# articles

feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(High_pay_for_company_executives)
title: High pay for company executives
uri: High-pay-for-company-executives
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28High_pay_for_company_executives%29
content:
<p>
High pay for company
executives <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/19/executive-pay-ceos-dont-need-cash">has
become a status symbol.</a>
<p>
I don't want to abolish business as such, but I believe we must put an
end to business as we know it (the plutocratic system).  We must not
be scared to say this.


title: Venetian region has its own separatist movement
uri: Venetian-region-has-its-own-separatist-movement
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Venetian_region_has_its_own_separatist_movement)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Venetian_region_has_its_own_separatist_movement%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/venice-independence-movement-hq-kent">The
Venetian region has its own separatist movement.</a>
<p>
It is the usual sad story: when a country hits an economic crisis,
people in wealthier regions of the country start demanding
independence so that they won't have to help the poorer regions.  What
foolish selfishness, for the not-quite-so-poor to fight against the
poor, rather than joining forces against the rich.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Childhood_stress)
title: Childhood stress
uri: Childhood-stress
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Childhood_stress%29
content:
<p>
Childhood stress seems
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/13/childhood-abuse-growth-brain-emotions">affect
growth of the hippocampus and to make people more prone to depression
when older</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Obama's_economic_advisors)
title: Obama's economic advisors
uri: Obama-s-economic-advisors
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Obama%27s_economic_advisors%29
content:
<p>
Obama's economic advisors had
previously <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/wall-street-deregulation-clinton-advisers-obama">advised
and pressured Bill Clinton to deregulate banks.</a>
<p>
Look at the idiotic reasons that were given.
<p>
<ul>
<li> "Other kind of companies are offering similar financial
services."  Perhaps we had better extend banking regulations to them.

<li> "Other countries have deregulated their banks, and US banks won't
be able to compete unless deregulated too."  Perhaps we shouldn't let
inadequately regulated foreign banks offer services in the US.
</ul>
<p>
Each "argument" can appear to be an argument for further deregulation
if you close your eyes to the way it is an argument for further
regulation.


title: Iran has offered to redesign its nuclear reactor
uri: Iran-has-offered-to-redesign-its-nuclear-reactor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Iran_has_offered_to_redesign_its_nuclear_reactor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Iran_has_offered_to_redesign_its_nuclear_reactor%29

content:
<p>
Iran has offered
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/iran-arak-nuclear-plant">redesign
its nuclear reactor in Arak so that it can't produce much
plutonium.</a>
<p>
Perhaps they will redesign it to make arak with heavy alcohol.


title: Working conditions for people that make our clothing
uri: Working-conditions-for-people-that-make-our-clothing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Working_conditions_for_people_that_make_our_clothing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Working_conditions_for_people_that_make_our_clothing%29

content:
<p>
Organizing collectively in wealthy countries
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/she-said/2014/apr/19/who-made-your-clothes-its-time-we-knew-and-cared">demand
better working conditions for the people that make our clothing</a>.
<p>
I support these efforts, but they are aiming at treating persistent
symptoms of a known underlying problem: the "free trade" treaties.
They destroyed unionization and labor rights around the world by
enabling companies to shift their production anywhere.  This exposes
labor to many abuses
(<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2010-jan-apr.html#17%20April%202010%20%28Microsoft%20closes%20its%20eyes%20to%20human%20rights%20violations%29">including
low pay</a>,
insecurity, <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#11_September_2011_%28Clothing_of_US_brands_so_cheap%29">dangerous
working conditions</a> and theft of wages).
<p>
We must reject the idea of "free trade", whose supposed benefit is no
more than increased <em>total</em> economic activity, while implanting
a plutocratic system that ensures that increase goes to the rich.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(The_natural_tendency_in_capitalism)
title: The natural tendency in capitalism
uri: The-natural-tendency-in-capitalism
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28The_natural_tendency_in_capitalism%29

content:
<p>
Thomas Piketty's research demonstrates that the natural tendency in
capitalism is
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/19-1">make the
rich richer and increase inequality;</a> the period from 1940 to 1975
was an unusual exception.
<p>
Thus, we need laws and taxes to spread the wealth around.
<p>
I don't think we should argue about whether this should be done
through higher taxes for the rich or through regulations to stop
exploitative practices.  Either can help, and both are desirable.
Plutocracy is a complex system, and very strong, so we need to weaken
it at many points.


title: Investigation into Guanatanamo torture
uri: Investigation-into-Guanatanamo-torture
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Investigation_into_Guanatanamo_torture)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Investigation_into_Guanatanamo_torture%29

content:
<p>
A Spanish judge defies the right-wing government's attempts to shut
down <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/04/18-3">his
investigation into Guanatanamo torture.</a>


title: Keeping BP suspended from new US gov't contracts
uri: Keeping-BP-suspended-from-new-US-gov-t-contracts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Keeping_BP_suspended_from_new_US_gov't_contracts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Keeping_BP_suspended_from_new_US_gov%27t_contracts%29

content:
<p>
A broad grass-roots campaign calls
for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/04/18-2">keeping
BP suspended from new US government contracts.</a>


title: Bill to punish women that use drugs while pregnant
uri: Bill-to-punish-women-that-use-drugs-while-pregnant
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Bill_to_punish_women_that_use_drugs_while_pregnant)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Bill_to_punish_women_that_use_drugs_while_pregnant%29

content:
<p>
Tennessee is considering a bill
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/tennessee-criminalise-pregnant-women-drugs">punish
women that use some illegal drugs while pregnant.</a>
<p>
This law is not just nasty, it is also likely to lead pregnant addicts
to avoid prenatal care, which will backfire against the babies.  The
law is therefore likely to harm rather than help those babies.
<p>
It is wrong to take drugs while pregnant that result in producing a
damaged baby.  However, when someone addicted to one of those drugs
gets pregnant, what's a useful response?  I think the right solution
is an abortion.  A useful response is to encourage and help that
person to get an abortion.


title: Excuses to keep prisoners in Guantanamo
uri: Excuses-to-keep-prisoners-in-Guantanamo
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Excuses_to_keep_prisoners_in_Guantanamo)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Excuses_to_keep_prisoners_in_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>
Obama
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/guantanamo-bay-detainees-release-unlikely-end-afghanistan-war">scramble
for excuses to keep prisoners in Guantanamo</a> once the US ceases to
be at war in Afghanistan.


title: Massive capture of migrating birds in Egypt
uri: Massive-capture-of-migrating-birds-in-Egypt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Massive_capture_of_migrating_birds_in_Egypt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Massive_capture_of_migrating_birds_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/nature-up/2013/jul/19/jonathan-franzen-egypt-migratory-bird">massive
capture of migrating birds in Egypt</a> has reached a level where it
endangers some species.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(FBI_massive_surveillance)
title: FBI massive surveillance
uri: FBI-massive-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28FBI_massive_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
It's not just the NSA that's doing massive
surveillance; <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/19/hoovers-fbi-todays-surveillance-state">the
FBI does it too.</a>
<p>
The NSA circumvents and neutralizes rules against spying on S citizens
and people in the US, but the FBI has no such restrictions.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Draft_computer_crimes_law)
title: Draft computer crimes law
uri: Draft-computer-crimes-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Draft_computer_crimes_law%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan: <a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/04/pakistan-draft-computer-crimes-law-violates-human-rights/">Draft
computer crimes law violates human rights.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Haiti's_US-imposed_government)
title: Haiti's US-imposed government
uri: Haiti-s-US-imposed-government
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Haiti%27s_US-imposed_government%29
content:
<p>
Haiti's US-imposed government has made a vague threat
to <a href="http://en.rsf.org/haiti-danger-of-self-censorship-after-15-04-2014,46154.html">punish
radio stations that make statements that the government does not
like.</a>
<p>
The president was "elected" in a process which
was <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2008-sep-dec.html#01%20October%202008%20%28US%20funded%20and%20arranged%20invasion%20in%20Haiti%29">rigged
by the US</a> and excluded the only party that has real popular
support (Aristide's party).


title: Urgent: Community network access points
uri: Urgent-Community-network-access-points
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Urgent:_Community_network_access_points)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Community_network_access_points%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/att-alec-lobby-community-owned-internet-networks/">pressure
AT&T</a> to stop lobbying to ban community-owned network access
points.


title: Urgent: Ban on neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Urgent-Ban-on-neonicotinoid-pesticides
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Urgent:_Ban_on_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_on_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/bayer-bees-lawsuit/13/2/">call on
Bayer and Syngenta</a> to drop their lawsuits against the coming ban
on neonicotinoid pesticides in Europe.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Patents_in_American_aviation)
title: Patents in American aviation
uri: Patents-in-American-aviation
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Patents_in_American_aviation%29
content:
<p>
How patents 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/opinion/nocera-greed-and-the-wright-brothers.html">stifled
American aviation</a> for a decade or more.
<p>
<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">There
is no good reason to have a patent system</a>; it exists due to
pressure from the businesses that hold patents.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Sports_events_and_surveillance)
title: Sports events and surveillance
uri: Sports-events-and-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Sports_events_and_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Big sports events nowadays leave a permanent 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1382">legacy of
surveillance</a>.  Boston has installed cameras across the city that
are monitored constantly by an AI system, set up to report anything
"unusual" to human thugs.
<p>
We can have fun with this.  How many unusual things can you do on the
street each day?  Why not back up to the entrance of 10 parking lots
just for fun?
<p>
But that won't get rid of the surveillance.
<p>
It might be more useful to walk around in Boston with a sign saying,
"Surveillance of all threatens all", and hand out printed copies of
that page.
<p>
Live internet camera feeds pointing at public places, if they are good
enough to identify people, 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">should
be banned to preserve privacy</a>.  Security cameras should be
required to store their recordings locally, so that access to the
recordings requires physically visiting the site.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Harassment_of_women_by_men)
title: Harassment of women by men
uri: Harassment-of-women-by-men
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Harassment_of_women_by_men%29
content:
<p>
The myth that rapists are monsters that could hardly pass for normal
men paradoxically helps perpetuate the 
<a href="http://whiteribbonblog.com/2014/04/17/the-danger-of-the-monster-myth/">social
toleration of various levels of harassment of women by men that don't
appear subhuman</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Fires_and_drought_in_the_US_west)
title: Fires and drought in the US west
uri: Fires-and-drought-in-the-US-west
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Fires_and_drought_in_the_US_west%29
content:
<p>
Over 30 years, each decade has seen an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/18-3">increase
in wildfires and drought</a> in the US west.
<p>
The extreme drought this past winter was made possible by human
greenhouse gas emissions; it could not have happened in the climate of
50 years ago.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Israeli_gag_order_on_NY_Times)
title: Israeli gag order on NY Times
uri: Israeli-gag-order-on-NY-Times
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Israeli_gag_order_on_NY_Times%29
content:
<p>
The New York Times avoided coverage of a Palestinian journalist's
arrest, complying with an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/18-6">Israeli
gag order</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Kerrys_peace_negotiations)
title: Kerry's peace negotiations
uri: Kerry-s-peace-negotiations
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Kerrys_peace_negotiations%29
content:
<p>
Kerry's peace negotiations went "poof" all of a sudden when it was
revealed that they were a
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1397233247/">balloon
full of hot air all along</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Regulation_of_undersea_drilling)
title: Regulation of undersea drilling
uri: Regulation-of-undersea-drilling
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Regulation_of_undersea_drilling%29
content:
<p>
After the Big Spill, it was clear that the US needs stricter
regulation of undersea oil drilling.  Oil company lobbying 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/19-4">blocked the
necessary changes in laws</a>.
<p>
As a result, we must 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/18-4">expect it
to happen again</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Work_less_reduce_global_heating)
title: Work less, reduce global heating
uri: Work-less-reduce-global-heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Work_less_reduce_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Advice: people in the advanced countries could reduce global heating
substantially and be happier by 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/19-5">working
less</a>.
<p>
In terms of sheer production, we would still have plenty of the things
we want if the decrease in production is taken out of the income of
the rich.
<p>
However, most people can't simply decide to work less.  They may be
working two or three jobs just to get by, or they may be professionals
who won't be hired at all unless they agree to work 60 hours a week.
If we want to reduce working hours, we will have to <em>organize
politically</em> and <em>take</em> from the rich.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Russian_surveillance_methods)
title: Russian surveillance methods
uri: Russian-surveillance-methods
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Russian_surveillance_methods%29
content:
<p>
On Russian methods for 
<a href="http://csis.org/publication/reference-note-russian-communications-surveillance">surveillance
of communications</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Punishment_for_errors)
title: Punishment for errors
uri: Punishment-for-errors
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Punishment_for_errors%29
content:
<p>
The captain of the Korean ferry that sank faces several 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/south-korea-ferry-disaster-third-mate-steering-first-time-arrested-captain-sewol-sewol">criminal
charges</a>.
<p>
I don't know enough about ferry operations to judge how serious
his alleged wrongs were.  But it would be unjust to punish him
more for these actions than they would punish another captain
who did the same things without causing any loss of life.
<p>
Disasters happen when several errors and failures combine.  Each
of the individual errors happens often but 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_October_2013_(Nuclear_power_plants)">usually 
does not cause a disaster</a>.  The error is equally culpable whether
it leads to a disaster or not.
<p>
If we want crews to change practices and thus reduce the errors that
could contribute to future disasters, we should take measures that are
effective.


title: Investigation into Guantanamo torture
uri: Investigation-into-Guantanamo-torture
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Investigation_into_Guantanamo_torture)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Investigation_into_Guantanamo_torture%29

content:
<p>
A Spanish judge defies the right-wing government's attempts to shut
down <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/04/18-3">his
investigation into Guantanamo torture.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 22_April_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_deforestation)
title: Urgent: Stop deforestation
uri: Urgent-Stop-deforestation
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#22_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_deforestation%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/pepsico-palm-oil/">tell
Pepsico</a> to stop buying palm oil made from deforestation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 22_April_2014_(Manus_island_prison_riot)
title: Manus island prison riot
uri: Manus-island-prison-riot
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#22_April_2014_%28Manus_island_prison_riot%29
content:
<p>
Australia's immigration minister seems to have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/manus-video-showing-guards-violence-undercuts-morrison-statements">lied
completely</a> about a riot in the immigration prison on Manus island,
to put the blame on the imprisoned boat people.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 22_April_2014_(Stopping_corporate_surveillance)
title: Stopping corporate surveillance
uri: Stopping-corporate-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#22_April_2014_%28Stopping_corporate_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
A company meant to collect data on students in the US has 
<a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/inbloom-student-data-repository-to-close/">shut
down</a> because states banned schools from sending student data to
it.
<p>
This demonstrates that we can stop corporate surveillance on the
Internet if we are willing to go to the necessary lengths.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 22_April_2014_(Forbidden_from_emigrating)
title: Forbidden from emigrating
uri: Forbidden-from-emigrating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#22_April_2014_%28Forbidden_from_emigrating%29
content:
<p>
10 years after Mordechai Vanunu's release from prison, Israel 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/21-7">still forbids
him from emigrating to join his family</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 22_April_2014_(Crimes_by_spy_agency_officials)
title: Crimes by spy agency officials
uri: Crimes-by-spy-agency-officials
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#22_April_2014_%28Crimes_by_spy_agency_officials%29
content:
<p>
The only crime for which US national security officials get prosecuted
is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/21">leaking</a>.
Torture, assassination and perjury are considered ok.
<p>
Cracking down even more, the perjurer Clapper has just 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/21/james-clapper-bans-us-intelligence-community-unauthorized-media-contact">banned
all spy agency staff from talking to the press without advance
permission</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 22_April_2014_(Damaged_wildlife_around_Chernobyl)
title: Damaged wildlife around Chernobyl
uri: Damaged-wildlife-around-Chernobyl
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#22_April_2014_%28Damaged_wildlife_around_Chernobyl%29

content:
<p>
Wildlife in the uninhabited area around Chernobyl shows 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/04/21-0">serious
harm from radiation</a>.
<p>
Ominously, some animals show more damage than their parents had; the
effect seems to be cumulative.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 22_April_2014_(Assassination)
title: Assassination
uri: Assassination
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#22_April_2014_%28Assassination%29
content:
<p>
A US appeals court ordered Obama to release the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/21/us-release-memo-anwar-al-awlaki-drone-killing">supposed
legal justifications</a> for assassinating Anwar al-Awlaki.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 22_April_2014_(The_right_to_a_speedy_trial)
title: The right to a speedy trial
uri: The-right-to-a-speedy-trial
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#22_April_2014_%28The_right_to_a_speedy_trial%29
content:
<p>
Jerry Hartfield has spent 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/12-000-days-later-texas-still-wont-release-jerry-hartfield-from-custody/281395/">33
years</a> in prison for a conviction that was overturned on appeal.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 22_April_2014_(Austerity_and_suicides)
title: Austerity and suicides
uri: Austerity-and-suicides
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#22_April_2014_%28Austerity_and_suicides%29
content:
<p>
Austerity in Greece caused 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/21/austerity-greece-male-suicides-spending-cuts">500
extra suicides in 2009/10</a>.
<p>
Poverty has got deeper since then; I would expect that another 500 or
1000 have committed suicide since then.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 22_April_2014_(The_Meritocracy_Myth)
title: The Meritocracy Myth
uri: The-Meritocracy-Myth
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#22_April_2014_%28The_Meritocracy_Myth%29
content:
<p>
The Meritocracy Myth: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/21-2">How the
Super-Rich Really Make Their Money</a>.


title: Cowboy Indian Alliance opposes Keystone XL pipeline
uri: Cowboy-Indian-Alliance-opposes-Keystone-XL-pipeline
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Cowboy_Indian_Alliance_opposes_Keystone_XL_pipeline)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Cowboy_Indian_Alliance_opposes_Keystone_XL_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
The Cowboy Indian
Alliance <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/20-5">opposes
the Keystone XL pipeline on the ground.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(FBI's_new_database_of_face_photos)
title: FBI's new database of face photos
uri: FBI-s-new-database-of-face-photos
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28FBI%27s_new_database_of_face_photos%29

content:
<p>
The FBI's new database of face photos
is <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/fbi-plans-have-52-million-photos-its-ngi-face-recognition-database-next-year">not
just a new way to keep track of photos of criminals</a>.  It is a plan
to collect photos of millions of people, some who were arrested and
not tried, and some who were not accused of anything.  And to share
them with state thugs, and try recognizing people against these
photos.


title: Streaming services and corporate remote storage
uri: Streaming-services-and-corporate-remote-storage
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Streaming_services_and_corporate_remote_storage)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Streaming_services_and_corporate_remote_storage%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.alternet.org/how-music-became-surveillance-states-trojan-horse?paging=off">convenience
and cheapness of streaming services and corporate remote storage may
be impossible to resist,</a> if you are spineless and don't mind being
antisocial.
<p>
The spineless author made himself susceptible to bad judgment by
adopting shallow economic values that show up in the concept of
"consuming services".


title: Landlord companies going to vicious lengths to make tenants move out
uri: Landlord-companies-going-to-vicious-lengths-to-make-tenants-move-out
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Landlord_companies_going_to_vicious_lengths_to_make_tenants_move_out)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Landlord_companies_going_to_vicious_lengths_to_make_tenants_move_out%29

content:
<p>
Landlord companies that bought housing in New York City are going to
vicious lengths, even
sabotage, <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/predatory-equity-wall-street-screwed-over-renters-new-york-city">to
make tenants move out so they can raise rents.</a>
<p>
Other tenants are shafted because the landlords are being foreclosed
on.


title: NSA not the only threat to privacy in US
uri: NSA-not-the-only-threat-to-privacy-in-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(NSA_not_the_only_threat_to_privacy_in_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28NSA_not_the_only_threat_to_privacy_in_US%29

content:
<p>
The NSA is not the only threat to privacy in the US.  Local thug
departments
are <a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1376">installing
technology that can track all cars around the city.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Charging_UK_patients_for_crutches)
title: Charging UK patients for crutches
uri: Charging-UK-patients-for-crutches
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Charging_UK_patients_for_crutches%29

content:
<p>
Charging UK patients for crutches is
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/17/charging-crutches-dismantling-nhs-south-warwickshire-ccg">wedge
being used to abolish gratis medical care in the UK.</a>
<p>
The UK government has been striving for years to destroy the National
Health service by underfunding it, denying all the while that that is
its goal.  The result would be a lousy US-style medical system in
which the poor can't afford medical care.
<p>
Meanwhile, if they want to save money on crutches, they could do
various things to encourage patients to return them for reuse.
<p>
I tried to hand a wrist brace back to MIT medical after I no longer
needed it, and MIT medical refused to take it, or even tell me where
to find anyone that would take it.  Apparently in the US all medical
organizations are scared they will be sued if a medical appliance
transfers some sort of pest from one patient to another.  Someone
there suggested I give it to Good Will, but Good Will doesn't accept
wrist braces.
<p>
This makes no sense, except in terms of absurd litigation.  A crutch
or wrist brace is no more likely to transfer any sort of infection
than a dress or shirt that Good Will would handle.
<p>
It would be easy enough to adopt a regulation saying that clinics will
not be liable for infections supposedly transferred by crutches and
wrist braces provided they follow certain specified sterilization
procedures.  But no one in the US cares about this.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(UK's_emergency_funds)
title: UK's "emergency funds"
uri: UK-s-emergency-funds
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28UK%27s_emergency_funds%29
content:
<p>
The UK government said its cuts won't starve the poor because
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/20/emergency-welfare-scheme-local-councils">"emergency
funds" are available</a>, but they are filtered through a system that
makes it hard for poor people to get those funds, if they even think
of asking.
<p>
They seem to be part of the UK right-wing government's policy of
shafting the poor, pretending not to be shafting the poor, but
demonizing the poor.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(UK's_internet_censorship)
title: UK's internet censorship
uri: UK-s-internet-censorship
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28UK%27s_internet_censorship%29
content:
<p>
A bureaucrat's slip reveals that
the <a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/04/filtering-uk-hinterland-legality-secrecy-trumps-court-rulings/">UK's
internet censorship agenda respects no limits.</a>
<p>
The article distinguishes between censorship of illegal material and
censorship of material that is not illegal, but that is a mere legal
technicality.  Mere laws cannot justify censorship; if they try, laws
that try to do this only invalidate themselves.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Ban_on_online_anonymity)
title: Ban on online anonymity
uri: Ban-on-online-anonymity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Ban_on_online_anonymity%29
content:
<p>
Armenia
faces <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/armenian-bill-threatens-online-anonymity">chilling
censorship through a ban on online anonymity.</a>


title: Malaysia's gov't has driven opposition leader into exile
uri: Malaysia-s-gov-t-has-driven-opposition-leader-into-exile
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Malaysia's_gov't_has_driven_opposition_leader_into_exile)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Malaysia%27s_gov%27t_has_driven_opposition_leader_into_exile%29

content:
<p>
Malaysia's government
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/20/anwar-ibrahim-malaysia-government-sodomy-charge">driven
the main opposition leader into exile</a> through
politically-motivated charges of homosexuality.


title: Firefight with possibly imaginary Ukrainian right-wing fanatics
uri: Firefight-with-possibly-imaginary-Ukrainian-right-wing-fanatics
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Firefight_with_possibly_imaginary_Ukrainian_right-wing_fanatics)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Firefight_with_possibly_imaginary_Ukrainian_right-wing_fanatics%29

content:
<p>
Supporters of Russia in Eastern Ukraine have reported
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/20/ukraine-agreement-falters-shoot-out-slavayansk">firefight
with possibly imaginary Ukrainian right-wing fanatics</a>.  They
stopped reporters from visiting the location of the supposed fight.
<p>
It appears to be as phony as
the <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2004-may-aug.html#31%20August%202004%20%28Fake%20Attacks?%29">Gulf
of Tonkin incident.</a>


title: Urgent: Collect what Cliven Bundy owes
uri: Urgent-Collect-what-Cliven-Bundy-owes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Urgent:_Collect_what_Cliven_Bundy_owes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Collect_what_Cliven_Bundy_owes%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/775">call on the US
government</a> to collect what Cliven Bundy owes.


title: Urgent: Stop deportation of homosexuals
uri: Urgent-Stop-deportation-of-homosexuals
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_deportation_of_homosexuals)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_deportation_of_homosexuals%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4537?n=66519187.LKa6UD">call
on the UK</a> to suspend deportation of homosexuals so as to avoid
sending people back to countries which threaten to imprison or execute
them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Spanish_banks_cheated)
title: Spanish banks cheated
uri: Spanish-banks-cheated
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Spanish_banks_cheated%29
content:
<p>
Enric Duran 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/20/spain-robin-hood-banks-capitalism-enric-duran">cheated
Spanish banks</a> to fund anticapitalist activities.
<p>
In the past I would have said that cheating a bank was wrong.  Then I
learned 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_(Fallout_from_LIBOR_scandal)">how
much banks cheat everyone else</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Fired_for_stating_religious_view)
title: Fired for stating religious view
uri: Fired-for-stating-religious-view
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Fired_for_stating_religious_view%29
content:
<p>
A worker in the UK was fired for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/20/christian-nursery-worker-claims-unfair-dismissal-gay-colleague">stating
religious disapproval of homosexuality</a>.
<p>
I think people should be free to state their disapproval of anything
at all, and other people should be free to ignore those views.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(The_callous_rich_of_Palo_Alto)
title: The callous rich of Palo Alto
uri: The-callous-rich-of-Palo-Alto
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28The_callous_rich_of_Palo_Alto%29
content:
<p>
The callous rich of Palo Alto 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/15/ban-sleeping-in-cars-homeless-silicon-valley">want
to ban homeless people from sleeping in cars</a>.
<p>
Is there anyone reading this from Palo Alto who would like to launch a
street campaign to shame those rich people?  If there is a business
that supports this law, it would be interesting to make signs
condemning them and invite homeless people to picket that business
during the day.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Preservation_of_bird_species)
title: Preservation of bird species
uri: Preservation-of-bird-species
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Preservation_of_bird_species%29
content:
<p>
Malta may hold a referendum to end the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/20/conservationists-marksmen-malta-bird-hunt">licensed
hunting of birds migrating north to breed</a>.
<p>
When a bird species is being wiped out, typically many causes are at
work.  As in the case of global heating, if we want to preserve what
is threatened, we must reject arguments of the form, "Let us keep
endangering it — tackle some other threat instead."


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(US_and_UK_surveillance)
title: US and UK surveillance
uri: US-and-UK-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28US_and_UK_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
The US and UK, by distorting the picture of their surveillance and
claiming it is compatible with democracy and human rights, provide a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/20/uk-response-snowden-putin-surveillance-gchq">precedent
for governments even less democratic to make similar false claims</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Egyptian_election)
title: Egyptian election
uri: Egyptian-election
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Egyptian_election%29
content:
<p>
General el-Sisi is running for president of Egypt, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/20/sisi-egypt-election-nominations-close">TV
stations are taking his critics off the air</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Nuclear_waste_dumped_near_shore)
title: Nuclear waste dumped near shore
uri: Nuclear-waste-dumped-near-shore
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Nuclear_waste_dumped_near_shore%29
content:
<p>
The UK dumped a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/20/choice-cumbria-nuclear-dump-mistake-environment-agency">million
cubic meters of low-level nuclear waste</a> in a site near the shore
which is going to be washed away due to global heating.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 21_April_2014_(Christians_blocked_from_Jerusalem)
title: Christians blocked from Jerusalem
uri: Christians-blocked-from-Jerusalem
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_April_2014_%28Christians_blocked_from_Jerusalem%29

content:
<p>
Palestinian Christians find that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/20/palestinian-christians-pilgrims-via-dolorosa-jersualem">Israel
blocks them from Jerusalem</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Dismembering_the_NHS)
title: Dismembering the NHS
uri: Dismembering-the-NHS
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Dismembering_the_NHS%29
content:
<p>The UK's National Health Service has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/22/nhs-contracting-disaster-commissioners-simon-stevens">
ordered to use subcontractors</a>,
and naturally it causes things to go wrong.
</p>
<p>The privatization ideology says that having a private company do
something
will automatically make it better than if the state does it.  It's only
true
in special cases.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Massacre_at_Bentiu)
title: Massacre at Bentiu
uri: Massacre-at-Bentiu
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Massacre_at_Bentiu%29
content:
<p>The inter-ethnic conflict in South Sudan is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/bentiu-massacre-south-sudan-united-nations">
extending into genocidal killings.</a>
</p>


title: Torture of Iranian political prisoners
uri: Torture-of-Iranian-political-prisoners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Torture_of_Iranian_political_prisoners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Torture_of_Iranian_political_prisoners%29

content:
<p>Iranian political prisoner Emad Bahavar says that he was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/apr/22/iranian-prison-guards-beat-up-inmates-letter-says">
forced to run past lines of thugs</a>
that hit him with sticks,
organized torture rather than spontaneous venting of sadism.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Robert_Reich_promotes_SB_1372)
title: Robert Reich promotes SB 1372
uri: Robert-Reich-promotes-SB-1372
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Robert_Reich_promotes_SB_1372%29
content:
<p>California is considering
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/robert-reich-how-fix-sky-high-ceo-pay-companies-pay-workers-serfs?paging=off">
a bill to increase taxes</a>
on CEOs whose pay
far exceeds that of the lowest paid workers in the company.
</p>
<p>It is a step in the right direction, but I have a feeling that a 5%
increase in taxes won't create much pressure for CEOs to reduce their
incomes drastically.  As for raising revenue, CEOs should pay higher
taxes, but the other rich people should too.
</p>


title: Violence Prevention Research Program must find its own money
uri: Violence-Prevention-Research-Program-must-find-its-own-money
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Violence_Prevention_Research_Program_must_find_its_own_money)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Violence_Prevention_Research_Program_must_find_its_own_money%29

content:
<p>Republicans have blocked federal funding for research into patterns of
gun violence, but
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-doctor-who-gave-1-million-to-keep-his-gun-research-going">
Professor Wintemute continues</a>
it with private funding.
Some of his conclusions are surprising.</p>
<p>Republicans are
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/republicans-say-no-to-cdc-gun-violence-research">
frothing at the mouth</a>
at the idea that we might learn
which forms of gun control are effective for reducing murders.
</p>


title: No love for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
uri: No-love-for-the-Trans-Pacific-Partnership
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(No_love_for_the_Trans-Pacific_Partnership_)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28No_love_for_the_Trans-Pacific_Partnership_%29

content:
<p>Protests against the TPP are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/22-3">
following Obama</a>
through Asia.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Homeland_panopticon)
title: Homeland panopticon
uri: Homeland-panopticon
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Homeland_panopticon%29
content:
<p>The US Border patrol is converting whole regions miles away from US
borders into
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/22-7">
total surveillance</a>
and oppression zones.  All the roads
out of the Tohono O'odham reservations have permanent checkpoints.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Panhandle_may_shrink)
title: Panhandle may shrink
uri: Panhandle-may-shrink
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Panhandle_may_shrink%29
content:
<p>Florida Is
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-04-florida-ground-sea.html">
'Ground Zero' for Sea Level Rise.</a>
And there's no use putting dikes around Miami,
since the rock underneath the city is porous.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Reducing_coal_dust_exposure)
title: Reducing coal dust exposure
uri: Reducing-coal-dust-exposure
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Reducing_coal_dust_exposure%29
content:
<p>White House Approves
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/22/3429463/final-coal-dust-rules-black-lung-disease/">
Coal Dust Rules</a>
Aimed At Dropping Rates Of Black 
Lung Disease.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Food_insecurity_rate)
title: Food insecurity rate
uri: Food-insecurity-rate
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Food_insecurity_rate%29
content:
<p>The families of 1/5 of the children in the US
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/21/3429174/feeding-america-hungry-kids/">
had trouble getting food</a>
in 2012.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Too_good_for_the_job)
title: Too good for the job
uri: Too-good-for-the-job
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Too_good_for_the_job%29
content:
<p>Obama told Elizabeth Warren she shouldn't head the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau because
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/elizabeth-warren-wall-street">
she made banksters "very nervous".</a>
</p>
<p>In other words, they feared she would lead the agency to do a vigorous
job of protecting the public from them, and Obama was uncomfortable
with that.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Squandering_helium)
title: Squandering helium
uri: Squandering-helium
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Squandering_helium%29
content:
<p>After wasting most of our helium on party balloons, we don't have
enough
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/mar/18/helium-party-balloons-squandered">
for scientific experiments.</a>
</p>


title: Urgent: Universal single-payer health care
uri: Urgent-Universal-single-payer-health-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Urgent:_Universal_single-payer_health_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Universal_single-payer_health_care%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12475">support</a>
universal single-payer health care in the US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_Safeway_to_label_GMOs)
title: Urgent: Tell Safeway to label GMOs
uri: Urgent-Tell-Safeway-to-label-GMOs
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Safeway_to_label_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-safeway-label-gmos-in-your-products">tell
Safeway</a> to label GMOs in their products.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(US_attacking_Yemeni_Islamists)
title: US attacking Yemeni Islamists
uri: US-attacking-Yemeni-Islamists
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28US_attacking_Yemeni_Islamists%29
content:
<p>
The US is attacking Yemeni Islamists very 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/yemen-conflict-in-spotlight-after-drone-strikes-air-raids">intensely</a>.
<p>
Killing members of a guerrilla group, even fairly many of them, does
not defeat it if they can recruit more.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Militias_in_Eastern_Ukraine)
title: Militias in Eastern Ukraine
uri: Militias-in-Eastern-Ukraine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Militias_in_Eastern_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
In Eastern Ukraine, a chaotic scramble of militias that don't really
aim to be more than an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/separatist-stronghold-luhansk-ukraine">excuse
for a Russian takeover</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(UK_right-wing_cruelty)
title: UK right-wing cruelty
uri: UK-right-wing-cruelty
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28UK_right-wing_cruelty%29
content:
<p>
The UK's right-wing government excuses cruelty to disabled people by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/22/disability-poverty-crisis-government-policies">claiming
they are faking disability</a>.
<p>
Plutocratist governments know better than to claim "all" poor people
are to blame for their own poverty or that "all" disabled people are
fakes.  Such a simplistic claim would be recognized as false.  So they
arrange complex systems of rules, artificial hurdles for disabled
people to jump, so that anyone who fails can be convicted of "faking"
and punished.
<p>
The system is stacked against the disabled, which ensures that most of
them will fail: this provides an excuse for cruelty, and if a few
manage to jump the hurdles, most are still screwed.
<p>
The details of these systems are not important; what is important is
their overall purpose and effect: dooH niboR.  Poverty is spreading
because the rich have arranged to take a bigger share of society's
production, leaving too little for everyone else.  To remedy that,
governments must tax the rich more and support the non-rich enough.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(The_chemical_attack_on_Syria)
title: The chemical attack on Syria
uri: The-chemical-attack-on-Syria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28The_chemical_attack_on_Syria%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/22/allegation-false-turkey-chemical-attack-syria">Arguments
against Seymour Hersh's claim</a> that Syrian rebels launched a
chemical weapons attack with Turkish backing.
<p>
I linked to 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_(Why_Obama_did_not_attack_Assad)">that
article</a> previously.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Costs_of_global_heating)
title: Costs of global heating
uri: Costs-of-global-heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Costs_of_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
No one can reliably estimate the costs of global heating, but it is
likely to be a lot 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/apr/22/preventing-global-warming-cheaper-than-adapting">more
expensive than preventing global heating</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(400_activists_killed_in_Brazil)
title: 400 activists killed in Brazil
uri: 400-activists-killed-in-Brazil
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28400_activists_killed_in_Brazil%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/apr/22/448-dead-friends-of-the-earth-brazil">400
environmental activists</a> have been killed in Brazil, presumably by
people involved in illegal deforestation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Al-Jazeera_journalists_on_trial)
title: Al-Jazeera journalists on trial
uri: Al-Jazeera-journalists-on-trial
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Al-Jazeera_journalists_on_trial%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/al-jazeera-trial-media-ejected-inaudible-recordings-egyptian-judge-journalist">Inaudible
audio recordings</a> were presented as evidence against the al-Jazeera
journalists on trial in Egypt.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Valuing_natural_systems)
title: Valuing natural systems
uri: Valuing-natural-systems
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Valuing_natural_systems%29
content:
<p>
To value natural systems in monetary figures adopts a framing 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/22/price-natural-world-agenda-ignores-destroys">designed
to justify getting rid of them</a>.  It also opens the door for
governments to use dishonest figures to justify getting rid of them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Poverty_in_South_Korea)
title: Poverty in South Korea
uri: Poverty-in-South-Korea
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Poverty_in_South_Korea%29
content:
<p>
Although life in North Korea is very hard, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/defector-wants-to-go-back-north-korea">some
defectors in South Korea want to return there</a>.
<p>
This one was apparently in a privileged position in North Korea.  He
has experienced poverty in South Korea despite the country's overall
wealth, but he may not have a clear picture of the poverty of most
North Koreans.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Strike_hits_Chinese_factories)
title: Strike hits Chinese factories
uri: Strike-hits-Chinese-factories
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Strike_hits_Chinese_factories%29
content:
<p>
A large strike has hit Chinese factories; 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/strike-spreads-chinese-supplier-adidas-nike-yeu-yuen-factory-jiangxi-guangdong">workers
are concerned their wages will be stolen</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_April_2014_(Afghan_government_needs_aid)
title: Afghan government needs aid
uri: Afghan-government-needs-aid
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28Afghan_government_needs_aid%29
content:
<p>
The Afghan government has a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/afghanistan-economy-revenue-budget-shortfall">20%
budget gap</a> and will have trouble paying salaries if it doesn't get
aid.
<p>
The amount at stake is tiny compared with what the US spent on the
war.  This seems to be penny wise and pound foolish.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Urgent:_Raise_Seattles_minimum_wage)
title: Urgent: Raise Seattle's minimum wage
uri: Urgent-Raise-Seattle-s-minimum-wage
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_Seattles_minimum_wage%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://youpower.democracyforamerica.com/petitions/seattle-city-council-raise-the-wage-to-15-for-all">support
the campaign</a> for Seattle to raise the minimum wage to $15.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Urgent:_Cowboy_Indian_Alliance)
title: Urgent: Cowboy Indian Alliance
uri: Urgent-Cowboy-Indian-Alliance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Cowboy_Indian_Alliance%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.350.org/sign/cowboy-indian-alliance/">call on
Obama and Kerry</a> to meet with the Cowboy Indian Alliance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Urgent:_End_cruelty_to_John_Kiriakou)
title: Urgent: End cruelty to John Kiriakou
uri: Urgent-End-cruelty-to-John-Kiriakou
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_cruelty_to_John_Kiriakou%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: on May 9, 
<a href="http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/kiriakou-day-of-action-nation">ask
your congresscritter</a> to contact the Bureau of Prisons to end the
vindictive cruelty to prisoner John Kiriakou.


