# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(US_workers_getting_worse_off)
title: US workers getting worse off
uri: US-workers-getting-worse-off
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28US_workers_getting_worse_off%29
content:
<p>
Social Security figures show that US workers are getting worse off,
making the US
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/30/us-headed-toward-becoming-third-world-country">like
a third-world country</a>.
<p>
Not coincidentally, the number of billionaires in the world has
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/30/number-billionaires-doubles-financial-crisis-inequality-spirals-out-control">doubled</a>
in recent years.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(TSA_harassment)
title: TSA harassment
uri: TSA-harassment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28TSA_harassment%29
content:
<p>
Peter Young gets
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/10/22/jetsetting-terrorist-was-watchlisted-for-animal-activism/">harassed
by the Theater of Security Agency every time he flies</a>, because he
has been convicted of a "terrorist" crime.
<p>
His "terrorism" consisted of freeing minks from farms.
Labeling this as "terrorism" was the first step in the distortion
of that term by the US.
<p>
I wish this were a mere bureaucratic mistake, but it something much
worse: obstinacy for obstinacy's sake, on the part of bureaucrats who
think that obstinacy for obstinacy's sake is what the public deserves.


title: Insignificant number of Americans in PISSI
uri: Insignificant-number-of-Americans-in-PISSI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Insignificant_number_of_Americans_in_PISSI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Insignificant_number_of_Americans_in_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
The US government estimates that only
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/americans-in-syria-fight-isis-jihadi-20-100-estimate">20
or 30 Americans</a> have gone to Syria to fight for various anti-Assad
groups, and only some of them are in PISSI.
<p>
Such a small number are insignificant, thus no reason for any change
in laws or any denial of Americans' human rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Why_thugs_want_armored_vehicles)
title: Why thugs want armored vehicles
uri: Why-thugs-want-armored-vehicles
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Why_thugs_want_armored_vehicles%29

content:
<p>
Why do thugs want armored vehicles?
<a href="http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/10/armored-vehicles-needed.html">To
intimidate people</a> who are not even accused of a crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Resistance_to_tar_sands_oil)
title: Resistance to tar sands oil
uri: Resistance-to-tar-sands-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Resistance_to_tar_sands_oil%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/29/tar-sands-resistance-blowing-huge-hole-oil-industrys-bottom-line-report">Massive
resistance to tar sands oil</a> has done tremendous harm to the oil
extraction companies' profits.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Solar_or_coal_for_India)
title: Solar or coal for India?
uri: Solar-or-coal-for-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Solar_or_coal_for_India%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/30/coal-solar-power-india-electricity-villages-mining-narendra-modi">Will
Coal Or Solar Power Fuel India's Drive to Bring Electricity to Its
Villages?</a>


title: Republican scheme to block voters
uri: Republican-scheme-to-block-voters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Republican_scheme_to_block_voters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Republican_scheme_to_block_voters%29

content:
<p>
Greg Palast's full report on a secret Republican scheme
to block 2 million minority group members from voting
by
<a href="http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/">falsely
accusing them of registering in two states</a>.
<p>
The trick is being sloppy and treating false matches (nearly all of
them) as real matches.
<p>
Many Republican-dominated states are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/29/blocking-youth-vote-south">using
other measures to stop college students from voting</a>.


title: Unidentified drones over nuclear plants
uri: Unidentified-drones-over-nuclear-plants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Unidentified_drones_over_nuclear_plants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Unidentified_drones_over_nuclear_plants%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/30/french-investigate-drones-spotted-over-nuclear-plants">Unidentified
drones</a> have been flying over French nuclear plants.


title: Commercial publication through Facebook
uri: Commercial-publication-through-Facebook
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Commercial_publication_through_Facebook)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Commercial_publication_through_Facebook%29

content:
<p>
Facebook
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/10/facebook-end-controlling-everything-watch-read-online/">threatens
to take control of many commercial publications</a>; they may publish
only through Facebook.
<p>
I will probably not read them if they do that.
<p>
Although there is some interesting analysis in this article, it
suffers from a superficial business-minded outlook framed by referring
to publications as "content" and viewing them as "consuming".  It
assumes that publishers are motivated by nothing except profit.  It is
interesting as an analysis of what such publishers might be led to do.
<p>
As for other publishers — my home page is not dead,
and neither is gnu.org's.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Anonymity_on_servers)
title: Anonymity on servers
uri: Anonymity-on-servers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Anonymity_on_servers%29
content:
<p>
You <a href="https://cdt.org/blog/the-false-promise-of-anonymity/">can't
trust a server</a> to maintain your anonymity.
<p>
The only way to be anonymous is to stop servers from knowing
anything about you.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Defying_censorship_in_Hungary)
title: Defying censorship in Hungary
uri: Defying-censorship-in-Hungary
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Defying_censorship_in_Hungary%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/blog/2014/10/in-hungary-an-independent-website-defies-censorshi.php">In
Hungary, an Independent Website Defies Censorship And Pressure</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(US_radiation_exposure_standards)
title: US radiation exposure standards
uri: US-radiation-exposure-standards
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28US_radiation_exposure_standards%29

content:
<p>
Because many US nuclear power plants are getting older, the EPA
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/31/bowling-nuclear-meltdowns-and-throwing-gas-fire">proposes
to increase radiation exposure standards</a>.


title: Voter-suppression and gerrymandering
uri: Voter-suppression-and-gerrymandering
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Voter-suppression_and_gerrymandering)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Voter-suppression_and_gerrymandering%29

content:
<p>
US democracy is being crushed by
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/31/twelve-ways-jim-crow-winning-2014">voter-suppression
and gerrymandering</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(PR_plans_of_frackers_leaked)
title: PR plans of frackers leaked
uri: PR-plans-of-frackers-leaked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28PR_plans_of_frackers_leaked%29
content:
<p>
A leaker reports on the
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/31/secret-tape-exposes-fracking-industry-playing-dirty">dirty
tricks PR plans</a> of the frackers.


title: Twitter using phone tracking code
uri: Twitter-using-phone-tracking-code
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Twitter_using_phone_tracking_code)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Twitter_using_phone_tracking_code%29

content:
<p>
Twitter is using
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/somebodys-already-using-verizons-id-to-track-users">Verizon's
phone-ID tracking code</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Amendment_to_Italys_libel_bill)
title: Amendment to Italy's libel bill
uri: Amendment-to-Italy-s-libel-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Amendment_to_Italys_libel_bill%29

content:
<p>
A bill to reduce criminal penalties for libel in Italy
<a href="http://www.freemedia.at/newssview/article/ipi-urges-italian-senate-to-amend-defamation-bill.html">does
not go far enough</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Thugs_collect_nude_photos)
title: Thugs collect nude photos
uri: Thugs-collect-nude-photos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Thugs_collect_nude_photos%29
content:
<p>
California thugs consider it a "game" to
<a href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/10/24/east-bay-chp-officer-accused-of-stealing-nude-photos-says-its-game-for-police-california-highway-patrol-sean-harrington/">collect
and share nude photos from the phones of women they arrest</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Marijuana_use_by_teenagers)
title: Marijuana use by teenagers
uri: Marijuana-use-by-teenagers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Marijuana_use_by_teenagers%29
content:
<p>
A large study found that
<a href="http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=146356&CultureCode=en">occasional
use of marijuana by teenagers is not associated with any school or
intellectual problems</a>, after controlling for other activities
known to be harmful.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Airline_security_idiots)
title: Airline security idiots
uri: Airline-security-idiots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Airline_security_idiots%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://abc7.com/367110/">Airline security idiots delayed
overnight</a> because someone had made a wifi hotspot called "Al-Quida
Free Terror Nettwork."


title: TSA agents confiscate belt buckle
uri: TSA-agents-confiscate-belt-buckle
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(TSA_agents_confiscate_belt_buckle)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28TSA_agents_confiscate_belt_buckle%29

content:
<p>
Theater of Security Agency agents
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/29/tsa-confiscares-raygun-belt-buckle-becau">confiscated
a belt buckle that looks like a fictional raygun</a>, calling it a
"replica" of a weapon.
<p>
Those whose job is theater anyway may not recognize the significance
of the difference between a real weapon and a fictional one.


title: Dissent regarded as criminal in UK
uri: Dissent-regarded-as-criminal-in-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Dissent_regarded_as_criminal_in_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Dissent_regarded_as_criminal_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
The UK government
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/27/stasi-style-outrages-low-spies-stoop-mi5">regards
dissent in itself as criminal</a>, a reason to infiltrate informers
into a person's life and record everything.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Journalism_in_Turkey)
title: Journalism in Turkey
uri: Journalism-in-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Journalism_in_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/10/turkey-musa-kart-erdogan-cartoon-caricature-artistic-freedom/">Life
Is Getting Harder For Objective Journalists in Turkey, Says Cartoonist
Sued by Erdogan</a>.


title: Competing with Amazon and Netflix
uri: Competing-with-Amazon-and-Netflix
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Competing_with_Amazon_and_Netflix)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Competing_with_Amazon_and_Netflix%29

content:
<p>
If publishers want to compete with Amazon and Netflix, they
should try
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/dear-rupert-murdoch-want-compete-netflix-ditch-drm">ditching
DRM</a>.
<p>
They should also stop imposing unfair contracts (EULAs) and stop
making purchasers identify themselves.  Then the copies they sell
would be no less ethical than a typical CD or printed book.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(US_racism)
title: US racism
uri: US-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28US_racism%29
content:
<p>
Angela Davis: US racism is visible in not only when thugs kill
innocent people but also when they
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/01/michael-brown-assata-shakur-racist-state-of-america">frame
anti-racist campaigners and label them as "terrorists"</a>.


title: Russia and China block conservation zone
uri: Russia-and-China-block-conservation-zone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Russia_and_China_block_conservation_zone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Russia_and_China_block_conservation_zone%29

content:
<p>
Russia and China
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/31/russia-accused-of-blocking-creation-of-vast-antarctic-marine-reserves">blocked
creation of a marine conservation zone</a> in the Southern Ocean.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(DMCA-style_takedowns_in_Spain)
title: DMCA-style takedowns in Spain
uri: DMCA-style-takedowns-in-Spain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28DMCA-style_takedowns_in_Spain%29

content:
<p>
Spain adopted a law for DMCA-style takedowns, but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/31/spain-newspaper-google-tax">even
more strict</a>.  (That's the second issue in the article; I don't
think the "Google tax" is very important.


title: Protests in Ireland against water charges
uri: Protests-in-Ireland-against-water-charges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Protests_in_Ireland_against_water_charges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Protests_in_Ireland_against_water_charges%29

content:
<p>
Is Ireland the new Detroit?  Citizens say they will
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/31/water-charges-ireland-cause-protests">go
to jail rather than pay water charges</a>.
<p>
It is important to charge businesses for water use, but everyone is
entitled to water in a reasonable quantity for personal use.


title: Google fined for a photo outdoors
uri: Google-fined-for-a-photo-outdoors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Google_fined_for_a_photo_outdoors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Google_fined_for_a_photo_outdoors%29

content:
<p>
A Canadian court
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/31/google-fined-street-view-pictures-woman-cleavage">fined
Google for publishing a photo of a woman sitting on the steps of her
house</a>.  People could tell who she was even though Google blurred
out her face.
<p>
This decision is fundamentally wrong and dangerous, because the right
to take a photo outdoors and publish it must be respected.
<p>
The plaintiff received nasty criticisms because the photo showed her
wearing revealing clothing.  However, Google was not to blame for
this.  She wasn't to blame either, since there is nothing wrong about
wearing revealing clothing.  The blame falls on the people who
attacked her.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Australias_new_pollution_policy)
title: Australia's new pollution policy
uri: Australia-s-new-pollution-policy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Australias_new_pollution_policy%29

content:
<p>
Australia has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/oct/31/direct-action-is-like-a-dodgy-laundry-powder-that-never-gets-the-climate-clean">replaced
"polluter pays" with paying some companies</a> to (perhaps) pollute
less.
<p>
The crucial difference is that the new policy will do nothing
to impede the extraction and combustion of coal.


title: Urgent: Australia's new coal port
uri: Urgent-Australia-s-new-coal-port
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Urgent:_Australia's_new_coal_port)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Australia%27s_new_coal_port%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: Tell Bank of
America <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1729&">not
to invest in Australia's new coal port</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Ending_dooH_niboR)
title: Ending dooH niboR
uri: Ending-dooH-niboR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Ending_dooH_niboR%29
content:
<p>
Oxfam's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/29/explosion-wealth-inequality-needs-urgent-plan-action-oxfam">recommendations
for ending dooH niboR</a>.


title: Avoiding global heating disaster is still possible
uri: Avoiding-global-heating-disaster-is-still-possible
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Avoiding_global_heating_disaster_is_still_possible)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Avoiding_global_heating_disaster_is_still_possible%29

content:
<p>
The head of IPCC
says, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/28/it-not-hopeless-says-worlds-chief-climate-scientist">avoiding
global heating disaster is still possible</a>, but we don't have much
time.
<p>
This means that wreckers such as Abbott, Harper and Cameron need only
hold out a little more before they can hammer in the last nails in the
coffin of human technological civilization.


title: Beware the Fear Industrial Complex
uri: Beware-the-Fear-Industrial-Complex
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Beware_the_Fear_Industrial_Complex)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Beware_the_Fear_Industrial_Complex%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/02/beware-fear-industrial-complex">Beware
the Fear Industrial Complex</a>.


title: US billionaires stashing money in IRAs
uri: US-billionaires-stashing-money-in-IRAs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(US_billionaires_stashing_money_in_IRAs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28US_billionaires_stashing_money_in_IRAs%29

content:
<p>
US
billionaires <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/02/001-percents-i-reap-all-accounts">have
hundreds of millions of dollars stashed in IRAs so as to avoid
taxes</a>.
<p>
It makes sense to encourage the non-rich to save.  With the rich,
however, this is just another dooH niboR give-away.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Tiny_Cuba's_fight_against_Ebola)
title: Tiny Cuba's fight against Ebola
uri: Tiny-Cuba-s-fight-against-Ebola
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Tiny_Cuba%27s_fight_against_Ebola%29

content:
<p>
Tiny Cuba
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/02/moment-world-embraces-cuba-model-and-slaps-empire">contributing
more to the fight against Ebola than the grand United States</a>.
<p>
There is good and bad in the Cuban revolution.  The good is that Cuba
has thrown off the foreign plutocracy and done wonders for the people
in the areas of health care, education, and organic farming.
<p>
The bad is that Cuba does not recognize freedom of speech or freedom
of travel.  Dissident Oswaldo Pay

<Pprinciples,
was <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#23_July_2012_%28Cuban_dissident_Oswaldo_Paya_dead%29">reportedly
killed by the state which arranged a car crash and blamed his
driver</a>.
<p>
Pay>
<Limaintain the social advances of the Cuban revolution.
<p>
The US boycott of Cuba is makes no sense except as a sop to the exiles
who have a lot of influence in Florida.


title: Afghan women disguise some daughters as sons
uri: Afghan-women-disguise-some-daughters-as-sons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Afghan_women_disguise_some_daughters_as_sons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Afghan_women_disguise_some_daughters_as_sons%29

content:
<p>
Afghan
women <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/02/underground-girls-of-kabul-review-afghan-disguised-boys-nordberg-bacha-posh">disguise
some daughters as sons</a>, so the daughters can experience a little
freedom, and so the mothers themselves won't face condemnation for
sonlessness.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Urgent:_Count_every_vote)
title: Urgent: Count every vote
uri: Urgent-Count-every-vote
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Count_every_vote%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your state's election officials
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Election_official_Count_Every_Vote">count
every vote</a>.


title: Thugs investigate professor's political background
uri: Thugs-investigate-professor-s-political-background
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Thugs_investigate_professor's_political_background)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Thugs_investigate_professor%27s_political_background%29

content:
<p>
A UK professor criticized how thugs dealt with her mother's accidental
death, so
they <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/30/sussex-police-dossier-bereaved-academic">investigated
her political background and listed her as mentally ill</a>.


title: Urgent: Oppose plan to build a highway
uri: Urgent-Oppose-plan-to-build-a-highway
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_plan_to_build_a_highway)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_plan_to_build_a_highway%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Oppose the plan to build
a <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1639">highway
through a designated roadless area in the Tongass national forest</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Global_heating_danger)
title: Global heating danger
uri: Global-heating-danger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Global_heating_danger%29
content:
<p>
The IPCC's stern warnings about the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/02/rapid-carbon-emission-cuts-severe-impact-climate-change-ipcc-report">pressing
danger of global heating</a> are an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/02/ipcc-climate-change-carbon-emissions-underestimates-situation-fossil-fuels">understatement</a>.
<p>
How to ramp up the sense of danger?  For one thing, stop using the
bland term "climate change" that was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_June_2014_(Destroyed_by_global_heating)">imposed 
by Dubya's global heating denialists</a> and start talking about
"global heating".
<p>
Meanwhile, efforts to direct politicians' attention towards the
necessary action face 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/02/brisbane-airport-rejects-climate-change-billboard-as-too-political">censorship</a>.
<p>
Under great pressure, Abbott agreed that the G20 meeting statement can
include 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/02/g20-australia-makes-token-concession-on-climate-change-after-us-lobbying">a
token paragraph about global heating</a>.
<p>
As long as he prevents any substantive action to reduce use of fossil
fuels, he considers it a victory.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Violence_in_fast-growing_cities)
title: Violence in fast-growing cities
uri: Violence-in-fast-growing-cities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Violence_in_fast-growing_cities%29

content:
<p>
Fast-growing cities 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/nov/01/murder-capitals-world-city-violence">correlate
with high levels of violence</a>.
<p>
Humans must have 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">fewer
children</a> — and those with wealth must provide the poor with
the effective painless means to limit their reproduction.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Netanyahu)
title: Netanyahu
uri: Netanyahu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Netanyahu%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery debunks 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1414780973">false
US accusations against Netanyahu</a>, and explains why Netanyahu
thinks it safe to insult Obama.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 03_November_2014_(Digital_surveillance)
title: Digital surveillance
uri: Digital-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#03_November_2014_%28Digital_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahjeong/2014/10/28/surveillance-begins-at-home/">(Digital)
Surveillance Begins at Home</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Cuba's_fight_against_Ebola)
title: Cuba's fight against Ebola
uri: Cuba-s-fight-against-Ebola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Cuba%27s_fight_against_Ebola%29
content:
<p>
Tiny Cuba is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/02/moment-world-embraces-cuba-model-and-slaps-empire">contributing
more to the fight against Ebola than the grand United States</a>.
<p>
There is good and bad in the Cuban revolution.  The good is that Cuba
has thrown off the foreign plutocracy and done wonders for the people
in the areas of health care, education, and organic farming.
<p>
The bad is that Cuba does not recognize freedom of speech or freedom
of travel.  Dissident Oswaldo Payá, who campaigned for those
principles, was 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#23_July_2012_%28Cuban_dissident_Oswaldo_Paya_dead%29">reportedly 
killed by the state</a> which arranged a car crash and blamed his
driver.
<p>
Payá, who impressed me more than anyone else in Cuba, wanted to
maintain the social advances of the Cuban revolution.
<p>
The US boycott of Cuba makes no sense except as a sop to the exiles
who have a lot of influence in Florida.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(UK_thugs_respond_to_criticism)
title: UK thugs respond to criticism
uri: UK-thugs-respond-to-criticism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28UK_thugs_respond_to_criticism%29

content:
<p>
A UK professor criticized how thugs dealt with her mother's accidental
death, so
they <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/30/sussex-police-dossier-bereaved-academic">investigated
her political background and listed her as mentally ill</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(UKs_austerity)
title: UK's austerity
uri: UK-s-austerity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28UKs_austerity%29
content:
<p>
Even in right-wing capitalist terms, the UK's austerity is a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/03/george-osborne-austerity-has-failed-tories">failure</a>:
it has not paved the way for important economic growth.
<p>
These right-wing capitalist terms ignore important forms of harm: dooH
niboR, forcing millions into poverty, and strengthening plutocracy.


title: UK parliament destroys expense records
uri: UK-parliament-destroys-expense-records
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(UK_parliament_destroys_expense_records)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28UK_parliament_destroys_expense_records%29

content:
<p>
The UK parliament has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/03/mps-expenses-official-records-scandal-era-destroyed">destroyed
all expense records from before 2010</a>, blocking investigation of
accusations of unjustified reimbursements.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Unprocessed_voter_registrations)
title: Unprocessed voter registrations
uri: Unprocessed-voter-registrations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Unprocessed_voter_registrations%29

content:
<p>
A Georgia judge upheld the failure to process
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/judge-declines-act-georgia-voting-dispute-26522499">40,000
voters' registrations</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(PISSI_massacres_Sunni_resistance)
title: PISSI massacres Sunni resistance
uri: PISSI-massacres-Sunni-resistance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28PISSI_massacres_Sunni_resistance%29

content:
<p>
The US and Iraqi governments did not resupply the Sunnis of Zawiyat
who were resisting PISSI.  PISSI
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/02/isis-militants-murder-322-iraqi-tribe-members-anbar">massacred
them after defeating them</a>.


title: Ferguson thugs want ban on overflights
uri: Ferguson-thugs-want-ban-on-overflights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Ferguson_thugs_want_ban_on_overflights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Ferguson_thugs_want_ban_on_overflights%29

content:
<p>
The thugs in Ferguson asked for a ban on overflights mainly to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/02/ferguson-police-no-fly-restrictions-missouri-news-helicopters-michael-brown-shooting">keep
news copters from making video of the protests</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Space_tourism)
title: Space tourism
uri: Space-tourism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Space_tourism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/02/richard-branson-space-tourists-obscene-inequality-free-market">Richard
Branson's Space Tourism Shows What Today's Obscene Inequality Looks
Like</a>.  And also the way being a consumer dulls the mind.
<p>
I am strongly in favor of space exploration and eventually space
settlement.  I don't see anything inherently wrong with space tourism,
either, if people were going to visit a place of some interest —
but that won't be possible in the near future.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 04_November_2014_(Commercial_attackware)
title: Commercial attackware
uri: Commercial-attackware
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_%28Commercial_attackware%29
content:
<p>
Commercial attackware is being
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=7552">sold to many
governments</a>, few of which can be trusted not to use it to violate
human rights.
<p>
I think it is legitimate to use such methods in cases where planting a
listening device would be allowed — when ordered specifically by
a judge.  The hard part is to make the thugs accountable and keep
these orders very specific.
<p>
US courts are chipping away at accountability for many kinds of
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/10/police_s_good_faith_exception_courts_keep_expanding_exception_that_gives.single.html">illegal
searches</a>.


title: Urgent: Protest phony net neutrality
uri: Very-urgent-Protest-phony-net-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Urgent:_Protest_phony_net_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protest_phony_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/05/net-neutrality-protest-hybrid-fcc-solution">join
a protest</a> against the FCC's plan for phony net neutrality.
<p>
(Sorry that I don't know a site to point to.)


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Catcalling)
title: Catcalling
uri: Catcalling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Catcalling%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=7744">No, We Don't Need
a Law Against Catcalling</a>.
<p>
I have not yet seen the Hollaback video.  It is not easy for me to see
any video from YouTube, since I won't connect to that site from my own
computer.  I am looking for a chance to see it, because I want to see
the range of actions in question.  Do they include physical attacks?
Threats?  Intimidation?  Insults?  Pressure?  Invitations?  Praise?
Silent gaze?
<p>
I want to find out what sorts of things women typically experience on
the street, and also where this movement draws the line in its
criticism.
<p>
To make insults a crime is injustice; calling the insults "harassment"
does not excuse banning them.  However, insults may deserve a rebuke.
<p>
Not everything that someone takes offense at is wrong.  A woman once
rebuked me, as we were riding on BART, for looking at her.  I
responded that people moving about in public must expect to be looked
at.  Nobody has a right to order people in a public place to avert
their eyes.  When I got off, a few stops later, I told her, "I'm
leaving, so you can now proceed to your destination unobserved."  (By
me, at least.)


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Pollution_cutting_crop_yields)
title: Pollution cutting crop yields
uri: Pollution-cutting-crop-yields
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Pollution_cutting_crop_yields%29

content:
<p>
Soot and ozone pollution in India are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/03/india-air-pollution-cutting-crop-yields-by-almost-half">cutting
crop yields</a> — in some areas, by as much as 50%.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Spies_at_UN_climate_summits)
title: Spies at UN climate summits
uri: Spies-at-UN-climate-summits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Spies_at_UN_climate_summits%29
content:
<p>
The UN accused Britain of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/03/un-investigate-wikileaks-claims-uk-spies-infiltrated-climate-talks">spying
on delegations during UN climate summits</a>.
<p>
Aside from the scandal of infiltrating spies into a UN meeting to spy
on other delegations, the UK government's goal since 2010 has been to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_September_2014_(Growth_of_renewable_energy)">slow
down renewable energy and keep consumption of fossil fuels high</a>.
In other words, to kill you (supposing you are young enough to live 50
more years) through 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#30%20November%202010%20(New%20Dark%20Age%20welcomed)">global
heating disaster</a>.  This spying furthers that goal.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Arbitrary_imprisonment)
title: Arbitrary imprisonment
uri: Arbitrary-imprisonment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Arbitrary_imprisonment%29
content:
<p>
Since July, Israel has 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/69536">imprisoned 900
Palestinians from East Jerusalem</a>.
<p>
Only 300 have been charged with crimes; the rest are imprisoned
arbitrarily.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Organised_Hypocrisy)
title: Organised Hypocrisy
uri: Organised-Hypocrisy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Organised_Hypocrisy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/10/24/robert-wade/organised-hypocrisy-on-a-monumental-scale">Organised
Hypocrisy on a Monumental Scale</a>.
<p>
"It almost seems as if the Israeli state has mapped the entire
Palestinian economy in terms of input-output relations, right down to
the capillary level of the individual, the household, the small firm,
the large firm, the school, the university, so as to find all possible
choke points, which Israeli officials can tighten or loosen at will."


