
Academics are defying copyright law to 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/the-research-pirates-of-the-dark-web/461829/">share
copies of paywalled scientific articles</a>.
<p>
Hooray, and may this lead to the elimination of copyright from
scientific publishing, 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/push-copyright-aside.html">as I
called for 15 years ago</a>.


feed_id: c75a58c2e5c86d2101d3a1287238050c
title: Promises from for-profit colleges
uri: Promises-from-for-profit-colleges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Promises_from_for-profit_colleges%29

content:
<p>
When for-profit colleges 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/for-profit-college-fraud/462219/">promise
graduates jobs which they generally can't get</a>, are the colleges
guilty of fraud?  Of false advertising?  Or are they simply displaying
their grasping nature?
<p>
There is no need to investigate precisely how bad for-profit colleges
are, because there is no good reason for them to exist at all.  The US
government should stop offering aid to study in them.  That would more
or less get rid of them all.  Traditional not-for-profit colleges
would pick up the load.


feed_id: 66421de010789656cd2a8769c2c26343
title: Clinton's hazy social security plan
uri: Clinton-s-hazy-social-security-plan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Clintons_hazy_social_security_plan%29

content:
<p>
Clinton's Social Security Plan Is a Little Hazy. And 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/02/12/sanders_calls_out_clinton_on_social_security_at_pbs_debate.html">Sanders
Called Her Out on It</a>.


feed_id: 7892e316a24891ff836119eb2a928039
title: Charter school
uri: Charter-school
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Charter_school%29
content:
<p>
That Brutal Charter School Video Shows That 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/02/12/success_academy_undercover_video_shows_no_excuses_discipline_at_its_ugliest.html">Rich
People Love No-Excuses Discipline … for Other People's
Kids</a>.


feed_id: e89091b9c002e8e27ae10ec495aeb14a
title: Daughter of Eric Garner endorses Sanders
uri: Daughter-of-Eric-Garner-endorses-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Daughter_of_Eric_Garner_endorses_Sanders%29

content:
<p>
Erica Garner — daughter of Eric Garner, who was killed by thugs
— 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/02/12/people-are-dying-real-erica-garner-endorses-bernie">has
endorsed Sanders</a>.


feed_id: 27b9f811b8cfd68011a48a380bedc1cd
title: Perflurocarbons
uri: Perflurocarbons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Perflurocarbons%29
content:
<p>
Perfluorocarbons, used in waterproof clothing and on surfaces of pots,
can be 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/ski-clothing-waterproof-pfoa-pfcs-perfluourochemicals-health-risks">toxic
in minute quantities</a> and persist essentially forever.


feed_id: f44b6967eb3d5f437b2c87097ab96b33
title: History of lead poisoning in the US
uri: History-of-lead-poisoning-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28History_of_lead_poisoning_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
It's Not Just Flint. There's an Ugly 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/flint-lead-poisoning-america-toxic-crisis">History
of Lead Poisoning and the Poor</a> in the US.


feed_id: 14e917bcb86dd40d4a7cbe7e90d720ff
title: Refugees face increased violence from French thugs
uri: Refugees-face-increased-violence-from-French-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_February_2016_%28Refugees_face_increased_violence_from_French_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Refugees in France, camped at Calais because they can't get into the
UK, are facing 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/13/police-civilian-militias-attacked-migrants-calais-charity">increased
violence from French thugs and right-wing gangs</a>.
<p>
They are not allowed to go to the UK, but France does not seem to be
trying to kick them out.  If they can stay in France, isn't that good
enough to escape the persecution of whichever country they are fleeing
from?


feed_id: 6f71f8cfe932369703084e53cbde89ca
title: Urgent: Settlement of refugees
uri: Urgent-Settlement-of-refugees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Settlement_of_refugees%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/volunteer-state-refugees-welcome">Call
on Tennessee</a> not to oppose settlement of refugees.


feed_id: 091aceea950e25174a50ddc71c51357b
title: Urgent: Dodd-Frank provisions
uri: Urgent-Dodd-Frank-provisions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Dodd-Frank_provisions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/brown_payday_lenders">call
for implementation of the Dodd-Frank provisions</a> for alternatives
to usurious payday lending companies.


feed_id: 872cc993c7579d6f558b232cd1d28d21
title: Lobbyists for the chemical industry
uri: Lobbyists-for-the-chemical-industry
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Lobbyists_for_the_chemical_industry%29

content:
<p>
The Union of Concerned Scientists reports on how lobbyists for the
chemical industry have 
<a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/center-science-and-democracy/fighting-misinformation/american-chemistry-council-report">undermined
government efforts to protect the public</a>, as well as research on
toxicity.


feed_id: 788e828c13f000734a7f9c1d539add14
title: Massive surveillance by ISPs
uri: Massive-surveillance-by-ISPs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Massive_surveillance_by_ISPs%29
content:
<p>
Many organizations have called on the FCC to ban ISPs from collecting
<a href="media/6958a2fb.broadband_privacy_letter_to_fcc.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.freepress.net/sites/default/files/resources/broadband_privacy_letter_to_fcc.pdf">personal
data about customers</a> and making them available to anyone else.
<p>
What they propose would be a step in the right direction, but it does
not go far enough.  It would still permit massive general surveillance
by ISPs on behalf of Big Brother.
<p>
For democracy's sake, we must stop considering this kind of "solution"
as a real solution.  Regardless of what entity collects the data, it
is Big Brother's use of the data that 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">threatens
democracy</a>.
<p>
ISPs should be forbidden to keep any records of a user's internet
contacts, except when ordered by a specific warrant.


feed_id: 82c3c9576673758d28b53eac9be91e85
title: Tories like to UK doctors
uri: Tories-like-to-UK-doctors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Tories_like_to_UK_doctors%29
content:
<p>
Some UK doctors paid to attend a meeting with the health minister Tory
liars 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/14/junior-doctors-jeremy-hunt-conservatives-event-fareham">moved
the meeting and told them it had been cancelled</a>.
<p>
What else would you expect from a Tory?
The Tories are lower than vermin.


feed_id: 888041e9bfe670d9e724d276e971f781
title: Gentrification of black neighborhoods
uri: Gentrification-of-black-neighborhoods
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Gentrification_of_black_neighborhoods%29

content:
<p>
As banks gentrify old black neighborhoods, the Koch brothers are
funding
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/14/gentrifying-black-history">efforts
to cover up the history of blacks in the US</a> — of slavery,
and the civil rights movement.


feed_id: 94cf651b18596bbb4499b80c54602c27
title: Foreign businessmen tortured in the UAE
uri: Foreign-businessmen-tortured-in-the-UAE
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Foreign_businessmen_tortured_in_the_UAE%29

content:
<p>
The UAE tortured foreign businessmen into confessions, and they are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/14/businessmen-uae-tortured-into-confessions-un-report">likely
to be sentenced to death</a>.


feed_id: 452bd238e61b5b6a5009596479e4332b
title: Facing arrest to fight the TPP
uri: Facing-arrest-to-fight-the-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Facing_arrest_to_fight_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
Zahara Heckscher: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/09/why-i-faced-arrest-even-i-battle-cancer-fight-tpp">Why
I Faced Arrest</a>, Even as I Battle Cancer, to Fight TPP.


feed_id: f33d8ca9e0b414a73becbd8f5271be4b
title: US poverty and plutocracy
uri: US-poverty-and-plutocracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28US_poverty_and_plutocracy%29
content:
<p>
Relating US poverty and inequality to the 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34791-why-our-government-isn-t-listening-how-greed-is-at-the-root-of-us-suffering">systematic
corruption of plutocracy</a>.


feed_id: 469839af2c9a5ebd698df9d75e4a0b22
title: Private ownership of public spaces
uri: Private-ownership-of-public-spaces
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Private_ownership_of_public_spaces%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/13/will-self-mass-trespass-london-protest">protest
in London</a> against putting public spaces under private owners that
can impose private rules.
<p>
We have the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#19_December_2011_(Privately_Owned_Public_Spaces)">same
problem in the US</a>.


feed_id: c6611719cbcd112942aabba0a90e9576
title: Cornel West for Bernie Sanders
uri: Cornel-West-for-Bernie-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Cornel_West_for_Bernie_Sanders%29

content:
<p>
Cornell West presents 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/13/why-brother-bernie-better-black-people-sister-hillary">why
American blacks should vote for Sanders</a>.


feed_id: d01721959a59d9d137545229c4005f7b
title: Useless "abstinence-only" campaigns
uri: Useless-abstinence-only-campaigns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Useless_abstinence-only_campaigns%29

content:
<p>
The US has spent 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/state-of-teen-sex-america-chart-abstinence">almost
2 billion dollars</a> on the useless "abstinence-only" substitute for
sex education.
<p>
It's effective for promoting pregnancy and diseases among teenagers,
but no one can point to any good results.


feed_id: 228a51ed6906b4b71e3dfdab111b07c8
title: Student debts
uri: Student-debts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Student_debts%29
content:
<p>
Why Does the US Government 
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-10/why-does-the-government-pursue-student-debtors-in-prison">Pursue
Student Debtors in Prison</a>?


feed_id: aea57d6802e88bce97ced01a458c4b03
title: Anti-semitism of Poles during WWII
uri: Anti-semitism-of-Poles-during-WWII
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Anti-semitism_of_Poles_during_WWII%29

content:
<p>
Poland's right-wing government plans to strip a historian of an award,
because he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/14/academics-defend-historian-over-polish-jew-killings-claims">acknowledges
the anti-semitism of Poles during World War II</a>.


feed_id: 97a133eae800b7ab27d1f857c68abe42
title: Plant disease spreading
uri: Plant-disease-spreading
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Plant_disease_spreading%29
content:
<p>
A plant disease is spreading around the world and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/14/uk-alert-phony-peach-disease">could
wipe out many kinds of trees and herbs,/a>.


feed_id: 7bee2b92e8d97c46d44a2f368ad61902
title: Attacks on medical facilities
uri: Attacks-on-medical-facilities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Attacks_on_medical_facilities%29

content:
<p>
Attacks on medical facilities and personnel are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/13/attacks-medical-workers-war-zones-under-fire">becoming
common in today's wars</a>.


feed_id: 0e302ce4febce785fd30578b38710113
title: Bernie Sanders
uri: 2016-02-16-Bernie-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Bernie_Sanders%29
content:
<p>
Sorry, Corporate Media: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/13/sorry-corporate-media-more-americans-hear-bernie-sanders-more-they-him">The
More Americans Hear Bernie Sanders, The More They Like Him</a>.


feed_id: 4364e279308bb8984f8d803c07182926
title: Obama's replacement for Scalia
uri: Obama-s-replacement-for-Scalia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Obamas_replacement_for_Scalia%29

content:
<p>
Now that Justice Scalia can no longer spread injustice in the US,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/feb/13/supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-dead-politics-republicans-senate-presidential-election">SCROTUS
have declared the intention to reject whatever replacement Obama
proposes</a>.
<p>
I fear Obama will propose someone "moderately" right wing in the hope
of gaining SCROTUS's approval.  Obama has not much record of standing
firm, but this would be an outrageous surrender.


feed_id: bf0a9b874e33d10c24078787a56db3dc
title: Urgent: Cancel nuclear weapons upgrades
uri: Urgent-Cancel-nuclear-weapons-upgrades
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_nuclear_weapons_upgrades%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.globalzero.org/take-action/lrso">call on Obama</a>
to cancel nuclear weapons upgrades.


feed_id: 98a364ba811499c35bbd6e5027e79882
title: Former sex slaves to fight PISSI
uri: Former-sex-slaves-to-fight-PISSI
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Former_sex_slaves_to_fight_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
Yazidi women, former sex slaves, have 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-yazidi-sex-slaves-take-up-arms-for-mosul-fight-to-bring-our-women-home-a6865056.html">formed
a brigade to fight PISSI</a>.
<p>
Right on!
<p>
Beyond contributing to the possible defeat of PISSI, they will also
help the struggle against the general patriarchal cruelty of Arab
society.


feed_id: 923fe73edfd49dbb199db91775791eb8
title: Student tortured and killed in Egypt
uri: Student-tortured-and-killed-in-Egypt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Student_tortured_and_killed_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
An autopsy shows how Giulio Regeni was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/14/italian-student-killed-in-egypt-giulio-regeni-showed-signs-of-electrocution">tortured
in Egypt</a>.


feed_id: 8f917801507769321bc8c883f88bedaa
title: Liu Xiaobo square
uri: Liu-Xiaobo-square
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Liu_Xiaobo_square%29
content:
<p>
The US Senate passed a bill to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/14/anger-as-us-senate-votes-to-name-square-outside-chinese-embassy-after-dissident">name
a square in Washington after imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu
Xiaobo</a>.
<p>
China deserves this rebuke, and I hope it is adopted.  Meanwhile, I
wish the US would cease its practices of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_November_2015_(Imprisonment_without_trial_in_the_US)">imprisonment
without trial</a>, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#02_February_2016_(Torture_by_Chicago_thugs)">extracting
false confessions through torture</a>, and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_(Matt_Diaz)">imprisoning
whistleblowers, so that it could be in a good moral position to rebuke
other countries.


feed_id: 6af2e6da7ac95b2839f254972a367348
title: Girls forced into marriage
uri: Girls-forced-into-marriage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Girls_forced_into_marriage%29
content:
<p>
Forcing girls into marriage, often in their early teens, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/14/love-conquers-all-child-brides-sweetheart-spouse-ashley-judd">continues
in many countries around the world</a>.
<p>
It not only harms them economically and endangers their health, it
also increases the birth rate, which endangers everyone.  It's also a
fundamental wrong.


feed_id: 1b7a7b050e996ad581ae22eee5c23b5a
title: London "Garden Bridge" boondoggle
uri: London-Garden-Bridge-boondoggle
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28London_Garden_Bridge_boondoggle%29

content:
<p>
The London "Garden Bridge" boondoggle, approved in a corrupt way,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/14/garden-bridge-half-truths-deceptions-evasions-thames-london-rowan-moore">would
drain the public treasury uselessly</a> at a time when the government
is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#30_October_2015_(UK_destroying_public_libraries)">cutting
public libraries</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#3_October_2015_(Eliminating_the_NHS)">squeezing 
the NHS</a>, and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_November_2015_(UK%27s_hidden_family_homelessness)">driving
poor families onto the street</a>.


feed_id: 28d2c26db97c09b4d037ff6055786f7e
title: "Happy Birthday" royalties
uri: Happy-Birthday-royalties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Happy_Birthday_royalties%29
content:
<p>
Warner/Chappell has 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/warner-pays-14-million-for-illegitimate-happy-birthday-claims-160210/">agreed
that it has no copyright on "Happy Birthday to You"</a>, and will
compensate those that it made to pay royalties before.
<p>
The song is probably in the public domain, but there is no way to
prove that.


feed_id: a687bb9c2c34862b56c9632095e0bc66
title: Turkey shells Arab allies
uri: Turkey-shells-Arab-allies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Turkey_shells_Arab_allies%29
content:
<p>
Turkey has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/13/turkey-shells-kurdish-forces-in-syria-in-retaliation-for-attack-on-border-posts">shelled
Kurds</a> (or rather some Arab allies) that captured an air base in
Northern Syria.
<p>
According to Wikipedia, Azaz was held by al-Nusra (al-Qa'ida) together
with other Syrian rebels; the Kurds cooperated with Russia to take it.
<p>
I can't begin to figure out what this implies.


feed_id: c6c0824bfa3e46501dcf4210c84fa693
title: Haiti's rotten political system
uri: Haiti-s-rotten-political-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Haitis_rotten_political_system%29

content:
<p>
New elections are not enough to right the wrongs of Haiti's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/13/rotten-system-blamed-haiti-election-stalemate">rotten
political system</a>.
<p>
US intervention is largely to blame for the rottenness, what with
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-jan-apr.html#5%20March%202004%20(President%20Aristide%27s%20Exit)">forcibly
removing President Aristide</a> and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#11_June_2011_(Haiti_Cable_Fraudulent_Election)">imposing
the former president Martelly</a>.


feed_id: 1e3ed948950f344b593637284d4caea5
title: Private prisons
uri: 2016-02-16-Private-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Private_prisons%29
content:
<p>
The UK is concealing 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/13/young-offenders-institution-restraint-injuries">thousands
of injuries done to minors in private prisons</a>.  These injuries
range from suffocation to broken bones.  The companies falsify records
and deny the victims medical treatment.  But hey, they have to make
money, right?
<p>
To allow a privately run prison is to invite injustice.  This practice
must be abolished.  More generally, no government function should be
privatized unless that gives the public the benefit of a competitive
market.


feed_id: 878d14a688277a855811e43b24419d12
title: Surveillance in the UK
uri: Surveillance-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Surveillance_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/node/727">Destroying
Democracy</a> Under the Cloak of Defending It: surveillance in the UK.


feed_id: ede614043fec00e35bb21ed595faa6c0
title: Lexmark's use of patents
uri: Lexmark-s-use-of-patents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Lexmarks_use_of_patents%29
content:
<p>
Lexmark succeeded in using patents to 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-lexmark-intl-impression-products-idUSKCN0VL1MZ">block
a company from refilling toner cartridges</a>.
<p>
Yet another reason why we should 
<a href="media/2a61f33e.45_1_stallman.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/law/students/publications/llj/pdfs/45_1_stallman.pdf">abolish
patents</a>.


feed_id: 109a50ee382afa8038acef0ca9fad217
title: Clinton's disastrous record
uri: Clinton-s-disastrous-record
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Clintons_disastrous_record%29
content:
<p>
Hillary Clinton 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/13/hillary-clinton-sugarcoating-her-disastrous-record">Sugarcoating
Her Disastrous Record</a>.
<p>
President Clinton's media law, 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34789-democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act">bought
by media companies' lobbyists</a>, allowed them to merge and
concentrate, increasing their power.  The biggest victim is democracy
itself.
<p>
No wonder they now support Clinton for president.


feed_id: 8388d1215eb43fa17085832a6393ddf8
title: Welfare "reform" bill
uri: Welfare-reform-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Welfare_reform_bill%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/13/john-kasich-and-the-clintons-collaborated-on-law-that-helped-double-extreme-poverty-in-america/">Kasich
played a central role</a> in Bill Clinton's welfare "reform" bill.


feed_id: 0548255573566dae89a81f3d56f17002
title: US prisoners' phone calls
uri: US-prisoners-phone-calls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28US_prisoners_phone_calls%29
content:
<p>
US prisoners' phone calls are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/12/not-so-securus-lawyers-speak-out-about-massive-hack-of-prisoners-phone-records/">often
recorded</a> — even the calls with their lawyers, which are
supposed to be private.


feed_id: 4e3135274820c0fa81d28adbbb88ee8b
title: Flint's toxic water
uri: Flint-s-toxic-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Flints_toxic_water%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/13/flint-water-crisis-governors-aides-knew-of-issues-within-weeks-records-suggest">Snyder's
top aides were informed</a> about Flint's toxic water within weeks.


feed_id: dc39066ba4d6c187227bb9ecafc8f0b7
title: Tracking by data analysis company
uri: Tracking-by-data-analysis-company
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Tracking_by_data_analysis_company%29

content:
<p>
A data analysis company tracked 
<a href="http://fusion.net/story/268108/dstillery-clever-tracking-trick/">16,000
people at the Iowa caucuses</a>.
<p>
I've read elsewhere that data brokers do reassociate these profiles
with people's names, by correlating data from various sources.


feed_id: 0f3076b7e8aaedc1dc2d51a2e501b798
title: War on Drugs
uri: 2016-02-16-War-on-Drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28War_on_Drugs%29
content:
<p>
Judge Paul Cassell is 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/12/judge-who-sentenced-small-time-pot-deale">begging
Obama to give clemency</a> to the man that Cassell was required to
sentence to 55 years in prison.


feed_id: d99a6721c76c12befe5b2ebd781cbfd6
title: Mitochondria replacement prohibited
uri: Mitochondria-replacement-prohibited
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Mitochondria_replacement_prohibited%29

content:
<p>
Congress has 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/02/12/of-course-its-ethical-to-make-three-pare">prohibited
mitochondria replacement (to make a healthy embryo)</a> in the US.
<p>
This appears to be SCROTUS at work.
<p>
I think that public funds should not be spent on fertility treatments.
Public policy should aim for a lower birthrate, as long as the human
population is too high and still rising.
<p>
The US birth rate is low enough for population stability, if it were
not for immigration; but since we do have immigration, and the US
population is still rising, we should aim to reduce both causes of
population increase.


feed_id: 16a6816165ed3e3825489f701c724523
title: Vulture funds in Argentina
uri: Vulture-funds-in-Argentina
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Vulture_funds_in_Argentina%29
content:
<p>
Argentina's new government is offering vulture funds 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/12/us-judge-explores-lifting-argentina-sanctions-after-country-offers-65-billion">75%
of the face value of the debt they bought for almost nothing</a>.
Some vultures are holding out for more.
<p>
If they get as much as a cent, that will be a victory for evil.  The
court should award those fund managers 10 years, not 10 dollars.


feed_id: db076070ec80c08831c5554eb62c92de
title: "Emergency manager" law must be repealed
uri: Emergency-manager-law-must-be-repealed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_February_2016_%28Emergency_manager_law_must_be_repealed%29

content:
<p>
The poisoning of Flint's children resulted from Michigan Republicans'
denial of democracy: the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/12/media-misses-mark-vote-theft-core-flints-problems">"emergency
manager" law</a> must be repealed.


feed_id: 25047c7e9ffc2f5c40c3aa0efae42105
title: FBI
uri: 2016-02-17-FBI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28FBI%29
content:
<p>The FBI 
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10887838/criminals-going-dark-terrorism-berkman-center">
has ever more ways to snoop on everyone</a>
 even despite the use
of encryption.
</p>
<p>Part of the blame 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/01/encryption-smart-technology-surveillance-harvard-study">
falls on companies that want to surveil people</a>

through advertising.
</p>
<p>"Smart" appliances are also
untrustworthy.</p>
<p>This increasing 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">
snooping is dangerous for democracy</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: 251226f62b7878598550a7d6f0db6a64
title: Tory ministers
uri: Tory-ministers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Tory_ministers%29
content:
<p>Several Tory ministers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/01/uk-ministers-make-it-top-priority-to-ensure-nature-laws-do-not-hamper-fracking">
secretly agreed to give fracking priority over
protecting national parts and sites</a>
 of scientific interest.
</p>
<p>They don't expect to get cushy gigs from nature lovers or scientists,
after all.
</p>


feed_id: 9ccff804c74752df168b1efca15831d2
title: Saudi Arabia
uri: Saudi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Saudi_Arabia%29
content:
<p>Saudi Arabia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/01/saudi-inquiry-war-claims-yemen-inadequate-say-rights-groups">
has investigated its own war crimes</a>
 in Yemen and found
itself innocent.
</p>


feed_id: 3a2b56b4c7ff6d747dfe56569d15ac6f
title: ISP Cox
uri: ISP-Cox
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28ISP_Cox%29
content:
<p>US ISP Cox 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/cox-refuses-to-spy-on-subscribers-to-catch-pirates-160215/">
is still fighting against being required to snoop</a>
 on its users.
</p>


feed_id: 0b7c3f49e221e177d89f9c91faabe830
title: Australian censorship
uri: 2016-02-17-Australian-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Australian_censorship%29
content:
<p>Australian censorship, specifically the criminalization of "hate
speech",

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/16/override-hate-speech-laws-to-allow-marriage-equality-debate-urges-christian-lobby">
interferes with the debate</a>
 about whether to legalize same-sex
marriage.
Stating opposition is likely to lead to prosecution.
</p>
<p>I support same-sex marriage, but I also support freedom of speech,
and this includes the freedom to offend, insult, condemn or mock
any person, belief, practice, institution, or group.  That includes
gays, and that includes straights.</p>


feed_id: 895dc3ec9bce62562cae8d04ee7dd8af
title: Conspiracy Theorists
uri: Conspiracy-Theorists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Conspiracy_Theorists%29
content:
<p>The Conspiracy Theorists 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/conspiracy-theorists-who-have-taken-over-poland">
Who Have Taken Over Poland</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: 4f55f1c5488a35f338c4b119db4d7751
title: Mosul Dam
uri: Mosul-Dam
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Mosul_Dam%29
content:
<p>The Mosul Dam 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/if-the-mosul-dam-in-iraq-collapses-half-a-million-people-could-die-a6871836.html">
is in danger of collapsing</a>
 and killing up to half a
million people.
</p>
<p>Can't they release the water downstream to lower the pressure?
</p>


feed_id: 8ba23e3e07e5c960fd994b1cf40fc0dc
title: EU leaders
uri: EU-leaders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28EU_leaders%29
content:
<p>European Leaders 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/16/european-leaders-aid-poor-people-hosting-refugees-security-poverty">
Told to Keep Aid for Poor People</a>
, Not Hosting Refugees.
</p>
<p>Without taxing the rich properly, support for refugees will in the
short term fall on the poor.  In a longer term, the refugees will
contribute to the economy if there are jobs for them; but there may
be no housing for them.</p>


feed_id: 031292a9bc9af140271cbfcd371e46fe
title: NY Thugs
uri: NY-Thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28NY_Thugs%29
content:
<p>New York thugs 
<a href="http://justice.gawker.com/nypd-has-a-plan-to-magically-turn-anyone-it-wants-into-1684017767">
want the power (in effect) to declare anyone a felon</a>

on their own say-so.
</p>


feed_id: a4c85e7078a586132aacb3a7e44d9995
title: PISSI
uri: 2016-02-17-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28PISSI%29
content:
<p>PISSI 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/tests-show-isis-used-mustard-gas-in-iraq-says-diplomat-at-chemical-watchdog">
is accused of using chemical weapons</a>
 against Kurds in Iraq.
</p>


feed_id: 5c93edd20f869272c199b4be3b41aeb6
title: Bahrain
uri: Bahrain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Bahrain%29
content:
<p>Bahrain 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/four-american-journalists-arrested-in-bahrain-during-protests">
arrested American journalists</a>
 who were covering a protest.
The government accuses them of participating in the protest, and of
doing journalism without permission.  By doing so it confesses
disrespect for human rights.</p>
<p>The US government can't object much, since it supports the repression
in Bahrain.
</p>


feed_id: bed69726544d8bb2f5f1eacf1d880bc6
title: Overfishing
uri: 2016-02-17-Overfishing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Overfishing%29
content:
<p>Overfishing 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/feb/16/overfishing-is-as-big-a-threat-to-humanity-as-it-is-to-our-oceans">
Is As Big a Threat</a>
 to Humanity As It Is to Our Oceans.
</p>
<p>What the article does not mention is that human population growth is
the other jaw of the vice.  To stabilize fish populations won't be enough
unless we stabilize the human population too.</p>


feed_id: 3e4a5aff6f8145986548f352de760020
title: Russia and the Kurds
uri: Russia-and-the-Kurds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Russia_and_the_Kurds%29
content:
<p>Russian air power 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/15/kurds-carve-out-new-reality-in-northern-syria">
is supporting</a>
 the Kurds to advance in Syria.
I suppose this is because Russia regards Turkey as the regional enemy,
and the Kurds are the enemy of Russia's enemy.</p>
<p>Azaz is near to, but not part of, the strip by which PISSI trades
with Turkey.  It would be a very good thing if the Kurds captured that
strip.</p>
<p>However, Turkey's recent shelling of Kurdish fighters suggests that it
is on the verge of starting a broader war against Syrian Kurds.  If
that happens, the Kurds might lose greatly unless they get more support.
</p>


feed_id: 71889a936700553f1e34576f77dea427
title: Bank bullied UK
uri: Bank-bullied-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Bank_bullied_UK%29
content:
<p>A giant bank 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/blog/2016/feb/15/hsbcs-gunboat-diplomacy-london-george-osborne">
bullied the UK government</a>
 into weakening regulations
by threatening to leave.
</p>
<p>The courageous response, what the world needs, is to tell the banks to
jump in the lake.  But I won't say that the Tories were cowardly.  I
doubt they ever wished to deny such a powerful company what it wanted.
</p>


feed_id: d104f863af11dc3e971d1f3a383a6637
title: Protests in North Carolina
uri: Protests-in-North-Carolina
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Protests_in_North_Carolina%29
content:
<p>Tens of thousands 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/thousands-march-in-north-carolina-to-protest-voter-suppression/">
protested in North Carolina against voter
suppression laws</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: 80eacf7ee7e45757e1c891c67a5dc95c
title: Trump
uri: 2016-02-17-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Trump%29
content:
<p>Trump 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/14/trump-booed-reminding-gop-bushs-911-failure-and-iraq-war-lies">
Booed for Reminding</a>
 GOP of Bush's 9/11 Failure and Iraq War Lies.
</p>
<p>Oh, the irony!  Plain, unexaggerated truth from Trump!  Right-wing
nuts
insisting on Dubya's lies instead!</p>
<p>Dubya and Cheney repeated those lies over and over, even after the
facts were established; it was evil, but very effective at building a
movement disconnected from reality.</p>


feed_id: b5dc8446e0fa5d678de591503d187a76
title: TTIP
uri: 2016-02-17-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28TTIP%29
content:
<p>TTIP of the Iceberg: Consumer Concerns 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/02/13038/ttip-trade-agreement-consumer-concerns">
Could Sink</a>
 the US-EU Trade Agreement.
</p>
<p>If we are lucky, we will elect Sanders and he will pull the plug on
This Treaty Is Plutocratic (TTIP).</p>


feed_id: eb17c5a8253f487c3d12326bc1052582
title: MSF
uri: MSF
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28MSF%29
content:
<p>MSF 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/15/msf-condemns-deliberate-attack-after-two-hospitals-bombed-syria">
Condemns 'Deliberate' Attack</a>
 After Two Hospitals Bombed in Syria.
</p>


feed_id: 7da71d668c759d3fa71c763a033ca21a
title: Russian censorship
uri: 2016-02-17-Russian-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Russian_censorship%29
content:
<p>In Russia, official censorship 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/15/putin-doesnt-need-to-censor-books-publishers-do-it-for-him/">
is surrounded</a>
 by a cloud of intimidation.
</p>


feed_id: 1a2c41e7db6982f043cec857c36b7857
title: Uganda
uri: 2016-02-17-Uganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Uganda%29
content:
<p>A few days before Uganda's presidential election, the state 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/15/uganda-election-kizza-besigye-detained-by-police-clashes">
has jailed</a>

an opposition candidate.
</p>
<p>All protests have been banned in
Kempala, in a Paris-style "state of
emergency".
</p>


feed_id: bb1c542a03233dda3a83652b81faeace
title: Student arrested
uri: Student-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Student_arrested%29
content:
<p>India 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/15/jawaharlal-nehru-university-kanhaiya-kumar-student-arrest-india">
arrested a student</a>
 at Jawaharlal Nehru University for
"sedition", leading to a strike which has received support from other
campuses.
</p>


feed_id: 0cd4c572672d95e48c1a03cfa0b49ea2
title: Top Tax Rate
uri: Top-Tax-Rate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Top_Tax_Rate%29
content:
<p>5 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/15/5-reasons-top-tax-rate-should-be-80-percent">
Reasons</a>
 the Top Tax Rate Should Be 80 Percent.
</p>


feed_id: 19ac688557729af897255b4db198df5e
title: Puerto Rico
uri: 2016-02-17-Puerto-Rico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Puerto_Rico%29
content:
<p>Puerto Rico 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/14/puerto-rico-woos-us-investors-with-huge-tax-breaks-as-locals-fund-debt-crisis">
is turning</a>
 itself into a tax shelter for billionaires to
parasitize the US.
</p>
<p>Due to the failure of the US to rescue Puerto Rico from horrible debt,
I must admit that Puerto Rico is acting based on provocation.
Still, the competition to bow down to billionaires will hurt all of us,
except the billionaires.  We must put an end to it.</p>


feed_id: 33e7ac11bd1a19665e87ab798cf20b3c
title: Urgent: Non-corruption condition for aid
uri: Urgent-Non-corruption-condition-for-aid
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#18_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Non-corruption_condition_for_aid%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-end-the-anti">call
on Congress</a> to restrain US support for the corrupt regime in
Honduras, by insisting on the non-corruption condition for US aid to
it.


feed_id: 5346661ed681e5d88b3edf5e7f6b451b
title: Turkey arrests journalist
uri: Turkey-arrests-journalist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Turkey_arrests_journalist%29
content:
<p>
Turkey arrested a journalist
<a href="https://cpj.org/2016/02/turkish-police-arrest-journalist.php">for
interviewing possible PKK supporters</a>.


feed_id: 7724579887ef9cc8db4a95858f5bd255
title: Ban on imports made with slave labor
uri: Ban-on-imports-made-with-slave-labor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Ban_on_imports_made_with_slave_labor%29

content:
<p>
The US has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/16/obama-ban-fish-imports-slavery">banned
imports of products made with slave labor</a>.
<p>
I expect that some companies or countries will try to use trade
treaties to make the US repeal this law,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#18_December_2015_(Congress_surrenders_to_the_WTO)">as
they have done with other important laws to protect something
important</a>.


feed_id: caea65b9b4eda2c0977cd2eb8bca79bb
title: Getting a prisoner out of Guantánamo
uri: Getting-a-prisoner-out-of-Guantánamo
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Getting_a_prisoner_out_of_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>
UN human rights experts say Australia violated David Hicks's human
rights by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/17/david-hicks-australia-violated-his-rights-un-human-rights-committee-says">jailing
him as part of a deal with the US</a>.
<p>
The deal was to get him out of Guantánamo, where the US was
violating his human rights.  Is it right to agree to violate someone's
rights in order to get a worse violator to stop?  And if you do,
should you break the deal?  It is a difficult question.