title: Urgent: Compensation for dead workers
uri: Urgent-Compensation-for-dead-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Urgent:_Compensation_for_dead_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Compensation_for_dead_workers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/justice-for-rana-plaza-survivors">call
on Walmart and the Children's Place</a> to give compensation for the
dead Rana Plaza workers, and join in preventing a repetition.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Cultural_memory_of_deer)
title: Cultural memory of deer
uri: Cultural-memory-of-deer
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Cultural_memory_of_deer%29
content:
<p>
Deer in the Czech Republic still 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/23/czech-deer-iron-curtain-fences">avoid
the places where the electrified border fences used to be</a>, 25
years ago, almost twice the lifespan of a deer.
<p>
That means the cultural memory has been passed on for at least two
generations.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Polluted_groundwater_in_China)
title: Polluted groundwater in China
uri: Polluted-groundwater-in-China
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Polluted_groundwater_in_China%29
content:
<p>
More than half the groundwater monitoring sites in China report
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/23/china-half-groundwater-polluted">polluted
water</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Chinese_labor_organizer_missing)
title: Chinese labor organizer missing
uri: Chinese-labor-organizer-missing
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Chinese_labor_organizer_missing%29
content:
<p>
A Chinese labor organizer appears to have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/23/chinese-activist-missing-shoe-factory-strike-zhang-zhiru-yue-yuen">arrested
and disappeared</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(US_working_against_internet_freedom)
title: US working against internet freedom
uri: US-working-against-internet-freedom
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28US_working_against_internet_freedom%29

content:
<p>
The US is working quietly to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/22-4">undermine
an international agreement on internet freedom</a>.
<p>
This article uses the weak word "open" to describe what this agreement
is supposed to do.  I think using that word is a mistake, since "open"
leads one's thinking down paths that don't even try to defend freedom.
Thus, especially when others use that word, we should not join them in
that mistake.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Big_errors_occurring_together)
title: Big errors occurring together
uri: Big-errors-occurring-together
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Big_errors_occurring_together%29
content:
<p>
Massive greenhouse gas emission 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/22-3">coincides with
harmful political and social developments</a> that weaken democracy,
such as corporatocratic "free trade" politics and the idea of living
to consume.
<p>
Disasters typically happen when several errors occur together.
Here we have quite a few big errors.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Control_of_VKontakte)
title: Control of VKontakte
uri: Control-of-VKontakte
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Control_of_VKontakte%29
content:
<p>
The founder of Russian social network VKontakte says that 
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27113292">Putin's men have
kicked him out and taken over</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Greek_austerity_before_election)
title: Greek austerity before election
uri: Greek-austerity-before-election
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Greek_austerity_before_election%29
content:
<p>
The Greek austerity government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/22/greece-social-dividends-primary-budget-surplus-debt-austerity">handing
out money to the poor</a>, because an election is coming.
<p>
The government says it can afford this, based on arguments that are
peculiar because if they are valid today they were valid all along.
Indeed, they <em>were</em> valid all along — but the plutocratic
parties did not like them before.
<p>
What's the conclusion?  The government is right to help the poor, but
you if you want a government to continue the policy after the
election, you should vote for the leftist party.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Gender_stereotypes_in_toys)
title: Gender stereotypes in toys
uri: Gender-stereotypes-in-toys
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Gender_stereotypes_in_toys%29
content:
<p>
Companies that make toys 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/apr/22/gendered-toys-stereotypes-boy-girl-segregation-equality">seem
to intentionally teach gender stereotypes</a> to children.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Train_transport_of_oil)
title: Train transport of oil
uri: Train-transport-of-oil
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Train_transport_of_oil%29
content:
<p>
US cities are trying to stop train transport of oil, which causes 
<a href="http://earthjustice.org/blog/2014-march/explosive-crude-by-rail-rolls-into-main-street-america">sickening
spills and deadly explosions</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(The_no-fly_list)
title: The no-fly list
uri: The-no-fly-list
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28The_no-fly_list%29
content:
<p>
The FBI put Naveed Shinwari on the no-fly list to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/23/no-fly-list-fbi-coerce-muslims">bully</a>
him into becoming an informer on nobody in particular.
<p>
The no-fly list is punishment without trial, and must be abolished.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Pro-Kiev_politician_killed)
title: Pro-Kiev politician killed
uri: Pro-Kiev-politician-killed
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Pro-Kiev_politician_killed%29
content:
<p>
A pro-Kiev Ukrainian politician was captured by a pro-Russia mob, then
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/23/ukraine-president-pro-russian-separatists-killing-politician">tortured
and killed</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Gmail_and_credit_cards)
title: Gmail and credit cards
uri: Gmail-and-credit-cards
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Gmail_and_credit_cards%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/google-slowly-getting-control-your-credit-cards">Three
Reasons Why You Should Keep Gmail far Away from Your Credit Card
Information</a>.
<p>
It is regrettable that the article uses "hackers" to mean "security
breakers".


title: Attacks by Israeli fanatics against Palestinians and their cities
uri: Attacks-by-Israeli-fanatics-against-Palestinians-and-their-cities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Attacks_by_Israeli_fanatics_against_Palestinians_and_their_cities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Attacks_by_Israeli_fanatics_against_Palestinians_and_their_cities%29

content:
<p>
Palestinians protested
the <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=691819">repeated
attacks by Israeli fanatics against Palestinians and their cities.</a>
The Israeli government almost never tries to punish the perpetrators
of these attacks.


title: What Netanyahu demands from Palestinian President Abbas
uri: What-Netanyahu-demands-from-Palestinian-President-Abbas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(What_Netanyahu_demands_from_Palestinian_President_Abbas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28What_Netanyahu_demands_from_Palestinian_President_Abbas%29

content:
<p>
The updated list
of <a href="http://972mag.com/an-updated-list-of-israeli-demands-from-mahmoud-abbas/89954/">what
Netanyahu demands from Palestinian President Abbas.</a>


title: Urgent: Condemn the TPP and its secret negotiations
uri: Urgent-Condemn-the-TPP-and-its-secret-negotiations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Urgent:_Condemn_the_TPP_and_its_secret_negotiations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Condemn_the_TPP_and_its_secret_negotiations%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://stopthesecrecy.net?src=156144">condemn
the TPP and its secret negotiations.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Dangerous_levels_of_pesticide)
title: Dangerous levels of pesticide
uri: Dangerous-levels-of-pesticide
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Dangerous_levels_of_pesticide%29
content:
<p>
GMO soy beans that are engineered to resist
Roundup <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/04/superweeds-arent-only-trouble-gmo-soy">contain
levels of pesticide that may be dangerous.</a> In addition, the
pesticide used in growing them gets into our water supply.


title: When it comes to killing birds, windmills are insignificant
uri: When-it-comes-to-killing-birds-windmills-are-insignificant
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(When_it_comes_to_killing_birds,_windmills_are_insignificant)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28When_it_comes_to_killing_birds%2C_windmills_are_insignificant%29

content:
<p>
When it comes to killing birds, windmills are
insignificant; <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-21/beware-the-blades-of-death-world-s-top-serial-bird-killers-.html">buildings,
power lines and cats kill thousands as times as many birds in the
US.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Guards_attacks_refugees)
title: Guards attacks refugees
uri: Guards-attacks-refugees
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Guards_attacks_refugees%29
content:
<p>
The guards at Australia's asylum seeker prison in Nauru
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/nauru-guards-accused-of-assaulting-children">attack
the refugees, even children.</a>


title: Gov't of Qatar accepts confiscation of foreign workers' passports
uri: Gov-t-of-Qatar-accepts-confiscation-of-foreign-workers-passports
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Gov't_of_Qatar_accepts_confiscation_of_foreign_workers'_passports)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Gov%27t_of_Qatar_accepts_confiscation_of_foreign_workers%27_passports%29

content:
<p>
The government of
Qatar <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/apr/23/migrant-maids-qatar-deportation-centre-passports-confiscated">accepts
the confiscation of foreign workers' passports (treated as slaves) by
their employer/slavemasters.</a>
<p>
Runaway slaves who are caught are imprisoned for months, effectively
incommunicado.


title: Texas family won a 3 million dollar judgment against frackers
uri: Texas-family-won-a-3-million-dollar-judgment-against-frackers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Texas_family_won_a_3_million_dollar_judgment_against_frackers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Texas_family_won_a_3_million_dollar_judgment_against_frackers%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/23-9">Texas
family won a 3 million dollar judgment against frackers.</a>
<p>
It is crucial to defeat their secrecy about their operations.  The
reason companies say they want secrecy is to keep secrets from other
companies.  That argument never justifies putting the public interest
at risk.


title: Prominent Pakistani TV journalist was shot and survived
uri: Prominent-Pakistani-TV-journalist-was-shot-and-survived
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Prominent_Pakistani_TV_journalist_was_shot_and_survived)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Prominent_Pakistani_TV_journalist_was_shot_and_survived%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/23/hamid-mir-pakistan-journalist-shooting-isi-mohammed-hanif">prominent
Pakistani TV journalist was shot and survived</a>.  He and his TV
station say the country's intelligence agency tried to assassinate
him.
<p>
That agency has a history of kidnaping, torturing and killing
reporters.


title: Turkish PM has apologized for killing of a million Armenians
uri: Turkish-PM-has-apologized-for-killing-of-a-million-Armenians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Turkish_PM_has_apologized_for_killing_of_a_million_Armenians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Turkish_PM_has_apologized_for_killing_of_a_million_Armenians%29

content:
<p>
Turkish PM Erdogan has apologized, in a
way, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/23/turkey-erdogan-condolences-armenian-massacre">for
the killing of a million Armenians.</a>
<p>
He did not use the term "genocide" but at least recognizes that the
killing was wrong.  It is a step forward.
<p>
This is not a matter of personal blame.  I expect that none of the
people who decided how Turkey would treat the Armenians is still alive
today.  The point is that states need to acknowledge their wrongs in
order to avoid repeating them.


title: Cruel and unusual punishment in Texas
uri: Cruel-and-unusual-punishment-in-Texas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Cruel_and_unusual_punishment_in_Texas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Cruel_and_unusual_punishment_in_Texas%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/23/teas-prisons-international-human-rights-standard-violations">The
heat in Texas prisons is deadly</a>, and that makes it cruel and
unusual punishment.


title: Forces in Ukraine have taken several journalists prisoner
uri: Forces-in-Ukraine-have-taken-several-journalists-prisoner
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Forces_in_Ukraine_have_taken_several_journalists_prisoner)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Forces_in_Ukraine_have_taken_several_journalists_prisoner%29

content:
<p>
The Russian or pro-Russian forces in Slavyansk, eastern
Ukraine, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/23/american-journalist-simon-ostrovsky-vice-held-pro-russians-ukraine">have
taken several journalists prisoner.</a> One is an American.


title: Fatah and Hamas have agreed to form unity gov't
uri: Fatah-and-Hamas-have-agreed-to-form-unity-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Fatah_and_Hamas_have_agreed_to_form_unity_gov't)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Fatah_and_Hamas_have_agreed_to_form_unity_gov%27t%29

content:
<p>
Fatah and Hamas have agreed
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/23/plo-hamas-agree-unity-pact-form-government">form
a unity government and hold elections in Palestine.</a>
<p>
Uniting Fatah and Hamas is easier said than done, but it is a
prerequisite for democracy in Palestine.  It will not be easy to get
Hamas to respect democracy, though.
<p>
Unification would remove an obstacle to a real peace deal, since it
could result in a government with enough support and authority to
agree to a deal and implement it.  Alas, it is not the only
prerequisite.  We also need Israel to be ready to make a real peace
deal.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Cheap_chicken_in_the_US)
title: Cheap chicken in the US
uri: Cheap-chicken-in-the-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Cheap_chicken_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Cheap chicken in the US comes
at <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/23-8">the costs
of injuries for workers.</a>
<p>
In the US, change in regulation supposedly justified by reducing costs
of production are misguided in general (unless it is production of
something to reduce greenhouse gas emissions).  Our problem is not
that goods are too expensive, it is that workers are not paid enough.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(The_US_minimum_wage)
title: The US minimum wage
uri: The-US-minimum-wage
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28The_US_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
The US minimum wage is too low, but many businesses
have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/23-7">created
excuses to pay even less.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Fracking_is_not_safe)
title: Fracking is not safe
uri: Fracking-is-not-safe
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Fracking_is_not_safe%29
content:
<p>
Louis Allstadt, former VP of Mobil,
says <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/23-1">fracking
is not safe and calls for banning it.</a>


title: Urgent: Stop profiting off of student borrowers
uri: Urgent-Stop-profiting-off-of-student-borrowers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_April_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_profiting_off_of_student_borrowers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_profiting_off_of_student_borrowers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Department of Education
to <a href="http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9707">stop
profiting off of student borrowers.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_April_2014_(Destruction_of_native_wildlife)
title: Destruction of native wildlife
uri: Destruction-of-native-wildlife
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_April_2014_%28Destruction_of_native_wildlife%29
content:
<p>
As humans abandon large regions of Australia, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/24/australias-native-wildlife-face-threat-from-urbanisation">weeds
and feral plants destroy the native wildlife</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_April_2014_(911_calls)
title: 911 calls
uri: 911-calls
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_April_2014_%28911_calls%29
content:
<p>
The Supreme Court made it easy for thugs to use an anonymous 911 call
as an 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/04/fourth-amendment-takes-yet-another-body-blow">all-purpose
excuse to arrest people, search them, and charge them</a>.
<p>
They can always make the call themselves — who would know?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_April_2014_(FCC_considers_surrender)
title: FCC considers surrender
uri: FCC-considers-surrender
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_April_2014_%28FCC_considers_surrender%29
content:
<p>
Instead of trying again to defend network neutrality, the FCC is
considering surrendering on a crucial issue: 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/technology/fcc-new-net-neutrality-rules.html">allowing
ISPs to charge web sites for high speed access to them</a>.
<p>
This contrasts with Brazil's adoption of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/23-6">network
neutrality as a legal requirement on ISPs</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_April_2014_(Clemency_inadequate)
title: Clemency inadequate
uri: Clemency-inadequate
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_April_2014_%28Clemency_inadequate%29
content:
<p>
Obama 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/23-11">talks of
offering clemency</a> to prisoners serving long sentences, but
clemency is inadequate to remedy the harm done by the war on drugs.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_April_2014_(Obamas_lack_of_concern)
title: Obama's lack of concern
uri: Obama-s-lack-of-concern
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_April_2014_%28Obamas_lack_of_concern%29
content:
<p>
Obama 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/23-10">has shown no
concern for the workers of other countries whose factories may
collapse</a>.  Why should anyone trust him to put anything good into a
deregulation treaty such as the TPP?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_April_2014_(Fast_food_wage_disparity)
title: Fast food wage disparity
uri: Fast-food-wage-disparity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_April_2014_%28Fast_food_wage_disparity%29
content:
<p>
In some fast food companies, the CEO gets paid 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/23-4">1000 times
as much as an ordinary worker</a>.
<p>
This "food" is not made for eating, it is made for fasting.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_April_2014_(US_gives_Egypt_armed_helicopters)
title: US gives Egypt armed helicopters
uri: US-gives-Egypt-armed-helicopters
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_April_2014_%28US_gives_Egypt_armed_helicopters%29
content:
<p>
The US is giving Egypt 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/23">armed
helicopters</a>.
<p>
The Islamists in the Sinai are violently opposed to human rights, but
the violence they have committed is probably less than the Egyptian
government's.  What's more, the Egyptian government's killing of
protesters has done a lot to boost violent Islamism in Egypt.  Instead
of giving that government the endorsement of military support, it
would be more rational to caution the Egyptian government to cut down
its provocative repression of dissidents.


title: DDT is still available for fighting malaria
uri: DDT-is-still-available-for-fighting-malaria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(DDT_is_still_available_for_fighting_malaria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28DDT_is_still_available_for_fighting_malaria%29

content:
<p>
DDT is still available for fighting malaria, notwithstanding
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/apr/24/james-lovelocks-book-genius-defence">inaccurate
claims by Stuart Brand and James Lovelock that it was banned.</a>
<p>
Several years ago Stuart Brand tried to convince me to support nuclear
power.  His arguments did not seem valid to me.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Journalist_released_in_Ukraine)
title: Journalist released in Ukraine
uri: Journalist-released-in-Ukraine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Journalist_released_in_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Journalist Simon Ostrovsky, who had been made prisoner by a Russian
irregular militia in
Ukraine, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/us-journalist-simon-ostrovsky-released-ukraine">has
been released.</a>
<p>
I guess Putin decided he was pushing a little too hard.
<p>
The article describes him as a "hostage", but I don't see that he was
one.  I have not seen anything suggesting a treat to kill him or hurt
him, or any ransom demand.  Capturing/kidnaping journalists is nasty
enough in itself without exaggeration.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(How_US_plutocracy_operates)
title: How US plutocracy operates
uri: How-US-plutocracy-operates
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28How_US_plutocracy_operates%29
content:
<p>
How US plutocracy operates
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/24-8">give the
rich control over laws.</a>


title: China refusing to accept any more complaints
uri: China-refusing-to-accept-any-more-complaints
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(China_refusing_to_accept_any_more_complaints)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28China_refusing_to_accept_any_more_complaints%29

content:
<p>
Since local officials in China often try to hush up complaints rather
than address them, the central government is embarrassed by citizens
bringing complaints that local officials ignored.
<p>
The central government is going
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/china-attempt-transform-petitioning-system">solve
the problem by refusing to accept any more complaints.</a>


title: Punishing prisoners for reporting rape
uri: Punishing-prisoners-for-reporting-rape
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Punishing_prisoners_for_reporting_rape)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Punishing_prisoners_for_reporting_rape%29

content:
<p>
US prison guards put prisoners in solitary and deny them medicine
frivolously, even maliciously such as
to <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/report-solitary-confinement-used-pregnant-women-and-victims-sexual-assault">punish
a prisoner for reporting rape.</a>
<p>
To deny a pregnant woman prenatal care — would that constitute
criminal endangerment of a fetus?  Could these thugs be put in prison
for it?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Galapagos_Islands)
title: Galapagos Islands
uri: Galapagos-Islands
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Galapagos_Islands%29
content:
<p>
Global cooling 20,000 years ago united the Galapagos Islands into a
couple of large islands one could almost walk between.  This
had <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2014/apr/24/sea-level-evolution-galapagos">big
effects on the evolution of species living there.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Marshall_Islands_are_suing)
title: Marshall Islands are suing
uri: Marshall-Islands-are-suing
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Marshall_Islands_are_suing%29
content:
<p>
The Marshall Islands
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/marshall-islands-sues-nine-nuclear-powers-failure-disarm">suing
the nine countries with nuclear weapons for failing to disarm.</a>
<p>
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty obliges the recognized nuclear
powers including the US and Russia
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/26-1">negotiate
for nuclear disarmament.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Kept_in_prison_for_25_years)
title: Kept in prison for 25 years
uri: Kept-in-prison-for-25-years
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Kept_in_prison_for_25_years%29
content:
<p>
Jonathan Fleming was convicted of a murder in New York, and kept in
prison for 25 years, because the
prosecutors <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/us-man-jonathan-fleming-brooklyn-murder-florida">concealed
the receipt that proved he was in Disney World in Florida on that
day.</a>
<p>
I am glad he has been freed, but that's not enough.  We must stop this
from happening in the future.  I suspect his defense lawyers were
incompetent or irresponsible, and that the prosecutor was dishonest.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Amnesty_International_rebuked_Spain)
title: Amnesty International rebuked Spain
uri: Amnesty-International-rebuked-Spain
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Amnesty_International_rebuked_Spain%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty International rebuked Spain
for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/spain-restricting-protest-fines-harassment-excessive-force">repressing
protests with fines and beatings.</a>
<p>
I can't criticize Spaniards for responding to this violence with their
own violence.  Austerity is deadly; how many Spaniards has the
right-wing government killed, through eviction or through cuts in
medical care?


title: Vermont passed a law to require labeling of GMOs
uri: Vermont-passed-a-law-to-require-labeling-of-GMOs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Vermont_passed_a_law_to_require_labeling_of_GMOs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Vermont_passed_a_law_to_require_labeling_of_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
Vermont passed a law
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/24/vermont-bill-gm-food-health-labels">require
labeling of GMOs.</a> Unlike the laws in Connecticut and Maine, this
law will take effect regardless of what other states do.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Subsidies_for_windmills)
title: Subsidies for windmills
uri: Subsidies-for-windmills
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Subsidies_for_windmills%29
content:
<p>
The UK Conservatives intend
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/24/tories-scrap-wind-farm-subsidies">eliminate
subsidies for windmills on land and give local people the power to ban
them.</a> They do not intend to give local people
the<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_August_2013_%28UK_won%27t_let_people_block_fracking%29">
power to ban fracking</a> or to
abolish<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#22_April_2012_%28UK_Government%29">
subsidies for nuclear power.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(US_economic_growth)
title: US economic growth
uri: US-economic-growth
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28US_economic_growth%29
content:
<p>
As US economic growth goes exclusively to the rich, the lower and
middle classes in the US
are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/22-2">becoming
poorer than in other countries.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Australia's_energy_planning)
title: Australia's energy planning
uri: Australia-s-energy-planning
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Australia%27s_energy_planning%29
content:
<p>
Australia's energy planning is based on
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/24/coalitions-renewable-energy-review-unprecedented-scam">assumption
that they can ramp up combustion of fossil fuel ad infinitum and never
encounter any problem that imposes limits or costs.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Urgent:_Ohio's_voter_suppression)
title: Urgent: Ohio's voter suppression
uri: Urgent-Ohio-s-voter-suppression
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Ohio%27s_voter_suppression%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Attorney General Holder
to <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/sign-the-petition-stop-ohio-republicans-from-suppressing-the-vote">intervene
against Ohio's voter suppression.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Verizon_plans_to_link_its_tracking)
title: Verizon plans to link its tracking
uri: Verizon-plans-to-link-its-tracking
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Verizon_plans_to_link_its_tracking%29

content:
<p>
Verizon plans to link its tracking of customers' browsing
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20140425,0,2539606.column">with
those same people's other Internet activities from other
computers.</a>
<p>
The description of how this will work is garbled; can anyone show me a
technically clear explanation?
<p>
In any case, I think it is unacceptable for an ISP to track customers'
browsing at all.
<p>
The article makes a bad surrender when it legitimizes the surveillance
of Google and Yahoo on the grounds that they offer "cool [gratis]
services".  This is tantamount to accepting that we should all sell
our privacy.


title: Israeli right wing rejects even the word "peace"
uri: Israeli-right-wing-rejects-even-the-word-peace
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Israeli_right_wing_rejects_even_the_word_peace)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Israeli_right_wing_rejects_even_the_word_peace%29

content:
<p>
The
Israeli <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1398445127/">right
wing rejects even the word "peace"</a> in regard to Palestine.  Its
substitute, "political settlement", suggests something more like a
permanent? truce.
<p>
If you have wondered why I adamantly insist on talking about "free
software"
and <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">reject
the term "open source",</a> it's the same sort of issue.  If you want
peace, you must say "peace".  If you want freedom, you must say
"freedom".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Abandoned_uranium_mines_in_US)
title: Abandoned uranium mines in US
uri: Abandoned-uranium-mines-in-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Abandoned_uranium_mines_in_US%29
content:
<p>
There are many abandoned uranium mines in the US, and some of them are
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/news/green-shadow-cabinet-president-and-members-call-clean-unseen-toxic-national-disaster-launch">leaking
noticeable levels of fallout into water supplies.</a>


title: Ukraine, watch out for western frackers!
uri: Ukraine-watch-out-for-western-frackers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Ukraine,_watch_out_for_western_frackers!)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Ukraine%2C_watch_out_for_western_frackers%21%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/25-3">watch
out for western frackers! </a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Urgent:_Dont_let_CIA_censor_report)
title: Urgent: Don't let CIA censor report
uri: Urgent-Don-t-let-CIA-censor-report
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Dont_let_CIA_censor_report%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/cia_censorship?ms=web_acluaction_1401418_ciacensorship">tell
Obama</a>, don't let CIA censor the report on CIA torture.


title: Urgent: Reveal campaign contributions
uri: Urgent-Reveal-campaign-contributions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Urgent:_Reveal_campaign_contributions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reveal_campaign_contributions%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/duke-contributions/">call
on Duke Energy</a> to reveal its contributions to the campaigns of its
employee/state governor in North Carolina.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Urgent:_Endangered_Species_Act)
title: Urgent: Endangered Species Act
uri: Urgent-Endangered-Species-Act
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Endangered_Species_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2717">call
on Congress</a> to preserve the Endangered Species Act.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Remote_storage_disservice)
title: Remote storage disservice
uri: Remote-storage-disservice
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Remote_storage_disservice%29
content:
<p>
Microsoft's remote storage disservice, OneDrive, has been caught
<a href="http://thehackernews.com/2014/04/microsoft-onedrive-secretly-modifies.html">inserting
modifications</a> into code in some of the files users store there.
<p>
Although this has not been reported about any other remote storage
disservice, any of them <em>could</em> start doing this, which means
you would be a fool to trust them with anything other than checksummed
files.
<p>
All of these disservices spy on their users, and that is plenty of
reason to reject them, for anything other than encrypted (and
checksummed) files.  In order for the encryption to be trustworthy,
you need to do it on your own computer with free software.
<p>
Services provided by network servers can raise several different
ethical issues, including nonfree client-side JavaScript
(<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html</a>),
surveillance
(<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html</a>),
and SaaSS
(<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html</a>).
Whether any of these problems applies depends on the facts.
<p>
The purpose of the marketing buzzword "cloud" is to encourage you to
disregard the facts and not judge.  Don't let them "cloud" your mind:
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Cloud">reject
the term "cloud"</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Oil_field_in_Amazon_occupied)
title: Oil field in Amazon occupied
uri: Oil-field-in-Amazon-occupied
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Oil_field_in_Amazon_occupied%29
content:
<p>
Indigenous people demanding a cleanup of pollution have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/25/indigenous-protesters-occupy-perus-biggest-amazon-oilfield">occupied
an oil field in the Peruvian Amazon</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Kenya_to_deploy_60_drones)
title: Kenya to deploy 60 drones
uri: Kenya-to-deploy-60-drones
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Kenya_to_deploy_60_drones%29
content:
<p>
Kenya will deploy 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/25/kenya-drones-national-parks-poaching">60
drones to catch poachers</a> of elephants and rhinos.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Tough_measures_against_pollution)
title: Tough measures against pollution
uri: Tough-measures-against-pollution
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Tough_measures_against_pollution%29
content:
<p>
China has decided to adopt 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/25/china-strengthens-environmental-laws-polluting-factories">tough
measures against pollution</a>.  The tough part will be overcoming
corruption in order to enforce the requirements.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(System_of_slavery_in_Qatar)
title: System of slavery in Qatar
uri: System-of-slavery-in-Qatar
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28System_of_slavery_in_Qatar%29
content:
<p>
The UN 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/apr/25/un-qatar-abolish-kafala-migrant-worker-system">calls
on Qatar to abolish its system</a> that treats foreign workers almost
as slaves.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(US-Japan_meeting_about_TPP)
title: US-Japan meeting about TPP
uri: US-Japan-meeting-about-TPP
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28US-Japan_meeting_about_TPP%29
content:
<p>
A US-Japan negotiation meeting about the TPP 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/04/25">failed to
reach agreement</a>, but the damned thing is not dead yet.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Tony_Bliar_still_at_it)
title: Tony B'liar still at it
uri: Tony-B-liar-still-at-it
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Tony_Bliar_still_at_it%29
content:
<p>
Tony B'liar 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/apr/24/tony-blair-islamism-smokescreen-blood-oil-empire">continues
to call for intervention in support of Arab tyrants</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(ALECs_attacks_on_the_environment)
title: ALEC's attacks on the environment
uri: ALEC-s-attacks-on-the-environment
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28ALECs_attacks_on_the_environment%29
content:
<p>
ALEC is attacking the environment on 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/04/12457/revealed-alec%E2%80%99s-2014-attacks-environment">many
fronts</a>.
<p>
For legal reasons ALEC says that it does not track where its proposed
bills are introduced, but leaks prove that it really does so.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(The_overthrow_of_Assad)
title: The overthrow of Assad
uri: The-overthrow-of-Assad
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28The_overthrow_of_Assad%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/04/syria-iran-great-game">This
article</a>, from 2011, claimed that the US and Saudi Arabia planned
years ago to build up Syrian Sunni extremists as a way to overthrow
Assad and defeat Hezbollah, and thus weaken Iran.  And that they
started implementing this plan once Mubarak was overthrown.
<p>
I don't know how we could prove this, but subsequent events seem to
confirm it.  In other words, the US is responsible for building up
jihadists that are that now allied to al Qa'ida.
<p>
By stirring up a civil war as Syrians were protesting peacefully, the
US made itself responsible for all the horrors of the Syrian civil
war.  Surely the US and Saudi Arabia expected the war to be over
quickly and not lead to these horrors.  But plans sometimes go wrong,
and when you start a war, you're responsible for the consequences,
even if it doesn't end the way you expected.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Minimum-wage_retail_job)
title: Minimum-wage retail job
uri: Minimum-wage-retail-job
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Minimum-wage_retail_job%29
content:
<p>
Whistleblower Peter Van Buren had to work as a temp in a
"Bullseye" store (Target?) because 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/24-3">government
retaliation tried to deny him his pension</a>.
<p>
Van Buren got out of this, but 30 million other Americans are
still trapped in it, and fear being dropped into the even worse
fate of unemployment and starvation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_April_2014_(Putin_calls_internet_a_CIA_project)
title: Putin calls internet a "CIA project"
uri: Putin-calls-internet-a-CIA-project
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_%28Putin_calls_internet_a_CIA_project%29

content:
<p>
Putin called the internet a 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/04/24/russias_putin_calls_the_internet_a_cia_project/">"CIA
Project"</a>.
<p>
Silly Putin, don't you know it was done by the US Department of
Defense?