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Domestic_violence_against_women)
title: Domestic violence against women
uri: Domestic-violence-against-women
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Domestic_violence_against_women%29

content:
<p>
Australian thugs say that ending domestic violence against women
requires 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/03/culture-of-hostility-to-women-leads-to-domestic-violence-say-police-chiefs">teaching
men to stop despising women</a>.
<p>
I agree that needs to be done, but more funds for support to help
women escape from violence would also help.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Putinesque_election_in_Donetsk)
title: Putinesque election in Donetsk
uri: Putinesque-election-in-Donetsk
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Putinesque_election_in_Donetsk%29

content:
<p>
Russia's puppets in Donetsk held a Putinesque election, and are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/02/donetsk-peoples-republic-luhansk-ukraine-prime-minister-elections">threatening
to attack other cities in Ukraine</a>.


title: T-shirt makers' working conditions
uri: T-shirt-makers-working-conditions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(T-shirt_makers_working_conditions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28T-shirt_makers_working_conditions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/02/feminist-t-shirt-makers-working-conditions">Feminist
T-shirt Makers' Working Conditions Not Shocking, But the Norm</a>.


title: Journalists oppose blind support for state
uri: Journalists-oppose-blind-support-for-state
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Journalists_oppose_blind_support_for_state)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Journalists_oppose_blind_support_for_state%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian journalists denounced the editors' plan to give 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/02/egyptian-journalists-freedom-of-expression">total
blind support to the state</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(UK_government_spending)
title: UK government spending
uri: UK-government-spending
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28UK_government_spending%29
content:
<p>
The UK government will send every household a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/03/tory-tax-statement-welfare-budget-unemployment-pensions-cuts">misleading
breakdown of how government funds are spent</a>, designed to make
people resent those that receive public assistance of any kind.


title: Farmers expand nut farms despite drought
uri: Farmers-expand-nut-farms-despite-drought
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Farmers_expand_nut_farms_despite_drought)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Farmers_expand_nut_farms_despite_drought%29

content:
<p>
California farmers are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/11/almonds-water-walnuts-pistachios-california-drought-charts">expanding
their water-devouring nut farms</a> even though global heating will
bring droughts even worse than the present record-breaking drought.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Trafficked_women_in_the_UK)
title: Trafficked women in the UK
uri: Trafficked-women-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Trafficked_women_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
When women report being trafficked into the UK, thugs and officials 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/nov/03/trafficked-women-horrific-stories-came-to-uk-turned-into-prostitute">often
imprison them for lacking a passport</a>.


title: Full-time protest against forced labor
uri: Full-time-protest-against-forced-labor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Full-time_protest_against_forced_labor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Full-time_protest_against_forced_labor%29

content:
<p>
A destitute Briton decided to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/03/dwp-benefits-electrician-work-placement-labour">protest
full time</a> rather than accept forced labor for a pittance.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Plutocratic_capitalism)
title: Plutocratic capitalism
uri: Plutocratic-capitalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Plutocratic_capitalism%29
content:
<p>
To change plutocratic capitalism, we need to change the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/03/facing-capitalist-within">stories
that were taught us to sustain it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Income_of_the_richest_1-percent)
title: Income of the richest 1%
uri: Income-of-the-richest-1
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Income_of_the_richest_1-percent%29

content:
<p>
The income of the richest 1% of Americans 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/03/infuriating-facts-about-our-disappearing-middle-class-wealth">exceeds
the cost of all US social programs</a>.


title: Imprisoned for simulating gay marriage
uri: Imprisoned-for-simulating-gay-marriage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 05_November_2014_(Imprisoned_for_simulating_gay_marriage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_November_2014_%28Imprisoned_for_simulating_gay_marriage%29

content:
<p>
Egyptians were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/03/egypt-jails-eight-men-gay-marriage-ceremony-nile">imprisoned</a>
for making a video which included a (simulated) gay wedding.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Outdated_copyright_laws)
title: Outdated copyright laws
uri: Outdated-copyright-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Outdated_copyright_laws%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/uk-museums-libraries-protest-outdated-copyright-law-141103/">UK
Museums and Libraries Protest (some) Outdated Copyright Laws</a>.
<p>
The inordinate length of copyright on published works is just as bad,
maybe worse.
<p>
This article repeats the propaganda term "protection" to describe
the effect of copyright.  That term
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Protection">frames
the issue in a way that favors the copyright industry</a> —
please join me in rejecting it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Govt_wants_less_secure_internet)
title: Gov't wants less secure internet
uri: Gov-t-wants-less-secure-internet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Govt_wants_less_secure_internet%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/government-pursuit-less-secure-internet">The
Government is in Pursuit of a Less Secure Internet</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(ATT_phone-ID_tracking_codes)
title: A&TT phone-ID tracking codes
uri: A-TT-phone-ID-tracking-codes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28ATT_phone-ID_tracking_codes%29
content:
<p>
AT&T, like Verizon,
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/verizon-atandt-tracking-their-users-with-super-cookies/2014/11/03/7bbbf382-6395-11e4-bb14-4cfea1e742d5_story.html">inserts
identification codes into mobile customers' web browsing</a>.


title: Interview with Jean Lamy Matulnes
uri: Interview-with-Jean-Lamy-Matulnes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Interview_with_Jean_Lamy_Matulnes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Interview_with_Jean_Lamy_Matulnes%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.ezilidanto.com/zili/2014/04/ile-vache-land-grab-haiti-matulnes-speaks-english-transcription/">Interview
wih Jean Lamy Matulnes</a>, local leader of people of Ile a Vache
opposing resort hotel land grab, from months ago before he was
imprisoned.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(EU_C02_emission_reduction_goals)
title: EU C02 emission reduction goals
uri: EU-C02-emission-reduction-goals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28EU_C02_emission_reduction_goals%29

content:
<p>
If Europe persists on aiming for an inadequate 40% reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, it should explain why it has
abandoned its commitment to do
<a href="http://kevinanderson.info/blog/letter-to-the-pm-outlining-how-2c-demands-an-80-cut-in-eu-emissions-by-2030/">what
is needed to avoid 2C of global heating</a>.
<p>
It is not clear that limiting global heating to 2 degrees C is enough
to avoid disaster, but more heating will lead to disaster unless a
miracle saves civilization.


title: Kochs' insincere support for Libertarians
uri: Kochs-insincere-support-for-Libertarians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Kochs_insincere_support_for_Libertarians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Kochs_insincere_support_for_Libertarians%29

content:
<p>
The Koch brothers support Libertarian Party candidates, but not
sincerely, only to
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/11/12652/koch-group-urges-stoners-not-vote-mary-burke">help
a Republican defeat a Democrat</a>.


title: Unofficial "transnational passports"
uri: Unofficial-transnational-passports
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Unofficial_transnational_passports)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Unofficial_transnational_passports%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.corbettreport.com/freedentity-life-in-the-transnational-republic/">Unofficial
"transnational passports"</a> provide a way to check in at a hotel
without showing your real name.
<p>
I prefer not to stay in a hotel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Activism_and_happiness)
title: Activism and happiness
uri: Activism-and-happiness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Activism_and_happiness%29
content:
<p>
Being an activist for a good cause (such as free software, ending
surveillance, or defeating dooH niboR) is a good way to be happy.
It will easily help you do some of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/03/ten-easy-steps-that-will-make-you-a-happier-person">these
steps toward happiness</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(The_shooting_of_Darrien_Hunt)
title: The shooting of Darrien Hunt
uri: The-shooting-of-Darrien-Hunt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28The_shooting_of_Darrien_Hunt%29
content:
<p>
An official investigation
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/04/utah-police-justified-shooting-dead-man-sword-official-report">legitimized
the shooting of Darrien Hunt by thugs</a>.
<p>
I don't trust what the thugs say about the events, but if Hunt indeed
posted a message saying he was going to get shot, it's possible this
was "suicide by cop".
<p>
On the other hand, why should cops question someone for carrying a
sword in a place with no one else, when they would not question
someone for carrying a gun there?  Was that racism?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Failure_of_Atlantic_City_casinos)
title: Failure of Atlantic City casinos
uri: Failure-of-Atlantic-City-casinos
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Failure_of_Atlantic_City_casinos%29

content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/04/-sp-atlantic-city-boardwalk-empire-casino-resort">failure
of Atlantic City casinos</a> illustrates the dead-end that gambling
is, as an economic base.
<p>
The other local casinos authorized over the past 20 years by various
states mainly took away some of Atlantic City's revenue, adding
nothing.  Given that the income does not "trickle down" to the local
residents, governments should not make any concessions to keep casinos
operating or to help them start.  Such concessions are
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_October_2013_(Cutting_taxes_to_win_business_away_from_other_jurisdictions)">"beggar
thy neighbor" tax-cuts</a>.
<p>
Instead, governments should increase the minimum wage,
so that workers will spend more money and promote
businesses that make things that are good for people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Libya)
title: Libya
uri: Libya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Libya%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/04/west-silent-libya-falls-abyss">The
West Is Silent as Libya Falls into the Abyss</a>.
<p>
It isn't obvious what could save Libya or what to propose.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(UKs_proposed_mansion_tax)
title: UK's proposed "mansion tax"
uri: UK-s-proposed-mansion-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28UKs_proposed_mansion_tax%29
content:
<p>
The UK's proposed "mansion tax" is a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/04/griff-rhys-jones-mansion-tax-soft-option">small
substitute for proper taxation of expensive houses</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Midterm_elections)
title: Midterm elections
uri: Midterm-elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Midterm_elections%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thenation.com/blog/186873-whos-buying-midterm-elections-bunch-old-white-guys">Who's
Buying the Midterm Elections? A Bunch of Old White Guys</a>.
<p>
Worse, they are a bunch of rich right-wing old white guys,
and they want to buy policies to help them get richer
at other Americans' expense.


title: Fossil fuel ads at Brisbane airport
uri: Fossil-fuel-ads-at-Brisbane-airport
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Fossil_fuel_ads_at_Brisbane_airport)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Fossil_fuel_ads_at_Brisbane_airport%29

content:
<p>
Brisbane airport bans "political" ads aimed at the G20 delegates,
except for those
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/04/fossil-fuel-ads-approved-brisbane-airport-despite-political-intent">in
favor of fossil fuel</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(G20)
title: G20
uri: G20
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28G20%29
content:
<p>
The G20 is considering a plan of action against global heating disaster,
but all it requires is that they
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/04/g20-energy-efficency-action-plan-offers-little-no-action">consider
taking some action</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Ghoncheh_Ghavamis_trial)
title: Ghoncheh Ghavami's trial
uri: Ghoncheh-Ghavami-s-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Ghoncheh_Ghavamis_trial%29
content:
<p>
Ghoncheh Ghavami's trial shows that the idea of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/03/ghoncheh-ghavami-iran-jailed-activist-tehran-power-nuclear">justice
is absent from the Iranian state</a>.
<p>
This is aside from the fact that the charges against her could only
be made by a bigoted regime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Abbott_insists_on_coal)
title: Abbott insists on coal
uri: Abbott-insists-on-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Abbott_insists_on_coal%29
content:
<p>
Abbott insists that coal is the future, directly
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/04/coal-is-the-future-insists-tony-abbott-as-un-calls-for-action-on-climate-change">opposing
UN efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions</a>.
<p>
What he means is that the destruction of civilization is the future.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Statelessness)
title: Statelessness
uri: Statelessness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Statelessness%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/04/un-refugee-agency-global-campaign-statelessness">UN
Refugee Agency Launches Global Campaign to End Statelessness</a>.
<p>
Perhaps the deepest problem is the practice of excluding stateless
people from usual activities and human rights.  It's one thing to
deport someone, and another to deny that person schooling, health
care, driving, banking, and so on.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Internet_voting)
title: Internet voting
uri: Internet-voting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Internet_voting%29
content:
<p>
Alaska's mad experiment with internet voting is an
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=7786">invitation to
fraud</a>.
<p>
Republicans cite the danger of fraud when they impose laws to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_April_2014_(Voter_suppression_laws)">block
poor, old and minority people from voting</a>.  Why, we must ask,
aren't they up in arms against internet voting?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Sierra_Leone_journalist_arrested)
title: Sierra Leone journalist arrested
uri: Sierra-Leone-journalist-arrested
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Sierra_Leone_journalist_arrested%29

content:
<p>
The president of Sierra Leone personally ordered the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/05/ebola-journalist-arrested-over-criticism-sierra-leone-government-response">arbitrary
imprisonment</a> of a prominent critical journalist.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Reasons_to_ban_fracking)
title: Reasons to ban fracking
uri: Reasons-to-ban-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Reasons_to_ban_fracking%29
content:
<p>
Americans vote for bans on fracking because they 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/05/3589429/fracking-bans-trust-oil-industry/">can't
trust governments to protect the safety of drilling operations</a>.
<p>
It is entirely logical that when corporations are too powerful to
regulate, they should be shut down entirely.
<p>
However, an even more important reason to ban fracking is
that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#19_July_2011_%28The_Carbon_Bubble%29">we
can't burn so much fossil fuel</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Real_Democrats_vs_Democrats)
title: Real Democrats vs "Democrats"
uri: Real-Democrats-vs-Democrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Real_Democrats_vs_Democrats%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/05/liberal-hangover-2014-democrats">Real
Democrats might have won some of the races</a> that "Democrats" have
lost.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Germany_escalates_war_on_sharing)
title: Germany escalates war on sharing
uri: Germany-escalates-war-on-sharing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Germany_escalates_war_on_sharing%29

content:
<p>
Germany is escalating the 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/german-police-raid-121-homes-in-pirate-site-crackdown-141104/">war
on sharing</a>.
<p>
While I do not condemn commercial publishing as such,
we need to wipe out the organizations that back the war.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Voting_discrimination)
title: Voting discrimination
uri: Voting-discrimination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Voting_discrimination%29
content:
<p>
Voting discrimination is the 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2014/civil-rights-pioneer-americas-discriminatory-election-landscape-worst-50-years?paging=off">worst
since 50 years ago</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Luxembourg_tax_dodge_haven)
title: Luxembourg tax dodge haven
uri: Luxembourg-tax-dodge-haven
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Luxembourg_tax_dodge_haven%29
content:
<p>
Luxembourg is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/05/luxembourg-tax-haven-competition-global-grand-duchy-corporate-law-administration">tax
dodge</a> in the middle of the European Union.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(The_reason_for_TPP_secrecy)
title: The reason for TPP secrecy
uri: The-reason-for-TPP-secrecy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28The_reason_for_TPP_secrecy%29
content:
<p>
New Zealand's trade minister admits that the reason for secrecy in the
TPP is to 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141030/16291028989/new-zealands-trade-minister-admits-they-keep-tpp-documents-secret-to-avoid-public-debate.shtml">prevent
public debate</a>.
<p>
Those involved in negotiating the TPP are ipso facto enemies of
democracy, and, in my view, trying to betray their countries.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Impact_of_voting_restrictions)
title: Impact of voting restrictions
uri: Impact-of-voting-restrictions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Impact_of_voting_restrictions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/how-much-difference-did-new-voting-restrictions-make-yesterdays-close-races">How
Much of a Difference Did New Voting Restrictions Make in Yesterday's
Close Races?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Denton,_Texas,_to_ban_fracking)
title: Denton, Texas, to ban fracking
uri: Denton-Texas-to-ban-fracking
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Denton%2C_Texas%2C_to_ban_fracking%29

content:
<p>
Denton, Texas, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/05/birthplace-fracking-boom-votes-ban-denton-texas">voted
to ban fracking</a>.  Its inhabitants have plenty
of experience with the effects.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Community_victory_over_Monsanto)
title: Community victory over Monsanto
uri: Community-victory-over-Monsanto
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Community_victory_over_Monsanto%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/05/hawaiians-win-community-gmo-victory-over-monsanto">Hawaiians
Win Community GMO Victory Over Monsanto</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(44_accused_of_lynching_arrested)
title: 44 accused of lynching arrested
uri: 44-accused-of-lynching-arrested
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%2844_accused_of_lynching_arrested%29

content:
<p>
Pakistan 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/05/pakistan-arrests-muslim-christian-couple-deaths">arrested
44 people</a> accused of lynching the Christian couple accused of
"blasphemy."


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Family_of_Dalits_murdered)
title: Family of Dalits murdered
uri: Family-of-Dalits-murdered
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Family_of_Dalits_murdered%29
content:
<p>
A family of Dalits who resisted caste oppression were 
<a href="http://www.medhajnews.com/article.php?id=MTE2MQ==">murdered
as a planned political act</a>.  The killers' identities are known but
nothing has been done.


title: UK cuts farm solar power subsidies
uri: UK-cuts-farm-solar-power-subsidies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(UK_cuts_farm_solar_power_subsidies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28UK_cuts_farm_solar_power_subsidies%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/05/defra-admits-it-cannot-say-how-much-farmland-solar-power-is-affecting">cut
subsidies for solar power in farms</a>, claiming that this is taking
land out of use for farming, but has no idea how much land has been
taken out of use in this way.
<p>
The argument would be irrational even if it were based on true facts,
because global heating will do a lot more damage to agricultural
output than these solar power plants would do.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Marijuana_legalization)
title: Marijuana legalization
uri: Marijuana-legalization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Marijuana_legalization%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/11/dc-voters-legalize-pot-portland-oregon-marijuana">DC
and Oregon voted to legalize marijuana</a>.  Right-wingers in Congress
might override the former.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Smart_TV_antiprivacy)
title: "Smart TV" antiprivacy
uri: Smart-TV-antiprivacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Smart_TV_antiprivacy%29
content:
<p>
If you read your "smart TV"'s 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/10/30/im_terrified_of_my_new_tv_why_im_scared_to_turn_this_thing_on_and_youd_be_too/">antiprivacy
excuse document</a>, you won't use it at all.
<p>
The one he's talking about is from 
<a href="http://www.infowars.com/samsung-smart-tv-records-personal-conversations-sends-them-to-third-parties/">Samsung</a>,
and here is 
<a href="http://www.samsung.com/uk/info/privacy-SmartTV.html">its
antiprivacy excuse document</a>, but other companies' models may not
be much less bad.
<p>
The first article's author recommends greater legal barriers to access
to the data the smart TV collects.  That is the usual inadequate
solution; even with those protections, the device would damage users'
privacy.  
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">Appliances
should not make recordings of people's voices or actions, except when
the people explicitly ask them to</a>.
<p>
Disconnecting the TV's microphone and blocking its camera would
correct only part of the problem.  Be wise: buy a non-smart TV that
doesn't record your voice or your actions.
<p>
Even better, don't have a TV.  I was a TV addict as a teenager, so at
age 17 I decided to cut it off cold turkey.  I have never regretted
that decision.  As a side benefit it disconnects me from corporate
mass culture.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Republican_control_of_US_Senate)
title: Republican control of US Senate
uri: Republican-control-of-US-Senate
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Republican_control_of_US_Senate%29

content:
<p>
Republicans 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/04/us-midterm-elections-republican-wins-senate-takeover">took
control of the US Senate</a>.
<p>
They did so by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_April_2014_(Voter_suppression_laws)">passing
laws to block hundreds of thousands of poor and minority group members
from voting</a>, and disenfranchising millions more by 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_(Republican_scheme_to_block_voters)">secret
dishonesty</a>, together with blanketing TV with misleading ads
(harping on side issues) 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_March_2014_(Deceptive_ads_attacking_Obama%27s_medical_coverage_plan)">paid
for by billionaires</a>.
<p>
It is clear that some of these senate races would have been won by
Democrats if the election had been free.
<p>
In effect, this means that democracy in the US has been mostly
extinguished.
<p>
Republicans will use their additional power to impoverish more
Americans (with the bonus that they may be disenfranchised as a
consequence), boost global heating, and sign the TPP.


title: UK immigrants pay more than they receive
uri: UK-immigrants-pay-more-than-they-receive
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(UK_immigrants_pay_more_than_they_receive)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28UK_immigrants_pay_more_than_they_receive%29

content:
<p>
As right-wing political parties in the UK blame European immigrants
for the spreading poverty, a study finds that they have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/05/eu-migrants-uk-gains-20bn-ucl-study">paid
more in taxes than they received in government benefits</a>.
<p>
The real cause of the losses to the UK treasury is the failure to tax
the rich and businesses enough.


title: Israel proposes law against stone throwing
uri: Israel-proposes-law-against-stone-throwing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Israel_proposes_law_against_stone_throwing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Israel_proposes_law_against_stone_throwing%29

content:
<p>
Israel is proposing a law to 
<a href="http://972mag.com/the-only-way-to-stop-stone-throwing-is-to-end-the-occupation/98321/">imprison
Palestinians for 20 years for throwing stones</a>.
<p>
In theory, it will apply to Jews too.  In practice, Jews carrying out
pogroms will have immunity
(<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#12_October_2011_(Israeli_Police_Pogrom)">as
they generally do</a>), and only Palestinian teenagers will be punished this way.
<p>
Throwing stones at people is a form of violence.  In peaceful
circumstances, under a democratic government that respects human
rights, throwing stones ought to be a crime.  However, under such
circumstances, no one would suggest a punishment of 20 years in prison
for that crime.
<p>
In occupied Palestine, the violence of throwing stones is tiny
compared with 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#14_December_2012_(Israeli_bombardment_of_Gaza)">Israel's
violence</a> and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#02_August_2012_(Humanitarian_aid_for_West_Bank)">oppression
against Palestinians</a>.  The proposed 20-year punishment is evident
reinforcement for the occupation.  We must not let tiny wrongs serve
as pretexts for giant wrongs.
<p>
Since throwing stones achieves nothing, and undermines the nonviolent
protests that Palestinian adults carry out, it would be wiser for
Palestinian teenagers to stop it.


title: Israel continues demolishing homes
uri: Israel-continues-demolishing-homes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Israel_continues_demolishing_homes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Israel_continues_demolishing_homes%29

content:
<p>
Israel continues demolishing more Palestinian homes and buildings
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=737390">in
areas of Palestine that Israel annexed to Jerusalem</a>.
<p>
The "lack of permit" is a pretext which Israel systematically
constructs by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#26_July_2012_(100-year-old_Palestinian_building_demolished)">refusing
to give permits to Palestinians in areas where Israel is trying to
expel them</a>.
<p>
Even in situations where it is legitimate to forcibly demolish
people's home, to do so without first letting them remove their
movable property is gratuitous cruelty.
<p>
Demolition is part of a much broader policy of 
<a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/opinion/8465-the-political-orphans-of-jerusalem-revolt">pushing
Arabs out of East Jerusalem and its annexed territories</a>.
<p>
Now Israel 
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=735624">plans
to build housing for 1000 more colonist families in East
Jerusalem</a>.
<p>
I don't suppose those houses will be demolished for lack of a permit.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Udi_Segal_declares_hunger_strike)
title: Udi Segal declares hunger strike
uri: Udi-Segal-declares-hunger-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Udi_Segal_declares_hunger_strike%29

content:
<p>
Udi Segal, one of the Israel youths that refuse to serve in the army
and carry out the occupation of Palestine, has 
<a href="http://972mag.com/israeli-conscientious-objector-jailed-for-fifth-term-begins-hunger-strike/98284/">declared
a hunger strike</a> for his next term of imprisonment.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Repeal_of_Australias_carbon_tax)
title: Repeal of Australia's carbon tax
uri: Repeal-of-Australia-s-carbon-tax
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Repeal_of_Australias_carbon_tax%29

content:
<p>
Australia's repeal of the carbon tax is causing its 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/04/carbon-tax-demise-leading-to-large-rise-in-emissions-says-academic">biggest-ever
annual increase in CO<sub>2</sub> emissions</a>.
<p>
Abbott says that "coal is the future" and claims it will become clean,
but Australia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/05/carbon-capture-and-storage-research-budget-slashed-despite-pms-coal-focus">cutting
funds for developing CCS</a>.
<p>
The fossil fuel magnates are planning to trash human civilization and
Earth's ecosphere; they figure their families will use their money to
escape the disaster.  Whatever they say they will do to avert the
disaster is just talk.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(The_TTIP_plot)
title: The TTIP plot
uri: The-TTIP-plot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28The_TTIP_plot%29
content:
<p>
The TTIP is a plot against democracy, but despite powerful opposition,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/04/british-government-leading-gunpowder-plot-democracy-eu-us-trade">the
plot is not dead yet</a>.
<p>
The name stands for "This Treaty Is Plutocratic, and even The
Economist says it is too plutocratic.
<p>
What does the UK Labour Party say about TTIP?
What does the UK Green Party say about TTIP?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Things_getting_worse_in_Syria)
title: Things getting worse in Syria
uri: Things-getting-worse-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Things_getting_worse_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/11/things-are-going-bad-worse-syria-and-iraq">Things
Are Going From Bad to Worse in Syria—And Iraq</a>.
<p>
The worst thing that happened is that PISSI (the Pseudo-Islamic State
in Syria and Iraq) 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#04_November_2014_(PISSI_massacres_Sunni_resistance)">conquered
and massacred a Sunni tribe in Iraq that did not yield to PISSI</a>.
<p>
The US and the Iraqi government and militias did not do what was
necessary to defend that tribe.  This has big consequences: other
Iraqi Sunnis who resent PISSI will feel they have no choice but to
support it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Soldiers_from_the_Libyan_army)
title: Soldiers from the Libyan army
uri: Soldiers-from-the-Libyan-army
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Soldiers_from_the_Libyan_army%29

content:
<p>
Training soldiers from the Libyan army turns out to be ineffective
because 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/04/cameron-plan-train-libyan-soldiers-problems-money">they
belong to factions that hate each other</a>.  They fight each other
even during training, and when they return to Libya, they join
militias that fight each other.


title: Data brokers' inaccurate information
uri: Data-brokers-inaccurate-information
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Data_brokers'_inaccurate_information)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Data_brokers%27_inaccurate_information%29

content:
<p>
Inaccurate information about you in data brokers' hands can get you
shot to death, but 
<a href="http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/data-brokers-know-lot-about-you-what-do-you-know-about-them">data
brokers refuse to correct errors</a>.
<p>
I wonder how they find out about people's addresses.  Does the Post
Office tell them?  The IRS?  Utility companies?  Stores?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Lynched_for_blasphemy)
title: Lynched for blasphemy
uri: Lynched-for-blasphemy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Lynched_for_blasphemy%29
content:
<p>
Fanatical Muslims in Pakistan 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/04/pakistan-christian-couple-killed-alleged-blasphemy">lynched
a Christian couple</a>, accusing them of "desecrating" a copy of the
Qur'an.
<p>
To oppose their vicious ideas, we must stand firmly behind the
principle that freedom of speech includes the freedom to insult anyone
or anything.  All laws punishing an insult are an injustice.
<p>
Furthermore, I think that all visitors to the US should be required to
make a video recording, for publication, stating that they endorse
this principle as a matter of human rights.  If they will not endorse
this, they can stay away.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 06_November_2014_(Photos_of_voting_ballots)
title: Photos of voting ballots
uri: Photos-of-voting-ballots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_%28Photos_of_voting_ballots%29
content:
<p>
ACLU sues to allow people to 
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/3/7150511/aclu-sues-to-let-you-post-photos-of-ballot-when-voting">post
photos of their ballots when voting</a>.
<p>
I disagree with the ACLU on this issue.  The purpose of the law is to
protect you from pressure to sell your vote.  The US has no shortage
of people with power who would try to force you to vote their way.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Men_Speak_Out_on_Feminism)
title: Men Speak Out on Feminism
uri: Men-Speak-Out-on-Feminism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Men_Speak_Out_on_Feminism%29
content:
<p>2014 Was the Year
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/was-2014-year-feminist-men">
Men Finally Got Feminism</a>
.</p>


title: Mysterious Death of Alexei Devotchenko
uri: Mysterious-Death-of-Alexei-Devotchenko
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Mysterious_Death_of_Alexei_Devotchenko)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Mysterious_Death_of_Alexei_Devotchenko%29

content:
<p>A Russian opposition activist
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/06/alexei-devotchenko-anti-putin-activist-dead">
died mysteriously</a>.
Friends say he was murdered.</p>
<p>We can't be sure, but I would not trust an autopsy done under Putin's
government to be truthful.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Starve_Them_Out)
title: Starve Them Out
uri: Starve-Them-Out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Starve_Them_Out%29
content:
<p>Florida activists including church leaders were
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/05/fort-lauderdale-pastors-arnold-abbott-arrested-feeding-homeless">
arrested for offering food to the homeless</a>
in Fort Lauderdale.
</p>
<p>Although I'm not a Christian, I agree with one basic principle of
Christianity: we have a duty to feed the hungry.  Anyone who tries to
prevent this for no good reason (such as, to please businesses that
want the street to look nice) is neither a good Christian nor a good
Secular Humanist.</p>
<p>The people who enforce these law are not acting at gunpoint.  They
choose to do those jobs, and they are personally responsible for all
things they do, including enforcing these laws.  If they were decent
people, they would quit their jobs rather than do this.
</p>


title: English Collective of Prostitutes fights Criminalization
uri: English-Collective-of-Prostitutes-fights-Criminalization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(English_Collective_of_Prostitutes_fights_Criminalization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28English_Collective_of_Prostitutes_fights_Criminalization%29

content:
<p>UK sex workers have mobilized and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/06/sex-workers-decriminalisation-amendment-modern-slavery-bill">
blocked the plan</a>
to criminalize their clients.
</p>
<p>Swedish prostitutes say that criminalizing their clients has caused
them to be treated worse in various ways.</p>
<p>Workers are trafficked and enslaved in many trades, including
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#29_June_2012_(US-contracted_workers_treated_as_slaves)">
domestic service</a>, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/10/supermarket-prawns-thailand-produced-slave-labour">
farming</a>,
and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#14 April 2009 (Built and run by slaves)">
construction</a>.
<p>I think we need general policies to thwart
trafficking and enslavement — not repression of specific trades.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Pollination_Disrupted_Globally)
title: Pollination Disrupted Globally
uri: Pollination-Disrupted-Globally
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Pollination_Disrupted_Globally%29

content:
<p>Global heating is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/06/climate-change-is-disrupting-flower-pollination-research-shows">
disrupting pollination</a>
of the early spider orchid.</p>
<p>It is done by males of a particular species of bee, but male bees
are only flying around for a short time, and that no longer corresponds
to when the flowers bloom.</p>
<p>If global heating were happening slowly, most species would adapt to
it.
However, aside from bacteria, most species don't evolve fast enough
to
adapt to what we are doing.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Jim_Inhofe_Won't_Save_the_World)
title: Jim Inhofe Won't Save the World
uri: Jim-Inhofe-Won-t-Save-the-World
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Jim_Inhofe_Won%27t_Save_the_World%29

content:
<p>A global heating denier will be
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/06/climate-denier-jim-inhofe-in-line-for-senates-top-environmental-job">
chairing the the US senate's environmental committee</a>.</p>
<p>If you are young, these people are trying to kill you (and a large
fraction of Earth's human and nonhuman population).</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Governor_Corbett_Gets_Nasty)
title: Governor Corbett Gets Nasty
uri: Governor-Corbett-Gets-Nasty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Governor_Corbett_Gets_Nasty%29
content:
<p>Pennsylvania's
<a href="http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/the-gag-mumia-law/">
"gag Mumia" law</a>
gags all prisoners.</p>


title: British Intelligence Interfere with Court Case
uri: British-Intelligence-Interfere-with-Court-Case
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(British_Intelligence_Interfere_with_Court_Case)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28British_Intelligence_Interfere_with_Court_Case%29