feed_id: 97fb6556a3ed96954b0a9466e7845d91
title: Urgent: Pass a Shareholders United act
uri: Urgent-Pass-a-Shareholders-United-act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Pass_a_Shareholders_United_act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=10462">Call
on your state legislature</a> to pass a Shareholders United act to
limit corporations' political spending.


feed_id: adaf535fff212cda41844ff97c31d4c4
title: Urgent: Arrest Governor Snyder
uri: Urgent-Arrest-Governor-Snyder
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Arrest_Governor_Snyder%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://michaelmoore.com/ArrestGovSnyder">Call for the arrest
of Governor Snyder</a> for recklessly poisoning the children of Flint,
Michigan.


feed_id: 7781d719ef7f2ecd8cf800825763177e
title: Urgent: Vote on replacement for Scalia
uri: Urgent-Vote-on-replacement-for-Scalia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Vote_on_replacement_for_Scalia%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Scalia_replacement">call on
the Senate</a> to vote on the replacement for Scalia.


feed_id: 567f7131bb3a6d00b5a6eed8e5d7cbc2
title: Making peaceful opposition a crime
uri: Making-peaceful-opposition-a-crime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Making_peaceful_opposition_a_crime%29

content:
<p>
Israel's campaign to make peaceful opposition to its occupation
policies a crime has 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/16/greatest-threat-to-free-speech-in-the-west-criminalizing-activism-against-israeli-occupation/">led
to oppressive policies in France and the UK</a>, and they are trying
it in the US too.
<p>
Some twenty years ago, Massachusetts passed a law to boycott companies
that did business in Burma.  At the time, the US had not yet adopted
strong trade sanctions against Burma.  Other countries called this a
"non-tariff barrier to trade" and said it violated the World Trade
Organization rules.  Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, a
law that prohibited states from adopting such boycotts: a victory for
plutocracy over democracy.
<p>
This is one of the many plutocratist actions I condemn Bill Clinton
for.  Hillary Clinton appears to be basically the same in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_(Sanders_questioning_Clintons_integrity)">her
support for plutocracy</a>, which is why I will not vote for her for
president.


feed_id: a4e944a68181f071ca5010272f6e2071
title: Safe zone in Syria
uri: Safe-zone-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Safe_zone_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
Turkey 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/turkey-safe-zone-syria-refugees-russian-airstrikes">proposes
to establish a safe zone in Syria</a>, near the Turkish border, for
refugees.
<p>
I think the plan is a good idea, if it can be prevented from leading
to a war between Turkey and Russia.
<p>
Turkey 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/refugees-are-becoming-russias-weapon-of-choice-in-syria">accuses
Russia of intentionally attacking civilians</a> to send them fleeing.
<p>
I would not put this past Putin.  That doesn't prove it is an
intentional plan.  Maybe sending so many people fleeing is just a
byproduct.  If so, Putin clearly does not mind.


feed_id: c28b859db54c9d3e2c112c7ac26ea0f7
title: OSHA violators battle new safety rules
uri: OSHA-violators-battle-new-safety-rules
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28OSHA_violators_battle_new_safety_rules%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/02/13041/federal-contractors-osha-violators-battle-new-rules">Federal
Contractors with History of OSHA Violations Battle New Safety
Rules</a>.


feed_id: 6f80f849ffd1885842ee43dbd5a4be72
title: Patriarchy
uri: Patriarchy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Patriarchy%29
content:
<p>
Women rescued from enslavement by Boko Haram are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/16/women-freed-boko-haram-rejected-for-bringing-bad-blood-back-home-nigeria">rejected
by their own communities</a>.
<p>
This is not only an injustice, it will help Boko Haram too.  They can
tell their captives, "If you escape, your family will hate you.  Your
only future now is with us."
<p>
Patriarchy is so cruel.


feed_id: 21c5befc28097b4045bdadf0efd2dc18
title: Core dogmas of Clinton's party
uri: Core-dogmas-of-Clinton-s-party
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Core_dogmas_of_Clintons_party%29

content:
<p>
The Issue is Not Hillary Clinton's Wall St Links But 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/feb/16/the-issue-is-not-hillary-clintons-wall-st-links-but-her-partys-core-dogmas">Her
Party's Core Dogmas</a>.


feed_id: 8ff2820de2def32c967e7ae7f3d309eb
title: Egyptian thugs
uri: Egyptian-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Egyptian_thugs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/giulio-regeni-death-egypts-brutal-police-spare-no-one">No
one in Egypt is safe from the thugs</a>.  The torture-killing of
Giulio Regeni called attention to what Egyptians suffer every day.


feed_id: c6490868c5f946843806488c7d73227e
title: Facebook's plans
uri: Facebook-s-plans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Facebooks_plans%29
content:
<p>
Why we must defeat Facebook's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/16/viz-magazine-blocked-from-facebook">plans
to become a hub for publication</a>.


feed_id: c3e1a75c5d37d7af5a6c4ca3c457e91d
title: Cluster bombs launched by Saudis
uri: Cluster-bombs-launched-by-Saudis
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Cluster_bombs_launched_by_Saudis%29

content:
<p>
US Shrugs Off Yet Another Report of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/16/us-shrugs-yet-another-report-cluster-bombs-launched-saudis-yemen">Cluster
Bombs Launched By Saudis</a> In Yemen.


feed_id: 0f9955709bf1d36e0ab91989df6d503a
title: Beavers may help control flash floods
uri: Beavers-may-help-control-flash-floods
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Beavers_may_help_control_flash_floods%29

content:
<p>
Beavers Blamed for Flash Floods in Scotland 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/16/beavers-blamed-flash-floods-scotland-control-flooding-study">May
Actually Control Problem</a>.


feed_id: 34cf340ecd23f11a9a11da93bd30519b
title: TTIP
uri: 2016-02-18-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28TTIP%29
content:
<p>
The TTIP would give companies a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/15/how-ttip-threatens-uks-ability-enforce-fair-taxes-corporations">lever
to get rid of taxes</a>.
<p>
Only companies — not people, of course.  After the Corporations
United<a href="#ttip">*</a> decision said that corporations deserve
the same rights as humans, what businesses want is more rights than
humans.
<p>
However, German judges say that there is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/03/german-judges-say-no-need-or-legal-basis-corporate-courts-ttip">no
legal basis for the TTIP's special courts</a>.
<p id="ttip">
* That group of corporations called itself "Citizens United", but I
call it what it was, not what it pretended to me.


feed_id: e0e083ba466491cd7e8c76bda09e6ba6
title: Being friends with a war criminal
uri: Being-friends-with-a-war-criminal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Being_friends_with_a_war_criminal%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/13/why-not-being-friends-war-criminal-henry-kissinger-matters">Why
Not Being Friends With A War Criminal Like Henry Kissinger
Matters</a>:
<p>
A review of Kissinger's 
<a href="http://www.workinglife.org/2016/02/11/boom-kissinger-no-friend-of-mine-foreign-policy-judgement-not-to-get-advice-from-a-war-criminal/">atrocities
and crimes against humanity</a>.  He's not the source from which the
president of the US should seek advice.
<p>
Clinton has done little to distance herself from Kissinger's crimes.


feed_id: 2865ffc0fbee1305d4dcaa4413b6bb87
title: Urgent: Food Recovery Act
uri: Urgent-Food-Recovery-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Food_Recovery_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-congress-reduce-food-waste-now">call
on Congress</a> to support the Food Recovery Act, whose measures would
reduce waste of edible food.


feed_id: ea54e7a50d6f469b50e1d1ee284259a5
title: Urgent: Supreme Court nominees
uri: Urgent-Supreme-Court-nominees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Supreme_Court_nominees%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-the-senate-advise">call
on the Senate</a> to give proper consideration to Obama's Supreme
Court nominees.


feed_id: c67c07460a5f20c7416ec3abb5a3b250
title: Urgent: No religion-based discrimination
uri: Urgent-No-religion-based-discrimination
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_No_religion-based_discrimination%29

content:
<p>
In the US:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/national_rfra">tell
Republican state governors</a> not to legalize religious-based
discrimination.


feed_id: 0ddda57252c82af647251055538f07e7
title: Urgent: Clean energy
uri: Urgent-Clean-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Clean_energy%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://sierra.force.com/actions/National?actionId=AR0032635">support</a>
clean energy in/for US cities.


feed_id: 49aa5397003f2db38191b33f877be657
title: Urgent: Stop net neutrality violation
uri: Urgent-Stop-net-neutrality-violation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_net_neutrality_violation%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/stop-t-mobile/">call on
the FCC</a> to stop T-Mobile from violating Net Neutrality.


feed_id: 9e2282f95b0c58a76c0d887c71ebcb2c
title: Garment workers' low pay
uri: Garment-workers-low-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Garment_workers_low_pay%29
content:
<p>
Marks and Spencer was lauded for pledging to pay garment workers a
living wage.  In practice, the effect of the pledge is nil.  These
workers are paid so little they
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/14/marks-and-spencer-workers-sri-lanka-india-bangladesh-earnings-living-wage-labour-behind-the-label">can
hardly get by</a>.
<p>
The low pay for these workers, and workers in general around the
world, is the intended result of "free trade" treaties.  That's why we
must replace them with a different global system of trade, one that
keeps wages up.


feed_id: b859889eecae22f0f8cb13457cb85148
title: Bangkok bombing suspect retracts confession
uri: Bangkok-bombing-suspect-retracts-confession
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Bangkok_bombing_suspect_retracts_confession%29

content:
<p>
Bangkok Bombing Suspect was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/15/bangkok-bombing-suspect-adem-karadag-tortured-confessing-lawyer">Tortured
into Confessing</a>, Says Lawyer.


feed_id: 44d4f8d0ed8135ccf8030ec291d8c68e
title: Chemical business-funded research
uri: Chemical-business-funded-research
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Chemical_business-funded_research%29

content:
<p>
Chemical businesses fund research — even sheer fiction passing
as research — to give them
<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/08/19223/meet-rented-white-coats-who-defend-toxic-chemicals">excuses
to defeat lawsuits and regulation to protect the public health</a>.


feed_id: c0fc594cd28448945e6f7ec2c07d4f2d
title: Being bilingual helps the brain
uri: Being-bilingual-helps-the-brain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Being_bilingual_helps_the_brain%29

content:
<p>
Being bilingual
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/15/preserving-rare-languages-multilingualism-benefits">helps
the brain</a> — so urge parents not to miss a chance to pass a
minority language on to their children.


feed_id: c86f3e1a10e2ecc447f5e05f0eca2bf4
title: Culture wars
uri: Culture-wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Culture_wars%29
content:
<p>
Why Conservatives start
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/let-us-now-praise-culture-wars">culture
wars</a>, and why they usually lose.


feed_id: 32dfcfbd20cc3f725e3899b505905c15
title: Convicted Egyptian thug gets new trial
uri: Convicted-Egyptian-thug-gets-new-trial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Convicted_Egyptian_thug_gets_new_trial%29

content:
<p>
One of the few Egyptian thugs who was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/14/egyptian-court-overturns-police-officers-conviction-killing-female-protester">convicted
for killing protesters</a> (while most thugs were acquitted) will has
been given a new trial.
<p>
I suppose the idea of convicting a thug was too shocking.


feed_id: 19983a84b79805f32c3db060679ee041
title: Banksters' contempt for the little guys
uri: Banksters-contempt-for-the-little-guys
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Banksters_contempt_for_the_little_guys%29

content:
<p>
Matt Taibbi: banksters and their friends the Clintons have
<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-vampire-squid-tells-us-how-to-vote-20160205">contempt
for the little guys</a> — how irrational of them to dislike
being pushed into poverty and losing their homes!


feed_id: fbd17ee35fb97db7a7d82b1c324d40f1
title: Facebook tracking of non-useds
uri: Facebook-tracking-of-non-useds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Facebook_tracking_of_non-useds%29

content:
<p>
France ordered Facebook to stop
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-france-privacy-idUSKCN0VH1U1">tracking
the browsing of people who are not useds</a>of Facebook.  (Remember,
Facebook does not have users, it has
<a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html">useds</a>.)
<p>
Facebook does this through Like buttons.  The GNU browser
<a href="https://gnu.org/software/icecat">IceCat</a> already blocks
Facebook Like buttons so it cannot track you.


feed_id: 1b784ca3762a939a8dc4787fdc7e2b17
title: Efforts to prevent "radicalization"
uri: Efforts-to-prevent-radicalization
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Efforts_to_prevent_radicalization%29

content:
<p>
Efforts to prevent "radicalization" or "violent extremism"
<a href="media/811b7a6b.oint20Letter20to20High20Commissioner20PVE20FINAL20SIGNATURES.pdf" data-original-source="http://cpj.org/blog/Joint%20Letter%20to%20High%20Commissioner%20PVE%20FINAL%20SIGNATURES.pdf">must
not trample human rights</a>.


feed_id: f697c123ff2ad4f73b4b90a7a8822e54
title: Protests in North Carolina
uri: 2016-02-18-Protests-in-North-Carolina
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Protests_in_North_Carolina%29
content:
<p>Tens of thousands 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/thousands-march-in-north-carolina-to-protest-voter-suppression/">
protested in North Carolina against voter
suppression laws</a>.
</p>


feed_id: b955a523dc13ae60a386ff33680792fe
title: Urgent: Repeal the military draft
uri: Urgent-Repeal-the-military-draft
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Repeal_the_military_draft%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/pass-the-new-bill-to-abolish-the-military-draft">call
for repeal</a> of the military draft.


feed_id: 45b7a7cfce60e6fb09cd1e9ea7c31b5e
title: Urgent: Supreme Court
uri: Urgent-Supreme-Court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Supreme_Court%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/senate-constitutional-duty-SCOTUS/">call
on the Senate</a> to consider Supreme Court nominees promptly.


feed_id: d93edc21bdf662249577f3c1ddfae8e7
title: Urgent: Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act
uri: 2016-02-19-Urgent-Sentencing-Reform-and-Corrections-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Sentencing_Reform_and_Corrections_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/real-criminal-justice-reform">Call
on the Senate</a> to pass the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act.


feed_id: efa44867588e35936ddca11c4797bbfe
title: Missing indigenous women
uri: Missing-indigenous-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Missing_indigenous_women%29
content:
<p>
Many indigenous women in Canada have been murdered or disappeared,
but there are signs it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/17/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-in-canada-could-number-4000">could
be 4000</a> rather than 1000.


feed_id: 1122524be3b7a9ec040d0e80dfa66f7b
title: ID scans at music venues
uri: ID-scans-at-music-venues
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28ID_scans_at_music_venues%29
content:
<p>
Part of Australia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/17/queensland-lockout-laws-set-to-pass-after-deal-with-katter-party-mps">wants
to require music venues to scan guests' IDs</a>, not just to check
their ages.
<p>
This seems to imply a system of massive surveillance, far more
dangerous than occasional fights.


feed_id: dcca983f1f2215075a3ac14ab41e612b
title: Indonesia to attack human rights
uri: Indonesia-to-attack-human-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Indonesia_to_attack_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/17/jakarta-attacks-prompt-tougher-anti-terrorism-laws-in-indonesia">planning
to attack human rights</a>, following the bad examples of Australia
and Malaysia.  People could be jailed for months on mere suspicion.
<p>
One part of the proposal is legitimate: to make it a crime to plan a
terrorist act.


feed_id: 244e1c201738921a9b859172d1204ba0
title: Global heating threatens Australian wine
uri: Global-heating-threatens-Australian-wine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Global_heating_threatens_Australian_wine%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/17/australian-wine-under-threat-from-climate-change-as-grapes-ripen-early">Global
heating</a> threatens Australian wine.
<p>
Vineyards will have to move to Tasmania, to the land where
the old growth forests are burning down.


feed_id: 750089cf39664fb1de893e1a543cd3fd
title: 100 million people short of food
uri: 100-million-people-short-of-food
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28100_million_people_short_of_food%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/17/el-nino-leaves-100-million-people-hungry-short-of-water-droughts-floods-worldwide">100
million people</a> are short of food due to El Niño.


feed_id: c652ce5865bdb96f654c95fcfc41bb70
title: Renewable energy efforts
uri: Renewable-energy-efforts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Renewable_energy_efforts%29
content:
<p>
17 US states have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/16/us-states-renewable-energy-green-economy">agreed
to accelerate renewable energy efforts</a>


feed_id: ae46a7c713dfaaca11868357f8145de8
title: Facebook's plans
uri: 2016-02-19-Facebook-s-plans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_%28Facebooks_plans%29
content:
<p>
Why we must defeat Facebook's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/16/viz-magazine-blocked-from-facebook">plans
to become a hub for publication</a>.
<p>
Facebook 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/17/facebook-viz-magazine-page">apologized
for deleting Viz magazine's page</a>, but the point is that
publications should have to depend on Facebook to act responsibility.


feed_id: 6a1ad463aaae89d125a67e4585b4fadb
title: Urgent: Cut nuclear weapons spending
uri: 2016-02-19-Urgent-Cut-nuclear-weapons-spending
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Cut_nuclear_weapons_spending%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/cacnp/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=149">call
on Obama</a> to cut military and nuclear weapons spending.


feed_id: a4f0be9f14ba0c0d3ab095adfd56bdeb
title: Urgent: Thank Kamala Harris
uri: Urgent-Thank-Kamala-Harris
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_Kamala_Harris%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://www.climatehawksvote.com/thank_kamala_harris">Thank
Kamala Harris</a> for investigating Exxon's climate lies.


feed_id: 76d58fd28ea00a6f1e348624e27f42c9
title: Urgent: Tongass National Forest
uri: Urgent-Tongass-National-Forest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Tongass_National_Forest%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://sierra.force.com/actions/National?actionId=AR0034248">call
for an end to clearcutting</a> in the Tongass National Forest.


feed_id: b300f6995ca6dda7450f80c585f1d9c3
title: Sale of oil and gas leases
uri: Sale-of-oil-and-gas-leases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Sale_of_oil_and_gas_leases%29
content:
<p>
Climate activists protested the
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/16/100-climate-activists-protest-blm-oil-gas-auction-utah">US
government's sale of oil and gas leases</a>.


feed_id: adab4eece07d62ab93a02b4ba7be435d
title: Failure of the Brazilian state
uri: Failure-of-the-Brazilian-state
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Failure_of_the_Brazilian_state%29

content:
<p>
Zika turns the spotlight on the failure of the Brazilian state
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/16/zika-mosquito-brazil-inequality-brazilian-government">to
attend to the people's needs</a>.


feed_id: 1844e179719ee3e3358822ee8521e8c5
title: Natural gas myth
uri: Natural-gas-myth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Natural_gas_myth%29
content:
<p>
The European Commission's plan for "sustainable energy" is based on
the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/16/europe-places-bets-on-natural-gas-to-secure-energy-future">natural
gas myth</a>.
<p>
It formerly appeared that natural gas produced less greenhouse effect
than other fossil fuels, but that was based on failing to take account
of the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_August_2015_(Gas_wells_leak)">methane
leaks</a>.


feed_id: b5400ee06ce5399ec71206ceedb3cf20
title: Privatization of public services
uri: Privatization-of-public-services
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Privatization_of_public_services%29

content:
<p>
Privatization of public services, such as schools, hospitals and
prisons, leads to perverse incentives, so that the company
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/30/perils-privatization">oppresses
people to profit</a>.
<p>
New Rate Survey of 500 U.S. Water Systems Finds
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/16/new-rate-survey-500-us-water-systems-finds-private-water-providers-charge-58">Private
Water Providers Charge 58% More</a>.
<p>
Of course — they need to make a profit somewhere.


feed_id: d3831413a77b7eb0bbf736eed06405c0
title: "Preserving balance" to Washington Post
uri: Preserving-balance-to-Washington-Post
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Preserving_balance_to_Washington_Post%29

content:
<p>
To the Washington Post,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/15/preserving-balance-maintaining-conservative-supreme-court">perpetuating
a right-wing majority on the Supreme Court</a> is "preserving
balance".


feed_id: 5eb8009db4081cecabf8636a1d88cbe7
title: UK incomes
uri: UK-incomes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28UK_incomes%29
content:
<p>
A report says UK incomes have returned to the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/15/uk-living-standards-return-to-pre-financial-crash-levels">pre-crash
level</a>.
<p>
I suspect, however, that this does not take account of the way
house costs and rents have ballooned.


feed_id: 6390b99766d0494dce1d1507bd49a4de
title: Urgent: Tear down Yellowstone dam
uri: Urgent-Tear-down-Yellowstone-dam
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Tear_down_Yellowstone_dam%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3041">call
on the US Army</a> to tear down Yellowstone dam and save the Pallid
Sturgeon.


feed_id: 4978e29a1694d05f7685b166fb4678b9
title: Urgent: Net neutrality
uri: 2016-02-20-Urgent-Net-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Net_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/stop-t-mobile/">call on
the FCC</a> to stop T-Mobile from violating Net Neutrality.


feed_id: 9905edc3e3a55cad9a657965429c6cb3
title: Lead in Chicago's water
uri: Lead-in-Chicago-s-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Lead_in_Chicago%27s_water%29
content:
<p>Lead in Chicago's water supply is the cause of a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/18/chicago-class-action-lawsuit-water-contamination-lead-pipes">lawsuit.</a>


feed_id: d1fc3117699f4931ce4eb66107ed6b1d
title: Abortions in South America
uri: Abortions-in-South-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Abortions_in_South_America%29
content:
<p>Women in South America are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/18/vatican-says-abortion-is-illegitimate-response-to-zika-virus">begging for help to get abortions.</a>
<p>It appears that microcephaly can be detected at 22 weeks.  That's not too late for an abortion a fetus with a grave birth defect.


feed_id: 5d7491e3f12c9a7c5bed9f884b24a9ab
title: NSA algorithm
uri: NSA-algorithm
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28NSA_algorithm%29
content:
<p>The NSA's algorithm for detecting al Qa'ida couriers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2016/feb/18/has-a-rampaging-ai-algorithm-really-killed-thousands-in-pakistan">was an experiment,</a> not a system used to choose targets.


feed_id: 8d4ea5371310b97bf91d448f2ef87b26
title: Times' coverage of Iraq
uri: Times-coverage-of-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Times%27_coverage_of_Iraq%29
content:
<p>The New York Times is suing the author and publisher of a book which shows how the Times' coverage of the US conquest of Iraq <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/12/why-is-the-new-york-times-suing-over-an-art-book.html">glorified that war.</a>
<p>Fair use in the US is not an explicit right, just a defense available
to those accused of copyright infringement.  Thus, even if you are
pretty sure from precedents that you're going to win the case on
grounds of fair use, you're still in a perilous position.


feed_id: a9d31854a05a59807b904951f15e843a
title: American public schools
uri: American-public-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28American_public_schools%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/17/reclaim-our-schools-cities-rally-nationwide-save-public-education">Americans rallied at 800 public schools</a> to oppose school budget cuts, violation of local democratic control of schools, and imposed standardized tests.


feed_id: 67cedb1c58bf1d5b83cd05e45db50b9a
title: Catholic hospitals in the US
uri: Catholic-hospitals-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Catholic_hospitals_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>Patients are suing a US Catholic organization for its <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/18/michigan-catholic-hospital-women-miscarriage-abortion-mercy-health-partners">broad interpretation</a> of the policy of not doing abortions, which it imposes on Catholic hospitals in the US.
<p>The Catholic Church should remove itself from operating hospitals rather than impose its dogma on patients.


feed_id: d9eaab412b54185de33a402794785aa2
title: Netanyahu and Israeli hawks
uri: Netanyahu-and-Israeli-hawks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Netanyahu_and_Israeli_hawks%29
content:
<p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/18/hillary-clinton-with-little-notice-vows-to-embrace-an-extremist-agenda-on-israel/
">Clinton promises total support</a> for Netanyahu and Israeli hawks.


feed_id: 856f13ba5237f1dadf476e5c847498a6
title: Spills of toxic chemicals
uri: Spills-of-toxic-chemicals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Spills_of_toxic_chemicals%29
content:
<p>The EPA will start making <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/17/after-more-40-years-epa-will-act-hazardous-industrial-spills">rules</a> to prevent spills of toxic chemicals.


feed_id: 41340be65a527f6a185b1ec18fdf5352
title: Russian censorship of childrens' books
uri: Russian-censorship-of-childrens-books
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Russian_censorship_of_childrens%27_books%29

content:
<p>Russian censorship of childrens' books is so <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/17/the-horror-story-of-publishing-childrens-books-in-moscow/">absurdly strict</a> that it provides a wonderful tool for selective enforcement, and for squeezing publishers.


feed_id: 11d390dedcee31f8d4562ef1ba7f51c7
title: Superdelegates that support Clinton
uri: Superdelegates-that-support-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Superdelegates_that_support_Clinton%29

content:
<p>Some of the superdelegates that support Clinton <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/17/voters-be-damned/">are actually lobbyists.</a>


feed_id: 824a17d71a050b6c5c1e504239550d25
title: Extended state of emergency
uri: Extended-state-of-emergency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Extended_state_of_emergency%29
content:
<p>France has extended its state of emergency <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/17/france-extends-freedom-threatening-state-emergency">for another three months.</a>  The emergency powers don't seem to have done much good so far, except for the fossil fuel companies by <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_February_2016_(Uganda)">crushing rallies</a> during the Paris climate meeting.


feed_id: d629dc23b110425383599b99ca6b1636
title: Stopping killer robots
uri: Stopping-killer-robots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Stopping_killer_robots%29
content:
<p>Why Stopping Killer Robots Is A <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/faggella20160217">Battle Worth Fighting.</a>


feed_id: 1798aa82ad1ccac546ad75210112980b
title: Tories' attack on poor people
uri: Tories-attack-on-poor-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Tories%27_attack_on_poor_people%29

content:
<p>The Tories' latest attack on poor people is to eliminate funding for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/feb/17/housing-benefit-womens-refuges-domestic-violence">refuges for women victims of domestic violence.</a>


feed_id: a83b32ea10231049ca54d526eae4debc
title: Demolition by Israel
uri: Demolition-by-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Demolition_by_Israel%29
content:
<p>Israel's soldiers demolish Palestinians' houses, farms, even outhouses <a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=71594
">over and over.</a>
<p>"Every single child of these families who experienced the arrival of
the bulldozers and army jeep at dawn needs no social networks to hate
and hate more."


feed_id: 48d4c3118f0100ab61403cf1de2e6056
title: Electromagnetic waves
uri: Electromagnetic-waves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Electromagnetic_waves%29
content:
<p>People who report sensitivity to electromagnetic waves may really be suffering from something, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/feb/17/electromagnetic-radiation-doesnt-make-you-ill-or-give-you-cancer-heres-why">it isn't caused by electromagnetic waves.</a>


feed_id: 04efc5af24529093fdcc558b277fb135
title: Runaway inequality in the US
uri: Runaway-inequality-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Runaway_inequality_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>Runaway inequality in the US has <a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-americas-superrich-are-draining-poor-longer-life-span
">extended</a> from wealth to life span.


feed_id: 257631e919c18c6d09f3af4bbfb1e38d
title: Subsidizing fossil fuel
uri: Subsidizing-fossil-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Subsidizing_fossil_fuel%29
content:
<p>Venezuela has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/18/venezuela-president-raises-fuel-price-by-1300-and-devalues-bolivar-to-tackle-crisis">raised the price of gasoline</a> — a very important measure.
<p>Subsidizing fossil fuel puts the whole world in danger.


feed_id: 1f81a6b5846acdbc02ed1a625f312591
title: NHS is degrading
uri: NHS-is-degrading
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28NHS_is_degrading%29
content:
<p>The UK's local medical care directors say the NHS is degrading under the impact of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/18/nhs-providing-poorer-care-as-funding-crisis-deepens-says-survey">Tory funding cuts.</a>
<p>It has been clear for years that the Tories aimed to destroy the NHS but were unwilling to say so.


feed_id: e87cbbc55460c2f557ef549ea0829e30
title: Hindu fanaticism
uri: Hindu-fanaticism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Hindu_fanaticism%29
content:
<p>Kanhaiya Kumar, charged with "sedition" for criticizing India's trampling of human rights, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/17/india-kanhaiya-kumar-student-sedition-jawaharlal-nehru-university-delhi">was attacked in court</a> by a Hindu-extremist fanatic.
<p>Hindu fanaticism has been a dangerous force in India since before
India was founded.  Shortly after that, a Hindu fanatic assassinated
Gandhi.
<p>As for charges of "sedition", any state that charges a person with
"sedition" (under whatever name) convicts itself of oppression.


feed_id: 024fccfb0dee866ceee6b7c2f09c63fd
title: Burundi is crushing independent media
uri: Burundi-is-crushing-independent-media
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Burundi_is_crushing_independent_media%29

content:
<p>Burundi is crushing independent media, trying to hide the repression so as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/17/radio-silence-burundis-media-targeted-in-ongoing-political-crisis">to pretend that the situation is normal.</a>
<p>Meanwhile, the country is plagued by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/18/burundi-major-crisis-unicef-violence-malnutrition-malaria-cholera">hunger and disease.</a>


feed_id: 1c1478e360bd8ccbc0671b9ccd2a7d0e
title: Netanyahu a war criminal
uri: Netanyahu-a-war-criminal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Netanyahu_a_war_criminal%29
content:
<p>As <a href="http://www.martinlejeune.com/?p=3084">protesters in Berlin</a> called Netanyahu a war criminal German thugs threatened to prosecute them for saying so.
<p>Another instance of disrespect for freedom of speech.


feed_id: c9661e7b8765d02f376c02e9cf5afee1
title: Selling student debt
uri: Selling-student-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Selling_student_debt%29
content:
<p>The US government is selling student debt to <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/02/us-marshals-forcibly-collecting-student-debt.html?mid=twitter-share-di">collection agencies,</a> which immediately pile on more debt, and send US marshals to arrest debtors.
<p>A plutocratic state regards the people as its prey.


feed_id: 2a4127f17e46a6117f8c1e73e27038f1
title: Big Pharma whitewash
uri: Big-Pharma-whitewash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Big_Pharma_whitewash%29
content:
<p>Big Pharma is trying to whitewash its image with a campaign directed only at <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/17/how-big-pharma-trying-improve-its-image">7000 elite policymakers.</a>
<p>This way, they avoid the embarrassment that would result if the rest of us saw their bullshit.


feed_id: 0b655a3074596c29f8b418ffd5446181
title: Shot for choosing who to marry
uri: Shot-for-choosing-who-to-marry
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Shot_for_choosing_who_to_marry%29

content:
<p>Each year, a thousand other women in Pakistan are murdered by their families.  Sharmeen Obaid was shot by her father for choosing who to marry.  By a freak accident, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/14/sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-interview-saba-qaiser-honour-killing-documentary-girl-river-oscar-nomination">she survived to tell the tale.</a>
<p>The killer <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/world/saba-qaisers-father-shot-her-in-the-head-as-an-honour-killing-but-she-lived-20160201-gmicaj.html?skin=text-only">got off without punishment</a> after she was pressured to "forgive" him.
<p>Until state punishes these killers, private revenge is justified. Feminists in Pakistan would be justified in organizing to kill these killers.


feed_id: 3bffb0275248a3c874058ee5a3f565a3
title: Monitor torture in Egypt
uri: Monitor-torture-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Monitor_torture_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>The Nadeem Centre for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence tries to monitor torture in Egypt.  The government, finding this embarrassing, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/18/egyptian-authorities-move-to-shut-down-torture-watchdog">is shutting it down.</a>


feed_id: cc0ecee7bd0e59bc85ef619505d1888c
title: Flint's expensive water bills
uri: Flint-s-expensive-water-bills
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Flint%27s_expensive_water_bills%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/while-lead-flowed-through-taps-flint-had-most-expensive-water-nation">While Lead Flowed Through the Pipes,</a> Flint Residents Paid America's Most Expensive Water Bills.


feed_id: 658678e3af90f3c15519a7ece32c5273
title: CIA false reports
uri: CIA-false-reports
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28CIA_false_reports%29
content:
<p>John Kiriakou: The CIA officially tells agents to make false reports, which supposedly will be corrected by other reports.  But sometimes the false reports are <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_redacted_truth_about_the_cia_20160217">passed on to Congress</a> and the corrections are not.


feed_id: 0c2e8a43281e5e055891ad9af9787fcf
title: San Francisco's wealthy
uri: San-Francisco-s-wealthy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28San_Francisco%27s_wealthy%29
content:
<p>A particularly arrogant selfish jerk made the callous cruelty of San Francisco's wealthy people <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/17/san-francisco-tech-open-letter-i-dont-want-to-see-homeless-riff-raff">manifest.</a>


feed_id: c994a91bc6af2ae8faa7d775150d24de
title: "Official" TPP text
uri: Official-TPP-text
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Official_TPP_text%29
content:
<p>After the "official" TPP text was posted, a sneaky one-word change was made that make the copyright provisions <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/sneaky-change-tpp-drastically-extends-criminal-penalties">even nastier.</a>


feed_id: 669f888d972ee73a488682a70a1cbd42
title: Tyrannical government of the Maldives
uri: Tyrannical-government-of-the-Maldives
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Tyrannical_government_of_the_Maldives%29

content:
<p>The tyrannical government of the Maldives imprisoned an opposition politician for "terrorism" because <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/17/maldives-court-jails-opposition-figure-sheikh-imran-abdulla-for-12-years">he led a protest against the
imprisonment of dissidents.</a>
<p>In most countries, "anti-terrorism" measures are a far bigger danger to the people than terrorism itself.  Labeling of dissent as
"terrorism" is a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_July_2015_(Canadas_new_terrorism_law)">world-wide tendency,</a> found also in the US.