title: Russian militia leader in Eastern Ukraine
uri: Russian-militia-leader-in-Eastern-Ukraine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Russian_militia_leader_in_Eastern_Ukraine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Russian_militia_leader_in_Eastern_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
A Russian militia leader in Eastern Ukraine gave an interview, saying
he is in the Russian Army and
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/26/ukraine-separatist-leader-defends-capture-nato-spies">invasion
was organized from outside the region.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(The_American_dream_a_pipedream)
title: The "American dream" a pipedream
uri: The-American-dream-a-pipedream
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28The_American_dream_a_pipedream%29
content:
<p>
Decades of right-wing
policies <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/26/middle-class-american-dream-just-dream">have
made the "American dream" a pipedream.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Boycott_Morocco)
title: Boycott Morocco
uri: Boycott-Morocco
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Boycott_Morocco%29
content:
<p>
People in Western
Sahara <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/27/morocco-boycott-plea-uk-tourists">call
for tourists to boycott Morocco.</a>


title: Urgent: Don't allow oil drilling in Arctic waters
uri: Urgent-Don-t-allow-oil-drilling-in-Arctic-waters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Urgent:_Don't_allow_oil_drilling_in_Arctic_waters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Don%27t_allow_oil_drilling_in_Arctic_waters%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell the US
government, <a href="https://secure.wilderness.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2571">don't
allow oil drilling in Arctic waters.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Segregation_in_US_public_schools)
title: Segregation in US public schools
uri: Segregation-in-US-public-schools
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Segregation_in_US_public_schools%29
content:
<p>
Once upon a time, the US desegregated public schools,
but <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-now-full-text">segregation
and racial inequality have been allowed to come back.</a>


title: Russia setting up total surveillance of Internet
uri: Russia-setting-up-total-surveillance-of-Internet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Russia_setting_up_total_surveillance_of_Internet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Russia_setting_up_total_surveillance_of_Internet%29

content:
<p>
Russia is setting
up <a href="http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2013/Russia-surveillance">US-style
total surveillance of the Internet.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Obama_regime_trade_negotiators)
title: Obama regime trade negotiators
uri: Obama-regime-trade-negotiators
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Obama_regime_trade_negotiators%29
content:
<p>
Obama regime trade negotiators
keep <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/4/22/5636466/hollywood-just-hired-another-white-house-trade-official">moving
back and forth between government and the copyright industry.</a>
<p>
I disagree with the author on one point.  I think these officials,
like their boss the US Trade Representative and his boss Obama, are
constantly aware that their future careers depend on pleasing certain
companies.  I don't suppose that they feel any qualms of conscience;
they probably think that boosting those companies is serving their
country; they may identify those companies with their country.
<p>
The author helps them, perhaps unknowingly, by repeating their
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">propaganda
terms such as "intellectual property"</a>
and <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Protection">"protection".</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Urgent:_Selling_UK_tax_data)
title: Urgent: Selling UK tax data
uri: Urgent-Selling-UK-tax-data
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Selling_UK_tax_data%29
content:
<p>
Britons: sign this
petition <a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/dont-sell-our-tax-data">against
selling UK tax data.</a>
<p>
"Anonymous" data is no protection; it is often possible to
deanonymize.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Constant_aerial_video_surveillance)
title: Constant aerial video surveillance
uri: Constant-aerial-video-surveillance
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Constant_aerial_video_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Two towns in California
are <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-compton-surveillance-20140424,0,2734268,full.story">trying
out constant aerial video surveillance.</a>
<p>
Supposedly this is ok because the towns already have cameras giving
immediate view of their streets.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Rice_in_China)
title: Rice in China
uri: Rice-in-China
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Rice_in_China%29
content:
<p>
Rice in China often comes
with <a href="http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/after-cadmium-rice-now-lead-and-arsenic-rice/?_php=true&_type=blogs&partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=0">high
levels of cadmium, arsenic and lead.</a>
<p>
Cadmium is a persistent toxin, so even tiny doses can accumulate to
kill you.


title: Obama regime launched campaign for press freedom
uri: Obama-regime-launched-campaign-for-press-freedom
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Obama_regime_launched_campaign_for_press_freedom)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Obama_regime_launched_campaign_for_press_freedom%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime launched its annual campaign for press freedom, while
asking the Supreme Court
to <a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/04/25/state-dept-launches-free-the.html">imprison
US journalist James Risen.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(NRA_has_launched_a_massive_campaign)
title: NRA has launched a massive campaign
uri: NRA-has-launched-a-massive-campaign
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28NRA_has_launched_a_massive_campaign%29

content:
<p>
The NRA has launched a massive campaign for traditional American
values, the point being apparently that
you're <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/26/nra-republican-senate-campaign-moral-attack">un-American
if you're not ready to shoot people at any time and place.</a>
<p>
How about traditional American values such as "If you're willing to
work, you can get by", and "Support the underdog (not-rich person)"?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_endangered_manatees)
title: Urgent: Protect endangered manatees
uri: Urgent-Protect-endangered-manatees
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_endangered_manatees%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for stronger
measures <a href="http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=57ecsTjVao8g9MF9Nfu_3w">to
protect endangered manatees.</a>


title: All national security news will be authorized announcements
uri: All-national-security-news-will-be-authorized-announcements
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(All_national_security_news_will_be_authorized_announcements)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28All_national_security_news_will_be_authorized_announcements%29

content:
<p>
From now on, if the US government gets its
way, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/26-2">all
national security news will be authorized announcements</a>.
Journalism is forbidden, only government PR is allowed.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Indigenous_Peoples_Day)
title: Indigenous Peoples Day
uri: Indigenous-Peoples-Day
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Indigenous_Peoples_Day%29
content:
<p>
In One
City, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/26-0">Columbus
Day Now 'Indigenous Peoples Day'.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Electric_shocks_as_punishment)
title: Electric shocks as punishment
uri: Electric-shocks-as-punishment
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Electric_shocks_as_punishment%29
content:
<p>
In the US, disabled children
are <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/defending-targets-discrimination/shocking-kids-compliance">"taught"
with electric shocks as punishment.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Privatized_prisons)
title: Privatized prisons
uri: Privatized-prisons
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Privatized_prisons%29
content:
<p>
Privatized prisons
are <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-prisoners-rights/how-starve-profit-prison-beast">purchasing
tough new laws to keep people in prison for longer.</a>


title: Penguins' survival is threatened by human activities
uri: Penguins-survival-is-threatened-by-human-activities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Penguins'_survival_is_threatened_by_human_activities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Penguins%27_survival_is_threatened_by_human_activities%29

content:
<p>
Penguins' survival
is <a href="http://www.dw.de/being-cute-wont-save-the-penguins/a-17591521">threatened
by human activities such as CO2 emissions and overfishing</a>.
<p>
While I loathe the error of using Tux the penguin as a symbol for the
GNU operating system (which typically goes with the error
of <a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html">calling the
system "Linux"),</a> I don't hold this against real penguins.


title: Mexico is considering a bill to attack internet freedoms
uri: Mexico-is-considering-a-bill-to-attack-internet-freedoms
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Mexico_is_considering_a_bill_to_attack_internet_freedoms)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Mexico_is_considering_a_bill_to_attack_internet_freedoms%29

content:
<p>
Mexico is considering a bill
to <a href="http://en.rsf.org/mexique-new-telecoms-bill-threatens-25-04-2014,46199.html">attack
internet freedoms.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Urgent:_Nuclear_security_initiatives)
title: Urgent: Nuclear security initiatives
uri: Urgent-Nuclear-security-initiatives
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Nuclear_security_initiatives%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://livableworld.org/nuclearsecurity/">call on Obama</a>
to maintain funding for nuclear security initiatives.


title: Urgent: Tell FCC to uphold net neutrality
uri: Urgent-Tell-FCC-to-uphold-net-neutrality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_FCC_to_uphold_net_neutrality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_FCC_to_uphold_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_break/">tell the
FCC</a> to uphold net neutrality and declare ISPs a telecommunications
service.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Commercialization_of_society)
title: Commercialization of society
uri: Commercialization-of-society
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Commercialization_of_society%29
content:
<p>
The "<a href='http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/25-1'>sharing
economy</a>" is an attempt to commercialize or marketize yet another
part of society.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Security_of_medical_equipment)
title: Security of medical equipment
uri: Security-of-medical-equipment
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Security_of_medical_equipment%29
content:
<p>
It's easy to break the 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/04/hospital-equipment-vulnerable/">security
of digital medical equipment in hospitals</a>.
<p>
The article uses the word "hack" to mean "break security".  To avoid
insulting us 
<a href="http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hackers</a>,
please call that "cracking".
<p>
The software in these devices is generally nonfree.
In addition, some of it can be altered remotely, making it malware.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Pseudonyms)
title: Pseudonyms
uri: Pseudonyms
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Pseudonyms%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/04/why-we-need-online-alter-egos-now-more-than-ever/">Why
We Need Online Alter Egos Now More Than Ever</a>.
<p>
To protect freedom of speech from government repression, such as Putin
is now setting up in Russia, we must be able to use pseudonyms without
telling the site our official names.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Radiation_leak)
title: Radiation leak
uri: Radiation-leak
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Radiation_leak%29
content:
<p>
The US investigation of the radiation leak at 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/25-2">Waste
Isolation Pilot Plant</a>, that was supposed to never leak, says there
were pervasive management problems as well as physical problems.  But
it fails to address some important questions.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(School_privatization)
title: School privatization
uri: School-privatization
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28School_privatization%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/25-2">Scathing
Report Finds School Privatization Hurt Poor [US] Kids</a>.
<p>
Modern privatization schemes are designed to label the public schools
where lots of poor children go as "failing" as an excuse to privatize
them.
<p>
It is interesting how the "Rocketship" privatized schools are a
nonprofit front for a proprietary software company, whose software, in
addition to being an injustice, does not even seem to do any good.
<p>
<a href="http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/16602/the_chicago_board_of_education_votes_to_turnaround_three_public_schools">Despite
Community Pleas, Three Chicago Schools Slated for Privatization</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(EU_observers_captured)
title: EU observers captured
uri: EU-observers-captured
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28EU_observers_captured%29
content:
<p>
The Russian-directed Ukrainian separatists 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/25/ukraine-pro-russian-separatists-european-observers-captive-slavyansk">captured
a team of EU observers</a>.
<p>
Simon Ostrovsky says they tortured him, and he saw several other
civilian prisoners there.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Control_over_internet_use)
title: Control over internet use
uri: Control-over-internet-use
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Control_over_internet_use%29
content:
<p>
Russia is 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140423/09130227004/russian-net-clampdown-continues-now-its-turn-blogs-vkontakte.shtml">systematically
imposing control</a> over all internet use.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(US_unprepared_for_Arctic_oil_spill)
title: US unprepared for Arctic oil spill
uri: US-unprepared-for-Arctic-oil-spill
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28US_unprepared_for_Arctic_oil_spill%29

content:
<p>
The National Research Council concludes that the US is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/24-2">not
prepared to cope with an oil spill from Arctic Ocean drilling</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Avoiding_global_heating_disaster)
title: Avoiding global heating disaster
uri: Avoiding-global-heating-disaster
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Avoiding_global_heating_disaster%29
content:
<p>
Humanity has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/24">only one
chance</a> to avoid global heating disaster.  We can't afford to fail
this test.  Fortunately there is a straightforward solution if only
the fossil fuel lobbyists don't stop us.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_April_2014_(Clinton_parrots_ObamaNSA)
title: Clinton parrots Obama/NSA
uri: Clinton-parrots-Obama-NSA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_April_2014_%28Clinton_parrots_ObamaNSA%29
content:
<p>
Another reason not to support Hilary Clinton for president (or
anything): she 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/hillary-clinton-snowden-nsa-russia-china">parrots
the Obama/NSA line about Snowden</a>.
<p>
As we understand, that's a coded way of taking the spies' side against
the public.  According to them, the only legitimate response to
government crimes is one that won't do any good.  Clinton has made it
clear that she will continue Obama's 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#19_August_2012_(War_on_Whistleblowers)">War
on Whistleblowers</a>.


title: Politician in Eastern Ukraine shot by sniper
uri: Politician-in-Eastern-Ukraine-shot-by-sniper
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Politician_in_Eastern_Ukraine_shot_by_sniper)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Politician_in_Eastern_Ukraine_shot_by_sniper%29

content:
<p>
An anti-Russian politician in Eastern Ukraine
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/ukraine-mayor-kharkiv-gennady-kernes-shot">shot
by a sniper and may die of it.</a>


title: 683 members of Muslim Brotherhood sentenced to death
uri: 683-members-of-Muslim-Brotherhood-sentenced-to-death
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(683_members_of_Muslim_Brotherhood_sentenced_to_death)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28683_members_of_Muslim_Brotherhood_sentenced_to_death%29

content:
<p>
An Egyptian court
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/egyptian-judge-sentences-720-men-death">convicted
683 members of the Muslim Brotherhood and sentenced them to death</a>
after a one-sided trial (no defense possible).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Verbal_pressure_on_Israel)
title: Verbal pressure on Israel
uri: Verbal-pressure-on-Israel
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Verbal_pressure_on_Israel%29
content:
<p>
Kerry has started to
put <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/israel-apartheid-state-peace-talks-john-kerry">verbal
pressure on Israel to make peace.</a>
<p>
It is not much, but it is a start.  Defying the Israeli hawks' lobby
is the only way to achieve peace between Israel and Palestine.


title: Japanese army forced Korean women to be prostitutes
uri: Japanese-army-forced-Korean-women-to-be-prostitutes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Japanese_army_forced_Korean_women_to_be_prostitutes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Japanese_army_forced_Korean_women_to_be_prostitutes%29

content:
<p>
China has published 1940s documents
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/japan-second-world-war-brothels-papers-china">prove
the Japanese army forced Korean women to be prostitutes for Japanese
soldiers in China.</a>
<p>
Many nations have atrocities in their history — Japan is not
uniquely bad.  (The US has quite a few.)  Nations that deny their
atrocities get twisted up in a net of lies that prepares them to
commit more atrocities.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(The_drought_in_California)
title: The drought in California
uri: The-drought-in-California
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28The_drought_in_California%29
content:
<p>
The drought in California
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/28/california-drought-cattle-ranchers-water-beef">forcing
ranchers to move lots of cattle out of that state.</a>
<p>
Global heating is expected to cause more and worse droughts there and
in the US southwest.


title: Folly and impudence of the fossil fuel industry
uri: Folly-and-impudence-of-the-fossil-fuel-industry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Folly_and_impudence_of_the_fossil_fuel_industry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Folly_and_impudence_of_the_fossil_fuel_industry%29

content:
<p>
The folly and impudence of the fossil fuel industry knows no bounds.
Some are looking for ways
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/28/uk-ireland-fire-ice-gas-reserves">extract
and burn undersea methane hydrates.</a>
<p>
Methane hydrates under the land or sea are tremendously dangerous,
since global heating causes them to leak into the air, where the
methane becomes a powerful greenhouse gas.  This is one of the
positive feedback cycles that could accelerate global heating,
<p>
It is pointless to consider using them, since the known fossil fuel
reserves are five times what we dare burn.  Meanwhile, messing with
the deposits in any way could easily make more methane leak out (as
fracking already does).
<p>
I suspect that fossil fuel industry funding or lobbying is behind
these studies.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Forced_closure_of_brothels_in_London)
title: Forced closure of brothels in London
uri: Forced-closure-of-brothels-in-London
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Forced_closure_of_brothels_in_London%29

content:
<p>
A campaigner says that the forced closure of brothels in London was
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/apr/28/rupert-everett-london-soho-prostitution">last
step in converting London into another Monaco.</a>
<p>
Some of the rich absentee owners might spend more time and money in
London if the brothels were still there.


title: How to Disappear a Mentally Ill Grandmother
uri: How-to-Disappear-a-Mentally-Ill-Grandmother
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(How_to_Disappear_a_Mentally_Ill_Grandmother)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28How_to_Disappear_a_Mentally_Ill_Grandmother%29

content:
<p>
How to Disappear a Mentally Ill
Grandmother: <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/how-disappear-mentally-ill-grandmother-throw-her-solitary">Throw
Her in Solitary.</a>


title: Urgent: Stop prosecuting whistleblowers
uri: Urgent-Stop-prosecuting-whistleblowers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_prosecuting_whistleblowers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_prosecuting_whistleblowers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="http://action.whistleblowers.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11664">stop
prosecuting whistleblowers.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Injuries_at_work)
title: Injuries at work
uri: Injuries-at-work
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Injuries_at_work%29
content:
<p>
The workers in London's big subway project
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/26/crossrail-workers-culture-spying-fear">afraid
they will be fired if they report injuries at work.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(UK's_privatized_public_schools)
title: UK's privatized public schools
uri: UK-s-privatized-public-schools
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28UK%27s_privatized_public_schools%29
content:
<p>
The UK's privatized public schools
are<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/apr/26/school-meals-policy-epidemic-child-obesity-diet">
deregulated in regard to students' nutrition.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_April_2014_(License_plate_readers)
title: License plate readers
uri: License-plate-readers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_April_2014_%28License_plate_readers%29
content:
<p>
As Mark Molner was driving home, thugs stopped him and one 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/due-to-license-plate-reader-error-cop-approaches-innocent-man-weapon-in-hand/">approached
him with a drawn pistol</a>, because a license plate reader had
misread his car's license plate.
<p>
I don't see a scandal in what the thugs did in this case.  Once the
system said the car was stolen, they had to try to stop it and arrest
the putative thief.  We can hardly demand that license plate readers
have a 0% error rate either.
<p>
What does strike me as scandalous is the idea of a "felony car stop"
that involves pointing guns at the driver by default (without reason
to think he is armed and dangerous).  
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_(Thugs_shot_Eugene_Mallory_to_death,_then_made_false_accusations_about_him)">Innocent
people have been killed that way</a>.
<p>
I don't object to using license plate readers to detect cars that
appear to be stolen or in some other way deserving of being stopped.
The scandal is when they save data about cars that do <em>not</em>
deserve to be stopped.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_April_2014_(Economics_in_Ukraine)
title: Economics in Ukraine
uri: Economics-in-Ukraine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_April_2014_%28Economics_in_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/27-2">Economics of
Disintegration in Ukraine</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_April_2014_(Antisocial_American_policies)
title: Antisocial American policies
uri: Antisocial-American-policies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_April_2014_%28Antisocial_American_policies%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23324-five-ways-american-policies-make-us-lonely-anxious-and-antisocial">Five
Ways American Policies Make Us Lonely, Anxious, and Antisocial</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_April_2014_(Stand_your_ground_for_fetuses)
title: "Stand your ground" for fetuses
uri: Stand-your-ground-for-fetuses
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_April_2014_%28Stand_your_ground_for_fetuses%29
content:
<p>
South Carolina has proposed to extend "stand your ground" to include
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/south-carolina-lawmakers-propose-stand-your-fetus-ground-law?paging=off">killing
anyone you believe threatens your fetus's health</a>.
<p>
This is just what pregnant prisoners need, to justify killing 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_April_2014_(Punishing_prisoners_for_reporting_rape)">prison
guards that deny them prenatal care</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_April_2014_(Mass_die-off_of_starfish)
title: Mass die-off of starfish
uri: Mass-die-off-of-starfish
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_April_2014_%28Mass_die-off_of_starfish%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/04/caribbean-fears-loss-keystone-species-climate-change/">mass
die-off</a> of starfish off the US Pacific Coast threatens chaos for
the the marine ecosystem, and it could happen in the Caribbean too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_April_2014_(Cell_phone_tracking_by_US_thugs)
title: Cell phone tracking by US thugs
uri: Cell-phone-tracking-by-US-thugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_April_2014_%28Cell_phone_tracking_by_US_thugs%29
content:
<p>
US thug departments have obtained equipment for tracking cell phones
under a nondisclosure agreement in which they 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23294-the-nsa-comes-home-police-departments-conceal-phone-tracking-equipment-from-courts">conceal
from courts that they are using the equipment</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_April_2014_(Iraqi_planes_attack_in_Syria)
title: Iraqi planes attack in Syria
uri: Iraqi-planes-attack-in-Syria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_April_2014_%28Iraqi_planes_attack_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
Iraqi planes attacked people in Syria, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/27/iraqi-army-strikes-jihadist-convoy-syria">accused
of being Islamist extremists</a>.  Some of those are allied with al
Qa'ida in Iraq.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_April_2014_(Putins_aims_in_Ukraine)
title: Putin's aims in Ukraine
uri: Putin-s-aims-in-Ukraine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_April_2014_%28Putins_aims_in_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/27/russia-motivations-ukraine-crisis">A
theory</a> of what Putin aims to achieve in Ukraine.
<p>
I think the article's points are valid, except at the end where it
asserts that this crisis is "primarily a domestic one" in Ukraine.
The conquest of the Crimea is not a domestic issue, nor is the
presence of Russia-organized militias in other parts of Ukraine, nor
Putin's repeated threats to use those provocations as excuses to
invade Ukraine again.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_April_2014_(Secret_prisons_in_Bagram)
title: Secret prisons in Bagram
uri: Secret-prisons-in-Bagram
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_April_2014_%28Secret_prisons_in_Bagram%29
content:
<p>
Some Afghan officials say the US is running 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/27">secret
prisons in Bagram</a>.


title: Urgent: Require clean water in all US waterways
uri: Urgent-Require-clean-water-in-all-US-waterways
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Urgent:_Require_clean_water_in_all_US_waterways)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Require_clean_water_in_all_US_waterways%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA
to <a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=NgO8B_6T645nLcDzBmNs3w">require
clean water in all US waterways.</a>


title: Real guns are made specially for children
uri: Real-guns-are-made-specially-for-children
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Real_guns_are_made_specially_for_children)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Real_guns_are_made_specially_for_children%29

content:
<p>
In the
US, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/apr/29/armed-to-the-milk-teeth-america-gun-toting-kids">real
guns are made specially for children, and at least one child has been
killed with one.</a>
<p>
I would not suggest legal restrictions specifically to prevent a
danger of such small magnitude, but it is adds to the pile of evidence
that having a gun in your home is more likely to kill you than protect
you.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Combining_prisons_in_the_UK)
title: Combining prisons in the UK
uri: Combining-prisons-in-the-UK
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Combining_prisons_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Combining prisons in the UK will make them
cheaper, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/29/prisons-ordered-cust-costs-149-million-a-year">but
it is a false economy.</a>
<p>
False economy tends to result when governments fail to consider social
investment as consumption rather than as investment.


title: Colombian farmers have blocked roads as a protest
uri: Colombian-farmers-have-blocked-roads-as-a-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Colombian_farmers_have_blocked_roads_as_a_protest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Colombian_farmers_have_blocked_roads_as_a_protest%29

content:
<p>
Colombian farmers
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/colombia-military-farmers-strike-election">blocked
roads as a protest against the president</a>, and he sent soldiers as
well as thugs against them.


title: Wisconsin's voter-ID law has been ruled unconstitutional
uri: Wisconsin-s-voter-ID-law-has-been-ruled-unconstitutional
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Wisconsin's_voter-ID_law_has_been_ruled_unconstitutional)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Wisconsin%27s_voter-ID_law_has_been_ruled_unconstitutional%29

content:
<p>
Wisconsin's voter-ID law has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/federal-judge-strikes-down-wisconsin-voter-id-law">ruled
unconstitutional.</a> However, this is not a final ruling.


title: Senator Leahy will block funds for the Egyptian military
uri: Senator-Leahy-will-block-funds-for-the-Egyptian-military
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Senator_Leahy_will_block_funds_for_the_Egyptian_military)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Senator_Leahy_will_block_funds_for_the_Egyptian_military%29

content:
<p>
Senator Leahy
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/us-aid-egypt-patrick-leahy-sham-trial">block
funds for the Egyptian military.</a>


title: Urgent: Thank former US President Carter
uri: Urgent-Thank-former-US-President-Carter
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Urgent:_Thank_former_US_President_Carter)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_former_US_President_Carter%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: thank former US President Carter
for <a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/thank_you_president_carter/?t=1004&akid=427.44401.7WQzLX">taking
a clear stand against Keystone XL and the Koch brothers.</a>


title: Urgent: Proceed with prosecution of US torturers
uri: Urgent-Proceed-with-prosecution-of-US-torturers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Urgent:_Proceed_with_prosecution_of_US_torturers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Proceed_with_prosecution_of_US_torturers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Spain
to <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3317">proceed
with prosecution of US torturers.</a>


title: Thugs in many cities in Eastern Ukraine are supporting Putin
uri: Thugs-in-many-cities-in-Eastern-Ukraine-are-supporting-Putin
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Thugs_in_many_cities_in_Eastern_Ukraine_are_supporting_Putin)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Thugs_in_many_cities_in_Eastern_Ukraine_are_supporting_Putin%29

content:
<p>
The thugs in many cities in Eastern
Ukraine <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/kiev-losing-control-east-ukraine">are
supporting Putin,</a> because Putin pays thugs better. Naturally, a
tyrant would do that.
<p>
The thugs allowed Putin's supporters to club pro-Ukraine protesters.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Capitalism_in_North_Korea)
title: Capitalism in North Korea
uri: Capitalism-in-North-Korea
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Capitalism_in_North_Korea%29
content:
<p>
Capitalism in North
Korea <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/north-korea-capitalism-new-business-elite">uses
military conscripts as coal miners.</a>
<p>
The example of China has demonstrated since the 90s that capitalism
will not bring freedom to a former Communist country.  Now the example
of North Korea shows that it does not even necessarily put a limit on
the general level of oppression.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Past_exposure_to_toxic_pesticides)
title: Past exposure to toxic pesticides
uri: Past-exposure-to-toxic-pesticides
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Past_exposure_to_toxic_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
Children near some French
farms <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/french-children-farms-vineyards-exposed-dangerous-cocktail-pesticides">show
past exposure to toxic pesticides,</a> some of them banned.


title: US court ordered Microsoft to hand over personal data from server in Ireland
uri: US-court-ordered-Microsoft-to-hand-over-personal-data-from-server-in-I
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(US_court_ordered_Microsoft_to_hand_over_personal_data_from_server_in_Ireland)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28US_court_ordered_Microsoft_to_hand_over_personal_data_from_server_in_Ireland%29

content:
<p>
A US court ordered Microsoft
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/29/us-court-microsoft-personal-data-emails-irish-server">hand
over personal data from a server in Ireland.</a>
<p>
If the appeal sustains this decision, the next question will be what
Ireland or the EU will do to enforce their data protection laws.
<p>
I've warned people outside the US not to give <em>any</em> personal
data to US companies.


title: US missed chance to make peace in Afghanistan
uri: US-missed-chance-to-make-peace-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(US_missed_chance_to_make_peace_in_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28US_missed_chance_to_make_peace_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
In 2002,
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/29-4">US missed
a chance to make peace in Afghanistan.</a>
<p>
It missed a previous chance in 2001, when the Taliban offered
to <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2004-jan-apr.html#08%20April%202004%20%28Tunring%20Over%20Bin%20Laden%29">kick
out al Qa'ida</a> for the sake of peace with the US.


title: Pollinating almond trees in California
uri: Pollinating-almond-trees-in-California
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Pollinating_almond_trees_in_California)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Pollinating_almond_trees_in_California%29

content:
<p>
Something about the way almond trees are now cultivated in California
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/04/california-almond-farms-blamed-honeybee-die">has
started killing 20% of the bees brought there to pollinate them</a>.
<p>
It's not clear what is causing it, but it might be mixes of chemicals
uses in pesticides.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Extractivist_government_of_Australia)
title: Extractivist government of Australia
uri: Extractivist-government-of-Australia
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Extractivist_government_of_Australia%29

content:
<p>
The extractivist government of Australia wants
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/apr/29/great-barrier-reef-dredging-ben-jerrys-ice-cream-climate-change">ban
environmental groups from calling for boycotts of companies</a>, while
calling for a boycott of Ben and Jerry's for trying to raise awareness
of the danger.
<p>
Governments, following the example of corporations, are becoming
shameless liars, hoping to drown out the truth.  And it's not just
tyrants like Putin that do this.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_April_2014_(Urgent:_Campaign_spending_disclosure)
title: Urgent: Campaign spending disclosure
uri: Urgent-Campaign-spending-disclosure
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Campaign_spending_disclosure%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/786">call on the SEC</a>
to require publicly traded companies to disclose political campaign
spending.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Obamas_drone_assassinations)
title: Obama's drone assassinations
uri: Obama-s-drone-assassinations
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Obamas_drone_assassinations%29
content:
<p>
The Senate has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/drone-civilian-casualties-senate-bill-feinstein-clapper">backed
off from its plan to impose a tiny bit of transparency</a> on Obama's
drone assassination campaign.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Israeli_and_Palestinian_teenagers)
title: Israeli and Palestinian teenagers
uri: Israeli-and-Palestinian-teenagers
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Israeli_and_Palestinian_teenagers%29

content:
<p>
Israeli teenagers and Palestinian teenagers, when accused of throwing
stones, are treated 
<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.586492">very
differently</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Business-funded_science_PR_group)
title: Business-funded "science" PR group
uri: Business-funded-science-PR-group
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Business-funded_science_PR_group%29
content:
<p>
The "Science Media Center" is a business-funded PR group, currently
working for the GMO industry but 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/04/12442/science-media-centre-spins-pro-gmo-line">pretending
to be "independent"</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Prosecution_of_Occupy_activists)
title: Prosecution of Occupy activists
uri: Prosecution-of-Occupy-activists
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Prosecution_of_Occupy_activists%29
content:
<p>
Prosecution of Occupy activists is the last stage in the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/28-0">US clampdown
on the right to protest</a>.  Many protesters are bullied into
pleading guilty to escape a threatened many-year prison term; then
they are given long probation terms which ban them from participating
in a protest.
<p>
The thugs that attack and frame protesters are the scum of the Earth.
Only some thugs will attack protesters violently, but nearly all of
them will lie to help cover it up.  Police lie in court so frequently
(they call it "testilying") that they have become 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#07_February_2013_(Testilying_thugs)">accustomed 
to it</a>; they don't feel nervous, so you might think they are
telling the truth.  Don't be fooled.  If you are ever on a jury, don't
believe a thug's testimony about a protester.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Sanctions_on_Russia_too_weak)
title: Sanctions on Russia too weak
uri: Sanctions-on-Russia-too-weak
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Sanctions_on_Russia_too_weak%29
content:
<p>
The sanctions on Russia are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/divisions-europe-sanctions-russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin">too
weak to bother Putin</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Humanitarian_aid_to_Syrians)
title: Humanitarian aid to Syrians
uri: Humanitarian-aid-to-Syrians
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Humanitarian_aid_to_Syrians%29
content:
<p>
The UN must be less cautious about delivering 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/legal-experts-urge-united-nations-ignore-assad-ban-aid-syria-rebels">humanitarian
aid to besieged Syrians</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(UK_prisons_ban_steel-string_guitars)
title: UK prisons ban steel-string guitars
uri: UK-prisons-ban-steel-string-guitars
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28UK_prisons_ban_steel-string_guitars%29

content:
<p>
UK prisons have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/28/prison-guitar-ban-billy-bragg">banned
steel-string guitars</a>, as part of the same massive dose of
irrational strictness that banned giving prisoners books.
<p>
As a result, 350 steel-string guitars donated to prisons to encourage
rehabilitation can no longer do that.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Fictional_economic_recovery)
title: Fictional economic "recovery"
uri: Fictional-economic-recovery
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Fictional_economic_recovery%29
content:
<p>
In Greece and in the UK, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/28/economic-recovery-fiction-importing-crisis-southern-europe-low-paying-jobs">politicians
trumpet a "recovery" that is fictional</a>.
<p>
The fiction is even deeper than what the article says.
Even per-capita GDP is no measure of how well off the non-rich are
in a country.  It is skewed by the rising incomes of the rich.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(FERA_threatened_with_privatization)
title: FERA threatened with privatization
uri: FERA-threatened-with-privatization
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28FERA_threatened_with_privatization%29

content:
<p>
The UK's Food and Environment Research Agency is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/28/food-and-environment-research-agency-privatisation">threatened
with privatization</a>, which would mean a chance to corrupt it
directly.
<p>
I can think of some companies that would like to invest in FERA's
research into the effects of pesticides.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Cyberlibertarianism)
title: Cyberlibertarianism
uri: Cyberlibertarianism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Cyberlibertarianism%29
content:
<p>
Resistance to business power in technical fields has been undermined
by 
<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/12/cyberlibertarians-digital-deletion-of-the-left/">cyberlibertarianism</a>,
a blind faith that technology will correct injustices.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(US_fast_food_lobby)
title: US "fast food" lobby
uri: US-fast-food-lobby
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28US_fast_food_lobby%29
content:
<p>
Big US "fast food" companies have the biggest gap between CEO pay and
workers' pay, and they 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/28-7">fund the
National Restaurant Association</a> to lobby against raising the
minimum wage.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(The_Bee_Crisis)
title: The Bee Crisis
uri: The-Bee-Crisis
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28The_Bee_Crisis%29
content:
<p>
Follow the Honey: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/28-3">7 Ways
Pesticide Companies Are Spinning the Bee Crisis</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(US_govt_endorses_torture)
title: US gov't endorses torture
uri: US-gov-t-endorses-torture
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28US_govt_endorses_torture%29
content:
<p>
10 years after the public learned that the US government was
committing torture, the government has shifted from denying it to
endorsing it and 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/28">protecting
torturers</a>.
<p>
The US has a legal obligation and a moral duty to prosecute
those responsible for torture, from Dubya on down.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Protest_at_US_Capitol_building)
title: Protest at US Capitol building
uri: Protest-at-US-Capitol-building
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Protest_at_US_Capitol_building%29
content:
<p>
2000 Americans 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/28-4">protested
against plutocracy</a> at the US Capitol building.
<p>
Alas, that is not very many people.  If we could get 200,000 to
protest, repeatedly, we might have more effect.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Anti-nuclear_protesters_in_Taiwan)
title: Anti-nuclear protesters in Taiwan
uri: Anti-nuclear-protesters-in-Taiwan
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Anti-nuclear_protesters_in_Taiwan%29

content:
<p>
Anti-nuclear protesters 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/28-3">convinced
the government of Taiwan</a> to halt construction of two nuclear power
plants.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Attack_on_Iraqi_polling_places)
title: Attack on Iraqi polling places
uri: Attack-on-Iraqi-polling-places
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Attack_on_Iraqi_polling_places%29
content:
<p>
Iraqi suicide bombers (al-Qa'ida, I presume) 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/iraq-militants-attack-polling-stations-elections">attacked
polling places</a> to try to disrupt the election.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Barrett_Browns_lawyer_speaks)
title: Barrett Brown's lawyer speaks
uri: Barrett-Brown-s-lawyer-speaks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Barrett_Browns_lawyer_speaks%29
content:
<p>
The gag order on Barrett Brown's lawyer has been dropped, so he has
explained the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/28/barrett-brown-lawyer-hacking-jail-free-speech">dishonesty
of the charges against Brown</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(UK_to_punish_the_unemployed)
title: UK to punish the unemployed
uri: UK-to-punish-the-unemployed
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28UK_to_punish_the_unemployed%29
content:
<p>
The UK plans to punish the unemployed by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/28/help-to-work-britains-jobless-forced-workfare-unemployed">making
them visit a jobcenter each day</a>, pretending that this is help for
them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Ilham_Tohti)
title: Ilham Tohti
uri: Ilham-Tohti
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Ilham_Tohti%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/china-release-ilham-tohti-now">China
Must Release Ilham Tohti Now</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_April_2014_(Inequality_reduces_growth)
title: Inequality reduces growth
uri: Inequality-reduces-growth
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Inequality_reduces_growth%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/28/inequality-hurts-everyone-taxation-growth">Inequality
Hurts Everyone Apart From the Super-Rich</a>.
<p>
It has been clear since the 80s that trickle-down is a sucker's tale:
letting the rich get a bigger share may enable them to increase total
production, but they keep the increase for themselves; in fact,
nothing trickles down.  But now it appears that the growing inequality
reduces growth too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Bigotry_against_homosexuals_in_Africa)
title: Bigotry against homosexuals in Africa
uri: Bigotry-against-homosexuals-in-Africa
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Bigotry_against_homosexuals_in_Africa%29

content:
<p>
Bigotry against homosexuals in Africa
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/africa-homophobia-legacy-colonialism">instilled
by colonial powers.</a>
<p>
That doesn't excuse Africans' bigotry today.