content:
<p>Abdel Hakim Belhaj's lawyers want the court to investigate how
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/06/intelligence-agencies-lawyer-client-abdel-hakim-belhaj-mi5-mi6-gchq">
spying on his privileged communications</a>
with them has been used to undermine his case.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Bad_News_For_American_Women)
title: Bad News For American Women
uri: Bad-News-For-American-Women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Bad_News_For_American_Women%29
content:
<p>2014 Was an Election of Firsts for Republican Women.
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/06/2014-election-republican-women-record-numbers">
But It Wasn't a 'Win'</a>
for Women At All.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(No_Justice_for_Turkish_Activists)
title: No Justice for Turkish Activists
uri: No-Justice-for-Turkish-Activists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28No_Justice_for_Turkish_Activists%29

content:
<p>The International Criminal Court
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/06/israel-raid-gaza-flotilla-turkey-icc">
decided not to take up the case</a>
of the Israeli killing of activists on the Mavi Marmara.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Facts_About_Fake_Food)
title: Facts About Fake Food
uri: Facts-About-Fake-Food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Facts_About_Fake_Food%29
content:
<p>A group of Irish people were
<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047511_junk_food_American_snacks_Ireland.html">
introduced to US snack foods</a>
and found them disgusting.</p>
<p>If you watch the youtube videos, take care
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html">
not to play them directly</a>
since that would mean running nonfree software.
Instead, use the youtubedl script or some other free program,
that can access youtube.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Justifying_Tax_Abuse)
title: Justifying Tax Abuse
uri: Justifying-Tax-Abuse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Justifying_Tax_Abuse%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/06/eradicate-tax-abuse-business-aggressivie-avoidance">
Who benefits</a>
from business tax avoidance schemes?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Wholesale_Poaching)
title: Wholesale Poaching
uri: Wholesale-Poaching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Wholesale_Poaching%29
content:
<p>Chinese
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/06/chinese-demand-for-ivory-is-devastating-tanzanias-elephant-population">
demand for ivory</a>
is wiping out the elephants of Tanzania.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Chevron_defeated_by_democracy)
title: Chevron defeated by democracy
uri: Chevron-defeated-by-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Chevron_defeated_by_democracy%29
content:
<p>Oil money
<a href="http://act.350.org/go/6356?t=1003&akid=5539.1151744.4VIMJf">
failed to buy the local election</a>
in Richmond California.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Killer_Cops_Lie_in_Court)
title: Killer Cops Lie in Court
uri: Killer-Cops-Lie-in-Court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Killer_Cops_Lie_in_Court%29
content:
<p>The thugs that shot Darrien Hunt told
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/04/1341612/-Proof-the-police-have-told-two-huge-lies-in-the-shooting-death-of-Darrien-Hunt?detail=email">
two demonstrable lies</a>
about it, and likely another.
</p>
<p>Thugs are not like you and me.  They are accustomed to lying, even in
court.  I would not take their word for anything without objective
confirmation.</p>


title: Dominican Republic quits OAS's human rights court
uri: Dominican-Republic-quits-OAS-s-human-rights-court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Dominican_Republic_quits_OAS's_human_rights_court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Dominican_Republic_quits_OAS%27s_human_rights_court%29

content:
<p>The Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned the Dominican
Republic for taking citizenship away from its inhabitants of Haitian
descent. 
<a href="http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Dominican-Republic-quits-OAS-s-human-rights-court">
In response</a>,
the Dominican Republic withdrew from the court.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 7_November_2014_(Human_toll_of_coal_in_China)
title: Human toll of coal in China
uri: Human-toll-of-coal-in-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#7_November_2014_%28Human_toll_of_coal_in_China%29
content:
<p>A study found that pollution from burning coal in China causes
<a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1632163/670000-deaths-year-cost-chinas-reliance-coal">
around 700,000 deaths a year</a>.
</p>
<p>The figure given was 670,000, but that's too much precision.  The
study used statistics from 2012, but since coal use has increased
since then, it must be worse.</p>
<p>I estimate around 15 million people die each year in China, which
would make coal responsible for around 5% of those deaths.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Chicago_thug_department)
title: Chicago thug department
uri: Chicago-thug-department
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Chicago_thug_department%29
content:
<p>
Families of people killed by Chicago thugs protested 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/06/families-of-youths-killed-by-chicago-police-blame-racial-targeting-for-deaths">demanding
a federal investigation</a> of their thug department.


title: EFF requests DMCA exception for car repair
uri: EFF-requests-DMCA-exception-for-car-repair
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(EFF_requests_DMCA_exception_for_car_repair)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28EFF_requests_DMCA_exception_for_car_repair%29

content:
<p>
The EFF asked the Library of Congress to make a 3-year DMCA exception
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/eff-librarian-congress-let-car-owners-look-under-hood">for 
people to repair their own cars</a>.
<p>
Of course, these requests for exceptions are all valid; but we should
not let them become our focus.  The ban on breaking digital handcuffs
is fundamentally wrong; it should be replaced with a ban on digital
handcuffs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Advice_to_fracker_executives)
title: Advice to fracker executives
uri: Advice-to-fracker-executives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Advice_to_fracker_executives%29
content:
<p>
Advice to fracker executives: 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/politics/pr-executives-western-energy-alliance-speech-taped.html">frighten 
the public, and find dirt on environmentalists to discredit them
personally</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(UKs_privatized_work_program)
title: UK's privatized "work program"
uri: UK-s-privatized-work-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28UKs_privatized_work_program%29
content:
<p>
A whistleblower from the UK's privatized "work program" tells that her
job was to find excuses to push people into working, by fining them,
and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/05/work-programme-adviser-box-ticking-sanctioning-sick-people">never 
mind their illnesses and disabilities</a>.
<p>
One of her clients, mentally ill and homeless, had not eaten in five
days.  This was probably due to being fined on one of the many
pretexts that the UK has come up with to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_September_2014_(UKs_excuses_to_fine_the_poor)">punish 
the helpless for being helpless</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Urgent:_Real_network_neutrality)
title: Urgent: Real network neutrality
uri: Urgent-Real-network-neutrality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Real_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_wheeler_netneutrality">call
on Obama</a> to make the FCC support real network neutrality.


title: Opposition media wiped out by Facebook
uri: Opposition-media-wiped-out-by-Facebook
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Opposition_media_wiped_out_by_Facebook)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Opposition_media_wiped_out_by_Facebook%29

content:
<p>
Censored and monitored Facebook has
<a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org/news/2014/oct/28/facebook-killed-internet-star-reflections-radical-media">wiped
out independent opposition media projects</a>, including SchNEWS and,
to a large extent, Indymedia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Republican_plans)
title: Republican plans
uri: Republican-plans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Republican_plans%29
content:
<p>
Republican
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/05/ignoring-public-gop-leadership-promises-worst-attack-environmental-protection">plans
to trash the environment</a> in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Voters_raise_minimum_wage)
title: Voters raise minimum wage
uri: Voters-raise-minimum-wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Voters_raise_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
Several US cities and states
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/05/minimum-wage-measures-pass-overwhelmingly-even-red-states">voted
to increase the minimum wage</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Mass_media_CIA_propagandists)
title: Mass media CIA propagandists
uri: Mass-media-CIA-propagandists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Mass_media_CIA_propagandists%29
content:
<p>
The former editor of a major German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, says he was
<a href="http://russia-insider.com/en/germany_politics_media_watch/2014/11/06/01-08-03pm/our_exclusive_interview_german_editor_turned_cia">working
under CIA orders for his whole career</a>.
<p>
This is part of a broad pattern of
<a href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/German_Journalist_Blows_Whistle_On_How_The_CIA_Controls_The_Media/38498/0/38/38/Y/M.html">converting
mass media into CIA propagandists</a>.
<p>
Here's
<a href="http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php">Carl
Bernstein's 1977 article</a> about CIA infiltration of major US media.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(UK_wages_pushed_down)
title: UK wages pushed down
uri: UK-wages-pushed-down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28UK_wages_pushed_down%29
content:
<p>
Elimination of many well-paid jobs is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/nov/07/fall-in-real-wages-across-uk">pushing
UK wages down</a>.
<p>
Wages need to be increased for the jobs that do exist today.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Workers_protest_in_Brussels)
title: Workers protest in Brussels
uri: Workers-protest-in-Brussels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Workers_protest_in_Brussels%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/06/belgium-austerity-protests-violence">100,000
workers</a> protested austerity in Brussels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_victims_of_rape)
title: Urgent: Protect victims of rape
uri: Urgent-Protect-victims-of-rape
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_victims_of_rape%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/protect_brishna_from_honor_killing">call
on the president of Afghanistan</a> to protect victims of rape and
punish relatives that kill them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(European_bird_populations)
title: European bird populations
uri: European-bird-populations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28European_bird_populations%29
content:
<p>
Changes in agricultural practices have cut the European population of
many birds
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/07/bird-decline-common-species-rspb">in
half</a>.


title: UK's ban on sending books to prisoners
uri: UK-s-ban-on-sending-books-to-prisoners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(UKs_ban_on_sending_books_to_prisoners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28UKs_ban_on_sending_books_to_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Famous authors are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/07/prisoners-book-limit-scrapped-cap-cell-campaign-literary">campaigning
against</a> the UK's ban on sending books to prisoners.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Slave_workers_from_North_Korea)
title: Slave workers from North Korea
uri: Slave-workers-from-North-Korea
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Slave_workers_from_North_Korea%29

content:
<p>
North Korea
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/nov/07/north-koreans-working-state-sponsored-slaves-qatar">ships
slave workers to Qatar</a>.


title: Clampdown on human rights in Egypt
uri: Clampdown-on-human-rights-in-Egypt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Clampdown_on_human_rights_in_Egypt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Clampdown_on_human_rights_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
Egypt has responded to the Islamist rebellion in the Sinai with a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/04/egypt-harsh-response-islamist-insurgency-sinai-could-backfire">further
clampdown on human rights</a> including the press and local civilians.
<p>
The rebels don't hesitate to threaten local civilians too.
<p>
Egypt is about to impose
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/07/egypt-military-news-ban">total
censorship of all news about the army</a>.  If soldiers shoot your
neighbors it would be illegal to say so.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Earths_air_temperature)
title: Earth's air temperature
uri: Earth-s-air-temperature
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Earths_air_temperature%29
content:
<p>
Satellite measurements of Earth's air temperature have been too low
due to an
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/nov/07/new-study-disputes-satellite-temperature-estimates">unnoticed
effect of clouds</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Economic_sanctions_on_Russia)
title: Economic sanctions on Russia
uri: Economic-sanctions-on-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Economic_sanctions_on_Russia%29
content:
<p>
Economic sanctions are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/07/rouble-crashes-russian-economy-brink-recession-currency">hitting
Russian business hard</a>.
<p>
It seems Putin's response is to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/07/ukraine-russian-military-column-east">attack
Ukraine more</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Global_heating_denial)
title: Global heating denial
uri: 2014-11-09-Global-heating-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Global_heating_denial%29
content:
<p>
Global heating denialists
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/nov/07/playing-whack-a-mole-with-australian-advisors-climate-change-myths">never
run out of false arguments</a>.  Whack one, and they invent another.
<p>
They are paid to invent these.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Luxembourg_tax_dodging)
title: Luxembourg tax dodging
uri: Luxembourg-tax-dodging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Luxembourg_tax_dodging%29
content:
<p>
How Luxembourg enables tax dodging
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/05/-sp-luxembourg-tax-files-tax-avoidance-industrial-scale">on
an industrial scale</a>.


title: Democrats advised to be more right-wing
uri: Democrats-advised-to-be-more-right-wing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 08_November_2014_(Democrats_advised_to_be_more_right-wing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_%28Democrats_advised_to_be_more_right-wing%29

content:
<p>
As always, after a Democratic defeat, the
<a href="http://fair.org/take-action/media-advisories/the-center-always-holds/">commercial
mainstream media advise that the party should become more
right-wing</a>.
<p>
On most issues, most of the Democratic party is more right-wing
than the general public.


title: Urgent: 10 vital actions for Obama
uri: Urgent-10-vital-actions-for-Obama
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(Urgent:_10_vital_actions_for_Obama)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_10_vital_actions_for_Obama%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/10_things_obama/">call on
Obama to do 10 vital actions</a> to resist the expected Republican
attack.


title: US employees' every move can be monitored
uri: US-employees-every-move-can-be-monitored
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(US_employees_every_move_can_be_monitored)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28US_employees_every_move_can_be_monitored%29

content:
<p>
In the US, and just about everywhere except Europe, companies can
monitor every move employees make, physically and on the internet.
And they are finding 
<a href="http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/privacy/workplace-privacy-big-brother-is-watching/a/d-id/1317188">new
ways to do it</a>.
<p>
I hope you will refuse to accept nonfree software onto your computer
"for work".  This is one place where it is very important for you to
push back.


title: Prisoner released from Guantanamo
uri: Prisoner-released-from-Guantanamo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(Prisoner_released_from_Guantanamo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28Prisoner_released_from_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/06/after-13-years-imprisoned-without-charge-man-released-guantanamo">One
more prisoner</a> has been released from Guantanamo.
<p>
At this rate, most of the prisoners will spend decades more in prison
without trial, which is a national disgrace for the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(Luxembourg_tax_dodging_records)
title: Luxembourg tax dodging records
uri: Luxembourg-tax-dodging-records
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28Luxembourg_tax_dodging_records%29

content:
<p>
In the leaked Luxembourg tax dodging records, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/06/us-corporations-top-list-those-living-magical-fairyland-tax-dodging">US
companies are the most numerous</a>.
<p>
But they don't use only Luxembourg.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(Will_Republicans_help_Obama)
title: Will Republicans help Obama?
uri: Will-Republicans-help-Obama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28Will_Republicans_help_Obama%29
content:
<p>
Will Republicans help Obama 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/06/will-gop-senate-hand-over-fast-track-authority-trade-not-so-fast">betray
the US to foreign corporations</a>?


title: Ecuador accepts "free trade" treaty
uri: Ecuador-accepts-free-trade-treaty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(Ecuador_accepts_free_trade_treaty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28Ecuador_accepts_free_trade_treaty%29

content:
<p>
Ecuador gave in to European bullying by 
<a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/10/22/leaked-diplomatic-cables-show-eu-strong-armed-ecuador-on-free-trade-agreement/">accepting
an unjust "free trade" treaty</a> which includes heavy punishment for
copyright infringement (and other things that are bad for Ecuador).


title: Suspects in Mexican student killings
uri: Suspects-in-Mexican-student-killings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(Suspects_in_Mexican_student_killings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28Suspects_in_Mexican_student_killings%29

content:
<p>
The killers of 43 Mexican student protesters 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/07/gang-suspected-43-mexican-students">may
have been found</a>.
<p>
One can't presume that the confessions are true, though they may be
true.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Genetically_modified_potato)
title: Genetically modified potato
uri: Genetically-modified-potato
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Genetically_modified_potato%29
content:
<p>
A genetically modified
potato <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/08/innate-potato-simplot-gm-watchdogs">may
be introduced into production</a>.
<p>
Genetically modified foods are not necessarily harmful, there is a
risk that any given type will harm some people who eat them, or harm
wildlife, or that its production (if different) will harm wildlife.
These potatoes may be ok, but that doesn't mean that
herbicide-resistant corn is ok.
<p>
In addition, the patents attack farmers' rights.


title: Urgent: Oil dispersants in the sea
uri: Urgent-Oil-dispersants-in-the-sea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Urgent:_Oil_dispersants_in_the_sea)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oil_dispersants_in_the_sea%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell the OMB and the EPA
to <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1643&utm_source=crm&utm_content=PlainTextLink3&autologin=true#start">tackle
the issue of using oil dispersants in the sea</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(The_new_cold_war)
title: The "new cold war"
uri: The-new-cold-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28The_new_cold_war%29
content:
<p>
The "new cold war" between the US and Russia differs from the old one
in
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/09/new-cold-war-ideologies-russia-west-gorbachev-twitter">there
are no ideas at stake</a>, just two blocs competing for power that
neither one deserves.
<p>
To be sure, Putin's personal regime is more arbitrary and dishonest
than the US.  The US broadcasts lots of lies but is somewhat
restrained by the facts.  Putin and his men will say anything at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Israeli_thugs_did_a_Ferguson)
title: Israeli thugs did a Ferguson
uri: Israeli-thugs-did-a-Ferguson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Israeli_thugs_did_a_Ferguson%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/09/violence-spreads-israel-shooting-galilee-video-kheir-hamdan">Israeli
thugs did a Ferguson</a>, murdering an Arab who was running away then
claiming he was attacking them.
<p>
Naturally this started a riot.  Naturally, Netanyahu wants to punish
the rioters and not the murderers.
<p>
The Conflict Restaurant, which picks a country that the US is in
conflict with and serves its food and presents messages from its
people,
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/09/pittsburgh-restaurant-conflict-kitchen-death-threats-israel">shut
by death threats after presenting messages that criticize Israel's
occupation of Palestine</a>.
<p>
These criticisms are being labeled as "anti-Israel" — like
labeling criticism of Guantanamo prison or US wars of aggression as
"anti-US".


title: World governments failing Earth's ecosystems
uri: World-governments-failing-Earth-s-ecosystems
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(World_governments_failing_Earth's_ecosystems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28World_governments_failing_Earth%27s_ecosystems%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/09/world-governments-failing-earths-ecosystems-says-top-conservationist">World
governments failing Earth's ecosystems</a>, says top conservationist.


title: UK thug met with industry blacklist organization
uri: UK-thug-met-with-industry-blacklist-organization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(UK_thug_met_with_industry_blacklist_organization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28UK_thug_met_with_industry_blacklist_organization%29

content:
<p>
Evidence shows an important UK
thug <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/08/police-colluded-blacklist-construction-workers-consulting-association-union-activists">met
with the construction industry blacklist organization</a>.


title: Another export terminal for fracked gas
uri: Another-export-terminal-for-fracked-gas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Another_export_terminal_for_fracked_gas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Another_export_terminal_for_fracked_gas%29

content:
<p>
The Obama
regime <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/11/07/despite-worse-coal-emissions-obama-administration-finds-yet-another-natural-gas">approved
another export terminal for fracked gas</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Obama's_medical_care_system)
title: Obama's medical care system
uri: Obama-s-medical-care-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Obama%27s_medical_care_system%29

content:
<p>
The problems that Republicans attribute to Obama's medical care system
are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/07/mitch-mcconnell-and-great-american-myth-healthcare-freedom">caused
by the involvement of private companies</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(A_Spanish_prison_for_children)
title: A Spanish prison for children
uri: A-Spanish-prison-for-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28A_Spanish_prison_for_children%29

content:
<p>
A Spanish prison for children, which focuses on treating them and
helping them fit into society,
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/07/tough-love-young-prisoners-spain-model-prison">very
effective at leading them away from crime</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Climate_Change)
title: Climate Change
uri: Climate-Change
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Climate_Change%29
content:
<p>
CNN
Host: <a href="http://fair.org/blog/2014/11/03/cnn-host-climate-change-is-undeniable-so-heres-a-denier/">Climate
Change Is Undeniable, So Here's a Denier</a>.


title: 3 years in prison for peaceful protest
uri: 3-years-in-prison-for-peaceful-protest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(3_years_in_prison_for_peaceful_protest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%283_years_in_prison_for_peaceful_protest%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian activists
were <a href="http://egyptianstreets.com/2014/10/26/24-egyptian-activists-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison/">sentenced
to 3 years in prison for a peaceful protest for the freedom to
protest</a>. Bystanders, not involved in the protest, were convicted
and sentenced with them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Why_some_Democrats_lost)
title: Why some Democrats lost
uri: Why-some-Democrats-lost
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Why_some_Democrats_lost%29
content:
<p>
Ralph Nader: some Democrats lost
because <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/07/democrats-not-knowing-what-they-stand-lose">they
did not stand for anything that could inspire downtrodden people to
vote for them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(FBI_impersonates_AP_journalist)
title: FBI impersonates AP journalist
uri: FBI-impersonates-AP-journalist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28FBI_impersonates_AP_journalist%29

content:
<p>
The FBI 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/07/fresh-outrage-fbi-admits-impersonating-ap-reporter">impersonated
an AP journalist</a> to catch a suspect.
<p>
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns this, saying it
<a href="http://cpj.org/2014/11/cpj-condemns-fbi-agent-posing-as-ap-journalist-in-.php">undermines
trust in journalists</a>.
<p>
The FBI probably wants to do that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(Civil_disobedience_in_Colorado)
title: Civil disobedience in Colorado
uri: Civil-disobedience-in-Colorado
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28Civil_disobedience_in_Colorado%29

content:
<p>
High-school students in Colorado 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/07/colorado-students-employ-civil-disobedience-school-board-sought-censor">turned
civil disobedience on the school board</a> that is trying to exclude
civil disobedience from history classes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(Lawsuit_against_force-feeding)
title: Lawsuit against force-feeding
uri: Lawsuit-against-force-feeding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28Lawsuit_against_force-feeding%29

content:
<p>
Abu Wa'el Dhiab's lawsuit against force-feeding in Guantanamo was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/08/us-legal-challenge-guantanamo-force-feeding">rejected</a>.
<p>
The US has admitted it has no justification for keeping him in prison
at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(Anti-abortion_laws)
title: Anti-abortion laws
uri: Anti-abortion-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28Anti-abortion_laws%29
content:
<p>
Laws intended to undermine abortion rights have been 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/opinion/pregnant-and-no-civil-rights.html?_r=0">used
to accuse hundreds of women of crimes</a> because of miscarriages,
attempted suicide, etc.


title: Face recognition cameras in Canada
uri: Face-recognition-cameras-in-Canada
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(Face_recognition_cameras_in_Canada)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28Face_recognition_cameras_in_Canada%29

content:
<p>
Canadian cities are now 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/more-police-departments-are-using-facial-recognition-technology/">installing
face recognition cameras</a>.
<p>
They say it is only for watching for known or wanted criminals.
The question is, how to make sure they aren't lying?


title: Prosecutorial control over sentencing
uri: Prosecutorial-control-over-sentencing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(Prosecutorial_control_over_sentencing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28Prosecutorial_control_over_sentencing%29

content:
<p>
Mandatory sentences and sentencing guidelines mean that, in practice,
<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/why-innocent-people-plead-guilty/">prosecutors
control sentencing in an arbitrary way</a>.  As a result, nearly
everyone accused of a crime pleads guilty in order to get a reduced
sentence, even those who are actually innocent.


title: UK rendition and torture investigation
uri: UK-rendition-and-torture-investigation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(UK_rendition_and_torture_investigation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28UK_rendition_and_torture_investigation%29

content:
<p>
UK human rights groups say the government's investigation of rendition
and torture is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/08/british-torture-inquiry-boycotted-rights-groups">a
cover-up</a>.


title: Surveillance endangers the oppressed
uri: Surveillance-endangers-the-oppressed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(Surveillance_endangers_the_oppressed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28Surveillance_endangers_the_oppressed%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/11/big_data_underground_railroad_history_says_unfettered_collection_of_data.single.html">Comparing
today's America with that of the 1850s</a> shows that surveillance
endangers the oppressed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 09_November_2014_(G20_protests)
title: G20 protests
uri: G20-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#09_November_2014_%28G20_protests%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/08/g20-protests-begin-with-mock-tropical-tax-haven-set-up-in-brisbane">G20
Protests Begin with Mock Tropical Tax Haven Set Up in Brisbane</a>.


title: Urgent: Vermont's GMO labeling law
uri: 2014-11-11-Urgent-Vermont-s-GMO-labeling-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Urgent:_Vermonts_GMO_labeling_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Vermonts_GMO_labeling_law%29

content:
<p>
In countries where Starbucks does business: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/starbucks-gmo-gma/">call on
Starbucks</a> to stop funding the lawsuit against Vermont's GMO
labeling law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Surveillance)
title: Surveillance
uri: Surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Surveillance%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/how-surveillance-turns-ordinary-people-terrorism-suspects">How
Surveillance Turns Ordinary People Into Terrorism Suspects</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Facebook_pushing_publishers)
title: Facebook pushing publishers
uri: Facebook-pushing-publishers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Facebook_pushing_publishers%29
content:
<p>
Facebook is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/09/facebook-app-dilemma-for-publishers-content-social-networking">pushing
publishers to publish through Facebook</a>.
<p>
This could make them inaccessible to us non-useds of Facebook, or
could 
<a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html">surveil us as we access
their publications</a>.
<p>
People will have to push back against in an organized way.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(US_pumping_lots_of_oil)
title: US pumping lots of oil
uri: US-pumping-lots-of-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28US_pumping_lots_of_oil%29
content:
<p>
The US is pumping 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2014/nov/09/us-iran-russia-oil-prices-shale">lots
of oil</a> to decrease the price.
<p>
While the government may see this as a way to hurt Iran and Russia,
its principal effect is to hurt the whole world by discouraging
the move to renewable energy.


title: Hanuman on Oklahoma capitol building
uri: Hanuman-on-Oklahoma-capitol-building
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Hanuman_on_Oklahoma_capitol_building)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Hanuman_on_Oklahoma_capitol_building%29

content:
<p>
Hindus have petitioned to 
<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/12/12/hindus-seek-ok-capitol-monument/">place
a statue of Hanuman on the Oklahoma capitol building</a>.
<p>
If Christians have that right, Hindus do too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Senates_torture_report)
title: Senate's torture report
uri: Senate-s-torture-report
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Senates_torture_report%29
content:
<p>
Senator Udall: while you're still in office, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/05/mark-udall-loss-privacy-cia-torture-report">publish
the Senate's torture report</a>!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Republican_gerrymandering)
title: Republican gerrymandering
uri: Republican-gerrymandering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Republican_gerrymandering%29
content:
<p>
How Republicans use gerrymandering to control the House of
Representatives by 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-league-of/309084/">misrepresenting
voters</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Roca_Labs_sues_customers)
title: Roca Labs sues customers
uri: Roca-Labs-sues-customers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Roca_Labs_sues_customers%29
content:
<p>
Roca Labs has actually 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141107/12291329080/roca-labs-sues-all-three-witnesses-who-came-forward-its-lawsuit-against-pissedconsumer.shtml">sued
customers that complained about its work</a>.


title: Snooping on lawyer-client conversations
uri: Snooping-on-lawyer-client-conversations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Snooping_on_lawyer-client_conversations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Snooping_on_lawyer-client_conversations%29

content:
<p>
Documents explicitly give UK spies 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/06/uk-surveillance-of-lawyers-journalists-gchq/">permission
to snoop on privileged conversations between lawyers and their
clients</a>.


title: Morocco preventing human rights meetings
uri: Morocco-preventing-human-rights-meetings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Morocco_preventing_human_rights_meetings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Morocco_preventing_human_rights_meetings%29

content:
<p>
Morocco is 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/11/07/morocco-human-rights-gatherings-blocked">preventing
the Moroccan Human Rights Association from holding meetings</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Covering_the_Alps)
title: Covering the Alps
uri: Covering-the-Alps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Covering_the_Alps%29
content:
<p>
Due to global heating, covering the alps with snow
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/07/snow-climate-change-effect-on-skiing">
requires artificial
help</a>.
<p>
90% of Switzerland's glaciers will disappear by the end of this
century,
and it won't stop there.  This does much bigger harm than merely
interfering with winter sports.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 10_November_2014_(Argentina)
title: Argentina
uri: Argentina
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Argentina%29
content:
<p>
Argentina is trying to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/02/buenos-aires-spain-franco-argentina">
prosecute crimes committed by Franco's
dictatorship</a> in Spain.
<p>
Bravo, Argentina, but please don't stop there — go after Dubya
and his henchmen too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(The_world's_largest_coal_mine)
title: The world's largest coal mine
uri: The-world-s-largest-coal-mine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28The_world%27s_largest_coal_mine%29

content:
<p>
The world's largest coal
mine <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/10/sp-the-real-story-of-us-coal-inside-the-worlds-biggest-coal-mine">is
an impressive feat of technology</a>.  Peabody wants to make it even
bigger.  Too bad it is going to destroy civilization.
<p>
Peabody
has <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_April_2013_%28Peabody_Energy_cheating_workers_out_of_medical_care%29">done
other nasty things before</a>.
<p>
The UK government, ever eager to boost fossil fuels, proposed to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/10/uk-proposes-shale-gas-sovereign-wealth-fund">distribute
more of the income from fracking to everyone in the north of
England</a>.
<p>
It would be an appropriate thing to do, if we consider only the short
term.