feed_id: dc635c7f8e00225c14d37b3c37389b4c
title: Better solution for Zika
uri: Better-solution-for-Zika
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Better_solution_for_Zika%29
content:
<p>Strange that governments urge women not to get pregnant and do not <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/feb/17/three-letter-word-missing-zika-warnings-men">urge men not to get women pregnant.</a>
<p>I think it is ridiculous to demand that either men or women go without sex for years, when a better solution is available.
<p>There is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/17/zika-hysteria-health-expert-research-leslie-lobel">no solid proof</a> that Zika causes microencephaly, but evidence is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/17/brazilian-study-boosts-theory-that-zika-causes-birth-defect">accumulating.</a>  There's enough evidence to base practical decisions on the
likelihood.  Life decisions cannot always wait for scientific
certainty, which can take many years to achieve.
<p>It is plausible for an insecticide to cause birth defects, but
implausible that the insecticide alone could explain the big increase
in microencephaly between 2014 and 2015 in Brazil.
<p>Perhaps the microencephaly results from the combination of Zika and a
pesticide.  Or maybe this idea can be ruled out, if some of the cases
occurred in cities and the pesticide is used only on farms.


feed_id: 448ce72792caaf9bb2ca36672e909831
title: Nevada's solar industry
uri: Nevada-s-solar-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Nevada%27s_solar_industry%29
content:
<p>Sanders And Clinton Offer <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/02/16/3749765/bernie-sanders-nevada-solar-workers/">Different Solutions</a> For Nevada's Sabotaged Solar Industry.


feed_id: 02cace08e336ccb4d68e0acc6cc62ae6
title: Syrian towns besieged
uri: Syrian-towns-besieged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Syrian_towns_besieged%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/17/syria-humanitarian-aid-convoys-madaya-zabadani">Seven Syrian towns</a> are besieged and lack food and medicine.


feed_id: 5a25d8bfbf11cc4732397730f453ec4e
title: Climate mayhem
uri: 2016-02-20-Climate-mayhem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_February_2016_%28Climate_mayhem%29
content:
<p>In trying to cope with climate mayhem, we must admit that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/17/climate-change-admit-we-cant-save-everything">we can't save everything.</a>  As global heating advances and causes additional mayhem, we will
have to choose what to protect.
<p>The only way we <em>can</em> save everything — at least, everything
that will only become threatened at later stages of heating — is to
keep the fossil fuels in the ground.  This is why spending money
on mitigation instead of emissions reduction is total folly.


feed_id: d97d2aa440c768323682df92b9edd5cd
title: French gov't deal with Microsoft
uri: French-gov-t-deal-with-Microsoft
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28French_govt_deal_with_Microsoft%29

content:
<p>
French free software groups are
<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/free-software-groups-protest-france-school-software-deal">suing
the government for signing a deal with Microsoft</a>.  They accuse
Microsoft of dumping.
<p>
The main wrong in the Microsoft deal is not an issue of competition,
but that it is
<a href="http://gnu.org/education/edu-schools.html">trying to impose
dependence on user-subjugating software</a> on the country.


feed_id: c1a641310ca1c12daf51cab5d875324b
title: Police shooting scandals
uri: Police-shooting-scandals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Police_shooting_scandals%29
content:
<p>
Five Places [in the US] Where Police Shooting Scandals Have
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/black-lives-matter-police-shootings-elections">Altered
the Political Landscape</a>.


feed_id: 3b5176e5b7c4c91a68d522aeeeb7d4da
title: US policy in Syria based on fiction
uri: US-policy-in-Syria-based-on-fiction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28US_policy_in_Syria_based_on_fiction%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/17/obamas-moderate-syrian-deception">US
policy in Syria</a> is based on the fiction that a "moderate" armed
opposition exists which is separate from al-Nusra (al-Qa'ida).
<p>
Obama and his top staff must know this.  What I don't see is what they
hope to achieve.  Convert part of al-Qa'ida into a US ally?  It might
not be a ridiculous idea, given that nearly all sides in Syria have
committed great crimes (the exception being the Kurds).  But if we can
forgive al-Qa'ida its crimes, why not Assad too?


feed_id: ba8b4c722bc494e05d0b9cd1955805f4
title: Spike in methane emissions
uri: Spike-in-methane-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Spike_in_methane_emissions%29
content:
<p>
US 'Likely Culprit' of Global
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/17/us-likely-culprit-of-global-spike-in-methane-emissions-over-last-decade">Spike
in Methane Emissions Over Last Decade</a>.
<p>
It's the result of
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_September_2014_(Methane_leaks_from_fracking)">fracking</a>.


feed_id: 0a002cf11f6810a39665c5034b7c025e
title: Urgent: Stand up for net neutrality
uri: Urgent-Stand-up-for-net-neutrality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stand_up_for_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/fcc_zero_rating">call on the
FCC</a> to stand up for network neutrality.


feed_id: 6c9e1eae16299ed9fd3856bddfa981a1
title: Labour Party concerned about anti-semitism
uri: Labour-Party-concerned-about-anti-semitism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Labour_Party_concerned_about_anti-semitism%29

content:
<p>
The UK Labour Party is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/17/labour-condemns-antisemitism-oxford-university-labour-club-claims">concerned
about anti-semitism in its student club at Oxford</a>.
<p>
I agree with the opposition to anti-semitism; however, the claim that
comparing Israel's occupation with apartheid constitutes
"anti-semitism" makes me concerned that their definition of
"anti-semitism" is too broad and that this is being used as an excuse
to repress criticism of Israel.


feed_id: dbbc0213b0e8ea870a943364e0dbd482
title: Ban on boycotts
uri: Ban-on-boycotts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Ban_on_boycotts%29
content:
<p>
The UK government has
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/israel-boycott-local-councils-public-bodies-and-student-unions-to-be-banned-from-shunning-israeli-a6874006.html">banned
many entities from boycotting companies</a> for several reasons,
including involvement in arms trade and involvement in tobacco.
<p>
Boycotts Are Vital to Democracy.
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/18/boycotts-vital-democracy-tories-ban-them">So
That's Why the Tories Will Ban Them</a>.
<p>
The Tories are attacking democracy in the UK on a wide range of
fronts, including
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_October_2015_(Tory_voter_suppression)">voter
suppression</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_December_2015_(UK_Tories_adapting_Republican_gerrymandering)">gerrymandering</a>,
and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_January_2016_(Cutting_union_funding_for_Labour_Party)">attacks
on Labour party funding</a>.  This adds up to a plan to quash
democracy and seize permanent power while pretending not to.
<p>
The Tories are
<a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">lower than
vermin</a>.


feed_id: b8a02cbc7460265599b4e2c41a388f87
title: Israeli terrorism
uri: Israeli-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Israeli_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
Israel's politicians
<a href="http://al-bushra.org/?p=5060">openly propose annexing part of
the West Bank</a>.
<p>
The Israeli Labor party
<a href="http://972mag.com/why-herzogs-diplomatic-plan-looks-an-awful-lot-like-apartheid/116946/">proposes
permanent apartheid in the West Bank, and terror bombing of civilians
in Gaza</a>.
<p>
Terrorism means making war on civilians.  It doesn't become any more
legitimate when the bombs are fired from planes instead of carried by
suiciders.


feed_id: 8a7ce590c799d86264760ceed094b8cc
title: Israel's parliament
uri: 2016-02-20-Israel-s-parliament
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Israels_parliament%29
content:
<p>
Israel's parliament is
<a href="http://972mag.com/knesset-hearing-on-unflattering-press-coverage-looks-like-witch-hunt/116858/">trying
to prevent "biased" (that is, critical) foreign press coverage</a>.


feed_id: 7e8d7bf7f050115c331ecced653951da
title: Big banks danger to society
uri: Big-banks-danger-to-society
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Big_banks_danger_to_society%29
content:
<p>
Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis,
says the
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/16/unlikely-critic-says-banks-still-too-big-fail-pose-nuclear-risk-us-economy">big
banks remain a danger to society</a>.
<p>
We know that the US
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-nov-feb.html#04%20November%202009%20(Absence%20of%20strong%20reforms)">has
not adopted the necessary reforms to prevent the banks from causing
another crisis</a>.  The banksters did not allow sufficient reforms.
It is interesting to see a member of the financial structure say so.


feed_id: 6ad7a1ff9748a986ec9f9d735812a2ff
title: Fight to keep fossil fuel in ground
uri: Fight-to-keep-fossil-fuel-in-ground
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Fight_to_keep_fossil_fuel_in_ground%29

content:
<p>
The fight to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/16/why-we-need-keep-80-percent-fossil-fuels-ground">keep
80% of fossil fuel reserves in the ground</a> is making great
progress, but it's a race against the clock.
<p>
As part of this campaign,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/16/bidding-planets-future-activists-disrupt-fossil-fuel-auction-utah">protesters
disrupted a US auction of oil and gas leases</a>.


feed_id: 472f90588fb4e204328d10ab4e20423c
title: The pragmatic case for voting for Sanders
uri: The-pragmatic-case-for-voting-for-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28The_pragmatic_case_for_voting_for_Sanders%29

content:
<p>
The pragmatic case for voting for Sanders:
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/the-pragmatic-case-for-bernie-sanders/462720/">Clinton
is less electable</a>, and her vaunted "experience" consists of
supporting hawks and plutocrats.


feed_id: b9aeb55e188d2211d918de466095bafb
title: Tracking voters
uri: Tracking-voters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Tracking_voters%29
content:
<p>
The practice of
<a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/3031378/security/voter-targeting-becomes-voter-surveillance.html">tracking
voters through massive surveillance</a> threatens further danger to
democracy as well.


feed_id: da9662aeeff67ad5c34c776ff6f4e418
title: Sit-in strike in Lexmark factory
uri: Sit-in-strike-in-Lexmark-factory
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Sit-in_strike_in_Lexmark_factory%29

content:
<p>
Workers fired from a Lexmark factory in Mexico are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/17/juarez-factory-workers-protest-rights-occupy-style-sit-in-lexmark">holding
a sit-in strike</a>.
<p>
When NAFTA gave Lexmark the option of moving its factory to Mexico, it
gave Lexmark the option of treating workers like dirt.  I have nothing
against hiring Mexicans; I object to mistreating workers in any
country or paying them so little.


feed_id: 164dd74b18e1b1e9e2ef8874b642a1a7
title: Investigating one suspect
uri: Investigating-one-suspect
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Investigating_one_suspect%29
content:
<p>
A judge
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160216/17393733617/no-judge-did-not-just-order-apple-to-break-encryption-san-bernardino-shooters-iphone-to-create-new-backdoor.shtml">ordered
Apple to change the software in a suspect's iThing</a> so that
investigators can try more than 10 different passwords.
<p>
(I say "suspect", because legally that's what's pertinent; but there
is little doubt that this suspect, now deceased, was guilty of
murder.)
<p>
I do not object to this in principle, because it is part of
investigating one suspect and doesn't imply snooping on everyone.


feed_id: 71b42c82250417dea0a47e53d07f82af
title: Global heating to worsen US groundwater shortage
uri: Global-heating-to-worsen-US-groundwater-shortage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Global_heating_to_worsen_US_groundwater_shortage%29

content:
<p>Global heating will 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2016-02-climate-affect-western-groundwater.html?utm_source=menu&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=item-menu">
make the groundwater shortage worse</a>
 in parts of the US.
</p>


feed_id: 28d26d1091a2f9b085fa17e30f46d501
title: Florida to strip funding from BDS organizations
uri: Florida-to-strip-funding-from-BDS-organizations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Florida_to_strip_funding_from_BDS_organizations%29

content:
<p>Florida is 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34848-florida-legislators-quietly-vote-to-strip-state-funding-from-groups-associated-with-bds">
passing a bill to make a list of organizations</a>
 that support
boycott, divestment or sanctions directed at the occupation of Palestine,
and specifically cut funding to them.
</p>
<p>Similar bills have been proposed in Illinois and California.</p>
<p>These are not local initiatives.  It is an extension to the US
of the campaign to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/current.html#20_February_2016_(Israeli_law_to_kick_elected_Arabs_out_of_Parliament)">
prohibit dissent</a>
 in Israel.
</p>


feed_id: bb9c70d99b426488fb7b9f0177d37708
title: Global climate mayhem
uri: Global-climate-mayhem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Global_climate_mayhem%29
content:
<p>Global climate mayhem 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34853-the-beetles-eighty-nine-million-acres-of-abrupt-climate-change">
has happened before</a>,
 and it causes entire ecosystems
to collapse and disappear.
</p>


feed_id: 23f751c812b79cb905fb581a65ada36b
title: Trumps admiration for atrocity
uri: Trumps-admiration-for-atrocity
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Trumps_admiration_for_atrocity%29

content:
<p>Trump stated his 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/19/trump-appears-to-endorse-executing-terrorists-citing-questionable-history">
admiration for an atrocity</a>
 (perhaps mythical) attributed to US General Pershing in the colonized
Philippines,
</p>
<p>I've read (though not in detail) that the US's suppression of the
Philippines in 1900, when it had kicked out Spanish rule, was quite
brutal.</p>


feed_id: 0c17ae82c44200393237455727a2aeb5
title: Sanders leading over Clinton in National poll
uri: Sanders-leading-over-Clinton-in-National-poll
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Sanders_leading_over_Clinton_in_National_poll%29

content:
<p>Sanders now 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/19/surging-sanders-nabs-first-national-lead-over-clinton-poll-shows">
leads Clinton</a>
 in a national poll.
</p>
<p>Clinton's strategy of trying to prevent voters from learning about
Sanders,
by having few debates and obscure ones, was cunning, and it almost
worked.
Maybe now it will fail.</p>


feed_id: 6e380acb227449211d476a1a9821ea95
title: Hired actors play concerned citizens
uri: Hired-actors-play-concerned-citizens
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Hired_actors_play_concerned_citizens%29

content:
<p>A company 
<a href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Concerned-Citizens-Turn-Out-to-Be-Political-Theater-369230811.html">
hires actors</a>
 to pretend to be "concerned citizens",
reading from scripts.
</p>


feed_id: b2f1b7d85d6d5f2462841d2e9b898f88
title: Additional Volkswagen lies
uri: Additional-Volkswagen-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Additional_Volkswagen_lies%29
content:
<p>Documents show 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/business/volkswagen-memos-suggest-emissions-problem-was-known-earlier.html">
additional Volkswagen lies</a>
 about the overpolluting cars.
</p>


feed_id: 39a7a425e61b1fdca920e4bf00685509
title: The case against tipping
uri: The-case-against-tipping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28The_case_against_tipping%29
content:
<p>Some US states long ago banned paying low wages to employees and telling
them
to 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/18/i-dare-you-to-read-this-and-still-feel-ok-about-tipping-in-the-united-states/">
make it up with tips</a>.
  It works fine.
</p>
<p>I tip waiters in restaurants, because I know they depend on it, but I
would rather get rid of the practice and require employers to pay them
an adequate wage.</p>


feed_id: c3b1b0c459659fde1db172fded68b68d
title: Five questions for the CIA Director
uri: Five-questions-for-the-CIA-Director
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Five_questions_for_the_CIA_Director%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/19/5-questions-for-cia-director-john-brennan/">
Five questions</a>
 to ask CIA Director Brennan.
</p>


feed_id: 344e854453d4688497dc3861b4a429ec
title: Urgent: protect wildlife refuges from drilling
uri: Urgent-protect-wildlife-refuges-from-drilling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_protect_wildlife_refuges_from_drilling%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call for strong rules to 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3037">
protect US wildlife refuges</a>
 from oil and gas drilling.
</p>


feed_id: 2b5b89bebbbf034d8b3419ccba2065ef
title: How to reduce inequality
uri: How-to-reduce-inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28How_to_reduce_inequality%29
content:
<p>To reduce inequality, we need to 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/inequality-will-not-go-away-on-its-own-heres-how-to-close-the-gap/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=daily">
change the rules</a>
 that the super-rich
have set up to grab most of the wealth that we produce.
</p>


feed_id: 8c8a5b045be52a69e18240a2565d54ab
title: Exxon still spreading misinformation
uri: Exxon-still-spreading-misinformation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Exxon_still_spreading_misinformation%29

content:
<p>Exxon is still 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/18/its-not-just-what-exxon-did-its-what-its-doing">
lobbying and spreading misinformation</a>
 about global heating, trying to stop society from protecting itself from
the likes
of Exxon.
</p>


feed_id: 823e16eef441790d5d116fb583fd0743
title: Released after 43 years in solitary for bogus charges
uri: Released-after-43-years-in-solitary-for-bogus-charges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Released_after_43_years_in_solitary_for_bogus_charges%29

content:
<p>Prisoner Albert Woodfox, who has been in solitary confinement for 43
years after bogus trials, was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/19/albert-woodfox-released-louisiana-jail-43-years-solitary-confinement">
released from prison</a>.
</p>
<p>(The article was written before the release took place; I've heard
elsewhere that it did occur.)</p>


feed_id: 6ecd43c65e2b9e2b8ed7a8e36fc5dcff
title: Housing for homeless veterans in Connecticut
uri: Housing-for-homeless-veterans-in-Connecticut
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Housing_for_homeless_veterans_in_Connecticut%29

content:
<p>Connecticut has 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/02/18/3750951/connecticut-end-veteran-homelessness/">
arranged housing</a>
 for all its homeless veterans.
</p>
<p>All states should do this — but not just for veterans.</p>


feed_id: 96fdf3ebc7db9e059e5319efb436feab
title: Urgent: demand vote on sentencing reform
uri: Urgent-demand-vote-on-sentencing-reform
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_demand_vote_on_sentencing_reform%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Senator McConnell to 
<a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/demand-vote-sentencing-reform">
allow a vote</a>
 on sentence reduction.
</p>


feed_id: 2da7fb16c1bb0892adf61be678df617c
title: Urgent: tell Senate not to undermine financial oversight agencies
uri: Urgent-tell-Senate-not-to-undermine-financial-oversight-agencies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Senate_not_to_undermine_financial_oversight_agencies%29

content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.civilrights.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=5305">
call on the Senate</a>
 not to undermine the independence of financial oversight agencies.
</p>


feed_id: e7fd1c30a2cf087aaf6861bfc0b1b364
title: Ocean heating harming marine species
uri: Ocean-heating-harming-marine-species
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Ocean_heating_harming_marine_species%29

content:
<p>Ocean heating is 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/18/3750843/hot-water-soaring-ocean-temperatures-threaten-marine-life/">
harming</a>
 some marine species.
</p>


feed_id: 256789fcf792c178b03021ec990e4325
title: Sexism among Ebay shoppers
uri: Sexism-among-Ebay-shoppers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Sexism_among_Ebay_shoppers%29
content:
<p>An experiment shows shoppers on Ebay 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/19/ebay-study-shows-online-shoppers-are-subconsciously-sexist">
act in a sexist way</a>.
  For most products, they offer a higher bid if the seller is male.
</p>
<p>For a few products, the effect goes the other way.</p>
<p>Sexism has been demonstrated in other areas; for instance, evaluation
of the merit of scientific work is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/current.html#14_February_2016_(Sexism)">
affected by sexism</a>.
</p>
<p>My father's second wife was a painter.  When she was young, she signed
her
paintings with a name that could be take for masculine, to avert sexism.
Her paintings sold better that way.</p>


feed_id: 408dce6f05fb2db598f9cb1c85fd4954
title: CO2 makes coral vulnerable to viruses
uri: CO2-makes-coral-vulnerable-to-viruses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28CO2_makes_coral_vulnerable_to_viruses%29

content:
<p>Increased CO2 in the water may not directly wipe out coral, but makes
coral 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/19/climate-change-will-lead-to-deformed-and-virus-hit-coral-reefs">
deformed and more more vulnerable to viruses</a>.
Young coral organisms have special difficulty, so a reef might not
recover
after events that kill part of it.</p>


feed_id: d7905ff5be14d3981a8a08573e664fd3
title: Stop Trump, vote Sanders now
uri: Stop-Trump-vote-Sanders-now
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Stop_Trump%2C_vote_Sanders_now%29

content:
<p>If you want to stop Trump in November, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/18/certainly-sanders-moment-poll-shows-bernie-beating-all-gop-hopefuls">
vote for Sanders now</a>.
</p>


feed_id: c9b4ff37a96c37ebf76633ad14030fc4
title: EPA to investigate pesticide effects on endangered species
uri: EPA-to-investigate-pesticide-effects-on-endangered-species
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28EPA_to_investigate_pesticide_effects_on_endangered_species%29

content:
<p>The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/19/historic-settlement-wildlife-agency-will-finally-examine-how-roundup-atrazine">
EPA will investigate</a>
 how pesticides, including Roundup, affect endangered species.
</p>


feed_id: 9b68e350b581040a54e3a06604c25999
title: Israeli law to kick elected Arabs out of Parliament
uri: Israeli-law-to-kick-elected-Arabs-out-of-Parliament
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Israeli_law_to_kick_elected_Arabs_out_of_Parliament%29

content:
<p>Uri Avnery: Israel is 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1455894121/">
planning a law</a>
 to provide an excuse to kick elected Arabs out of Parliament.
</p>


feed_id: 9cb8c9f728be94a152e2b175c911d858
title: PISSI using child suicide bombers
uri: PISSI-using-child-suicide-bombers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28PISSI_using_child_suicide_bombers%29

content:
<p>PISSI is using 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/19/isis-sending-children-die-unprecedented-rate-report-child-soldiers">
children of 12</a>
 as suicide bombers, as well as teenagers.
</p>


feed_id: 48b77aaa33110cbe8f47ad803d6662f0
title: Pope Francis relaxes prohibition on contraception
uri: Pope-Francis-relaxes-prohibition-on-contraception
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Pope_Francis_relaxes_prohibiton_on_contraception%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/pope-francis-relaxes-catholic-prohibition-against-contraception">
Pope Francis Relaxes Catholic Prohibition Against Contraception.</a>
</p>
<p>This is a positive step, but a very limited one.</p>


feed_id: 1ea276d382823118ea0a5157cb50041b
title: Crime rates and lead poisoning
uri: Crime-rates-and-lead-poisoning
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Crime_rates_and_lead_poisoning%29

content:
<p>Evidence from Australia 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/lead-and-crime-it-happened-australia-too">
substantiates the theory</a>
 that lead poisoning controls society's overall crime rate.
</p>


feed_id: 3cb30bc58b64db050dfa003c615edc52
title: Uganda: opposition presidential candidate arrested
uri: Uganda-opposition-presidential-candidate-arrested
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Uganda%3A_opposition_presidential_candidate_arrested%29

content:
<p>Uganda's main opposition presidential candidate 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/18/uganda-presidential-opposition-candidate-arrested-besigye-voting-delays">
has been arrested</a>.
</p>
<p>It is a fitting end to an apparently rigged election.</p>


feed_id: 554ff17243bd0514dc28aaf7f45677f6
title: FBI's empty boasts of disrupting terror threats
uri: FBI-s-empty-boasts-of-disrupting-terror-threats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28FBI%27s_empty_boasts_of_disrupting_terror_threats%29

content:
<p>The FBI boasts of "disrupting" lots of supposed terrorist threats or
plans, but 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/18/fbi-wont-explain-its-bizarre-new-way-of-measuring-its-success-fighting-terror/">
won't explain concretely</a>
 what "disrupting" means.
</p>
<p>It also isn't clear whether these were real terrorist plans,
or 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2012-sep-dec.html#30_November_2012_(Judges_rebuke_in_FBI_entrapment_case)">
fantasy plans</a>
 that wont go anywhere unless facilitated by the FBI.
</p>


feed_id: 5265b50d8c0d00e49e06c708c5a412ca
title: Thug fired for racist tweets was rehired
uri: Thug-fired-for-racist-tweets-was-rehired
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Thug_fired_for_racist_tweets_was_rehired%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Officer-Fired-for-Racist-Tweets-Back-on-Patrol-for-San-Jose-Police-Department-369351621.html">
San Jose Police Officer Fired for Racist Tweets Back on Patrol</a>
</p>


feed_id: 5fa82056db91e2379288c4720ca5be86
title: Nauru restricting visits by Australians
uri: Nauru-restricting-visits-by-Australians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28Nauru_restricting_visits_by_Australians%29

content:
<p>Nauru has tightened security against exposure of how it treats the
prisoners
it imprisons for Australia by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/19/nauru-bans-entry-australians-new-zealanders-without-visa">
restricting visits</a>
 by Australians.
</p>
<p>This is in case they might be journalists.  Nauru basically does not
allow
journalists to enter.</p>
<p>Nauru is Australia's equivalent of Guantanamo, except used for people
not even accused of terrorism and even less accountable.</p>


feed_id: 917b3633b93fefb1ec8942f1882ad636
title: EU to reduce regulation of drug trials
uri: EU-to-reduce-regulation-of-drug-trials
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_%28EU_to_reduce_regulation_of_drug_trials%29

content:
<p>The EU is proposing to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/feb/19/europes-framework-for-clinical-trials-is-good-news-for-uk-scientists-and-patients">
reduce regulations</a>
 on clinical trials of drugs.
</p>
<p>The biggest problem with clinical trials today is that they are run by
the drug companies that make the drugs.  This is a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2015-jul-oct.html#30_October_2015_(Meta-analyses_of_antidepressants)">
form of corruption</a>.
One specific aspect of this problem is that many 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#10%20February%202011%20(Hide%20experimental%20results)">
trials go unpublished</a>.
</p>
<p>"Lighter regulation" on clinical trials does not sound like it would
do anything to improve this.  Indeed, it could make things worse.
What we need is specific additional regulation.</p>
<p>This article gives too little information to judge the change,
and that itself is a cause for suspicion.</p>


feed_id: 4dcbebf3f1940e7480723608cb400d63
title: Urgent: Protect forage fish
uri: Urgent-Protect-forage-fish
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_forage_fish%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.oceana.org/sign/nmfs_forage-fish-protections_2016">call
on the National Marine Fisheries Service</a> to protect forage fish.


feed_id: f90b6488ebaaf7ee851fd8e304fca720
title: Urgent: Stop merger
uri: Urgent-Stop-merger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_merger%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://nomoremergers.com/">tell the FCC</a> to stop Charter
from merging with Time Warner Cable.


feed_id: c14b70f52c706b868ea9c548aff51542
title: Urgent: Support clean power plan
uri: Urgent-Support-clean-power-plan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Support_clean_power_plan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3965">call
on your state governor</a> to support a clean power plan for your
state.


feed_id: 30e247d13ca7bb22e119005ee2a61bbd
title: Repression in Bahrain
uri: Repression-in-Bahrain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Repression_in_Bahrain%29
content:
<p>
The UK lobbied the UN, apparently with success, to tone down its
criticism of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/21/britain-lobbied-un-bahrain-human-rights-abuses">repression
in Bahrain</a>.


feed_id: 822906816f5c2ff5ae3b5a7bd2410765
title: Attacks on indigenous tribes in Amazon
uri: Attacks-on-indigenous-tribes-in-Amazon
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Attacks_on_indigenous_tribes_in_Amazon%29

content:
<p>
Many uncontacted indigenous tribes in the Amazon are making contact,
mainly because they have been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/21/amazon-lost-tribes-emerge-rainforest-brazil-peru">attacked
by murderous criminal gangs</a>.
<p>
There is no vaccine against the common cold — or against the flu
in general.


feed_id: 052573680baa541537d06e792d928be1
title: How Clinton enabled coup in Honduras
uri: How-Clinton-enabled-coup-in-Honduras
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28How_Clinton_enabled_coup_in_Honduras%29

content:
<p>
How Clinton
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/19/how-secretary-state-clinton-enabled-coup-honduras">enabled
the coup in Honduras</a>.  Honduras still suffers from the effects of
that coup.
<p>
Clinton's policy towards Latin America:
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/20/hillary-clinton-cries-crocodile-tears-latin-american-immigrants">support
for the oligarchies against elected politicians that aimed to reduce
their power</a>.


feed_id: cf0656576851baa78ac763dcc48321f6
title: Student speech on the internet
uri: Student-speech-on-the-internet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28Student_speech_on_the_internet%29

content:
<p>
Judges Have No Idea What to Do About
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/02/in_bell_v_itawamba_county_school_board_scotus_may_rule_on_the_first_amendment.html">Student
Speech on the Internet</a>.


feed_id: d2d7819dac5a6be039599d2d795a32bc
title: US thugs protest conviction
uri: US-thugs-protest-conviction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28US_thugs_protest_conviction%29
content:
<p>
Thugs across the US
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/20/nypd-officer-convicted-manslaughter-peter-liang-akai-gurley">protested
the conviction of the thug who killed Akai Gurley</a>.
<p>
The thug did not intend to shoot Gurley, but did nothing to save him.


feed_id: 67dc578ae5a0fa98209c003038d7dc12
title: UK to gag scientists
uri: UK-to-gag-scientists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28UK_to_gag_scientists%29
content:
<p>
The UK
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/20/scientists-attack-muzzling-government-state-funded-cabinet-office">plans
to gag government-funded scientists</a> (even at universities) to stop
them from campaigning against harm that they have discovered.


feed_id: c20cc2efabd3bf45ebfae27ff509313c
title: Prison for mentioning sex and drug use
uri: Prison-for-mentioning-sex-and-drug-use
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28Prison_for_mentioning_sex_and_drug_use%29

content:
<p>
An Egyptian novelist has been sentenced to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/20/egypt-author-ahmed-naji-book-sex-drugs">two
years in prison</a> for publishing a book that mentions sex and drug
use.


feed_id: 658d17794a0bb49f44759a9552a6d130
title: Data copy during house raids rejected
uri: Data-copy-during-house-raids-rejected
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28Data_copy_during_house_raids_rejected%29

content:
<p>
French Constitutional Council
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/constitutional-council-rejects-data-copy-house-searches">Rejects
Data Copy During House Raids</a>.


feed_id: 3facba5d3589ecbd6d78a952d9602abe
title: Protesters surround Australian hospital
uri: Protesters-surround-Australian-hospital
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28Protesters_surround_Australian_hospital%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/20/baby-asha-protest-swells-at-hospital-amid-fears-of-imminent-removal">Large
numbers of protesters</a> surround the Australian hospital where a
refugee baby is being treated.  They are concerned lest the state send
the baby back to the prison in Nauru, where the baby was burned.


feed_id: 3a9cb0ae087af3016b47d24ff2c6a355
title: Environmental degradation
uri: 2016-02-22-Environmental-degradation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28Environmental_degradation%29
content:
<p>
Environmental Degradation Takes a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/20/environmental-degradation-takes-heavy-toll-women-and-childrens-health">Heavy
Toll on Women and Children's Health</a>.


feed_id: b8081c113d2eb88aff71e3198cb511a2
title: Scalia
uri: Scalia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28Scalia%29
content:
<p>
Scalia was no "originalist".  He turned the constitution upside down
to permit
<a href="http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=36af82a7ac">Republican
voter suppression</a>.


feed_id: dc07f81a921ae3f080af2299acb70dfb
title: This year's US election issues
uri: This-year-s-US-election-issues
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28This_years_US_election_issues%29

content:
<p>
Most of the election issues in the US this year are really forms of
the issue of
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/19/maybe-it-single-issue-election">plutocracy
vs democracy</a>.


feed_id: 9b46fc1563c42c65df1edef548e7bc46
title: Erdo&gbreve;an's move to tyranny
uri: Erdo-gbreve-an-s-move-to-tyranny
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28Erdogans_move_to_tyranny%29
content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an's move to tyranny, with the support of a substantial
part of the population,
<a href="https://opendemocracy.net/cihan-tugal/turkey-hard-totalitarianism-erdogan-authoritarian">compared
to fascism in Italy</a>.


feed_id: be9987791b7bdc59dadf03e3e95951f6
title: Forced labor and business
uri: Forced-labor-and-business
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28Forced_labor_and_business%29
content:
<p>
Studying the
<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/andrew-crane/methodological-challenges-in-business-of-forced-labour">relationship</a>
between forced labor and business.


feed_id: 79b5b33a3d57f029b82ddb169b32e251
title: Injustice of the TPP
uri: 2016-02-22-Injustice-of-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28Injustice_of_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/new-infographic-tpp-and-your-digital-rights">useful
infographic</a> from the EFF explain the injustice of the TPP in the
area of copyright.
<p>
The article itself uses self-defeating terminology
such as
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">"digital
locks" and "digital rights management"</a>, but the infographic itself
does not use them.


feed_id: 55f603c37f450def92bc14662d0614f2
title: Arctic sea ice lowest on record in winter
uri: Arctic-sea-ice-lowest-on-record-in-winter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_February_2016_%28Arctic_sea_ice_lowest_on_record_in_winter%29

content:
<p>
Global heating hits the Arctic especially hard.
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/18/1487141/--It-s-unraveling-every-piece-of-it-is-unraveling-they-re-all-in-lockstep-together">This
January set a record</a> for the smallest amount of Arctic sea ice in
winter.


feed_id: cc1b9221d51bafadfaa64e6e0c0cfdf2
title: Urgent: Require warrants to use Stingrays
uri: Urgent-Require-warrants-to-use-Stingrays
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Require_warrants_to_use_Stingrays%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/end-cell-phone-surveillance/">call
on the FCC</a> to require thugs to register Stingrays and get warrants
to use them.


feed_id: c2de83a928ac2c3143514d1437b042c3
title: Gov't shuts down Cairo art gallery
uri: Gov-t-shuts-down-Cairo-art-gallery
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Govt_shuts_down_Cairo_art_gallery%29

content:
<p>
A Cairo art gallery was shut down by the government and will face
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/22/egypt-cairo-art-gallery-townhouse-unprecedented-censorship">strict
censorship of what it shows</a>.