title: EU stopping Apple and Samsung from suing each other
uri: EU-stopping-Apple-and-Samsung-from-suing-each-other
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(EU_stopping_Apple_and_Samsung_from_suing_each_other)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28EU_stopping_Apple_and_Samsung_from_suing_each_other%29

content:
<p>
The European Union
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/29/eu-end-smartphone-patent-wars-landmark-ruling">stopping
Apple and Samsung from suing each other for patent infringement.</a>
<p>
Unfortunately, its "solution" is a terrible mistake: imposing
"reasonable and nondiscriminatory" terms.  In practice, this means
patent licenses that discriminate against free software by charging
license fees per copy, which free software developers can't possibly
pay.  There is nothing "reasonable" about that.


title: 4% of prisoners on death row in US are innocent
uri: 4-of-prisoners-on-death-row-in-US-are-innocent
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(4%25_of_prisoners_on_death_row_in_US_are_innocent)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%284%2525_of_prisoners_on_death_row_in_US_are_innocent%29

content:
<p>
A study estimates
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/death-penalty-study-4-percent-defendants-innocent">4%
of the prisoners on death row in the US are innocent.</a>
<p>
The point is that many prisoners on death row have their sentences
commuted to life imprisonment, and once that happens, they get no aid
in proving their innocence.  Thus, they are not counted in figures for
number of exonerations.  However, if the same care were taken for
those cases, they'd probably be exonerated at the same rate as those
whose sentences were not commuted (if not more!).


title: Verizon to link desktop browsing with mobile browsing
uri: Verizon-to-link-desktop-browsing-with-mobile-browsing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Verizon_to_link_desktop_browsing_with_mobile_browsing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Verizon_to_link_desktop_browsing_with_mobile_browsing%29

content:
<p>
Verizon will plant cookies in its subscribers' computers so as
to <a href="http://rt.com/usa/154988-verizon-monitor-wireless-marketers/">link
their (non-Verizon) desktop browsing with their mobile browsing.</a>


title: Kerry has retreated from using the word "apartheid"
uri: Kerry-has-retreated-from-using-the-word-apartheid
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Kerry_has_retreated_from_using_the_word_apartheid)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Kerry_has_retreated_from_using_the_word_apartheid%29

content:
<p>
Kerry
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/john-kerry-apologises-israel-apartheid-remarks">retreated
from using the word "apartheid" in connection with Israel</a>. But
then, Kerry does not know as much about apartheid
as <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#31%20May%202009%20%28Expansion%20of%20Israeli%20settlements%29">Desmond
Tutu.</a>


title: Asylum in Cambodia instead of Australia
uri: Asylum-in-Cambodia-instead-of-Australia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Asylum_in_Cambodia_instead_of_Australia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Asylum_in_Cambodia_instead_of_Australia%29

content:
<p>
People who fled to Australia seeking
asylum <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/cambodia-agrees-to-take-refugees-now-on-nauru-reports">will
get asylum in Cambodia instead.</a>
<p>
At an abstract level, the substitution may be acceptable: they will be
allowed to settle in a place where whoever threatened them before
can't reach.  However, will they face destitution there?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(An_experiment_in_arbitrary_punishment)
title: An experiment in arbitrary punishment
uri: An-experiment-in-arbitrary-punishment
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28An_experiment_in_arbitrary_punishment%29

content:
<p>
The US and UK
are <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2615301">trying
an experiment in arbitrary punishment,</a> pressuring banks to close
the bank accounts of people involved in work that the government
disapproves of — for instance, pornography.
<p>
This highlights the danger of massive surveillance.  If the government
finds out what work you do, it can arbitrarily get your bank account
shut.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Boat_being_built_in_Gaza_was_attacked)
title: Boat being built in Gaza was attacked
uri: Boat-being-built-in-Gaza-was-attacked
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Boat_being_built_in_Gaza_was_attacked%29

content:
<p>
A boat being built in Gaza, to carry exports for sale,
was <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/04/blast-damages-gaza-anti-siege-boat-2014429124952109693.html">attacked
with a bomb in an act of terrorism</a>, presumably by Israel.
<p>
The Israeli excuses for attacking boats sailing to Gaza, while not
really valid in that case, are totally nonsense for boats sailing out
of Gaza.  The only motive for this is to cause suffering.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Urgent:_Outside_campaign_spending)
title: Urgent: Outside campaign spending
uri: Urgent-Outside-campaign-spending
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Outside_campaign_spending%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on candidates
to <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12476">take
the "people's pledge" to resist outside campaign spending.</a>


title: Urgent: Repealing two unjust surveillance laws
uri: Urgent-Repealing-two-unjust-surveillance-laws
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Urgent:_Repealing_two_unjust_surveillance_laws)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Repealing_two_unjust_surveillance_laws%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/call/call_holt_patriotact/">call
for a vote on repealing two unjust surveillance laws.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Secret_software_vulnerabilities)
title: Secret software vulnerabilities
uri: Secret-software-vulnerabilities
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Secret_software_vulnerabilities%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/04/28/heartbleed-understanding-when-we-disclose-cyber-vulnerabilities">The
US explains why</a> it keeps software vulnerabilities secret.
<p>
Any time someone cites "intellectual property" as a justification
for something, it is a sign he is up to no good.
<p>
The term
"<a href='http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty'>intellectual
property</a>" is pure confusion; it distorts the facts about various
laws with spin, following the agenda of various companies that gain
privileges from one or another of those laws.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Air_pollution_in_the_US)
title: Air pollution in the US
uri: Air-pollution-in-the-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Air_pollution_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/30/americans-unhealthy-levels-air-pollution">Almost
Half of Americans Live with Unhealthy Levels of Air Pollution</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Access_to_the_internet)
title: Access to the internet
uri: Access-to-the-internet
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Access_to_the_internet%29
content:
<p>
To keep the internet healthy, cities must set up 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/28-4">local access
as a civic service</a>.
<p>
It is not enough for cities to own these networks.  They must also
make sure people can use them without identifying themselves.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Execution_in_Oklahoma)
title: Execution in Oklahoma
uri: Execution-in-Oklahoma
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Execution_in_Oklahoma%29
content:
<p>
An execution in Oklahoma left the victim 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/oklahoma-execution-botched-clayton-lockett">writhing
in pain until he had a heart attack half an hour later</a>.
<p>
I usually don't concern myself with the details of how executions are
carried out, because I think the death penalty is 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#14_August_2011_(Truth_About_Lethal_Injection)">wrong 
regardless of the details</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Pakistans_military_intelligence)
title: Pakistan's military intelligence
uri: Pakistan-s-military-intelligence
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Pakistans_military_intelligence%29
content:
<p>
Amnesty International relates evidence that Pakistan's military
intelligence has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/isi-accused-of-targeting-journalists-pakistan-amnesty-international">threatened,
attacked, even killed journalists</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Floods_in_the_UK)
title: Floods in the UK
uri: Floods-in-the-UK
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Floods_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Modelling says that the UK's recent floods, which used to happen once
every hundred years, are now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/30/climate-change-extreme-rainfall-england-flooding">substantially
more frequent</a>: with the current climate, they will happen once in
eighty years.
<p>
Once in 80 years is still pretty rare, but global heating is going to
get much worse.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Copyright_law)
title: Copyright law
uri: Copyright-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Copyright_law%29
content:
<p>
The Obama regime is trying a sneaky argument that its 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/aereo-cant-be-bound-secret-interpretations-copyright-law">secretly
negotiated understandings of the meanings of copyright law</a> have
the force of law.


title: Urgent: Classify ISPs as telecom services
uri: Urgent-Classify-ISPs-as-telecom-services
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Urgent:_Classify_ISPs_as_telecom_services)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Classify_ISPs_as_telecom_services%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and ask them to tell the FCC to
classify ISPs as telecommunications services, so as to implement real
net neutrality.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Urgent:_Paid_family_medical_leave)
title: Urgent: Paid family medical leave
uri: Urgent-Paid-family-medical-leave
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Paid_family_medical_leave%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.usaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=617">support</a>
paid family medical leave.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(CISPA_Take_3)
title: CISPA Take 3
uri: CISPA-Take-3
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28CISPA_Take_3%29
content:
<p>
CISPA Take 3: 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140429/07203227062/cispa-take-3-sens-feinstein-chambliss-draft-another-cybersecurity-bill-with-weak-privacy-protections-expansive-data-sharing.shtml">Feinstein
& Chambliss Draft Another Cybersecurity Bill, Designed To Wipe Out
Your Privacy</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(The_Trade_in_Services_Agreement)
title: The Trade in Services Agreement
uri: The-Trade-in-Services-Agreement
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28The_Trade_in_Services_Agreement%29
content:
<p>
Coming along behind the TPP: the Trade in Services Agreement 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140428/10593427051/meet-tisa-another-major-treaty-negotiated-secret-alongside-tpp-ttip.shtml">threatens
to ban governments from doing useful things for the public</a>.
<p>
This represents the attitude of predatory companies for which people
are not citizens but rather meant for them to exploit.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Verizon_Knows_Youre_a_Sucker)
title: Verizon Knows You're a Sucker
uri: Verizon-Knows-You-re-a-Sucker
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Verizon_Knows_Youre_a_Sucker%29
content:
<p>
Verizon Knows You're A Sucker: 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140424/06185027014/verizon-knows-youre-sucker-takes-taxpayer-subsidies-broadband-doesnt-deliver-lobbies-to-drop-requirements.shtml">Takes
Taxpayer Subsidies For Broadband, Doesn't Deliver, Lobbies To Drop
Requirements</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Imprisonment_without_trial)
title: Imprisonment without trial
uri: Imprisonment-without-trial
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Imprisonment_without_trial%29
content:
<p>
The US lawsuit against threatened imprisonment without trial was
<a href="http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=16973">quashed by
the Supreme Court</a>.
<p>
This leaves Americans with no basis not to be imprisoned except the
hope that the government won't decide accuse them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Ethiopia_Jails_Nine_Journalists)
title: Ethiopia Jails Nine Journalists
uri: Ethiopia-Jails-Nine-Journalists
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Ethiopia_Jails_Nine_Journalists%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/2014/04/ethiopia-jails-nine-journalists-renews-crackdown-o.php">Ethiopia
Jails Nine Journalists, Renews Press Crackdown</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Turkey_gives_spies_immunity)
title: Turkey gives spies immunity
uri: Turkey-gives-spies-immunity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Turkey_gives_spies_immunity%29
content:
<p>
Turkey has 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/04/29/turkey-spy-agency-law-opens-door-abuse">made
it a crime to publish leaks from spy agencies</a>, and given the spies
immunity for violating human rights.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Floods_in_NY_City)
title: Floods in NY City
uri: Floods-in-NY-City
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Floods_in_NY_City%29
content:
<p>
New York City can 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/storm-surge-could-flood-nyc-1-in-every-4-years-17344">expect
flooding around every 4 years</a> nowadays, due to rising sea levels
and higher storm surges.
<p>
It is not certain what effect global heating will have on storms near
New York City, but accelerating global heating will mean accelerating
rise in sea levels.  Some parts of New York City, including lower
Manhattan, may eventually have to be abandoned.


title: Urgent: Require clean water in all US waterways
uri: 2014-05-01-Urgent-Require-clean-water-in-all-US-waterways
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Urgent:_Require_clean_water_in_all_US_waterways)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Require_clean_water_in_all_US_waterways%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA
to <a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=NgO8B_6T645nLcDzBmNs3w">require
clean water in all US waterways.</a>


title: Real guns are made specially for children
uri: 2014-05-01-Real-guns-are-made-specially-for-children
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Real_guns_are_made_specially_for_children)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Real_guns_are_made_specially_for_children%29

content:
<p>
In the
US, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/apr/29/armed-to-the-milk-teeth-america-gun-toting-kids">real
guns are made specially for children, and at least one child has been
killed with one.</a>
<p>
I would not suggest legal restrictions specifically to prevent a
danger of such small magnitude, but it is adds to the pile of evidence
that having a gun in your home is more likely to kill you than protect
you.


title: Colombian farmers have blocked roads as a protest
uri: 2014-05-01-Colombian-farmers-have-blocked-roads-as-a-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Colombian_farmers_have_blocked_roads_as_a_protest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Colombian_farmers_have_blocked_roads_as_a_protest%29

content:
<p>
Colombian farmers
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/colombia-military-farmers-strike-election">blocked
roads as a protest against the president</a>, and he sent soldiers as
well as thugs against them.


title: Wisconsin's voter-ID law has been ruled unconstitutional
uri: 2014-05-01-Wisconsin-s-voter-ID-law-has-been-ruled-unconstitutional
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Wisconsin's_voter-ID_law_has_been_ruled_unconstitutional)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Wisconsin%27s_voter-ID_law_has_been_ruled_unconstitutional%29

content:
<p>
Wisconsin's voter-ID law has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/federal-judge-strikes-down-wisconsin-voter-id-law">ruled
unconstitutional.</a> However, this is not a final ruling.


title: Senator Leahy will block funds for the Egyptian military
uri: 2014-05-01-Senator-Leahy-will-block-funds-for-the-Egyptian-military
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Senator_Leahy_will_block_funds_for_the_Egyptian_military)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Senator_Leahy_will_block_funds_for_the_Egyptian_military%29

content:
<p>
Senator Leahy
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/us-aid-egypt-patrick-leahy-sham-trial">block
funds for the Egyptian military.</a>


title: Urgent: Thank former US President Carter
uri: 2014-05-01-Urgent-Thank-former-US-President-Carter
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Urgent:_Thank_former_US_President_Carter)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_former_US_President_Carter%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: thank former US President Carter
for <a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/thank_you_president_carter/">taking
a clear stand against Keystone XL and the Koch brothers.</a>


title: Urgent: Proceed with prosecution of US torturers
uri: 2014-05-01-Urgent-Proceed-with-prosecution-of-US-torturers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Urgent:_Proceed_with_prosecution_of_US_torturers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Proceed_with_prosecution_of_US_torturers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Spain
to <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3317">proceed
with prosecution of US torturers.</a>


title: Thugs in many cities in Eastern Ukraine are supporting Putin
uri: 2014-05-01-Thugs-in-many-cities-in-Eastern-Ukraine-are-supporting-Putin
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Thugs_in_many_cities_in_Eastern_Ukraine_are_supporting_Putin)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Thugs_in_many_cities_in_Eastern_Ukraine_are_supporting_Putin%29

content:
<p>
The thugs in many cities in Eastern
Ukraine <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/kiev-losing-control-east-ukraine">are
supporting Putin,</a> because Putin pays thugs better. Naturally, a
tyrant would do that.
<p>
The thugs allowed Putin's supporters to club pro-Ukraine protesters.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Past_exposure_to_toxic_pesticides)
title: Past exposure to toxic pesticides
uri: 2014-05-01-Past-exposure-to-toxic-pesticides
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Past_exposure_to_toxic_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
Children near some French
farms <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/french-children-farms-vineyards-exposed-dangerous-cocktail-pesticides">show
past exposure to toxic pesticides,</a> some of them banned.


title: US court ordered Microsoft to hand over personal data from server in Ireland
uri: 2014-05-01-US-court-ordered-Microsoft-to-hand-over-personal-data-from-server-in-I
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(US_court_ordered_Microsoft_to_hand_over_personal_data_from_server_in_Ireland)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28US_court_ordered_Microsoft_to_hand_over_personal_data_from_server_in_Ireland%29

content:
<p>
A US court ordered Microsoft
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/29/us-court-microsoft-personal-data-emails-irish-server">hand
over personal data from a server in Ireland.</a>
<p>
If the appeal sustains this decision, the next question will be what
Ireland or the EU will do to enforce their data protection laws.
<p>
I've warned people outside the US not to give <em>any</em> personal
data to US companies.


title: US missed chance to make peace in Afghanistan
uri: 2014-05-01-US-missed-chance-to-make-peace-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(US_missed_chance_to_make_peace_in_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28US_missed_chance_to_make_peace_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
In 2002,
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/29-4">US missed
a chance to make peace in Afghanistan.</a>
<p>
It missed a previous chance in 2001, when the Taliban offered
to <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2004-jan-apr.html#08%20April%202004%20%28Tunring%20Over%20Bin%20Laden%29">kick
out al Qa'ida</a> for the sake of peace with the US.


title: Pollinating almond trees in California
uri: 2014-05-01-Pollinating-almond-trees-in-California
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Pollinating_almond_trees_in_California)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Pollinating_almond_trees_in_California%29

content:
<p>
Something about the way almond trees are now cultivated in California
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/04/california-almond-farms-blamed-honeybee-die">has
started killing 20% of the bees brought there to pollinate them</a>.
<p>
It's not clear what is causing it, but it might be mixes of chemicals
uses in pesticides.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Extractivist_government_of_Australia)
title: Extractivist government of Australia
uri: 2014-05-01-Extractivist-government-of-Australia
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Extractivist_government_of_Australia%29

content:
<p>
The extractivist government of Australia wants
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/apr/29/great-barrier-reef-dredging-ben-jerrys-ice-cream-climate-change">ban
environmental groups from calling for boycotts of companies</a>, while
calling for a boycott of Ben and Jerry's for trying to raise awareness
of the danger.
<p>
Governments, following the example of corporations, are becoming
shameless liars, hoping to drown out the truth.  And it's not just
tyrants like Putin that do this.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_April_2014_(Urgent:_Campaign_spending_disclosure)
title: Urgent: Campaign spending disclosure
uri: 2014-05-01-Urgent-Campaign-spending-disclosure
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Campaign_spending_disclosure%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/786">call on the SEC</a>
to require publicly traded companies to disclose political campaign
spending.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_April_2014_(Israeli_and_Palestinian_teenagers)
title: Israeli and Palestinian teenagers
uri: 2014-05-01-Israeli-and-Palestinian-teenagers
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_April_2014_%28Israeli_and_Palestinian_teenagers%29

content:
<p>
Israeli teenagers and Palestinian teenagers, when accused of throwing
stones, are treated 
<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.586492">very
differently</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_April_2014_(UK_prisons_ban_steel-string_guitars)
title: UK prisons ban steel-string guitars
uri: 2014-05-01-UK-prisons-ban-steel-string-guitars
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_April_2014_%28UK_prisons_ban_steel-string_guitars%29

content:
<p>
UK prisons have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/28/prison-guitar-ban-billy-bragg">banned
steel-string guitars</a>, as part of the same massive dose of
irrational strictness that banned giving prisoners books.
<p>
As a result, 350 steel-string guitars donated to prisons to encourage
rehabilitation can no longer do that.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_April_2014_(FERA_threatened_with_privatization)
title: FERA threatened with privatization
uri: 2014-05-01-FERA-threatened-with-privatization
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_April_2014_%28FERA_threatened_with_privatization%29

content:
<p>
The UK's Food and Environment Research Agency is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/28/food-and-environment-research-agency-privatisation">threatened
with privatization</a>, which would mean a chance to corrupt it
directly.
<p>
I can think of some companies that would like to invest in FERA's
research into the effects of pesticides.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_April_2014_(Anti-nuclear_protesters_in_Taiwan)
title: Anti-nuclear protesters in Taiwan
uri: 2014-05-01-Anti-nuclear-protesters-in-Taiwan
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_April_2014_%28Anti-nuclear_protesters_in_Taiwan%29

content:
<p>
Anti-nuclear protesters 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/28-3">convinced
the government of Taiwan</a> to halt construction of two nuclear power
plants.


title: Politician in Eastern Ukraine shot by sniper
uri: 2014-05-01-Politician-in-Eastern-Ukraine-shot-by-sniper
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_April_2014_(Politician_in_Eastern_Ukraine_shot_by_sniper)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_April_2014_%28Politician_in_Eastern_Ukraine_shot_by_sniper%29

content:
<p>
An anti-Russian politician in Eastern Ukraine
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/ukraine-mayor-kharkiv-gennady-kernes-shot">shot
by a sniper and may die of it.</a>


title: 683 members of Muslim Brotherhood sentenced to death
uri: 2014-05-01-683-members-of-Muslim-Brotherhood-sentenced-to-death
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_April_2014_(683_members_of_Muslim_Brotherhood_sentenced_to_death)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_April_2014_%28683_members_of_Muslim_Brotherhood_sentenced_to_death%29

content:
<p>
An Egyptian court
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/egyptian-judge-sentences-720-men-death">convicted
683 members of the Muslim Brotherhood and sentenced them to death</a>
after a one-sided trial (no defense possible).


title: Japanese army forced Korean women to be prostitutes
uri: 2014-05-01-Japanese-army-forced-Korean-women-to-be-prostitutes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_April_2014_(Japanese_army_forced_Korean_women_to_be_prostitutes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_April_2014_%28Japanese_army_forced_Korean_women_to_be_prostitutes%29

content:
<p>
China has published 1940s documents
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/japan-second-world-war-brothels-papers-china">prove
the Japanese army forced Korean women to be prostitutes for Japanese
soldiers in China.</a>
<p>
Many nations have atrocities in their history — Japan is not
uniquely bad.  (The US has quite a few.)  Nations that deny their
atrocities get twisted up in a net of lies that prepares them to
commit more atrocities.


title: Folly and impudence of the fossil fuel industry
uri: 2014-05-01-Folly-and-impudence-of-the-fossil-fuel-industry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_April_2014_(Folly_and_impudence_of_the_fossil_fuel_industry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_April_2014_%28Folly_and_impudence_of_the_fossil_fuel_industry%29

content:
<p>
The folly and impudence of the fossil fuel industry knows no bounds.
Some are looking for ways
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/28/uk-ireland-fire-ice-gas-reserves">extract
and burn undersea methane hydrates.</a>
<p>
Methane hydrates under the land or sea are tremendously dangerous,
since global heating causes them to leak into the air, where the
methane becomes a powerful greenhouse gas.  This is one of the
positive feedback cycles that could accelerate global heating,
<p>
It is pointless to consider using them, since the known fossil fuel
reserves are five times what we dare burn.  Meanwhile, messing with
the deposits in any way could easily make more methane leak out (as
fracking already does).
<p>
I suspect that fossil fuel industry funding or lobbying is behind
these studies.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_April_2014_(Forced_closure_of_brothels_in_London)
title: Forced closure of brothels in London
uri: 2014-05-01-Forced-closure-of-brothels-in-London
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_April_2014_%28Forced_closure_of_brothels_in_London%29

content:
<p>
A campaigner says that the forced closure of brothels in London was
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/apr/28/rupert-everett-london-soho-prostitution">last
step in converting London into another Monaco.</a>
<p>
Some of the rich absentee owners might spend more time and money in
London if the brothels were still there.


title: How to Disappear a Mentally Ill Grandmother
uri: 2014-05-01-How-to-Disappear-a-Mentally-Ill-Grandmother
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_April_2014_(How_to_Disappear_a_Mentally_Ill_Grandmother)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_April_2014_%28How_to_Disappear_a_Mentally_Ill_Grandmother%29

content:
<p>
How to Disappear a Mentally Ill
Grandmother: <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/how-disappear-mentally-ill-grandmother-throw-her-solitary">Throw
Her in Solitary.</a>


title: Urgent: Stop prosecuting whistleblowers
uri: 2014-05-01-Urgent-Stop-prosecuting-whistleblowers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_April_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_prosecuting_whistleblowers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_prosecuting_whistleblowers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="http://action.whistleblowers.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11664">stop
prosecuting whistleblowers.</a>


title: Russian militia leader in Eastern Ukraine
uri: 2014-05-01-Russian-militia-leader-in-Eastern-Ukraine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Russian_militia_leader_in_Eastern_Ukraine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Russian_militia_leader_in_Eastern_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
A Russian militia leader in Eastern Ukraine gave an interview, saying
he is in the Russian Army and
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/26/ukraine-separatist-leader-defends-capture-nato-spies">invasion
was organized from outside the region.</a>


title: Urgent: Don't allow oil drilling in Arctic waters
uri: 2014-05-01-Urgent-Don-t-allow-oil-drilling-in-Arctic-waters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Urgent:_Don't_allow_oil_drilling_in_Arctic_waters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Don%27t_allow_oil_drilling_in_Arctic_waters%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell the US
government, <a href="https://secure.wilderness.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2571">don't
allow oil drilling in Arctic waters.</a>


title: Russia setting up total surveillance of Internet
uri: 2014-05-01-Russia-setting-up-total-surveillance-of-Internet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Russia_setting_up_total_surveillance_of_Internet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Russia_setting_up_total_surveillance_of_Internet%29

content:
<p>
Russia is setting
up <a href="http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2013/Russia-surveillance">US-style
total surveillance of the Internet.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Constant_aerial_video_surveillance)
title: Constant aerial video surveillance
uri: 2014-05-01-Constant-aerial-video-surveillance
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Constant_aerial_video_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Two towns in California
are <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-compton-surveillance-20140424,0,2734268,full.story">trying
out constant aerial video surveillance.</a>
<p>
Supposedly this is ok because the towns already have cameras giving
immediate view of their streets.


title: Obama regime launched campaign for press freedom
uri: 2014-05-01-Obama-regime-launched-campaign-for-press-freedom
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Obama_regime_launched_campaign_for_press_freedom)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Obama_regime_launched_campaign_for_press_freedom%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime launched its annual campaign for press freedom, while
asking the Supreme Court
to <a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/04/25/state-dept-launches-free-the.html">imprison
US journalist James Risen.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(NRA_has_launched_a_massive_campaign)
title: NRA has launched a massive campaign
uri: 2014-05-01-NRA-has-launched-a-massive-campaign
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28NRA_has_launched_a_massive_campaign%29

content:
<p>
The NRA has launched a massive campaign for traditional American
values, the point being apparently that
you're <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/26/nra-republican-senate-campaign-moral-attack">un-American
if you're not ready to shoot people at any time and place.</a>
<p>
How about traditional American values such as "If you're willing to
work, you can get by", and "Support the underdog (not-rich person)"?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_endangered_manatees)
title: Urgent: Protect endangered manatees
uri: 2014-05-01-Urgent-Protect-endangered-manatees
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_endangered_manatees%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for stronger
measures <a href="http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=57ecsTjVao8g9MF9Nfu_3w">to
protect endangered manatees.</a>


title: All national security news will be authorized announcements
uri: 2014-05-01-All-national-security-news-will-be-authorized-announcements
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(All_national_security_news_will_be_authorized_announcements)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28All_national_security_news_will_be_authorized_announcements%29

content:
<p>
From now on, if the US government gets its
way, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/26-2">all
national security news will be authorized announcements</a>.
Journalism is forbidden, only government PR is allowed.


title: Penguins' survival is threatened by human activities
uri: 2014-05-01-Penguins-survival-is-threatened-by-human-activities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Penguins'_survival_is_threatened_by_human_activities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Penguins%27_survival_is_threatened_by_human_activities%29

content:
<p>
Penguins' survival
is <a href="http://www.dw.de/being-cute-wont-save-the-penguins/a-17591521">threatened
by human activities such as CO2 emissions and overfishing</a>.
<p>
While I loathe the error of using Tux the penguin as a symbol for the
GNU operating system (which typically goes with the error
of <a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html">calling the
system "Linux"),</a> I don't hold this against real penguins.


title: Mexico is considering a bill to attack internet freedoms
uri: 2014-05-01-Mexico-is-considering-a-bill-to-attack-internet-freedoms
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Mexico_is_considering_a_bill_to_attack_internet_freedoms)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Mexico_is_considering_a_bill_to_attack_internet_freedoms%29

content:
<p>
Mexico is considering a bill
to <a href="http://en.rsf.org/mexique-new-telecoms-bill-threatens-25-04-2014,46199.html">attack
internet freedoms.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Urgent:_Nuclear_security_initiatives)
title: Urgent: Nuclear security initiatives
uri: 2014-05-01-Urgent-Nuclear-security-initiatives
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Nuclear_security_initiatives%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://livableworld.org/nuclearsecurity/">call on Obama</a>
to maintain funding for nuclear security initiatives.


title: Urgent: Tell FCC to uphold net neutrality
uri: 2014-05-01-Urgent-Tell-FCC-to-uphold-net-neutrality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_FCC_to_uphold_net_neutrality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_FCC_to_uphold_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_break/">tell the
FCC</a> to uphold net neutrality and declare ISPs a telecommunications
service.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(US_unprepared_for_Arctic_oil_spill)
title: US unprepared for Arctic oil spill
uri: 2014-05-01-US-unprepared-for-Arctic-oil-spill
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28US_unprepared_for_Arctic_oil_spill%29

content:
<p>
The National Research Council concludes that the US is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/24-2">not
prepared to cope with an oil spill from Arctic Ocean drilling</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Urgent:_Ohio's_voter_suppression)
title: Urgent: Ohio's voter suppression
uri: 2014-05-01-Urgent-Ohio-s-voter-suppression
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Ohio%27s_voter_suppression%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Attorney General Holder
to <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/sign-the-petition-stop-ohio-republicans-from-suppressing-the-vote">intervene
against Ohio's voter suppression.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Verizon_plans_to_link_its_tracking)
title: Verizon plans to link its tracking
uri: 2014-05-01-Verizon-plans-to-link-its-tracking
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Verizon_plans_to_link_its_tracking%29

content:
<p>
Verizon plans to link its tracking of customers' browsing
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20140425,0,2539606.column">with
those same people's other Internet activities from other
computers.</a>
<p>
The description of how this will work is garbled; can anyone show me a
technically clear explanation?
<p>
In any case, I think it is unacceptable for an ISP to track customers'
browsing at all.
<p>
The article makes a bad surrender when it legitimizes the surveillance
of Google and Yahoo on the grounds that they offer "cool [gratis]
services".  This is tantamount to accepting that we should all sell
our privacy.


title: Israeli right wing rejects even the word "peace"
uri: 2014-05-01-Israeli-right-wing-rejects-even-the-word-peace
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Israeli_right_wing_rejects_even_the_word_peace)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Israeli_right_wing_rejects_even_the_word_peace%29

content:
<p>
The
Israeli <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1398445127/">right
wing rejects even the word "peace"</a> in regard to Palestine.  Its
substitute, "political settlement", suggests something more like a
permanent? truce.
<p>
If you have wondered why I adamantly insist on talking about "free
software"
and <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">reject
the term "open source",</a> it's the same sort of issue.  If you want
peace, you must say "peace".  If you want freedom, you must say
"freedom".