title: Australia's efforts to prevent renewable energy
uri: Australia-s-efforts-to-prevent-renewable-energy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(Australia's_efforts_to_prevent_renewable_energy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28Australia%27s_efforts_to_prevent_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
Australia's efforts to prevent renewable energy have been quite
effective:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/10/renewable-energy-investment-australia-dropped-70-past-year">investment
has dropped over 70% since a year ago</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(Falling_wages)
title: Falling wages
uri: Falling-wages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28Falling_wages%29
content:
<p>
Four economic factors
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/09/low-paid-outraged-workers-ready-fight-back">mainly
responsible for falling wages</a>.
<p>
Technology is one of them, and society has no obligation to allow
businesses to use any and all kinds of automation to replace workers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(GCHQ_has_gone_on_the_offensive)
title: GCHQ has gone on the offensive
uri: GCHQ-has-gone-on-the-offensive
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28GCHQ_has_gone_on_the_offensive%29

content:
<p>
GCHQ
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/04/gchq-security-privacy-robert-hannigan-tech">gone
on the offensive for total surveillance of everyone</a>. Of course,
this is to "protect" us from lesser dangers such as terrorists.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(Voter_Suppression)
title: Voter Suppression
uri: Voter-Suppression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28Voter_Suppression%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=8015">How Voter
Suppression Helped Produce the Lowest Turnout in Decades</a>.


title: Ethiopia is repressing dissidents
uri: Ethiopia-is-repressing-dissidents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(Ethiopia_is_repressing_dissidents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28Ethiopia_is_repressing_dissidents%29

content:
<p>
Ethiopia
is <a href="media/5e90b9c5.afr250062014en.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR25/006/2014/en/539616af-0dc6-43dd-8a4f-34e77ffb461c/afr250062014en.pdf">repressing
dissidents and suspected dissidents among the Oromo ethnic
group</a>. It goes as far as torture and death.


title: Remote lock-out devices for apartments
uri: Remote-lock-out-devices-for-apartments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(Remote_lock-out_devices_for_apartments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28Remote_lock-out_devices_for_apartments%29

content:
<p>
Even worse than remote car-shutdown devices, now there
are <a href="http://www.alternet.org/subprime-lending-car-buyers-fueling-bubble?paging=off">remote
lock-out devices for apartments</a>.
<p>
Both should be forbidden by law, because they give lenders too much
power over renters.


title: Poland and neighbors demand to keep burning fossil fuel
uri: Poland-and-neighbors-demand-to-keep-burning-fossil-fuel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(Poland_and_neighbors_demand_to_keep_burning_fossil_fuel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28Poland_and_neighbors_demand_to_keep_burning_fossil_fuel%29

content:
<p>
Poland and its
neighbors <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/07/poland-rejects-ipcc-target-of-zero-emissions-by-2100">demand
to keep burning fossil fuel past the end of this century</a>.
<p>
Poland might be able to mine and burn some coal despite global
disaster, but it won't get any oil once global trade has broken down.


title: "Smart TVs" are the 1984 telescreen
uri: Smart-TVs-are-the-1984-telescreen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(Smart_TVs_are_the_1984_telescreen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28Smart_TVs_are_the_1984_telescreen%29

content:
<p>
"Smart TVs" are the 1984
telescreen, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/nov/09/amazon-echo-smart-tv-watching-listening-surveillance">watching
you all the time</a>.


title: The taboo against showing breasts
uri: The-taboo-against-showing-breasts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(The_taboo_against_showing_breasts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28The_taboo_against_showing_breasts%29

content:
<p>
A number of women are appearing topless in public or in
photos <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/10/topless-keira-knightley-2014-breasts">to
puncture the taboo against showing breasts</a>.
<p>
I think it will be good to get rid of the taboo for future
generations.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(The_tedium_of_maintaining_ICBMs)
title: The tedium of maintaining ICBMs
uri: The-tedium-of-maintaining-ICBMs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28The_tedium_of_maintaining_ICBMs%29

content:
<p>
The tedium of maintaining ICBMs and being ready to launch them
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/air-force-missile-wing-minuteman-iii-nuclear-weapons-burnout">has
produced horribly low morale</a>, which invites mistakes that could
cause disaster, and corruption.


title: China has blocked access to US pollution measurements
uri: China-has-blocked-access-to-US-pollution-measurements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(China_has_blocked_access_to_US_pollution_measurements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28China_has_blocked_access_to_US_pollution_measurements%29

content:
<p>
China's effort to reduce air pollution in Beijing have failed, so as a
last
resort <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/10/apec-china-blocks-access-us-air-pollution-data-beijing">it
has blocked access to US embassy pollution measurements</a>.


title: Urgent: Protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
uri: Urgent-Protection-of-the-Arctic-National-Wildlife-Refuge
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 12_November_2014_(Urgent:_Protection_of_the_Arctic_National_Wildlife_Refuge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#12_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protection_of_the_Arctic_National_Wildlife_Refuge%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="http://www.democrats.com/protect-the-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge?cid=ZGVtczkxNTA0MmRlbXM%3D">protection
of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge</a>.


title: Urgent: Fill all the empty judicial slots
uri: Urgent-Fill-all-the-empty-judicial-slots
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 12_November_2014_(Urgent:_Fill_all_the_empty_judicial_slots)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#12_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Fill_all_the_empty_judicial_slots%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators
and <a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=LameDuck2014JudicialNomsCalls">call
on them to fill all the empty judicial slots</a>.
<p>
I suggest mentioning that a few of Obama's nominees are famously
right-wing "compromises" with the Republicans; they should not be
confirmed now.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 12_November_2014_(The_risks_of_global_heating)
title: The risks of global heating
uri: The-risks-of-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#12_November_2014_%28The_risks_of_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
The risks of global heating include irreversible consequences —
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/nov/10/we-must-manage-global-warming-risks-by-cutting-carbon-pollution-ipcc">problems
that could not be corrected</a>.  The way to manage the risk is to
reduce CO2 emissions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 12_November_2014_(Urgent:_Boost_solar_energy)
title: Urgent: Boost solar energy
uri: Urgent-Boost-solar-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#12_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Boost_solar_energy%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=12327">boost
solar energy</a>.


title: Full and true internet neutrality
uri: Full-and-true-internet-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(Full_and_true_internet_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28Full_and_true_internet_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
Obama took a
stand <a href="http://demand-progress.tumblr.com/post/102289034915/chairman-wheeler-must-end-delays-on-net-neutrality">in
favor of full and true internet neutrality</a>.
<p>
It is too bad he appointed an FCC commissioner who's against that.  I
can't believe he couldn't guess that someone from the ISPs would be
against it.


title: Asylum-Seeker Conditions Inhuman And Unlawful
uri: Asylum-Seeker-Conditions-Inhuman-And-Unlawful
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(Asylum-Seeker_Conditions_Inhuman_And_Unlawful)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28Asylum-Seeker_Conditions_Inhuman_And_Unlawful%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/11/asylum-seeker-conditions-inhuman-and-unlawful-un-committee-tells-australia">Asylum-Seeker
Conditions Inhuman And Unlawful</a>, UN Committee Tells Australia.


title: Protests in Mexico have increased
uri: Protests-in-Mexico-have-increased
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(Protests_in_Mexico_have_increased)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28Protests_in_Mexico_have_increased%29

content:
<p>
Now that some of the murdered students corpse's have been identified
by DNA, protests in Mexico have increased, so thugs are trying to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/11/student-massacre-mexico-acapulco-police-injured">discredit
them by false-flag violence</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(The_Billion_Dollar_a_Month_Club)
title: The Billion Dollar a Month Club
uri: The-Billion-Dollar-a-Month-Club
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28The_Billion_Dollar_a_Month_Club%29

content:
<p>
The Billion Dollar a Month
Club: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/10/billion-dollar-month-club-runaway-transfer-wealth-super-rich">A
Runaway Transfer of Wealth to the Super-Rich</a>.
<p>
Median wealth has dropped by 43 percent since 2007.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(US_attacks_against_PISSI)
title: US attacks against PISSI
uri: US-attacks-against-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28US_attacks_against_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
US attacks against PISSI in
Syria <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/10/isis-air-strikes-undermine-anti-assad-rebels-syria">turned
out to help Assad</a>.
<p>
Alas, that is probably inevitable since PISSI and Assad are enemies
and PISSI is worse than Assad.  It is not obvious how to try to
support the weak non-Islamist anti-Assad rebels in any meaningful way.


title: Several Palestinians have killed Israelis in the street
uri: Several-Palestinians-have-killed-Israelis-in-the-street
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 11_November_2014_(Several_Palestinians_have_killed_Israelis_in_the_street)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28Several_Palestinians_have_killed_Israelis_in_the_street%29

content:
<p>
Several Palestinians
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/10/israeli-woman-killed-palestinian-stabbing-attacks-rising-tide-violence">killed
Israelis in the street using cars or knives</a>. It is not exactly
suicide, but some of them have been killed.  The prospect of death or
imprisonment has ceased to deter Palestinians from getting revenge for
the occupation.
<p>
Killing civilians who are doing nothing wrong is not justified, and
the responsibility falls on Netanyahu as well as the Palestinians who
actually do it.
<p>
Netanyahu threatens more collective punishment against Arabs in
general — just the thing to inspire this violence to grow.
<p>
I suppose Netanyahu finds this violence a convenient distraction to
enable him to continue stealing land and water.


title: India's gratis sterilization program
uri: India-s-gratis-sterilization-program
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(India's_gratis_sterilization_program)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28India%27s_gratis_sterilization_program%29

content:
<p>
An outbreak of illness in an Indian sterilization
clinic <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/11/indian-women-die-mass-sterilisation-camp">focused
attention on India's gratis sterilization program</a>.
<p>
India's population is still growing, which hampers efforts to reduce
poverty and contributes to future global heating.  Thus, sterilisation
programs are extremely important — but the job should be done
with proper sanitation and technique.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Urgent:_Thank_Obama)
title: Urgent: Thank Obama
uri: 2014-11-13-Urgent-Thank-Obama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_Obama%29
content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/nn_obama_ty">Thank
Obama for calling for real network neutrality</a>.


title: Thugs confiscated protesters' projectors
uri: Thugs-confiscated-protesters-projectors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Thugs_confiscated_protesters'_projectors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Thugs_confiscated_protesters%27_projectors%29

content:
<p>
Australian thugs confiscated protesters' projectors that
were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/12/g20-police-dismantle-activists-projectors-that-posed-no-security-threat">meant
to display images on walls at the G20 event</a>.
<p>
If they say it was because they suspected these projectors were
weapons, why don't they put the projectors back now that they know
they are projectors?  Obviously, this is just an excuse to silence
protest, on behalf a government set
on <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#04_October_2012_%28Effect_of_global_heating_on_people%29">killing
millions of people</a>.


title: Finding more fossil fuel reserves
uri: Finding-more-fossil-fuel-reserves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Finding_more_fossil_fuel_reserves)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Finding_more_fossil_fuel_reserves%29

content:
<p>
G20 countries are spending 88 billion dollars a
year <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/11/g20-countries-spending-88-billion-year-subsidize-climate-disaster">to
find more fossil fuel reserves</a>.
<p>
This is a total waste, since we already know of 5 times as much
reserves as we can burn without causing global disaster.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(What_could_have_been_built)
title: What could have been built
uri: What-could-have-been-built
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28What_could_have_been_built%29
content:
<p>
In Vienna, a model
shows <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/11/hypotopia-19bn-model-city-changed-austria-attitude-protest">what
could have been built for the money spent to bail out a big bank</a>.
<p>
I think bank bailouts should be done in return for equity in the bank.
For big bailouts, the previous owners should surrender all their
equity.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(US_prisons)
title: US prisons
uri: US-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28US_prisons%29
content:
<p>
Since the US does not fund good solutions to social problems, it dumps
those affected into
prisons <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/190065/prisons-are-destroying-communities-and-making-all-us-less-safe">to
make them disappear for a while</a>.
<p>
Afterwards they typically return worse than before.


title: Israel planning to change election rules
uri: Israel-planning-to-change-election-rules
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Israel_planning_to_change_election_rules)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Israel_planning_to_change_election_rules%29

content:
<p>
Israel is planning to change election rules
to<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-moves-outlaw-palestinian-political-parties-knesset/13998">
keep the Arab political parties from being represented in
Parliament</a>.  As in the case of US Republicans, the aim is to be
able to claim to have a democracy while not really having one.
<p>
I disagree with Ms Zoabi on one point: kidnaping (or killing)
civilians for a political purposes is indeed terrorism.  The forces of
repression continually try to stretch that word to apply it to
whatever displeases them, but it does have a valid meaning and that
act fits it.
<p>
Which is not to say that that act justified Israel's repressive
response which was apparently designed
to <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28How_Israel_engineered_war_in_Gaza%29">provoke
Hamas into giving an excuse to attack Gaza</a>.
<p>
Anyway, Ms Zoabi's opinions are no excuse for legal discrimination.
And prosecuting anyone for insulting thugs (or anyone else) is obvious
injustice.


title: Stop Investing in Colombian Blood
uri: Stop-Investing-in-Colombian-Blood
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Stop_Investing_in_Colombian_Blood)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Stop_Investing_in_Colombian_Blood%29

content:
<p>
Stop Investing in Colombian
Blood: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/nov/10/colombia-land-grabs-activists-appeal-uk">Land
Activists Appeal to the UK</a>.


title: Allowing Yunus Rahmatullah to sue over his torture
uri: Allowing-Yunus-Rahmatullah-to-sue-over-his-torture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Allowing_Yunus_Rahmatullah_to_sue_over_his_torture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Allowing_Yunus_Rahmatullah_to_sue_over_his_torture%29

content:
<p>
The UK has dropped its US-subservient objections
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/11/uk-drops-security-claim-blocking-pakistanis-lawsuit-us-torture">allowing
Yunus Rahmatullah to sue over his torture</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Freshwater_fish_are_threatened)
title: Freshwater fish are threatened
uri: Freshwater-fish-are-threatened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Freshwater_fish_are_threatened%29

content:
<p>
Over a third of the species
of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/11/health-check-our-environment-ignored-our-own-risk">freshwater
fish are threatened</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 12_November_2014_(Italian_scientists_exonerated)
title: Italian scientists exonerated
uri: Italian-scientists-exonerated
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#12_November_2014_%28Italian_scientists_exonerated%29

content:
<p>
The Italian scientists sentenced to prison for saying it was unlikely
an earthquake would occur in L'Aquila have been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/10/laquila-earthquake-scientists-win-appeal-seismologists">exonerated
on appeal</a>.


title: The suffering global heating will cause
uri: The-suffering-global-heating-will-cause
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 12_November_2014_(The_suffering_global_heating_will_cause)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#12_November_2014_%28The_suffering_global_heating_will_cause%29

content:
<p>
What sorts of suffering global heating will cause in 30 or 40 years:
it includes
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/10/climate-change-will-see-more-uk-forces-deployed-in-conflicts-around-world">wars</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 12_November_2014_(Alaskan_bears_not_hibernating)
title: Alaskan bears not hibernating
uri: Alaskan-bears-not-hibernating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#12_November_2014_%28Alaskan_bears_not_hibernating%29

content:
<p>
It is so warm in much of Alaska that bears
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/10/alaskans-warned-bears-wide-awake-looking-for-food-mild-weather">have
not hibernated</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 12_November_2014_(President_of_Mexico_corrupt)
title: President of Mexico corrupt
uri: President-of-Mexico-corrupt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#12_November_2014_%28President_of_Mexico_corrupt%29
content:
<p>
The president of Mexico appears to have a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/10/mexico-president-enrique-pena-nieto-mansion-explain">corrupt
relationship with a Chinese construction company</a>.


title: Plutocratic control of American elections
uri: Plutocratic-control-of-American-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 12_November_2014_(Plutocratic_control_of_American_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#12_November_2014_%28Plutocratic_control_of_American_elections%29

content:
<p>
Plutocratic control of American elections has been measured by a
survey finding that 2/3 of Americans want to raise taxes on the rich,
while
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/10/peasants-still-have-their-pitchforks">hardly
anyone in Congress proposes that</a>.


title: Rich Tory MP makes 93 families homeless
uri: Rich-Tory-MP-makes-93-families-homeless
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 12_November_2014_(Rich_Tory_MP_makes_93_families_homeless)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#12_November_2014_%28Rich_Tory_MP_makes_93_families_homeless%29

content:
<p>
A rich Tory MP bought some of the last low-rent apartments in London
so as to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/10/millionaire-tory-mp-tenants-estate-flats-richard-benyon">quadruple
the rent and make 93 families homeless</a>.
<p>
That's plutocracy for you.  Perhaps every plutocrat should be
sentenced to 6 months' homelessness to see what it is like.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 12_November_2014_(Elimination_of_jobs_in_the_UK_)
title: Elimination of jobs in the UK
uri: Elimination-of-jobs-in-the-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#12_November_2014_%28Elimination_of_jobs_in_the_UK_%29

content:
<p>
A study predicts
<a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/careers/3585201/digital-technology-to-eliminate-a-third-of-uk-jobs/">1/3
of the jobs in the UK will be eliminated during the next 20 years</a>.
<p>
Either the unemployed must get decent support
or they will be in penury.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Obama_says_torture_is_banned)
title: Obama says torture is banned
uri: Obama-says-torture-is-banned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Obama_says_torture_is_banned%29
content:
<p>
Obama says that torture is 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=8326">banned for US
personnel</a> everywhere in the world.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(The_real_scroungers)
title: The real scroungers
uri: The-real-scroungers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28The_real_scroungers%29
content:
<p>
The EU Needs to Crack Down on the Real Scroungers — 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/12/eu-crack-down-tax-avoiders-jean-claude-juncker">Tax
Avoiders</a>.


title: US-China greenhouse gas emissions deal
uri: US-China-greenhouse-gas-emissions-deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(US-China_greenhouse_gas_emissions_deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28US-China_greenhouse_gas_emissions_deal%29

content:
<p>
The US-China deal about curbing greenhouse gas emissions is a
milestone, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2014/nov/12/china-us-carbon-deal-a-historic-milestone-in-the-global-fight-against-climate-change">not
enough to avoid disaster</a>.
<p>
To do this, and increase energy provision as planned, China will have
to develop 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/12/what-does-china-need-to-do-to-meet-its-carbon-pledge">enough
renewable energy to power the whole US</a>.
<p>
Even though the effort will be heroic, if it isn't enough to prevent
disaster, China must do more (and so must the US, Europe, Australia,
India, etc).
<p>
Republican denialists say they will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/12/republican-environment-post-attacks-us-china-climate-deal">sabotage
the deal</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Movement_for_antiprivatization)
title: Movement for antiprivatization
uri: Movement-for-antiprivatization
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Movement_for_antiprivatization%29

content:
<p>
A movement for antiprivatization attempts to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/12/hamburg-global-reverse-privatisation-city-services">undo
what was corruption in the first place</a>.
<p>
I think that corrupt privatizations should be cancelled, pure and
simple, so that the privatizers can't profit from it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Thugs_in_Brazil)
title: Thugs in Brazil
uri: Thugs-in-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Thugs_in_Brazil%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in Brazil kill 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/12/brazilian-police-kill-six-people-a-day-report">six
people per day</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Welfare)
title: Welfare
uri: Welfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Welfare%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/12/welfare-not-about-them-us-public-perception">Why
Welfare Is Not About Them And Us</a>.
<p>
If you want to buy that book, please support a local bookstore,
and above all don't get it from Amazon.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Ocean_dead_zones)
title: Ocean "dead zones"
uri: Ocean-dead-zones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Ocean_dead_zones%29
content:
<p>
Global heating will make ocean "dead zones" bigger in 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/11/global-warming-worsen-global-dead-zones-study">several
ways</a>.
<p>
Once human civilization crashes, however, we will stop dumping lots of
fertilizer into the ocean.  At that point, the dead zones may cease.


title: Children's fruit drinks full of sugar
uri: Children-s-fruit-drinks-full-of-sugar
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Childrens_fruit_drinks_full_of_sugar)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Childrens_fruit_drinks_full_of_sugar%29

content:
<p>
Fruit drinks for children are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/11/children-juice-drinks-sugar-coca-cola">full
of sugar</a>.
<p>
I generally drink water or unsweetened tea.  At least my beverages
don't make me fat.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Legalized_robbery_by_US_thugs)
title: Legalized robbery by US thugs
uri: Legalized-robbery-by-US-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Legalized_robbery_by_US_thugs%29

content:
<p>
"<a href='http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/11/11/3591031/in-asset-seizure-programs-officials-advise-cops-if-in-doubt-take-it/'>Forfeiture</a>",
i.e. legalized robbery by thugs, is going strong in the US.
<p>
Forfeiture is an injustice because it is punishment without trial.
Indeed, many of the victims are never charged with any crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Real_network_neutrality)
title: Real network neutrality
uri: Real-network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Real_network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.freepress.net/node/106636">Obama</a> called for
real network neutrality.
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/white-house-gets-it-net-neutrality-will-fcc-0">Will
the FCC heed him?</a>


title: HK plans violence against protesters
uri: HK-plans-violence-against-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(HK_plans_violence_against_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28HK_plans_violence_against_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Hong Kong is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/11/hong-kong-protesters-face-arrest-court-ruling">planning
violence</a> against the student protesters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(UK_blacklisting)
title: UK blacklisting
uri: UK-blacklisting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28UK_blacklisting%29
content:
<p>
The UK is apparently 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/11/secret-police-anti-blacklisting-unionist-state-conspiracy-cover-up">investigating
an anti-blacklisting group and its activists</a> because they threaten
to show how the state colluded in blacklisting workers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Putin_pouring_money_into_Crimea)
title: Putin pouring money into Crimea
uri: Putin-pouring-money-into-Crimea
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Putin_pouring_money_into_Crimea%29

content:
<p>
Putin is pouring money into the Crimea to win the support of some;
others face unemployment or confiscation.  
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/11/crimea-russia-ukraine-change-annexation">Those
who disagree with the annexation of the Crimea face imprisonment</a>.


title: Confidential calls spied on by UK gov't
uri: Confidential-calls-spied-on-by-UK-gov-t
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Confidential_calls_spied_on_by_UK_govt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Confidential_calls_spied_on_by_UK_govt%29

content:
<p>
The UK government spied on
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/11/prisoners-phone-calls-mps-monitored-grayling">MPs'
confidential phone calls with prisoners</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(US_torture)
title: US torture
uri: US-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28US_torture%29
content:
<p>
The UN will try to
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=8212">hold US officials
accountable</a> for US torture practices.


title: Concentration of fast-food outlets
uri: Concentration-of-fast-food-outlets
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Concentration_of_fast-food_outlets)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Concentration_of_fast-food_outlets%29

content:
<p>
In the UK, obesity rates are linked to the number of of fast-food outlets
in a neighborhood, and both tend to be
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/11/diabetes-obesity-fast-food-outlets-study">high
where poor people live</a>.
<p>
This does not demonstrate what is the cause and what are its effects.
For instance, it may be that poor people eat badly because they feel
stressed, or that eating better requires time, money, kitchen
equipment or access to broader range of ingredients, which
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_September_2014_(Poor_people_can_barely_cope)">they
don't have</a>.


title: Goal of economic growth in Australia
uri: Goal-of-economic-growth-in-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Goal_of_economic_growth_in_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Goal_of_economic_growth_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Through sleight of hand, Australia's plutocratic government has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/11/g20-australia-criticised-for-removing-commitment-to-fair-economic-growth">eliminated
the goal that economic growth should be fair</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Ban_on_masks_at_G20)
title: Ban on masks at G20
uri: Ban-on-masks-at-G20
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Ban_on_masks_at_G20%29
content:
<p>
G20 thugs
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/11/g20-blanket-ban-on-masks-is-not-supported-by-security-laws-expert-says">will
arrest protesters for wearing masks</a> even though a judge says they
can't.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Detroits_bankruptcy_plan)
title: Detroit's bankruptcy plan
uri: Detroit-s-bankruptcy-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Detroits_bankruptcy_plan%29
content:
<p>
Detroit's bankruptcy plan
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/10/crime-groups-say-detroit-bankruptcy-plan-benefits-rich-attacks-working-people">demands
the highest sacrifice from workers and residents</a>.  Rich creditors
had to do much less.
<p>
It is another example of the general practice of crushing the
non-rich.  When they become desperate and act accordingly, the rich
can demonize them as "scroungers" so as to justify crushing them
further.


title: Books banned in Guantanamo prison
uri: Books-banned-in-Guantanamo-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 13_November_2014_(Books_banned_in_Guantanamo_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_November_2014_%28Books_banned_in_Guantanamo_prison%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.vice.com/en_uk/series/the-banned-books-of-guantanamo">Books
that have been banned</a> in the Guantanamo prison.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Urgent:_Vote_against_Keystone_XL)
title: Very urgent: Vote against Keystone XL
uri: Very-urgent-Vote-against-Keystone-XL
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Vote_against_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3615">tell
your senators</a> to vote against the Keystone XL pipeline.


title: Urgent: Oppose "Republibama" government
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Republibama-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_Republibama_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Republibama_government%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=10626">oppose
"Republibama" government</a>.
<p>
This page has been found to work with LibreJS enabled.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Artists_protesting_surveillance)
title: Artists protesting surveillance
uri: Artists-protesting-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Artists_protesting_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Artists protesting against surveillance still 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=8408">naively presume
that it is possible to flood the NSA with so much data that it will
not provide effective surveillance</a>.
<p>
That would have been true 20 years ago.  Nowadays the NSA can easily
have computers find the interesting bits and discard the rest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(UK_govt_demands_companies_spy)
title: UK gov't demands companies spy
uri: UK-gov-t-demands-companies-spy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28UK_govt_demands_companies_spy%29

content:
<p>
The UK government now demands that companies 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/13/gchq-assault-privacy-illegality-net-blackmail-surveillance">illegally
spy on their customers</a>.


title: Fascists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine
uri: Fascists-and-neo-Nazis-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Fascists_and_neo-Nazis_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Fascists_and_neo-Nazis_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Fascists and neo-Nazis are a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/13/ukraine-far-right-fascism-mps">significant
force in Ukraine</a>; it's not just a Putin fantasy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Unions)
title: Unions
uri: 2014-11-14-Unions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Unions%29
content:
<p>
On the good that unions do, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/13/five-myths-trade-unions-ruining-britain-daily-mail">the
bad that they don't do</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Energy_forum_at_G20)
title: "Energy forum" at G20
uri: Energy-forum-at-G20
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Energy_forum_at_G20%29
content:
<p>
Peabody Energy
(<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/nov/13/g20-reality-bites-for-coal-and-climate-change">operator
of the world's biggest coal mine</a>) ran the "energy forum" at the
corrupt G20 meeting.  It took outside protesters to bring in even the
slightest mention of global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Uzbekistan_students_protest)
title: Uzbekistan students protest
uri: Uzbekistan-students-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Uzbekistan_students_protest%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/13/uzbekistan-students-rare-protest-forced-labour-cotton-picking">Uzbekistan
Students Stage Rare Protest Against Forced Labour in Cotton
Fields</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Whitewash_of_CIA_torture)
title: Whitewash of CIA torture
uri: Whitewash-of-CIA-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Whitewash_of_CIA_torture%29
content:
<p>
The US government investigation of CIA torture seems to have been a
whitewash; 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/12/more-cia-detainees-come-forward-us-investigation-torture">many
victims were never even interviewed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Neocon_plan_for_more_war)
title: Neocon plan for more war
uri: Neocon-plan-for-more-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Neocon_plan_for_more_war%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/12/neocon-plan-war-and-more-war">The
Neocon Plan for War and More War</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Obamas_potential_successors)
title: Obama's potential successors
uri: Obama-s-potential-successors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Obamas_potential_successors%29
content:
<p>
Where Obama's potential successors stand 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/12/where-obamas-potential-successors-stand-on-climate-change">on
global heating</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Obamas_carbon_deal_with_China)
title: Obama's carbon deal with China
uri: Obama-s-carbon-deal-with-China
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Obamas_carbon_deal_with_China%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://act.350.org/go/6411?t=1001">350.org comments</a> on
Obama's carbon deal with China.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Sinai_Islamist_rebels_join_PISSI)
title: Sinai Islamist rebels join PISSI
uri: Sinai-Islamist-rebels-join-PISSI
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Sinai_Islamist_rebels_join_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
The Islamist rebels in the Sinai 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/10/egyptian-jihadists-pledge-allegiance-isis">have
joined PISSI</a>.


title: Forced arbitration in job contracts
uri: Forced-arbitration-in-job-contracts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Forced_arbitration_in_job_contracts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Forced_arbitration_in_job_contracts%29

content:
<p>
US employers are 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/your-job-contract-or-cellphone-agreement-may-contain-language-can-ruin-your-life?paging=off">denying
workers their rights</a> by contracts that impose arbitration.