feed_id: 4de013687e3e9e82b0063d19754e29af
title: Mexico's missing students
uri: 2016-02-23-Mexico-s-missing-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Mexicos_missing_students%29
content:
<p>
Mexico's Missing Students:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/22/mexicos-missing-students-international-investigators-say-they-are-being-obstructed">International
Investigators Say They Are Being Obstructed</a>.


feed_id: 9a8274aa76204edda524ec719b6bee56
title: Egyptian anti-torture group
uri: Egyptian-anti-torture-group
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Egyptian_anti-torture_group%29
content:
<p>
Egyptian Anti-Torture Group
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/22/egyptian-anti-torture-group-vows-to-defy-government-move-to-shut-it-down">Vows
to Defy Government Move to Shut It Down</a>.


feed_id: 9dc3409b02f0ec4311f9e9baf9122aa9
title: Australian gov't attacking democracy
uri: Australian-gov-t-attacking-democracy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Australian_govt_attacking_democracy%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is subjecting democracy to a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/22/australian-democracy-faces-corrosive-decline-human-rights-centre-report">"corrosive"
attack</a>.  It is promoting secrecy and reducing accountability to
the public.


feed_id: 33e288314beec88b86ca6cab076e3cc2
title: Record-breaking heat in Australia
uri: Record-breaking-heat-in-Australia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Record-breaking_heat_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Australia had a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/feb/22/fossil-fuel-emissions-behind-australias-record-breaking-spring-heat-suggests-study">series
of three springs with record-breaking heat</a>, and global heating
seems to be responsible.


feed_id: 08ffb26bda61680010934114bde3c433
title: Right-wingers want to repress transsexuals
uri: Right-wingers-want-to-repress-transsexuals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Right-wingers_want_to_repress_transsexuals%29

content:
<p>
Right-wingers want to repress transsexuals with
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/21/public-toilets-battleground-for-bigots-legislate-trans-people-out-of-existence-south-dakota">laws
requiring them to use the toilets for the sex they were born with</a>.
<p>
There is a real dispute here, between male-to-female transsexuals who
want to use toilets for females, and other females who feel
uncomfortable with people in their toilets that are rather similar to
males.  Both of them have good reasons, and I don't see how to satisfy
them both.  I don't have a solution to offer, but these laws clearly
only do harm.


feed_id: 6050483e031aa6a9ee12d70c65476c8e
title: UK thug infiltration of dissident groups
uri: 2016-02-23-UK-thug-infiltration-of-dissident-groups
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28UK_thug_infiltration_of_dissident_groups%29

content:
<p>
Now that a public inquiry will be held into UK thugs' practice of
infiltrating dissident groups (often by getting sexually involved with
women in them),
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/21/police-request-secrecy-undercover-officers-inquiry">the
thugs want the inquiry to be secret rather than public</a>, to
"protect" these infiltrators.


feed_id: bdd9f1a24e141d4e4b32f8ee9764c92d
title: Nevada Caucuses
uri: Nevada-Caucuses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Nevada_Caucuses%29
content:
<p>
Sanders
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/20/sanders-pledges-path-victory-clinton-ekes-out-nevada-win">did
much better in Nevada than was expected a few weeks ago</a>, and got
almost as many delegates as Clinton.
<p>
The mainstream media are spinning this as "Clinton won".
<p>
Michael Moore's latest film shows what's missing in the US political
establishment (including the mainstream media): the idea that
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/18/beached-america">issues
matter</a>, not only "winning".


feed_id: b33dd2a9a3bdd49f80d3f258ff60d663
title: FBI unwittingly stopped Apple spyware
uri: FBI-unwittingly-stopped-Apple-spyware
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28FBI_unwittingly_stopped_Apple_spyware%29

content:
<p>
The FBI
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-asked-san-bernardino-to-reset-the-password-for-shooters-phone-backup/2016/02/20/21fe9684-d800-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html">unwittingly
stopped Apple spyware from operating automatically</a> in the shooting
suspect's iPhone.


feed_id: b4eeb0c369418f1f22e07d31ceefd25a
title: Colombia's water supply
uri: Colombia-s-water-supply
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Colombias_water_supply%29
content:
<p>
Colombia's supreme court has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2016/feb/21/colombia-bans-oil-gas-mining-paramos">banned
mining and drilling in the high-altitude plains</a> which provide most
of the country's water supply.


feed_id: 2648f7f5e5c8f53a2dc892ed64cd906a
title: Charter schools
uri: 2016-02-23-Charter-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Charter_schools%29
content:
<p>
The "Success Academy", a group of charter schools, succeeds by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/21/success-academy-charter-school-students-got-to-go">ejecting
students that aren't a big success</a>.
<p>
There's a place for schools for gifted children.  Just don't judge
ordinary public schools against them.


feed_id: 1861115d52dd2e416afe2c194be1ee93
title: Urgent: Reject HR 4441
uri: Urgent-Reject-HR-4441
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_HR_4441%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://p2a.co/HWRC8QI">call on Congress</a> not to privatize
air traffic control — reject HR 4441.


feed_id: 99173abf5307f2f140139423c649e7ee
title: Excuse for internet surveillance
uri: Excuse-for-internet-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Excuse_for_internet_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The latest excuse for imposing total surveillance on the internet is
the UK's
<a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001153.html">plan to make
all sites that have sexual material identify their visitors to check
their ages</a>.
<p>
It would be wrong to do this even if it were easy.


feed_id: a2b11c8ddba85d94a234763839d39855
title: US Army "burn pits"
uri: US-Army-burn-pits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28US_Army_burn_pits%29
content:
<p>
US Army "burn pits" in Iraq and Afghanistan
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/16/us-military-burn-pits-chemical-weapons-cancer-illness-iraq-afghanistan-veterans">seem
to have made lots of soldiers sick, some fatally</a>.  Toxins were
contributed by the garbage that they burned, as well as remains from
Saddam Hussein's former chemical weapons programs.


feed_id: 7fdebfa3ca8d8aca7b0043f961e0d7f1
title: Criminalising Boycotts
uri: Criminalising-Boycotts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Criminalising_Boycotts%29
content:
<p>
Criminalising Boycotts Will
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/16/criminalising-boycotts-unethical-businesses-protests-israel-public-bodies-ethical-decisions">Help
Unethical Businesses Thrive</a>.


feed_id: 59cdc887d9c4dd634e130862beaa6c9f
title: FBI's demands to Apple unnecessary
uri: FBI-s-demands-to-Apple-unnecessary
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28FBIs_demands_to_Apple_unnecessary%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/700823383961792512/photo/1">Snowden
explains</a> why the FBI's demands to Apple are unnecessary.
<p>
Specifically,

<ol>
<li>The FBI already has all of the suspects' communications
records — who they talked to and how — as these are stored by
service providers, not on the phone itself.

<li>The FBI has received comprehensive backups of all the suspects'
data until just 6 weeks before the crime.

<li>Copies of the suspects' contacts with co-workers — the FBI
claimed interest — are available in duplicate from those
co-workers' phones.

<li>The phone in controversy is a government-issued work phone,
subjected to consent-to-monitoring, not a secret terrorist
communications device.  The "operational" phones believed to be
hiding incriminating information, recovered by the FBI during a
search, were physically destroyed, not "shielded by Apple."

<li>Alternative means for gaining access to this device — and
others — exist that do not require the manufacturer's
assistance.
</ol>


feed_id: 9532e8f02e86528efb4d0f471267b9dd
title: Malicious functionalities of the iPhone
uri: Malicious-functionalities-of-the-iPhone
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Malicious_functionalities_of_the_iPhone%29

content:
<p>
If Apple makes a modified iThing decryption program to facilitate
trying more decryption keys, that
<a href="https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/02/why_you_should_side_.html">will
affect all users of iThings</a>.
<p>
Apple's current defense of one aspect of user's privacy would be
admirable if it were the whole story.  In fact, it is the exception
among a long string of abuses.
<p>
The article mentions one of the malicious functionalities of the
iPhone and the iBad: they are <em>tyrant devices</em>.  This means
they <a href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-tyrants.html">do
not allow the user to run an operating system that wasn't signed by
Apple</a>.  This gives Apple total power over the user.
<p>
Schneier says that "either everyone gets security, or no one does."
For the iThings, it's the latter.  No user of an iThing has security
against Apple, because Apple can do any nasty thing whatsoever in the
next "upgrade".  It is infamous for
<a href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html ">mistreating its own users</a>.
<p>
In general, no user of proprietary software has any
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">security
against the program's developer</a>.


feed_id: d7099a29ec40d0a8e26df80fab84244b
title: Pentagon predicted "Salafist Principality"
uri: Pentagon-predicted-Salafist-Principality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Pentagon_predicted_Salafist_Principality%29

content:
<p>
A
<a href="https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-west-saw-isis-as-strategic-asset-b99ad7a29092">Pentagon
report in 2012</a> predicted that support for the (mainly Islamist)
anti-Assad rebels in Syria was likely to result in a "Salafist
Principality", basically something like PISSI.
<p>
That's what Salafi Arabia and Turkey wanted, but why did the US
support them?  Even in 2012, some in the Pentagon knew that the Syrian
rebels were mainly Islamists.  That doesn't mean Obama and his
advisers knew this — but if not, they should have.
<p>
The US may have expected this "Salafist Principality" to be more like
Salafi Arabia rather than the actual PISSI.  That is hardly an excuse.


feed_id: fff24608eea43969a2ace74c105f8e3f
title: Attacks on MSF facilities
uri: Attacks-on-MSF-facilities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Attacks_on_MSF_facilities%29
content:
<p>
Mèdecins Sans Frontiéres has decided to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/18/msf-will-not-share-syria-gps-locations-after-deliberate-attacks">stop
telling Assad and Russia where its medical facilities are located</a>.
<p>
It believes that they attack these facilities intentionally.


feed_id: bedaeb3689005dd4a6977cd2f8d35714
title: Privately owned public spaces
uri: Privately-owned-public-spaces
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Privately_owned_public_spaces%29

content:
<p>
In many cities, apparently public areas are private property and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/20/privatisation-public-spaces-rip-out-heart-britains-cities">people's
rights are restricted there</a>.  This article describes the UK.
<p>
New York City has done it too, for instance in
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#19_December_2011_(Privately_Owned_Public_Spaces)">Zucotti
Park</a>.


feed_id: b6e6f3d9a51b0fb40a62540f3acd53ae
title: dooH niboR pension "reform"
uri: dooH-niboR-pension-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28dooH_niboR_pension_reform%29
content:
<p>
The UK's dooH niboR government is proposing a pension "reform" that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/20/20-million-lose-out-pension-reform">would
hurt 20 million low-paid workers when they retire</a>.


feed_id: 4af76116bc37f0a6304e1c808588a2ed
title: Bernie Sanders' accomplishments
uri: Bernie-Sanders-accomplishments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Bernie_Sanders_accomplishments%29

content:
<p>
What has Bernie Sanders actually
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/12/1483928/-What-has-Bernie-ever-accomplished">accomplished</a>?


feed_id: 261310f7f5c4b2522424f9205bcbd97b
title: Sydney nightlife lockout laws
uri: Sydney-nightlife-lockout-laws
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Sydney_nightlife_lockout_laws%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/21/thousands-march-through-sydney-to-protest-against-nightlife-lockout-laws">Thousands
of people in Sydney protested</a> against laws that have made bars,
restaurants and music venues shut down.
<p>
These laws have avoided dozens of alcohol-related injuries each year,
but maybe it is possible to keep the venues open and reduce how much
alcohol people can drink in them.


feed_id: 3a8ad8278a8187dbe204f769e29f6825
title: State-sanctioned child abuse
uri: State-sanctioned-child-abuse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28State-sanctioned_child_abuse%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/21/prolonged-detention-is-state-sanctioned-child-abuse-says-head-of-doctors-group">Prolonged
imprisonment of young refugees</a> is 'state-sanctioned child abuse',
says a leading Australian doctor.
<p>
The Australian law that
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_October_2015_(Australian_governments_priorities)">punishes
personnel who report this or other abuse of prisoners</a> is a
state-sanctioned coverup of systematic crime.


feed_id: 301fbedcad2374859cab15fbef410b73
title: Very urgent: Protect sea floor habitats
uri: Very-urgent-Protect-sea-floor-habitats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_sea_floor_habitats%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.oceana.org/sign/nmfs-pfmc_protect-efh_2016">call
on the National Marine Fisheries Service</a> to protect sea floor
habitats.


feed_id: 1edad00fe3a1837b75bd009adee44a35
title: Urgent: Appoint progressive to Supreme Court
uri: Urgent-Appoint-progressive-to-Supreme-Court
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Appoint_progressive_to_Supreme_Court%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone the White House and call on Obama to appoint a
progressive to the Supreme Court.
<p>
The White House comments line is 202-456-1111.


feed_id: f5db16af23547a667472c262fd2795c2
title: Urgent: Oppose the DARK act
uri: Urgent-Oppose-the-DARK-act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_the_DARK_act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to oppose the DARK act that would
prohibit states from requiring labeling of GMOs.
<p>
1-877-796-1949


feed_id: 1587946e428ea5c70ca73a5753cf5a63
title: Urgent: Withdraw demand to break security
uri: Urgent-Withdraw-demand-to-break-security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Withdraw_demand_to_break_security%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.accessnow.org/ea-action/action">call on Obama</a>
to withdraw the demand for Apple to break security on iPhones.


feed_id: 239a122b36edf15814315278a66cd6ee
title: Urgent: Investigate Exxon's lies
uri: 2016-02-23-Urgent-Investigate-Exxon-s-lies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_Exxons_lies%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.climatetruth.org/sign/states_investigate_Exxon/">Call
on state attorneys general</a> to investigate Exxon's climate lies.


feed_id: 544dfc4db5f4c59722850abcccfbfdd5
title: Greenhouse emissions and air pollution
uri: Greenhouse-emissions-and-air-pollution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Greenhouse_emissions_and_air_pollution%29

content:
<p>
Greenhouse emissions often go with air pollution.  Cutting emissions
to avoid global heating disaster could save almost 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/22/us-deaths-greenhouse-gas-295000-emission-cuts-climate-change">300,000
Americans</a> from death from respiratory diseases by 2030.


feed_id: 86fd719d0814660fc4d7a0d6c231020b
title: Winner of the war in Afghanistan
uri: Winner-of-the-war-in-Afghanistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Winner_of_the_war_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
At every stage, the winner of the war in Afghanistan has been … 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/22/how-pink-flower-defeated-worlds-sole-superpower-americas-opium-war-afghanistan">opium</a>.
<p>
The suggestion at the end to put US money into rural development is,
however, easier to say than to do.  The US has scattered lots of cash
for this, and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_(US_funding_for_Afghanistans_reconstruction)">often
it only fed corruption</a>.


feed_id: 2d5a39659e4fb40073d79ff11bf57306
title: Clinton's pay from big banks
uri: Clinton-s-pay-from-big-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Clintons_pay_from_big_banks%29
content:
<p>
Clinton ought to recuse herself from the presidential race for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/22/hillary-clintons-pay-play-speaking-fees-disqualify-her-presidential-candidate">conflict
of interest</a>: namely, her million-plus in pay from the big banks.


feed_id: 4032142147096783080a482295e5e2b4
title: Pope's small concession on birth control
uri: Pope-s-small-concession-on-birth-control
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Popes_small_concession_on_birth_control%29

content:
<p>
The Pope's small concession on birth control 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/22/pope-francis-women-zika-contraception-misogyny-catholicism">does
nothing to help women facing Zika under prohibition of abortions</a>.


feed_id: 5123a79b3455bbeefcbf376a173b9d1f
title: Fixing US public schools
uri: Fixing-US-public-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Fixing_US_public_schools%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/22/why-we-need-democratic-socialism-fix-our-educational-system">needs
democratic socialism</a> to fix its public schools.


feed_id: 1a7e34b615a8dbd30b553f89eb817b26
title: AGU urged to reject Exxon funding
uri: AGU-urged-to-reject-Exxon-funding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28AGU_urged_to_reject_Exxon_funding%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/22/climate-change-scientists-exxonmobil-sponsorship-american-geophysical-union">Leading
climate scientists</a> call on the American Geophysical Union to
reject funding from Exxon.


feed_id: 5068ba8a27dc76f7a23a4e756884a387
title: Another report from Heatland Institute
uri: Another-report-from-Heatland-Institute
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Another_report_from_Heatland_Institute%29

content:
<p>
The Heatland institute* has published another report denying global
heating, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/feb/22/fossil-fuel-funded-report-denies-the-expert-global-warming-consensus">full
of falsehoods</a>.
<p>
* Its official name is "Heartland", but "Heatland" describes it more
accurately.


feed_id: 57cdae3e189e5d924ab94fb2d647fd44
title: Africa's forests threatened
uri: Africa-s-forests-threatened
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Africas_forests_threatened%29
content:
<p>
Africa's Forests 'Threatened by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/23/africas-forests-threatened-by-palm-oil-rush">Palm
Oil Rush</a>'.


feed_id: 5fb3ad658000ef3c169283325e2e6fdc
title: China imprisons Tibetan blogger
uri: China-imprisons-Tibetan-blogger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28China_imprisons_Tibetan_blogger%29

content:
<p>
China has imprisoned a Tibetan blogger for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/feb/23/tibetan-blogger-jailed-for-endangering-social-stability">reporting
visible facts people were not supposed to talk about</a>.


feed_id: bf58ad5f68920a9a03f0aa59cb52fecf
title: Privatization of probation officers
uri: Privatization-of-probation-officers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Privatization_of_probation_officers%29

content:
<p>
Privatization of probation officers in the UK
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2016/feb/23/privatisation-probation-service-stressed-job-cuts">led
naturally to mistreating them and the people on probation</a>.


feed_id: 4027cf6360cfe4c12b7bf16afac77706
title: Rate of sea level rise
uri: Rate-of-sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Rate_of_sea_level_rise%29
content:
<p>
Global warming has caused sea level to rise at the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/23/sea-levels-rising-at-fastest-rate-in-2800-years-due-to-global-warming-studies-show">fastest
rate in the last 2,800 years</a>.
<p>
It is not clear whether sea level rose faster 2,800 years ago, or we
simply don't know how fast it rose then.
<p>
This study forecasts only 1.3 meters (4.3 feet) of sea level rise by
2100, but we don't know how much global heating will melt the
Greenland ice cap in this century.
<p>
In any case, sea level will continue rising, and over centuries the
rise could amount to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_(Sea-level_rise)">25
meters</a>.  Many of the world's major cities will be inundated.


feed_id: 2186922e9914a0cfb21f772fa073db73
title: Moving imprisonment without trial to US
uri: Moving-imprisonment-without-trial-to-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Moving_imprisonment_without_trial_to_US%29

content:
<p>
Obama once again
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/22/obama-guantanamo-closure-plan-replacement-sites">proposes
to move imprisonment without trial from Guantanamo Bay to United
States territory</a>.
<p>
The evil of the Guantanamo prison is imprisonment without trial.
Moving it to the US would not reduce the evil, only smash the last
barrier against making it standard US practice.
<p>
Justice requires that each prisoner be tried or released.


feed_id: 5a96e85869fe75a5d8fd0d28e37d7fa1
title: Sanders called for abolishing CIA
uri: Sanders-called-for-abolishing-CIA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Sanders_called_for_abolishing_CIA%29

content:
<p>
Sanders once
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/22/in-1974-call-to-abolish-cia-sanders-followed-in-footsteps-of-jfk-truman/">called
for abolishing the CIA</a>.  So did President Kennedy, President
Truman, and various other elected officials.


feed_id: d8f4bafce47a94444fb4ef876bbb3e06
title: Bias of US mainstream media
uri: Bias-of-US-mainstream-media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Bias_of_US_mainstream_media%29
content:
<p>
Sanders's opposition to the TPP exposes the bias of US mainstream
media.  MSNBC was covering Sanders' press conference, but
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/22/msnbc-cuts-away-from-bernie-sanders-as-he-condemns-trans-pacific-partnership/">stopped
when he brought up the TPP</a>.


feed_id: c7bfd2cbaebdda12066fa4cfed13ac63
title: 4-year-old sentenced to life in prison
uri: 4-year-old-sentenced-to-life-in-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%284-year-old_sentenced_to_life_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/egyptian-army-court-sentences-4-year-old-life-prison-committing-multiple-murders-1545014">Egyptian
Army Court Sentences 4-year-old To Life in Prison For Committing
Multiple Murders</a>.


feed_id: e66ccc0e2cf65fcb5acc47cc13f43844
title: "Three strikes" system for punishing sharing
uri: Three-strikes-system-for-punishing-sharing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Three_strikes_system_for_punishing_sharing%29

content:
<p>
The copyright industry finds Australia's "three strikes" system for
punishing people for sharing files
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160218/08303333639/three-strikes-system-australia-too-costly-industry-seems-piracy-not-such-massive-problem-after-all.shtml">not
worth using</a> unless they make it super cheap to run, and
unreliable.


feed_id: 078989a4abab3d66c588cbcb9ee63c7e
title: Suing gun and ammo manufacturers
uri: Suing-gun-and-ammo-manufacturers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Suing_gun_and_ammo_manufacturers%29

content:
<p>
The relatives of people shot dead in Sandy Hook
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/22/sandy-hook-school-shooting-lawsuit-gun-bushmaster-camfour">want
to sue the manufacturers</a> of the rifle and ammunition that the
killer used.
<p>
I think this sort of unpredictable liability is the wrong way to
decide what kinds of guns may be sold.  That policy should published
explicitly in advance, and companies that follow it should not be
liable.
<p>
Thus, I advocate prohibiting large magazines, but not suing the
companies that made them lawfully.


feed_id: 666a613ff7fbce90e4de817fe890c091
title: Community solar electricity projects
uri: Community-solar-electricity-projects
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Community_solar_electricity_projects%29

content:
<p>
Maryland has
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/22/landmark-community-solar-initiative-moves-forward-maryland">adopted
rules to encourage</a> community solar electricity projects.


feed_id: 026121909142269fe4f09d833c6ed49a
title: Solitary confinement
uri: 2016-02-24-Solitary-confinement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Solitary_confinement%29
content:
<p>
44 Years in Solitary Confinement Is
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/angola-three-albert-woodfox-solitary-free">Even
Worse Than You Can Imagine</a>.  So says another person who spent
years in solitary confinement.


feed_id: 296a0a15fb1911728778602abc00daf4
title: Capitalism and socialism
uri: Capitalism-and-socialism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Capitalism_and_socialism%29
content:
<p>
A poll finds that US Democratic voters are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/22/most-democrats-prefer-socialism-capitalism">more
favorable towards socialism than towards capitalism</a>.
<p>
I advocate a mixture of capitalism (allow private businesses) and
socialism (regulate them tightly, tax them a lot, and keep them
small).


feed_id: 3cde7298b5691cb393eabc465957e76d
title: Ugandan opposition leader arrested again
uri: Ugandan-opposition-leader-arrested-again
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_February_2016_%28Ugandan_opposition_leader_arrested_again%29

content:
<p>
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was arrested again, reportedly
to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/22/ugandan-opposition-leader-kizza-besigye-detained-election-row">stop
him from gathering evidence of the rigged election</a> before the
deadline to challenge it.


feed_id: 37ef6431647d4bca36307813b44d5b7e
title: Disappeared in Thailand
uri: Disappeared-in-Thailand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Disappeared_in_Thailand%29
content:
<p>
Chinese
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/chinese-rights-campaigner-li-xin-disappears-thailand">
dissident and whistleblower Li Xin</a> has disappeared in
Thailand.
<p>
At least one of the Hong Kong publishers was apparently taken from
Thailand.  It appears that Thailand is basically unsafe for anyone
that
China wants to grab.
<p>
This resembles what the US did,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Ex-CIA_agent_convicted_of_involvement_in_kidnaping%29">
kidnaping a man in Italy</a> and sending
him
to Egypt to be tortured.
   One former CIA agent is going to be extradited to Italy for trial
for this.


feed_id: 69ab4a368299d4d02f371ca13f5b733a
title: Urgent: Oppose the DARK Act
uri: 2016-02-25-Urgent-Oppose-the-DARK-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_the_DARK_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=14184">phone
Senator Stabenow</a> to oppose the DARK Act.


feed_id: 9a4111858d07932e161c57a11deb6b8a
title: Urgent: New York Times correction
uri: Urgent-New-York-Times-correction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_New_York_Times_correction%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/nytimes-acknowledge-us">call
on the New York Times</a> to admit US involvement in the war in Yemen.


feed_id: 97a68a75c4457dc5ed36537ee12929cf
title: Urgent: Reject the DARK Act
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-DARK-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_DARK_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2484">call
on the Senate</a> to reject the DARK Act.
<p>
It would ban states from requiring labeling of GMOs.


feed_id: 01729f375784a54b1f60026e19785eb5
title: Thugs block delivery to Chelsea Manning
uri: Thugs-block-delivery-to-Chelsea-Manning
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Thugs_block_delivery_to_Chelsea_Manning%29

content:
<p>
Prison thugs
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/military-prison-blocks-chelsea-manning-reading-eff-blog-posts">blocked
delivery of printouts of EFF articles</a> to Chelsea Manning,
supposedly from concern that they violated the EFF's copyright.  This
excuse is even more ludicrous than it seems, because printing a web
page to show a person who can't see it on the net is probably fair
use.


feed_id: 27208e3e423e4c6415551bc1f66d7e7c
title: Cease-fire in Syria
uri: 2016-02-25-Cease-fire-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Cease-fire_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
The US and Russia have
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/22/does-us-russia-ceasefire-deal-syria-spell-end-assad-must-go-policy">agreed
to a cease-fire in Syria</a> applying to all sides except al-Nusra
(al-Qa'ida) and PISSI.
<p>
I hope this can work.  But given the way the non-Islamist rebels are
closely allied with al-Nusra, I am not sure the distinction is
practical.


feed_id: 8ea4976d4654ba95a4d892ce7f14bfac
title: Whole Foods lies to customers
uri: Whole-Foods-lies-to-customers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Whole_Foods_lies_to_customers%29

content:
<p>
Whole Foods
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/24/1396100/-Think-Whole-Foods-is-a-ripoff-It-s-worse-than-you-thought">systematically
lies to customers</a>.  Perhaps it should be called Whole Cloth, as in
"made up out of".


feed_id: d1672ffb4e2646989ba29ee9793312a9
title: TTIP would protect Exxon from regulations
uri: TTIP-would-protect-Exxon-from-regulations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28TTIP_would_protect_Exxon_from_regulations%29

content:
<p>
The EU's trade negotiator told Exxon that the TTIP would
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/23/eu-told-exxonmobil-that-ttip-would-aid-global-expansion-documents-reveal">protect
it from pesky regulations</a>.
<p>
That's effectively a confession that the TTIP is a form of corruption.


feed_id: 18e3d941f28dd5d354326d327c4c7956
title: "Safe space" censorship tactics
uri: Safe-space-censorship-tactics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Safe_space_censorship_tactics%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing law professors adopted "safe space" censorship tactics to
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/23/georgetown-law-professors-complain-conservative-students-are-traumatized-by-criticisms-of-scalia-demand-remedies/">claim
that other professors had no right to dissent from praise of
Scalia</a>.
<p>
The article argues against the idea that we have to praise evil people
merely because they are dead.


feed_id: a320f80c47227779c1453bf8cb048607
title: Protesters block TTIP meeting room doors
uri: Protesters-block-TTIP-meeting-room-doors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Protesters_block_TTIP_meeting_room_doors%29

content:
<p>
Protesters
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/22/opposing-corporate-coup-campaigners-block-trade-talk-doors">blocked
the doors of the meeting room</a> where plutocratists were going to
meet to negotiate the TTIP.


feed_id: 788c39eb5e2e33f1df53a0548e9868bd
title: Rebelling against the establishment
uri: Rebelling-against-the-establishment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Rebelling_against_the_establishment%29

content:
<p>
Many Americans are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/23/end-establishment">rebelling
against the establishment</a>.
<p>
Those who blame the real culprits support Sanders.  Those distracted
with scapegoats support Trump.


feed_id: 52ccb1dccecc1531dce39229da14c351
title: Prison to poverty pipeline
uri: Prison-to-poverty-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Prison_to_poverty_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
Jobs After Jail: Ending the
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/23/jobs-after-jail-ending-prison-poverty-pipeline">Prison
to Poverty Pipeline</a>.


feed_id: ece2b5142488ad08f621683e985e8693
title: Pro-Palestinian posters in London metro
uri: Pro-Palestinian-posters-in-London-metro
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Pro-Palestinian_posters_in_London_metro%29

content:
<p>
Pro-Palestinian activists put up posters in the London metro,
pretending to be advertisements, which
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/23/netanyahu-israel-apartheid-tube-posters-removed-london">criticize
aspects of Israel's occupation of Palestine</a>.
<p>
As described here, the posters seem to be factual and accurate.
Israel and its supporters take offense at this contradiction of the
one-sided official picture, so they describe the posters as
"vandalism" and even pretend that they threaten violence.


feed_id: dffe9077216da228b8d4d0623c6b3dec
title: Imprisoned journalists in Egypt
uri: Imprisoned-journalists-in-Egypt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Imprisoned_journalists_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
Reporters Without Borders
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/23/egypt-prison-for-journalists-reporters-without-borders-letter">calls
on Egypt to release dozens of imprisoned journalists</a>.


feed_id: b8ed500a49ee7181b9dd8df9d6de775e
title: Natural gas
uri: Natural-gas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Natural_gas%29
content:
<p>
Natural gas is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/23/limited-future-for-gas-in-the-uk-without-carbon-capture">not
a bridge to a sustainable future</a>.


feed_id: ac1eab4387c3c94962d07e5687e1dd1b
title: FBI's demand to Apple
uri: FBI-s-demand-to-Apple
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28FBIs_demand_to_Apple%29
content:
<p>
Why the FBI's demand to Apple
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/24/apple-v-the-fbi-why-1789-all-writs-act-is-the-wrong-tool">should
be judged invalid under US law</a>.
<p>
The article's arguments is entirely valid, but at the same time it
endorses "entrusting our digital lives" to companies such as Apple
that develop
<a href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html">proprietary
malware</a>.  No thanks!


feed_id: 6a2cc79eed475f3c6cc7449dac49b52a
title: Organophosphate pesticides
uri: Organophosphate-pesticides
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Organophosphate_pesticides%29
content:
<p>
Advocates to EPA: It's
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/24/advocates-epa-its-time-ban-organophosphate-pesticides">Time
to Ban Organophosphate Pesticides</a>.


feed_id: 7792988c196819a3bd60bc5429121636
title: SCROTUS propose bills for more mining
uri: SCROTUS-propose-bills-for-more-mining
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28SCROTUS_propose_bills_for_more_mining%29

content:
<p>
SCROTUS have proposed bills to allow lots more mining and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/24/house-republicans-open-national-forests-mining-logging-oregon-militia-malheur-wildlife-refuge">cutting
down of national forests</a>.
<p>
SCROTUS = Sleazy Congressional Republicans Of The United States.


feed_id: b7056b6fe75d39d982cf95d9a3a14c85
title: "Smart guns"
uri: Smart-guns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Smart_guns%29
content:
<p>
"Smart guns" that recognize fingerprints
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/24/personalized-smart-guns-biometric-access-fingerprints-gun-control">could
reduce gun violence</a>.


feed_id: b7ad7b08c05f4397e92a271575d9820d
title: Right to grow marijuana
uri: Right-to-grow-marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Right_to_grow_marijuana%29
content:
<p>
A Canadian court ruled that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/24/canada-medical-marijuana-patients-grow-ruling">medical
marijuana users have the right to grow their own marijuana</a>.


feed_id: cd75dc1432b28ee08f2c3c181785dffa
title: Journalists and whistleblowers
uri: Journalists-and-whistleblowers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Journalists_and_whistleblowers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/24/journalists-should-stand-whistleblowers">Journalists
Should Stand Up for Whistleblowers</a>.


feed_id: 602094fcd9435a07bde1de6df0c017ec
title: Bolivians decline to change constitution
uri: Bolivians-decline-to-change-constitution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Bolivians_decline_to_change_constitution%29

content:
<p>
Bolivia's voters
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/24/bolivia-evo-morales-referendum-vote-defeat">declined
to change the constitution</a> to allow Evo Morales to run for
president again.
<p>
He was a big change for the better, but it is dangerous to let one
person be president on and on.


feed_id: 39d3f1f3f7964d11bec787667f880124
title: Google tax avoidance
uri: Google-tax-avoidance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Google_tax_avoidance%29
content:
<p>
France has demanded
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/24/france-google-tax-avoidance-back-taxes">almost
two billion dollars in avoided taxes</a> from Google.