title: Ukraine, watch out for western frackers!
uri: 2014-05-01-Ukraine-watch-out-for-western-frackers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_April_2014_(Ukraine,_watch_out_for_western_frackers!)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_April_2014_%28Ukraine%2C_watch_out_for_western_frackers%21%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/25-3">watch
out for western frackers! </a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(All's_fair...)
title: All's fair...
uri: All-s-fair
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28All%27s_fair...%29
content:
<p>It appears that the Lusitania, sunk in 1917 by a German submarine,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/01/lusitania-salvage-warning-munitions-1982">
really was carrying munitions for Britain.</a>
</p>


title: Sweeping sexual assault under the military rug
uri: Sweeping-sexual-assault-under-the-military-rug
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Sweeping_sexual_assault_under_the_military_rug)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Sweeping_sexual_assault_under_the_military_rug%29

content:
<p>1/3 of the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/us-military-veterans-lawsuit-military-sexual-assault">
women in the US military</a>
get raped.  And then they get denied
veterans' benefits for treating the consequences.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Global_terrorism_on_the_rise)
title: Global terrorism on the rise
uri: Global-terrorism-on-the-rise
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Global_terrorism_on_the_rise%29
content:
<p>Global
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/global-terrorism-rose-despite-al-qaida-splintering">
terrorism increased 40%</a>
in 2013, perhaps partly because US
assassination drones motivate people to join terror groups.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(High_level_corruption_down_under)
title: High level corruption down under
uri: High-level-corruption-down-under
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28High_level_corruption_down_under%29
content:
<p>The Australian ruling party is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/11000-for-breakfast-with-tony-abbott-access-to-senior-ministers-chiefs-of-staff">
selling businessmen access</a>
to the prime minister.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Treasures_of_the_deep)
title: Treasures of the deep
uri: Treasures-of-the-deep
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Treasures_of_the_deep%29
content:
<p>Human
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/30/human-litter-european-seafloor-survey-ocean-deep">
trash in the ocean</a>
accumulates in the deepest marine trenches.</p>
<p>Most of it is plastic; the plastic can be toxic to marine organisms
or get them tangled up.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Concern_over_future_of_antibiotics)
title: Concern over future of antibiotics
uri: Concern-over-future-of-antibiotics
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Concern_over_future_of_antibiotics%29
content:
<p>The World Health Organization warns we must
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/30/who-calls-urgent-action-antibiotics-antimicrobial-resistance">
take action to keep antibiotics effective before it is too
late.</a></p>
<p>Others have warned about this for years.  Will WHO be enough to
motivation
governments to act against the deadly lobby of agribusiness?</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Transportation_and_pollution_in_UK)
title: Transportation and pollution in UK
uri: Transportation-and-pollution-in-UK
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Transportation_and_pollution_in_UK%29
content:
<p>Nanoparticles in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/29/diesel-engine-pollution-premature-deaths-costs-nhs-billions">
diesel engine exhaust</a>
do considerable harm to human
health.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Sharia_Law_in_Brunei)
title: Sharia Law in Brunei
uri: Sharia-Law-in-Brunei
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Sharia_Law_in_Brunei%29
content:
<p>The Sultan of Brunei is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/sultan-brunei-sharia-penal-code-flogging-death-stoning">
imposing cruel Islamic law.</a>
This includes punishment for not participating in prayers.</p>
<p>Contempt for religious freedom is
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#19_February_2013_(Libya_threatens_foreign_Christians_with_execution)">
standard in Muslim countries.</a>
Christians also have a tendency to
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_(Imposing_Christian_theocracy_in_the_name_of_opposing_Muslim_theocracy)">
impose their religion</a>
through the state.</p>


title: Government losing ground in eastern Ukraine
uri: Government-losing-ground-in-eastern-Ukraine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Goverment_losing_ground_in_eastern_Ukraine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Goverment_losing_ground_in_eastern_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>Ukraine's Government Has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/ukraine-government-lost-control-east-acting-president">
Lost Control of East</a>,
Says Acting President.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Rex_Sinquefield's_not_so_secret_life)
title: Rex Sinquefield's not so secret life
uri: Rex-Sinquefield-s-not-so-secret-life
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Rex_Sinquefield%27s_not_so_secret_life%29

content:
<p>One man has personally
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/04/12459/show-me-money-meet-multimillionaire-squeezing-missouris-schools">
bought control</a>
over a large part of Missouri's
political system.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Japanese_whalers_head_north)
title: Japanese whalers head north
uri: Japanese-whalers-head-north
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Japanese_whalers_head_north%29
content:
<p>Japan, ordered to cease hunting whales in southern waters, has started
<a href="http://japandailypress.com/japan-begins-northeastern-whale-hunts-after-icj-ban-2847839/">
hunting whales in the North Pacific.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Drug_war_continues_to_fail)
title: Drug war continues to fail
uri: Drug-war-continues-to-fail
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Drug_war_continues_to_fail%29
content:
<p>Afghan poppy production is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/afghan-opium-production-explodes-billions-spent-us-report">
higher than ever.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Evrythng_implements_dystopia)
title: "Evrythng" implements dystopia
uri: Evrythng-implements-dystopia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Evrythng_implements_dystopia%29
content:
<p>The "internet of things" means
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/30/cisco-internet-of-things-startup-evrythng">
tracking every thing you possess</a>
(and reporting everything about them to a data broker and Big
Brother).</p>
<p>Whatever inducements are offered, don't accept spy products into
your
life.  Of course, the first spy product is the portable phone, which
you might already be using, if you have not energetically defended
your freedom.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(New_World_Zion)
title: New World Zion
uri: New-World-Zion
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28New_World_Zion%29
content:
<p>A most peculiar peace proposal:
<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-uganda-plan-revisited-us-congressional-candidate-proposes-new-israel-in-southeast-texas/5379590">
give Israel a mostly deserted piece of Texas</a>
in exchange for making peace with Palestine.
</p>
<p>I wonder what the inhabitants of that area would think.</p>


title: Italian police embrace murders in their midst
uri: Italian-police-embrace-murders-in-their-midst
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Italian_police_embrace_murders_in_their_midst)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Italian_police_embrace_murders_in_their_midst%29

content:
<p>Italian thugs vociferously
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/italian-police-applauded-conviction-manslaughter-ferrara">
support three thugs</a>
who were convicted of killing a young man.
</p>
<p>Don't forget how Italian thugs
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_May_2013_(Italian_Thugs)">
attacked a school full of sleeping protesters</a>
and lied about them.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(Harrassing_opposition_in_Ecuador)
title: Harassing opposition in Ecuador
uri: Harassing-opposition-in-Ecuador
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28Harrassing_opposition_in_Ecuador%29
content:
<p>The campaigners for a referendum on drilling in the Yasuni reserve
say that Ecuadorian officials are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/30/yasuni-campaigners-oil-drilling-petition-results-referendum">
sabotaging their signature drive.</a></p>
<p>Three Ecuadorian opposition politicians face
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/ecuador-president-rafael-correa-demands-kichwa-sarayaku-defamors">
imprisonment for making accusations</a>
against President Correa.
</p>
<p>Regardless of the validity of those accusations, it is unjust to put
people in jail for making accusations.  Many countries have such
unjust laws, including
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#04_March_2012_(Censorship)">
France</a>
and
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2012-may-aug.html#03_August_2012_(Italy_criminalizes_insults)">
Italy.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 1_May_2014_(CreepShield_capitalizes_on_paranoia)
title: CreepShield capitalizes on paranoia
uri: CreepShield-capitalizes-on-paranoia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#1_May_2014_%28CreepShield_capitalizes_on_paranoia%29
content:
<p>We need laws to restrict
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/facial-recognition-databases-privacy-laws">
the use of face recognition.</a>
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Urgent:_Thank_Google)
title: Urgent: Thank Google
uri: Urgent-Thank-Google
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_Google%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/get-involved/actions/google-cpc-petition-1.html">thank
Google</a> for deleting the phony ads from "crisis pregnancy centers"
whose purpose is trick or pressure women into not getting abortions.


title: Urgent: 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act
uri: Urgent-21st-Century-Glass-Steagall-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Urgent:_21st_Century_Glass-Steagall_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_21st_Century_Glass-Steagall_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12481">call
on Congress</a> to pass Senator Warren's 21st Century Glass-Steagall
Act.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Urgent:_Push_against_Sodastream)
title: Urgent: Push against Sodastream
uri: Urgent-Push-against-Sodastream
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Push_against_Sodastream%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.burstthebubble.org">push against Sodastream</a>
for supporting the Israeli occupation of Palestine.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Plans_to_end_chicken_inspection)
title: Plans to end chicken inspection
uri: Plans-to-end-chicken-inspection
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Plans_to_end_chicken_inspection%29
content:
<p>
US plans to end inspection of chickens means 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/04/chicken-slaughterhouse-">more
chemicals that make workers sick</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Oil_from_the_Arctic_Ocean)
title: Oil from the Arctic Ocean
uri: Oil-from-the-Arctic-Ocean
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Oil_from_the_Arctic_Ocean%29
content:
<p>
Greenpeace protesters tried to block the arrival of the Russian ship
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/01/greenpeace-russian-arctic-oil-tanker">carrying
oil from the Arctic Ocean</a>.
<p>
If Europe wants to punish Russia for real, it should invest more in
efforts to reduce its use of fossil fuels.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Australian_dooH_niboR)
title: Australian dooH niboR
uri: Australian-dooH-niboR
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Australian_dooH_niboR%29
content:
<p>
Australia's right-wing government believes that most Australians are
too well-off, and the rich need more.  So it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/01/commission-of-audit">proposes
a wide range of dooH niboR measures</a>.  Everyone in Australia will
have to make do with less, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/01/in-abbotts-team-australia-the-weakest-players-must-do-the-heaviest-lifting">except
the wealthy</a>.
<p>
Wages will be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/01/freeze-minimum-wage-for-a-decade-says-commission-of-audit">reduced</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(The_UKs_recovery_is_a_fraud)
title: The UK's "recovery" is a fraud
uri: The-UK-s-recovery-is-a-fraud
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28The_UKs_recovery_is_a_fraud%29
content:
<p>
The UK's "recovery" is a fraud: people's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/01/treasury-economy-recovery-hype-growth-osborne-crash-risk">real
incomes are expected to continue declining through 2018</a>.  And
that's ignoring the danger of another crash.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Urgent:_Petition_against_ALEC_agenda)
title: Urgent: Petition against ALEC agenda
uri: Urgent-Petition-against-ALEC-agenda
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Petition_against_ALEC_agenda%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://act.standuptoalec.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8121">this
petition</a> against the ALEC agenda.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Urgent:_Overturn_Corporations_United)
title: Urgent: Overturn Corporations United
uri: Urgent-Overturn-Corporations-United
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Overturn_Corporations_United%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign in support of amending the constitution to 
<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/7003/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12871">overturn
the Corporations United decision</a>.  It's usually referred to as the
"<a href='http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#26_January_2012_(Citizens_United)'>Citizens
United</a>" decision, but I prefer to call that organization what it
really is rather than what it pretended to be.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Harshness_of_No_Child_Left_Alone)
title: Harshness of No Child Left Alone
uri: Harshness-of-No-Child-Left-Alone
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Harshness_of_No_Child_Left_Alone%29
content:
<p>
The full harshness of No Child Left Alone has fallen on 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/29">every school in
Washington State</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(FBI_torture)
title: FBI torture
uri: FBI-torture
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28FBI_torture%29
content:
<p>
After Naji Mansour refused to work for the FBI, the FBI had him
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/sudan-fbi-informant-naji-mansour-terrorism">tortured
in Sudan</a>.
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/naji-mansour-fbi-audio-transcript">>transcript</a>
of his conversation with the FBI.
<p>
The US has had at least 8 US citizens imprisoned, even tortured, by
other pliant governments, and one of them has
been <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/list-alleged-proxy-detainees">sentenced
to life in prison</a> based on a worthless confession probably
tortured out of him.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Law_to_punish_pregnant_drug_addicts)
title: Law to punish pregnant drug addicts
uri: Law-to-punish-pregnant-drug-addicts
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Law_to_punish_pregnant_drug_addicts%29

content:
<p>
Tennessee passed a 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/04/30/tennessee_just_became_the_first_state_that_will_jail_women_for_their_pregnancy_outcomes/">law
to punish drug addicts that get pregnant</a>.
<p>
The ideal solution for such situations is an abortion, but the same
Republicans who want to punish these women for getting pregnant are
also trying to deny them the abortions that would enable them to
become un-pregnant, and from the contraception that would enable them
not to become pregnant.  These religious fanatics want a chance to
make someone suffer, and they have seized on the weakest possible
victims: the babies they can force pregnant addicts to have.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Troops_in_southeast_Ukraine)
title: Troops in southeast Ukraine
uri: Troops-in-southeast-Ukraine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Troops_in_southeast_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Vladimir Putin 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/01/vladimir-putin-ukraine-troops-withdrawal-angela-merkel">calls
for Ukraine to remove Ukrainian troops</a> from southeast Ukraine.
<p>
How about withdrawing the Russian troops from southeast Ukraine, eh
Putin?
<p>
Ukraine says it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/01/ukraine-military-conscription-pro-russia-separatists-donetsk">will
impose conscription</a> to build up its army.
<p>
It would take 6 months to a year for this to have any practical
effect.  I expect that the crisis will be over by then.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Parents_protest_in_Nigeria)
title: Parents protest in Nigeria
uri: Parents-protest-in-Nigeria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Parents_protest_in_Nigeria%29
content:
<p>
Parents of girls kidnaped by Boko Haram 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/01/parents-abducted-schoolgirls-nigeria-protest">protested
for the Nigerian government to take action</a> to rescue their
daughters.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Amazon_exploits_tax_loophole)
title: Amazon exploits tax loophole
uri: Amazon-exploits-tax-loophole
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Amazon_exploits_tax_loophole%29
content:
<p>
A large part of Amazon's success is due to exploiting a 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/04/25/amazons_hypocritical_tax_scheme_how_exploiting_a_massive_loophole_helped_it_destroy_bookstores/">tax
loophole</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Global_heating_and_US_corn_yields)
title: Global heating and US corn yields
uri: Global-heating-and-US-corn-yields
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Global_heating_and_US_corn_yields%29
content:
<p>
A study reports that US corn yields are 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-05-drought-portends-future-midwest-crop.html">increasingly
vulnerable to hot, dry weather</a> — which is exactly what
global heating is making more frequent in large parts of the US.
<p>
Meanwhile, global heating also makes 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/extreme-rainfall-events-like-pensacolas-on-the-rise-17373">intense
storms and flooding more likely.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Global_heating_and_the_Rockies)
title: Global heating and the Rockies
uri: Global-heating-and-the-Rockies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Global_heating_and_the_Rockies%29
content:
<p>
Global heating threatens to leave amphibians in the Rocky Mountains 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-05-amphibians-vice-climate-frogs-salamanders.html">no
refuge from introduced trout</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_May_2014_(Google_to_stop_profiling_students)
title: Google to stop profiling students
uri: Google-to-stop-profiling-students
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_%28Google_to_stop_profiling_students%29
content:
<p>
Google has 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/google-ends-creepy-practice-of-scanning-gmail-education-apps/">agreed
to stop profiling students based on their scholastic accounts</a>.
<p>
That does not make it ok for a school to give student data to Google.
Doing so facilitates government surveillance of those students.


title: Urgent: Teach-in on police militarization
uri: Very-urgent-Teach-in-on-police-militarization
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_May_2014_(Urgent:_Teach-in_on_police_militarization)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Teach-in_on_police_militarization%29

content:
<p>
In the Boston area: May 4 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1391">teach-in on police
militarization</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_May_2014_(Urgent:_Demand_real_net_neutrality)
title: Urgent: Demand real net neutrality
uri: Urgent-Demand-real-net-neutrality
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Demand_real_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/call/internet_wheeler_nn/">phone FCC
Chairman Wheeler</a> and demand real net neutrality.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_May_2014_(The_power_of_radical_pressure)
title: The power of radical pressure
uri: The-power-of-radical-pressure
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_May_2014_%28The_power_of_radical_pressure%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/02-2">Seattle's
$15 Wage Plan Proves Power of Radical Pressure</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_May_2014_(Everyday_institutional_racism)
title: Everyday institutional racism
uri: Everyday-institutional-racism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_May_2014_%28Everyday_institutional_racism%29
content:
<p>
Flagrant racists such as Donald Sterling and Cliven Bundy should not
distract us from pervasive 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/02-6">everyday
institutional racism</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_May_2014_(Ukraines_army_encircles_Slavyansk)
title: Ukraine's army encircles Slavyansk
uri: Ukraine-s-army-encircles-Slavyansk
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_May_2014_%28Ukraines_army_encircles_Slavyansk%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine's army attacked rebel checkpoints, and set up its own,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/putin-geneva-agreement-not-viable-ukraine-military-action">encircling
Slavyansk</a>.
<p>
Rebels attacked helicopters with surface-to-air missiles,
which confirms they are really soldiers armed by Russia.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_May_2014_(Syrian_rebels_evacuating_Homs)
title: Syrian rebels evacuating Homs
uri: Syrian-rebels-evacuating-Homs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_May_2014_%28Syrian_rebels_evacuating_Homs%29
content:
<p>
The Syrian rebels are evacuating Homs under 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/syria-homs-truce-rebels">truce</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_May_2014_(Expulsion_of_Palestinian_civilians)
title: Expulsion of Palestinian civilians
uri: Expulsion-of-Palestinian-civilians
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_May_2014_%28Expulsion_of_Palestinian_civilians%29
content:
<p>
Educating Israelis about the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/nakba-israel-palestine-zochrot-history">expulsion
of Palestinian civilians during and after the Israeli war of
independence</a>.
<p>
We should not forget the context in which these expulsions occurred:
Arab armies had just failed in the attempt to conquer Israel and expel
the Jews.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/massacre-marred-birth-israel-independence">Both
sides committed massacres</a>, too.
<p>
The only thing to do about those massacres is for both sides to
acknowledge them and apologize for them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_May_2014_(Eco-defenders)
title: Eco-defenders
uri: Eco-defenders
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_May_2014_%28Eco-defenders%29
content:
<p>
Eco-defenders can be though of as an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/02/climate-treaties-eco-defenders-development">"indicator
species" for the ecological health of a region</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_May_2014_(Global_heating_denialists)
title: Global heating denialists
uri: 2014-05-04-Global-heating-denialists
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_May_2014_%28Global_heating_denialists%29
content:
<p>
Global heating denialists 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/may/02/australian-quantum-theory-climate-denial">claim
that global heating is not happening, and (simultaneously) that humans
are not responsible for it, and (simultaneously) that it is
beneficial</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_May_2014_(Ben_and_Jerrys_Reef_Scoop_Tour)
title: Ben & Jerry's Reef Scoop Tour
uri: Ben-Jerry-s-Reef-Scoop-Tour
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_May_2014_%28Ben_and_Jerrys_Reef_Scoop_Tour%29
content:
<p>
A right-wing Australian politician 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/28/save-the-reef-campaign-lands-ben-and-jerrys-in-political-hot-water">says
he will prosecute Ben and Jerry's</a> for false advertising for saying
that the dredging of a coal port threatens to damage the Great Barrier
Reef.
<p>
What Ben and Jerry's says seems to agree with all authorities, except
those working for the coal companies.  In effect, these right-wingers
are following the Putin path: lie, and accuse their enemies of lying,
and threaten to punish them for bogus crimes.
<p>
I hope that Ben and Jerry's responds with an attack.


title: Urgent: Bring back education for prisoners
uri: Urgent-Bring-back-education-for-prisoners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(Urgent:_Bring_back_education_for_prisoners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Bring_back_education_for_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Federal Bureau of Prisons
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/education-for-all-2">bring
back education for prisoners.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on Scalia to recuse himself
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Scalia-to-recuse-himself
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(Urgent:_Call_on_Scalia_to_recuse_himself)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Scalia_to_recuse_himself%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Scalia
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Scalia_buffer?referring_akid=a152085375.118355">recuse
himself from the case about dishonest "crisis pregnancy centers".</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(Supply_of_shale_gas_and_shale_oil)
title: Supply of shale gas and shale oil
uri: Supply-of-shale-gas-and-shale-oil
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28Supply_of_shale_gas_and_shale_oil%29
content:
<p>
Shale gas (fracking) and shale
oil <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/selling-hydraulic-fracking-the-myth-of-energy-independence-used-to-hoodwink-the-american-people/5379709">can't
keep the US supplied with fossil fuel for very long.</a>
<p>
But even if it
could, <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#19_July_2011_%28The_Carbon_Bubble%29">we
would destroy ourselves by burning that much.</a>


title: Media flatter and fawn on the young plutocrats
uri: Media-flatter-and-fawn-on-the-young-plutocrats
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(Media_flatter_and_fawn_on_the_young_plutocrats)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28Media_flatter_and_fawn_on_the_young_plutocrats%29

content:
<p>
Obama and the mainstream
media <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20140424">assiduously
flatter and fawn on the young plutocrats that are going to inherit
billions.</a>


title: On the morality of video games which involve rape
uri: On-the-morality-of-video-games-which-involve-rape
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(On_the_morality_of_video_games_which_involve_rape)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28On_the_morality_of_video_games_which_involve_rape%29

content:
<p>
On
the <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/danaher20140429">morality
of video games which involve rape of a nonplayer character.</a>
<p>
Video games raise another moral issue: if they contain nonfree
software, that attack your
freedom.  <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.html">I
won't have a nonfree video game program on my computer.</a> But that's
an orthogonal issue, so let's assume the game software is free.
<p>
I think that there is something disturbing about enjoying these games,
but it is not limited to them; it extends to games involving killing
of nonplayer characters, too.  But it does not include <em>all</em>
ways of enjoying them.
<p>
I've played such games, and enjoyed them, because I dissociated myself
from the killing aspect, considering those shapes on the screen as
nothing more than shapes on the screen.  Thus I saw the game only in
terms of a tactical challenge.  If I had imagined the shapes vividly
as people dying, I would have neither wanted to play nor been able to
focus my mind on winning.
<p>
Thus, the killing of fictional characters in a game can elicit (at
least) two different reactions: the player can dehumanize shapes on
the screen, or imagine them as humans and dehumanize both shapes and
humans.
<p>
When a game displayed the "death" of the nonplayer character in a
graphic way with a gory corpse, that made it more work to completely
dehumanize the character.  I did so anyway, but I considered the gore
a drawback of that game.  But maybe it means that players, competing
to win, face the challenge of learning to disregard the gore.  That
could be a good lesson.
<p>
Our imagination can leap large gaps.  The game of chess is an
abstraction of battle; most of the pieces stand for people.  A player
could imagine the taking of a chess piece vividly as killing a
fictional personage, and wallow in emotion about it.  Such distraction
from the moves would not help one win at chess.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(US_has_a_long_history_of_torture)
title: US has a long history of torture
uri: US-has-a-long-history-of-torture
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28US_has_a_long_history_of_torture%29
content:
<p>
The US has
a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/01-1">long history
of torture; it did not start in Abu Ghraib.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(The_People's_Assembly)
title: The People's Assembly
uri: The-People-s-Assembly
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28The_People%27s_Assembly%29
content:
<p>
The People's
Assembly <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/01-4">vows
to bring down UK's austerity government.</a>
<p>
They are starting in the right direction, but could use a positive
program as well as a negative one.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(Australia's_right-wing_gov't)
title: Australia's right-wing gov't
uri: Australia-s-right-wing-gov-t
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28Australia%27s_right-wing_gov%27t%29
content:
<p>
Australia's right-wing government
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/03/abc-funding-protesters-call-on-abbott-government-not-to-cut-money">broken
so many campaign promises that it sets a record for lies.</a>


title: Armed pro-Russia militia took over a building
uri: Armed-pro-Russia-militia-took-over-a-building
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(Armed_pro-Russia_militia_took_over_a_building)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28Armed_pro-Russia_militia_took_over_a_building%29

content:
<p>
An armed pro-Russia militia took over a building in Odessa, and were
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/ukraine-dead-odessa-building-fire">defeated
in battle by armed pro-Ukraine militia.</a>
<p>
Ukrainian
troops <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/03/ukraine-civil-war-kiev-russia-slavyansk">are
attacking two cities.</a>
<p>
I am not very impressed by the pleas of the unarmed separatists that
try to block the army in support of the armed separatists.  This is
not a protest movement, this is a rebellion or an invasion, and one
that has imitated Putin's dishonesty at every turn.


title: Obama compares opponents of the TPP to "conspiracy theorists"
uri: Obama-compares-opponents-of-the-TPP-to-conspiracy-theorists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(Obama_compares_opponents_of_the_TPP_to_conspiracy_theorists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28Obama_compares_opponents_of_the_TPP_to_conspiracy_theorists%29

content:
<p>
Obama <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/02-5">compares
opponents of the TPP to "conspiracy theorists".</a>
<p>
The criticism of "conspiracy theory" is applied to claims that certain
parties have planned to cooperate, when there is no evidence that they
have done so.
<p>
In the case of the TPP, the governments involved do not deny that they
are secretly discussing planning joint action (i.e., a conspiracy).
The only room for uncertainty is about what they will do.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(The_Biggest_Fast_Food_Wage_Thief)
title: The Biggest Fast Food Wage Thief
uri: The-Biggest-Fast-Food-Wage-Thief
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28The_Biggest_Fast_Food_Wage_Thief%29
content:
<p>
Cheat Fresh: Subway
Is <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/05/02/3433758/wage-theft-subway/">The
Biggest Fast Food Wage Thief.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(Too_Big_to_Jail_Continues)
title: Too Big to Jail Continues
uri: Too-Big-to-Jail-Continues
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28Too_Big_to_Jail_Continues%29
content:
<p>
Too Big to Jail Continues: DOJ May Charge Two Banks with Criminal
Acts,
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/too-big-to-jail-continues-doj-may-charge-two-banks-with-criminal-acts-but-not-hold-them-criminally-accountable">But
Not Hold Them Criminally Accountable.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(Homeless_grandmother_arrested_59_times)
title: Homeless grandmother arrested 59 times
uri: Homeless-grandmother-arrested-59-times
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28Homeless_grandmother_arrested_59_times%29

content:
<p>
Ann Moody, homeless grandmother, has
been <a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/homeless-grandmother-arrested-59-times-sitting-sidewalk?paging=off">arrested
59 times in Los Angeles for sitting on sidewalks.</a>
<p>
If 100 homeless people did that, the thugs would give up trying to
stop them.
<p>
Many US cities persecute the homeless.  Callous selfish people demand
this.  San Francisco has prohibited parking RVs on the streets because
some people were living in RVs they own.
<p>
Many parts of the US prohibit giving food to homeless people; the idea
is that they should starve to death rather than make the city look
messy.


title: Vermont considering single-payer health care
uri: Vermont-considering-single-payer-health-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(Vermont_considering_single-payer_health_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28Vermont_considering_single-payer_health_care%29

content:
<p>
Vermont is
considering <a href="http://www.alternet.org/visions/medicine-americas-healthcare-headache-lies-vermont?paging=off">adopting
single-payer health care.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_May_2014_(The_Bangladeshi_RAB)
title: The Bangladeshi RAB
uri: The-Bangladeshi-RAB
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_May_2014_%28The_Bangladeshi_RAB%29
content:
<p>
The Bangladeshi RAB has assassinated 700 people since 2004.
<a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/who-is-selling-surveillance-equipment-to-a-notorious-bangladeshi-security-agency">Who
is selling it cell phone surveillance equipment?</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_May_2014_(Local_al-Qaida_leader_killed)
title: Local al-Qa'ida leader killed
uri: Local-al-Qa-ida-leader-killed
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_May_2014_%28Local_al-Qaida_leader_killed%29
content:
<p>
A local leader of al-Qa'ida in Arabia was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/03/al-qaida-arabian-peninsula-yemen-commander-drone-strike">killed
in a fight with the Yemeni army</a>.
<p>
The world is better off without him, but we should not get our hopes
up that this will do great damage to al-Qa'ida.  Underground
organizations depend most of all on their ability to recruit.
<p>
If US drones providing air support, this is much better than the usual
use of war-drones — assassination, far away from any
battlefield.  People will understand and forgive the use of arms on a
battlefield, and civilians usually won't be threatened because usually
they will have fled the area.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_May_2014_(Corruption_of_the_ANC)
title: Corruption of the ANC
uri: Corruption-of-the-ANC
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_May_2014_%28Corruption_of_the_ANC%29
content:
<p>
The ANC, which nobly fought apartheid, has since become 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/03/jacob-zuma-pleasure-dome-south-africa-elections">corrupt
through and through</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_May_2014_(British_Rail)
title: British Rail
uri: British-Rail
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_May_2014_%28British_Rail%29
content:
<p>
The UK Labour party 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/03/rail-state-control-ed-miliband">proposes
to undo the privatization of British Rail</a>.
<p>
I'm in favor, but what's crucial, in the economy, is to make the rich
and businesses pay more taxes.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_May_2014_(Condoleeza_Rice_cancels_speech)
title: Condoleeza Rice cancels speech
uri: Condoleeza-Rice-cancels-speech
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_May_2014_%28Condoleeza_Rice_cancels_speech%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/03-0">>Protesters</a>
convinced Condoleezza Rice to cancel a highly paid speech at Rutgers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_May_2014_(Yahoo_to_disregard_Do_not_track)
title: Yahoo to disregard "Do not track"
uri: Yahoo-to-disregard-Do-not-track
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_May_2014_%28Yahoo_to_disregard_Do_not_track%29
content:
<p>
Yahoo 
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/1/5672626/starting-today-yahoo-will-not-honor-do-not-track-settings">announced
it will disregard "Do Not Track" settings</a> and profile users
anyway.
<p>
"Do Not Track" does not really mean users are not tracked.  Sites that
honor that system agree to limit <em>how they use</em> the tracking
data, but they do not stop collecting it, so it does nothing to reduce
the dossiers 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">available
for Big Brother to view at will</a>.  Thus, I have mostly not paid
attention to Do Not Track.
<p>
However, this defiance by Yahoo might heat up the surveillance battle.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_May_2014_(Paper_books_vs_ebooks)
title: Paper books vs ebooks
uri: Paper-books-vs-ebooks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_May_2014_%28Paper_books_vs_ebooks%29
content:
<p>
Reading on paper seems to be better than reading ebooks, even in a 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/05/reading-on-screen-versus-paper/">direct
practical sense</a>.
<p>
This point is interesting, but doesn't go beyond the shallowest of
values: what it's like to read.  Ebooks affect other values that
people have considered important.
<p>
For instance, when technology and EULAs block and prohibit people from
giving or lending books freely to others, they damage our social
relationships.  Most commercial ebooks are like that.
<p>
When ebooks are designed for products that snoop on users' reading,
and permit a store to remotely erase their books, they damage our
human rights.  Most commercial ebook readers are like that.
<p>
See 
<a href="media/d0e54868.ebooks.pdf" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/ebooks.pdf">http://stallman.org/ebooks.pdf</a>
for more details.
<p>
Even acquiring a copy means being snooped on, if you have to identify
yourself to the store.  That's massive surveillance.  See
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html</a>.
<p>
I've read some ebooks on my computer's screen, and it's ok.  But I'd
never get an ebook under the limits that commercial ebooks impose
today.  I won't let the question of what it's like to read distract me
from what it's like to lose freedom.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_May_2014_(Apples_patent_aggression)
title: Apple's patent aggression
uri: Apple-s-patent-aggression
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_May_2014_%28Apples_patent_aggression%29
content:
<p>
Apple's patent aggression against Android resulted in a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/03/samsung-ordered-to-pay-apple-120m-for-patent-violation">loss
for free software</a>, even though Apple did not get the big money or
the injunction it sought.
<p>
Software should be 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">exempted
entirely from patent law</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_May_2014_(The_Heatland_Institute)
title: The Heatland Institute
uri: The-Heatland-Institute
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_May_2014_%28The_Heatland_Institute%29
content:
<p>
The Heatland (*) Institute worked long and hard denying the harm that
tobacco does to health, before it took its expertise to 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/05/12464/heartland-institute-reluctantly-stands-denial-cigarette-smoking-risks">denying
global heating</a>.
<p>
* Officially the "Heartland" Institute.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Does_the_NYT_have_a_pro-Kiev_bias?)
title: Does the NYT have a pro-Kiev bias?
uri: Does-the-NYT-have-a-pro-Kiev-bias
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Does_the_NYT_have_a_pro-Kiev_bias%3F%29

content:
<p>The New York Times has been working hard on
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/04-2">
pro-Kiev spin</a>
in covering fighting in Ukraine.
</p>
<p>There is, nonetheless, plenty of support for the conclusions that the
rebel militias in Eastern Ukraine are organized by Russia, that they
are armed (and with more than small arms), and that they are trying to
drag their region by force under the power of a tyrant that lies
without hesitation.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Urgent:_Raise_the_minimum_wage)
title: Urgent: Raise the minimum wage
uri: 2014-05-05-Urgent-Raise-the-minimum-wage
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_the_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>US citizens: tell Congress that
<a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6405/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9749">
raising the minimum wage</a>
will strengthen social security too.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_predatory_career_colleges)
title: Urgent: Stop predatory career colleges
uri: Urgent-Stop-predatory-career-colleges
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_predatory_career_colleges%29

content:
<p>US citizens:
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/hold-predatory-career-colleges-accountable-for-abusing-students-and-ripping-off-taxpayers">
Hold predatory career colleges accountable</a>
for abusing students and ripping off taxpayers.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Urgent:_Support_divestment_at_Harvard)
title: Urgent: Support divestment at Harvard
uri: Urgent-Support-divestment-at-Harvard
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_divestment_at_Harvard%29

content:
<p>Everyone: state your solidarity with
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/solidarity_harvard_divestment_2/">
Harvard students calling for divestment</a>
from fossil fuel companies.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_ALEC)
title: Urgent: Oppose ALEC
uri: Urgent-Oppose-ALEC
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_ALEC%29
content:
<p>US citizens:
<a href="http://act.standuptoalec.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8404">
call on your state legislators</a>
to oppose ALEC's agenda for outsourcing public services.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Freedom_of_the_press)
title: Freedom of the press
uri: Freedom-of-the-press
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Freedom_of_the_press%29
content:
<p>2013 was a bad year for
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/05/five-things-learned-bad-year-press-freedom/">
freedom of the press</a>,
in "free" countries as
well as others.
</p>
<p>It's not just due to evil regimes: religious fanatics that believe
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/05/reflecting-northern-irelands-self-appointed-theatre-censors/">
they have a right not to be offended</a>
are also responsible.
Until not that long ago, Christian fanatics censored through prosecution
and violence, just as
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#13_September_2012_(Egyptians_attack_US_embassy)">
Muslim fanatics still do.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(NCA_report_to_be_unveilled)
title: NCA report to be unveiled
uri: NCA-report-to-be-unveiled
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28NCA_report_to_be_unveilled%29
content:
<p>The US
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/04/climate-change-present-us-national-assessment">
National Climate Assessment</a>
will recognize that global heating
is already causing changes in the climate, some with very harmful
effects.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(The_benefits_of_efficiency)
title: The benefits of efficiency
uri: The-benefits-of-efficiency
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28The_benefits_of_efficiency%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/05/energy-efficiency-untapped-goldmine/">
Energy efficiency</a>
could create 600,000 skilled jobs in the US
while saving 17 billion dollars and burning a lot less fossil fuel.
</p>


title: Activists storm jail unopposed in Odessa
uri: Activists-storm-jail-unopposed-in-Odessa
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Activists_storm_jail_unopposed_in_Odessa)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Activists_storm_jail_unopposed_in_Odessa%29

content:
<p>The Odessa thugs
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/04/pro-russia-prisoners-released-militants-storm-odessa-police-headquarters">
allowed a pro-Russia mob to rescue pro-Russia prisoners</a>
arrested after the battle at the labor union building.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Poverty_and_guns)
title: Poverty and guns
uri: Poverty-and-guns
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Poverty_and_guns%29
content:
<p>The NRA builds up fear of gun violence to facilitate gun violence,
but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/04/gun-control-violence-poverty-segregation-nra">
institutionalized racism and inequality</a>
contribute to the fear.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Hassan_Rouhani_faces_opposition)
title: Hassan Rouhani faces opposition
uri: Hassan-Rouhani-faces-opposition
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Hassan_Rouhani_faces_opposition%29
content:
<p>Iranian right-wingers are pressuring to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/04/hassan-rouhani-iran-nuclear-talks">
reject a nuclear deal with the US</a>,
saying the deal would not offer Iran enough.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Industrial_scale_food_fraud)
title: Industrial scale food fraud
uri: Industrial-scale-food-fraud
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Industrial_scale_food_fraud%29
content:
<p>Complex supply chains for food products, together with governments that
do little to inspect, mean that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/03/buy-local-food-defence-against-fraud">
fraud is rife.</a></p>
<p>The root of this problem is that governments are subservient to the
food companies, so have ceased to inspect them.  Frequent inspections
at the food processing company's expense would create an incentive to
simplify the supply chains.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Manifesto_for_Europe)
title: Manifesto for Europe
uri: Manifesto-for-Europe
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Manifesto_for_Europe%29
content:
<p>Thomas Piketty and others propose
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/02/manifesto-europe-radical-financial-democratic">
a common eurozone income tax and a joint eurozone debt</a>,
to take over the debt of austerity-stricken
countries such as Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece.
</p>
<p>This seems like a step forward, but I think that an element of direct
democracy is needed too.  The European chamber could be unnecessary 
if the people vote directly as the second chamber.</p>
<p>If such a big change is done, it would be a good opportunity to allow
governments to create money without borrowing it from private banks,
which is greatly profitable to the owners of the banks at the public
expense.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Domestic_surveillance)
title: Domestic surveillance
uri: Domestic-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Domestic_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/intelligence-agencies-and-workers-rights-political-surveillance-at-its-worst">
Intelligence agencies and workers rights</a>:
political surveillance at its
worst.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(More_immunity_for_compliant_telecomms)
title: More immunity for compliant telecoms
uri: More-immunity-for-compliant-telecoms
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28More_immunity_for_compliant_telecomms%29

content:
<p>Obama is trying to increase the effective extent surveillance by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/white-house-legal-immunity-telecoms-firms-bill">
giving companies immunity</a>
for caving and handing over data on people
in response to invalid subpoenas.
</p>


title: American Legislative Exchange Council on the warpath
uri: American-Legislative-Exchange-Council-on-the-warpath
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(American_Legislative_Exchange_Council_on_the_warpath)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28American_Legislative_Exchange_Council_on_the_warpath%29

content:
<p>ALEC is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/02/barack-obamas-emissions-plan-comes-under-new-line-of-attack">
organizing owners of coal-fired power plants</a>
to fight against EPA limits on CO2 emissions.
</p>
<p>This is in addition to many state bills intended to keep the
consumption of fossil fuel as high as possible.  Their arguments are
based on comparing the costs of avoiding global heating disaster with
an impossible fantasy future.</p>


title: Prepayment energy users overpay, face threats
uri: Prepayment-energy-users-overpay-face-threats
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Prepayment_energy_users_overpay,_face_threats)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Prepayment_energy_users_overpay%2C_face_threats%29

content:
<p>Poor people in the UK have to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/may/03/energy-cutoffs">
pay cash in advance</a>
to get electricity or gas, so when they can't afford both heat and food,
their heat gets cut off immediately.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Deputy_lies_about_accident)
title: Deputy lies about accident
uri: Deputy-lies-about-accident
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Deputy_lies_about_accident%29
content:
<p>A thug crashed his car into Tanya Weyker's car, gravely injuring her.
To evade blame,
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2619533/It-miracle-I-wasnt-paralyzed-Sober-driver-arrested-trumped-DWI-charges-sheriffs-deputy-smashes-car-leaving-broken-neck.html">
he accused her of driving while drunk.</a>
</p>
<p>It was convenient for him that her injuries precluded testing her
for alcohol at the time.</p>
<p>We need to put take these thugs off the streets and put them in
prison.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Israeli-Palestinian_peace)
title: Israeli-Palestinian peace
uri: Israeli-Palestinian-peace
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Israeli-Palestinian_peace%29
content:
<p>Uri Avnery:
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1399048629/">
the reconciliation of Hamas and the PLO</a>
is a crucial step
towards peace between Israel and Palestine.  No wonder Netanyahu is
screaming.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(Austrialians_divest)
title: Australians divest
uri: Australians-divest
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28Austrialians_divest%29
content:
<p>Australians are pressuring the big banks with
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/05/02">
a campaign to move their money</a>
if the banks continue supporting fossil fuel projects.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_May_2014_(New_antibiotics_not_profitable_enough)
title: New antibiotics not profitable enough
uri: New-antibiotics-not-profitable-enough
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_May_2014_%28New_antibiotics_not_profitable_enough%29

content:
<p>The twisted system of medical research mostly avoids
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/04/risk-disaster-drugs-giants-dont-invest-research">
searching for new antibiotics.</a>
It's merely life-saving, not lucrative enough.</p>
<p>For decades, most new drugs that save lives were not developed by Big
Pharma.  We should tax Big Pharma heavily, and use the money to fund
medical research that aims at curing diseases.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(License_plate_camera_data_base)
title: License plate camera data base
uri: License-plate-camera-data-base
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28License_plate_camera_data_base%29
content:
<p>
Thug departments and others around the US store license plate camera
data in a private data base which 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/05/license-plate-tracking/">aggregates 
all the data</a>.
<p>
Furthermore, the clients of this company are forbidden to talk about
their use of it.  (It should be illegal in general for any public body
to bind itself to secrecy about its use of a company's services.)