title: NATO says Russian tanks in Ukraine
uri: NATO-says-Russian-tanks-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(NATO_says_Russian_tanks_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28NATO_says_Russian_tanks_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/12/russian-tanks-troops-crossing-into-ukraine-nato-supreme-commander">NATO
says Russian tanks are invading Ukraine</a>.  Russia denies this, but
that denial is worthless.  Unfortunately, we can't assume NATO is
telling the truth either.  If it is true, they should appear in
fighting soon enough.


title: Unidentified drone aircraft in the US
uri: Unidentified-drone-aircraft-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Unidentified_drone_aircraft_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Unidentified_drone_aircraft_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Unidentified drone aircraft are flying around the US and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/12/us-daily-reports-drones-flying-airplanes-without-permission">often
come close to airliners</a>.
<p>
Sooner or later there will be a collision.


title: Paraguayan writer faces imprisonment
uri: Paraguayan-writer-faces-imprisonment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Paraguayan_writer_faces_imprisonment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Paraguayan_writer_faces_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
A Paraguayan writer 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/nov/12/day-of-the-imprisoned-writer-nelson-aguilera">faces
imprisonment for supposed plagiarism</a>.
<p>
Plagiarism is a form of dishonesty, so it is generally wrong; but
except in cases where it has been the basis for fraud, it should not
be a crime.


title: US secretly pays compensation in Yemen
uri: US-secretly-pays-compensation-in-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(US_secretly_pays_compensation_in_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28US_secretly_pays_compensation_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
The US <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=8296">secretly
pays compensation</a> to the families of civilians killed by US drone
attacks in Yemen.
<p>
Paying compensation for killings is considered appropriate in Yemen,
so the US should do this openly and win respect.  What is wrong is the
refusal to admit that US attacks kill civilians.


title: Shi'ite militias applying PISSI practices
uri: Shi-ite-militias-applying-PISSI-practices
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Shiite_militias_applying_PISSI_practices)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Shiite_militias_applying_PISSI_practices%29

content:
<p>
Shi'ite militias in Iraq are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/12/shia-militia-fightback-against-isis-leads-to-massacre-of-sunnis">applying
PISSI's bloody practices towards Sunnis they conquer</a>.
<p>
The consequence is that Sunnis must support PISSI or be massacred.
This is the best news that PISSI could have hoped for.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Arnold_Abbott)
title: Arnold Abbott
uri: Arnold-Abbott
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Arnold_Abbott%29
content:
<p>
Arnold Abbott says he 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/90-year-old-florida-veteran-arrested-feeding-homeless-bans">will
continue feeding homeless people in Fort Lauderdale</a> "as long as
there is breath in my body."


title: France orders Google to censor search
uri: France-orders-Google-to-censor-search
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(France_orders_Google_to_censor_search)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28France_orders_Google_to_censor_search%29

content:
<p>
France ordered Google to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/13/google-french-arm-fines-right-to-be-forgotten">delete
an article from search results world-wide</a>.
<p>
This reminds us of the danger of services provided by multinational
companies that operate in countries that limit what the companies can
do.  In other cases it goes beyond this fairly mild requirement (which
applies only to searches for a person's name).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Australians_bury_heads_in_sand)
title: Australians bury heads in sand
uri: Australians-bury-heads-in-sand
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Australians_bury_heads_in_sand%29

content:
<p>
Australians buried their heads in the sand to show 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/13/g20-australians-bury-heads-in-sand-to-mock-government-climate-stance">what
Abbott is doing regarding global heating</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Shells_disregard_for_safety)
title: Shell's disregard for safety
uri: Shell-s-disregard-for-safety
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Shells_disregard_for_safety%29
content:
<p>
Documents show Shell disregarded safety in Nigeria and then 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/nov/13/shell-nigeria-oil-spills-amnesty-international">tried
to cover up the damage</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Peace_activist_banned_from_G20)
title: Peace activist banned from G20
uri: Peace-activist-banned-from-G20
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Peace_activist_banned_from_G20%29

content:
<p>
Australia has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/13/activist-banned-g20-meeting-ciaran-oreilly">banned
a peace activist from the G20 event area</a>, and refused to say why.
<p>
Perhaps because he would do some sort of nonviolent protest.


title: Chief Scientific Adviser position
uri: Chief-Scientific-Adviser-position
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Chief_Scientific_Adviser_position)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Chief_Scientific_Adviser_position%29

content:
<p>
EU bureaucrats have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2014/nov/13/juncker-axes-europes-chief-scientific-adviser">abolished</a>
the position of Chief Scientific Adviser.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(World_heritage_sites_threatened)
title: "World heritage" sites threatened
uri: World-heritage-sites-threatened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28World_heritage_sites_threatened%29

content:
<p>
1/3 of natural "world heritage" sites face 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/13/more-than-a-third-of-natural-world-heritage-sites-face-significant-threats">environmental
threats</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Democrat_pushing_for_Keystone_XL)
title: "Democrat" pushing for Keystone XL
uri: Democrat-pushing-for-Keystone-XL
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Democrat_pushing_for_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
"Democratic" senator Landrieu is trying to win a runoff election by
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/12/pathetic-absurd-and-insanely-dumb-top-democrat-pushes-senate-vote-approve-keystone">pushing
for the Keystone XL pipeline</a>.


title: Elizabeth Warren on US gov't agenda
uri: Elizabeth-Warren-on-US-gov-t-agenda
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Elizabeth_Warren_on_US_govt_agenda)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Elizabeth_Warren_on_US_govt_agenda%29

content:
<p>
Elizabeth Warren states 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/elizabeth-warren-its-time-to-work-on-americas-agenda/2014/11/07/984da7b6-669c-11e4-9fdc-d43b053ecb4d_story.html">what
the US government's agenda should be, and what it should not be</a>.


title: Teacher prosecuted for sex with student
uri: Teacher-prosecuted-for-sex-with-student
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 14_November_2014_(Teacher_prosecuted_for_sex_with_student)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014_%28Teacher_prosecuted_for_sex_with_student%29

content:
<p>
A teacher in the UK is being prosecuted for having sex with a 16-year-old
student, after he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/12/schoolboy-boasted-affair-teaching-assistant-court">boasted
of it to his friends</a>.
<p>
He now says he feels "disgusted", but I think that is only what
someone told him to say, or convinced him to feel.
<p>
Every secondary school should aim for all of its graduates to be fully
capable in sexuality; none should be excluded from participation in
sex due to lack of proper experience.  Therefore, the school should
have several sex teachers, adults with whom students can learn to be
comfortable with sex and confident in pleasing their lovers.  They
would also learn good habits for avoidance of disease and pregnancy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Urgent:_Thank_Obama)
title: Urgent: Thank Obama
uri: 2014-11-15-Urgent-Thank-Obama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_Obama%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=12401">Thank
Obama</a> for making a climate deal with Russia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Urgent:_Wall_Street_pay_reform)
title: Urgent: Wall Street pay reform
uri: Urgent-Wall-Street-pay-reform
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Wall_Street_pay_reform%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support Wall Street pay reform to
<a href="http://action.civilrights.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=3761">end
incentives for bad investments</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Urgent:_Food_safety_and_fracking)
title: Urgent: Food safety and fracking
uri: Urgent-Food-safety-and-fracking
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Food_safety_and_fracking%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1707">call
on Congress</a> to resist bills to promote fracking or undermine food
safety.


title: The real excitement about Clinton
uri: The-real-excitement-about-Clinton
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(The_real_excitement_about_Clinton)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28The_real_excitement_about_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=8459">Where is the real
excitement about Ms Clinton as president?</a>


title: Corrupt debt and economic colonization
uri: Corrupt-debt-and-economic-colonization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Corrupt_debt_and_economic_colonization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Corrupt_debt_and_economic_colonization%29

content:
<p>
Relating devastation in the Philippines to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/western-responses-to-haiyan-and-ebola">corrupt
debt</a>, and the Ebola epidemic to economic colonization.


title: Walmart workers holding sit-down strike
uri: Walmart-workers-holding-sit-down-strike
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Walmart_workers_holding_sit-down_strike)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Walmart_workers_holding_sit-down_strike%29

content:
<p>
Walmart workers are holding a sit-down strike to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/13/history-making-workers-hold-first-sit-down-work-action-targeting-walmart">protest
repression against attempts to organize</a>.
<p>
I am sad that this links to ustream.com, which can't be viewed without
nonfree software.  To develop a free front end for ustream would be a
very useful project.  In the mean time, please don't ustream, and
please don't stream with ustream.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Cell_phones)
title: Cell phones
uri: Cell-phones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Cell_phones%29
content:
<p>
The mere presence of a cell phone tends to
<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-your-cell-phone-hurts-your-relationships/">make
discussions about meaningful issues shallow</a>.
<p>
On the other hand, if you do have a meaningful discussion about an
important issue, such as how to resist plutocracy, carrying cell phones
will
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_August_2014_(Portable_phone_tracking)">pre-alert
the NSA about who you are talking with</a>.
<p>
Using text messages for a dispute is a recipe for
<a href="http://wonderwoman.intoday.in/story/why-sms-fight-is-bad-for-relationship%21/1/102625.html">escalating
them</a>.  (We old-timers discovered this fact about email back around
1980.)


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Heatwave_in_Brisbane)
title: Heatwave in Brisbane
uri: Heatwave-in-Brisbane
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Heatwave_in_Brisbane%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/g20-heatwave-brisbane-nearing-40c-as-summit-heads-towards-a-sticky-end">heatwave
in Brisbane</a> will give G20 delegates a hint of what the fossil fuel
companies want to do to the world.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Spying_lampposts)
title: Spying lampposts
uri: Spying-lampposts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Spying_lampposts%29
content:
<p>
"Improved" lampposts do
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/13/sci-fi-future-lamp-posts-street-lighting">various
kinds of spying</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Fining_the_unemployed_in_the_UK)
title: Fining the unemployed in the UK
uri: Fining-the-unemployed-in-the-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Fining_the_unemployed_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
Fining the unemployed in the UK is not pushing them to get jobs,
only
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/13/welfare-sanctions-make-vulnerable-young-reliant-food-banks-ymca">making
them dependent on food banks</a>.
<p>
Raising the minimum wage, and abolishing zero-hours contracts, would
circulate more money among the poor and thus
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_(States_That_Raised_Their_Minimum_Wages)">create
more jobs</a>.  That would get these people working.


title: Urgent: Respect journalists and journalism
uri: Urgent-Respect-journalists-and-journalism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Urgent:_Respect_journalists_and_journalism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Respect_journalists_and_journalism%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="https://takeaction.takepart.com/actions/support-the-righttoreport">respect
journalists and journalism</a>.


title: British spying on journalists and lawyers
uri: British-spying-on-journalists-and-lawyers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(British_spying_on_journalists_and_lawyers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28British_spying_on_journalists_and_lawyers%29

content:
<p>
British spying on journalists and
lawyers <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/british-spying-our-problem-too">directly
threatens Americans and people in other countries</a>.


title: Conservatives have political control
uri: Conservatives-have-political-control
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Conservatives_have_political_control)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Conservatives_have_political_control%29

content:
<p>
Conservatives have political control of the English-speaking world
because the traditional left parties
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/the-right-has-won-control-of-the-english-speaking-world-thanks-to-the-weakness-of-the-left">lost
the spirit to disagree with their assumptions</a>.
<p>
In the US, rigging elections
through <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_%28Voter_Suppression%29">voter-suppression</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_November_2014_%28Republican_gerrymandering%29">gerrymandering</a>
help them do it.


title: The morale problem with the US ICBM corps
uri: The-morale-problem-with-the-US-ICBM-corps
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(The_morale_problem_with_the_US_ICBM_corps)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28The_morale_problem_with_the_US_ICBM_corps%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/hagel-air-force-nuclear-weapons-overhaul-icbm-larry-welch">The
morale problem with the US ICBM corps</a> is not just a matter of
details.  It comes from the nature of its activity.


title: Urgent: Oppose export of fracked gas
uri: Urgent-Oppose-export-of-fracked-gas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_export_of_fracked_gas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_export_of_fracked_gas%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=12365">reject
plans to encourage export of fracked gas</a>.


title: Journalist Rafael Marques de Morais
uri: Journalist-Rafael-Marques-de-Morais
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Journalist_Rafael_Marques_de_Morais)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Journalist_Rafael_Marques_de_Morais%29

content:
<p>
Journalist Rafael Marques de
Morais: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/11/-sp-carlos-cardosa-lecture">'No
politician, however strong, will stop me doing my job'</a>.  But they
sure try hard.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Robot_watchmen)
title: Robot watchmen
uri: Robot-watchmen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Robot_watchmen%29
content:
<p>
Robot watchmen are in their infancy, but if they work well in 10
years,
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/532431/rise-of-the-robot-security-guards/">they
could put a million Americans out of work</a>.
<p>
They carry cameras that can be viewed over the internet.  We know from
experience that many users will not alter the default password, so
anyone will be able to watch through their cameras.  Quite a joke that
will be on whoever uses them.


title: Farm out servers to lots of buildings for heat
uri: Farm-out-servers-to-lots-of-buildings-for-heat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Farm_out_servers_to_lots_of_buildings_for_heat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Farm_out_servers_to_lots_of_buildings_for_heat%29

content:
<p>
The latest bad idea: farm out servers to lots of buildings so that
their
<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/heat-your-house-with-someone-elses-computers">waste
heat can provide heat for the buildings</a>.
<p>
That would be efficient in winter; not so much in summer.  But what
about the privacy implications?
<p>
The idea of "the cloud" means "Don't ask who stores your data (and can
look at it); don't concern yourself with who does your computing (and
controls how it is done).  Put your blind faith in
you-don't-know-who."
<p>
With this scheme, you put your faith in an unidentified homeowner as
well as several unidentified companies.
<p>
Here's a better idea.  Get <em>your own</em> servers to heat your
water, and store <em>your own</em> data in them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Berkeley_approved_a_tax_on_soda)
title: Berkeley approved a tax on soda
uri: Berkeley-approved-a-tax-on-soda
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Berkeley_approved_a_tax_on_soda%29

content:
<p>
Berkeley California disregarded the drink companies' ad campaign
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/15/berkeley-victory-soft-drinks-tax-obesity">approved
a tax on soda</a>.
<p>
The tax should apply to all drinks that contain sugar.  For instance,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Fruit_juices_and_drinks_can_be_bad_for_your_health%29">fruit
juice as sold often includes a lot of added sugar</a>; so it is not
good for you.  I have stopped drinking all drinks that have sugar,
with occasional exceptions when there is something special available.


title: Thugs arrest someone for having gas mask
uri: Thugs-arrest-someone-for-having-gas-mask
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Thugs_arrest_someone_for_having_gas_mask)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Thugs_arrest_someone_for_having_gas_mask%29

content:
<p>
Australian thugs did not arrest protesters for carrying banners and
wearing Anonymous masks,
but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/15/g20-few-arrests-during-brisbane-marches-as-police-outnumber-protesters">did
arrest someone for having a gas mask</a>.
<p>
A gas mask is not an offensive weapon, so prohibiting them is
inexcusable.


title: US admitted torture practices to the UN
uri: US-admitted-torture-practices-to-the-UN
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(US_admitted_torture_practices_to_the_UN)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28US_admitted_torture_practices_to_the_UN%29

content:
<p>
The
US <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/14/united-states-admits-it-crossed-line-torture-thats-least-it">admitted
torture practices to the UN</a>. Next step: correct them, and hold the
guilty accountable.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Dubya_is_still_lying_about_Iraq)
title: Dubya is still lying about Iraq
uri: Dubya-is-still-lying-about-Iraq
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Dubya_is_still_lying_about_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
Dubya
is <a href="http://fair.org/blog/2014/11/11/never-too-late-to-tell-old-iraq-lies/">still
lying about Iraq</a>.


title: Urgent: Ban neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: 2014-11-16-Urgent-Ban-neonicotinoid-pesticides
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Urgent:_Ban_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/ban_neonics?nosig=1&t=1006">call
for a ban</a> on neonicotinoid pesticides, which endanger the bees
that pollinate crops and wildlife.


title: Thalidomide executives escape punishment
uri: Thalidomide-executives-escape-punishment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Thalidomide_executives_escape_punishment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Thalidomide_executives_escape_punishment%29

content:
<p>
The executives of the company that made thalidomide
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/14/-sp-thalidomide-pill-how-evaded-justice">used
political pull to escape punishment</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(UK_ISPs_add_political_censorship)
title: UK ISPs add political censorship
uri: UK-ISPs-add-political-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28UK_ISPs_add_political_censorship%29

content:
<p>
Major UK ISPs have
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/14/isps-filter-extremist-material-internet">added
political censorship to their sexual censorship</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(APAs_participation_in_torture)
title: APA's participation in torture
uri: APA-s-participation-in-torture
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28APAs_participation_in_torture%29

content:
<p>
The American Psychological Association will investigate how in 2002 it
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=8489">revised its code
of ethics</a> to permit its members to participate in Bush regime
torture.
<p>
Bravo for James Risen, who is also standing up to a threat of
imprisonment by the Obama regime for
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_June_2014_(Supreme_Court_sided_with_government_against_James_Risen)">protecting
his sources</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(US-China_climate_pledge)
title: US-China climate pledge
uri: US-China-climate-pledge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28US-China_climate_pledge%29
content:
<p>
The US-China climate pledge will be
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/nov/14/fact-check-china-pledged-bigger-climate-action-republican-leaders-wrong">harder
for China than for the US</a>.
<p>
Too bad that it isn't enough to avoid disaster.  Both countries
must do more.


title: UK proposes punishment without trial
uri: UK-proposes-punishment-without-trial
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(UK_proposes_punishment_without_trial)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28UK_proposes_punishment_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
To stop Britons from going to fight for PISSI, the UK government
proposes punishment without trial,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/david-cameron-jihadis-human-rights-uk-syria">imposed
arbitrarily by border control agents and airlines</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 15_November_2014_(Boko_Haram_captures_Chibok)
title: Boko Haram captures Chibok
uri: Boko-Haram-captures-Chibok
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#15_November_2014_%28Boko_Haram_captures_Chibok%29
content:
<p>
Boko Haram
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/nigeria-boko-haram-kidnapped-girls-chibok">captured
Chibok</a>, the town where it kidnaped around 300 schoolgirls earlier
this year.


title: Urgent: Raise federal contract workers' wages
uri: Urgent-Raise-federal-contract-workers-wages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Urgent:_Raise_federal_contract_workers_wages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_federal_contract_workers_wages%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/the-president-can-do-more-than-the-minimum-for-federal-contract-workers">call
on Obama</a> to order federal contractors to pay workers a living
wage.


title: Urgent: Raise Walmart workers' wages
uri: Urgent-Raise-Walmart-workers-wages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Urgent:_Raise_Walmart_workers_wages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_Walmart_workers_wages%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/fightfor15/">tell
Walmart</a> to pay workers $15 an hour.


title: Urgent: Stop tax-dodging in Luxembourg
uri: Urgent-Stop-tax-dodging-in-Luxembourg
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_tax-dodging_in_Luxembourg)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_tax-dodging_in_Luxembourg%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/luxembourg-tax-petition/">call on
Luxembourg</a> to stop facilitating tax-dodging.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Urgent:_True_network_neutrality)
title: Urgent: True network neutrality
uri: Urgent-True-network-neutrality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_True_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/fcc-net-neutrality">call on the
FCC</a> to instate true network neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_eBay_to_quit_ALEC)
title: Urgent: Tell eBay to quit ALEC
uri: Urgent-Tell-eBay-to-quit-ALEC
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_eBay_to_quit_ALEC%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=14601">tell
eBay</a> to quit ALEC.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Urgent:_Block_Keystone_XL)
title: Urgent: Block Keystone XL
uri: Urgent-Block-Keystone-XL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Keystone_XL%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_climate_test?t=1003">call
on Obama</a> to block Keystone XL and apply global heating
considerations to all federal projects.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Fake_cell_phone_towers_in_planes)
title: Fake cell phone towers in planes
uri: Fake-cell-phone-towers-in-planes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Fake_cell_phone_towers_in_planes%29

content:
<p>
The US government carries fake cell phone towers in planes to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/government-planes-mimic-cellphone-towers-to-collect-user-data-report">identify
people on the ground</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Women_forced_into_sterilization)
title: Women forced into sterilization
uri: Women-forced-into-sterilization
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Women_forced_into_sterilization%29

content:
<p>
In India, women are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/13/india-population-growth-policy-problems-sterilisation-incentives-coercion">pressured
or forced into sterilization</a>, sometimes because they are poor or
low-caste.
<p>
This practice is an injustice, but incentives for sterilization are
not the same as compulsion.  If people are so poor that they
desperately jump at any incentives, that doesn't mean the incentives
are wrong, but rather that society is too unequal.
<p>
A law such as China's one-child-per-family law would be fair and
necessary in India.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Australians_phone_records)
title: Australians' phone records
uri: Australians-phone-records
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Australians_phone_records%29
content:
<p>
Plans for recording all Australians' phone contacts are meeting
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/14/phone-and-web-data-plan-under-fire-for-interfering-with-privacy">opposition
in parliament</a>.
<p>
This is wise, given how the Obama regime
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_May_2013_(The_subpoena_against_AP_phone_call_records)">used
phone records to find a whistleblower</a> in the US.


title: UK thugs' attack on striking miners
uri: UK-thugs-attack-on-striking-miners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(UK_thugs_attack_on_striking_miners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28UK_thugs_attack_on_striking_miners%29

content:
<p>
Will the UK government investigate the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/battle-orgreave-policing-1984-85-miners-strike-britain-ipcc">thugs'
attack on striking miners</a>, which was followed (as usual) by trying
to frame them?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Bankruptcy_due_to_medical_costs)
title: Bankruptcy due to medical costs
uri: Bankruptcy-due-to-medical-costs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Bankruptcy_due_to_medical_costs%29

content:
<p>
A US woman who had a heart attack faces bankruptcy because
<a href="http://m.channel3000.com/woman-taken-to-wrong-hospital-faces-bankruptcy/29648000">the
ambulance took her to "the wrong hospital"</a> where her insurance did
not cover the costs.
<p>
Medical costs are a common cause of bankruptcy in the US, because the
medical system is totally broken.  We need a national health system.


title: Campaign money from cable companies
uri: Campaign-money-from-cable-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Campaign_money_from_cable_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Campaign_money_from_cable_companies%29

content:
<p>
Big US cable companies spent
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/how-much-money-big-cable-gave-the-politicians-who-overs-1657002442">8
million dollars</a> to buy support in the last election.


title: "Justice" dept. admits it misled court
uri: Justice-dept-admits-it-misled-court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Justice_dept._admits_it_misled_court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Justice_dept._admits_it_misled_court%29

content:
<p>
The "Justice" department
<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/justice-department-admits-it-misled-court-about-fbi-s-secret-surveillance-program-20141113">admitted
that it misled an appeals court</a> regarding secrecy of "national
security" letter surveillance orders — once the EFF caught the
fib.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Dialog_in_Beijing_not_allowed)
title: Dialog in Beijing not allowed
uri: Dialog-in-Beijing-not-allowed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Dialog_in_Beijing_not_allowed%29

content:
<p>
Hong Kong protest leaders wanted to go to Beijing to try to talk with
Chinese officials, but they were
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/15/hong-kong-protest-leaders-prevented-travelling-beijing">denied
entry</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Legalized_robbery_by_thugs)
title: Legalized robbery by thugs
uri: Legalized-robbery-by-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Legalized_robbery_by_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Thug departments make
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-wish-list-when-deciding-which-assets-to-seize.html">lists
of what kinds of cars to seize</a> from hapless members of the public.
<p>
Some states have tried to restrict civil forfeiture, or stop thug
departments from keeping what they confiscate.  The US government
<a href="https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/nov/10/asset-forfeiture-article/">works
with thug departments to circumvent those restrictions</a>.
<p>
Forfeiture is punishment without trial.  Many of the victims are
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_August_2013_(Forfeiture)">never
even charged</a>.  It ought to be considered unconstitutional.


title: Israel's "Minister of Home Security"
uri: Israel-s-Minister-of-Home-Security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Israels_Minister_of_Home_Security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Israels_Minister_of_Home_Security%29

content:
<p>
Israel's "Minister of Home Security"
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1415975702/">publicly
said thugs should to carry out summary executions</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Amazon_and_Hachette)
title: Amazon and Hachette
uri: Amazon-and-Hachette
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Amazon_and_Hachette%29
content:
<p>
Amazon and Hachette have
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/technology/amazon-hachette-ebook-dispute.html">resolved
their dispute about ebook prices</a>.  This will please those who just
want to "get a book right now" and don't care about anything
<a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html">deeper</a>.
<p>
Using the Amazon Swindle makes you stop lending books to your friends
— which means you're not their friend any more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Wall_Street_like_Clinton)
title: Wall Street like Clinton
uri: Wall-Street-like-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Wall_Street_like_Clinton%29
content:
<p>
Wall Street
<a href="http://fair.org/blog/2014/11/13/obamas-hot-anti-wall-street-rhetoric/">likes
Clinton better than it likes Obama</a>!
<p>
Apparently he hasn't been a total pushover, and they think Clinton
will be.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 16_November_2014_(Companies_dropping_ALEC)
title: Companies dropping ALEC
uri: Companies-dropping-ALEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_%28Companies_dropping_ALEC%29
content:
<p>
So many companies have dropped ALEC that it
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/11/12670/alec-support-drops-19-percent-2013">has
lost 1/5 of its funding and is running at a deficit</a>.
<p>
That means we should campaign even harder to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_November_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_eBay_to_quit_ALEC)">convince
more companies to drop ALEC</a>.


title: Africans who had Ebola face ostracism
uri: Africans-who-had-Ebola-face-ostracism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Africans_who_had_Ebola_face_ostracism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Africans_who_had_Ebola_face_ostracism%29

content:
<p>
Africans who recover from Ebola 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/16/life-after-surviving-ebola-stigma">face
ostracism by ignorant neighbors</a> who don't understand they are not
contagious any more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Environmental_groups_sue_Shell)
title: Environmental groups sue Shell
uri: Environmental-groups-sue-Shell
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Environmental_groups_sue_Shell%29

content:
<p>
Environmental groups are suing to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/10/environmental-groups-challenge-double-jeopardy-arctic-walruses">deny
Shell permission to harass, capture and kill walruses</a> in drilling
operations in the Chukchi sea.
<p>
Melting sea ice due to global heating is making it hard for walruses
to find food.  To have a chance to survive, they need what protection
we can give them.


title: Palestinian activist faces imprisonment
uri: Palestinian-activist-faces-imprisonment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Palestinian_activist_faces_imprisonment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Palestinian_activist_faces_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
Palestinian rights activist Rasmea Odeh faces imprisonment and loss of
US citizenship because she 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/10/palestinian-activist-rasmea-odeh-found-guilty-travesty-justice">didn't
mention a criminal conviction in Israel</a>, which she says was a
false confession that was beaten out of her.
<p>
I see the point that she ought to have mentioned the conviction and
said it was false, rather than hiding the issue.  Strictly speaking,
what she did was wrong.  However, it's also clear that she had reason
to fear a second injustice would result from the first.
<p>
Since all she did was break a rule, not hurt anyone, the court ought
to seek to remake the decision properly, as it should have been made
given <em>all</em> the pertinent information.


title: Helping the rich by hitting the poor
uri: Helping-the-rich-by-hitting-the-poor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Helping_the_rich_by_hitting_the_poor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Helping_the_rich_by_hitting_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/15/coalition-helped-rich-hitting-poor-george-osborne">Revealed:
How [UK] Coalition Has Helped Rich by Hitting Poor</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Phony_cell_phone_towers)
title: Phony cell phone towers
uri: 2014-11-18-Phony-cell-phone-towers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Phony_cell_phone_towers%29
content:
<p>
US privacy and search law doesn't know how to cope with the
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1587">indiscriminate
surveillance of phony cell phone towers</a>.


title: Surgeon to defy ban on entering Gaza
uri: Surgeon-to-defy-ban-on-entering-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Surgeon_to_defy_ban_on_entering_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Surgeon_to_defy_ban_on_entering_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
Surgeon Mads Gilbert, who treated the wounded of Gaza while Israel
attacked, says he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/15/mads-gilbert-surgeon-gaza-israel">will
not let Israel stop him from returning to Gaza</a>.