<P>


feed_id: 3e2ebb9c71338c6d57cfc30d47844751
title: Trump's supporters
uri: Trump-s-supporters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Trumps_supporters%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/24/after-sweeping-nevada-trump-declares-i-love-poorly-educated">After
Sweeping Nevada, Trump Declares: 'I Love the Poorly Educated'</a>.
<p>
Pick any cruel and bigoted government action:
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/these-numbers-driving-donald-trump-victory-are-absolutely-insane">a
substantial fraction of Trump supporters are in favor of it</a>.
<p>
His supporters want someone who will be "tough" on all sorts of
undesirables, but
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/when-did-americans-get-so-gullible">will
Trump really do that</a>?
<p>
I think Trump would be tough on the weak.


feed_id: 7bb993364caf397f03c7ce56e7a74bfb
title: Clinton campaign dishonesty
uri: Clinton-campaign-dishonesty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Clinton_campaign_dishonesty%29
content:
<p>
Clinton Campaign
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/24/clinton-campaign-relies-rumors-and-dishonesty-attack-sanders">Relies
On Rumors And Dishonesty</a> To Attack Sanders.


feed_id: dc5a1a5bc8c3ed12f6d622c062538825
title: Ocean acidification
uri: 2016-02-26-Ocean-acidification
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Ocean_acidification%29
content:
<p>
Putting more CO<sub>2</sub> in sea water, as an experiment,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/24/ocean-acidification-slowing-coral-reef-growth-study-confirms">slowed
growth in a real coral reef</a>.


feed_id: 8a6cb47085b717b6900737877e10f132
title: US abortion clinic closures
uri: US-abortion-clinic-closures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28US_abortion_clinic_closures%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/24/us-abortion-clinics-closing-report">1/4
of US abortion clinics</a> have closed in the past five years.
<p>
This is the Republicans' war on women.


feed_id: fe825766d80caf4f4ec1ce6e6c04f671
title: Voter suppression by Tories
uri: Voter-suppression-by-Tories
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Voter_suppression_by_Tories%29
content:
<p>
Tories in the UK have suppressed
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/24/nearly-800000-names-axed-from-voter-register-officials-figures-show">almost
800,000 voters</a>.


feed_id: 5eae2eecba9e3a296777c727fd1b52c9
title: In-N-Out beef raised with antibiotics
uri: In-N-Out-beef-raised-with-antibiotics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28In-N-Out_beef_raised_with_antibiotics%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/24/consumer-coalition-calls-n-out-burger-reduce-routine-antibiotics-use-beef">Pressuring
restaurant chain In-N-Out Burger to stop</a> using beef raised with
routine use of antibiotics.


feed_id: e8688caa55db3025e0229ca5c0e1d845
title: Black Thinkers Like Bernie Sanders
uri: Black-Thinkers-Like-Bernie-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Black_Thinkers_Like_Bernie_Sanders%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/24/black-thinkers-bernie-sanders-theyve-studied-clintons-true-cost">Black
Thinkers Like Bernie Sanders</a>. They've Studied the Clintons' True
Cost.


feed_id: dfa521d5ed6ec484a9eeb2dadcfbf487
title: Bernie Sanders ahead
uri: Bernie-Sanders-ahead
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Bernie_Sanders_ahead%29
content:
<p>
This is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/24/new-poll-shows-sanders-ahead-clinton-widest-margin-yet">good
news</a>, but since real outcomes will come soon, I will wait and post
about them.


feed_id: 976c87aaecc51d51b41c04ce69fba33d
title: Nissan Leaf tracks driver's movements
uri: Nissan-Leaf-tracks-driver-s-movements
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Nissan_Leaf_tracks_drivers_movements%29

content:
<p>
The Nissan Leaf
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/24/hackers-nissan-leaf-heating-access-driving-history">records
where it has traveled</a>, tracking the driver's movements.
<p>
This article reports on how crackers have been able to extract that
information from the car.  However, I think the worst thing is that
the car keeps these records at all.  I am sure Nissan has a way to get
at them, and I suppose governments can make Nissan extract them too.


feed_id: 8c59336be4681d74fe70386794ef7000
title: Heathrow Airport climate protesters
uri: Heathrow-Airport-climate-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Heathrow_Airport_climate_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The Heathrow Airport climate protesters were given a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/24/heathrow-13-climate-change-protesters-avoid-jail">suspended
sentence</a>.
<p>
This means they won't be imprisoned now, but they are effectively
blocked from further protest activity.
<p>
One of the protesters, expecting to be imprisoned, said she 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/24/heathrow-13-terrified-prison-no-regret-danni-paffard">has
no regrets</a>.
<p>
I wish someone could tell her how to write her favorite music onto an
audio CD with GNU/Linux.
<p>
The UK should repeal its 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#17%20January%202011%20(Harassing%20Activists)">"aggravated
trespass" law</a>.


feed_id: 5ad52f7154832723306b75b80f892779
title: Climate impact
uri: Climate-impact
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Climate_impact%29
content:
<p>
Calling on the US and Canada to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/23/introducing-climate-test">judge
projects such as pipelines based on their climate impact</a>.


feed_id: 273832ccd45226e1a2d5dcbb6a563f03
title: US spied on UN Secretary General
uri: US-spied-on-UN-Secretary-General
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28US_spied_on_UN_Secretary_General%29

content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/23/new-wikileaks-release-exposes-most-highly-classified-nsa-spy-ops">spied
on the UN Secretary General</a> as well as leaders of various allied
countries.


feed_id: 2bec299adeb8868b42caea103e430d91
title: Criticizing Israel's occupation policies
uri: Criticizing-Israel-s-occupation-policies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Criticizing_Israels_occupation_policies%29

content:
<p>
US musicians are afraid that if they criticize Israel's occupation of
Palestine, 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/roger-waters-pink-floyd-israel-boycott-ban-palestine-a6884971.html">their
careers will be crushed</a>.


feed_id: 2aeb30bcfe2a3cd76473a88286956858
title: Israeli demolition in Palestine
uri: Israeli-demolition-in-Palestine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Israeli_demolition_in_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
Israel 
<a href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770387">demolished
the school</a> in a Bedouin village in Palestine.
<p>
Israel has 
<a href="http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770350">demolished 400
Palestinians' homes</a> in 2016.


feed_id: ea94f6a276c9e5b00ab27b517006f4ba
title: Guantanamo prison still not closed
uri: Guantanamo-prison-still-not-closed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Guantanamo_prison_still_not_closed%29

content:
<p>
It's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/24/obama-guantanamo-bay-closure-republicans">Obama's
own fault</a> that he has not closed the Guantanamo prison, because he
accepted nearly all of its injustices.


feed_id: a5c13d9064b54e8ec3ff056d4295339d
title: Dissident sentenced to year in prison
uri: Dissident-sentenced-to-year-in-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Dissident_sentenced_to_year_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
Bahraini dissident Ibrahim Sharif has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/24/bahrain-jails-ibrahim-sharif-national-democratic-action-society">sentenced
to a year in prison</a> for condemning government repression of
peaceful protests.
<p>
In the twisted language of the Bahraini regime, criticizing injustice
constitutes "inciting hatred".
<p>
The repression in Bahrain was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#03%20April%202011%20(Intervention%20Against%20Gaddafi)">imposed
by troops from Salafi Arabia</a> *, with the implicit support of the
US.
<p>
* It's official name is "Saudi Arabia", but I think
"<a href='https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_December_2015_(Blockade_of_Yemen)'>Salafi
Arabia</a>" better describes the poison it spreads.


feed_id: 94aca2cca2d33eb7371de14a3283f3e6
title: Secret funding from Arch Coal
uri: Secret-funding-from-Arch-Coal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Secret_funding_from_Arch_Coal%29

content:
<p>
Arch Coal was secretly funding an organization that 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/02/13049/bankruptcy-documents-indicate-arch-coal-funding-climate-denial-legal-group">harassed
climate scientists</a>.


feed_id: 5f775ffb88957f1761d0109648425b3b
title: "Antisemitism" in Oxford student club
uri: Antisemitism-in-Oxford-student-club
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Antisemitism_in_Oxford_student_club%29

content:
<p>
Regarding 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/23/antisemitic-or-just-against-the-israeli-governments-oppressive-actions">"antisemitism"</a>
in an Oxford student club.
<p>
Real antisemitism was widespread in the UK in the past, and it may
still exist today, but the criticism of Israel's occupation policies
as "antisemitism" is a falsehood.


feed_id: e338ddbdf0d03403c8d51c606e5857af
title: Treason convictions in secret trials
uri: Treason-convictions-in-secret-trials
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Treason_convictions_in_secret_trials%29

content:
<p>
Russia is convicting people of treason in secret trials, apparently
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/24/spy-mania-rise-in-crimes-against-state-treason-russia-ukraine">based
on no evidence</a>.
<p>
I wish this practice were limited to Russia.


feed_id: 294ce1d11c9cf3e01a43fe4e005012db
title: Organized crime finances illegal fishing
uri: Organized-crime-finances-illegal-fishing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_February_2016_%28Organized_crime_finances_illegal_fishing%29

content:
<p>
Organized crime now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/24/black-fish-undercover-with-vigilantes-fighting-organised-crime-at-sea">finances
illegal unsustainable fishing of endangered species</a> around the
world.  A group of volunteers work to catch the criminals.
<p>
I do not approve of releasing tuna from a fish farm, which they did
once before, but that is a side issue.


feed_id: a1d2dc7abeb8acf3189ed705e4396620
title: Disappeared in Thailand
uri: 2016-02-26-Disappeared-in-Thailand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_February_2016_%28Disappeared_in_Thailand%29
content:
<p>
Chinese
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/chinese-rights-campaigner-li-xin-disappears-thailand">dissident 
and whistleblower Li Xin</a> has disappeared in Thailand.
<p>
At least one of the Hong Kong publishers was apparently taken from
Thailand.  It appears that Thailand is basically unsafe for anyone
that China wants to grab.
<p>
This resembles what the US did, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Ex-CIA_agent_convicted_of_involvement_in_kidnaping%29">kidnaping 
a man in Italy</a> and sending him to Egypt to be tortured.  One
former CIA agent is going to be extradited to Italy for trial for
this.


feed_id: 758951b603c83bb2d4d2ad9d462236b0
title: Urgent: Vote on state power
uri: Urgent-Vote-on-state-power
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Vote_on_state_power%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-debate-vote">Call
on Congress</a> to vote on whether the government can make companies
change their products to snoop on people, and debate and vote on what
power the state should have.


feed_id: c586e8888e217afa3feef18419cc4c44
title: Post-war Iraq
uri: Post-war-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Post-war_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
Post-war Iraq:
'<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/19/post-war-iraq-corruption-oil-prices-revenues">Everybody
is corrupt</a>, from top to bottom. Including me'.


feed_id: 1973abe7ec5bbf2a99400b9dda0e1873
title: CO2 emission limit
uri: CO2-emission-limit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28CO2_emission_limit%29
content:
<p>
Terrible news: to avoid 2C of heating,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/25/fossil-fuel-use-must-fall-twice-fast-thought-contain-global-warming">we
can only emit 1,200 bn tons more CO<sub>2</sub></a> (or equivalent)
from now on.
<p>
That is only half what scientists estimated before.
<p>
"If we donât start reducing our emissions immediately, we will blow
[the carbon budget] in a few decades.â


feed_id: 842a9b72f73ad903cb375039fdb50d21
title: Trade secrecy coverup of pre-clinical test
uri: Trade-secrecy-coverup-of-pre-clinical-test
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Trade_secrecy_coverup_of_pre-clinical_test%29

content:
<p>
A French drug trial
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/25/french-drug-trial-scandal-dogs-died-in-pre-clinical-test">caused
grave brain damage</a>, sometimes fatal.  A previous test of the same
drug on dogs did similar damage, but it was covered up by trade
secrecy.
<p>
Drug companies should not be allowed to impose secrecy on any
information about drug trials.  Any arrangements made by the company
that impede publication should land the executives responsible in
prison for a long time, and the company should be punished by
cancelling the patent on that drug.
<p>
However, this alone is not enough, because imposing secrecy is not the
only method these companies use to do corrupt medicine.  For instance,
when drug companies finance or control drug testing, they ruin its
results.  It is a fundamental conflict of interest.  For a test to
kill subjects is rare, but lesser forms of harm happen
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#10_October_2011_(Drug_Trials)">all
the time</a>.
<p>
Drug companies should have nothing to do with tests on drugs.  The
government should run them, and drug companies
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#23%20May%202011%20(Ghost%20Journalism)">should
pay through their taxes</a>.
<p>
Drug companies have
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_February_2016_(EU_to_reduce_regulation_of_drug_trials)">many
ways of corrupting medicine</a>.


feed_id: 94d48205a2f752293e71770b610ccbce
title: The practice of requiring money bail
uri: The-practice-of-requiring-money-bail
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28The_practice_of_requiring_money_bail%29

content:
<p>
Some members of US Congress have proposed to
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/24/representatives-want-to-end-money-bail">end
the practice of requiring money bail for people accused of crimes</a>.
<p>
The system keeps indigent people in jail for months or years, and many
plead guilty to crimes they did not commit because the sentence is
less jail time than they would spend waiting for a trial.


feed_id: cd08a7e47a3be400b4bddae6653cbd2b
title: Big Oil's disaster in Peru
uri: Big-Oil-s-disaster-in-Peru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Big_Oils_disaster_in_Peru%29
content:
<p>
As Rivers Run Black in Peru,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/23/rivers-run-black-peru-indigenous-tribes-left-cleaning-big-oils-disaster">Indigenous
Tribes Left Cleaning Big Oil's Disaster</a>.


feed_id: 656fabaf8ca72ef907dec938d8b1ca8b
title: Heating when an ice age ends
uri: Heating-when-an-ice-age-ends
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Heating_when_an_ice_age_ends%29
content:
<p>
When an ice age ends, the Earth heats up — but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/feb/24/earth-is-warming-is-50x-faster-than-when-it-comes-out-of-an-ice-age">nearly
as fast as we are heating it now</a>.


feed_id: 3fefbe085677ad94f4958d89e0b84eac
title: Bill Gates's lunacy
uri: Bill-Gates-s-lunacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Bill_Gatess_lunacy%29
content:
<p>
Bill Gates
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/24/bill-gates-world-will-deliver-clean-energy-breakthrough-within-15-years">says
there will be a "clean energy breakthrough" that will solve the global
heating problem</a>.
<p>
Mr Bill's faith in future technology is touching, but it's lunacy.
Such a breakthrough may or may not happen.  Our plans for avoiding
global heating disaster must not depend on it.
<p>
Fortunately, we can avoid disaster even <em>without</em> any
breakthrough — if we have the political will to make a forced
march to sustainable energy.  If, that is, we do not justify laziness
by assuming that a "breakthrough" will make it easy.


feed_id: bace0293abdece39dd6388c7a276a3db
title: Many web sites blocking Tor users
uri: Many-web-sites-blocking-Tor-users
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Many_web_sites_blocking_Tor_users%29

content:
<p>
Many web sites are
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/some-websites-turning-law-abiding-tor-users-into-second-class-citizens/">blocking
connection through Tor, or making users answer a CAPTCHA</a>.  The
CAPTCHA typically requires nonfree Javascript software.  Thus, these
sites demand that you either (1) let them track your location or (2)
run a
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree
program</a>.  Either one means mistreating you.  I refuse to do those
things — I would rather not access those sites.
<p>
I hope you will join me in rejecting them.


feed_id: 0ce835cffdc02b438647c5c0e5824cf8
title: Proposal to ban arms sales to Salafi Arabia
uri: Proposal-to-ban-arms-sales-to-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Proposal_to_ban_arms_sales_to_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
The European Parliament is voting on a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/25/saudis-lobby-meps-before-arms-embargo-vote-over-yemen">proposal
to ban arms sales to Salafi Arabia</a>, which is using the arms to
impose horrible suffering on Yemen.
<p>
Salafi Arabia pretends that its enemies the Houthis are "terrorists"
that Europe needs to fight, but the Houthis are
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_January_2016_(Consequence_of_civil_war_in_Yemen)">only
interested in controlling Yemen</a>.  They are no friends of Sunni
terrorists such as al-Qa'ida.


feed_id: 5d54761053d7e637a3ffa1d88f4049d9
title: Business Supremacy Treaties
uri: Business-Supremacy-Treaties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Business_Supremacy_Treaties%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html">Business Supremacy Treaties</a>.


feed_id: 6d91706010087e4055eac4163b069706
title: Urgent: nominate a progressive to the Supreme Court
uri: Urgent-nominate-a-progressive-to-the-Supreme-Court
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_nominate_a_progressive_to_the_Supreme_Court%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Progressive_Nominee">call on Obama</a> to nominate a progressive to the Supreme Court.


feed_id: 37e4933668ca1d78b21a5ba0f41c66cd
title: Palestinian journalist released
uri: Palestinian-journalist-released
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Palestinian_journalist_released%29

content:
<p>Israel has released Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq from <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/26/palestinian-ends-94-day-hunger-strike-after-israel-drops-detention-without-charge">imprisonment without trial.</a>  However, he is too sick to leave the hospital.


feed_id: 838afa82579815c01d03d4a25a7b636f
title: Intolerance of queers
uri: Intolerance-of-queers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Intolerance_of_queers%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/26/bound-by-culture-and-religion-indonesia-is-paranoid-about-lgbt-rights-but-we-wont-be-silenced">In Indonesia (and elsewhere),</a> Islam stands for intolerance of queers.
<p>Tradition in Java and Bali includes a lot of public cross-dressing.
The forms of Islam that were common in Java in the past did not go in
for repression.  In the past few decades, repressive Islam has spread
there.  I've heard this attributed to funding from Salafi Arabia.


feed_id: 96a57c8c61957fdfc0a471b3f7aa0a76
title: Manus Island
uri: Manus-Island
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Manus_Island%29
content:
<p>One of Australia's prisoners in Manus Island was just granted refugee status,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/26/government-defends-healthcare-on-manus-as-refugees-too-scared-to-leave
">after a long hunger strike.</a>  He can't walk or eat normal food.
The Papuan government wants to move him away from the only place he
can get medical care.


feed_id: 8ab1b531d6ade74cfed4279330ce9e76
title: Blocking imports of sea food
uri: Blocking-imports-of-sea-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Blocking_imports_of_sea_food%29
content:
<p>The US will start blocking imports of sea food from <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/26/obama-revives-anti-slavery-law-to-target-thailands-seafood-exports">Thailand</a> where there is suspicion forced labor was used.


feed_id: ab45e16aef70508bbf1167e2fabbddd3
title: Employed people are homeless
uri: Employed-people-are-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Employed_people_are_homeless%29
content:
<p>In <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/25/san-francisco-homeless-encampment-relocation-super-bowl">San Francisco,</a> even employed people are homeless.
<p>It is fine to insist that housing for people must meet certain
standards, but not as an excuse to push people around on the street.
San Francisco's first step should be to legalize sleeping in RVs.  Its
next step should be to provide homeless people with RVs, if not better.
With all the wealth flowing into the city, it will have no trouble paying
for this, if it taxes that wealth properly.


feed_id: ea858bc60e75faafaad7ef65266e8d16
title: Citizenship
uri: Citizenship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Citizenship%29
content:
<p>Senator Cruz wants the US government to have the power to take away people's citizenship by administrative order <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/02/23/ted-cruzs-assault-on-the-citizenship-rig">(not even a trial).</a>
<p>What next, Mr Cruz?  Round up people on the street and shoot them?


feed_id: f5143691a6b9f0ea5900ab1ff10e16ca
title: Assange "arbitrarily detained"
uri: Assange-arbitrarily-detained
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Assange_arbitrarily_detained%29
content:
<p>The UN working group's conclusion that Julian Assange has been
"arbitrarily detained" is based on the specific injustices of his
case: how Sweden is using an unjustly conducted investigation as
excuse to grab him and violate his rights.  <a href="https://justice4assange.com/UN-Working-Group-Decision.html">Here is its opinion.</a>
<p>This reasoning and conclusion would not apply if a war criminal
(Dubya, for instance) were hiding in an embassy to avoid honest, overt
and justly conducted prosecution.
<p>They would also not apply if Sweden conducted its investigation of
these accusations against Assange in an honest and above-board way.


feed_id: 3c9102ae50d7ba117df3dc05fa404ed0
title: Trampled human rights
uri: Trampled-human-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Trampled_human_rights%29
content:
<p>2015: When Global Governments Trampled Human Rights in Name of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/24/2015-when-global-governments-trampled-human-rights-name-national-security">National Security.</a>


feed_id: d97a72ced45e200c0d5a006b44ded2ec
title: Indigenous Palestinians
uri: Indigenous-Palestinians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Indigenous_Palestinians%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/israel-state-fighting-indigenous-palestinians-425546?rx=us&piano_t=1">Haneen Zoabi:</a> Why Israel Is Fighting the Indigenous Palestinians.


feed_id: f35606a2a5716a1eb2c2c6fefefff3a4
title: Fires in forests in Tasmania
uri: Fires-in-forests-in-Tasmania
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Fires_in_forests_in_Tasmania%29
content:
<p>Global heating resulted in fires in forests in Tasmania, that for at least a thousand years have been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/26/tasmanias-bushfires-a-human-made-calamity-on-par-with-the-razing-of-palmyras-
temples">too wet for any fire.</a>  Their entire ecosystem is likely to burn away as heating continues.


feed_id: 13a7ef1d9c8ac0a134937fb551eee3f1
title: Financial ties to Clinton's campaign
uri: Financial-ties-to-Clinton-s-campaign
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Financial_ties_to_Clinton%27s_campaign%29

content:
<p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/25/tv-pundits-praise-hillary-clinton-on-air-fail-to-disclose-financial-ties-to-her-campaign/">TV Pundits</a> Praise Hillary Clinton On Air, Fail to Disclose Financial Ties to Her Campaign.


feed_id: 41216d41f1c416d1a664180e08591c88
title: Lack of love as children
uri: Lack-of-love-as-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Lack_of_love_as_children%29
content:
<p>Many heroin users are using it to blunt the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/25/by-understanding-why-people-use-drugs-i-now-know-why-i-dont-use-them">permanent pain</a> of their lives, which comes from a lack of love as children.
<p>I don't know if there is a way to help those people,
but making reliable birth control and abortion easy to get
will avoid many of them.


feed_id: 04bb01cd9effbf8e9b39a2fe2cb8f7a8
title: Long-lasting brain problems
uri: Long-lasting-brain-problems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Long-lasting_brain_problems%29
content:
<p>People who were not killed by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/25/ebola-survivors-face-long-term-neurological-problems-researchers-find">Ebola</a> have long-lasting brain problems.


feed_id: dd1453779c72935a0fa4e0af5b4f50ab
title: Stop selling arms to Salafi Arabia
uri: Stop-selling-arms-to-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Stop_selling_arms_to_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>The European Parliament adopted a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/25/eu-parliament-votes-for-embargo-on-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia">non-binding resolution</a> to stop selling arms to Salafi Arabia.


feed_id: 841701fd9c77cb464a371a635643b24e
title: Ultimate treachery
uri: Ultimate-treachery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Ultimate_treachery%29
content:
<p>Obama is considering the ultimate treachery: nominating a Republican for the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/feb/25/brian-sandoval-supreme-court-obama-republicans-democrats">Supreme Court.</a>  With "Democrats" like that, who needs Republicans?
<p>Fortunately, the official Republicans rejected this nominee.
But that doesn't mean Obama, the great weakling, won't offer
them an even bigger compromise.


feed_id: a4b2cecbb10d6ba90139eb3aa69003e0
title: Tor anonymity
uri: Tor-anonymity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Tor_anonymity%29
content:
<p>The US government hired <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/judge-confirms-what-many-suspected-feds-hired-cmu-to-break-tor/">CMU researchers</a> to break Tor anonymity.


feed_id: 0a6e4114b06afe00b0a3db3d7f921f4c
title: India's subsidy for solar power systems
uri: India-s-subsidy-for-solar-power-systems
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28India%27s_subsidy_for_solar_power_systems%29

content:
<p>India's subsidy for installing solar power systems it applies only to solar cells made in India.  The WTO called this a barrier to trade, apparently under <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/24/world-trade-organization-undermines-homegrown-solar-energy-india">prodding from the US.</a>
<p>Its logic makes sense, but its priorities are twisted.


feed_id: ac91324a01d9c8f248f4735a00ab634c
title: Reaction buttons
uri: Reaction-buttons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Reaction_buttons%29
content:
<p>Facebook's Five New Reaction Buttons: <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/02/24/facebook_s_5_new_reactions_buttons_are_all_about_data_data_data.html">Data, Data, Data, Data, and Data.</a>


feed_id: 042cf5199f8f910d3d18f793306892b2
title: "Bedroom tax"
uri: Bedroom-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Bedroom_tax%29
content:
<p>A disabled British woman, and her husband that cares for her, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/25/bedroom-tax-supreme-court-disabilities-supreme-court-government">may become homeless</a> because of the "bedroom tax".
<p>The Tories keep imposing cuts on the poor and sick, which they know
must push increasing numbers of people into penury.  Precisely whom or
why, they don't care.  The cuts must be applied rigidly, even
dishonestly, or they would not achieve the goal.


feed_id: b2667fa1c8c7a4f0cfa0a5066f123a40
title: Sanders plans to solve two US problems
uri: Sanders-plans-to-solve-two-US-problems
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Sanders_plans_to_solve_two_US_problems%29

content:
<p>Sanders plans to solve two US problems <a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/02/21/americas_shameful_state_of_decay_sanders_is_campaigning_on_rebuilding_the_countrys_infrastructure_will_it_work/">at once:</a> curbing speculation in the big casino and funding US infrastructure.
<p>Incidentally, rebuilding the infrastructure will create lots of jobs.


feed_id: f9fa5db2ed2ad2c02f4796d16aab95ec
title: Treaties with very poor countries
uri: Treaties-with-very-poor-countries
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28Treaties_with_very_poor_countries%29

content:
<p>The UK has treaties with many very poor countries, limiting what taxes they can charge to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/23/uk-tops-global-table-of-damaging-tax-deals-with-developing-countries">UK companies.</a>


feed_id: d82bdefdf1d2f270b422ef370c76cca4
title: National health systems
uri: National-health-systems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28National_health_systems%29
content:
<p>The TTIP could force privatization of national health systems, in the UK and (I presume) <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/22/ttip-deal-real-serious-risk-nhs-leading-qc">in the rest of Europe.</a>
<p>It could also stop the US from setting up a proper national health service, which it badly needs.


feed_id: 6bc10d70bd019e8f7247d01596cfb57b
title: New taxes
uri: New-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28New_taxes%29
content:
<p>Foreign companies could the use TTIP and other such treaties to forbid states from <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/15/think-corporate-tax-avoidance-bad-it-could-be-about-get-even-worse">imposing new taxes.</a>


feed_id: cb72ccc71f2109cc521a344a0f116147
title: CO2 emission limit
uri: 2016-02-27-CO2-emission-limit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_February_2016_%28CO2_emission_limit%29
content:
<p>
Terrible news: to avoid 2C of heating,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/25/fossil-fuel-use-must-fall-twice-fast-thought-contain-global-warming">we
can only emit 1,200 bn tons more CO<sub>2</sub></a> (or equivalent)
from now on.
<p>
That is only half what scientists estimated before.
<p>
"If we don't start reducing our emissions immediately, we will blow
[the carbon budget] in a few decades."


feed_id: 139593adea28d33afb384eb0e6a0b9ea
title: Whistleblowers Challenge Candidates
uri: Whistleblowers-Challenge-Candidates
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Whistleblowers_Challenge_Candidates%29

content:
<p>
Whistleblowers Challenge Candidates: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/26/whistleblowers-challenge-candidates-stand-against-wall-street-fraud">Stand
Against Wall Street Fraud</a>.


feed_id: 689db7cc97fc12140f67a5473b19a19d
title: Urgent: Action against men that murder
uri: Urgent-Action-against-men-that-murder
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Action_against_men_that_murder%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=48059">call
on Obama</a> to endorse world-wide action against the men that murder
their daughters or sisters.


feed_id: 1a9b7745f2fc73fe1d4b9558bf7dfb82
title: Urgent: Protect survivors of massacre
uri: Urgent-Protect-survivors-of-massacre
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_survivors_of_massacre%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=47842">call
on Indonesian President Widodo</a> to protect the survivors of the
1966 massacre and give them justice.


feed_id: 884ffee9fe7ffc5145cba8f53b7b1c99
title: Urgent: Block Alberta Clipper pipeline
uri: Urgent-Block-Alberta-Clipper-pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Alberta_Clipper_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3967">call
on Kerry</a> to block the Alberta Clipper pipeline.


feed_id: 5604fd657ed8ef5eb88e17d71111caac
title: Rebel Girl or Super Predator?
uri: Rebel-Girl-or-Super-Predator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Rebel_Girl_or_Super_Predator%29
content:
<p>
So Which Clinton Is It Today:
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/02/25/so-which-clinton-it-today-rebel-girl-or-super-predator">Rebel
Girl or Super Predator</a>?


feed_id: 0b489af8cdb490a6ea672c1680d44ca7
title: Getting rich from public schools
uri: Getting-rich-from-public-schools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Getting_rich_from_public_schools%29

content:
<p>
How to Get Rich From Public Schools
(<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/26/how-get-rich-public-schools-without-actually-educating">Without
Actually Educating</a>).


feed_id: 34253d3088d57a39e74b7d1a60142eb1
title: Illness caused by injustices
uri: Illness-caused-by-injustices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Illness_caused_by_injustices%29
content:
<p>
For 70 years, a study has tracked the medical history of everyone born
in Britain during one week.  It has uncovered a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/27/the-life-project-what-makes-some-people-happy-healthy-successful-and-others-not">series
of injustices that systematically caused avoidable illness</a>, and some
were corrected, before the UK fell to the plutocrats.
<p>
I think the Tories will end this story before it shows any more about
<a href="/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">what the state ought to
do</a>.


feed_id: a3ea16d15131ce20b0d72f5c147d38e7
title: Reducing poaching
uri: Reducing-poaching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Reducing_poaching%29
content:
<p>
A team of local women has had
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/26/the-all-female-patrol-stopping-south-africas-rhino-poachers">great
success</a> in reducing poaching in one region of South Africa.
<p>
More money and more political will would do a lot of good in inspiring
such teams.  Pay alone won't do it, but these efforts cost money.


feed_id: 7ad038875bfbfb6b8a3a4690204a8828
title: Seaworld employee tries to provoke violence
uri: Seaworld-employee-tries-to-provoke-violence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Seaworld_employee_tries_to_provoke_violence%29

content:
<p>
Seaworld sent an employee to infiltrate PETA, where he
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3464268/SeaWorld-acknowledges-planting-worker-animal-rights-group.html">tried
to provoke them into violence</a>.
<p>
It seems to me that a fraudulent attempt to lead others into crime (so
as to prosecute them) should itself be a crime.


feed_id: 8fb477543110a5531f911bf68345e0aa
title: Tax avoidance treaties
uri: Tax-avoidance-treaties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Tax_avoidance_treaties%29
content:
<p>
The wealthy countries
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/25/rip-tax-treaties-making-world-more-unequal">imposed
tax avoidance treaties decades ago</a>, through which multinational
companies pay poor countries hardly any tax.


feed_id: 64ad47a6810dbeb2e22ccb34f8a8fe16
title: FBI trying to break computer security
uri: FBI-trying-to-break-computer-security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28FBI_trying_to_break_computer_security%29

content:
<p>
Since the FBI knows it can't ban or break encryption, it is now
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/26/fbi-vs-apple-post-crypto-wars/a">trying
every possible method to break computer security in general</a>.


feed_id: 2094eae4bee584eb81f54d54b96ea37d
title: Trump wants expanded libel laws
uri: Trump-wants-expanded-libel-laws
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Trump_wants_expanded_libel_laws%29

content:
<p>
Trump proposes to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/26/trump-pledges-curb-press-freedom-libel-laws-first-amendment">quash
press criticism</a> with expanded libel laws.


feed_id: 3cc096396fcb4e9247a29860876bbaa7
title: UAE prison torture
uri: UAE-prison-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28UAE_prison_torture%29
content:
<p>
UAE
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/26/uae-torture-prisoners-beatings-electrocution">Beat
Foreign Prisoners And Gave Them Electric Shocks</a>.
<p>
No wonder it is a US ally.


feed_id: acc320837aa59b0c965e7f5145f0d494
title: Gov. Snyder
uri: Gov-Snyder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Gov._Snyder%29
content:
<p>
Some of Gov. Snyder's top advisers called for switching Flint's water
supply back to safer water in
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/26/snyders-advisers-knew-flint-water-was-toxic">October
2014</a>.
<p>
If Snyder did not know about this, he was incompetent at his job.


feed_id: 248ffa74aefa02749aa400b46029da1d
title: Sexting
uri: Sexting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_February_2016_%28Sexting%29
content:
<p>
New Mexico has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/26/new-mexico-legalizes-teen-sexting">legalized 
sexting for teenagers 14 and over</a>.
<p>
I fear 13-year-olds are still in danger of punishment.  You might
think it is wiser for them not to sext, or have sex, but some will do
it anyway and it is wrong to jail them when they do.


feed_id: 68dfe11b754bcd0be948badd015dc049
title: Plutocrats realize Sanders may become president
uri: Plutocrats-realize-Sanders-may-become-president
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Plutocrats_realize_Sanders_may_become_president%29

content:
<p>
Plutocrats in the US and the EU will try to get This Treaty Is
Plutocratic finished 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/26/ttip-eu-and-us-vow-to-speed-up-talks-on-trade-deal">in
time for Obama to sign it</a>.
<p>
They realize that the next president may be Sanders.


feed_id: fd443eed9d5fa71e90e07f5be3809eaa
title: Former NAACP president supports Sanders
uri: Former-NAACP-president-supports-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Former_NAACP_president_supports_Sanders%29

content:
<p>
Benjamin Todd Jealous, former president of the NAACP, says 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/26/forget-what-hillary-said-1990s-its-her-current-positions-trouble-me">why
he supports Sanders</a> rather than Clinton.


feed_id: 44acd679e33f746c1c829570112d8f23
title: Bill slashes wildlife protections
uri: Bill-slashes-wildlife-protections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Bill_slashes_wildlife_protections%29

content:
<p>
U.S. House of Representatives Approves Bill 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/26/us-house-representatives-approves-bill-slashing-wildlife-protections">Slashing
Wildlife Protections</a>.  The victims of this SCROTUS initiative
would include wolves in the US and elephants in Africa.
<p>
SCROTUS = Sleazy Congressional Republicans Of The United States.