title: Urgent: Allow master limited partnerships for renewable energy
uri: Urgent-Allow-master-limited-partnerships-for-renewable-energy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Urgent:_Allow_master_limited_partnerships_for_renewable_energy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Allow_master_limited_partnerships_for_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and urge them
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?alertId=4143&pg=makeACall">allow
master limited partnerships for renewable energy.</a>


title: Urgent: Stop supporting inhumane executions
uri: Urgent-Stop-supporting-inhumane-executions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_supporting_inhumane_executions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_supporting_inhumane_executions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens, and anyone in medical fields: call on the American
Pharmacists Association
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/apa_executions?referring_akid=a152269708.11835">stop
its members from supporting inhumane executions.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_working_with_Gazprom)
title: Urgent: Stop working with Gazprom
uri: Urgent-Stop-working-with-Gazprom
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_working_with_Gazprom%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Shell
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1611">stop
working with Gazprom and stop undersea Arctic drilling.</a>


title: Urgent: Protect the habitat of sage grouse
uri: Urgent-Protect-the-habitat-of-sage-grouse
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_the_habitat_of_sage_grouse)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_the_habitat_of_sage_grouse%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2725">protect
the habitat of sage grouse.</a> This will also protect other species
that live in the same habitat.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(3-4_meters_of_sea_level_rise)
title: 3-4 meters of sea level rise
uri: 3-4-meters-of-sea-level-rise
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%283-4_meters_of_sea_level_rise%29
content:
<p>
A little more global
heating <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/05-3">could
unlock 3-4 meters of sea level rise.</a> It will take millenia for all
of this rise to happen, but it will be unstoppable even if we lower
the CO2 level back down.


title: Spinoff of the RIAA is illegally lobbying
uri: Spinoff-of-the-RIAA-is-illegally-lobbying
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Spinoff_of_the_RIAA_is_illegally_lobbying)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Spinoff_of_the_RIAA_is_illegally_lobbying%29

content:
<p>
A spinoff of the RIAA
is <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070806/013113.shtml">illegally
lobbying for stricter copyright rules for radio stations.</a>


title: Clinton's false statements about Snowden
uri: Clinton-s-false-statements-about-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Clinton's_false_statements_about_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Clinton%27s_false_statements_about_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
Ms
Clinton's <a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/04/28/fact-checking-hillary-clinton.html">false
statements about Edward Snowden and pertinent US laws.</a>
<p>
The idea that she made these statements out of ignorance is
unbelievable.  She must have thought long and hard about what she
would say, and these statements represent her allegiance to the
security state.
<p>
Her support for unjust
power <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#13_November_2013_%28Democrats_condemn_Clinton_as_a_servant_of_Wall_Street%29">extends
to other issues too,</a> so I will not support her or vote for her.
If she is the Democratic nominee for President, I will vote Green.


title: Employee of WIPO accused a director of misconduct
uri: Employee-of-WIPO-accused-a-director-of-misconduct
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Employee_of_WIPO_accused_a_director_of_misconduct)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Employee_of_WIPO_accused_a_director_of_misconduct%29

content:
<p>
An employee of WIPO accused a director of misconduct, but WIPO
has <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140428/06585327048/shameful-wipo-threatens-blogger-with-criminal-charges-accurately-reporting-wipo-directors-alleged-misconduct.shtml">wiped
the report off the net by threatening lawsuits.</a>


title: Women who survive breast cancer have lost their jobs
uri: Women-who-survive-breast-cancer-have-lost-their-jobs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Women_who_survive_breast_cancer_have_lost_their_jobs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Women_who_survive_breast_cancer_have_lost_their_jobs%29

content:
<p>
Almost 1/3 of US women who survive breast cancer
have <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/30-percent-of-breast-cancer-survivors-later-lost-their-jobs/">lost
their jobs in 4 years.</a>


title: Coal company in charge of environmental policy
uri: Coal-company-in-charge-of-environmental-policy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Coal_company_in_charge_of_environmental_policy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Coal_company_in_charge_of_environmental_policy%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing party governing of Queensland (Australia) has put a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/06/queensland-environmental-policy-developed-by-qcoal-worker-says-report">coal
company in charge of its environmental policy since 2012.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Piketty_neglected_detailed_causes)
title: Piketty neglected detailed causes
uri: Piketty-neglected-detailed-causes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Piketty_neglected_detailed_causes%29
content:
<p>
Piketty
has <a href="http://prospect.org/article/what-piketty-leaves-out">neglected
the detailed causes of the temporary 20th century setback for the
power of the wealthy</a>.  Studying them suggests ideas for how to
repeat that setback.


title: Faux News asked guest not to talk about climate change
uri: Faux-News-asked-guest-not-to-talk-about-climate-change
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Faux_News_asked_guest_not_to_talk_about_climate_change)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Faux_News_asked_guest_not_to_talk_about_climate_change%29

content:
<p>
Faux News explicitly asked a guest on a
show <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/04/30/my-experience-on-fox-friends-regarding-climate-change/">not
to talk about climate change (global heating).</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(The_impulse_to_help_others)
title: The impulse to help others
uri: The-impulse-to-help-others
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28The_impulse_to_help_others%29
content:
<p>
Toddlers have an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/may/04/how-babies-turn-into-selfish-monsters">impulse
to help others</a>.  Modern materialistic society can teach them to
lose it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Urgent:_Renewable_energy_tax_benefits)
title: Urgent: Renewable energy tax benefits
uri: Urgent-Renewable-energy-tax-benefits
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Renewable_energy_tax_benefits%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.ucsusa.org/site/R?i=iEHV2XMnuHG_bQGg3EToYw">phone
your senators</a> to give renewable energy the same tax benefits that
fossil fuels get.
<p>
I would go further and suggest taking these benefits away from
fossil fuels.


title: Urgent: No subsidies for charter schools
uri: Urgent-No-subsidies-for-charter-schools
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Urgent:_No_subsidies_for_charter_schools)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_subsidies_for_charter_schools%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-congress-dont-fund">call
on Congress</a> to reject subsidies for charter schools.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(E-cigarettes)
title: E-cigarettes
uri: E-cigarettes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28E-cigarettes%29
content:
<p>
E-cigarettes can make nicotine less dangerous, but they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/05/rise-of-e-cigarettes-miracle-or-health-risk">might
also encourage people to continue or resume smoking</a>.
<p>
Perhaps this can be changed by making e-cigarettes conspicuously
different from cigarettes.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Protesters_in_Venezuela_abused)
title: Protesters in Venezuela abused
uri: Protesters-in-Venezuela-abused
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Protesters_in_Venezuela_abused%29
content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch says that many protesters in Venezuela were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/05/venezuela-committing-systematic-human-rights-abuses">abused
after arrest</a>.  150 were held incommunicado.  Some had their bones
broken.
<p>
Even if the US organized these protests as part of a destabilization
campaign, that doesn't justify this.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Obamas_judge_nominee)
title: Obama's judge nominee
uri: Obama-s-judge-nominee
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Obamas_judge_nominee%29
content:
<p>
Obama nominated as a judge a lawyer whose secret legal memos 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/05/paul-derail-obama-judicial-nominee-drone-david-barron">purported
to justify Obama's assassination drones</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Putin_rewards_objective_coverage)
title: Putin rewards "objective coverage"
uri: Putin-rewards-objective-coverage
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Putin_rewards_objective_coverage%29
content:
<p>
Putin 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/05/vladimir-putin-pro-kremlin-journalists-medals-objective-crimea">gave
medals to 300 journalists</a> that cover the situation in Ukraine in
accord with his wishes.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Those_who_follow_Jesus_for_money)
title: Those who "follow Jesus for money"
uri: Those-who-follow-Jesus-for-money
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Those_who_follow_Jesus_for_money%29
content:
<p>
The Pope is stepping up the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/05/pope-francis-jesus-money-vatican-bank-bureaucracy">campaign
against</a> those who "follow Jesus for money".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Snakes_in_Gran_Canaria)
title: Snakes in Gran Canaria
uri: Snakes-in-Gran-Canaria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Snakes_in_Gran_Canaria%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/05/invasion-albino-snakes-threatens-gran-canaria-wildlife">Introduced
small snakes</a> are destroying the wildlife of Gran Canaria, where
they have no predators.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Rising_sea_level)
title: Rising sea level
uri: Rising-sea-level
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Rising_sea_level%29
content:
<p>
Global heating, pushing up sea level, has already 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/05/australia-risks-going-backwards-on-climate-change-and-straining-pacific-ties">drowned
one atoll</a> in the Pacific.  The inhabitants of other atolls wonder,
who's next?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(Ukrainian_army_fighting_rebels)
title: Ukrainian army fighting rebels
uri: Ukrainian-army-fighting-rebels
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28Ukrainian_army_fighting_rebels%29
content:
<p>
The Ukrainian army is fighting rebels around Slavyansk.  The rebels
have heavy weapons including 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/05/ukrainian-troops-clash-pro-russia-milita-gun-battles-slavyansk">mortars
and armored vehicles</a>.
<p>
Are these the armored vehicles that were taken away from the
Ukrainian army a couple of weeks ago, or are they different ones?
<p>
Reporters interviewed one rebel militia unit and found only Ukrainians
who favored Russia, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/05-4">no
representatives of the Russian government</a>.  Also no mortars or
armored vehicles.
<p>
Ukrainians, and not those living just near the Russian border, should
be afraid of IMF shock treatment.  But you'd have to be nuts to prefer
Putin's dictatorship.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 06_May_2014_(The_way_economics_is_taught)
title: The way economics is taught
uri: The-way-economics-is-taught
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#06_May_2014_%28The_way_economics_is_taught%29
content:
<p>
Economics students around the world have condemned the way economics
is taught, focusing on the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/04/economics-students-overhaul-subject-teaching">easily
falsified neoclassical approach</a> to the subject.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_May_2014_(Cecily_McMillans_trial)
title: Cecily McMillan's trial
uri: Cecily-McMillan-s-trial
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_May_2014_%28Cecily_McMillans_trial%29
content:
<p>
A lot more 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/06/cecily-mcmillan-juror-occupy-activists-jail-sentence">detail
about the trial and conviction</a> of Cecily McMillan.
<p>
It appears that the jurors voted to convict her because the video did
not seem to support her statements of what happened.  Reportedly it
might not be clear enough to show what happened.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_May_2014_(Political_power_of_agribusiness)
title: Political power of agribusiness
uri: Political-power-of-agribusiness
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_May_2014_%28Political_power_of_agribusiness%29
content:
<p>
A arrogant Brazilian politician boasts of representing the political
power of agribusiness, and says they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/05/brazil-chainsaw-queen-katia-abreu-amazon-deforestation">will
destroy anything and everything that gets in their way</a> (indigenous
people, rain forests, wildlife, probably human rights).
<p>
These are the sort of people that would tear Earth's ecosphere to
shreds trying to get a bigger share for themselves.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_May_2014_(Australias_offshore_prison)
title: Australia's offshore prison
uri: Australia-s-offshore-prison
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_May_2014_%28Australias_offshore_prison%29
content:
<p>
Australia's offshore prison for boat people is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/06/manus-island-block-rape-dungeon-claim">hell-hole</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_May_2014_(US_TV_political_ads)
title: US TV political ads
uri: US-TV-political-ads
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_May_2014_%28US_TV_political_ads%29
content:
<p>
US TV stations are supposed to require political advertisers to post
information, but many stations are 
<a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/05/01/how-tv-stations-are-letting-advertisers-play-hide-and-seek/">ignoring
the requirement</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_May_2014_(Canadian_telco_gives_govt_access)
title: Canadian telco gives gov't access
uri: Canadian-telco-gives-gov-t-access
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_May_2014_%28Canadian_telco_gives_govt_access%29
content:
<p>
It appears that some Canadian telco is giving the government 
<a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/7117/125/">access to
each and every packet that is transmitted</a>.
<p>
US telcos do the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_June_2013_(US_telecom_companion_outside_of_US_have_given_NSA_back_doors)">same</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_May_2014_(Media_perpetuation_of_War_on_Drugs)
title: Media perpetuation of War on Drugs
uri: Media-perpetuation-of-War-on-Drugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_May_2014_%28Media_perpetuation_of_War_on_Drugs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.substance.com/ncb-reactionary-media-perpetuatue-war-drugs/">How
NBC and Our Reactionary Media Perpetuate the War on Drugs</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_May_2014_(Smart_phone_work_hours)
title: "Smart" phone work hours
uri: Smart-phone-work-hours
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_May_2014_%28Smart_phone_work_hours%29
content:
<p>
They say "smart" phones are addictive, but maybe it's just that
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/smartphone-addiction-research-work-email">businesses
force their staff to use them all the time</a>.
<p>
The article shows evidence that this practice makes employees less
productive.  If that convinces some companies to stop making their
employees work an 80-hour week, that's good.  But protecting workers
from exploitation should not depend on convincing employers that
exploiting them is counterproductive.
<p>
What we really need is a labor movement strong enough to
<em>force</em> companies to stop exploiting workers, 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_April_2014_(Work_hours_in_France)">as
we saw recently in France</a>.
<p>
The problem of interruptions only occurs if you are notified
immediately when a message arrives.  I spend all day reading my emails
and answering some of them, but I only get new mail when I connect and
ask for it.  Thus, it never interrupts me.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Facial_recognition)
title: Facial recognition
uri: Facial-recognition
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Facial_recognition%29
content:
<p>
Is facial
recognition <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/04/facial-recognition-technology-identity-tesco-ethical-issues">arriving
at the point of total tracking of people on the street?</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Global_heating_is_inundating_land)
title: Global heating is inundating land
uri: Global-heating-is-inundating-land
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Global_heating_is_inundating_land%29
content:
<p>
Global heating
is <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/06/3434488/nca-report-indigenous-tribes/">inundating
the land of some native peoples in Alaska</a>, leaving them nowhere to
go.


title: Global heating threatens electric power generation
uri: Global-heating-threatens-electric-power-generation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Global_heating_threatens_electric_power_generation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Global_heating_threatens_electric_power_generation%29

content:
<p>
Global
heating <a href="http://action.ucsusa.org/site/R?i=7InBPe0UwoNpA4Zs8N0VZg">threatens
electric power generation.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Poaching_in_Africa)
title: Poaching in Africa
uri: Poaching-in-Africa
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Poaching_in_Africa%29
content:
<p>
Poaching in Africa
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/africa-wild/2014/may/05/war-on-poaching-cannot-be-won-unless-we-take-on-corruption">enabled
by corruption of the officials who are supposed to prevent it.</a>
<p>
Unfortunately, anything that is illegal and sells for a high price
tends to encourage corruption.  (As illegal drugs do.)
<p>
Since the drugs really work, and some are addictive, while neither is
true for ivory and rhino horn, I hope it is easier to reduce demand
for the latter two.


title: Selling opportunity to meet with Australia's treasurer
uri: Selling-opportunity-to-meet-with-Australia-s-treasurer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Selling_opportunity_to_meet_with_Australia's_treasurer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Selling_opportunity_to_meet_with_Australia%27s_treasurer%29

content:
<p>
An Australian organization that raises funds for the right-wing ruling
party from business advertises it is selling the opportunity to meet
with Australia's treasurer.  But he says he's going
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/05/joe-hockey-engages-lawyers-over-media-reports-of-fundraising-forum">sue
a newspaper that said he was for sale.</a>


title: NATO countries are regularly bombing in Libya
uri: NATO-countries-are-regularly-bombing-in-Libya
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(NATO_countries_are_regularly_bombing_in_Libya)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28NATO_countries_are_regularly_bombing_in_Libya%29

content:
<p>
It appears that NATO countries
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/15/libya-nato-gathers-targets-twitter">regularly
bombing in Libya.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Global_heating_effects_in_the_US)
title: Global heating effects in the US
uri: Global-heating-effects-in-the-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Global_heating_effects_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Global heating effects in the US
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/06/climate-change-report-us-dire-warning">causing
harm in areas from agriculture to allergies.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/may/06/top-ten-global-warming-skeptic-arguments-debunked">The
Top Ten Global Warming 'Skeptic' Arguments Answered.</a>


title: Snubbing the Dalai Lama to suck up to China
uri: Snubbing-the-Dalai-Lama-to-suck-up-to-China
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Snubbing_the_Dalai_Lama_to_suck_up_to_China)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Snubbing_the_Dalai_Lama_to_suck_up_to_China%29

content:
<p>
Norway has
admitted <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/06/norway-snub-dalai-lama-nobel-visit">snubbing
the Dalai Lama to suck up to China.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(The_Drivers_of_Deficits_in_Education)
title: The Drivers of Deficits in Education
uri: The-Drivers-of-Deficits-in-Education
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28The_Drivers_of_Deficits_in_Education%29

content:
<p>
Poverty And Inequality, Not
Teachers, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/06">Are
the Drivers of Deficits in Education.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Uighurs_in_China_turning_to_terrorism)
title: Uighurs in China turning to terrorism
uri: Uighurs-in-China-turning-to-terrorism
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Uighurs_in_China_turning_to_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
Uighurs in China, who were resisting Chinese domination,
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/06/terrorism-china-uighur-militants-afghanistan-pakistan">turning
to terrorism and might take up Islamist extremism too.</a>


title: Mubarak's party's leaders banned from running for office
uri: Mubarak-s-party-s-leaders-banned-from-running-for-office
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Mubarak's_party's_leaders_banned_from_running_for_office)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Mubarak%27s_party%27s_leaders_banned_from_running_for_office%29

content:
<p>
Mubarak's party's leaders have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/06/egyptian-court-bans-mubarak-party-leaders-elections">banned
from running for office in Egypt.</a>
<p>
They probably discredited themselves, but no more than al-Sisi's
supporters have.


title: Ukraine's neo-Nazis continue to play a role
uri: Ukraine-s-neo-Nazis-continue-to-play-a-role
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Ukraine's_neo-Nazis_continue_to_play_a_role)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Ukraine%27s_neo-Nazis_continue_to_play_a_role%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine's
neo-Nazis <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/06-0">continue
to play a role.</a>


title: How RIAA and its masters shaft older musicians
uri: How-RIAA-and-its-masters-shaft-older-musicians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(How_RIAA_and_its_masters_shaft_older_musicians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28How_RIAA_and_its_masters_shaft_older_musicians%29

content:
<p>
How the RIAA and its masters, the record
factories, <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140425/07192227027/riaa-claims-that-it-is-standing-up-older-musicians-that-it-actually-left-to-rot.shtml">shaft
older musicians while using them as an excuse to attack.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Urgent:_Pesticide_exposure_standards)
title: Urgent: Pesticide exposure standards
uri: Urgent-Pesticide-exposure-standards
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Pesticide_exposure_standards%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy;?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1583">call
on the EPA</a> to establish stricter standards for exposure to
pesticides.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Thai_PM_ordered_to_step_down)
title: Thai PM ordered to step down
uri: Thai-PM-ordered-to-step-down
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Thai_PM_ordered_to_step_down%29
content:
<p>
The Thai constitutional court 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/thai-court-orders-yingluck-shinawatra-resign">ordered
Prime Minister Shinawatra to step down</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Defeating_Boko_Haram)
title: Defeating Boko Haram
uri: Defeating-Boko-Haram
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Defeating_Boko_Haram%29
content:
<p>
The US and UK are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/nigeria-kidnap-schoolgirls-us-uk-help">offering
support</a> to fight Boko Haram.
<p>
I doubt that rescuing these girls, as such, is possible.  Defeating
Boko Haram might be possible somehow.  I am in favor of it in
principle, but it is easier said than done.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Boat_people_towed_by_Australia)
title: Boat people towed by Australia
uri: Boat-people-towed-by-Australia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Boat_people_towed_by_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Australia tows boat people into Indonesian waters after putting them
into lifeboats from which 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/asylum-seeker-lifeboats-stripped-of-their-safety-equipment">some
safety equipment has been removed</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Threat_to_the_Great_Barrier_Reef)
title: Threat to the Great Barrier Reef
uri: 2014-05-08-Threat-to-the-Great-Barrier-Reef
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Threat_to_the_Great_Barrier_Reef%29
content:
<p>
The threat to the Great Barrier Reef from planned dredging is even
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/great-barrier-reefs-unprecedented-threat-from-dredging-dumping">greater
than previously reported</a>.
<p>
Is Ben and Jerry's still campaigning against this?
Can anyone tell me?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Australian_budget)
title: Australian budget
uri: Australian-budget
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Australian_budget%29
content:
<p>
Australia's government is eager to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2014/may/07/australian-budget-2014-abbott-fossil-fuel-subsidies-diesel">cut
support for the poor so it can maintain subsidies for fossil
fuels</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Plans_for_dams_in_Amazon_region)
title: Plans for dams in Amazon region
uri: Plans-for-dams-in-Amazon-region
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Plans_for_dams_in_Amazon_region%29
content:
<p>
If plans are carried out, there will be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/may/06/more-400-dams-amazon-headwaters">400
dams</a> in the Amazon region.  Their ecological consequences have not
been studied.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Global_heating_and_agriculture)
title: Global heating and agriculture
uri: Global-heating-and-agriculture
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Global_heating_and_agriculture%29
content:
<p>
Specific examples of how global heating is 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/05/6-alarming-facts-food-and-global-warming">damaging
agriculture around the US</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Video_of_an_abortion)
title: Video of an abortion
uri: Video-of-an-abortion
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Video_of_an_abortion%29
content:
<p>
Emily Letts posted a video of her abortion to show 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/05/05/3434285/woman-filmed-abortion-story/">how
safe it was</a>.
<p>
In Afghanistan, abortion 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/afghan-women-use-abortion-as-a-way-out/a-17612865">substitutes
for birth control</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Merger_would_let_Pfizer_duck_taxes)
title: Merger would let Pfizer duck taxes
uri: Merger-would-let-Pfizer-duck-taxes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Merger_would_let_Pfizer_duck_taxes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/29/3431950/pfizer-tax-avoidance/">Merger
Would Let Pfizer Duck A Billion Dollars In U.S. Taxes Each Year</a>.
<p>
The merger should be blocked, as all mergers of large companies should
be blocked, for the sake of competition and to reduce lobbying power.
The right fix for this reduction in taxes is to eliminate the tax
deduction that this merger would take advantage of.
<p>
If companies were taxed at a 
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-big-to-fail/">progressive
rate</a>, it would give them an incentive not to merge.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Restoring_peace_in_Ukraine)
title: Restoring peace in Ukraine
uri: Restoring-peace-in-Ukraine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Restoring_peace_in_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/06-3">>proposal</a>
for restoring peace in Ukraine.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Ex-MP_lobbyists_in_Europe)
title: Ex-MP lobbyists in Europe
uri: Ex-MP-lobbyists-in-Europe
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Ex-MP_lobbyists_in_Europe%29
content:
<p>
Business lobbyists have gained a lot of influence in the European
Parliament, and a revolving door has started where 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/08/lobbyists-european-parliament-brussels-corporate">ex-MPs
become lobbyists</a>.
<p>
We should demand our candidates pledge not to work for business
lobbies after they leave office.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Investment_in_oil_projects)
title: Investment in oil projects
uri: Investment-in-oil-projects
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Investment_in_oil_projects%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/08/oil-capital-climate-change">trillion
dollars</a> is being invested in oil projects that will be worthless
(because they won't be used) if global heating disaster is averted.
<p>
If the investors were in danger of losing their money, we would have
no reason to care about that.  But they won't give up so easily.  They
have a lot of money, and they are using it in 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#07_December_2012_(Influence_of_Koch_brothers_money_on_UN_climate_talks)">many 
ways</a> to make sure we remain on track towards global heating
disaster.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Obama_endorses_charter_school_myth)
title: Obama endorses charter school myth
uri: Obama-endorses-charter-school-myth
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Obama_endorses_charter_school_myth%29
content:
<p>
Obama joins Republicans in 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/07-6">endorsing the
myth</a> that charter schools are good for students.
<p>
What they are good for is profit.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Freedom_of_speech_for_the_wealthy)
title: Freedom of speech for the wealthy
uri: Freedom-of-speech-for-the-wealthy
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Freedom_of_speech_for_the_wealthy%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing members of the US Supreme Court tend to uphold free speech
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/06-0">preferentially
for the wealthy and right-wing</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Weakened_USA_Freedom_Act_approved)
title: Weakened USA Freedom Act approved
uri: Weakened-USA-Freedom-Act-approved
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Weakened_USA_Freedom_Act_approved%29
content:
<p>
The USA Freedom Act was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/usa-freedom-act-clears-house-committee-nsa-surveillance">approved
by the House Judiciary Committee</a>, somewhat weakened.
<p>
It is a significant step forward, but 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">nowhere
near enough to restore privacy rights on the Internet</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Seattles_15-per-hr_minimum_wage)
title: Seattle's $15/hr minimum wage
uri: Seattle-s-15-hr-minimum-wage
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Seattles_15-per-hr_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
Although Seattle has approved a $15/hr minimum wage, greedy bastards
in business are still 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/seattles-15-dollars-minimum-wage-starbucks">fighting
to delay and undermine the policy</a>.
<p>
Measures to help working people (more generally, regulation of
business) can backfire, but often they are very helpful.  However,
each time a measure is proposed, the greedy bastards will always come
up with an excuse to claim that it will backfire.  Occasionally the
claim is valid; usually it is bogus.
<p>
They construct a bogus claim by cherry-picking the evidence and the
arguments, adding some lies when they think they can get away with it.
When it becomes clear, later, that the claim was bogus, they pay no
penalty.
<p>
Therefore, we must never believe claims by a business or its
mouthpieces that regulating the business will hurt the public.  They
are inherently untrustworthy on the matter,
<p>
To find out which measures really might backfire, we must get advice
from someone they have not corrupted.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Effect_of_CO2_on_food_crops)
title: Effect of CO2 on food crops
uri: Effect-of-CO2-on-food-crops
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Effect_of_CO2_on_food_crops%29
content:
<p>
An increasing level of CO2 makes many food crops 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/climate-change-food-crops-nutrition">less
nutritious in iron, zinc and protein</a>.
<p>
This won't affect the world's rich; we get plenty of iron and zinc and
too much protein.  But it will be a disaster for billions of poor.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Punishment_for_questioning_religion)
title: Punishment for questioning religion
uri: Punishment-for-questioning-religion
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Punishment_for_questioning_religion%29

content:
<p>
Raif Badawi has been sentenced to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/saudi-arabia-court-editor-liberal-website">1000
lashes of the whip, and ten years in prison</a>, for starting a web
site to discuss (i.e., question) the role of religion in Saudi Arabia.
<p>
I am not sure whether a sentence of 1000 lashes is fatal, or whether
it is meant to be fatal.  Does anyone know?
<p>
Saudi Arabia needs regime change.
<p>
Update: 1000 lashes are usually not fatal if they are done 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2008/11/how_many_lashes_can_one_man_take.html">50
per week</a>.  But you might wish you were dead.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Drug_arrests_in_Australia)
title: Drug arrests in Australia
uri: Drug-arrests-in-Australia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Drug_arrests_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
After a marijuana legalization campaign meeting in Australia,
the thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/05/marijuana-festival-ends-in-86-drug-arrests">arrested
86 people for driving under the influence of marijuana</a>, on the
pretense that doing so is dangerous.
<p>
There is no evidence for that claim, 
<a href="http://norml.org/library/item/cannabis-and-driving-a-scientific-and-rational-review#9">no
indication that marijuana makes driving less safe</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Voter_ID_laws)
title: Voter ID laws
uri: Voter-ID-laws
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Voter_ID_laws%29
content:
<p>
Getting a driver's license in the US takes a lot of time — and
poor people often 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23565-the-war-on-voting-comes-home">can't
afford to do that just to vote</a>.  The point of voter ID laws is to
take advantage of this.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(US_pot_farmers)
title: US pot farmers
uri: US-pot-farmers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28US_pot_farmers%29
content:
<p>
US pot farmers are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/05/us-pot-farmers-are-putting-mexican-cartels-out-business">putting
Mexican pot farmers out of business</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Fines_demanded_by_copyright_industry)
title: Fines demanded by copyright industry
uri: Fines-demanded-by-copyright-industry
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Fines_demanded_by_copyright_industry%29

content:
<p>
A study of unauthorized sharing computes by extrapolation that the
fines demanded by the copyright industry total about 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140506/18132327142/no-every-person-does-not-owe-movie-music-industry-67-million-copyright-is-still-broken.shtml">6
times the world's GDP</a>.
<p>
It is not valid to extrapolate from Finland to the whole world.  I
expect that at least half the world's population has never received a
copy of any song or movie over the internet.  But even if we suppose
that only 16% of the world's population behaves like Finns, the fines
would still equal the world's GDP.
<p>
Please don't refer to unauthorized sharing as "piracy".  That's a
smear term promoted by the publishers that make these bogus claims
about "losses".  Every time you refer to sharing as "piracy", you
give them very helpful support.
<p>
I reserve the term "pirate" to refer to someone that raids ships.
<p>
Using the word "steal" to refer to making a copy is likewise
propaganda, as well as evidently false.
<p>
See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Comcast_billing)
title: Comcast billing
uri: Comcast-billing
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Comcast_billing%29
content:
<p>
Comcast is trying to destroy the 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140506/12010127136/how-comcast-is-trying-to-turn-internet-into-old-broken-phone-system.shtml">practice
of billing that makes competing ISPs possible</a>.  And the Comcast
merger would give it more power to do this.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(US_govt_internet_ID)
title: US gov't internet ID
uri: US-gov-t-internet-ID
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28US_govt_internet_ID%29
content:
<p>
A new surveillance and security threat: the US government's
one-size-fits-all 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140503/04264427106/us-government-begins-rollout-its-drivers-license-internet.shtml">internet
ID</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Mass_surveillance_of_students)
title: Mass surveillance of students
uri: Mass-surveillance-of-students
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Mass_surveillance_of_students%29
content:
<p>
EFF: 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/join-students-and-scholars-speaking-out-about-effects-mass-surveillance-campus">Join
Students and Scholars In Speaking Out About the Effects of Mass
Surveillance on Campus</a>.
<p>
When universities cease to run their own email servers and force
students onto gmail, that is part of massive surveillance on campus.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(W3C)
title: W3C
uri: W3C
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28W3C%29
content:
<p>
The W3C is 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/international-day-against-drm-whatever-happened-w3c">mostly
ineffective</a> at resisting the demands of businesses to pervert the
World Wide Web.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_May_2014_(Secession_of_Eastern_Ukraine)
title: Secession of Eastern Ukraine
uri: Secession-of-Eastern-Ukraine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Secession_of_Eastern_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Putin said that the referendum pro-Russia separatists plan to hold
about 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/ukraine-crisis-putin-referendum-autonomy-postponed">secession
of Eastern Ukraine</a> should be postponed.
<p>
I don't see anything wrong with adopting a federal structure in
Ukraine, offering that and other regions more autonomy.  It could
result in more democracy, in addition to possibly satisfying the
concerns of ethnic Russians in the eastern part.
<p>
I speculated some weeks ago that Putin was 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_March_2014_(Russia_aggrees_to_European_monitoring_mission)">provoking 
this second crisis</a> so that, by eventually giving in, he could get
the world's attention off the Crimea.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 8_May_2014_(Strange_bedfellows?)
title: Strange bedfellows?
uri: Strange-bedfellows
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#8_May_2014_%28Strange_bedfellows%3F%29
content:
<p>Republican and Democratic
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/07-2">
populists are converging</a>
on common political points.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 8_May_2014_(LSE_reports_on_the_Drug_War)
title: LSE reports on the Drug War
uri: LSE-reports-on-the-Drug-War
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#8_May_2014_%28LSE_reports_on_the_Drug_War%29
content:
<p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/07">
End the failed "war on drugs"</a>,
say five winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
</p>
<p>I'm glad they have had the daring to speak up.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 8_May_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_Micheal_Boggs)
title: Urgent: Stop Micheal Boggs
uri: Urgent-Stop-Micheal-Boggs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#8_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_Micheal_Boggs%29
content:
<p>US citizens: phone your senators to
<a href="http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/get-involved/actions/boggs-call-nationwide.html">
oppose the nomination of Michael Boggs</a>
as a federal judge.</p>
<p>He voted for a state bill to interfere with abortion.</p>
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 8_May_2014_(Indictments_in_Bobby_Bennett_shooting)
title: Indictments in Bobby Bennett shooting
uri: Indictments-in-Bobby-Bennett-shooting
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#8_May_2014_%28Indictments_in_Bobby_Bennett_shooting%29

content:
<p>Two thugs in Dallas shot, separately, people who were no threat to
them or anyone, then made false accusations against them.</p>
<p>This is not news; this is standard practice.  What's news is,
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2620637/Dallas-cop-indicted-shooting-mentally-ill-man.html">
these thugs are being prosecuted.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 8_May_2014_(Free_speech_is_not_for_them)
title: Free speech is not for them
uri: Free-speech-is-not-for-them
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#8_May_2014_%28Free_speech_is_not_for_them%29
content:
<p>Israeli Arabs face
<a href="http://972mag.com/palestinian-activist-given-house-arrest-for-a-facebook-status/90226/">
repression for criticizing the government</a>
on the internet.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 8_May_2014_(Stay_in_the_house_please)
title: Stay in the house please
uri: Stay-in-the-house-please
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#8_May_2014_%28Stay_in_the_house_please%29
content:
<p>Israeli holidays are accompanied by
<a href="http://972mag.com/on-memorial-day-palestinians-are-under-collective-punishment/90510/">
total curfew on Palestinians</a>
in the occupied Palestinian territory.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 8_May_2014_(Thuggery_in_Israel)
title: Thuggery in Israel
uri: Thuggery-in-Israel
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#8_May_2014_%28Thuggery_in_Israel%29
content:
<p>Arab-Israeli journalist Majd Kayyal
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=64195">
remains under house arrest</a>
for visiting Lebanon.
</p>
<p>Non-Arab Israelis that visit Lebanon don't get prosecuted.</p>
<p>Israeli soldiers
<a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2014/04/15-year-old-palestinian-violently-arrested-by-israeli-forces/">
arrested several Palestinian youths</a>
armed with video
cameras who were suffering harassment from Israeli expansionists.
</p>
<p>Israel's "security forces" regularly treat Palestinians with the sort
of prejudice and dishonesty that the New York Thug Department applies to
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2005-mar-jun.html#13 April 2005 (Peaceful protestors attacked violently by police)">
protesters</a>
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_August_2013_(New_York_Thug_Department_practicing_discrimination)">
and black males.</a></p>


title: Meir Sheetrit supports reconciliation in Palestine
uri: Meir-Sheetrit-supports-reconciliation-in-Palestine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 8_May_2014_(Meir_Sheetrit_supports_reconciliation_in_Palestine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#8_May_2014_%28Meir_Sheetrit_supports_reconciliation_in_Palestine%29

content:
<p>One Israeli politician sees
<a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/04/meir-sheetrit-interview-presidential-hopeful-fatah-hamas.html">
hope for peace</a>
in the reconciliation of
Fatah and Hamas.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 8_May_2014_(More_stuff_for_us_again)
title: More stuff for us again
uri: More-stuff-for-us-again
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#8_May_2014_%28More_stuff_for_us_again%29
content:
<p>A village of Bedouin shepherds near Jericho
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/planning_and_building/20140505_wadi_al_qatif_community_threatened">
faces expulsion by Israel</a>,
which has been squeezing them for 8 years.
</p>
<p>Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes doesn't always ignore Israeli
law.
Sometimes it proceeds
<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/04/israel-creative-dispossession-t-201442412496181645.html">
by stretching the law.</a></p>
<p>Of course, the law itself is unjust.</p>


title: UK making intensive effort to end female genital mutilation
uri: UK-making-intensive-effort-to-end-female-genital-mutilation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_May_2014_(UK_making_intensive_effort_to_end_female_genital_mutilation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_May_2014_%28UK_making_intensive_effort_to_end_female_genital_mutilation%29

content:
<p>
The UK
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/09/anti-fgm-airports-heathrow-met-action-nigeria-sierra-leone">making
an intensive effort to end female genital mutilation;</a> agents talk
with families that seem to be leaving on a trip to carry this out.
<p>
I wonder if similar efforts might be effective against human
trafficking.  Often that relies on victims' ignorance of what is
really likely to happen to them.