title: Denton fracking ban to be ignored
uri: Denton-fracking-ban-to-be-ignored
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Denton_fracking_ban_to_be_ignored)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Denton_fracking_ban_to_be_ignored%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/10/3590690/texas-fracking-ban-denton/">Texas
Oil Regulator Says It Will Not Honor Town's Vote To Ban Fracking</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(The_Gulfs_autocrats)
title: The Gulf's autocrats
uri: The-Gulf-s-autocrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28The_Gulfs_autocrats%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/11/gulf-autocrats-monarchies-middle-east">It's
Dangerous to Be So Cosy with the Gulf's Autocrats</a>.
<p>
On the other hand, the forces opposing them may turn out to be PISSI.


title: Urgent: Oppose rigging electoral college
uri: Urgent-Oppose-rigging-electoral-college
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_rigging_electoral_college)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_rigging_electoral_college%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=GOPElectionRigging">oppose</a>
rigging the electoral college.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Ferguson_thug_caught_lying)
title: Ferguson thug caught lying
uri: Ferguson-thug-caught-lying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Ferguson_thug_caught_lying%29
content:
<p>
The thug that killed Michael Brown arrested a man for making a video
of him, then 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/16/ferguson-video-shows-darren-wilson-arresting-man-for-recording-him">lied
about it</a> (standard thug procedure).


title: Urgent: Cancel nuclear arsenal spending
uri: Urgent-Cancel-nuclear-arsenal-spending
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Urgent:_Cancel_nuclear_arsenal_spending)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_nuclear_arsenal_spending%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.globalzero.org/demand-zero/abandon-the-trillion-dollar-budget">call
on Obama</a> to cancel spending a trillion dollars for replacing the
US nuclear arsenal.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(FBI_surveillance_of_MLK)
title: FBI surveillance of MLK
uri: FBI-surveillance-of-MLK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28FBI_surveillance_of_MLK%29
content:
<p>
The FBI used surveillance to try to 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance">pressure
Martin Luther King Jr. commit suicide</a>.
<p>
We know that the NSA now does surveillance to get data for 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_(NSAs_data_regularly_used_to_blackmail_officials)">blackmail</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Coal_company_govt_of_Australia)
title: Coal company gov't of Australia
uri: Coal-company-gov-t-of-Australia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Coal_company_govt_of_Australia%29

content:
<p>
The coal company government of Australia fought to the bitter end
inside the G20 meeting to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/16/g20-climate-change-statements-evolution-reveals-backroom-battle">undermine
actions against global heating</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Bank_scandals)
title: Bank scandals
uri: Bank-scandals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Bank_scandals%29
content:
<p>
A series of bank scandals, leading to large fines, are the predictable
result of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/16/banking-changing-slowly-but-culture-still-corrupt">deregulation</a>.
<p>
I suspect that the fines are not big enough to motivate the bank
executives and shareholders to try to prevent more corruption.  
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_August_2014_(Bank_of_America_agreed_to_pay_a_fine_for_mortgage_fraud)">In
the US, they aren't.</a>  The result of inadequate fines is that the
executives would like another corrupt scheme to make a lot of money
followed by an inadequate fine.
<p>
Complicated and changing banking systems will tend to offer new
opportunities for corruption.  Let's have a simple banking system that
changes little.


title: US drug companies wined and dined doctors
uri: US-drug-companies-wined-and-dined-doctors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(US_drug_companies_wined_and_dined_doctors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28US_drug_companies_wined_and_dined_doctors%29

content:
<p>
Documents show US drug
companies <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-14/drug-companies-didnt-want-you-to-see-allegations-of-lavish-spending">wined
and dined doctors to get them to prescribe narcotic painkillers
more</a>.
<p>
These painkillers certainly have their place.  It has been a long time
since I took one, but they are far better than pain.  However, these
sales tactics (for any drug) corrupt medicine and must not be
tolerated.


title: Prosecuted for expressing happiness about assassination
uri: Prosecuted-for-expressing-happiness-about-assassination
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Prosecuted_for_expressing_happiness_about_assassination)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Prosecuted_for_expressing_happiness_about_assassination%29

content:
<p>
In Venezuela, some people in the opposition are
being <a href="http://www.ifex.org/venezuela/2014/11/05/twitteros_detained/">prosecuted
for expressing happiness about an assassination</a>.
<p>
I managed to see some of Inés González Árraga's tweets; they were
quite hostile to the government, but did not make threats or call for
violence.


title: German Spy Agency Wants To Buy Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
uri: German-Spy-Agency-Wants-To-Buy-Zero-Day-Vulnerabilities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(German_Spy_Agency_Wants_To_Buy_Zero-Day_Vulnerabilities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28German_Spy_Agency_Wants_To_Buy_Zero-Day_Vulnerabilities%29

content:
<p>
German Spy Agency Wants To Buy Zero-Day Vulnerabilities In Order To
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141111/03485729100/german-spy-agency-wants-to-buy-zero-day-vulnerabilities-order-to-undermine-ssl-security.shtml">Undermine
SSL Security</a>.


title: Urgent: Vote for the USA Freedom Act
uri: Urgent-Vote-for-the-USA-Freedom-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Urgent:_Vote_for_the_USA_Freedom_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Vote_for_the_USA_Freedom_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: urge your senators
to <a href="https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu-action/issues/alert/?alertid=63812681&type=SEN&ms=eml_141116_privacy&technology">vote
for the USA Freedom Act</a>
<p>
I suggest you add, as I did, that this is not enough to restore our
privacy.


title: IRA protected rapists within its ranks
uri: IRA-protected-rapists-within-its-ranks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(IRA_protected_rapists_within_its_ranks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28IRA_protected_rapists_within_its_ranks%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/16/rape-victim-mairia-cahill-speaks-out">IRA
protected rapists within its ranks</a> much like the Catholic Church
and some sports teams.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 17_November_2014_(Gender_pay_gap)
title: Gender pay gap
uri: Gender-pay-gap
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_November_2014_%28Gender_pay_gap%29
content:
<p>
Evidence that
the <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-14/women-make-less-than-men-even-when-they-are-equally-qualified-mbas">gender
pay gap can't be explained by anything other than bias</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 18_November_2014_(The_idea_of_freedom)
title: The idea of freedom
uri: The-idea-of-freedom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#18_November_2014_%28The_idea_of_freedom%29
content:
<p>
A refugee who escaped from North Korea sends balloons over the border
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/17/-sp-north-korean-defector-human-rights">teach
the people of North Korea the idea of freedom</a>.


title: Arming Syrian rebels to fight PISSI is hopeless
uri: Arming-Syrian-rebels-to-fight-PISSI-is-hopeless
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 18_November_2014_(Arming_Syrian_rebels_to_fight_PISSI_is_hopeless)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#18_November_2014_%28Arming_Syrian_rebels_to_fight_PISSI_is_hopeless%29

content:
<p>
The CIA
believes <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/17/isis-war-cia-arming-rebels-syria">arming
Syrian rebels to fight PISSI is hopeless</a>, and Obama knows this.
<p>
So who does he think he is fooling when he proposes to do more of
this?


title: Building Keystone XL pipeline would be an act of war
uri: Building-Keystone-XL-pipeline-would-be-an-act-of-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 18_November_2014_(Building_Keystone_XL_pipeline_would_be_an_act_of_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#18_November_2014_%28Building_Keystone_XL_pipeline_would_be_an_act_of_war%29

content:
<p>
The Rosebud Sioux tribe says
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/17/sioux-tribe-keystone-xl-pipeline-south-dakota-act-of-war">building
the Keystone XL pipeline would be an act of war</a>.
<p>
Yes, it would be — against the whole world, not just them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 18_November_2014_(An_information_war)
title: An "information war"
uri: An-information-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#18_November_2014_%28An_information_war%29
content:
<p>
Accusing Putin
of <a href="http://www.interpretermag.com/the-menace-of-unreality-how-the-kremlin-weaponizes-information-culture-and-money/">waging
an "information war"</a> by supporting anyone that criticizes the
west.
<p>
There is some truth in this; however, western governments deserve a
lot of criticism, Putin or no Putin.  Indeed, they do a substantial
amount of the same things.


title: Polar bear population on Alaska's north coast
uri: Polar-bear-population-on-Alaska-s-north-coast
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 18_November_2014_(Polar_bear_population_on_Alaska's_north_coast)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#18_November_2014_%28Polar_bear_population_on_Alaska%27s_north_coast%29

content:
<p>
The polar bear population on Alaska's north coast
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/17/polar-bear-population-falls-sea-north-alaska">fallen
40% in 10 years</a>.  Few young bears have survived.


title: Rodney Reed is about to be executed
uri: Rodney-Reed-is-about-to-be-executed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 18_November_2014_(Rodney_Reed_is_about_to_be_executed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#18_November_2014_%28Rodney_Reed_is_about_to_be_executed%29

content:
<p>
Rodney Reed is about to be executed for the murder of his lover,
but <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=8019">she may
really have been killed by her jealous thug fiance</a>. The
investigation did not consider the thug seriously as a suspect.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 18_November_2014_(St_Louis_thug_chief)
title: St Louis thug chief
uri: St-Louis-thug-chief
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#18_November_2014_%28St_Louis_thug_chief%29
content:
<p>
The St Louis thug chief accused all the protesters, journalists and
bystanders teargassed and attacked in Ferguson
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/17/st-louis-police-chief-denies-teargas-rubber-bullets-ferguson">being
"criminals"</a>.


title: Unnecessary and harmful quarantines
uri: Unnecessary-and-harmful-quarantines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 18_November_2014_(Unnecessary_and_harmful_quarantines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#18_November_2014_%28Unnecessary_and_harmful_quarantines%29

content:
<p>
Nurse Kaci Hickox condemns the politicians that want to impose
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/17/stop-calling-me-ebola-nurse-kaci-hickox">unnecessary
and harmful quarantines</a> in order to look like they are protecting
us.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 18_November_2014_(Geoengineering)
title: Geoengineering
uri: Geoengineering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#18_November_2014_%28Geoengineering%29
content:
<p>
Rich people think that the idea that geoengineering could make global
heating go away
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/17/geoengineering-co2-carbon-dioxide-earth-climate">likely
to encourage them to go on burning fossil fuels</a>.
<p>
The fallacy is that geoengineering is just an
idea, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_July_2014_%28Geoengineering_schemes%29">not
a real solution</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 18_November_2014_(Accreditation_to_the_G20)
title: Accreditation to the G20
uri: Accreditation-to-the-G20
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#18_November_2014_%28Accreditation_to_the_G20%29
content:
<p>
Australia gave business representatives accreditation to the G20 but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/16/g20-union-leaders-complain-tony-abbott-downgraded-their-status">denied
it to union representatives</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Urgent:_Dont_encourage_fracking)
title: Urgent: Don't encourage fracking
uri: Urgent-Don-t-encourage-fracking
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Dont_encourage_fracking%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=12415">call
on the EPA</a>, in reducing power plant CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, not to
encourage fracking.


title: Urgent: Support for Ghoncheh Ghavami
uri: Urgent-Support-for-Ghoncheh-Ghavami
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Urgent:_Support_for_Ghoncheh_Ghavami)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_for_Ghoncheh_Ghavami%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=31813">Send
a message of support</a> for Ghoncheh Ghavami.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Urgent:_Reduce_ozone_pollution)
title: Urgent: Reduce ozone pollution
uri: Urgent-Reduce-ozone-pollution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reduce_ozone_pollution%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1645">support</a>
a proposed EPA regulation to reduce ozone pollution.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Teachers_resignation_letter)
title: Teacher's resignation letter
uri: Teacher-s-resignation-letter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Teachers_resignation_letter%29
content:
<p>
A teacher's resignation letter:
"<a href='http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/10/1343935/-Teacher-s-resignation-letter-My-profession-no-longer-exists'>my
profession no longer exists</a>" due to bizarre school reforms.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(FERCs_permitting_system)
title: FERC's permitting system
uri: FERC-s-permitting-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28FERCs_permitting_system%29
content:
<p>
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's permitting system for
pipelines and other gas and oil facilities is 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27471-fed-up-with-ferc-the-people-declare-greed-not-in-the-public-interest">designed
to let companies have what they want</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Publicly_usable_WiFi_networks)
title: Publicly usable WiFi networks
uri: Publicly-usable-WiFi-networks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Publicly_usable_WiFi_networks%29

content:
<p>
Germany's law punished WiFi network owners for what people download
through those networks.  The result is — 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/germanys-wi-fi-problem/a-18060000">very few
publicly usable WiFi networks</a>.
<p>
This law is unjust because (1) it is a system of collective
responsibility, conscripting anyone that has a WiFi net as an
enforcer, and (2) the War on Sharing is unjust in its entirety.
<p>
It would be ironic if a mere economic consideration leads to
elimination of this unjust law.  In the mean time, Germans should
operate WiFi networks without passwords, to refuse conscripting as
enforcers in the War on Sharing.


title: US Supreme Court cites junk science
uri: US-Supreme-Court-cites-junk-science
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(US_Supreme_Court_cites_junk_science)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28US_Supreme_Court_cites_junk_science%29

content:
<p>
Even the US Supreme Court 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/how-courts-nationwide-are-using-junk-science-restrict-abortion-access?paging=off">cites
junk science</a> to interfere with abortion.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Corporations_taking_over_courts)
title: Corporations taking over courts
uri: Corporations-taking-over-courts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Corporations_taking_over_courts%29

content:
<p>
Elizabeth Warren: 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/elizabeth-warren-corporations-are-taking-over-courts-gops-help">Corporations
Are Taking Over the Courts with the GOP's Help</a>.
<p>
I suspect they got help from some "Democrats", too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Humans_and_wildlife)
title: Humans and wildlife
uri: Humans-and-wildlife
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Humans_and_wildlife%29
content:
<p>
<a href="
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/16/kalahari-bushmen-evicted-wilderness">Is
there room on Earth</a> for humans and wildlife?
<p>
Sometimes it is justified to evict humans from an area so that other
species can survive.  After all, we humans occupy so much land on
Earth, and we tend to take all the land there is.


title: Mexico corrupt from top to bottom
uri: Mexico-corrupt-from-top-to-bottom
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Mexico_corrupt_from_top_to_bottom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Mexico_corrupt_from_top_to_bottom%29

content:
<p>
Mexico is revealed as 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/16/death-corruption-mexico-moment-mirage">corrupt
from top to bottom</a>.
<p>
Peña Nieto's election was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#19_July_2012_(Mexican_presidential_election)">corrupt</a>
too.
<p>
But it was the reaction to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/16/mexico-parents-missing-students-refuse-to-be-forgotten">killing
of protesting students</a> that ended society's willingness to
tolerate it.


title: Spanish navy rams Greenpeace boat
uri: Spanish-navy-rams-Greenpeace-boat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Spanish_navy_rams_Greenpeace_boat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Spanish_navy_rams_Greenpeace_boat%29

content:
<p>
A Spanish navy boat 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/17/spanish-navy-rams-greenpeace-boat-and-injures-activists">rammed
a Greenpeace boat</a> that was interfering with oil drilling.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Kenyans_protest_for_womens_right)
title: Kenyans protest for women's right
uri: Kenyans-protest-for-women-s-right
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Kenyans_protest_for_womens_right%29

content:
<p>
In Nairobi a mob of men stripped a woman because they disapproved of
her miniskirt.  This led to a protest in favor of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/17/kenya-mydressmychoice-protest-woman-stripped">women's
right to dress as they wish</a>.
<p>
The idea that revealing clothes are "not African" is ludicrous given
that women in many parts of Africa did not cover their breasts until
Europeans taught them prudery.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Deforestation_in_Peruvian_Amazon)
title: Deforestation in Peruvian Amazon
uri: Deforestation-in-Peruvian-Amazon
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Deforestation_in_Peruvian_Amazon%29

content:
<p>
Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon proceeds over the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/17/activists-murders-peru-lima-climate-talks">murder
of land defenders</a>.


title: Convicted of possessing a copy of a book
uri: Convicted-of-possessing-a-copy-of-a-book
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Convicted_of_possessing_a_copy_of_a_book)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Convicted_of_possessing_a_copy_of_a_book%29

content:
<p>
A Briton was convicted of possessing a copy of a book about how to
make a bomb, after a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/17/british-law-student-convicted-possessing-bomb-making-manual-erol-incedal">secret
trial</a>.
<p>
This case illustrates the principle that possession of a copy of a
publication must never be illegal.  Such prohibitions are outright
tyranny, and so is a secret trial.


title: Preemptive attack on expected protests
uri: Preemptive-attack-on-expected-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Preemptive_attack_on_expected_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Preemptive_attack_on_expected_protests%29

content:
<p>
The governor of Missouri declared an emergency, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/17/missouri-governor-state-of-emergency-ferguson">preemptively
attacking expected protests</a> over the expected decision not to
prosecute the thug that killed Michael Brown.
<p>
The governor was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_August_2014_(Urgent:_Prosecutor_for_killing_of_Brown)">asked
to appoint a special prosecutor</a> but refused.  Looks like he's on
the side of the thugs.


title: Environmental impact of Carmichael mine
uri: Environmental-impact-of-Carmichael-mine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Environmental_impact_of_Carmichael_mine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Environmental_impact_of_Carmichael_mine%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/18/carmichael-mine-environmental-impact-unknown-for-years">nullified
environmental planning requirements</a> for a giant coal mine by
saying the environmental impact study could be done after the mine is
running.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Campaigns_to_silence_people)
title: Campaigns to silence people
uri: Campaigns-to-silence-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Campaigns_to_silence_people%29
content:
<p>
Campaigns to silence people whose views we dislike 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/17/hashtag-hate-trap-censorship-freedom-expression-dapper-laughs-julien-blanc">endanger
a fundamental freedom</a>.
<p>
This includes even PISSI, the Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Britain's_food_banks)
title: Britain's food banks
uri: Britain-s-food-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Britain%27s_food_banks%29
content:
<p>
Most of
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/19/cuts-benefit-changes-driving-up-use-food-banks-study">people
using Britain's food banks</a> went there directly because of
government policies of harshness to the poor.


title: CO2 emissions must be cut to zero by 2070
uri: CO2-emissions-must-be-cut-to-zero-by-2070
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(CO2_emissions_must_be_cut_to_zero_by_2070)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28CO2_emissions_must_be_cut_to_zero_by_2070%29

content:
<p>
CO2
emissions <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/19/co2-emissions-zero-by-2070-prevent-climate-disaster-un">must
be cut to zero by 2070 to avoid disaster</a>.
<p>
How much it will cost to achieve this depends on how actively we cut
emissions before 2030.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Lack_of_toilets_in_rural_India)
title: Lack of toilets in rural India
uri: Lack-of-toilets-in-rural-India
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Lack_of_toilets_in_rural_India%29

content:
<p>
The lack of toilets in rural
India <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/nov/19/snakebites-diarrhoea-violence-india-rural-women-toilets">goes
with gender discrimination that makes it even worse for women</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Energy_drinks)
title: Energy drinks
uri: Energy-drinks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Energy_drinks%29
content:
<p>
Energy drinks
are <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/11/17/3593092/report-energy-drinks-deadly-children/">dangerous
for children</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Falsifying_environmental_reports)
title: Falsifying environmental reports
uri: Falsifying-environmental-reports
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Falsifying_environmental_reports%29

content:
<p>
A US coal company
is <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/18/3593742/kentucky-coal-falsified-pollution-reports/">accused
of falsifying its environmental reports</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Slowly-Closing_ozone_hole)
title: Slowly-Closing ozone hole
uri: Slowly-Closing-ozone-hole
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Slowly-Closing_ozone_hole%29
content:
<p>
The slowly-closing ozone hole
has <a href="http://theconversation.com/the-ozone-hole-leaves-a-lasting-impression-on-southern-climate-34043">altered
climate and ecosystems in the southern hemisphere</a>.


title: Male TV presenter wore the same suit every day
uri: Male-TV-presenter-wore-the-same-suit-every-day
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Male_TV_presenter_wore_the_same_suit_every_day)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Male_TV_presenter_wore_the_same_suit_every_day%29

content:
<p>
A male TV
presenter <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/nov/17/male-tv-presenter-same-suit-year-female-colleagues-judged">wore
the same suit every day for a year</a>, just to prove that nobody
cared in the slightest about his clothing style, unlike the way
viewers treated his female counterpart.


title: Students in the UK marched on Parliament
uri: Students-in-the-UK-marched-on-Parliament
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Students_in_the_UK_marched_on_Parliament)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Students_in_the_UK_marched_on_Parliament%29

content:
<p>
Students in the
UK <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/19/students-free-education-march-tuition-fees">marched
on Parliament to make university gratis again</a>.


title: Greenpeace boat captured by Spain
uri: Greenpeace-boat-captured-by-Spain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Greenpeace_boat_captured_by_Spain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Greenpeace_boat_captured_by_Spain%29

content:
<p>
The Greenpeace boat that was captured by
Russia <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/19/greenpeace-ship-arctic-sunrise-detained-in-spain">has
now been captured by Spain</a>.


title: Political prisoners in Uzbekistan
uri: Political-prisoners-in-Uzbekistan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Political_prisoners_in_Uzbekistan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Political_prisoners_in_Uzbekistan%29

content:
<p>
Human Rights
Watch <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/19/-sp-uzbekistan-political-prisoners-human-rights">reports
on political prisoners in Uzbekistan</a>, which relates to the forced
labor of picking cotton.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Clod_computing)
title: Clod computing
uri: Clod-computing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Clod_computing%29
content:
<p>
A survey of 
<a href="http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/08/21/how-i-do-my-computing-by-equals-richard-stallman/">clod
computing practices</a>.


title: Mainstream media on drone attacks
uri: Mainstream-media-on-drone-attacks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Mainstream_media_on_drone_attacks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Mainstream_media_on_drone_attacks%29

content:
<p>
Mainstream media 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=8580">continue to
parrot the Obama regime's claims</a> that the casualties of drone
attacks are mainly "militants".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 19_November_2014_(Keystone_XL_backup_plan)
title: Keystone XL "backup" plan
uri: Keystone-XL-backup-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_November_2014_%28Keystone_XL_backup_plan%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/18/revealed-keystone-companys-pr-blitz-to-safeguard-its-backup-plan">Astroturf
and intimidation</a> are the proposed methods to gain approval of an
"backup" alternative to the Keystone XL pipeline.


title: Urgent: Cancel wolf-killing competition
uri: Urgent-Cancel-wolf-killing-competition
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Urgent:_Cancel_wolf-killing_competition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_wolf-killing_competition%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2809">call
on the Secretary of the Interior</a> to cancel a wolf-killing
competition.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Defeat_of_the_USA_Freedom_Act)
title: Defeat of the USA Freedom Act
uri: Defeat-of-the-USA-Freedom-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Defeat_of_the_USA_Freedom_Act%29

content:
<p>
The defeat of the USA Freedom Act could, ironically, backfire and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/19/nsa-reform-surveillance-usa-freedom-act-section-215">abolish
part of the PAT RIOT act</a>, reducing mass surveillance even more.
<p>
However, we need more than just to abolish the PAT RIOT Act, since
that pertains only to certain methods of massive surveillance.
<p>
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html</a>.


title: Helping prisoners escape from gangs
uri: Helping-prisoners-escape-from-gangs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Helping_prisoners_escape_from_gangs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Helping_prisoners_escape_from_gangs%29

content:
<p>
Prisons can
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/19/gang-violence-young-offender-institutes-prisons">help
prisoners escape from gangs</a>.  Like other forms of rehabilitation,
it costs money and requires not adopting the goal of being as tough as
possible.


title: Urgent: No oil drilling in Chukchi sea
uri: Urgent-No-oil-drilling-in-Chukchi-sea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Urgent:_No_oil_drilling_in_Chukchi_sea)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_oil_drilling_in_Chukchi_sea%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1733&autologin=true">call
on the US not to allow Shell (or anyone) to drill for oil in the
Chukchi sea</a>.  A spill would turn it into the Upchukchi sea.


title: USA Freedom Act defeated by Senate
uri: USA-Freedom-Act-defeated-by-Senate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(USA_Freedom_Act_defeated_by_Senate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28USA_Freedom_Act_defeated_by_Senate%29

content:
<p>
The USA Freedom Act, already weakened so much that even Obama supported it,
was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/18/usa-freedom-act-republicans-block-bill">defeated
in the Senate</a>.
<p>
This means our next battle will be against renewal of the PAT RIOT
act.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Sierra_Leone_ambulance_shortage)
title: Sierra Leone ambulance shortage
uri: Sierra-Leone-ambulance-shortage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Sierra_Leone_ambulance_shortage%29

content:
<p>
Due to the shortage of ambulances, people who go to the MSF treatment
center in Sierra Leone because they might have Ebola are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/nov/18/ebola-frontline-panorama-tv-review">sure
to catch it by the time they arrive</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Voter_disenfranchisement_lists)
title: Voter disenfranchisement lists
uri: Voter-disenfranchisement-lists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Voter_disenfranchisement_lists%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/the-secret-lists-that-swiped-the-senate/">Secret
disenfranchisement lists</a> denied Democrats 4% of the vote, and
enabled the Republicans to steal control of the senate.


title: Netanyahu plans "harsh" retaliation
uri: Netanyahu-plans-harsh-retaliation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Netanyahu_plans_harsh_retaliation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Netanyahu_plans_harsh_retaliation%29

content:
<p>
Netanyahu plans a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/18/synagogue-murders-binyamin-netanyahu-despicable-murderers">"harsh"
retaliation</a> to the murder of 5 Israelis.
<p>
This harshness will be on top of the harshness of decades of Israeli
occupation.  The killers were retaliating for a much larger set of
murders and other crimes committed against Palestinians by Israelis,
together with persistent oppression.
<p>
Retaliating against them with additional crimes (house demolitions,
which are illegal collective punishment) and additional persistent
oppression is more likely to inspire more Palestinians to retaliate in
their turn.
<p>
I suppose Netanyahu knows that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Cheap_substitute_for_feminism)
title: Cheap substitute for feminism
uri: Cheap-substitute-for-feminism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Cheap_substitute_for_feminism%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/18/feminism-rosetta-scientist-shirt-dapper-laughs-julien-blanc-inequality">Trying
to silence individuals considered misogynist</a> has become a
substitute for campaigning to change sexist institutions.


title: Fracking plans in national forest
uri: Fracking-plans-in-national-forest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Fracking_plans_in_national_forest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Fracking_plans_in_national_forest%29

content:
<p>
The US plans to allow
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/18/fracking-allowed-largest-national-forest-us-east-coast">fracking
in the George Washington National Forest</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Solitary_confinement)
title: Solitary confinement
uri: 2014-11-20-Solitary-confinement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Solitary_confinement%29
content:
<p>
Solitary confinement regularly drives prisoners mad, but the US
government
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/17/rampant-use-solitary-confinement-us-constitutes-torture">continues
to do it and to misrepresent it</a>.


title: What Ferguson thugs might plausibly do
uri: What-Ferguson-thugs-might-plausibly-do
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(What_Ferguson_thugs_might_plausibly_do)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28What_Ferguson_thugs_might_plausibly_do%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/17/ten-illegal-police-actions-watch-ferguson">Ten
illegal attacks on protesters</a> that thugs in Ferguson might
plausibly do.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Rise_in_homeless_children_in_US)
title: Rise in homeless children in US
uri: Rise-in-homeless-children-in-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Rise_in_homeless_children_in_US%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/17/study-more-homeless-children-now-any-point-us-history">2.5
million children in the US were homeless at some time in 2013</a>.
That's up 8% from the previous year.


title: Teenagers running trafficking boats
uri: Teenagers-running-trafficking-boats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Teenagers_running_trafficking_boats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Teenagers_running_trafficking_boats%29

content:
<p>
Traffickers now recruit or even
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/nov/18/people-trafficking-teenagers-migrant-boats-mediterranean">force
teenagers</a> to run boats full of people from Africa to Europe.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Illinois_minimum_wage)
title: Illinois minimum wage
uri: Illinois-minimum-wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Illinois_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
The Illinois legislature is considering raising the minimum wage but
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/11/12677/il-lawmakers-float-minimum-wage-preemption-bill">banning
cities from adopting a higher minimum</a>.
<p>
This measure would be harmful to workers.  The statewide raise will
probably not be enough, and living in Chicago is even more expensive.


title: Arbitrary conditions imposed by hotel
uri: Arbitrary-conditions-imposed-by-hotel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Arbitrary_conditions_imposed_by_hotel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Arbitrary_conditions_imposed_by_hotel%29

content:
<p>
A hotel charged guests extra, on their credit card, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/19/tripadvisor-couple-bad-hotel-review-charged-blackpool-broadway">for
posting a bad review of the hotel</a>.  The hotel claimed it was
entitled to charge them because it had put that in the contract guests
are made to sign.  I suppose most guests don't read the contract; but
if they did, having arrived and with perhaps nowhere else to stay,
refusing to sign would not be much of an option.
<p>
Hotels should not be allowed to write their own conditions arbitrarily
to impose on guests.