feed_id: b073346e483ed8e9639a1adf70b8d0f4
title: No usable scandals in NOAA email batch
uri: No-usable-scandals-in-NOAA-email-batch
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28No_usable_scandals_in_NOAA_email_batch%29

content:
<p>
After finding no usable scandals in one batch of NOAA emails,
denialist Lamar Smith has 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/congressman-demands-more-noaa-e-mails-about-climate-study/">demanded
a lot more NOAA emails to try to manipulate</a>.


feed_id: 1c662c393aa209dd192125dec14f74a7
title: Computational idea patents
uri: Computational-idea-patents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Computational_idea_patents%29
content:
<p>
Two of the computational idea patents Apple used to attack Samsung
have been 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/appeals-court-reverses-apple-v-samsung-ii-strips-away-apples-120m-jury-verdict/">invalidated
by a court</a>.
<p>
That's a victory for software freedom, but an limited and extremely
expensive one.  We need to protect software from all patents on
computational ideas, all at once.
<p>
These patents are often called "software patents", but that term gives
the wrong idea of what such patents do.  A patent is never associated
with any specific code.  Rather, it is a 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-literary-patents.html">monopoly
on implementing some specific, stated idea</a> & in these cases, a
computational idea.  Any code which implements the patented idea, or
any hardware which does, can be the basis for a lawsuit.
<p>
Another solution I've proposed is to 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">legislate
that software is exempt from patent law</a>.
<p>
This illustrates the error of focusing on "patent trolls" and ignoring
other patent aggressors.  Apple is the biggest patent aggressor in the
software field, and we can hardly call it a patent troll.  Its
products are 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">full
of proprietary software</a>
<p>
with 
<a href="http://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html">malicious
functionalities</a>, but they are certainly a real business.


feed_id: 530ecb90e8cac17eb7bd278df690eded
title: AT&T pays legislators to approve bill
uri: AT-T-pays-legislators-to-approve-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28ATT_pays_legislators_to_approve_bill%29

content:
<p>
AT&T gave 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/att-gave-62k-to-lawmakers-months-before-vote-to-limit-muni-broadband/">62
thousand dollars</a> to Missouri state legislators to get a committee
to approve a bill to block municipal internet access in that state.
<p>
Even if they have to pay 10 times as much to get the whole legislature
to approve the bill, AT&T will get tremendous return on investment.


feed_id: 42e31af6b6ccd611ad9fe08702cc04ad
title: Schoolchildren face felony charges
uri: Schoolchildren-face-felony-charges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Schoolchildren_face_felony_charges%29

content:
<p>
Two Florida schoolchildren face 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/27/florida-students-criminal-charges-pepper-teachers-drink">felony
charges</a> for putting red pepper in a teacher's soda.
<p>
The school should punish them, but taking it to court is incompetence
on the school's part.
<p>
I reject the practice of calling teenagers "children" merely because
they are minors, but these are 12 years old, not even teenagers.
They really are children.


feed_id: cfb83860a4c452011ac2d20ae00f03e8
title: Scalia's worth to corporate America
uri: Scalia-s-worth-to-corporate-America
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Scalias_worth_to_corporate_America%29

content:
<p>
"Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was 
<a href='https://theintercept.com/2016/02/27/antonin-scalia-the-billion-dollar-supreme-court-justice/'>worth
billions of dollars to corporate America</a>," extrapolating from
evidence that his death has denied them the chance to make off with
billions more.


feed_id: 6dfd41a20de396de29c2e5c293a61eb7
title: Overuse of antibiotics
uri: 2016-02-28-Overuse-of-antibiotics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Overuse_of_antibiotics%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/27/ecolis-last-message-president-obama">An
E.Coli's Last Message to President Obama</a>.


feed_id: e71d1d55b77b9e406b3ce87e90f5bd0d
title: Growing marijuana indoors
uri: Growing-marijuana-indoors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Growing_marijuana_indoors%29
content:
<p>
Growing marijuana indoors 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/27/marijuana-industry-huge-energy-footprint">uses
up lots of electricity</a>.
<p>
Why grow marijuana indoors?  Because it's illegal.  Even were it is
legal, they still grow it indoors because they invested so much effort
in learning to grow a good crop indoors.  But legalization will change
that over time, even if not instantly.


feed_id: 52353ca1c02ddcc4139fc71d1be13e87
title: Abuse of power by thugs
uri: Abuse-of-power-by-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Abuse_of_power_by_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Baltimore thugs shot Keith Davis, apparently having mistaken him for
the robber of a taxi, then 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/27/man-shot-baltimore-police-acquitted-keith-gray-jury-rejects-officers-testimony-freddie-gray">went
all-out to frame him for that robbery</a>.  They failed.
<p>
Will those involved in the frame-up be prosecuted for this abuse of
power?


feed_id: 7840d578090d4a6dc0d0f113d9f79c08
title: Volunteer
uri: 2016-02-29-Volunteer
url: https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc
content:
<p>I am looking for people to write a recipe for how to connect to the WiFi in a New York
     City subway station without running its nonfree Javascript code.  The
     recipe could include a free Javascript program I could run, or it
     could consist of instructions for what I would type into IceCat (our
     variant of Firefox).  It doesn't have't be super convenient, it just
     has to work.</p>


feed_id: cb22492119cab7201828b89c2db678c0
title: Urgent: The people's vote
uri: Urgent-The-people-s-vote
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_The_peoples_vote%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/RobertReichSuperdelegates/">call
on Democratic superdelegates</a> to follow the people's vote.


feed_id: fec3fb2e5d6ca201f1833169dffa23f5
title: The South Carolina primary
uri: The-South-Carolina-primary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28The_South_Carolina_primary%29
content:
<p>
Clinton won the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/27/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-south-carolina-primary">South
Carolina primary</a>.
<p>
However, Sanders leads nationwide and can still win the nomination.


feed_id: 5b61339db395ab2b03920f63cea884bf
title: False Benefit Fraud Allegations
uri: False-Benefit-Fraud-Allegations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28False_Benefit_Fraud_Allegations%29

content:
<p>
People in the UK have reported around a million cases of alleged
benefit fraud, but only 15% of them were real fraud.  The other 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/27/false-benefit-fraud-allegations">85%
of those accused were honest</a>.


feed_id: 7354693450b36bfd756a6c9081b69e0a
title: Surveillance cameras in nursing homes
uri: Surveillance-cameras-in-nursing-homes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Surveillance_cameras_in_nursing_homes%29

content:
<p>
Putting surveillance cameras in nursing homes 
<a href="http://theconversation.com/why-cctv-in-care-homes-could-cause-more-harm-than-good-54601">would
violate the privacy of the people living there</a>.
<p>
One possible trade-off is to install security cameras instead of
surveillance cameras.  The difference is that a surveillance camera
can be watched remotely, while a security camera makes only a local
recording that is overwritten in a short time.  The security camera
would deter abuses while not lending itself to watching everyone.
<p>
I believe that 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">only
security cameras, not surveillance cameras, should be allowed pointing
at places where the public is admitted</a>, with exceptions allowed
only under court orders for a specific place and time period.
<p>
As for nursing homes, they could install security cameras in the rooms
of those patients that request them.


feed_id: 7238d26888c5c6eec786149878f69710
title: Urgent: Make Nestle pay to use water
uri: Urgent-Make-Nestle-pay-to-use-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Make_Nestle_pay_to_use_water%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://leftaction.com/nestle-flint-water">call for making
Nestle pay</a> to use Lake Michigan water.


feed_id: 6dd81865909e098c9e40dbf6610173c2
title: Urgent: Support climate resolution
uri: Urgent-Support-climate-resolution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Support_climate_resolution%29

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


feed_id: 523a7174f12e1408498d9dc5a74727de
title: Urgent: Take stand on Israel's colonies
uri: Urgent-Take-stand-on-Israel-s-colonies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Take_stand_on_Israels_colonies%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stand-with-obama-settlements">support
the US government stand</a> that Israel's colonies in Palestine are
not part of Israel.


feed_id: 87746068941f25ba5f79dfad485cd086
title: Protest rally in Poland
uri: Protest-rally-in-Poland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Protest_rally_in_Poland%29
content:
<p>
Anti-Government Protesters 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/27/protest-warsaw-polish-government-undermining-constitution">Rally
for 'Free And Open Poland'</a>.


feed_id: e550b2fea024b033674c15443aae97e4
title: Getting a fair trial in the UK
uri: Getting-a-fair-trial-in-the-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Getting_a_fair_trial_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
In the UK, 
<a href="http://theconversation.com/why-heathrow-13-verdict-could-lead-to-more-radical-climate-activism-not-less-55464">protesters
must now damage property</a> in order to get a fair trial.


feed_id: 572373bba4467256a0f5c6c08d8e451b
title: Offending religious feelings
uri: Offending-religious-feelings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Offending_religious_feelings%29
content:
<p>
Dalits worship a "demon" that in mythology was killed by the goddess
Durga.  They believe he was a king that challenged the dominance of
the caste system.  Jawaharlal Nehru University uses this feast day as
an occasion for political debates about caste, for which it
<a href="http://www.abplive.in/india-news/bjp-mp-at-un-bjp-event-udit-raj-attended-mahishasur-festival-at-jnu-296735">faces
prosecution for offending the religious feelings of higher caste
Indians that worship Durga</a>.
<p>
I suppose they offend the religious feelings of Dalits, reciprocally,
but they won't be prosecuted for that.
<p>
Religious freedom means that people are free to hold any views in the
area of religion, and freedom of speech means they are free to
praise or condemn any religion.


feed_id: 2db34f7601f3b7c2c1f467676e95ea7b
title: Republicans want to punish single mothers
uri: Republicans-want-to-punish-single-mothers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Republicans_want_to_punish_single_mothers%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in Illinois 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/25/1491103/-Illinois-Republican-lawmakers-penalize-single-mothers-with-outrageous-bill">want
to exclude children of single mothers permanently from school and
employment, as well as state aid</a>, if the mother does not (or
cannot) name the father, or find some substitute.
<p>
I think the state should offer a gratis abortion to any woman
in that situation.


feed_id: b6d76254f62b0ed3ff88e2a83a8a79dc
title: Extreme right-wing budget cuts
uri: Extreme-right-wing-budget-cuts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Extreme_right-wing_budget_cuts%29

content:
<p>
A right-wing think tank is demanding budget cuts 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/24/1490470/-The-secretly-elected-Heritage-crew-creates-new-headaches-for-House-Speaker-Paul-Ryan">so
extreme that even Paul Ryan doesn't dare endorse them</a>.


feed_id: a3c7965604e28c317fe841a82256f232
title: Thugs kill emergency room patient
uri: Thugs-kill-emergency-room-patient
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Thugs_kill_emergency_room_patient%29

content:
<p>
Joyce Curnell went to the emergency room, but the hospital informed
the local thugs that she was wanted for not paying debts.  They took
her to debtor's prison, and the thugs 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/25/1491126/-Woman-deprived-of-water-dies-in-South-Carolina-jail">killed
her there by denying her water and medical care</a>.


feed_id: 1964660a7863a3875926edad31feb3d3
title: US film and TV industry subsidized
uri: US-film-and-TV-industry-subsidized
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28US_film_and_TV_industry_subsidized%29

content:
<p>
The film and TV industry in the US gets big subsidies, which is a 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/02/26/no-matter-who-wins-at-the-oscars-taxpaye">waste
of our money</a>.  The same companies then 
<a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/dmca-anti-circumvention-comment">turn
around and buy government support for unjust copyright laws</a> such
as the DMCA.


feed_id: cc303ded7534543fb6a468ab5384608c
title: Right-wing presuppositions in debate questions
uri: Right-wing-presuppositions-in-debate-questions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_February_2016_%28Right-wing_presuppositions_in_debate_questions%29

content:
<p>
Democratic debate moderators from PBS posed 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/why-are-public-broadcasters-parroting-conservative-talking-points/">questions
with right-wing presuppositions</a>.
<p>
The US right wing is not grateful for this support; rather, it
continues to condemn PBS as "liberal" no matter how reactionary it
gets.  This is part of its long-term strategy to fool Americans into
considering all views but the most extreme reactionarism as "leftist
extremism".
<p>
The support for Sanders shows that many Americans are starting to
recognize this lie.


feed_id: 8d2ef883a8d18ede640e7992bf28ce5a
title: Urgent: Contraceptive aid
uri: Urgent-Contraceptive-aid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Contraceptive_aid%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/zpg/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=535">call
on Congress</a> to approve contraceptive aid for regions affected by
Zika.


feed_id: f0b43b2cc4ac07466ffacb4702474b3e
title: Scalia
uri: 2016-02-29-Scalia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Scalia%29
content:
<p>
Scalia 
<a href="media/fecb0609.Arbitration_as_Wealth_Transfer_1.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.acslaw.org/sites/default/files/Arbitration_as_Wealth_Transfer_1.pdf">did
grave damage to American workers and consumers</a> by allowing
companies to impose arbitration requirements on them, thus denying
them the right to go to court when mistreated.


feed_id: c5ba2da61f5fccad66209bae19668936
title: Student prosecuted for insulting Tories
uri: Student-prosecuted-for-insulting-Tories
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Student_prosecuted_for_insulting_Tories%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/25/adam-barr-arrested-offensive-banner-politicians-cleared">Charges
have been dropped</a> against a UK student who was prosecuted for an
insult against Tories.
<p>
Bravo to anyone that insults Tories, but Aneurin Bevan expressed it
much more clearly.  The Tories are lower than vermin.


feed_id: d5310e7176c4a9df3fed0b4e6f3232af
title: Forest-cutting in Australia
uri: Forest-cutting-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Forest-cutting_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Australia is allowing so much forest-cutting that it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/29/exclusive-land-clearing-surge-in-qld-set-to-wipe-out-direct-action-gains-report">will
bust its climate target</a>.


feed_id: f33f6b12a544663f097a2f09ff15876e
title: Religion-motivated discrimination
uri: Religion-motivated-discrimination
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Religion-motivated_discrimination%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in Georgia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/28/georgia-religious-liberty-bill-first-amendment-defense-act">want
to legalize religion-motivated discrimination</a> against same-sex
couple.


feed_id: 46b46dc93c4733611dd37de80cf24520
title: Cease fire in Syria
uri: 2016-02-29-Cease-fire-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Cease_fire_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
The cease fire in Syria is mostly holding, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/28/fragile-syria-ceasefire-enters-second-day">Assad's
side carried out some air strikes</a>.  Perhaps they were directed at
al-Nusra or PISSI.


feed_id: 6b6c6b42160d1b789ada861d3d829295
title: Trump's tax returns
uri: Trump-s-tax-returns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Trumps_tax_returns%29
content:
<p>
Some questions that 
<a href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/9-key-points-about-trumps-income-taxes-and-many-more-questions/">Trump's
tax returns</a> would answer.


feed_id: 6ebcf5a1ab339c8039608b2b2fbc0ced
title: UK MP arrested by Turkish soldiers
uri: UK-MP-arrested-by-Turkish-soldiers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28UK_MP_arrested_by_Turkish_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
A UK MP visiting southeast Turkey was arrested by soldiers for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/27/scottish-mp-detained-in-turkey-talks-of-terrifying-experience">making
a recording of the sounds of Turkish tanks firing on Kurds</a>.


feed_id: efc620aa343cae3fe17da9ef4904212c
title: Noncompete agreements
uri: Noncompete-agreements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Noncompete_agreements%29
content:
<p>
Many US companies impose noncompete agreements on lots of employees
just because they can &mdash so these employees, 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/labor/seemingly-harmless-paper-you-signed-when-you-were-hired-can-bite-you-ass">if
laid off, can't work anywhere</a>.
<p>
The fact that most of these contracts would not be enforced by a court
does not stop them from doing harm.  If it were up to me, I would
penalize companies for asking employees to sign them, outside some
narrow cases.


feed_id: 73e8c3522c794913340aba887769799c
title: Supposedly "left-leaning" economists
uri: Supposedly-left-leaning-economists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Supposedly_left-leaning_economists%29

content:
<p>
Supposedly "left-leaning" economists are 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/45368">supporting
the establishment</a> in criticizing Sanders' economic plans.


feed_id: 0acde59b63caef4fe4d9fb5d15886a93
title: Regulations for undersea fracking
uri: Regulations-for-undersea-fracking
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Regulations_for_undersea_fracking%29

content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34959-regulators-butt-heads-with-activists-over-assessment-of-offshore-fracking-hazards">proposes
very light regulations</a> for undersea fracking.
<p>
Do we have to risk learning the hard way?


feed_id: bc055f39157094e3975be68ac492cc60
title: Support for solar power in Nevada
uri: Support-for-solar-power-in-Nevada
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Support_for_solar_power_in_Nevada%29

content:
<p>
The people of Nevada are organizing strongly to 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/51614">reverse
the decision to remove support for individuals to install solar
power</a>.
<p>
If we taxed carbon emissions enough, and eliminated subsidies for
fossil fuels, specific policies to encourage solar power would not be
needed.  Simply avoiding the cost of fossil fuel would be enough
incentive for people to switch.


feed_id: de28dc0f89243a31935609b7efe1b303
title: Control of people through the media
uri: Control-of-people-through-the-media
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Control_of_people_through_the_media%29

content:
<p>
China's rulers admit that, now that they can't please the people with
fast growth, they depend more on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/28/absolute-loyalty-how-xi-jinping-is-bringing-chinas-media-to-heel">control
of the people through the media</a>.


feed_id: 43fcf913422d7c70f3a75292be4bb4a8
title: Science
uri: Science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_February_2016_%28Science%29
content:
<p>
More Than Ever, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/28/science-arts-society">Science
Must Be Central to All Our Lives</a>.


feed_id: 9f1ca2f42cdd1f58c7483e524c44ea0b
title: Urgent: Thank the FCC
uri: 2016-03-01-Urgent-Thank-the-FCC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_the_FCC%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1641">Thank the FCC</a>
for adopting network neutrality.


feed_id: 6f741de27529918c3cb0afbdf5dd092d
title: Many sites block visitors that use Tor
uri: Many-sites-block-visitors-that-use-Tor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_February_2016_%28Many_sites_block_visitors_that_use_Tor%29

content:
<p>
Many web sites 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/25/tor_users_discriminated_against/">block
or harass visitors that use Tor</a>.
<p>
What the article does not mention is that the CAPTCHAs typically
operate through nonfree Javascript code.  We who refuse to run nonfree
Javascript code simply can't access these sites.


feed_id: b16a0d38da8091ab485d43646a95f4db
title: Mining and violence
uri: Mining-and-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_February_2016_%28Mining_and_violence%29
content:
<p>
Around the world, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/feb/29/mexico-gold-zimbabwe-diamond-mining-conflict-business-complicit">mining
is associated with violence</a>.  (And often pollution too.)


feed_id: 7a8ce71bd1312548e85f07b07e9fc4f8
title: Deaths in Syria sieges
uri: Deaths-in-Syria-sieges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_February_2016_%28Deaths_in_Syria_sieges%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/thousands-may-have-died-in-syria-sieges-un-human-rights-chief-says">Thousands
May Have Died</a> in Syria Sieges, UN Human Rights Chief Says.


feed_id: 6a05d5edcb0bd528c4c564c8895e2a58
title: Proposal to mobilize US economy
uri: Proposal-to-mobilize-US-economy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_February_2016_%28Proposal_to_mobilize_US_economy%29

content:
<p>
Sanders proposes to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/23/sanders-economic-plan-controversy">mobilize
the US economy for growth</a>, so establishment-supporting economists
and media claim it won't work, without really studying it.


feed_id: a8bfd33564789fe6031144c839821615
title: Apple court order
uri: Apple-court-order
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_February_2016_%28Apple_court_order%29
content:
<p>
FBI Says Apple Court Order Is Narrow, But 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/22/fbi-says-apple-court-order-is-narrow-but-other-law-enforcers-hungry-to-exploit-it/">Other
Law Enforcers Hungry to Exploit It</a>.
<p>
What would thugs do, if not lie?


feed_id: 819afd0ea0ee14920e943065964c185b
title: Repression of prostitutes in Indonesia
uri: Repression-of-prostitutes-in-Indonesia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_February_2016_%28Repression_of_prostitutes_in_Indonesia%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/indonesia-demolishes-capitals-largest-red-light-district">imposing
harsh repression</a> on prostitutes.
<p>
They will still work as prostitutes but it will be more dangerous for
them.


feed_id: a81e82b9dfe30c236a9e9c608501f0ab
title: The right to death
uri: The-right-to-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_February_2016_%28The_right_to_death%29
content:
<p>
On watching one's father die in useless and terrible suffering;
doctors were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2016/feb/29/i-wish-i-could-have-told-my-father-he-wouldnt-suffer-but-i-didnt-and-couldnt">not
allowed to give him enough morphine to end the pain</a> (and with it
his life) although he begged for that.


feed_id: a35a6d464f3e9e5867ca6292ea10f2d3
title: Trump and David Duke
uri: Trump-and-David-Duke
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_February_2016_%28Trump_and_David_Duke%29
content:
<p>
In 2000, Trump knew who David Duke was, enough to refuse to be
associated politically with him.  Now he 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/donald-trump-afraid-denounce-ku-klux-klan">pleads
ignorance of Duke as an excuse not to reject his support</a>.


feed_id: 7947986ed015fb482e75f29730babdac
title: Proposed EU-US "data protection" deal
uri: Proposed-EU-US-data-protection-deal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Proposed_EU-US_data_protection_deal%29

content:
<p>
The proposed "data protection" deal between the EU and the US
over personal data of Europeans is bogus, since it
<a href="http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/02/privacy-shield-doomed-from-get-go-nsa-bulk-surveillance-waved-through/">does
nothing to resist NSA bulk surveillance</a>.
<p>
Press Release:
<a href="https://edri.org/privacy-shield-is-the-same-unsafe-harbour/">"Privacy
Shield" Is The Same Unsafe Harbour</a>.


feed_id: 2086fc45c345ecc69f7294e6313b1adb
title: Proposed privacy protection schemes
uri: Proposed-privacy-protection-schemes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Proposed_privacy_protection_schemes%29

content:
<p>
Activists and tech companies are deadlocked in a dispute about
proposed privacy protection schemes that
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/technology/obamas-effort-on-consumer-privacy-falls-short-critics-say.html">would
be woefully inadequate</a>.
<p>
They would be a more codified form of today's "privacy policies",
which are hardly worth paying attention to.
<p>
Once data are collected, they <em>will</em> be misused — by
rogue staff, by criminal crackers (please don't call them
<a href="/articles/on-hacking.html">"hackers"</a>), and by the US and
other governments, and probably by the company too, because its
"privacy policy" allows harmful use.
<p>
What we need is to
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">stop
systems from collecting the data</a>.


feed_id: 39c749ec8fb7395e3f4af9770fc563a7
title: HK publisher's UK citizenship
uri: HK-publisher-s-UK-citizenship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28HK_publishers_UK_citizenship%29
content:
<p>
A Hong Kong publisher, in Chinese hands,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/missing-british-bookseller-appears-on-television">says
he has renounced his UK citizenship</a>.
<p>
I hope the UK has the guts to say he can't surrender his citizenship
while in under some other government's power.


feed_id: 047fd35e5457b77f5feb9eec324f4b0f
title: One subpoena against Apple quashed
uri: One-subpoena-against-Apple-quashed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28One_subpoena_against_Apple_quashed%29

content:
<p>
A court quashed one subpoena against Apple that
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/29/apple-wins-major-court-victory-in-its-battle-against-fbi-in-a-case-similar-to-san-bernardino/">would
have required it to develop software to weaken security</a>.
<p>
It is good that Apple is defending people's privacy on this one front,
but Apple software
<a href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html">does plenty to
undermine and mistreat users</a>.


feed_id: 8641b3dc0dbd4da89af3e798c7e879eb
title: Israel's situation compared to McCarthyism
uri: Israel-s-situation-compared-to-McCarthyism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Israels_situation_compared_to_McCarthyism%29

content:
<p>
Some Israeli artists
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/mar/01/israel-loyalty-in-culture-bill-debate-fascism-miri-regev-art-free-speech">compare
the current situation with McCarthyism</a>.


feed_id: 3e39909902ca1ced1c9c1da4bb642b73
title: Evictions of urban women with children
uri: Evictions-of-urban-women-with-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Evictions_of_urban_women_with_children%29

content:
<p>
Urban women with children are
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/03/matthew-desmond-evictions-poverty">especially
likely to be evicted in the US</a>.  The record of the eviction can
make them struggle for many years.


feed_id: 501354bb3bd06a7d290252cbfeb21ed2
title: US-organized civil war in Guatemala
uri: US-organized-civil-war-in-Guatemala
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28US-organized_civil_war_in_Guatemala%29

content:
<p>
Guatemalan officers have been convicted of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/01/guatemala-sexual-slavery-sepur-zarco-military-officers-jailed">raping
indigenous women as part of the US-organized civil war</a>.
<p>
The US was supporting the local plutocrats against people who were
fed up with being ruled by them.


feed_id: 45b3f420a8bb544ac2e3eadcf9c0dd94
title: World's major coal sites threatened
uri: World-s-major-coal-sites-threatened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Worlds_major_coal_sites_threatened%29

content:
<p>
Climate Activists
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/01/climate-activists-shut-down-worlds-major-coal-sites-reclaim-the-power">Threaten
to Shut Down</a> World's Major Coal Sites.


feed_id: d663a4a9a4a06f22895ace9d2990edb2
title: Defining dissent as "terrorism"
uri: Defining-dissent-as-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Defining_dissent_as_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/01/us-japan-eu-team-up-to-warn-china-of-concerns-over-new-security-laws">Several
ambassadors warned China</a> not to define dissent as "terrorism".
<p>
I agree completely.  I wish the US would stop
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_July_2015_(Criminalization_of_dissent)">investigating
dissidents and whistleblowers by accusing them of "terrorism"</a>.


feed_id: 0e72742989ab016815bfd30ba6a8e407
title: Zika and Guillain-Barré paralysis
uri: Zika-and-Guillain-Barré-paralysis
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Zika_and_Guillain-Barre_paralysis%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/zika-virus-scientists-evidence-guillain-barre-link">Evidence</a>
substantiates that Zika can cause Guillain-Barré paralysis.
<p>
It's a grave symptom, since 40% of them still can't walk three months
later.


feed_id: e1589fd1e5ed141e4c8416413c2e72cb
title: Repression of Journalists in Chhattisgarh
uri: Repression-of-Journalists-in-Chhattisgarh
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Repression_of_Journalists_in_Chhattisgarh%29

content:
<p>
Journalists in Chhattisgarh, India, face
<a href="https://cpj.org/2016/02/press-freedom-crisis-in-indias-chhattisgarh-deepen.php">harsh
state repression</a>.


feed_id: 8d5753b023e8377e192bea07f63b175a
title: Sanders opposes Sandpiper and Clipper
uri: Sanders-opposes-Sandpiper-and-Clipper
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Sanders_opposes_Sandpiper_and_Clipper%29

content:
<p>
Sanders
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/29/bernie-sanders-announces-opposition-sandpiper-and-alberta-clipper-oil-pipelines">opposes
the Sandpiper and Clipper pipelines</a>.


feed_id: 04fcadd41632483d27ae6cfdc54e18fc
title: TEPCO executives face criminal charges
uri: TEPCO-executives-face-criminal-charges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28TEPCO_executives_face_criminal_charges%29

content:
<p>
The executives of TEPCO face criminal charges for
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/29/criminal-charges-against-tepco-executives-step-forward-fukushima-victims">ignoring
the known danger</a> of a higher tsunami than they admitted publicly
was possible.


feed_id: 9f2f4dac685f946eceff904d4f90c2bf
title: Trump's hatred enriches media giants
uri: Trump-s-hatred-enriches-media-giants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Trumps_hatred_enriches_media_giants%29

content:
<p>
The CEO of CBS says Trump is great, because his spewing hatred
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/29/cbs-donald-trump/">enriches
media giants</a>.


feed_id: f52b1a57e2606e8cf84bc73aef8ba45f
title: Urgent: End gerrymandering
uri: 2016-03-02-Urgent-End-gerrymandering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_End_gerrymandering%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.independentlines.org/page/s/sign-the-petition-nebraska">encourage
Nebraska legislators</a> to vote to end gerrymandering in Nebraska.


feed_id: 8de1d3b5fed9203141d28034cb0f4988
title: Urgent: Investigate killing by thugs
uri: Urgent-Investigate-killing-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_killing_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/HernanJaramilloKilling/">Demand
an investigation</a> into the killing of Hernan Jaramillo by thugs in
Oakland.


feed_id: bfb486bf9c2d453addc87d23f6c85228
title: Billboards tracking people's phones
uri: Billboards-tracking-people-s-phones
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28Billboards_tracking_peoples_phones%29

content:
<p>
Billboards are 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/business/media/see-that-billboard-it-may-see-you-too.html">starting
to track people's mobile phones</a>.  Even nastier, some use cameras
to try to learn about who walks by.
<p>
Both of these practices should be illegal.


feed_id: 4c45129ca1e9f5fcf6c51652a92f736f
title: Brother of Colombia's former president arrested
uri: Brother-of-Colombia-s-former-president-arrested
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28Brother_of_Colombias_former_president_arrested%29

content:
<p>
The brother of Colombia's former President Uribe has been arrested and
accused of leading a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/colombia-president-alvaro-uribe-brother-charged-death-squad">murder
squad</a>.
<p>
El President Horrible was associated while in office with the
paramilitares, the worst group of terrorists in that country.  It
sounds like this murder squad was a part of the paramilitares.


feed_id: 75886da55e557d477719a2815e72b3f0
title: Lack of sleep
uri: Lack-of-sleep
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28Lack_of_sleep%29
content:
<p>
Lack of sleep 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/29/lack-of-sleep-alters-brain-chemicals-to-bring-on-cannabis-style-munchies">makes
some people crave sugar and fat</a>, activating natural chemicals with
marijuana-like effects.


feed_id: c3909edbebccbae11eb6aa38487e272f
title: Facebook knows when useds are asleep
uri: Facebook-knows-when-useds-are-asleep
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28Facebook_knows_when_useds_are_asleep%29

content:
<p>
Facebook 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/02/24/why-a-privacy-advocate-made-it-easy-to-track-when-your-facebook-friends-sleep/">can
tell when its useds are asleep</a>.  Via Facebook, others can tell
that too.


feed_id: 42dcb89f1e5b92dfd8dcbbb0205459fb
title: Violence against women in Papua New Guinea
uri: Violence-against-women-in-Papua-New-Guinea
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28Violence_against_women_in_Papua_New_Guinea%29

content:
<p>
In Papua New Guinea, men's violence towards their wives and daughters
is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/29/papua-new-guinea-women-violence-at-home-refuge">so
common that women are very lucky if they don't suffer it</a>.


feed_id: 2c7e47c936f67b37f662bc2b5e0887a6
title: Vultures get 75% of their demand
uri: Vultures-get-75-of-their-demand
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28Vultures_get_75_percent_of_their_demand%29

content:
<p>
The vultures that attacked Argentina 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/argentina-settles-creditor-dispute-deal">gained
75% of the money they demanded</a>.  I'd call this a 75% victory for
evil.
<p>
We need to change US law so that next time the vultures will get
nothing.


feed_id: f79da6442ad41f4a05de435e28b349cf
title: Trump insults soldiers and veterans
uri: Trump-insults-soldiers-and-veterans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28Trump_insults_soldiers_and_veterans%29

content:
<p>
Trump insults anyone that comes within range, even 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/29/donald-trump-disrespect-military-veterans-appalling-unprecedented">soldiers
and veterans</a>.
<p>
When hawks say we should "support our troops", they mean we should
support whatever unjust wars the hawks send those troops to fight in.
The right way to support them is to bring them home.
<p>
We should not blame the soldiers just for fighting an unjust war.
(It's their commanders that should be imprisoned for that.)
However, we must not forgive them for war crimes.


feed_id: 9b11b375a8402881e440d8b096ede6f6
title: False claim made by Snyder's aides
uri: False-claim-made-by-Snyder-s-aides
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28False_claim_made_by_Snyders_aids%29
content:
<p>
Snyder told his aides he wanted to avoid declaring a disaster in
Flint, so they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/29/flint-water-crisis-governor-rick-synder-emails-disaster-declaration">falsely
claimed he was not authorized to do so</a>.


feed_id: 002109fad117d399cd1448a7334f0092
title: Evidence that Argentine prosecutor was murdered
uri: Evidence-that-Argentine-prosecutor-was-murdered
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28Evidence_that_Argentine_prosecutor_was_murdered%29

content:
<p>
The hands of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman had 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/alberto-nisman-case-murder-argentina-lawyer-homicide-investigation">no
traces of firing a gun</a>, which is evidence he was killed by someone
else.
<p>
The prima facie hypothesis is that he was killed to stop him from
testifying the next day against then-president Fernández.


feed_id: ae1f191eff2c1402013d8490afb2d534
title: Threat of Mosul dam collapse
uri: Threat-of-Mosul-dam-collapse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28Threat_of_Mosul_dam_collapse%29
content:
<p>
Iraq has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/iraq-us-issue-warnings-threat-of-mosul-dam-collapse">warned
people in Mosul to move away from the Tigris river</a> because of the
danger that the Mosul dam might collapse.


feed_id: bd37767c49a250da09b7983b87cdfbf4
title: EU emitting too much CO2
uri: EU-emitting-too-much-CO2
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28EU_emitting_too_much_CO2%29
content:
<p>
The EU is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/29/eu-set-to-emit-2bn-tonnes-more-co2-than-paris-climate-pledge">emitting
too much CO<sub>2</sub> to keep its Paris climate pledge</a>.


feed_id: a9e1e9f81890bb73a76866d47bca6eb1
title: iThing-cracking software
uri: iThing-cracking-software
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28iThing-cracking_software%29
content:
<p>
If Apple develops software for the FBI to guess the pin or password on
one iThing, 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/02/heres-how-apple-would-build-crypto-cracking-software-for-the-fbi/">every
cracker and internet army in the world would try to get ahold of
it</a>.