title: Urgent: Protect endangered Florida panthers
uri: Urgent-Protect-endangered-Florida-panthers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_May_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_endangered_Florida_panthers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_endangered_Florida_panthers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA
to <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/protect-florida-panthers-from-big-oil">protect
endangered Florida panthers from oil extraction.</a>


title: The petition for a referendum to ban drilling in the Yasuni
uri: The-petition-for-a-referendum-to-ban-drilling-in-the-Yasuni
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_May_2014_(The_petition_for_a_referendum_to_ban_drilling_in_the_Yasuni)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_May_2014_%28The_petition_for_a_referendum_to_ban_drilling_in_the_Yasuni%29

content:
<p>
The petition for a referendum to ban drilling in the Yasuni
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/08/ecuador-rejects-petition-oil-drilling-yasuni">rejected
on the grounds that many signatures were invalid.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_May_2014_(Urgent:_Defeat_Regulatory_Fairness_Act)
title: Urgent: Defeat "Regulatory Fairness Act"
uri: Urgent-Defeat-Regulatory-Fairness-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Defeat_Regulatory_Fairness_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15558">call
on Congress</a> to defeat the "Regulatory Fairness Act".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_May_2014_(Urgent:_Block_judicial_confirmation)
title: Urgent: Block judicial confirmation
uri: Urgent-Block-judicial-confirmation
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Block_judicial_confirmation%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to block David Barron's confirmation
as a judge until Obama complies with the court order to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/07/1297529/-Senators-on-Barron-Drone-Strike-Memos-Where-Do-They-Stand
">publish the gist of the assassination memo Barron wrote</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.
<p>
It is useful to report the results of your calls
to <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/barron-call-in">Just
Foreign Policy</a>, but their pages sometimes fail to run with
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">Javascript
turned off</a>.  Please turn off Javascript before you try to report
your call, or
use <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/librejs">LibreJS</a>, and
complain to Just Foreign Policy if the page does not function that
way.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_May_2014_(Alberta_hearings_on_oil_extraction)
title: Alberta hearings on oil extraction
uri: Alberta-hearings-on-oil-extraction
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_May_2014_%28Alberta_hearings_on_oil_extraction%29
content:
<p>
Alberta (Canada) is holding required hearings on a new oil extraction
project but has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/07-3">barred
environmental groups and indigenous peoples</a>.
<p>
It's equivalent to saying, "Favorable testimony only," but without
admitting that's what it is.
<p>
The Alberta government has taken the side of the oil companies against
the people.  It is that simple.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_May_2014_(Stanford_to_divest_from_coal)
title: Stanford to divest from coal
uri: Stanford-to-divest-from-coal
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_May_2014_%28Stanford_to_divest_from_coal%29
content:
<p>
Stanford University has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/07-1">pledged to
divest from 100 companies</a> whose business focuses on coal.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_May_2014_(The_Cecily_McMillan_trial)
title: The Cecily McMillan trial
uri: The-Cecily-McMillan-trial
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_May_2014_%28The_Cecily_McMillan_trial%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/08/cecily-mcmillan-jurors-judge-occupy-activist-jail">9
of the 12 jurors</a> in the Cecily McMillan trial have written to the
judge asking him not to sentence her to prison.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_May_2014_(Why_the_USA_Freedom_Act_falls_short)
title: Why the USA Freedom Act falls short
uri: Why-the-USA-Freedom-Act-falls-short
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_May_2014_%28Why_the_USA_Freedom_Act_falls_short%29

content:
<p>
The EFF explains why the USA Freedom Act, just approved by the
Judiciary Committee, 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/eff-praises-judiciary-committee-successfully-passing-revised-usa-freedom-act-urges">falls
way short of what is needed to protect privacy in the limited context
of phone calls</a>.
<p>
More about the
"<a href='https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/way-nsa-uses-section-702-deeply-troubling-heres-why'>Section
702</a>" excuse for surveillance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_May_2014_(Snapchat_admits_messages_can_be_saved)
title: Snapchat admits messages can be saved
uri: Snapchat-admits-messages-can-be-saved
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_May_2014_%28Snapchat_admits_messages_can_be_saved%29

content:
<p>
Snapchat has admitted its messages 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/05/ftc-says-snapchat-must-pull-back-on-touting-its-service-for-privacy/">can
in fact be saved</a>.
<p>
The attempt to prevent them from being saved is a kind of DRM.  In
effect, the goal of Snapchat is to give the message's sender control
over what the message's receiver's computer does with the message.  As
always, that requires nonfree software and a secret communications
protocol.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_May_2014_(Poll_of_eastern_Ukrainians)
title: Poll of eastern Ukrainians
uri: Poll-of-eastern-Ukrainians
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_May_2014_%28Poll_of_eastern_Ukrainians%29
content:
<p>
A poll finds 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/05/eastern-ukrainians-dislike-eu-and-us-they-dislike-russia-even-more">half
the people in eastern Ukraine dislike the EU and the US, and slightly
more dislike Russia</a>.
<p>
They should distrust all three.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_May_2014_(US_snatch-and-torture_network)
title: US snatch-and-torture network
uri: US-snatch-and-torture-network
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_May_2014_%28US_snatch-and-torture_network%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/05/08">US
companies</a> participated in the US snatch-and-torture network in
Africa.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_May_2014_(Pope_Francis_unsupportive)
title: Pope Francis unsupportive
uri: Pope-Francis-unsupportive
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_May_2014_%28Pope_Francis_unsupportive%29
content:
<p>
Pope Francis has not given support to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/08/pope-francis-nuns-catholic-crackdown">US
nuns that are being punished for focusing more on social justice
rather than on attacking abortion</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_dishonest_ads_on_Yahoo)
title: Urgent: Stop dishonest ads on Yahoo
uri: Urgent-Stop-dishonest-ads-on-Yahoo
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_dishonest_ads_on_Yahoo%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/get-involved/actions/yahoo-cpc-petition.html">call
on Yahoo</a> to stop dishonest ads for crisis pregnancy centers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(More_CO2_in_the_air)
title: More CO2 in the air
uri: More-CO2-in-the-air
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28More_CO2_in_the_air%29
content:
<p>
More CO<sub>2</sub> in the air promotes plant growth, but it also
promotes microbes that convert soil carbon into CO<sub>2</sub>, and
they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/may/09/cant-count-on-plants-slowing-global-warming">cancel
out</a>.


title: Nigeria did not try to stop kidnappings
uri: Nigeria-did-not-try-to-stop-kidnappings
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(Nigeria_did_not_try_to_stop_kidnappings)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28Nigeria_did_not_try_to_stop_kidnappings%29

content:
<p>
Nigeria had 4 hours' warning that Islamist fanatics were planning to
kidnap schoolgirls, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/09/nigeria-military-warning-boko-haram-attack-amnesty-international">did
not try to stop them</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(Truce_in_South_Sudan)
title: Truce in South Sudan
uri: Truce-in-South-Sudan
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28Truce_in_South_Sudan%29
content:
<p>
Rebels in South Sudan and the government have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/10/south-sudan-signs-ceasefire-with-rebels">signed
a truce</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(Boycott_of_ice_hockey_championship)
title: Boycott of ice hockey championship
uri: Boycott-of-ice-hockey-championship
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28Boycott_of_ice_hockey_championship%29
content:
<p>
Calling for a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/09/artists-protest-ice-hockey-world-champs-in-belarus">boycott
of the ice hockey championship that will legitimize the dictator of
Belarus</a>.
<p>
If Putin keeps attacking human rights in Russia, Belarus may cease to
be special.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(Death_of_bee_colonies)
title: Death of bee colonies
uri: Death-of-bee-colonies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28Death_of_bee_colonies%29
content:
<p>
A controlled experiment ties the death of bee colonies directly to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/09/honeybees-dying-insecticide-harvard-study">neonicotinoid
pesticides</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(Pope_calls_for_wealth_redistribution)
title: Pope calls for wealth redistribution
uri: Pope-calls-for-wealth-redistribution
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28Pope_calls_for_wealth_redistribution%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/09-3">Pope
Francis Calls for 'Legitimate Redistribution' of Wealth</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(US_govt_report_on_global_heating)
title: US gov't report on global heating
uri: US-gov-t-report-on-global-heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28US_govt_report_on_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
The US government report on 
<a href="http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/downloads">global heating and
its effects</a>, present and predicted.
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/picture/2014/may/08/how-temperatures-america-changed-climate-change">map</a>
of how US temperatures have been changed.


title: Reorganization of the oversight of intelligence agencies
uri: Reorganization-of-the-oversight-of-intelligence-agencies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(Reorganization_of_the_oversight_of_intelligence_agencies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28Reorganization_of_the_oversight_of_intelligence_agencies%29

content:
<p>
A committee of UK MPs calls
for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/09/edward-snowden-mps-commons-report-spying">reorganization
of the oversight of intelligence agencies</a>, citing Snowden as the
impetus.


title: Republican judge trying to shut down investigation
uri: Republican-judge-trying-to-shut-down-investigation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(Republican_judge_trying_to_shut_down_investigation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28Republican_judge_trying_to_shut_down_investigation%29

content:
<p>
A Republican federal judge is trying to shut down an investigation
into <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/05/12469/randa-kills-wisconsin-campaign-finance-law">corruption
in Wisconsin Republican fund-raising.</a>


title: UK's rate of evictions a 10-year record
uri: UK-s-rate-of-evictions-a-10-year-record
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(UK's_rate_of_evictions_a_10-year_record)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28UK%27s_rate_of_evictions_a_10-year_record%29

content:
<p>
The UK government's opportunistic attacks on benefits
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/08/threat-tenant-evictions-highest-10-years-repossessions">pushed
the rate of evictions to a 10-year record. </a>


title: Political prisoner in Egypt is a US citizen
uri: Political-prisoner-in-Egypt-is-a-US-citizen
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(Political_prisoner_in_Egypt_is_a_US_citizen)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28Political_prisoner_in_Egypt_is_a_US_citizen%29

content:
<p>
One of the 16,000 political prisoners in Egypt is a US citizen.
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/09/fears-us-citizen-hunger-strike-egyptian-jail-health-worsens">Mohamed
Soltan has been on hunger strike for 100 days.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(California_considers_an_additional_tax)
title: California considers an additional tax
uri: California-considers-an-additional-tax
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28California_considers_an_additional_tax%29

content:
<p>
California considers
an <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_jerry_browns_rainy_day_fund_is_a_bad_idea_20140508">additional
tax to build up a reserve to spend in bad times</a>.  A public bank
could do the same job.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(Rescuing_girls_kidnaped_in_Nigeria)
title: Rescuing girls kidnaped in Nigeria
uri: Rescuing-girls-kidnaped-in-Nigeria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28Rescuing_girls_kidnaped_in_Nigeria%29
content:
<p>
Pressuring the US government to try to rescue the girls kidnaped in
Nigeria <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/09/nigeria-hashtags-wont-bring-back-our-girls-bringbackourgirls">can
do harm rather than good.</a>


title: Peoples that consume the most feel the least concern
uri: Peoples-that-consume-the-most-feel-the-least-concern
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_May_2014_(Peoples_that_consume_the_most_feel_the_least_concern)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_May_2014_%28Peoples_that_consume_the_most_feel_the_least_concern%29

content:
<p>
It appears that the peoples
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/may/09/why-we-couldnt-care-less-about-the-natural-world">consume
the most feel the least concern about what they do to the natural
world.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Urgent:_Ellen_Brown)
title: Urgent: Ellen Brown
uri: Urgent-Ellen-Brown
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Ellen_Brown%29
content:
<p>
In California:
<a href="http://ellenbrown4treasurer.org/">
vote for Ellen Brown</a> for state treasurer.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Big_pharma_tax_dodgers)
title: Big pharma tax dodgers
uri: Big-pharma-tax-dodgers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Big_pharma_tax_dodgers%29
content:
<p>
Big pharma companies 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/11/pfizer-bid-astrazeneca-big-pharma-rotten-banks">free
ride on public research funds</a> while dodging their own taxes.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Global_heating_commitments)
title: Global heating commitments
uri: Global-heating-commitments
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Global_heating_commitments%29
content:
<p>
Rating global heating 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/graphic/2011/jul/15/smith-school-action-climate-change">commitments
and actions of various countries</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Corporations_deferring_taxes)
title: Corporations "deferring" taxes
uri: Corporations-deferring-taxes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Corporations_deferring_taxes%29
content:
<p>
To make giant "US" corporations pay their taxes instead of "deferring"
them, we could 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/08-4">impose a tax
on deferring taxes</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Obama_and_the_Banksters)
title: Obama and the Banksters
uri: Obama-and-the-Banksters
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Obama_and_the_Banksters%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/08-6">Jail the
Bankers? Obama Has Been Their Staunchest Defender</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(The_European_Patent_Office)
title: The European Patent Office
uri: The-European-Patent-Office
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28The_European_Patent_Office%29
content:
<p>
Most of Europe has submitted stupidly to the power of the European
Patent Office, which imposes software patents, but 
<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/05/software-patents-in-denmark-to-be-or-not-to-be/index.htm">Denmark
has a chance to escape</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Textbook_rental)
title: Textbook rental
uri: Textbook-rental
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Textbook_rental%29
content:
<p>
A publisher 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/aspen-students-your-property-book-not-your-property">tried
to force law students to rent a textbook</a> for a year and then
surrender it.
<p>
For the moment, the publisher has backed down, but we need to organize
to 
<a href="http://joshblackman.com/blog/2014/05/08/aspen-issues-revised-connected-casebook-now-you-can-choose-to-keep-your-book/">stop
publishers from distributing ebooks this way</a>.  The right of first
sale should be extended to ebooks.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(The_oppression_of_surveillance)
title: The oppression of surveillance
uri: The-oppression-of-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28The_oppression_of_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
It's fatuous to ask whether massive surveillance "works" for some
purpose (even preventing real terrorism), because it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/may/09/cybersecurity-begins-with-integrity-not-surveillance">oppresses
people's ability to think</a>.
<p>
(<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">As
well as democracy</a>.)


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Unconscious_prejudice)
title: Unconscious prejudice
uri: Unconscious-prejudice
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Unconscious_prejudice%29
content:
<p>
Studying the underpinnings of 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/inquiring-minds-david-amodio-your-brain-on-racism">unconscious
prejudice</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Common_carrier_rules)
title: Common carrier rules
uri: Common-carrier-rules
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Common_carrier_rules%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/att-claims-common-carrier-rules-would-ruin-the-whole-internet/">AT&T
Claims Common Carrier Rules Would Ruin the Whole Internet</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Information_about_users_on_servers)
title: Information about users on servers
uri: Information-about-users-on-servers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Information_about_users_on_servers%29
content:
<p>
Some servers collect so much information about users that they 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/technology/personaltech/the-app-that-knows-you.html">can
anticipate what users want</a>.
<p>
If your <em>own</em> computer, running free software, made these
suggestions, it would not be dangerous.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(China_imprisons_book_publisher)
title: China imprisons book publisher
uri: China-imprisons-book-publisher
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28China_imprisons_book_publisher%29
content:
<p>
A Hong Kong publisher of books banned in China has been 
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/2014/05/hong-kong-publisher-yao-wentian-jailed-for-10-year.php">imprisoned
in China for "smuggling industrial chemicals"</a>.
<p>
I wonder what evidence they could possible have to prove that he has
smuggled these chemicals on multiple occasions.  Did they repeatedly
inspect his baggage?  Or are they making it up?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Albuquerque_citizens_arrest)
title: Albuquerque citizen's arrest
uri: Albuquerque-citizen-s-arrest
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Albuquerque_citizens_arrest%29
content:
<p>
Albuquerque residents tried to do a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/08/albuquerque-police-citizens-arrest-chief-protests">citizen's
arrest of the city's chief thug</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Tax-evading_Indonesian_companies)
title: Tax-evading Indonesian companies
uri: Tax-evading-Indonesian-companies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Tax-evading_Indonesian_companies%29
content:
<p>
Giant Indonesian companies use 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/10/asian-logging-companies-british-islands-tax-havens">shell
companies in British colonies</a> for tax evasion.
<p>
The full solution is for the victim countries to change their tax laws
so that businesses can't send their profits out without paying tax.


title: Urgent: Oppose US export of natural gas
uri: Urgent-Oppose-US-export-of-natural-gas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_US_export_of_natural_gas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_US_export_of_natural_gas%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=10888">oppose
exporting natural gas from the US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Urgent:_Smarter_Sentencing_Act)
title: Urgent: Smarter Sentencing Act
uri: Urgent-Smarter-Sentencing-Act
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Smarter_Sentencing_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1112">call
on your senators</a> to support the Smarter Sentencing Act.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Repression_equipment_from_UK)
title: Repression equipment from UK
uri: Repression-equipment-from-UK
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Repression_equipment_from_UK%29
content:
<p>
The UK has 
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/05/revealed-britains-exports-crush-free-expression/">authorized
export of repression equipment</a> to several repressive regimes.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Obamas_War_on_Journalism)
title: Obama's War on Journalism
uri: 2014-05-13-Obama-s-War-on-Journalism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Obamas_War_on_Journalism%29
content:
<p>
As part of Obama's War on Journalism, Barrett Brown pled guilty to
being an 
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/05/barret-brown-saga-comes-close-worrying-implications-journalists-using-hackers-sources/">"accessory
to unauthorized access" to Stratfor's computers</a>.
<p>
He was reporting on what was found.
<p>
China is 
<a href="http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/journalist-05082014110728.html">following
Obama's example</a>: a journalist is being imprisoned for publishing
leaks.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Amazon_punishes_publisher)
title: Amazon punishes publisher
uri: Amazon-punishes-publisher
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Amazon_punishes_publisher%29
content:
<p>
Amazon demonstrates its dangerous power by 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/10/technology/writers-feel-an-amazon-hachette-spat.html">punishing
one publisher</a>.
<p>
This is one of many reasons you should not buy from 
<a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html">Amazon</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Bullying_by_copyright_industry)
title: Bullying by copyright industry
uri: Bullying-by-copyright-industry
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Bullying_by_copyright_industry%29
content:
<p>
We defeated SOPA/PIPA, but legislators that serve the copyright
industry are trying to 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/pols-ad-networks-pretend-we-passed-sopa-and-never-mind-about-antitrust">bully
advertising networks into dropping clients accused of facilitating
sharing</a>.
<p>
While I oppose this intimidation campaign, those ad networks are evil
because 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">they
track people</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(ISP_consigns_FCC_site_to_slow_speed)
title: ISP consigns FCC site to slow speed
uri: ISP-consigns-FCC-site-to-slow-speed
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28ISP_consigns_FCC_site_to_slow_speed%29

content:
<p>
One ISP has 
<a href="https://neocities.org/blog/the-fast-lane-to-internet-civil-war">consigned
the FCC's web site to low speed access</a> as a form of protest
against the FCC's attack on network neutrality.
<p>
This demonstrates how any ISP will be able to slow down access
to sites it does not like.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(The_background_of_Boko_Haram)
title: The background of Boko Haram
uri: The-background-of-Boko-Haram
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28The_background_of_Boko_Haram%29
content:
<p>
On the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/09/behind-rise-nigeria-boko-haram-climate-disaster-peak-oil-depletion">background</a>
of Boko Haram.
<p>
The idea of Algeria's supporting that organization and other Islamists
seems implausible on its face.  Is there any other evidence to support
the claim?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Israeli_soldier_disciplined)
title: Israeli soldier disciplined
uri: Israeli-soldier-disciplined
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Israeli_soldier_disciplined%29
content:
<p>
One Israeli soldier was disciplined, apparently, for embarrassing the
state by
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1399640001">abusing
a Palestinian while a camera was watching</a>.  Thousands of soldiers
responded by expressing support for the soldier.  They openly say
nobody should be punished for abusing Palestinians.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Disney_advertising_as_ABC_News)
title: Disney advertising as ABC News
uri: Disney-advertising-as-ABC-News
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Disney_advertising_as_ABC_News%29
content:
<p>
On ABC television, 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/05/06/abc-news-exclusive-our-parent-companys-awesome-new-things/">Disney
advertising counts as news</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Koch_brothers_ready_to_buy_election)
title: Koch brothers ready to buy election
uri: Koch-brothers-ready-to-buy-election
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Koch_brothers_ready_to_buy_election%29

content:
<p>
The Koch brothers are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/09-4">prepared
to spend over a hundred million dollars</a> to buy the next US
election.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Obamas_Orwellian_order)
title: Obama's Orwellian order
uri: Obama-s-Orwellian-order
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Obamas_Orwellian_order%29
content:
<p>
Obama's Orwellian order: US intelligence officials are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/09">forbidden
even to acknowledge</a> the fact that Snowden told us something.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Organic_standards)
title: 'Organic' standards
uri: Organic-standards
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Organic_standards%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_29914.cfm">Food
Defenders Protest Corporate Takeover of 'Organic' Standards</a>.


title: Mistreatment of prostitutes by their employers
uri: Mistreatment-of-prostitutes-by-their-employers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Mistreatment_of_prostitutes_by_their_employers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Mistreatment_of_prostitutes_by_their_employers%29

content:
<p>
Legalization of prostitution in Germany
has <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/human-trafficking-persists-despite-legality-of-prostitution-in-germany-a-902533.html">not
ended mistreatment of prostitutes by their employers</a>, including
forcing them to work too much, stealing their pay, and stopping them
from quitting.
<p>
We should see this in the context of a general pattern of abuse of
workers in fields
ranging <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Fast_food_workers_accuse_employers_of_stealing_pay_and_obscuring_it%29">from
fast food</a>
to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#29_May_2012_%28Subcontracting%29">manufacturing</a>
to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Deaths_of_construction_workers_in_Qatar_due_to_abusive_conditions%29">construction</a>
to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Indentured_servitude_called_Kafala%29">domestic
service</a>
<p>
It should not surprise us that this happens in prostitution also.
<p>
I don't think this is a reason for criminalization of prostitutes or
their customers, any more than it is a reason to criminalize factories
or their customers.  Rather, governments must do more to prevent abuse
of all kinds of workers.  In some cases this requires additional
regulation of employers designed specifically to prevent abuses.


title: Mozilla Foundation proposed a weak halfhearted network neutrality
uri: Mozilla-Foundation-proposed-a-weak-halfhearted-network-neutrality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Mozilla_Foundation_proposed_a_weak_halfhearted_network_neutrality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Mozilla_Foundation_proposed_a_weak_halfhearted_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
The Mozilla Foundation proposed a weak halfhearted network neutrality:
to
declare <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/mozilla-offers-fcc-a-net-neutrality-plan-with-a-twist/">ISPs'
connections to servers a common carrier but not the connections with
users (the ISPs' customers).</a>
<p>
The intended result of this is to block one specific abuse --
discrimination by ISPs among web servers -- without blocking other
abuses directly against internet users.  For instance, ISPs would
still be allowed to punish their customers at the request of the
copyright industry.
<p>
No thanks, Mozilla Foundation.


title: What the US is in for if global heating is not curbed
uri: What-the-US-is-in-for-if-global-heating-is-not-curbed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(What_the_US_is_in_for_if_global_heating_is_not_curbed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28What_the_US_is_in_for_if_global_heating_is_not_curbed%29

content:
<p>
A summary
of <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/06/3434108/report-climate-catastrophe/">what
the US is in for if global heating is not curbed.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Alexander_Aan_released_from_prison)
title: Alexander Aan released from prison
uri: Alexander-Aan-released-from-prison
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Alexander_Aan_released_from_prison%29
content:
<p>
Alexander Aan, imprisoned in Indonesia for saying he was an Atheist,
<a href="http://www.atheistalliance.org/news/other-aai-news/550-a-aan-released-from-prison">has
been released from prison.</a> He still faces the threat of murder
from Muslim fanatics.
<p>
Punishing the victims of religious hostility for "instigating" it is
like punishing women for "instigating" rape.  Oh right, these
religious fanatics would probably do that too.
<p>
Before his sentencing, Aan let down the cause of religious freedom in
Indonesia by apologizing for his "crime" and officially converting to
Islam. <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_August_2013_%28Bradley_Manning_Apology%29">Like
Chelsea Manning's apology,</a> that gave the enemy a victory that it
could never have got on its own.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Right-wing_ideology)
title: Right-wing ideology
uri: Right-wing-ideology
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Right-wing_ideology%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing ideology calls for a "small state" in regard to help for
the non-rich and regulating business, and
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/11/state-right-government-individualism-left">"big
state" in regard to welfare for the rich and punishing the rest.</a>
<p>
Justice
is <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">the
opposite on each of the four points.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Israel's_fanatical_settlers)
title: Israel's fanatical "settlers"
uri: Israel-s-fanatical-settlers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Israel%27s_fanatical_settlers%29
content:
<p>
Israel's fanatical "settlers"
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/11/calls-classify-far-right-jewish-settlers-attacks-soldiers-amos-oz-neo-nazis">starting
to clash with the state.</a>
<p>
Usually they attack
Palestinians, <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#28_July_2011_%28Settlers_Torch_Farmland%29">and
the "security" forces support them.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(The_referendum_in_Donetsk)
title: The "referendum" in Donetsk
uri: The-referendum-in-Donetsk
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28The_referendum_in_Donetsk%29
content:
<p>
The "referendum" in Donetsk seems to
be <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/11-0">neither
free nor fair.</a>
<p>
It is Putinesque bullshit.


title: We Need a Revolution in the Way We Teach Economics
uri: We-Need-a-Revolution-in-the-Way-We-Teach-Economics
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(We_Need_a_Revolution_in_the_Way_We_Teach_Economics)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28We_Need_a_Revolution_in_the_Way_We_Teach_Economics%29

content:
<p>
After the
Crash, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/11/after-crash-need-revolution-in-economics-teaching-chang-aldred">We
Need a Revolution in the Way We Teach Economics.</a>
<p>
The article doesn't mention that neoclassical economics tends to
promote policies that harm the non-rich.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Plastic_retrieved_from_the_ocean)
title: Plastic retrieved from the ocean
uri: Plastic-retrieved-from-the-ocean
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Plastic_retrieved_from_the_ocean%29
content:
<p>
Bottles are being
made <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/12/washing-up-liquid-bottle-reclaimed-ocean-plastic-ecover">using
plastic retrieved from the ocean</a>, but this is a tiny fraction of
the plastic waste that continues to enter the ocean.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Uganda's_anti-gay_law)
title: Uganda's anti-gay law
uri: Uganda-s-anti-gay-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Uganda%27s_anti-gay_law%29
content:
<p>
Uganda's anti-gay law
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/12/uganda-anti-gay-law-rise-attacks">encouraged
harassment and violence against gays</a>, at a rate far exceeding the
application of the law itself.


title: Urgent: Oppose legalization of natural gas exports from the US
uri: Urgent-Oppose-legalization-of-natural-gas-exports-from-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_legalization_of_natural_gas_exports_from_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_legalization_of_natural_gas_exports_from_the_US%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=10888">oppose
legalization of natural gas exports from the US.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(The_decision_to_reveal_Snowden's_name)
title: The decision to reveal Snowden's name
uri: The-decision-to-reveal-Snowden-s-name
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28The_decision_to_reveal_Snowden%27s_name%29

content:
<p>
Glenn Greenwald writes about
the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/11">decision
to reveal Snowden's name, and what happened after he did.</a>
<p>
With hindsight, I think it would have been advisable for them to wait
for Snowden to reach a safer refuge before revealing his name.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Obama's_New_Solar_Energy_Commitments)
title: Obama's New Solar Energy Commitments
uri: Obama-s-New-Solar-Energy-Commitments
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Obama%27s_New_Solar_Energy_Commitments%29

content:
<p>
No Sense of Urgency: Obama's
New <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/11-0">Solar
Energy Commitments Are Still Just Baby Steps.</a>


title: Urgent: Repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force
uri: 2014-05-13-Urgent-Repeal-the-Authorization-for-Use-of-Military-Force
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Urgent:_Repeal_the_Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Repeal_the_Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/lee_aumf_2014">repeal
the Authorization for Use of Military Force.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(A_worker_at_Walmart_reports)
title: A worker at Walmart reports
uri: A-worker-at-Walmart-reports
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28A_worker_at_Walmart_reports%29
content:
<p>
A worker in the Walmart that Obama visited reports what it's like to
be <a href="http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/my-personal-walmart-nightmare-you-wont-believe-what-life?page=0%2C1&paging=off&current_page=1">unable
to rent a place to live or pay for medical tests because Walmart is so
bad to workers.</a>


title: Urgent: Stop selling neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: 2014-05-13-Urgent-Stop-selling-neonicotinoid-pesticides
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_May_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_selling_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_selling_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
In the US: call on Home Depot and Lowe's
to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/home-depot-lowes-bees-neonicotinoids/6/3/">stop
selling neonicotinoid pesticides, since they endanger bees.</a>


title: State targets dissenters not just "bad guys"
uri: State-targets-dissenters-not-just-bad-guys
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(State_targets_dissenters_not_just_bad_guys)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28State_targets_dissenters_not_just_bad_guys%29

content:
<p>
Glenn Greenwald: from Martin Luther King to
Anonymous, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/13/glenn-greenwald-anonymous-mass-surveillance-governments-nasa-no-place-to-hide">the
state targets dissenters not just "bad guys".</a>
<p>
It's not just in digital surveillance that the state attacks
dissidents.  Look at how the US repressed unions.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(New_York_City_thug_union)
title: New York City thug union
uri: New-York-City-thug-union
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28New_York_City_thug_union%29
content:
<p>
The New York City thug union
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/05/12-2">blocking
measures to reduce the thugs' random street harassment of pedestrians
there</a>.
<p>
While the tendency to harass predominantly members of minority groups
demonstrates the nastiness of the practice, random harassment would
not be any more legitimate if it were done equally to people of all
races.  And it would still fall disproportionately on the non-rich.


title: Palestinian children in solitary confinement
uri: Palestinian-children-in-solitary-confinement
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Palestinian_children_in_solitary_confinement)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Palestinian_children_in_solitary_confinement%29

content:
<p>
Israel regularly
puts <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/05/12">Palestinian
children in solitary confinement.</a>
<p>
It probably makes them confess — whether guilty or not.


title: US has returned a substantial fraction of blacks to slavery
uri: US-has-returned-a-substantial-fraction-of-blacks-to-slavery
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(US_has_returned_a_substantial_fraction_of_blacks_to_slavery)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28US_has_returned_a_substantial_fraction_of_blacks_to_slavery%29

content:
<p>
In effect, the US
has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/12-5">returned a
substantial fraction of blacks to slavery by putting them in
prison</a>.  Privatized prisons in the US make $20,000 a year from
each prisoner by using them as slaves.


title: US is failing to inspect thousands of oil and gas wells
uri: US-is-failing-to-inspect-thousands-of-oil-and-gas-wells
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(US_is_failing_to_inspect_thousands_of_oil_and_gas_wells)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28US_is_failing_to_inspect_thousands_of_oil_and_gas_wells%29

content:
<p>
The US
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/12-0">failing
to inspect thousands of oil and gas wells.</a>
<p>
This is the result of the insufficient taxes on business, together
with pressure for a "small state" which won't protect us from
business.


title: Pesticide companies are using tobacco business tactics
uri: Pesticide-companies-are-using-tobacco-business-tactics
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Pesticide_companies_are_using_tobacco_business_tactics)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Pesticide_companies_are_using_tobacco_business_tactics%29

content:
<p>
Pesticide companies are using tobacco business tactics to
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/05/12468/pesticide-industry-uses-big-tobacco-playbook-spin-bee-crisis">distort
science and mislead the public.</a>


title: Australia asked the US to spy on Australians
uri: Australia-asked-the-US-to-spy-on-Australians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Australia_asked_the_US_to_spy_on_Australians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Australia_asked_the_US_to_spy_on_Australians%29

content:
<p>
Australia <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/13/australia-americans-help-spy-terror-suspects">asked
the US to spy on Australians.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(The_Free-Trade_Regime)
title: The Free-Trade Regime
uri: The-Free-Trade-Regime
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28The_Free-Trade_Regime%29
content:
<p>
The Free-Trade
Regime: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/12-1">Oligarchy
in Action.</a>
<p>
If Obama were not the oligarchs' man, he would not be supporting the
TPP.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(FCC_proposing_cosmetic_changes)
title: FCC proposing cosmetic changes
uri: FCC-proposing-cosmetic-changes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28FCC_proposing_cosmetic_changes%29
content:
<p>
FCC Commissioner Wheeler was shocked by the opposition to his plans to
attack network neutrality, so he
is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/12">proposing
cosmetic changes to confuse the matter.</a>
<p>
The one who is really at fault here is Obama, for appointing someone
who was a lobbyist for the telecom companies that this plan favors,
and apparently still considers himself one.  Obama should have known
Wheeler would try to do the wrong thing.  I expect Obama did know, and
intended this outcome.


title: How NSA tampers with US-made internet routers
uri: How-NSA-tampers-with-US-made-internet-routers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(How_NSA_tampers_with_US-made_internet_routers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28How_NSA_tampers_with_US-made_internet_routers%29

content:
<p>
Glenn
Greenwald: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden">how
the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers.</a>


title: Increased domestic violence against women
uri: Increased-domestic-violence-against-women
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Increased_domestic_violence_against_women)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Increased_domestic_violence_against_women%29

content:
<p>
The increase of poverty in the US
has <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/05/12/3437082/domestic-violence-recession/">increased
domestic violence against women.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Fined_for_Feeding_Homeless_People)
title: Fined for Feeding Homeless People
uri: Fined-for-Feeding-Homeless-People
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Fined_for_Feeding_Homeless_People%29
content:
<p>
Florida
Couple <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/05/12/3436712/daytona-beach-feeding-homeless/">Fined
$746 For Crime Of Feeding Homeless People.</a>
<p>
By enforcing this unjust law, thug chief Chitwood makes himself
personally responsible for the injustice he carries out.  He ought to
quit rather than enforce that law.
<p>
The heartless people that passed the law are probably Republicans and
responsible for the cruel policies that make people homeless.  Then
they kick those people when they are down.
<p>
They deserve to be sentenced to a year of homelessness.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Low-wage_work_keeps_workers_busy)
title: Low-wage work keeps workers busy
uri: Low-wage-work-keeps-workers-busy
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Low-wage_work_keeps_workers_busy%29
content:
<p>
Low-wage work keeps workers busy for so many hours that they have
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-05-low-wage-workers-unable-advance.html">no
time to study new skills</a>. (Even supposing they can afford to.)