title: Big companies paying CEOs more than taxes
uri: Big-companies-paying-CEOs-more-than-taxes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Big_companies_paying_CEOs_more_than_taxes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Big_companies_paying_CEOs_more_than_taxes%29

content:
<p>
Many big US companies pay their CEOs 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/18/fleecing-uncle-sam-meet-corporations-who-pay-more-their-ceo-they-do-us-taxes">more
than they pay in taxes</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/18/when-mega-corporations-get-mega-tax-breaks-we-all-pay">When
Mega Corporations Get Mega Tax Breaks, We All Pay</a>.


title: Financialization of rental residences
uri: Financialization-of-rental-residences
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Financialization_of_rental_residences)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Financialization_of_rental_residences%29

content:
<p>
Financialization of rental residences means that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/19/new-era-estate-scandal-london-families-international-speculators">people
live in financial instruments</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 20_November_2014_(Former_KGB_running_Russia)
title: Former KGB running Russia
uri: Former-KGB-running-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_%28Former_KGB_running_Russia%29
content:
<p>
Under Putin, the former KGB now runs Russia and has returned to
actively 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/19/spies-spooks-hitmen-kgb-never-went-away-russia-putin">harassing
and intimidating journalists and dissidents</a>.
<p>
By contrast the US style of massive surveillance is done quietly, so
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_September_2014_(US_must_stop_claiming_that_the_law_is_secret)">people
don't realize how much they are being tracked</a>.  Digital technology
means that both the US and Russia have a 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">higher
level of general surveillance today than was found in the Soviet
Union</a>.  The Soviet Union could not tell where everyone went all
the time; its agents could follow only a limited set of people.
<p>
Although the NSA and FBI don't entirely run the US, the level of
oversight by Congress and courts is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_October_2014_(NSA_snooping_authorized)">very
weak</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(Urgent:_Amend_the_constitution)
title: Urgent: Amend the constitution
uri: Urgent-Amend-the-constitution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Amend_the_constitution%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=amend">sign
this petition</a> to amend the constitution to stop the rich from
using their money to dominate US elections.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(Violation_of_US_election_laws)
title: Violation of US election laws
uri: Violation-of-US-election-laws
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28Violation_of_US_election_laws%29

content:
<p>
Republicans 
<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/17/politics/twitter-republicans-outside-groups/index.html">used
Twitter</a> to disguise their violation of US election laws.


title: Uber executive threatens journalist
uri: Uber-executive-threatens-journalist
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(Uber_executive_threatens_journalist)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28Uber_executive_threatens_journalist%29

content:
<p>
Journalist Sarah Lacy writes about how an Uber executive 
<a href="http://pando.com/2014/11/17/the-moment-i-learned-just-how-far-uber-will-go-to-silence-journalists-and-attack-women/">said
he would punish her critical journalism by using lies to smear her
family life</a>.  It was the culmination of years of contempt for the
company's drivers and passengers.
<p>
By the way, I don't see anything wrong in offering taxi rides driven
by attractive models of either sex.  Since I believe sexual services
should be legal, I would not object if they offered to fly you while
driving you.  However, this need not and should not be accompanied by
Uber-style contempt towards women (and men).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(UK_spending_cuts)
title: UK spending cuts
uri: UK-spending-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28UK_spending_cuts%29
content:
<p>
UK spending cuts have reduced tax income and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/19/austerity-failed-incomes-deficit-votes-cameron">caused
a fresh budget deficit</a>.  The insane remedy is to cut spending
more, and never mind that it has failed in its ostensible goal,
because the real goal is to reduce workers to desperation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(The_Hunger_Games)
title: The Hunger Games
uri: The-Hunger-Games
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28The_Hunger_Games%29
content:
<p>
In teenage girls' fascination for the Hunger Games, they show a form
of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/19/the-hunger-games-mockingjays-bombed-out-dystopia-is-all-too-familiar-it-could-be-syria-gaza-or-iraq">political
maturity</a>.
<p>
The world of The Hunger Games is a projection of today's
starve-the-poor plutocracy.  It's much worse than today's USA, but the
America of 2100 might be even worse.  If globalized manufacturing
collapses, we might be left with nothing but low-tech.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(Unemployment_insurance)
title: Unemployment insurance
uri: Unemployment-insurance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28Unemployment_insurance%29
content:
<p>
Refuting the claim that unemployment insurance causes unemployment:
a study shows it is 
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-17/dont-blame-unemployment-insurance-for-joblessness">mostly
false</a>.
<p>
Note that the claim really argues for lower wages; but US wages for
many jobs are not enough to live on, so they must be raised.
<p>
The US has many other policies that discourage employment, which we
should change.  For instance, charging employers for social security
and medical care is a mistake.  That money should be obtained by
taxing rich people and businesses' income, independent of how much
they pay to workers.


title: The arrest warrant against Assange
uri: The-arrest-warrant-against-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(The_arrest_warrant_against_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28The_arrest_warrant_against_Assange%29

content:
<p>
The Swedish appeals court did not cancel the arrest warrant against
Julian Assange, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/20/julian-assange-appeal-arrest-warrant-swedish-court">pressured
the prosecutors to accept his invitation to question him in the
Ecuadorian embassy</a>.
<p>
If the Swedish prosecutors were really concerned about the sexual
allegations against Assange, they would interview him in the embassy
so as to advance that case and either charge him or not.  Their
refusal to do this demonstrates that they are using the allegations as
a pretext to send Assange to the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(Abortion_experiences)
title: Abortion experiences
uri: Abortion-experiences
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28Abortion_experiences%29
content:
<p>
Women are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/20/abortion-story-women-dont-want-be-pregnant">speaking
about their abortion experiences</a> to counter the harassment against
women who have abortions.
<p>
If anything, it's <em>not</em> aborting a pregnancy that raises
questions as the human population continues to grow.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(Thugs_attack_Ferguson_protesters)
title: Thugs attack Ferguson protesters
uri: Thugs-attack-Ferguson-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28Thugs_attack_Ferguson_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/20/ferguson-protesters-police-clash-decision-shooting">attacked
protesters in Ferguson already</a>, after creating pretexts, although
the decision on prosecuting Michael Brown's killer has not been
announced.


title: North Korea threatens to throw tantrum
uri: North-Korea-threatens-to-throw-tantrum
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(North_Korea_threatens_to_throw_tantrum)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28North_Korea_threatens_to_throw_tantrum%29

content:
<p>
A UN agency called for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/20/north-korea-threatens-nuclear-test-increase-military-un">prosecution
of North Korea's ruler</a> in the International Criminal Court.  North
Korea responded by threatening to throw a tantrum.
<p>
This UN move was entirely justified, but I wish it would go after the
even more flagrant human rights violators such as Bush II.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(Australias_government)
title: Australia's government
uri: Australia-s-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28Australias_government%29
content:
<p>
Australia's government has sunk to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/20/abc-climate-change-the-coalition-is-drowning-us-in-nonsense">shameless
self-contradiction</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(Frackers_pollute_clean_aquifers)
title: Frackers pollute clean aquifers
uri: Frackers-pollute-clean-aquifers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28Frackers_pollute_clean_aquifers%29

content:
<p>
Frackers 
<a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Waste-Water-from-Oil-Fracking-Injected-into-Clean-Aquifers-282733051.html">polluted
clean aquifers in California</a> with fracking waste water.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 21_November_2014_(How_weak_is_the_USA_Freedom_Act)
title: How weak is the USA Freedom Act?
uri: How-weak-is-the-USA-Freedom-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#21_November_2014_%28How_weak_is_the_USA_Freedom_Act%29

content:
<p>
The weakened USA Freedom Act is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/19/white-house-revive-mass-surveillance-legislation-next-congress">so
weak that Obama plans to revive it</a>.


title: Urgent: Block the Keystone XL pipeline
uri: Urgent-Block-the-Keystone-XL-pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(Urgent:_Block_the_Keystone_XL_pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Block_the_Keystone_XL_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/keystone-congress-approved/">call
on Obama</a> to block the Keystone XL pipeline.


title: Menlo Park's license plate cameras
uri: Menlo-Park-s-license-plate-cameras
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(Menlo_Parks_license_plate_cameras)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28Menlo_Parks_license_plate_cameras%29

content:
<p>
Menlo Park's license plate cameras recorded car license plates 263,000
times in a few months.  Just one of them helped solve a crime.  All
the rest were 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1596">massive general
surveillance</a>.
<p>
The question of cost is a side issue; what's wrong here is injustice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(Cover-up_of_JP_Morgans_crimes)
title: Cover-up of JP Morgan's crimes
uri: Cover-up-of-JP-Morgan-s-crimes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28Cover-up_of_JP_Morgans_crimes%29

content:
<p>
Alayne Fleischmann has gone public about how 
<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106">JP
Morgan and Attorney General Holder conspired to cover up JP Morgan's
crimes</a>.  She offered her testimony several times, but they worked
together to stop this from coming out in court and to avoid really
punishing the bank.
<p>
It should be noted that "securitization" of home mortgages is a
harmful practice even if it is not done fraudulently.  Your mortgage
should be owned by a local bank that has the power to adjust it if you
fall behind, and the incentive not to give you a mortgage without
confidence you can pay it.  Thus, I think that the practice should be
stopped entirely.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(Global_heating_costs)
title: Global heating costs
uri: Global-heating-costs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28Global_heating_costs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/18/rich-countries-backsliding-on-climate-finance">Rich
countries have not pledged enough</a> to do the job of helping poor
countries cope with the effects of global heating.
<p>
But it is a hopeless job, because the costs will go up each decade.
If we don't stop the heating, sooner or later the poor countries
will be overwhelmed, followed by the rich countries.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(Brutal_attack_by_Brisbane_thugs)
title: Brutal attack by Brisbane thugs
uri: Brutal-attack-by-Brisbane-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28Brutal_attack_by_Brisbane_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in Brisbane, where the G20 meeting was held, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/18/video-shows-disabled-brisbane-man-punched-queensland-police">brutally
attacked a man with no legs</a>.  They will probably claim he was
trying to run away.
<p>
Of course, the thugs accused the man of various crimes.  I am
skeptical.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(Harvard_students_sue_Harvard)
title: Harvard students sue Harvard
uri: Harvard-students-sue-Harvard
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28Harvard_students_sue_Harvard%29
content:
<p>
Harvard students have sued Harvard for 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/us/harvard-students-move-fossil-fuel-divestment-fight-to-court.html?_r=0">mismanaging
the school's endowment by investing it in fossil fuel companies</a>.
<p>
These companies' value is inflated by the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_August_2013_(Carbon_Bubble)">carbon 
bubble</a>, which has to pop some day.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(Guantanamo_force_feeding)
title: Guantanamo force feeding
uri: Guantanamo-force-feeding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28Guantanamo_force_feeding%29
content:
<p>
The American Nursing Association has given its support to a Guantanamo
nurse who 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/19/duty-refuse-top-medical-groups-back-nurse-who-said-no-force-feeding-guantanamo">faces
a military trial for refusing to participate in force feeding</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(North_Dakotas_public_bank)
title: North Dakota's public bank
uri: North-Dakota-s-public-bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28North_Dakotas_public_bank%29
content:
<p>
North Dakota's public bank is more 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/19/publicly-owned-bank-outperforming-wall-street">profitable
than US private banks</a>.
<p>
The oil boom in North Dakota is not an occasion for humanity to
rejoice, given the grave danger it contributes to.  But that is
orthogonal to the merits of a public bank.


title: Cystic fibrosis treatment patents
uri: Cystic-fibrosis-treatment-patents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(Cystic_fibrosis_treatment_patents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28Cystic_fibrosis_treatment_patents%29

content:
<p>
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation helped develop a treatment, then 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/19/health-nonprofit-cashes-cystic-fibrosis-drug-remains-unaffordable-most">sold
its share of the patent rights to a company that is charging almost
$400,000 per year</a>.  Most of the patients can't afford that.
<p>
Other countries' national health systems will negotiate a price that
will probably be far lower.  US law, paid for by Big Pharma, does not
allow this.


title: Creating competition between ISPs
uri: Creating-competition-between-ISPs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(Creating_competition_between_ISPs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28Creating_competition_between_ISPs%29

content:
<p>
A proposal: instead of network neutrality regulation, 
<a href="http://thefederalist.com/2014/11/18/heres-a-better-idea-than-net-neutrality-knockoffs/">create
a competitive market for ISPs</a>.
<p>
Causing competition between ISPs is a good idea, but I would not trust
that to replace network neutrality.  Four competitors are too few to
make a truly competitive market.  And even companies in a competitive
market impose nasty terms on customers.  Consider the hotel that
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_(Arbitrary_conditions_imposed_by_hotel)">"fined"
customers for bad reviews</a>.  It competes with lots of other hotels
but that didn't stop it from pulling a fast one.
<p>
Competition would pressure ISPs to improve their performance, price,
and customer service.  Those are things that customers notice all the
time.  We need common carrier regulation <em>also</em> for all the
things that are less visible.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(US_government_torture)
title: US government torture
uri: US-government-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28US_government_torture%29
content:
<p>
US officials 
<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/11/13/us-delegation-refuses-to-explain-to-un-committee-why-durham-review-ended-in-no-prosecutions-for-torture/">refused
to explain</a> to the Committee Against Torture why nobody was
prosecuted for US government torture.


title: Working as banker encourages dishonesty
uri: Working-as-banker-encourages-dishonesty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(Working_as_banker_encourages_dishonesty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28Working_as_banker_encourages_dishonesty%29

content:
<p>
Bankers, after being led to think about their work, become 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/nov/20/banking-cheats-bankers-financial-sector-dishonest-behaviour">more
likely to cheat than people in general</a>.
<p>
In other words, it's not that bankers are inherently dishonest
but rather than working as a banker encourages dishonesty.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(UK_tax_give-aways_to_businesses)
title: UK tax give-aways to businesses
uri: UK-tax-give-aways-to-businesses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28UK_tax_give-aways_to_businesses%29

content:
<p>
The UK government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/21/tax-relief-losing-billions-treasury-nao-margaret-hodge">losing
billions of pounds by not keeping track of tax give-aways to
businesses</a>.
<p>
This while they 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#08_November_2014_(UKs_privatized_work_program)">nickle-and-dime
the unemployed and disabled into homelessness</a>.


title: Preventing youths from going to Syria
uri: Preventing-youths-from-going-to-Syria
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(Preventing_youths_from_going_to_Syria)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28Preventing_youths_from_going_to_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Aarhus has an interesting 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/12/deradicalise-isis-fighters-jihadists-denmark-syria">personal
active approach</a> towards people returning from fighting in Syria,
which seems to have been effective at preventing more youths from
going there.
<p>
Meanwhile, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/21/counter-terrorism-bill-internal-exile-suspect-lib-dems-clegg">the
UK plans a system of internal exile</a> for such people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(US_firms_enabling_surveillance)
title: US firms enabling surveillance
uri: US-firms-enabling-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28US_firms_enabling_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=8881">U.S. Firms
Accused of Enabling Surveillance in Despotic Central Asian
Regimes</a>.


title: UK journalists sue thugs for spying
uri: UK-journalists-sue-thugs-for-spying
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(UK_journalists_sue_thugs_for_spying)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28UK_journalists_sue_thugs_for_spying%29

content:
<p>
UK journalists are suing the thugs for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/20/police-legal-action-snooping-journalists">spying
systematically on them as they covered protests</a>.
<p>
Thugs have long regarded democracy as their enemy; what is new is to
have proof.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 22_November_2014_(Surveillance_in_Latin_America)
title: Surveillance in Latin America
uri: Surveillance-in-Latin-America
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_November_2014_%28Surveillance_in_Latin_America%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/news/blog/new-report-finds-little-oversight-of-surveillance-intelligence-agencies-in-latin-America">New
Report Finds Little Oversight of Surveillance, Intelligence Agencies
in Latin America</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Urgent:_Boycott_Amazon)
title: Urgent: Boycott Amazon
uri: Urgent-Boycott-Amazon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Boycott_Amazon%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.amazonanonymous.org/">sign up</a> to boycott
Amazon.
<p>
I gave this as my additional statement.

<blockquote>
<p>
There are additional reasons to refuse to buy from Amazon.
It keeps a database of what people buy, and does not accept cash.
Amazon ebooks are a surveillance system and Amazon can erase them
remotely: see 
<a href="media/3f1e898d.ebooks.pdf" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/ebooks.pdf">stallman.org/ebooks.pdf</a>.</p>
<p>
See also
<a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html">stallman.org/amazon.html</a>
for more bad things Amazon does.</p>
<p>
Thus, I agree to boycott Amazon, but it won't change anything, since
I'd never consider buying from an organization that treated me that
way, even if it didn't abuse its workers and evade taxes.</p>
</blockquote>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Ambient_computing)
title: "Ambient" computing
uri: Ambient-computing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Ambient_computing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/it/the-inescapability-of-ambient-computing">Always-listening,
always-watching computers</a> are supposedly meant to serve people,
but when they're full of nonfree software they are actually tools to
subjugate people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Car_tracking)
title: Car tracking
uri: Car-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Car_tracking%29
content:
<p>
Many car companies now make cars that track where they go.
The companies are trying to make this acceptable with 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141119/10035029193/automakers-like-totally-promise-not-to-abuse-ocean-location-data-their-cars-now-collect.shtml">weak
promises about what they will do with the data</a>.
<p>
Those policies are irrelevant because real protection for the driver's
privacy consists of not tracking the car in the first place.
If you own a car, make sure its tracking hardware is deactivated.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(FISA_Judge_on_mass_surveillance)
title: FISA Judge on mass surveillance
uri: FISA-Judge-on-mass-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28FISA_Judge_on_mass_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
FISA Judge To Yahoo (in 2008): 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141119/10320429194/fisa-judge-to-yahoo-if-us-citizens-dont-know-theyre-being-surveilled-theres-no-harm.shtml">If
US Citizens Don't Know They're Being Surveilled, There's No Harm</a>.


title: 40 years of wrongful imprisonment
uri: 40-years-of-wrongful-imprisonment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(40_years_of_wrongful_imprisonment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%2840_years_of_wrongful_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
Two men in Ohio spent 40 years in prison because 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/21/ohio-man-free-wrongful-imprisonment">thugs
bullied a teenager into testifying against them</a>.
<p>
At least they weren't executed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Public_interest_defence)
title: Public interest defence
uri: Public-interest-defence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Public_interest_defence%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/21/gchq-whistleblower-public-interest-defence">GCHQ
Whistleblower Calls for Public Interest Defence</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Justice_not_expected_in_Ferguson)
title: Justice not expected in Ferguson
uri: Justice-not-expected-in-Ferguson
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Justice_not_expected_in_Ferguson%29

content:
<p>
It's a rare moment in the US when black victims get justice for the
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=8928">violence of
whites</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Thugs_spying_on_journalists)
title: Thugs spying on journalists
uri: Thugs-spying-on-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Thugs_spying_on_journalists%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/21/police-snoop-journalists-freedom-data-protection-act">When
Police Spy on Journalists Like Me, Freedom Is at Risk</a>.


title: Haitian opposition march attacked
uri: Haitian-opposition-march-attacked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Haitian_opposition_march_attacked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Haitian_opposition_march_attacked%29

content:
<p>
A Haitian opposition march was 
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/anti-government-protest-haiti-turns-violent-27001068">attacked
by supporters of the president</a>, who was imposed by the US through
a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#08_May_2011_(1/6_the_voters)">twisted
election</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Walmart_electricity_from_coal)
title: Walmart electricity from coal
uri: Walmart-electricity-from-coal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Walmart_electricity_from_coal%29

content:
<p>
Walmart pretends to be trying to protect the environment, but it gets
its electricity 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/20/small-wages-huge-pollution-new-report-exposes-walmarts-coal-saturated-climate">from
coal</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(NSA_data_center_water_supply)
title: NSA data center water supply
uri: NSA-data-center-water-supply
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28NSA_data_center_water_supply%29
content:
<p>
Utah's legislature proposes to 
<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/1845843-155/data-utah-nsa-bill-center-committee">shut
off the water supply</a> to the NSA's data center.


title: Transitory copies illegal under TPP
uri: Transitory-copies-illegal-under-TPP
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Transitory_copies_illegal_under_TPP)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Transitory_copies_illegal_under_TPP%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/does-the-tpp-still-make-buffer-copies-illegal">subtle
point in the TPP</a> would make transitory copies (such as loading a
program into memory to run it) copyright infringement.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Irans_destruction_of_environment)
title: Iran's destruction of environment
uri: Iran-s-destruction-of-environment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Irans_destruction_of_environment%29

content:
<p>
Iran has worked around western sanctions at the cost of destroying its
environment.  The result is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/nov/21/iran-environmental-consequences-of-sanctions">dust
storms</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Environmental_catastrophes)
title: Environmental catastrophes
uri: Environmental-catastrophes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Environmental_catastrophes%29
content:
<p>
You might think that humanity won't wake up to the dangers of global
heating and extinction until it sees catastrophes, but the
catastrophes are already happening, and the only awakening is by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/nov/21/we-need-nature-wellbeing-act-protect-wildlife-decline">businesses
that want to abolish environmental regulations</a>.


title: Many US cities similar to Ferguson
uri: Many-US-cities-similar-to-Ferguson
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Many_US_cities_similar_to_Ferguson)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Many_US_cities_similar_to_Ferguson%29

content:
<p>
Many US cities 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/11/it-turns-out-ferguson-pretty-typical-america">arrest
blacks far more often than whites</a>.  Ferguson is not the worst.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(A_carbon_tax_bill)
title: A carbon tax bill
uri: A-carbon-tax-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28A_carbon_tax_bill%29
content:
<p>
Senators
have <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/11/19/sens-whitehouse-and-schatz-unveil-carbon-fee-legislation">introduced
a carbon tax bill</a>.
<p>
This has no chance of passing, but introducing it is at least a
political step.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Paid_global_heating_denialists)
title: Paid global heating denialists
uri: Paid-global-heating-denialists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Paid_global_heating_denialists%29

content:
<p>
A movie exposes
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/20/merchants-of-doubt-film-exposes-slick-us-industry-behind-climate-denial">methods
of the paid global heating denialists</a>.


title: US abortion doctors on harassment and restrictions
uri: US-abortion-doctors-on-harassment-and-restrictions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(US_abortion_doctors_on_harassment_and_restrictions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28US_abortion_doctors_on_harassment_and_restrictions%29

content:
<p>
US abortion doctors say the harassment and
restrictions <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/21/us-abortion-doctors-speak-40-years">are
the worst they have ever seen</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(The_last_remaining_Angola_3)
title: The last remaining "Angola 3"
uri: The-last-remaining-Angola-3
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28The_last_remaining_Angola_3%29
content:
<p>
The last remaining "Angola 3"
prisoner <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/21/justice-last-final-angola-three-prisoner-serving-longest-solitary-sentence-us">had
his conviction overturned</a>, but the state may appeal this decision
to keep him in prison more years until he dies.
<p>
Regardless of the issues of his guilt and his trial, keeping anyone in
solitary confinement for so
long <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#20_June_2012_%28Innocent_in_solitary_confinement_for_18_years%29">amounts
to brainwashing</a>.


title: The Destructive God That Can Never Be Appeased
uri: The-Destructive-God-That-Can-Never-Be-Appeased
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(The_Destructive_God_That_Can_Never_Be_Appeased)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28The_Destructive_God_That_Can_Never_Be_Appeased%29

content:
<p>
Growth: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/18/growth-destructive-economic-expansion-financial-crisis">The
Destructive God That Can Never Be Appeased</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Six_Vital_Steps_to_Protect_Earth)
title: Six Vital Steps to Protect Earth
uri: Six-Vital-Steps-to-Protect-Earth
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Six_Vital_Steps_to_Protect_Earth%29

content:
<p>
Six Vital Steps World
Leaders <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/22/six-vital-steps-to-protect-earth-global-warming-carbon">Must
Agree to Take to Protect Earth</a>.
<p>
Here's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/22/-sp-climate-change-special-report">what
the agreement needs to do and why</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Urgent:_US_border_patrol_agents)
title: Urgent: US border patrol agents
uri: Urgent-US-border-patrol-agents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_US_border_patrol_agents%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Call for establishment of a clear and practical way
to <a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/hold_border_patrol_accountable">report
abuses by US border patrol agents</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_bees)
title: Urgent: Protect bees
uri: Urgent-Protect-bees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_bees%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama to make sure the pollinator health task
force
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1311">takes
sufficient measures to truly protect bees</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Jewish_Voice_for_Peace_mourns)
title: Jewish Voice for Peace mourns
uri: Jewish-Voice-for-Peace-mourns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Jewish_Voice_for_Peace_mourns%29

content:
<p>
Jewish Voice for
Peace <a href="http://gaza.scoop.ps/2014/11/how-will-we-memorialize-the-dead/">mourns
the Jewish and Palestinian casualties</a> of individual violence in
Israel and Palestine.


title: How US mainstream media promote escalation of war
uri: How-US-mainstream-media-promote-escalation-of-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(How_US_mainstream_media_promote_escalation_of_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28How_US_mainstream_media_promote_escalation_of_war%29

content:
<p>
An example of how US mainstream
media <a href="http://fair.org/blog/2014/11/18/war-works-so-why-isnt-it-working/">promote
escalation of war against PISSI</a>.
<p>
Examples of how
they <a href="http://fair.org/blog/2014/11/17/is-keystone-coverage-getting-worse/">promote
the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline</a>.
<p>
When they do acknowledge the real argument against the pipeline, next
they claim it's impossible to stop the extraction of tar sands oil.
<p>
"Stop resisting, you can't win" has been used against every successful
resistance movement.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Useful_Idiots_in_the_Digital_Age)
title: Useful Idiots in the Digital Age
uri: Useful-Idiots-in-the-Digital-Age
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Useful_Idiots_in_the_Digital_Age%29

content:
<p>
Are "We the
People" <a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/are_we_the_people_useful_idiots_in_the_digital_age">Useful
Idiots in the Digital Age?</a>


title: Ceasing to feel ashamed of accusing men of rape
uri: Ceasing-to-feel-ashamed-of-accusing-men-of-rape
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 23_November_2014_(Ceasing_to_feel_ashamed_of_accusing_men_of_rape)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_November_2014_%28Ceasing_to_feel_ashamed_of_accusing_men_of_rape%29

content:
<p>
American women
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/23/bill-cosby-defiant-rape-claims-17-women-accusing">ceasing
to feel ashamed of accusing men of raping them</a>.
<p>
The idea of being ashamed of being assaulted in any fashion makes no
moral sense to me.  I can only understand it intellectually.
<p>
It was common to for families to despise women who were raped, along
with women who had sex without authorization, treating women as
possessions of the family rather than as persons.  For instance, a
legend about the foundation of the Roman Republic admires a woman for
committing suicide after being pressured into sex.  In some
twisted societies, this attitude continues today and is the basis for
"honor killings".
<p>
I suppose women internalized this condemnation and converted it into
shame.


title: Orders against reporting on sexual abuse
uri: Orders-against-reporting-on-sexual-abuse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Orders_against_reporting_on_sexual_abuse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Orders_against_reporting_on_sexual_abuse%29

content:
<p>
UK newspapers were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/22/media-gagged-westminster-child-abuse-ring">ordered
not to report on sexual abuse by politicians</a>, and the records of
these orders appear to have been destroyed, or else the orders were
fake.
<p>
Either way, it is very fishy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Altruism)
title: Altruism
uri: Altruism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Altruism%29
content:
<p>
Experimental subjects 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2014/nov/22/behind-the-scenes-of-a-shocking-new-study-on-human-altruism">paid
more to protect strangers from electric shocks than to protect
themselves from shocks</a>.
<p>
The article ends with a very good refutation of one of the typical
fallacious cynical attacks against altruism.


title: Australian public broadcasting attacked
uri: Australian-public-broadcasting-attacked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Australian_public_broadcasting_attacked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Australian_public_broadcasting_attacked%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is attacking public broadcasting 
<a href="https://newmatilda.com/2014/11/20/abc-cuts-are-not-budget-tidy-theyre-about-revenge">for
not being right-wing</a>.


title: Chilean officers sentenced for torture
uri: Chilean-officers-sentenced-for-torture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Chilean_officers_sentenced_for_torture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Chilean_officers_sentenced_for_torture%29

content:
<p>
The Chilean officers that tortured Alberto Bachelet and his daughter
(now president) have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/21/former-chilean-military-officers-jailed-death-father-president-michelle-bachelet">sentenced
to prison</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Walmart_workers_plan_strikes)
title: Walmart workers plan strikes
uri: Walmart-workers-plan-strikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Walmart_workers_plan_strikes%29
content:
<p>
Walmart workers plan 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/21/walmart-wages-war-workers-and-earth-green-groups-throw-weight-behind-strike">strikes
and protests</a> on the day that foolish Americans typically start
shopping for mandatory Christmas presents.
<p>
Since they are looking for support from the public, I suggest that
people participate.