feed_id: 6fb4a8acce82a22b2bb1751dd0657e92
title: Better education for girls in Africa
uri: Better-education-for-girls-in-Africa
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28Better_education_for_girls_in_Africa%29

content:
<p>
Funding better education for girls in Africa is a very 
<a href="http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2016/02/16-climate-change-fertility-girls-education-kharas">efficient
way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions</a> there.
<p>
It's not enough, though — we also have to cut down in emissions
in other parts of the world.


feed_id: 3bc615854444874972be865fc44475dd
title: UK towns banning activities as predicted
uri: UK-towns-banning-activities-as-predicted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#1_March_2016_%28UK_towns_banning_activities_as_predicted%29

content:
<p>
Towns in the UK are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/29/golf-bags-remote-controlled-cars-banned-busybodies-charter">banning
activities such as sleeping or begging in public</a>, just as critics
predicted they would.


feed_id: 6e57b9f76be71b43f96e24f372df7a86
title: Urgent: Oppose cable company merger
uri: Urgent-Oppose-cable-company-merger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_cable_company_merger%29

content:
<p>
In the US:
<a href="https://nomoremergers.com/call/">phone</a> to oppose the
proposed merger between Charter and Time Warner Cable.


feed_id: 1918eeff63ad96b685cd51deee1f475b
title: Walmart and Kraft "100% parmesan cheese"
uri: Walmart-and-Kraft-100-parmesan-cheese
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Walmart_and_Kraft_100-percent_parmesan_cheese%29

content:
<p>
Walmart and Kraft are being sued for stretching "100% parmesan cheese"
with
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/26/1491820/-Attention-shoppers-Federal-lawsuit-filed-against-Walmart-for-filling-parmesan-cheese-with-wood-pulp">wood</a>.


feed_id: 70a31c08913daf095279f2448cf7a3ba
title: Urgent: Stop Corporate Inversions
uri: Urgent-Stop-Corporate-Inversions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_Corporate_Inversions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/warren_pfizer_inversions">call
on Congress</a> to pass the Stop Corporate Inversions Act.


feed_id: 8a4216f45d8f118f8f6724137abb0372
title: CETA
uri: CETA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#02_March_2016_%28CETA%29
content:
<p>
'Like Putting Lipstick on a Pig':
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/29/putting-lipstick-pig-changes-ceta-make-it-more-corporate-friendly-deal">Changes
to CETA Make it More Corporate-Friendly Deal</a>.


feed_id: dea56562a9cef8c823e29ecb5acb0b9d
title: The new UK snooper's charter
uri: The-new-UK-snooper-s-charter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_March_2016_%28The_new_UK_snoopers_charter%29
content:
<p>
The new UK snooper's charter, no better than the previous try,
is an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/01/proposed-snoopers-charter-shows-governments-contempt-for-privacy">attack
on human rights for everyone in the UK</a>.
<p>
It is done, of course, in the name of protecting people from secondary
dangers.


feed_id: 70a55e2266bbba77849fd0ed1931b1e0
title: Vulture bankrolling Marco Rubio
uri: Vulture-bankrolling-Marco-Rubio
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_March_2016_%28Vulture_bankrolling_Marco_Rubio%29
content:
<p>
Vulture Paul Singer, fresh from a mostly-victory over Argentina, is
<a href="http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=45922e4242">bankrolling
Marco Rubio to do the same to Puerto Rico</a>.


feed_id: d45dcee555536d4baa4f2a478eb7509b
title: Black students preemptively removed from rally
uri: Black-students-preemptively-removed-from-rally
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_March_2016_%28Black_students_preemptively_removed_from_rally%29

content:
<p>
Trump had local thugs remove some black students preemptively from a rally,
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/01/now-hes-guarded-secret-service-federal-law-criminalizes-protesting-trump/">presuming
they might protest somehow</a>.
<p>
This reminds us of the way that a repressive US law imposes long
prison sentence on peaceful protests at presidential campaign events,
driving protests far away to where the mainstream press can completely
ignore them.


feed_id: 6e2d66e9f8f9b6917e57429c9f8c7c1f
title: SF thugs force prisoners to fight
uri: SF-thugs-force-prisoners-to-fight
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_March_2016_%28SF_thugs_force_prisoners_to_fight%29

content:
<p>
San Francisco thugs forced prisoners to fight each other, for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/01/san-francisco-deputies-charged-inmates-fight-club">gambling</a>.
It seems they have done this for more than a year.


feed_id: 76caefffdfc6d387ccdec3b999142b0d
title: Accountability of on-line sellers
uri: Accountability-of-on-line-sellers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_March_2016_%28Accountability_of_on-line_sellers%29

content:
<p>
On-line sales have lead to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/02/most-electrical-goods-bought-online-have-misleading-energy-labels-study-finds">false
information about products' energy efficiency</a>.
<p>
Basically, on-line selling makes it harder to hold sellers
accountable, so it is going to result in various kinds of mistreatment
unless governments put more funds into checking for fraud and
prosecuting it.


feed_id: a678f9ce873d566ed09989ef01d4ee87
title: State-supported Islamic fundamentalism
uri: State-supported-Islamic-fundamentalism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_March_2016_%28State-supported_Islamic_fundamentalism%29

content:
<p>
Elif Shafak: Turkey is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/01/elif-shafak-on-turkeys-turmoil-intimidation-paranoia">dominated
by "intimidation and paranoia"</a>.  State-supported Islamic
fundamentalism has made it possible to force many teenage girls into
marriage, and created fertile ground for PISSI.


feed_id: 932bbc8729d08bf8a889b6d45ad2f467
title: Man shot by thug while running away
uri: Man-shot-by-thug-while-running-away
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_March_2016_%28Man_shot_by_thug_while_running_away%29

content:
<p>
A thug in Raleigh 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/01/police-this-is-what-they-do-anger-in-raleigh-north-carolina-over-death-of-young-black-man-akiel-denkins">shot
a black man who was running away</a>.
<p>
The man was wanted for arrest, but there is no indication he was
violent.  He certainly didn't respond with violence.


feed_id: f47203675d87cbd99ff9d0c03cdcc884
title: Illegal search of homes by NY thugs
uri: Illegal-search-of-homes-by-NY-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_March_2016_%28Illegal_search_of_homes_by_NY_thugs%29

content:
<p>
New York thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/01/nypd-violated-civil-rights-wrongful-searches-of-homes">often
illegally search homes</a>, especially those of blacks.


feed_id: 7a5e0323a57e1d3e1c34f62c9acdb70d
title: Overuse of antibiotics in beef
uri: Overuse-of-antibiotics-in-beef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_March_2016_%28Overuse_of_antibiotics_in_beef%29
content:
<p>
In-N-Out Burger 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/03/01/n-out-burger-commits-eliminating-overuse-antibiotics-beef">Commits
to Eliminating Overuse of Antibiotics in Beef</a>.


feed_id: 46d2fe073b2674602007a9558a7c70af
title: TPP threatens indigenous people's rights
uri: TPP-threatens-indigenous-people-s-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#2_March_2016_%28TPP_threatens_indigenous_peoples_rights%29

content:
<p>
The TPP 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/29/un-says-tpp-threatens-indigenous-rights">threatens
indigenous people's rights</a>.


feed_id: 35083b10ee5c626d60a47d3a71d62cbe
title: Volunteer
uri: 2016-03-04-Volunteer
url: https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc
content:
<p>I am looking for people to post videos of my talks on
     audio-video.gnu.org.  Please write if you want to do this.</p>


feed_id: 5abc4e64b3550c364c910bd87ede3758
title: Trump and white supremacist groups
uri: Trump-and-white-supremacist-groups
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#4_March_2016_%28Trump_and_white_supremacist_groups%29

content:
<p>
Trump is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/02/donald-trump-jr-james-edwards-radio-interview-white-supremacist">allowing
closer associations</a> with white supremacist hate groups.


feed_id: 39ae0f37e6c00b1fbf5c9ef231d5dc70
title: Much of Cizre reduced to rubble
uri: Much-of-Cizre-reduced-to-rubble
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#4_March_2016_%28Much_of_Cizre_reduced_to_rubble%29
content:
<p>
The Turkish army has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/02/turkey-kurdish-people-cizre-return-to-ruins">turned
much of Cizre into rubble</a>.
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an started this war hoping to get a better result from new
elections.  It partly worked.


feed_id: 5c6215b5cb31036cf9a379508e13fcaf
title: New sanctions on North Korea approved
uri: New-sanctions-on-North-Korea-approved
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#4_March_2016_%28New_sanctions_on_North_Korea_approved%29

content:
<p>
The UN security council 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/02/un-security-council-adopts-sanctions-on-north-korea">approved
new sanctions</a> on North Korea calling for inspection of all its
shipping.
<p>
This has China's support, so maybe it can actually be enforced.
Maybe.


feed_id: a9c946ccdb10377ec43364e44cfcc71a
title: Syria's current drought
uri: Syria-s-current-drought
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#4_March_2016_%28Syrias_current_drought%29
content:
<p>
Based on data for 900 years, Syria's current drought is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/02/syrias-drought-has-likely-been-its-worst-in-900-years">probably
the worst in that whole period</a>.
<p>
That's surely because of global heating.


feed_id: e3fc21bc8abd0e84b941684b59ea0b22
title: Data business regulation
uri: Data-business-regulation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#4_March_2016_%28Data_business_regulation%29
content:
<p>
Bruce Schneier endorses the idea of 
<a href="https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_toxic_asse.html">regulating
what data businesses
<em>can</em> collect</a>.


feed_id: 072bdd83e84ee7f1bf44c1004995210c
title: "Insulting" President Erdo&gbreve;an
uri: Insulting-President-Erdo-gbreve-an
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#4_March_2016_%28Insulting_President_Erdogan%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/02/turkeys-justice-minister-defends-allowing-1845-insult-cases-to-go-ahead">Almost
2000 people in Turkey have faced legal threats</a> for "insulting"
President Erdo&gbreve;an.


feed_id: 9dd845f71083e5c13ecbe4261c2cb261
title: Mosul dam
uri: Mosul-dam
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#4_March_2016_%28Mosul_dam%29
content:
<p>
Engineers at the Mosul dam say it could break at any time.  A gate in
the dam is jammed, so there is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/02/mosul-dam-engineers-warn-it-could-fail-at-any-time-killing-1m-people">no
way to release the water that will soon build up from snow melt</a>.
<p>
However, there is no way for the population of Mosul to move 6km away
from the river, because there is no place there for them to live or
work.  And then there's the question of whether PISSI would let them
go.


feed_id: a85ff81bf6cf89201241a7c9d7b058b4
title: Outsourcing government activities
uri: Outsourcing-government-activities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#4_March_2016_%28Outsourcing_government_activities%29

content:
<p>
UK local governments are starting to recognize that outsourcing their
activities
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/02/councils-outsourcing-cumbria-public-private-partnership-in-house">makes
them bad and inefficient</a>.
<p>
The contractors are in a great position to skip and overcharge.


feed_id: 511b0ad164b3ac8457d9f3c3c002cf84
title: Techniques of altering campaign message
uri: Techniques-of-altering-campaign-message
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_March_2016_%28Techniques_of_altering_campaign_message%29

content:
<p>
Watch out for techniques of 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/voter-privacy-what-you-need-know-about-your-digital-trail-during-2016-election">altering
a campaign message for a specific voter</a>.
<p>
For instance, when a canvasser shows up at your door with a tablet,
the tablet may be saying how to spin the candidate's message
specifically for you.


feed_id: 2ca83b3cc45ddcbe28450221c9ef093a
title: FBI's war on Civil Rights Movement
uri: FBI-s-war-on-Civil-Rights-Movement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_March_2016_%28FBIs_war_on_Civil_Rights_Movement%29

content:
<p>
Why We Should Teach About the FBI's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/01/why-we-should-teach-about-fbis-war-civil-rights-movement">War
on the Civil Rights Movement</a>.


feed_id: 0b93ca35fd5a9f27244885e26c1d01c8
title: New wave of climate insurgents
uri: New-wave-of-climate-insurgents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_March_2016_%28New_wave_of_climate_insurgents%29
content:
<p>
A New Wave of Climate Insurgents 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/01/new-wave-climate-insurgents-defines-itself-law-enforcers">Defines
Itself as Law-Enforcers</a>.


feed_id: ea88cdbe94c95daa76081dd55a106f46
title: US conservatives' abortion restrictions
uri: US-conservatives-abortion-restrictions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_March_2016_%28US_conservatives_abortion_restrictions%29

content:
<p>
US conservatives can't admit that their abortion restrictions are
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/03/01/when-conservatives-love-overregulationa">intended
to make abortion nearly impossible</a>.  They have to pretend there is
some medical purpose.


feed_id: 87eb1bd214bf0215c4edeb08d3dd3b06
title: Use of rape as weapon of war
uri: Use-of-rape-as-weapon-of-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_March_2016_%28Use_of_rape_as_weapon_of_war%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/02/sexual-violence-is-a-tool-of-war-but-we-have-the-weapons-to-end-that">Many
armies use rape as a weapon of war</a>, but there are ways to
discourage this in most conflicts.
<p>
These solutions are no use against PISSI or Boko Haram.
Military force is needed to stop them.


feed_id: 357bc7dfd88933d0d41a7f0195510f14
title: Hot and Crusty's union-busting
uri: Hot-and-Crusty-s-union-busting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_March_2016_%28Hot_and_Crustys_union-busting%29
content:
<p>
Food workers in New York City are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/01/new-york-immigrant-workers-battle-union-busting-tactics">making
things very uncomfortable for Hot and Crusty's union-busting</a>.  It
changed its name, disguising its owners, but that won't enable it to
hide.
<p>
I have occasionally bought things there, but I will never buy there
again until I get word that it has settled with the union.


feed_id: ba749768cf4968423fce19e57ada4d17
title: Lead in US schools' drinking water
uri: Lead-in-US-schools-drinking-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_March_2016_%28Lead_in_US_schools_drinking_water%29

content:
<p>
Some US schools have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/01/lead-water-us-schools-water-raises-alarm">shut
off their drinking water</a> because of high levels of lead.


feed_id: ab53cf192a275bcea48ca658f35d2d02
title: Former Guantanamo prison director sued
uri: Former-Guantanamo-prison-director-sued
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#3_March_2016_%28Former_Guantanamo_prison_director_sued%29

content:
<p>
The former director of Guantanamo prison did not appear in the trial in
France, where he is being 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/01/former-guantanamo-commander-ignores-summons-from-french-court-probing-torture/">sued
by victims of torture</a>.


feed_id: 7e6a632e01550cdd1b695ce296004e7a
title: US conservatives' abortion restrictions
uri: 2016-03-04-US-conservatives-abortion-restrictions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#4_March_2016_%28US_conservatives%27_abortion_restrictions%29

content:
<p>
US conservatives can't admit that their abortion restrictions are
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/03/01/when-conservatives-love-overregulation">intended
to make abortion nearly impossible</a>.  They have to pretend there is
some medical purpose.


feed_id: ada9895b6494022920fc15d49d6c9a31
title: Planet-roasters fund Republican candidates
uri: Planet-roasters-fund-Republican-candidates
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Planet-roasters_fund_Republican_candidates%29

content:
<p>Planet-roasters have put a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/03/oil-and-gas-industry-has-pumped-millions-into-republican-campaigns">
hundred million dollars</a>
 into Republican candidates' campaigns.
</p>


feed_id: fcca83860fdfc1299b822de515b68aff
title: Atheist prosecuted in Russia
uri: Atheist-prosecuted-in-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Atheist_prosecuted_in_Russia%29
content:
<p>An Atheist in Russia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/russian-atheist-faces-year-in-jail-for-denying-existence-of-god-during-webchat">
being prosecuted</a>
 for "offending the sentiments
of Orthodox believers".  He said that some of the Bible is "bullshit".
</p>
<p>He's right, and that's why it's called the "buy-bull": some people
will buy any sort of bull.</p>


feed_id: a2d50a240f1a7a4fed71e863907c7197
title: Satellite measurements of atmospheric temperature
uri: Satellite-measurements-of-atmospheric-temperature
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Satellite_measurements_of_atmospheric_temperature%29

content:
<p>Calibrating satellite measurements of atmospheric temperature for the
time
of day of the measurement shows a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/mar/03/ted-cruzs-favorite-temperature-data-just-got-a-lot-hotter">
lot more global heating</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 4a44872d6df30bf746d26ea131b98a91
title: Younger generations more narcissistic
uri: Younger-generations-more-narcissistic
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Younger_generations_more_narcissistic%29

content:
<p>A big psychosocial trend is that younger generations show more
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/02/narcissism-epidemic-self-obsession-attention-seeking-oversharing">
narcissistic behaviour traits</a>
 -- they become proud not to care about other people.
</p>


feed_id: 1c6430f55603c63d4b7759b5ea8d4a09
title: Carbon tax
uri: 2016-03-06-Carbon-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Carbon_tax%29
content:
<p>Advances in sustainable energy will not end use of fossil fuels
without 
<a href="http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2016/carbon-tax-stop-using-fossil-fuels-0224">
making them pay for the costs</a>
 of global heating.
</p>
<p>Note that fossil fuels are currently 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_(US_fossil_fuel_subsidies)">
highly subsidized</a>.
</p>


feed_id: fd303b0f62509bf0e5b10fea349d92f3
title: Bill Clinton broke election law
uri: Bill-Clinton-broke-election-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Bill_Clinton_broke_election_law%29
content:
<p>Bill Clinton 
<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/01/did-bill-clinton-violate-election-rules-mass/5octlX1d28GwmN3kitiECK/story.html">
broke Massachusetts election law</a>
 while campaigning for Hillary Clinton.
</p>


feed_id: 09a88fcabc2fbe9093359631739d405a
title: VW CEO knew about cheating for a year
uri: VW-CEO-knew-about-cheating-for-a-year
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28VW_CEO_knew_about_cheating_for_a_year%29

content:
<p>Volkswagen's CEO was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/02/vw-ceo-martin-winterkorn-told-about-emissions-scandal">
told about emissions cheating</a>
 a year before he admitted it.
</p>


feed_id: 2ff5ed30619c62b99f55a011e70a2cd9
title: Urgent: call on companies not to sponsor Trump
uri: Urgent-call-on-companies-not-to-sponsor-Trump
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_call_on_companies_not_to_sponsor_Trump%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on various companies to 
<a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/dont-sponsor-a-trump?akid=162687.2794606.Yybp0J&rd=1&source=mo&t=1004">
refuse to sponsor the Republican Convention</a>
 if Trump is going to be nominated.
</p>
<p>I think it is scandalous corruption for any political party to accept
sponsorship from businesses, but that is another issue.</p>


feed_id: 6881020e52e71ea7d224f1d85b4aa2b1
title: Teacher pressured into resigning
uri: Teacher-pressured-into-resigning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Teacher_pressured_into_resigning%29
content:
<p>A teacher was 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/02/teacher-nude-photos-distributed">
pressured into resigning</a>,
 and faces possible
prosecution, because a student took her phone and copied her
nude selfies out of it.
</p>
<p>I wish she had refused to resign.</p>
<p>In the US, anything relating to sex brings out the cruelty of
self-righteous prudes.</p>


feed_id: 140341630f24ca76a339a8baa1340761
title: Elephant population decline
uri: Elephant-population-decline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Elephant_population_decline%29
content:
<p>Despite a reduction in poaching, the elephant population in Africa is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/03/african-elephants-killed-faster-than-they-are-being-born">
still falling</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 7334f657840358fc77cede52e500369a
title: Proposed coal mines could wipe out species
uri: Proposed-coal-mines-could-wipe-out-species
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Proposed_coal_mines_could_wipe_out_species%29

content:
<p>Proposed new coal mines in Australia would 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/mar/03/coalmines-could-wipe-out-threatened-black-throated-finch-habitat-study">
directly wipe out</a>
 an endangered bird.
</p>
<p>Then the CO2 would wipe out much, much more.  Flooded Sidney?</p>


feed_id: 36822ad666a1933103734b5103e82977
title: Homelessness and global inequality
uri: Homelessness-and-global-inequality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Homelessness_and_global_inequality%29

content:
<p>Global inequality makes 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/mar/03/inequality-homelessness-personal-failing-political-problem">
lots of people homeless</a>.
</p>
<p>When the plutocratic state's policies impose a certain level of
homelessness, everyone competes avoid being a victim.  Those who
become homeless are the ones that lose this competition, so typically
they have weaknesses and flaws.  That doesn't excuse those policies.</p>


feed_id: d7ac60d6dfc9b7fb0ada3b04457b4f7b
title: Divestment in factory farms
uri: Divestment-in-factory-farms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Divestment_in_factory_farms%29
content:
<p>Some investors are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/mar/03/factory-farming-divestment-explain">
divesting from factory farms</a>.
</p>
<p>The fact that we need to try to pressure companies to stop the massive
use of antibiotics is a symptom of the weakness of democracy.  In a
democratic state, we would not allow food companies to choose whether
to stop a profitable practice that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_June_2015_(Antibiotic_resistance)">
endangers public health</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 344f6c6603cdf0065fd6775460750976
title: Super Tuesday outcomes
uri: Super-Tuesday-outcomes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Super_Tuesday_outcomes%29
content:
<p>Clinton won more delegates than Sanders on Super Tuesday, but Sanders
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/02/revolution-has-begun-after-super-tuesday-wins-sanders-looks-ahead">
is not giving up</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 9c6e01adb7c425852e1b94d62a2365da
title: Sudanese journalists on hunger strike
uri: Sudanese-journalists-on-hunger-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Sudanese_journalists_on_hunger_strike%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/02/sudanese-journalists-launch-historic-hunger-strike-against-free-press-crackdown">
Sudanese Journalists Launch Historic Hunger Strike Against Free Press
Crackdown.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 57be7eef20c0b49a64f463bf78759915
title: New election in Spain
uri: New-election-in-Spain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28New_election_in_Spain%29
content:
<p>Podemos in Spain has rejected becoming part of a coalition supporting
right-wing economic policies.  This means there will be 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/02/spains-party-radical-left-refuses-support-centrist-coalition/">
a new election</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 83883ec9df275585539c7fe0cea5d44e
title: Netanyahu threatens exile
uri: Netanyahu-threatens-exile
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Netanyahu_threatens_exile%29
content:
<p>Netanyahu threatens to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/netanyahu-calls-for-expulsion-of-palestinian-attackers-families-to-gaza">
exile the families of Palestinians</a>
 that attack Israelis.
</p>
<p>Is it legitimate to attack the relatives of those that attack you?
Israelis, think twice before you say yes to that: if Palestinians
apply the same principle, you may not like the conclusions.</p>


feed_id: 399a2014c9a926dbff941d8ecb8c26b5
title: Global heating death tolls
uri: Global-heating-death-tolls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Global_heating_death_tolls%29
content:
<p>By 2050, global heating is likely to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/03/more-than-half-a-million-could-die-as-climate-change-impacts-diet-report">
kill half a million people</a>
 a year just by making fruit and vegetables more expensive.
</p>
<p>But that's small potatoes compared with what will happen when China's
rice crop fails -- which is projected to happen 1/4 of the years, by
the end of this century.</p>


feed_id: 6875da8b851684d495e8a488bcf801f1
title: South Africa student protests
uri: South-Africa-student-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28South_Africa_student_protests%29
content:
<p>Extreme inequality in South Africa means that most students can't
afford to attend even a public university.  Debt pressure has led to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/mar/03/south-africas-student-protests-have-lessons-for-all-universities">
large protests</a>.
</p>
<p>The role of drought in increased poverty is global heating at work.</p>


feed_id: 01871ab9e118035a831d766cf3106be5
title: Thug charged for murder of Gregory Gunn
uri: Thug-charged-for-murder-of-Gregory-Gunn
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Thug_charged_for_murder_of_Gregory_Gunn%29

content:
<p>A thug in Montgomery, Alabama, has been charged with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/02/alabama-officer-charged-fatal-shooting-greg-gunn">
murdering</a>
 Gregory Gunn, age 58.
</p>


feed_id: ed9789fcf80f06ca299fbd7bf5ca9c1c
title: Urgent: call on Coca Cola to stop sponsoring Trump
uri: Urgent-call-on-Coca-Cola-to-stop-sponsoring-Trump
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_call_on_Coca_Cola_to_stop_sponsoring_Trump%29

content:
<p>Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/stop-sponsoring-donald-trump/?t=1011&akid=5437.1242918.HHJNDo">
call on Coca Cola Company</a>
 to stop sponsoring Trump.
</p>


feed_id: b23d32f7af5d845d859574c1567de3ca
title: Urgent: call on companies not to sponsor Trump
uri: 2016-03-07-Urgent-call-on-companies-not-to-sponsor-Trump
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_call_on_companies_not_to_sponsor_Trump%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on various companies to 
<a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/dont-sponsor-a-trump">
refuse to sponsor the Republican Convention</a>
 if Trump is going to be nominated.
</p>
<p>I think it is scandalous corruption for any political party to accept
sponsorship from businesses, but that is another issue.</p>


feed_id: 5b47c3b07daccecba73565045938e108
title: Urgent: call on Coca Cola to stop sponsoring Trump
uri: 2016-03-07-Urgent-call-on-Coca-Cola-to-stop-sponsoring-Trump
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_call_on_Coca_Cola_to_stop_sponsoring_Trump%29

content:
<p>Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/stop-sponsoring-donald-trump/">
call on Coca Cola Company</a>
 to stop sponsoring Trump.
</p>


feed_id: 082392f8f962a25ecaae33b30e1379d4
title: Very urgent: Oppose the DARK Act
uri: Very-urgent-Oppose-the-DARK-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#07_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_the_DARK_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: on Monday March 7, phone your senators to
<a href="http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/R?i=cX6yXDQLo8WlpWI8WlZE0Q">oppose
the DARK Act</a> (which would stop states from requiring labeling of
GMOs in foods).
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


feed_id: 42111ead085fd5be74f7965375d04b72
title: Religious freedom in India
uri: Religious-freedom-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_March_2016_%28Religious_freedom_in_India%29
content:
<p>
India denied visas to US government representatives that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/04/india-denies-visas-to-us-religious-freedom-body">wanted
to check on religious freedom in India</a>.
<p>
Religious freedom includes freedom to adopt and to proclaim the
beliefs of one's choice in the area of religion.  These freedoms are
increasingly threatened in India, as the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_January_2016_(Indias_contempt_for_freedom_of_speech)">prosecution
of a comedian for imitating a preacher</a> demonstrates.
<p>
Before that was the banning of
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jan-apr.html#24%20February%202009%20(Nina%20Paley%20releases%20film%20with%20freedom)">Sita
Sings the Blues</a> and the prosecution that
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#14_June_2012_(Urgent:_Support_Sanal_Edamaruku)">drove
secularist leader Sanal Edamaruku into exile</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_October_2013_(Dalits_will_meet_to_convert_to_Buddhism)">repression
of Dalits that want to officially register as Buddhists</a> has been
going on for a long time.


feed_id: 7ff07c2e5aa9137edb85009a30dee904
title: CO2 emissions from concrete
uri: CO2-emissions-from-concrete
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_March_2016_%28CO2_emissions_from_concrete%29
content:
<p>
Reducing CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from concrete is making great
progress at the research level, but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/mar/04/making-concrete-green-reinventing-the-worlds-most-used-synthetic-material">putting
into practice faces obstacles</a> including "convincing clients and
contractors to use it."
<p>
A carbon tax, making emitters pay for the damage they do, would help
convince them.


feed_id: d666e650b09fc3ae1ac951d6fd04b935
title: Clinton in banksters' camp
uri: Clinton-in-banksters-camp
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_March_2016_%28Clinton_in_banksters_camp%29
content:
<p>
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Close Ally of Hillary Clinton,
Is
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/03/01/dnc_chair_debbie_wasserman_schultz_joins_hands_with_gop_in_assault_on_elizabeth_warrens_consumer_protection_agency/">Trying
to Gut Regulations on Loan Sharks</a>.
<p>
Clinton is in the banksters' camp, which is one of the reasons
we should not vote for her.
<p>
I expect to be much worse as president than the way she is talking
now.  Meanwhile, since Trump will say anything to shock people, I
think he won't even try to do all the bad things he says — only
some of them, Meanwhile, Clinton would do some of them too.
<p>
Thus, if it comes down to Clinton vs Trump, I will vote Green.
It is a mistake, in the long term, to vote for the "lesser evil"
because that ensures things get
<a href="http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/voteBest.html">more
and more evil</a>.


feed_id: 54015959e241a2a370e35e5af452493c
title: US-backed military coup in Argentina
uri: US-backed-military-coup-in-Argentina
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_March_2016_%28US-backed_military_coup_in_Argentina%29

content:
<p>
An Argentine human rights champion calls on Obama not to visit there
on the anniversary of the US-backed military coup, which began years
of
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/03/skip-your-visit-argentina-nobel-laureate-tells-obama">repression,
murder and torture</a>.
<p>
The US has not changed its ways very much.  The 2009 coup in Honduras,
under the sponsorship of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State,
brought in a corrupt and murderous government.  Anti-dam indigenous
activist Berta Cáceres
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/honduras-berta-caceres-murder-enivronment-activist-human-rights">was
just murdered</a>.
<p>
The reason for the coup was to keep the local rich people in power,
and that is what Clinton would do as president of the US.


feed_id: 985d434c9001e42d91307bdb930d1161
title: Ban Ki-moon's handling of cholera outbreak
uri: Ban-Ki-moon-s-handling-of-cholera-outbreak
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_March_2016_%28Ban_Ki-moons_handling_of_cholera_outbreak%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/03/cholera-haiti-un-experts-chastise-ban-ki-moon">UN's
Own Experts Chastise Ban Ki-moon</a> Over Handling of Haiti Cholera
Outbreak.


feed_id: 63ef239fed83d4de930f600689726fdd
title: Australian kangaroo court
uri: Australian-kangaroo-court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_March_2016_%28Australian_kangaroo_court%29
content:
<p>
An Australian kangaroo court
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/mar/04/a-form-of-intimidation-inside-australias-most-secretive-law-enforcement-body">does
not allow witnesses to tell anyone they have been ordered to testify,
and imprisons them if they refuse to answer a question</a>.


feed_id: abf0ee1ac1bcf0f9fc2f3a87aedb28ad
title: Greenland's ice getting darker
uri: Greenland-s-ice-getting-darker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_March_2016_%28Greenlands_ice_getting_darker%29
content:
<p>
Melting is making Greenland's ice darker, as it concentrates soot on
the service.  Being darker causes it to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/03/greenland-ice-sheet-melting-global-warming-feedback-loop">absorb
more sunlight and melt faster</a>.


feed_id: e8d690a1748a0a4f890157866d905da6
title: Wind power in Poland
uri: Wind-power-in-Poland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_March_2016_%28Wind_power_in_Poland%29
content:
<p>
Poland's right-wing government
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/03/proposed-polish-law-would-shackle-wind-power-say-industry">plans
to squeeze out wind power</a> the way Texas squeezes out abortions.


feed_id: 5af6bd5a4ec5290bf45060e70ede76cf
title: Killing suspected terrorists' families
uri: Killing-suspected-terrorists-families
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_March_2016_%28Killing_suspected_terrorists_families%29

content:
<p>
While Trump eagerly talks about killing suspected terrorists'
families, Obama actually does it, over and over, but
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/03/killing-someone-elses-beloved-promoting-american-way-war-campaign-2016">pretends
it isn't happening</a>.  The main difference is that Trump would drop
the pretense.
<p>
This difference would have a real effect: it would openly
commit the US to murder of innocents.


feed_id: 22748950ea5d0507d41db624293780cb
title: A bankster who backs Clinton
uri: A-bankster-who-backs-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_March_2016_%28A_bankster_who_backs_Clinton%29
content:
<p>
A bankster who has put lots of money into Clinton's campaign
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/02/larry-fink-and-his-blackrock-team-poised-to-take-over-hillary-clintons-treasury-department/">wants
to be Secretary of the Treasury</a> if she is elected.


feed_id: 6d04ab860426b1590c8c9e7cd3e3d969
title: Methane leaks
uri: 2016-03-07-Methane-leaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_March_2016_%28Methane_leaks%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2016/mar/02/methane-leaks-aliso-canyon-ghg-epa-edf-environmen-climate-change-gas">Methane
Leaks Across US</a> Pose a Much Greater Threat Than Aliso Canyon.


feed_id: 6b56d00179ad8c1fcf0292c992563d2e
title: Turkish army bombarding Sur
uri: Turkish-army-bombarding-Sur
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_March_2016_%28Turkish_army_bombarding_Sur%29
content:
<p>
The Turkish army is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/turkish-police-kurd-actvists-clash-diyarbakir-curfew">bombarding
the rubble of a Sur</a>.
<p>
Reportedly 80% of the buildings have been destroyed, but that leaves
20% still to be blasted down.