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Microsoft_services)
title: Microsoft services
uri: Microsoft-services
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Microsoft_services%29
content:
<p>
It is unethical for universities
to <a href="http://theconversation.com/using-microsoft-products-may-be-unethical-for-universities-26258">entrust
their computing and email to Microsoft services</a> because
this <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">exposes
them to surveillance.</a>
<p>
In addition, letting someone else's server do your computing means you
lose control over that computing.  This is known as
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">Service
as a Software Substitute.</a>
<p>
Microsoft services
also <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">involve
running nonfree software.</a>
<p>
By the way, the article falls into confusion when it calls services
"products".  A product is something physical that you buy, own, and
take home.


title: Toxic chemicals that can cause breast cancer
uri: Toxic-chemicals-that-can-cause-breast-cancer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Toxic_chemicals_that_can_cause_breast_cancer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Toxic_chemicals_that_can_cause_breast_cancer%29

content:
<p>
Toxic chemicals that can cause breast
cancer <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/12-2">are
all around us.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(The_boat_to_carry_exports_from_Gaza)
title: The boat to carry exports from Gaza
uri: The-boat-to-carry-exports-from-Gaza
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28The_boat_to_carry_exports_from_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
The boat to carry exports from
Gaza <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/05/12-1">will
be repaired.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Global_heating_effects)
title: Global heating effects
uri: Global-heating-effects
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Global_heating_effects%29
content:
<p>
Global heating effects
will <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-hotspots-imperil-parts-of-africa-17417">hit
three regions of Africa especially badly.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Estonia_is_using_internet_voting)
title: Estonia is using internet voting
uri: Estonia-is-using-internet-voting
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Estonia_is_using_internet_voting%29
content:
<p>
Estonia is using internet voting, and
naturally <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/12/estonian-e-voting-security-warning-european-elections-research">its
security is ludicrous.</a>
<p>
You must not trust a computer for voting, not even a computer inside a
voting machine.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Endocrine_disruptors)
title: Endocrine disruptors
uri: Endocrine-disruptors
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Endocrine_disruptors%29
content:
<p>
Endocrine disruptors in food packaging and
toothpaste <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/12/sperm-swimming-navigational-skills-chemicals-endocrine-disruptors">interfere
with human sperm.</a>
<p>
This is very useful since it could help curb human overpopulation.
That will help avoid the collapse of technological civilization.  We
will then be able to replace these ingredients, once they have brought
the <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">human
population down to a safe level such as 500 million.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Urgent:_Support_college_finance_bill)
title: Urgent: Support college finance bill
uri: Urgent-Support-college-finance-bill
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_college_finance_bill%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/2014_warren_debt/">Support</a>
Senator Warren's college finance bill.
<p>
This would 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/06-5">tax the
rich a little to relieve student loan debt</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Urgent:_Reporter_James_Risen)
title: Urgent: Reporter James Risen
uri: Urgent-Reporter-James-Risen
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reporter_James_Risen%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9775">call
on Obama and Holder</a> not to imprison reporter James Risen.
<p>
Risen is ready to go to prison 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/08-1">to avoid
putting a whistleblower in danger</a>.  The US government is wrong to
try to make this necessary.


title: Urgent: Oppose neonicotinoid-like pesticide
uri: Urgent-Oppose-neonicotinoid-like-pesticide
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_neonicotinoid-like_pesticide)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_neonicotinoid-like_pesticide%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1591&s_src=MoveOn.org_BeesAction#start">call
on the USDA</a> not to approve another neonicotinoid-like pesticide.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Global_heating_and_winds)
title: Global heating and winds
uri: Global-heating-and-winds
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Global_heating_and_winds%29
content:
<p>
Global heating is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/12/roaring-forties-shift-south-means-more-droughts-for-southern-australia">strengthening
a specific southern wind pattern</a>, reducing the heating of
Antarctica but exposing Australia to drought.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Bans_on_wearing_masks_in_public)
title: Bans on wearing masks in public
uri: Bans-on-wearing-masks-in-public
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Bans_on_wearing_masks_in_public%29
content:
<p>
Some <a href="http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/mcs/maskcodes.html">US
states</a> ban people from wearing masks in public.
<p>
In the age of massive surveillance, such laws are an intolerable
injustice.  Ban surveillance systems or legalize masks!


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Zero-hours_contracts)
title: Zero-hours contracts
uri: 2014-05-14-Zero-hours-contracts
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Zero-hours_contracts%29
content:
<p>
Zero-hours contracts tend to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/12/zero-hours-contracts-mistrust-insecurity-acas">intimidate
workers so they abandon their rights</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Short-lived_truce_in_South_Sudan)
title: Short-lived truce in South Sudan
uri: Short-lived-truce-in-South-Sudan
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Short-lived_truce_in_South_Sudan%29
content:
<p>
The truce in South Sudan 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/12/south-sudan-fighting-ceasefire-kiir-machar">did
not last long</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(McDonalds_at_nutritionist_convention)
title: McDonald's at nutritionist convention
uri: McDonald-s-at-nutritionist-convention
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28McDonalds_at_nutritionist_convention%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/my-trip-mcdonalds-sponsored-nutritionist-convention">I
Went to the Nutritionists' Annual Confab. It Was Catered by
McDonald's</a>.
<p>
Many professional organizations, and even organizations for worthy
causes, have been corrupted by money from business.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Investing_in_energy_efficiency)
title: Investing in energy efficiency
uri: Investing-in-energy-efficiency
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Investing_in_energy_efficiency%29
content:
<p>
Investing in energy efficiency is a way to 
<a href="media/0290d7a4.ACEEE111droleofefficiency.pdf" data-original-source="http://climateandenergy.org/resources/ACEEE111droleofefficiency.pdf">reduce
pollution while boosting the economy</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Iranian_women_protest)
title: Iranian women protest
uri: Iranian-women-protest
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Iranian_women_protest%29
content:
<p>
Iranian women
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/12/iran-women-hijab-facebook-pictures-alinejad">protesting
religious oppression</a> by posting photos of their unveiled faces.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Gentrification_of_slums_in_Rio)
title: Gentrification of slums in Rio
uri: Gentrification-of-slums-in-Rio
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Gentrification_of_slums_in_Rio%29
content:
<p>
Gentrification of slums in Rio de Janeiro has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/12/priced-out-rio-favelas-brazil-poor-mass-squatting">forced
thousands of poor people into squatting</a>.
<p>
This requires a two-pronged solution: increased house construction and
reduced birth rate.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Global_heating)
title: Global heating
uri: 2014-05-14-Global-heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/may/12/sense-and-climate-sensitivity">Recent
research</a> dispels the last hope that the complexities of the
Earth's system would reduce the heating caused by a given amount of
greenhouse gas.
<p>
To avoid catastrophic heating we must emit less greenhouse gas.
However, the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/may/12/marco-rubios-climate-change-remarks">heating-denial
machine</a> keeps rolling on to make sure the Earth does not escape
the Koch brothers' intended doom.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_May_2014_(Western_Antarctic_sheet_melting)
title: Western Antarctic sheet melting
uri: Western-Antarctic-sheet-melting
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_May_2014_%28Western_Antarctic_sheet_melting%29
content:
<p>
The Western Antarctic ice sheet is melting, and it will eventually
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/12/western-antarctic-ice-sheet-collapse-has-already-begun-scientists-warn">raise
sea level up to 4 meters</a> (13 feet).
<p>
It will take centuries, but many great cities will be drowned.  I
think Miami will be little loss, but New York, Washington DC and
Boston will be a shame, not to mention London, Amsterdam, Shanghai and
Tokyo.
<p>
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/stability-of-east-antarctic-ice-basin-overestimated-17419">The
East Antarctic ice sheet may go too</a>.
<p>
Way to go, Koch brothers.  Can the landowners that will be flooded out
sue you now for the decrease in their property values?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(Urgent:_Single-payer_health_care)
title: Urgent: Single-payer health care
uri: Urgent-Single-payer-health-care
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Single-payer_health_care%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12475">Call
on congresscritters</a> to co-sponsor the bills for single-payer
health care.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(US_transportation_infrastructure)
title: US transportation infrastructure
uri: US-transportation-infrastructure
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28US_transportation_infrastructure%29
content:
<p>
US transportation infrastructure is 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/05/highway_trust_fund_gas_tax_washington_is_refusing_to_even_consider_the_only.single.html">falling
apart</a> because Republicans reject increasing the gasoline tax to
make drivers pay for fixing it.
<p>
Of course, the fossil fuel lobby is at work here.  Increased tax on
fossil fuels would lead to using less of them, so if you aim to keep
consumption at a maximum, you would naturally oppose that tax.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(Gmail)
title: Gmail
uri: 2014-05-15-Gmail
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28Gmail%29
content:
<p>
A free software activist finds that around 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/05/13/don_t_use_gmail_here_s_how_to_determine_how_many_of_your_emails_google_may.html">half
the emails he sends go to Gmail addresses</a>, and that gives Google
too much data about him.
<p>
Some people will look at this and argue that we should give up.
That's bad logic.  Keeping half your email away from companies that do
tracking is a good first step, in any case.  The point is, we need to
go further.
<p>
Before we start a campaign for people to move their email to a service
other than Gmail, for the sake of their friends' privacy, we need to
find a good replacement to recommend.  Running your own email server
is good but too difficult for most people.  The Freedom Box project
aims to make that easy, but it isn't entirely ready.
<p>
The easiest thing would be an email service like Lavabit in a country
that won't cooperate with snooping by the US government or the
government of the country where you live.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(How_thugs_snoop_on_Americans)
title: How thugs snoop on Americans
uri: How-thugs-snoop-on-Americans
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28How_thugs_snoop_on_Americans%29
content:
<p>
Thugs are lobbying across the US to be able to 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/law-enforcements-lobbying-priority-fighting">conceal
how they snoop on Americans</a>.
<p>
Calling these thugs "law enforcement" gives them excessive respect,
which is self-defeating for any attempt to restrain their power.  It
also misrepresent facts, such as that thugs frequently commit crimes,
often gross bodily harm followed by perjury, and then enjoy impunity.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(Renewable_energy_in_the_US)
title: Renewable energy in the US
uri: Renewable-energy-in-the-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28Renewable_energy_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
A plan shows how the US could convert to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/13-4">nearly
100% renewable energy</a> for electricity and heating, by 2050, if the
Koch brothers don't stop it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(Arrest_and_torture_of_Americans)
title: Arrest and torture of Americans
uri: Arrest-and-torture-of-Americans
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28Arrest_and_torture_of_Americans%29
content:
<p>
1/3 of Americans fear they would be tortured if arrested — and
they have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/13-3">reason for
fear</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(Thugs_kill_surrendering_suspects)
title: Thugs kill surrendering suspects
uri: Thugs-kill-surrendering-suspects
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28Thugs_kill_surrendering_suspects%29
content:
<p>
Miami thugs 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/05/13">shot and
killed</a> two criminal suspects, sitting in a car, who had their
hands up and were trying to surrender.
<p>
Since one had perhaps committed robbery with a gun, it was
legitimate to treat them as probably armed and dangerous.
That doesn't excuse using them as shooting gallery targets.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(Mobile_phones_and_brain_cancer)
title: Mobile phones and brain cancer
uri: Mobile-phones-and-brain-cancer
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28Mobile_phones_and_brain_cancer%29
content:
<p>
A study finds that heavy users of mobile phones are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/13/intensive-mobile-phone-users-higher-risk-brain-cancer-study">3
times as likely</a> to get brain cancer as other people.
<p>
Whether this is important depends on how frequent these types of brain
cancer normally are.  If the phone changes a .01% chance into a .03%
chance, neither one is really worth worrying about.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(UK_economic_recovery)
title: UK economic "recovery"
uri: UK-economic-recovery
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28UK_economic_recovery%29
content:
<p>
Tax data confirm UK economic growth 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/13/labour-tax-data-shows-growth-helps-top-1-percent">benefits
only the top 1%</a>.
<p>
This is what the plutocrats' economists call a 
"<a href='http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_February_2014_(Yellen_acknowledges_economic_recovery_failed_to_provide_jobs)'>recovery</a>"
which is why economics students rebel against that sort of economics.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(China_arresting_dissidents)
title: China arresting dissidents
uri: China-arresting-dissidents
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28China_arresting_dissidents%29
content:
<p>
China is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/13/china-cracks-down-dissent-tiananmen-anniversary">arresting
dissidents</a> because the 25th anniversary of the massacre of
students at Tiananmen Square is approaching.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(Pain_of_Australias_new_budget)
title: Pain of Australia's new budget
uri: Pain-of-Australia-s-new-budget
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28Pain_of_Australias_new_budget%29
content:
<p>
In Australia, everyone will feel the pain of the new budget,
but it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/13/budget-sales-pitch-of-shared-pain-doesnt-really-live-up-to-reality">falls
mostly on the poor</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(UK_cuts_subsidies_for_solar_farms)
title: UK cuts subsidies for solar farms
uri: UK-cuts-subsidies-for-solar-farms
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28UK_cuts_subsidies_for_solar_farms%29
content:
<p>
The UK government is trying to accelerate the inundation of London by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/13/solar-farms-lose-uk-government-financial-support-subsidies">cutting
subsidies for solar farms</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(Old_personal_information_on_Google)
title: Old personal information on Google
uri: Old-personal-information-on-Google
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28Old_personal_information_on_Google%29
content:
<p>
The European Court of Justice ruled that Google Search must 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/13/right-to-be-forgotten-eu-court-google-search-results">stop
showing links to old personal information about people that demand
it</a>.
<p>
This is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/omission-of-search-results-no-right-to-be-forgotten">not
going to amount to substantial censorship</a>.
<p>
Indeed, it could point the way to limiting massive surveillance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(US_coal_mine_kills_two_miners)
title: US coal mine kills two miners
uri: US-coal-mine-kills-two-miners
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28US_coal_mine_kills_two_miners%29
content:
<p>
A US coal mine with a history of violating safety rules 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/13/west-virginia-mine-history-safety-violations">killed
two miners</a>.
<p>
This is part of the general US tendency not to inspect industrial
facilities including 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#18_July_2011_(Mountaintop_Mining_Deregulation)">mines</a>,
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_(Streamlined_inspections_for_fertilizer_plant)">chemical
plants</a> and perhaps soon
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_May_2014_(Plans_to_end_chicken_inspection)">chicken 
processing plants</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(Putin_responds_to_US_sanctions)
title: Putin responds to US sanctions
uri: Putin-responds-to-US-sanctions
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28Putin_responds_to_US_sanctions%29
content:
<p>
Putin threatens to retaliate for US sanctions by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/13/russia-international-space-station-doubt-ukraine-sanctions">ending
cooperation over the International Space Station</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(Search_engines_influence_elections)
title: Search engines influence elections
uri: Search-engines-influence-elections
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28Search_engines_influence_elections%29
content:
<p>
Search engines have 
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2626515">substantial
influence over elections</a> -- enough to control the outcome in races
that are only fairly close.


title: Very urgent: No portable anti-aircraft missiles
uri: Very-urgent-No-portable-anti-aircraft-missiles
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_May_2014_(Urgent:_No_portable_anti-aircraft_missiles)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_portable_anti-aircraft_missiles%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say, "Don't give portable
anti-aircraft missiles to Islamist fanatics in Syria".
<p>
The last US president who did this was Ronald Reagan, who encouraged
terrorism against Americans by rewarding Islamist hostage-takers with
similar missiles.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.</p>


title: Urgent: No natural gas export facilities
uri: Urgent-No-natural-gas-export-facilities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Urgent:_No_natural_gas_export_facilities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_natural_gas_export_facilities%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call your congresscritters and senators to oppose HR. 6
and S. 2083, bills to authorize liquid natural gas export facilities.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: Canadian mining companies in Latin America
uri: Canadian-mining-companies-in-Latin-America
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Canadian_mining_companies_in_Latin_America)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Canadian_mining_companies_in_Latin_America%29

content:
<p>
Canadian mining
companies <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/may/14/canadian-mining-serious-environmental-harm-iachr">harm
the environment in Latin America, after bullying governments to allow
it.</a>


title: Israeli forces demolished some "illegal" settlement housing
uri: Israeli-forces-demolished-some-illegal-settlement-housing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Israeli_forces_demolished_some_illegal_settlement_housing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Israeli_forces_demolished_some_illegal_settlement_housing%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
forces <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/israeli-forces-illegal-west-bank-settlement-destroy-houses">demolished
some "illegal" settlement housing.</a>
<p>
The fanatical settlers have generally got government support for their
construction even for houses the government deems "illegal".  (All the
Israeli colonies in the West Bank are illegal under international
law.)


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Why_Boko_Haram_is_so_powerful)
title: Why Boko Haram is so powerful
uri: Why-Boko-Haram-is-so-powerful
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Why_Boko_Haram_is_so_powerful%29
content:
<p>
Boko Haram: six
reasons <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/boko-haram-why-nigerian-militant-group-powerful">why
the Nigerian militant group is so powerful.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Tax_on_high-frequency_stock_trading)
title: Tax on high-frequency stock trading
uri: Tax-on-high-frequency-stock-trading
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Tax_on_high-frequency_stock_trading%29

content:
<p>
Arguing for
a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/14-5">tax on
high-frequency stock trading.</a>
<p>
Of course, one could go further and put a tax on <em>all</em> stock
trading.  Why not?


title: ICC investigating war crimes by British Bush forces
uri: ICC-investigating-war-crimes-by-British-Bush-forces
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(ICC_investigating_war_crimes_by_British_Bush_forces)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28ICC_investigating_war_crimes_by_British_Bush_forces%29

content:
<p>
The International Criminal Court
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/14-5">investigating
war crimes by the British Bush forces</a>, based on evidence that the
crimes were carried out following orders, not by rogue individuals.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Illegal_logging_in_Brazil)
title: Illegal logging in Brazil
uri: Illegal-logging-in-Brazil
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Illegal_logging_in_Brazil%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/15/brazil-laundering-illegal-timber-on-a-massive-and-growing-scale">Illegal
logging is racing in Brazil</a>, with the lumber passed off as legal.
<p>
In one state, over 3/4 of the timber is illegal.
<p>
Illegal logging is facilitated by a change in law imposed by arrogant
business interests a few years ago.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Foreign_workers_in_Qatar)
title: Foreign workers in Qatar
uri: Foreign-workers-in-Qatar
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Foreign_workers_in_Qatar%29
content:
<p>
Qatar admits almost 1000 foreign
workers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/qatar-admits-deaths-in-migrant-workers">have
died over the past two years.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(California_emptying_an_aquifer)
title: California emptying an aquifer
uri: California-emptying-an-aquifer
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28California_emptying_an_aquifer%29
content:
<p>
California is emptying an aquifer,
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/14/water-depletion-in-california-may-be-increasing-chance-of-earthquakes">this
might cause a big earthquake.</a>


title: FBI agent who shot and killed Ibragim Todashev
uri: FBI-agent-who-shot-and-killed-Ibragim-Todashev
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(FBI_agent_who_shot_and_killed_Ibragim_Todashev)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28FBI_agent_who_shot_and_killed_Ibragim_Todashev%29

content:
<p>
The FBI agent who shot and killed Ibragim Todashev while interrogating
him
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/fbi-agent-boston-bombing-ibragim-todashev-controversial-past">a
former thug with a history of violence.</a>
<p>
If Todashev really attacked them, why did they have no video to show
it?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Clinton_smears_supporters_of_democracy)
title: Clinton smears supporters of democracy
uri: Clinton-smears-supporters-of-democracy
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Clinton_smears_supporters_of_democracy%29

content:
<p>
Plutocratist politicians such as President Clinton smear supporters of
democracy
by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/14-2">comparing
our position to "blood lust".</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Latest_educational_fad_in_US)
title: Latest educational fad in US
uri: Latest-educational-fad-in-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Latest_educational_fad_in_US%29
content:
<p>
The latest educational fad in the US
is <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117615/problem-grit-kipp-and-character-based-education">trying
to teach children better character, but there is no evidence that it
works.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Fatah-Hamas_reconciliation)
title: Fatah-Hamas reconciliation
uri: Fatah-Hamas-reconciliation
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Fatah-Hamas_reconciliation%29
content:
<p>
Israel used to reject negotiations with the PLO because it didn't
represent all Palestinians.  Now it rejects negotiations because the
Fatah-Hamas
reconciliation<a href="http://time.com/81277/with-status-quo-on-its-side-israel-happily-rejects-peace/">
means the Palestinian Authority represents them all.</a>


title: Israeli troops keep on shooting Palestinians
uri: Israeli-troops-keep-on-shooting-Palestinians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Israeli_troops_keep_on_shooting_Palestinians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Israeli_troops_keep_on_shooting_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
troops <a href="http://972mag.com/photos-palestinian-worker-shot-by-israeli-soldiers-near-gaza-border/90769/">keep
on shooting Palestinians</a> even at a considerable distance inside
the Gaza border.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Urgent:_Prosecute_Wells_Fargo)
title: Urgent: Prosecute Wells Fargo
uri: Urgent-Prosecute-Wells-Fargo
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Prosecute_Wells_Fargo%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Holder
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/attorney-general-holder-3">prosecute
Wells Fargo for its foreclosure fraud.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Palestinian_journalists_held_a_protest)
title: Palestinian journalists held a protest
uri: Palestinian-journalists-held-a-protest
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Palestinian_journalists_held_a_protest%29

content:
<p>
On Press Freedom Day, Palestinian
journalists <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/05/palestinian-journalists-violations.html">held
a protest against Israeli attacks on Palestinian journalists.</a>
Israeli forces attacked the protest.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(The_Jewish_National_Fund)
title: The Jewish National Fund
uri: 2014-05-16-The-Jewish-National-Fund
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28The_Jewish_National_Fund%29
content:
<p>
The Jewish National
Fund <a href="http://www.tarabut.info/en/articles/article/where-jnf-mony-goes/?fb_action_ids=633770640032295&fb_action_types=og.likes">gives
lots of money to Israeli colonization of the West Bank.</a>


title: Palestinians making houses of earth and roofs of straw
uri: Palestinians-making-houses-of-earth-and-roofs-of-straw
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Palestinians_making_houses_of_earth_and_roofs_of_straw)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Palestinians_making_houses_of_earth_and_roofs_of_straw%29

content:
<p>
Palestinians are moving back
to <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/03/palestinians-revive-earthen-architecture-20143271459749440.html">making
houses of earth and roofs of straw.</a> It's easier to rebuild if the
Israeli army demolishes the house.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Urgent:_Action_against_dirty_fuels)
title: Very urgent: Action against dirty fuels
uri: Very-urgent-Action-against-dirty-fuels
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Action_against_dirty_fuels%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/may-17-national-day-of-action">action
against dirty fuels</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(How_FCC_will_make_its_rules)
title: How FCC will make its rules
uri: How-FCC-will-make-its-rules
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28How_FCC_will_make_its_rules%29
content:
<p>
How the FCC will handle the issue of rules for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/13-4">network
neutrality</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(US_rate_of_death_in_childbirth)
title: US rate of death in childbirth
uri: US-rate-of-death-in-childbirth
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28US_rate_of_death_in_childbirth%29
content:
<p>
US women die in childbirth at 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/13-3">three times
the rate in Britain</a>, due to lack of prenatal care, and government
interference with abortion and birth control.
<p>
Abortion is considerably safer for the woman than childbirth.  Forcing
large numbers of poor women to go through childbirth when they wanted
an abortion will kill a substantial number of them.  But not most of
them.
<p>
Most of them will begin raising a child they did not want and can't
afford to take care of — which is going to cause lots of
suffering.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Al-Jazeera_journalist_disappeared)
title: Al-Jazeera journalist disappeared
uri: Al-Jazeera-journalist-disappeared
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Al-Jazeera_journalist_disappeared%29
content:
<p>
Egypt has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/13-7">disappeared
Abdullah Elshamy</a>, an al-Jazeera journalist who has been imprisoned
most of a year without charge.
<p>
The US also holds prisoners never charged with a crime who are on
hunger strike, and 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/05/13-0">tortures
them every day</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Restoring_peace_in_eastern_Ukraine)
title: Restoring peace in eastern Ukraine
uri: Restoring-peace-in-eastern-Ukraine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Restoring_peace_in_eastern_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/ukraine-talks-moscow-plan-regions-osce">starting
to consider a federal approach</a> to restore peace in the eastern
region.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(US_wolf_populations)
title: US wolf populations
uri: US-wolf-populations
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28US_wolf_populations%29
content:
<p>
Now that the Endangered Species Act has enabled the recovery of the
wolf population in parts of the US, the US government has decided to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/may/05/wolves-endangered-species-protection">let
hunters wipe them out again</a>.
<p>
The return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/06/return-grey-wolves-yellowstone-ecosystem">not
enough to enable willows and beavers to return</a>.  The problem is,
each one has trouble surviving if the other is not present.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Australian_clean_energy_research)
title: Australian clean energy research
uri: Australian-clean-energy-research
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Australian_clean_energy_research%29
content:
<p>
The coal company government in Australia says it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/14/clean-energy-and-conservation-cuts-in-budget-broken-promises-say-agencies">will
cancel many research projects in clean energy and conservation</a>.
<p>
Also it will stop concerning itself with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/14/coalition-plans-to-devolve-protection-of-water-supplies-to-the-states">how
coal mines pollute water</a>.
<p>
Anything at all for the coal companies.


title: Tobacco-pickers become nicotine addicts
uri: Tobacco-pickers-become-nicotine-addicts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Tobacco-pickers_become_nicotine_addicts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Tobacco-pickers_become_nicotine_addicts%29

content:
<p>
Teenage tobacco-pickers in the US become nicotine addicts by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/14/tobacco-farm-child-labor-laws">absorbing
it through their skin</a>.  They often get sick — perhaps from
pesticide exposure.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_parrotfish)
title: Urgent: Protect parrotfish
uri: Urgent-Protect-parrotfish
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_parrotfish%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1589">call
on the government</a> to protect parrotfish and endangered corals in
the Caribbean.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(US_depends_on_Russian_rocket_engines)
title: US depends on Russian rocket engines
uri: US-depends-on-Russian-rocket-engines
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28US_depends_on_Russian_rocket_engines%29

content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/15/us-space-military-programme-russia-sanctions">depends
on Russian rocket engines</a> which its own sanctions now forbid
importing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Anti-Chinese_riots_in_Vietnam)
title: Anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam
uri: Anti-Chinese-riots-in-Vietnam
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Anti-Chinese_riots_in_Vietnam%29
content:
<p>
China's oil drilling in a disputed area has sparked 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/vietnam-anti-china-protests-oil-rig-dead-injured">deadly
anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Baby-stealing_priests_in_Chile)
title: Baby-stealing priests in Chile
uri: Baby-stealing-priests-in-Chile
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Baby-stealing_priests_in_Chile%29
content:
<p>
Priests in Chile 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/chile-catholic-priests-investigated-stolen-babies">stole
newborn babies</a>, telling the unmarried mothers that the babies were
born dead.
<p>
This wrong grew out of an underlying wrong.  I expect that a
considerable fraction of those women would have chosen to have an
abortion, but abortion was banned by unjust laws.  I think that
remains the case.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Egyptian_trial_of_journalists)
title: Egyptian trial of journalists
uri: Egyptian-trial-of-journalists
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Egyptian_trial_of_journalists%29
content:
<p>
Lawyers for the al-Jazeera journalists on trial in Egypt have been
told it will cost them $150,000 to see 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/al-jazeera-journalists-lawyers-trial-court-egypt">secret
"evidence"</a> against them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(US_honeybee_death_rate)
title: US honeybee death rate
uri: US-honeybee-death-rate
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28US_honeybee_death_rate%29
content:
<p>
A report says the rate of US honeybee deaths decreased last winter,
but it is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/15/honeybee-deaths-too-high-longterm-survival">still
so high that it threatens to wipe them out</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Massive_surveillance_of_Americans)
title: Massive surveillance of Americans
uri: Massive-surveillance-of-Americans
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Massive_surveillance_of_Americans%29
content:
<p>
Massive surveillance of Americans by the US government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/jun/14/climate-change-energy-shocks-nsa-prism">linked
to orders allowing military intervention</a> against possible riots
caused by likely future environmental disasters.
<p>
I've said that the US government is effectively a government of
occupation, subjecting Americans to rule by the rich.  Now it has a
force of 20,000 soldiers to fight the American people on behalf of the
rich.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(California_fires)
title: California fires
uri: California-fires
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28California_fires%29
content:
<p>
California fires are behaving in May the way they normally would in
October, due to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/california-wildfires-wind-containment">heat
and drought</a>.
<p>
Now imagine it's 70 years from now, 4C hotter, and even drier, and
firefighting equipment has broken down and we can't afford to replace
it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Greenwald_on_US_corporate_media)
title: Greenwald on US corporate media
uri: Greenwald-on-US-corporate-media
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Greenwald_on_US_corporate_media%29
content:
<p>
Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Corporate Media [are] 
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/14/glenn_greenwald_us_corporate_media_is">"Neutered,
Impotent and Obsolete"</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(FCC_to_kill_network_neutrality)
title: FCC to kill network neutrality
uri: FCC-to-kill-network-neutrality
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28FCC_to_kill_network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
The FCC is 
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/15/5717928/fcc-votes-on-net-neutrality-proposal-in-may-meeting/in/2775343">pushing
ahead with its plan to kill network neutrality</a> despite tremendous
opposition.
<p>
It is not by mistake.  That is their 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/05/fcc-proves-yet-again-that-its-out-to-kill-net-neutrality/">mission</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Urgent:_SAME_Act)
title: Urgent: SAME Act
uri: Urgent-SAME-Act
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_SAME_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/support-the-same-act">call
on Congress</a> to pass the SAME Act which would make Social Security
recognize all legal marriages.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Urgent:_No_export_of_crude_from_the_US)
title: Urgent: No export of crude from the US
uri: Urgent-No-export-of-crude-from-the-US
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_export_of_crude_from_the_US%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_crude_export">call on
Obama</a> not to permit export of crude oil from the US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Bad_treatment_of_new_mothers)
title: Bad treatment of new mothers
uri: Bad-treatment-of-new-mothers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Bad_treatment_of_new_mothers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/14-6">The US is
#1</a> in bad treatment of new mothers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(NSA_intelligence_customer_DHS)
title: NSA intelligence "customer" DHS
uri: NSA-intelligence-customer-DHS
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28NSA_intelligence_customer_DHS%29
content:
<p>
We need to know 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1407">why DHS is an NSA
intelligence "customer"</a>, and what that means.