This was
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_(Anti-terrorism_laws)">Erdo&gbreve;an's
war of choice</a>.


feed_id: 13d763a11cbed85b12562f88bfefcc8c
title: Urgent: Coca Cola and Trump-led Republican Convention
uri: Urgent-Coca-Cola-and-Trump-led-Republican-Convention
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Coca_Cola_and_Trump%29
content:
<p>Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/stop-sponsoring-donald-trump/">
call on Coca Cola Company</a>
not to sponsor a Trump-led Republican Convention.
</p>


feed_id: ab55447c84ad436ddff4472a9a01800e
title: Volunteer
uri: 2016-03-08-Volunteer
url: https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc
content:
<p>I am looking for people to write a recipe for how to connect to the WiFi in a
     Mcdonalds without running its nonfree Javascript code.  The recipe
     could include a free Javascript program I could run, or it could
     consist of instructions for what I would type into IceCat (our variant
     of Firefox).  It doesn't have't be super convenient, it just has to
     work.</p>


feed_id: 3a95cc26fa8b5216abe49f50f3bb3490
title: Woman with implanted RFID chip
uri: Woman-with-implanted-RFID-chip
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Woman_with_implanted_RFID_chip%29
content:
<p>
A woman had an 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/03/03/human-traffickers-implant-rfid.html">RFID
chip implanted in her</a>; she said it was done by someone who
trafficked her.
<p>
If it was indeed implanted by a trafficker, I think its purpose was to
demoralize or intimidate her.


feed_id: 7eebfeadcbb019da35f8bf754df4b097
title: Urgent: Ban Super-PACs
uri: Urgent-Ban-Super-PACs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_Super-PACs%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-pac/">call on the
Federal Election Commission</a> to ban Super-PACs.


feed_id: ff8d4c98a7cd5695f50c8a962916b4a9
title: Urgent: Change UK visa policies
uri: Urgent-Change-UK-visa-policies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Change_UK_visa_policies%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.walkfree.org/uk-domestic-slavery/">call on the
UK</a> to change the visa policies that facilitate treating domestic
workers as slaves.


feed_id: 05b6a2d9d90830c0bd76dc15fd8d9db2
title: Urgent: Stop CBS news Trump-boosting
uri: Urgent-Stop-CBS-news-Trump-boosting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_CBS_news_Trump-boosting%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/cbs_trump/">call on the
president of CBS News</a> to stop boosting Trump for profit's sake.


feed_id: 8180517f9f7fe777849a7f84b8d909f1
title: Urgent: Investigate murder of Cáceres
uri: Urgent-Investigate-murder-of-Cáceres
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_murder_of_Caceres%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-probe-assassination">call
on Congress</a> to demand that Honduras properly investigate the
murder of Berta Cáceres.


feed_id: d3dc0b6b4f7d91c521a74a1ef49b9073
title: Activation of portable phone's microphone
uri: Activation-of-portable-phone-s-microphone
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Activation_of_portable_phones_microphone%29

content:
<p>
Craig Murray says insiders have told him that intelligence agencies
can activate a portable phone's microphone 
<a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/03/remote-snooping/">even
if its battery has been removed</a>.  He reports this, even though he
can't see how it can be true.
<p>
My guess is that this refers to the phones that have a large,
removable battery and another nonremovable battery.


feed_id: 0895ac32d4cf5ed8cf102211442d1b53
title: Oregon law to phase out coal power
uri: Oregon-law-to-phase-out-coal-power
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Oregon_law_to_phase_out_coal_power%29

content:
<p>
Oregon has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/03/oregon-coal-climate-law-kate-brown">almost
finished passing a law</a> to phase out coal power by 2035.
<p>
The improvement in the environment and the added expense go hand in
hand.  Either they will both be small, or both large.  Either way,
this is a step in the right direction.  I worry that it is too small,
too slow.


feed_id: 94af54432ccecfc6171673965198df87
title: Human rights in Iran
uri: Human-rights-in-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Human_rights_in_Iran%29
content:
<p>
Human rights in Iran are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2016/mar/04/iranian-election-seven-key-human-rights-challenges-facing-president-rouhani">still
in a deplorable state</a>.
<p>
It is not clear that President Rouhani has any control over most of
these injustices.  Many government bodies are officially not under his
authority.


feed_id: 1bba1180f9c7ad40cfd673597491a7a9
title: Censorship imposed on UK universities
uri: Censorship-imposed-on-UK-universities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Censorship_imposed_on_UK_universities%29

content:
<p>
The UK has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/mar/04/remind-me-mr-cameron-what-am-i-trying-to-prevent">imposed
censorship on universities, and a requirement to report on suspect
students</a>, in the name of trying to block "terrorist" ideas such as
animal rights.
<p>
Now the US is doing the same, only more broadly, 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/fbi-has-new-plan-spy-high-school-students-across-country">asking
students and teachers to inform on each other</a>.


feed_id: 54eaab6b0fea1ae412c20b89301144f1
title: Record heat
uri: Record-heat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Record_heat%29
content:
<p>
January and February set 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/04/is-el-nino-or-climate-change-behind-the-run-of-record-temperatures">new
records for seasonally adjusted heat</a>.
<p>
It's almost entirely due to global heating, not El Niño.
<p>
The Northern hemisphere is currently 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/03/01/february_2016_s_shocking_global_warming_temperature_record.html">2C
hotter than what used to be normal</a>.


feed_id: 0f486bea16d193a84dc8df647c90131c
title: World-scale digital interconnectedness
uri: World-scale-digital-interconnectedness
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28World-scale_digital_interconnectedness%29

content:
<p>
Increased world-scale digital interconnectedness
creates 
<a href="https://www.schneier.com/news/archives/2016/03/bruce_schneier_were.html">unanticipated
vulnerabilities that can lead to disaster</a>.
<p>
I recommend the book Normal Accidents, by Charles Perrow, for a
picture of how even much simpler systems can cause disasters because
they are too complex for their operators to understand.


feed_id: b8dbc9674cf2f11b8100bcf541650e1b
title: Arrest of journalist by Egyptian thugs
uri: Arrest-of-journalist-by-Egyptian-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Arrest_of_journalist_by_Egyptian_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian thugs arrested journalist Sabry Anwar, but 
<a href="https://cpj.org/2016/03/egyptian-journalist-alleges-torture-whereabouts-un.php">won't
say what they did with him</a>.  This raises suspicions that they
tortured him to death.


feed_id: 38db4b85eae3bb0023c6783dfcc5c3d4
title: CNN and KKK
uri: CNN-and-KKK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28CNN_and_KKK%29
content:
<p>
CNN is 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/02/1494437/-CNN-takes-a-look-at-both-sides-in-the-great-KKK-debate-No-really">trying
to legitimize the Ku Klux Klan</a>.


feed_id: 2e6a625d776a6081cff76c64edde270c
title: Clinton and Trump both lousy
uri: Clinton-and-Trump-both-lousy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Clinton_and_Trump_both_lousy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/03/why-are-the-newspapers-that-condemn-dona">Regarding
freedom of speech</a>, Clinton and Trump are both lousy.


feed_id: 27437d8344f4913ec6578246583a6430
title: Investing in tar sands pipelines
uri: Investing-in-tar-sands-pipelines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Investing_in_tar_sands_pipelines%29
content:
<p>
Canada's new Prime Minister Trudeau advocates the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/03/harper-20-trudeau-says-canada-needs-more-tar-sands-pipelines">absurd
idea</a> of transitioning to a low-carbon economy through long-term
investments in tar sands pipelines.
<p>
If such a transition does occur, those investments will turn out to be
wasteful — so whoever owns them will fight like hell to prevent any
such transition.


feed_id: e9bfa31ebc40360bb44c95c3e2a50819
title: Supreme Court nomination
uri: Supreme-Court-nomination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Supreme_Court_nomination%29
content:
<p>
Many progressive organizations are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/03/hey-congress-doyourjob-high-court-pick-say-groups-across-country">trying
to pressure Republican senators to hold hearings</a> for Obama's
possible Supreme Court nominee.
<p>
I supported this campaign until Obama's men started talking about
nominating a Republican.  At that point, I realized we can't count on
Obama to nominate someone that we should want to have on the court.
If he nominates a progressive then I will support campaigns for that
nominee.


feed_id: fd8b1f8aeeb137653c2de0c017f3dc3a
title: Who fights for business-supremacy treaties?
uri: Who-fights-for-business-supremacy-treaties
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Who_fights_for_business-supremacy_treaties%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/03/sanders-blasts-outsourcer-chief-clinton-being-wrong-trade">Clinton</a>
has fought for business-supremacy treaties since the 1990s and will
surely go back to them if elected president.


feed_id: 7f6aa6691fc1680551090eca9c7b89a4
title: Trump's success in terms of framing
uri: Trump-s-success-in-terms-of-framing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Trumps_success_in_terms_of_framing%29

content:
<p>
George Lakoff 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/03/why-trump">explains
Trump's success in terms of framing</a>: he appeals to people that
want a strict father family and think only in terms of direct effects,
not system effects.


feed_id: 55b6d1bd0955157a99f6bb50cd7dea3d
title: Stupidity and incompetence in a president
uri: Stupidity-and-incompetence-in-a-president
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Stupidity_and_incompetence_in_a_president%29

content:
<p>
Dubya 
<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/revenge-of-the-simple-how-george-w-bush-gave-rise-to-trump-20160301">taught
most Americans to consider stupidity and incompetence desirable in a
president</a>.  They prove he's an "ordinary guy".


feed_id: a672bc0d2737108cc6ecf81096705441
title: Commercial web ad-blockers
uri: Commercial-web-ad-blockers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Commercial_web_ad-blockers%29
content:
<p>
Commercial web ad-blockers are proprietary software, and like many
other proprietary programs, they 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/03/02/some-ad-blockers-are-tracking.html">snoop
on users</a>.
<p>
I don't use an "ad blocker".  I use IceCat, which is designed to block
surveillance.  It has the effect of blocking most ads, but I don't
care about ads as such; if an ad is implemented in a way that doesn't
track people, I don't mind seeing it.


feed_id: b58af63cc55a9e059a9481fac8e26dc7
title: Large rallies for Sanders
uri: Large-rallies-for-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Large_rallies_for_Sanders%29
content:
<p>
The US mainstream media refused to mention the 
<a href="http://usuncut.com/politics/media-blackout-as-thousands-of-bernie-supporters-march-in-45-cities/">large
rallies for Sanders in cities across the US</a>.


feed_id: 0204a17680dccc9f01d8effb524f0dca
title: Authoritarian followers
uri: Authoritarian-followers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Authoritarian_followers%29
content:
<p>
Trump's core supporters are the personality type known as
"authoritarian followers", but stirring up fear of "enemies" can
<a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism">convince
frightened people to act like authoritarian followers</a>.
<p>
US politicians in both parties have been doing this since 2001, which
is why the US has become so authoritarian already.


feed_id: 5e0cf9e46f17cf70c41f3321368de72c
title: Retailers with surveillance tools
uri: Retailers-with-surveillance-tools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Retailers_with_surveillance_tools%29

content:
<p>
Retailers Experiment With 
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-03/retail-stores-experiment-with-surveillance-tools-used-by-police">Surveillance
Tools Used by [state surveillance]</a>
<p>
It should illegal for anyone to aim such a camera at a place where the
public is admitted, except under a court order that covers only a
specified place and period of time.


feed_id: 759a56c97bfb66bcf3c5b829bf650cd9
title: Hindu nationalists seek to falsify history
uri: Hindu-nationalists-seek-to-falsify-history
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Hindu_nationalists_seek_to_falsify_history%29

content:
<p>
Hindu nationalists seek to 
<a href="http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/homistan/why_sheldon_pollock.html">falsify
the history of India to make it support their ideology</a>, and they
attack historians that don't cater to them.
<p>
It resembles US right-wing theocratic Christians.


feed_id: 6f51d09b9f5686cc88f69b9913cba2c5
title: Urgent: Labels for GMOs
uri: Urgent-Labels-for-GMOs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Labels_for_GMOs%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/GMO_QR_codes">tell
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack, and Congress</a>, that QR codes are not
adequate labels for GMOs.


feed_id: facde976ed8e0b51fad31f768daf2d95
title: Urgent: Close pollution loopholes
uri: Urgent-Close-pollution-loopholes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Close_pollution_loopholes%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1843">call
on the EPA</a> to close the pollution loopholes for oil and gas
operations.


feed_id: ee6b5f395fbb27ca9eeeb1cc77cc6e2c
title: Urgent: Press freedom
uri: Urgent-Press-freedom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Press_freedom%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/press_freedom_secret_service/">>tell
the Secret Service</a> not to interfere with journalists.


feed_id: 695080ee1127f13c670716669732b7b4
title: Urgent: End fossil fuel sales on public land
uri: Urgent-End-fossil-fuel-sales-on-public-land
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Urgent%3A_End_fossil_fuel_sales_on_public_land%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://obamaclimatelegacy.us/">call on Obama</a> to end new
fossil fuel sales on public land.


feed_id: d2727c6d3d232f2606f9a803ea5e25e4
title: Result of being cruel to the poor
uri: Result-of-being-cruel-to-the-poor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Result_of_being_cruel_to_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
Governor Walker told Wisconsin that being cruel to the poor would
reduce poverty.  Naturally, the actual result is the 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/02/13050/remember-when-scott-walkers-reforms-were-going-deliver-booming-economy">opposite</a>.


feed_id: 91cca27fffffcc16d11707363ffd7074
title: Turkish gov't takeover of newspaper
uri: Turkish-gov-t-takeover-of-newspaper
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Turkish_govt_takeover_of_newspaper%29

content:
<p>
The Turkish government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/04/turkish-police-fire-teargas-and-enter-top-selling-newspaper-after-seizure-order">has
taken over an important anti-government newspaper, Zaman</a>.
<p>
Here's a 
<a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/national_turkish-police-raid-zaman-hqs-fire-tear-gas-on-readers-after-govt-takeover_414040.html">copy
of article about this</a> from the paper's English affiliate, Today's
Zaman.


feed_id: 29b5f2d9f70190a13174254d46d9b7b0
title: NYPD's use of weapons against protesters
uri: NYPD-s-use-of-weapons-against-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28NYPDs_use_of_weapons_against_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The New York Thug Department 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/04/nypd-sued-gratuitous-and-unlawful-sound-cannons-eric-garner-protests">used
weapons against protesters that fire intense sound that can cause
bodily harm</a>.


feed_id: dbdb45094929ea6f6aff7e8dbd660d47
title: Obama's nominee for Secretary of Education
uri: Obama-s-nominee-for-Secretary-of-Education
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Obamas_nominee_for_Secretary_of_Education%29

content:
<p>
John King, nominated by Obama for Secretary of Education, supports the
centralized model of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/04/obamas-education-secretary-pick-lackey-corporate-machine">harsh
testing and privatization</a>.
<p>
It is noteworthy that Republicans have not vowed to refuse to vote on
his nomination.  They see he is on their side — the side of the
corporations.


feed_id: 831c28d50d4ddf52585a69bd32a73e6b
title: Wildlife in Fukushima region
uri: Wildlife-in-Fukushima-region
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Wildlife_in_Fukushima_region%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/04/five-years-after-fukushima-no-end-sight-ecological-fallout">Fallout
and mutations</a> are observed in many species of wildlife in the
Fukushima region.


feed_id: 743ef843cc249aef40cf21ac217c4a2a
title: Department of Education rebuked
uri: Department-of-Education-rebuked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Department_of_Education_rebuked%29
content:
<p>
Senator Warren rebuked the Department of Education for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/04/no-more-excuses-sen-warren-lambastes-doe-student-loans">bending
over backwards to protect student loan companies, rather than
students</a>.


feed_id: f18f15b326b2d4cbac0675c33ac2de6f
title: Little social mobility in Britain
uri: Little-social-mobility-in-Britain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Little_social_mobility_in_Britain%29

content:
<p>
Tracking some British families from 200 years ago found 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/05/my-200-years-of-family-fortunes">little
social mobility</a>: the descendants of then petty criminals are
working-class and the descendants of the wealthy are still well off.


feed_id: 92245fc9a2627ebede51bf7a3b3f3c7f
title: Paying thousands of dollars to be photographed
uri: Paying-thousands-of-dollars-to-be-photographed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Paying_thousands_of_dollars_to_be_photographed%29

content:
<p>
Japanese women pay 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/05/everything-but-the-groom-faked-own-wedding-naomi-harris">thousands
of dollars</a> to be photographed in a wedding dress.
<p>
I don't criticize fantasies, though the fantasy of a perfect wedding
has never appealed to me, But surely you can enjoy your fantasy
without getting ripped off.


feed_id: a48bd7a30d64a69b90091814b260a33e
title: FBI boasts
uri: FBI-boasts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28FBI_boasts%29
content:
<p>
The FBI boasted of convicting a group accused of trafficking a minor,
but it appears 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/04/the-somali-sex-slave-ring-that-wasnt">the
supposed victim was neither a minor nor trafficked</a>, and that the
alleged crimes did not happen.


feed_id: bf7b61ec4ce461265119ddc84ace4b34
title: China's strict censorship
uri: China-s-strict-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Chinas_strict_censorship%29
content:
<p>
China has imposed very strict censorship about 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/04/china-bans-gay-people-television-clampdown-xi-jinping-censorship">sexual
relationships in TV shows</a>.
<p>
This is what theocratic Christians aim to impose in the US.


feed_id: 51eae237d93d33016e2e690dce8f0ac8
title: Amazon's "upgrade" for Android
uri: Amazon-s-upgrade-for-Android
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Amazons_upgrade_for_Android%29
content:
<p>
Amazon's recent "upgrade" for its modified version of Android was
really a downgrade — it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/03/amazon-fire-encryption-user-data">removed
the data encryption feature</a> from 
<a href="https://www.dailydot.com/politics/amazon-encryption-kindle-fire-operating-system/">tablets</a>.
<p>
Amazon backed off from this change after it attracted 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/03/amazon-will-restore-fire-os-encryption-support-in-the-spring/">widespread
criticism</a>.
<p>
This change was in Linux, which is the kernel used in 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html">Android</a>
(as well as in the 
<a href="http://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux system</a>).
<p>
Amazon tries to prevent users from installing their own modified
versions of Linux, by 
<a href="http://liliputing.com/2012/09/amazon-kindle-fire-hd-has-a-locked-bootloader.html">making
the (nonfree) bootloader check for Amazon's signature</a> on the
kernel it loads.  Users have so far been able to defeat that attack,
but they should not have to.  If Linux had advanced to
<a href="http://gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html">GNU General
Public License version 3</a>, Amazon would not be allowed to do this.


feed_id: 0258dd35e3ff311597680a209274c2c3
title: Whistleblowers and activists under surveillance
uri: Whistleblowers-and-activists-under-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Whistleblowers_and_activists_under_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Surveillance of phone calls
<a href="https://theyarewatching.org/issues/affects-who-you-want-be-seen">makes
whistleblowers fear to call Patient Privacy Rights</a>.
<p>
Peace Activist 
<a href="https://theyarewatching.org/issues/sense-personal-violation-0">Wrongfully
Becomes Subject of Investigation</a>.


feed_id: 1da88d0624e0c04892374966dc4041fe
title: Michigan's emergency manager law
uri: Michigan-s-emergency-manager-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Michigans_emergency_manager_law%29
content:
<p>
The people of Michigan voted to repeal the emergency manager law, so
Lead Poison Snyder and his Republican henchmen 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/04/referendum-might-have-headed-flints-water-crisis">imposed
another law almost identical</a>.
<p>
Lead Poison Snyder then used the new law to impose an emergency
manager on Flint, which was responsible for poisoning Flint's
children.


feed_id: efc273e1e02b755261268181de81e669
title: "Pro obscenity" Librarian of Congress
uri: Pro-obscenity-Librarian-of-Congress
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Pro_obscenity_Librarian_of_Congress%29

content:
<p>
Desperation Shows As Critics Argue That Nominated Librarian Of
Congress Is 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160302/17223033788/desperation-shows-as-critics-argue-that-nominated-librarian-congress-is-pro-obscenity.shtml">'Pro
Obscenity'</a>.
<p>
The basic wrongs are in a prudish approach towards sex and in the idea
that sharing is 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy">"piracy"</a>.


feed_id: 42d51f854bb6fe7c62b54c0bd37fa888
title: They Are Watching
uri: They-Are-Watching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28They_Are_Watching%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/they-are-watching-are-you">They
Are Watching. Are You?</a>


feed_id: f35fab58efab178d029f1ab0906705ad
title: Man denies exercising a human right
uri: Man-denies-exercising-a-human-right
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Man_denies_exercising_a_human_right%29

content:
<p>
Kanhaiya Kumar 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/04/a-call-for-freedom-in-india-set-to-a-dubstep-beat/">says
he was falsely accused of calling for Kashmir's independence from
India</a>.
<p>
If he had really advocated that, it would be part of his human right
to freedom of political expression.  People have the right to advocate
separating Kashmir from India, just as they have the right to advocate
keeping Kashmir in India.  It's the same right in both cases.


feed_id: 27927042b2adadc9d05b7a7343e27a2a
title: Testimony against accused Auschwitz guard
uri: Testimony-against-accused-Auschwitz-guard
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Testimony_against_accused_Auschwitz_guard%29

content:
<p>
A woman who was born as a prisoner in Auschwitz, and almost died from
malnutrition, is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/05/woman-tells-of-her-birth-in-barracks-of-auschwitz-birkenau">testifying
against a man accused of being one of the guards there</a>.
<p>
I object to her claim that causing a hypothetical person not to be
born is equivalent to murder.  It would imply that celibate priests,
monks and nuns are all murderers, along with anyone that decides not
to have sex with someone, not to mention anyone that uses birth
control.
<p>
The Nazis murdered 7 million real living helpless prisoners.  Surely
that is sufficient evil to condemn — I don't think we need try
to stretch that figure by counting nonexistent potential people too.
<p>
There are three things I don't understand about this testimony:


feed_id: c583b5075b80b245ce9fa35ba896d851
title: Plutocracy and repression
uri: Plutocracy-and-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Plutocracy_and_repression%29
content:
<p>
Many poor countries were on the path to effective development,
including the poor, until US/UK/France 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/mar/05/does-west-care-development">intervened
60 years ago to impose plutocracy and repression</a>.


feed_id: 6c8800397b902d10f0506d8e6d6192b9
title: Corbyn stands up to prudes
uri: Corbyn-stands-up-to-prudes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Corbyn_stands_up_to_prudes%29
content:
<p>
Jeremy Corbyn 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2016/mar/04/jeremy-corbyn-right-decriminalising-sex-industry-way-forward">has
the courage to stand up to prudes</a> that want to prosecute
prostitutes or their customers.


feed_id: a1bab1970546d82d6a223067c258e1b5
title: Money lost by investing in fossil fuels
uri: Money-lost-by-investing-in-fossil-fuels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Money_lost_by_investing_in_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
The New York State Common Retirement Fund lost 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/mar/04/fossil-fuel-divestment-new-york-state-pension-fund-hurricane-sandy-ftse">$4,500
per member</a> by investing in fossil fuels.


feed_id: ac36ca49fb28507580c4d660bc3b08ee
title: Trump's hate rhetoric
uri: Trump-s-hate-rhetoric
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Trumps_hate_rhetoric%29
content:
<p>
Trump 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/04/donald-trump-torture-position-statement-military-law">now
says he would not order torture, or assassination</a> of relatives of
designated enemies.
<p>
This doesn't surprise me.  He only advocated those things to appeal to
fleeting passions; he didn't really care about it as a policy.
<p>
I've seen articles comparing Trump's hate rhetoric with Hitler's, but
I think that is an error.  Hitler was obsessed with hatred of Jews,
long before he got anywhere in politics.  I don't think Trump really
hates Mexicans or Muslims.  I think he is only using them as
scapegoats to get support, and if he won, he would not need these
scapegoats any more.
<p>
We can't tell much about what Trump would really do as president from
what he says, and likewise for Clinton.  They would be lousy in
different ways, but we can't be sure who would be worse.
<p>
We can tell that neither of them deserves our support.  The only
candidate now in the race that deserves support is Bernie Sanders.


feed_id: f598a8e33e7ee722c1c883b121e8de5e
title: Future of Liberalism and Socialism
uri: Future-of-Liberalism-and-Socialism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Future_of_Liberalism_and_Socialism%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/04/bernie-sanders-and-future-liberalism-and-socialism">Bernie
Sanders</a> and the Future of Liberalism and Socialism.


feed_id: 67ad3393d2ce370b71c14250a81ed237
title: Orangutan populations
uri: Orangutan-populations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Orangutan_populations%29
content:
<p>
Orangutans populations have been found in additional parts of Sumatra,
but that won't save them from 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/04/sumatran-orangutan-numbers-double-but-fires-destroy-habitat">extinction</a>.
Some orangutan cultures may be extinct even sooner.


feed_id: df6619eac3ede394cea8a59a02e5b794
title: Canada's no-fly list
uri: Canada-s-no-fly-list
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Canadas_no-fly_list%29
content:
<p>
Syed Adam Ahmed is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/04/canada-six-year-old-kid-no-fly-list-air-travel-syed-adam-ahmed">still
on Canada's no-fly list</a>, despite reaching the advanced age of 6,
and the Canadian government refuses even to say why.


feed_id: 3292015c63c0142b267a2f5c5479ff75
title: Reproductive justice and economic justice
uri: Reproductive-justice-and-economic-justice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Reproductive_justice_and_economic_justice%29

content:
<p>
Reproductive justice and economic justice 
<a href="media/3a72aec7.TwoSidesSameCoinReport.pdf" data-original-source="http://rhtp.org/abortion/documents/TwoSidesSameCoinReport.pdf">go
together</a>: for many women, pregnancy implies poverty, as they can't
afford the cost of an abortion, and can even less afford the cost of
having a baby.
<p>
Republican abortion sabotage measures are often designed to make
abortions prohibitively expensive.


feed_id: fca525e9b562b7a51c4c445beb8bac8d
title: Airlines cater to irrational passengers
uri: Airlines-cater-to-irrational-passengers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#9_March_2016_%28Airlines_cater_to_irrational_passengers%29

content:
<p>
"My friend was texting prayers.  If this is 
<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/04/terrorists-distrust-together-easyjet-flight-text'>suspicious</a>,
the terrorists have won."
<p>
The basic injustice here is kicking a passenger off a flight because
some other passenger is irrationally upset.  If airlines made it clear
that they would not do this, and told the irrational passengers "You
can leave the plane if you like, but we see no reason to punish that
person," they would learn to control themselves and there would be no
problem.
<p>
I think it is also an injustice to set a standard that passengers
should show all their secrets in the vain hope of being allowed to
travel, or that a much-used bible can prove they are good people.  In
the US, at least, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_December_2015_(Christianist_terrorist_attack)">Christian
terrorists are right up there in violence with the Muslim
terrorists</a>.


feed_id: 126c90548d2d55143b522bc57739c382
title: Bus ad for nonreligious meeting
uri: Bus-ad-for-nonreligious-meeting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Bus_ad_for_nonreligious_meeting%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/03/04/atheist-bus-ads-in-madison-wi.html">bus
ad</a> for a meeting of a group for nonreligious people.


feed_id: 34ae4fb059fba20aae50a6a4bbce4db5
title: Dossiers of students
uri: Dossiers-of-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Dossiers_of_students%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/05/education-parent-children-behaviour-app">Some
schools use software to build a dossier</a> of good or bad behavior
about all students, to show to their parents.
<p>
The school will probably keep the data forever, and so I suspect will
the company that developed the app (which is surely a nonfree
program).


feed_id: da5f4b888ac959ea3d79af4ab25e031b
title: Lack of ethical compass
uri: Lack-of-ethical-compass
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Lack_of_ethical_compass%29
content:
<p>
The lack of an ethical compass we can see 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/searle20160307">facilitated
the rise of Donald Trump</a>.


feed_id: 568aef86231b8c9b26d99d66997f3ca1
title: Support for Sanders in Maine caucuses
uri: Support-for-Sanders-in-Maine-caucuses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Support_for_Sanders_in_Maine_caucuses%29

content:
<p>
Sanders won the Maine caucuses with a large margin, after the
unusually high turnout caused 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/03/06/bernie-wins-maine-almost-2-1-four-hour-lines-yet">very
long lines</a>.


feed_id: 37769b9f8f849684e0794d60a295e708
title: Solitary confinement for not answering questions
uri: Solitary-confinement-for-not-answering-questions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Solitary_confinement_for_not_answering_questions%29

content:
<p>
An Australian "terrorist suspect", 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/mar/07/detention-of-sydney-teen-terrorism-suspect-awful-and-inhumane-says-lawyer">accused
of possessing forbidden documents</a>, is being held in solitary
confinement for not answering questions.


feed_id: 915a00e271ec241611b62e263aaeaf96
title: China's greenhouse gas emissions
uri: China-s-greenhouse-gas-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Chinas_greenhouse_gas_emissions%29
content:
<p>
China's total greenhouse gas emissions 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/07/chinas-carbon-emissions-may-have-peaked-already-says-lord-stern">seem
to have stabilized</a>, perhaps started decreasing.


feed_id: c57159a58f0734e37c52eec7be477a96
title: Turkish newspaper Zaman seized
uri: Turkish-newspaper-Zaman-seized
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Turkish_newspaper_Zaman_seized%29
content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an's men have seized the newspaper Zaman and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/06/seized-turkish-opposition-newspaper-zaman-erdogan-government">turned
it into a propaganda sheet</a>.


feed_id: 9954cb9bf2cde7c47eac0e9bbec23694
title: Assassination of Egyptian prosecutor
uri: Assassination-of-Egyptian-prosecutor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Assassination_of_Egyptian_prosecutor%29

content:
<p>
Egypt accuses the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas of together organizing
the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/06/muslim-brotherhood-hamas-prosecutor-egypt-assassinated-hisham-barakat">assassination
of a prosecutor who played a central role in Egypt's repression</a>.
<p>
If it is true, we could hardly criticize them for killing someone
responsible for so much evil.  Sure, it would have been better
to put him on trial, but there is no hope of that.


feed_id: 16a2c66b3c9ae81d5cfcf8a328cbc2cd
title: Prosecution of thugs
uri: Prosecution-of-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Prosecution_of_thugs%29
content:
<p>
In prosecution of thugs for crimes such as murder and rape,
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/03/in-recent-trials-of-violent-cops-the-broader-police-force-gets-a-pass/">prosecutors
bend over backwards to praise all other thugs</a>, describing the
defendants as exceptions.


feed_id: 3f151dbc8e4a6caa08a152cb7916e549
title: Cheating on tests for lead in water
uri: Cheating-on-tests-for-lead-in-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Cheating_on_tests_for_lead_in_water%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/06/water-utilities-lead-testing-analysis-us-cities">Many
US cities cheat</a> on their tests for lead in the water.


feed_id: e730347fef79a6d7d60a6289884e055b
title: Virtual reality entertainment
uri: Virtual-reality-entertainment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Virtual_reality_entertainment%29
content:
<p>
Virtual reality entertainment, when overused, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/06/virtual-reality-oculus-rift-headsets-david-foster-wallace">could
cut people off from reality</a>.
<p>
On the other hand, so does TV.


feed_id: 6d5f60dd3ba1e375300d1374785db20f
title: Missing HK publisher staff
uri: Missing-HK-publisher-staff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Missing_HK_publisher_staff%29
content:
<p>
Some of the Hong Kong publisher staff that were grabbed by China have
been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/06/second-missing-hong-kong-bookseller-returns-from-china">freed</a>.


feed_id: 040ddad64af782e4aa0e29b103ed3e0f
title: Obama's national security policies
uri: Obama-s-national-security-policies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Obamas_national_security_policies%29

content:
<p>
Imagine Obama's National Security Policies 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/05/donald-trump-national-security-obama">in
Trump's Hands</a>.
<p>
I am sure he will do bad things, but so would Clinton — and so
does Obama.  I think Sanders would do less of these bad things.  But
the real issue in this area is to reduce the president's power.


feed_id: 55d77a07ca976095f75417a3956d8a77
title: Chimps
uri: Chimps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Chimps%29
content:
<p>
Chimps make piles of stones in hollow trees, and throw stones against
certain trees, for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/06/chimps-more-human-than-we-think">no
evident practical reason</a>.


feed_id: 0319416809f16e9a1bb6b537b3247d6c
title: Russia's trolling and disinformation campaign
uri: Russia-s-trolling-and-disinformation-campaign
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Russias_trolling_and_disinformation_campaign%29

content:
<p>
NATO warns that Russia is running a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/05/europe-vladimir-putin-russia-social-media-trolls">massive
trolling and disinformation campaign</a> directed at political
influence in Europe.
<p>
The same analyst says that Russia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/05/russia-refugee-germany-angela-merkel-migration-vladimir-putin">funding
various sorts of extremists</a> just to make trouble.
<p>
NATO might be inclined to exaggerate this, but I find it plausible.


feed_id: 8eedabd09197c4b3138fcb04a61cb94e
title: Protest-suppression weapons
uri: Protest-suppression-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Protest-suppression_weapons%29
content:
<p>
The UK should not be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/05/human-rights-gropups-condemn-uk-security-trade-fair">selling
protest-suppression weapons to repressive governments</a>.


feed_id: 90c13121aa3175033e1e36e00f610266
title: Behavioral targeting of ads
uri: Behavioral-targeting-of-ads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Behavioral_targeting_of_ads%29
content:
<p>
Behavioral targeting of advertisements can 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/online-ads-know-who-you-are-but-can-they-change-you-too-54983">reinforce
people's image of themselves</a>, whatever that image may be.
<p>
I think we 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">should
not let them get such data about us</a>.


feed_id: f8413c13462aa099e0799ce1bb1a5b66
title: Arizona thug faces prosecution
uri: Arizona-thug-faces-prosecution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Arizona_thug_faces_prosecution%29
content:
<p>
A thug in Arizona 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/05/arizona-police-officer-shot-unarmed-man-charged">faces
prosecution for murder</a>.


feed_id: b552d3c2524dee421fb3e209a4639404
title: Syria's cease fire
uri: Syria-s-cease-fire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#10_March_2016_%28Syrias_cease_fire%29
content:
<p>
Syria's cease fire is holding, even to the point that people
have held 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/05/syrian-ceasefire-russia-peace-talks-european-leaders">peaceful
protests against Assad</a>.