title: Man to be executed despite botched trial
uri: Man-to-be-executed-despite-botched-trial
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Man_to_be_executed_despite_botched_trial)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Man_to_be_executed_despite_botched_trial%29

content:
<p>
Robert Holsey is set to be executed, and the state of Georgia doesn't
care that 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/alcoholic-lawyer-botched-robert-wayne-holsey-death-penalty-trial">his
defense team was nonfunctional because its leader was drunk</a>.
<p>
The death penalty is wrong even if the criminal has competent defense
lawyers.  This case points rather at the willingness of the US legal
system to insist on upholding decisions that were made laughably.


title: Nonviolent Resistance defeating Mafia
uri: Nonviolent-Resistance-defeating-Mafia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Nonviolent_resistance_defeating_Mafia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Nonviolent_resistance_defeating_Mafia%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2014/11/19/gandhi-vs-the-mafia">United
nonviolent resistance</a> is defeating the Mafia protection racket in
Sicily.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Gun_carrying_and_crime)
title: Gun carrying and crime
uri: Gun-carrying-and-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Gun_carrying_and_crime%29
content:
<p>
A new study finds that 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/14/more-guns-more-crime-new-research-debunks-a-central-thesis-of-the-gun-rights-movement/">allowing
people in general to carry guns leads to more crime</a>, in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Occupy_London_protesters_return)
title: Occupy London protesters return
uri: Occupy-London-protesters-return
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Occupy_London_protesters_return%29

content:
<p>
Occupy London protesters are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/22/occupy-london-activists-police-parliament-square">returning
to Parliament Square</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Free_scientific_publication)
title: Free scientific publication
uri: Free-scientific-publication
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Free_scientific_publication%29
content:
<p>
The Gates Foundation has insisted on free scientific publication
<a href="http://blogs.nature.com/news/">for research it supports</a>.
<p>
They use the term "open access"; I think 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/free-scientific-publishing.html">that
term is misguided</a> because it tends to lead people in the direction
of weaker positions than this.  Fortunately the Gates Foundation
overcame the weakness of the term itself, and took a strong stand.
<p>
There are so many ironies in this.
<p>
Meanwhile, France 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141111/13425429109/french-government-takes-172-million-citizens-to-pay-publisher-access-to-research-public-already-paid-once.shtml">cut
its research budget in order to pay publishers such as Elsevier</a>.


title: Obama authorizes fighting in Afghanistan
uri: Obama-authorizes-fighting-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Obama_authorizes_fighting_in_Afghanistan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Obama_authorizes_fighting_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
Obama has authorized remaining US troops in Afghanistan to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/22/barack-obama-broadens-us-afghanistan-mission">continue
fighting the Taliban directly</a>, hoping people won't notice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Global_heating_lake_effect)
title: Global heating "lake effect"
uri: Global-heating-lake-effect
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Global_heating_lake_effect%29
content:
<p>
Global heating means 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/global-warming-lake-effect-snow-18366">big
snow loads</a> from the "lake effect".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Attacks_on_whistleblowers)
title: Attacks on whistleblowers
uri: Attacks-on-whistleblowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Attacks_on_whistleblowers%29
content:
<p>
Whistleblowers are repeatedly subject to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/22/there-were-hundreds-of-us-crying-out-for-help-afterlife-of-whistleblower">dishonest
retaliation and false accusations by those in power</a> whose errors
or crimes have been exposed.


title: Phone companies trying to force VOIP
uri: Phone-companies-trying-to-force-VOIP
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Phone_companies_trying_to_force_VOIP)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Phone_companies_trying_to_force_VOIP%29

content:
<p>
US phone companies are trying to push customers off the superior
copper cables onto VOIP, by 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/11/fcc-to-prevent-phone-companies-from-screwing-over-copper-customers/">refusing
to maintain the copper cables</a>.
<p>
The idea of requiring the VOIP replacement to be improved before
forcing the changeover is not sufficient.  VOIP is inherently less
reliable as well as subjecting people to digital monkeybusiness.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Algorithmic_decision_making)
title: Algorithmic decision making
uri: Algorithmic-decision-making
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Algorithmic_decision_making%29
content:
<p>
Algorithmic decision making is leading to many strange kinds
of troubles caused by 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/11/algorithms-great-can-also-ruin-lives/">mistaken
identity</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 24_November_2014_(Obama_nominates_another_bankster)
title: Obama nominates another bankster
uri: Obama-nominates-another-bankster
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#24_November_2014_%28Obama_nominates_another_bankster%29

content:
<p>
Obama proposed a bankster to be the Undersecretary for Domestic
Finance, and 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/presidents-wall-street-nominee_b_6188324.html">Elizabeth
Warren came out swinging against him</a>.


title: Conservationists pressuring Australia's big banks
uri: Conservationists-pressuring-Australia-s-big-banks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Conservationists_pressuring_Australia's_big_banks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Conservationists_pressuring_Australia%27s_big_banks%29

content:
<p>
Conservationists
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/25/big-four-banks-under-pressure-to-rule-out-funding-queensland-coal-projects">pressuring
Australia's big banks not to invest in coal companies</a>.
<p>
If those banks are looking for long-term return, they should try to
make sure that Australia isn't knocked to its knees by global heating.


title: Hong Kong government defeated democracy protesters by
uri: Hong-Kong-government-defeated-democracy-protesters-by
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Hong_Kong_government_defeated_democracy_protesters_by)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Hong_Kong_government_defeated_democracy_protesters_by%29

content:
<p>
The Hong Kong government defeated democracy protesters
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/25/hong-kong-police-begin-dismantling-mong-kok-protest-site">yielding
nothing and waiting for the public to get tired of protests</a>.
<p>
Lesson: people who get tired and stop protesting don't win.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Blanket_Data_Retention)
title: Blanket Data Retention
uri: Blanket-Data-Retention
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Blanket_Data_Retention%29
content:
<p>
Blanket Data
Retention <a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2014/blanket-data-retention-does-not-come-in-good-and-bad-forms">Does
Not Come in "Good" And "Bad" Forms</a>.


title: Communication and server companies
uri: Communication-and-server-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Communication_and_server_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Communication_and_server_companies%29

content:
<p>
Communication and server companies have an interest in letting people
think they care about
privacy, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/tech-companies-are-peddling-phony-version-security-using-govt-bogeyman?paging=off">but
not so much in effectively doing so.</a>
<p>
I disagree with one point: encryption is not a fraud or a sham.
However, it can only protect specific limited aspects of privacy,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#10_October_2014_%28Mass_surveillance_of_phone_users%29">which
are not enough</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(The_old_School_of_the_Americas)
title: The old School of the Americas
uri: The-old-School-of-the-Americas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28The_old_School_of_the_Americas%29

content:
<p>
The old School of the Americas, under a new name, teaches fighting
"terrorists" (whatever that means) and the "war on drugs".
<p>
It's a different harm but it's still harm.  Recall that the
dictatorships of South America in the 70s said that
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-jul-oct.html#29%20September%202008%20%28Condor:%20%20The%20First%20War%20on%20Terror%29">people
they disappeared were "terrorists"</a>.


title: Grand jury decided not to indict the killer of Michael Brown
uri: Grand-jury-decided-not-to-indict-the-killer-of-Michael-Brown
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Grand_jury_decided_not_to_indict_the_killer_of_Michael_Brown)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Grand_jury_decided_not_to_indict_the_killer_of_Michael_Brown%29

content:
<p>
As expected,
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/ferguson-police-darren-wilson-michael-brown-no-charges">grand
jury decided not to indict the killer of Michael Brown</a>.
<p>
This was
predictable; <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/11/24/3595565/ferguson-no-indictment/">hardly
ever do killer thugs face justice</a>.
<p>
The
decision <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/25/violent-civil-unrest-ferguson-grand-jury-decision">led
to predictable riots</a>.
<p>
It is wrong to vent this rage by burning down private buildings that
have nothing to do with the killing.  At the same time, I understand
that many in Ferguson feel that rioting is their last recourse after
trying everything else.  I hope it leads to some good.
<p>
Civil rights and justice groups called on Governor Nixon to appoint a
special prosecutor, but he didn't.  He could still do this, but he
would rather provoke riots and repress them.  He is directly and
personally responsible for giving a killer thug immunity.  We should
not let him shrug it off.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Protesters_banned_from_China)
title: Protesters banned from China
uri: Protesters-banned-from-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Protesters_banned_from_China%29
content:
<p>
Hundreds or perhaps thousands of Hong Kong citizens who protested for
democracy
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/25/hong-kong-protests-beijing-blacklist">have
been banned from China</a>.
<p>
Much like the US no-fly list, they don't find this out until they try
to cross the border.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(LEDs_for_street_lighting)
title: LEDs for street lighting
uri: LEDs-for-street-lighting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28LEDs_for_street_lighting%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/25/led-lighting-surge-dimmed-by-halogen-lamp-reprieve-in-brussels">EU
foolishly relaxed its requirement to adopt LEDs for street
lighting</a>, inviting a giant waste of energy and money.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Beyond_Ferguson)
title: Beyond Ferguson
uri: Beyond-Ferguson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Beyond_Ferguson%29
content:
<p>
Beyond Ferguson: we need
to <a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/we_are_the_enemy_is_this_the_lesson_of_ferguson">stop
giving carte blanche to militarized thugs</a>.


title: Urgent: Federal Reserve governors
uri: Urgent-Federal-Reserve-governors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Urgent:_Federal_Reserve_governors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Federal_Reserve_governors%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://elizabethwarren.com/fedpetition">call on Obama</a> to
appoint some Federal Reserve governors who don't represent banksters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Urgent:_Charge_JP_Morgan_now)
title: Urgent: Charge JP Morgan now
uri: Urgent-Charge-JP-Morgan-now
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Charge_JP_Morgan_now%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Holder_Justice_Chase">call on
the Justice Department</a> to charge JP Morgan now with the crimes
that Alayne Fleischmann has witnessed.


title: Urgent: Release Senate's torture report
uri: Urgent-Release-Senate-s-torture-report
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Urgent:_Release_Senates_torture_report)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Release_Senates_torture_report%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://releasethetorturereport.com/?code=RootsAction">Call on
Senator Udall</a> to personally release the Senate's torture report
while he is still a senator.


title: Urgent: Support network neutrality
uri: 2014-11-26-Urgent-Support-network-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Urgent:_Support_network_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support network neutrality 
<a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/">again</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Pakistani_thug_raids)
title: Pakistani thug raids
uri: Pakistani-thug-raids
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Pakistani_thug_raids%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan's uniformed thugs say they go on raids to kill major criminals.
Others say the thugs are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/17/encounters-pakistan-police-justice-streets-gangs-terrorists-karachi">killing
whoever is convenient in order to run up the tally</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Claims_of_Satanic_child_abuse)
title: Claims of Satanic child abuse
uri: Claims-of-Satanic-child-abuse
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Claims_of_Satanic_child_abuse%29

content:
<p>
Claims of Satanic child abuse are coming back.  These are based
on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/18/satanic-child-abuse-false-memories-scotland">convincing
people to remember things that never happened to them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Bluefin_tuna_fishing_quotas)
title: Bluefin tuna fishing quotas
uri: Bluefin-tuna-fishing-quotas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Bluefin_tuna_fishing_quotas%29
content:
<p>
Bluefin tuna in the Atlantic have recovered to some extent from past
overfishing, so 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/18/governments-agree-20-hike-in-bluefin-tuna-catch">governments
jumped at the chance to increase fishing quotas</a>.
<p>
I hope eventually it will be possible to catch these tuna at a higher
rate sustainably, but it is foolhardy to be hasty.  The current
numbers of tuna are more than in the 1950s, but they could be
minuscule compared with the 1850s.


title: Variant of RFID for sabotaging computers
uri: Variant-of-RFID-for-sabotaging-computers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Variant_of_RFID_for_sabotaging_computers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Variant_of_RFID_for_sabotaging_computers%29

content:
<p>
A variant of an RFID turns out to be a prime method used by US and
Russian agents (and maybe others) to 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/michael-ossmann-and-the-nsa-playset">sabotage
computers</a>.


title: Crusade against "child pornography"
uri: Crusade-against-child-pornography
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Crusade_against_child_pornography)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Crusade_against_child_pornography%29

content:
<p>
A UK politician has been forced to resign from some positions because
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/23/liberal-democrat-councillor-alex-folkes-cornwall-council-children">his
swiped credit card number was used to buy pornography depicting
children</a>.  The fact that it wasn't him is, apparently, not
sufficient to protect him; being falsely accused is considered reason
why he must resign.
<p>
Isn't this nuts?
<p>
These events illustrate that the crusade against "child pornography"
endangers everyone.  This result tends to happen whenever possession
or purchase of some sort of publication is illegal.  We must abolish
such laws because they whip up witch-hunts.


title: Syrian rebel groups joining PISSI
uri: Syrian-rebel-groups-joining-PISSI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Syrian_rebel_groups_joining_PISSI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Syrian_rebel_groups_joining_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
Many Syrian rebel groups are joining with PISSI, or at least making
truces with PISSI, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/23/us-air-strikes-syra-driving-anti-assad-groups-support-isis">because
they regard the US as an enemy for fighting PISSI</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_(PISSI)">PISSI</a>
is the Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.


title: Israeli soldiers kill man walking in Gaza
uri: Israeli-soldiers-kill-man-walking-in-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Israeli_soldiers_kill_man_walking_in_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Israeli_soldiers_kill_man_walking_in_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers shot and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/23/israeli-forces-shoot-dead-palestinian-man-gaza-strip">killed
a Palestinian who was trying to catch birds</a> and went too close to
the Israeli border.
<p>
Israel has no right to kill people in Gaza for walking around in Gaza.
If Israel wants a buffer zone, it should construct that buffer zone on
Israel's side of the border.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Kidnaping_plot_launched_by_Putin)
title: Kidnaping plot launched by Putin
uri: Kidnaping-plot-launched-by-Putin
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Kidnaping_plot_launched_by_Putin%29

content:
<p>
Putin launched a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/22/anti-putin-campaigner-browder-magnitsky-documents">plot
to kidnap Bill Browder</a>, after killing his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky
in prison.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Terrorists_murder_bus_passengers)
title: Terrorists murder bus passengers
uri: Terrorists-murder-bus-passengers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Terrorists_murder_bus_passengers%29

content:
<p>
Al-Shabaab terrorists captured a bus and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/23/kenya-bus-attack-survivor-tells-how-gunmen-selected-their-victims">murdered
all the passengers that were not Muslims</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(French_thugs_kill_protester)
title: French thugs kill protester
uri: French-thugs-kill-protester
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28French_thugs_kill_protester%29
content:
<p>
French thugs killed an anti-dam protester with a grenade, inspiring
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/23/protesters-clash-police-france-activist-killed-grenade">continuing
protests</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(The_fiction_of_recovery_in_UK)
title: The fiction of "recovery" in UK
uri: The-fiction-of-recovery-in-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28The_fiction_of_recovery_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
Puncturing the fiction of a "recovery" in the UK, the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/23/food-banks-low-income-families-record-demand">number
of poor people going to food banks continues to increase</a>.
<p>
This includes people who have work but their wages don't cover food.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Japan_entering_recession)
title: Japan entering recession
uri: Japan-entering-recession
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Japan_entering_recession%29
content:
<p>
Japan is entering a recession, and as usual financial powers are
pushing for spending cuts to make it worse, but the government is
determined to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/23/sp-tokyo-sake-bars-japan-snap-election-shinzo-abe">stimulate
the economy instead</a>.
<p>
Britain seems to be entering another recession (although working
people have not started to recover from the last one), so 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/18/david-cameron-recession-policies-cut-deficits">the
plutocratic government plans more budget cuts</a> to make sure of
this.


title: Banksters taking over state pension funds
uri: Banksters-taking-over-state-pension-funds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 25_November_2014_(Banksters_taking_over_state_pension_funds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#25_November_2014_%28Banksters_taking_over_state_pension_funds%29

content:
<p>
Banksters are taking over state pension funds in order to 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=7435">drain them with
high fees and risky investments</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_Olympic_Games)
title: Urgent: Oppose Olympic Games
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Olympic-Games
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Olympic_Games%29

content:
<p>
In Massachusetts: 
<a href="http://www.nobostonolympics.org/">oppose holding Olympic
Games in Boston</a>.
<p>
The Olympic Committee is leaning towards Boston because of Boston's
record of clamping down arbitrarily on millions of people, when it
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/190137/boston-already-saying-hell-no-2024-olympics">forced
everyone to stay indoors</a>.
<p>
Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington DC should start organizing
too.
<p>
If people with enough democracy to reject Olympic Games do so, the
games will be held in dictatorial countries.  At least that way they
won't lead to tyranny worse than what those countries already have.


title: Urgent: Raise pay limit for overtime
uri: Urgent-Raise-pay-limit-for-overtime
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Urgent:_Raise_pay_limit_for_overtime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_pay_limit_for_overtime%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/expand_overtime/">Call
on Obama</a> to raise the pay limit for workers to get overtime pay.


title: Products connected to Koch Brothers
uri: Products-connected-to-Koch-Brothers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Products_connected_to_Koch_Brothers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Products_connected_to_Koch_Brothers%29

content:
<p>
Here's a list of 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/01/1288957/-Sign-the-pledge-Don-t-buy-these-Koch-products">products
made by companies largely owned by the Koch Brothers</a>, so you can
choose alternatives.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(World_Banks_future_investments)
title: World Bank's future investments
uri: World-Bank-s-future-investments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28World_Banks_future_investments%29

content:
<p>
The World Bank says it will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/23/world-bank-to-focus-future-investment-on-clean-energy">"focus"
future investments on renewable energy</a>, but falls short of ceasing
to invest in fossil fuels.
<p>
I am worried by the escape hatch to allow coal investments in cases of
"extreme need".  Billionaires can claim with a straight face that they
have "extreme need" for the profits from a coal mine, and ways to
convince politicians to endorse the claim.


title: Wars not stopped by horrific pictures
uri: Wars-not-stopped-by-horrific-pictures
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Wars_not_stopped_by_horrific_pictures)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Wars_not_stopped_by_horrific_pictures%29

content:
<p>
Horrific pictures of casualties 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/23/horrific-pictures-of-dead-bodies-wont-stop-wars">don't
seem to stop war</a>.


title: Law makes non-Jews second-class citizens
uri: Law-makes-non-Jews-second-class-citizens
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Law_makes_non-Jews_second-class_citizens)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Law_makes_non-Jews_second-class_citizens%29

content:
<p>
Israel's cabinet approved a law to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/23/israeli-cabinet-approves-bill-defining-nation-state-jewish-people">officially
make non-Jews second-class citizens and remove Arabic as an official
language</a>.
<p>
This seems ideally calculated to provoke more Israeli Arabs into
random acts of violence, but Netanyahu calls it a "deterrent" like
other acts of collective punishment.
<p>
There is no word on whether Netanyahu also plans to punish Jews
collectively for acts such as firebombing Huda Hamaiel's house.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Terrorism)
title: "Terrorism"
uri: 2014-11-27-Terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Terrorism%29
content:
<p>
Saudi Arabia has defined 
<a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/03/20/saudi-arabia-new-terrorism-regulations-assault-rights">criticism
of the state, and any defense of Atheism</a>, as "terrorism".
<p>
The US took a start down that path by defining "animal rights
terrorism" to include actions such as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-may-aug.html#31%20May%202004%20(Animal%20rights%20terrorism)">running 
a web site</a> or 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_(TSA_harassment)">loosing 
farm animals</a>.
<p>
I can understand prosecuting that as destruction of property, but
calling it "terrorism" is another example of a lying law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(The_harm_of_religion)
title: The harm of religion
uri: The-harm-of-religion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28The_harm_of_religion%29
content:
<p>
Religion does 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20141118">lots of
harm to society</a>.


title: Thai editor sentenced for "defaming" king
uri: Thai-editor-sentenced-for-defaming-king
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Thai_editor_sentenced_for_defaming_king)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Thai_editor_sentenced_for_defaming_king%29

content:
<p>
A Thai editor has been sentenced to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/24/thai-news-website-editor-jailed-defaming-king">over
four years in prison</a> for "defaming" the king.
<p>
Any law making it a crime to defame, insult or offend someone
is a violation of freedom of speech.


title: UK proposes university censorship
uri: UK-proposes-university-censorship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(UK_proposes_university_censorship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28UK_proposes_university_censorship%29

content:
<p>
The UK proposes to make universities 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/24/uk-terrorism-measures-campus-ban-extremists-theresa-may">censor
"radical" speakers</a>.
<p>
Initially this is to be applied to radical Islamism, but who knows
when it will be extended to cover refusal to run proprietary software,
support for the Green Party, or opposition to censorship.
<p>
The UK already has a vicious regime of censorship, but that's no
reason to tolerate more.
<p>
Imposed exile without trial is also proposed, as well as an arbitrary
ban on flying without trial.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Breastfeeding)
title: Breastfeeding
uri: Breastfeeding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Breastfeeding%29
content:
<p>
It's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/24/class-baby-breastfed-life-chances-inequality">not
clear</a> that breastfeeding is good for babies.  Perhaps it's being
raised in a middle-class home (which is where mothers are likely to do
this) is what's good for babies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Privatized_parole_supervision)
title: Privatized parole supervision
uri: Privatized-parole-supervision
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Privatized_parole_supervision%29

content:
<p>
Private companies are finding ways to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/23/1346397/-The-price-of-justice-The-less-you-have-the-more-it-costs">squeeze
money out of supervision of criminals on parole</a>.
<p>
These companies function by mistreating their employees, the public,
the prisoners, or some combination.  Sometimes the indirection means
they can't in practice be held accountable for how they treat the
prisoners.
<p>
The California initiative just approved, releasing many prisoners that
there is no need to keep in prison, is very good notwithstanding this
problem.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Womens_rights_in_Afghanistan)
title: Women's rights in Afghanistan
uri: Women-s-rights-in-Afghanistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Womens_rights_in_Afghanistan%29
content:
<p>
The peace talks with the Taliban 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/nov/24/taliban-peace-talks-a-threat-to-womens-rights-in-afghanistan-oxfam-warns">endanger
the fragments of women's rights in Afghanistan</a>.
<p>
I supported the invasion of Afghanistan to liberate women
(and to some extent men) from the oppression of the Taliban.
However, the existing Afghan government has allowed a large part of
the same oppression, even in the places it effectively controls.
I can't say that the small freedom Afghan women have gained justifies
unending war.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Antibiotic_resistance)
title: Antibiotic resistance
uri: 2014-11-27-Antibiotic-resistance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Antibiotic_resistance%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/nov/24/ebola-is-scary-but-antibiotic-resistance-should-scare-us-more">Ebola
Is Scary, But Antibiotic Resistance Should Scare Us More</a>.


title: Australian thugs snoop on lawyer and client
uri: Australian-thugs-snoop-on-lawyer-and-client
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Australian_thugs_snoop_on_lawyer_and_client)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Australian_thugs_snoop_on_lawyer_and_client%29

content:
<p>
Australian thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/24/police-listened-lawyer-client-phone-call-terrorism-raid">listened
sneakily to a prisoner's discussion with his lawyer</a>.
<p>
The government refuses to tell him why he was arrested and forbids
newspapers to mention his name.  I wonder if he has been gagged as
well — I suspect so.  Is any information about this available
outside Australia?
<p>
If your relative is arrested, spread the word immediately so that the
state can't put the cat back into the bag.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Encouraging_cooperating)
title: Encouraging cooperating
uri: Encouraging-cooperating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Encouraging_cooperating%29
content:
<p>
Psychological experiments reaffirm that it is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/24/grotesque-inequality-greed-human-nature-capitalism">possible
for social structures to encourage and reward cooperation more, and
selfishness less, than the ones existing in the US and UK</a>.
<p>
Comparing the 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">free
software world</a> with the 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary/">proprietary software
world</a> demonstrates the same thing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Amnestys_Detekt_program)
title: Amnesty's Detekt program
uri: Amnesty-s-Detekt-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Amnestys_Detekt_program%29
content:
<p>
Amnesty's Detekt program may give a 
<a href="http://danielpocock.com/amnesty-detekt-false-sense-of-security">false
sense of security</a>.


title: Urgent: Protect Colorado wilderness
uri: Urgent-Protect-Colorado-wilderness
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_Colorado_wilderness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_Colorado_wilderness%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3625">call
for protecting</a> wilderness areas in Colorado from fracking.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Fossil_fuel_dangers_recognized)
title: Fossil fuel dangers recognized
uri: Fossil-fuel-dangers-recognized
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Fossil_fuel_dangers_recognized%29

content:
<p>
Obama's "climate change" envoy 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/25/todd-stern-fossil-fuels-ground-climate-change-obama">recognizes
that lots of fossil fuels have to be left in the ground</a>.
<p>
Now if Obama would only start doing so.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Dismissal_of_Defense_secretary)
title: Dismissal of "Defense" secretary
uri: Dismissal-of-Defense-secretary
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Dismissal_of_Defense_secretary%29

content:
<p>
Obama appears to have dismissed "Defense" secretary Hagel because
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/chuck-hagel-ouster-obama-widening-military-ambitions">Hagel
wasn't suited for Obama's war plans</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Societies_with_little_religion)
title: Societies with little religion
uri: Societies-with-little-religion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Societies_with_little_religion%29

content:
<p>
Societies with little religion 
<a href="http://www.atheistmedia.com/2008/10/phil-zuckerman-society-without-god.html">can
be quite good to live in</a>.
<p>
This does not prove that Atheism, by itself, will make a society good
to live in.  (It did not make the Soviet Union very good.)  But this
does show that religion isn't necessary for a society to be good to
live in.
<p>
Please <a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html">don't buy the book
from Amazon</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Psychological_harm_of_religions)
title: Psychological harm of religions
uri: Psychological-harm-of-religions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Psychological_harm_of_religions%29

content:
<p>
How religions cause 
<a href="http://valerietarico.com/2014/10/31/psychological-harms-of-christianity/">psychological
harm</a> to some (many?) believers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Humans_imitating_other_humans)
title: Humans imitating other humans
uri: Humans-imitating-other-humans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Humans_imitating_other_humans%29

content:
<p>
Great apes imitate fellow apes when there's an advantage in it, but
humans imitate other humans 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/11/children-will-change-behavior-thats-rewarded-in-order-to-conform/">even
for no reason</a>.
<p>
Human see, human do.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(US_drone_bombings)
title: US drone bombings
uri: US-drone-bombings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28US_drone_bombings%29
content:
<p>
US targeted 24 specific men in Pakistan with multiple drone bombings
each.  The bombings killed only 6 of them, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone-strikes-kill-1147">killed
868 other people including about 140 children</a>.
<p>
Some fraction of the other people killed may have been Taliban
soldiers, but clearly a large fraction were bystanders and relatives.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Atlantic_mackerel)
title: Atlantic mackerel
uri: Atlantic-mackerel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Atlantic_mackerel%29
content:
<p>
The Atlantic mackerel catch limit has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/24/atlantic-mackerel-catch-limits-slashed-by-25">reduced
25%</a>.  Since the fish stock is at quite a low level, I think it is
nuts to allow people to catch any of them.  To try to fine-tune catch
levels presumes more knowledge than we really have.  We should do
everything possible to give the fish a chance to bounce back; if they
do, then we can start catching them again, with luck much more of them
than now.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 26_November_2014_(Traumas_inflicted_on_Americans)
title: Traumas inflicted on Americans
uri: Traumas-inflicted-on-Americans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_November_2014_%28Traumas_inflicted_on_Americans%29

content:
<p>
The multiple traumas inflicted on Americans are 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/so-many-people-are-badly-traumatized-life-america-its-time-we-admit-it?paging=off">causing
a massive breakdown</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(HK_thugs_arrest_protest_leaders)
title: HK thugs arrest protest leaders
uri: HK-thugs-arrest-protest-leaders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28HK_thugs_arrest_protest_leaders%29

content:
<p>
Hong Kong thugs arrested 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/hong-kong-student-leaders-arrested-police-attempt-clear-protest-zone">two
of the main protest leaders</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Low-income_housing_in_London)
title: Low-income housing in London
uri: Low-income-housing-in-London
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Low-income_housing_in_London%29
content:
<p>
The new owners of low-income housing in London, who plan to evict the
poor to raise the rents, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/26/families-eviction-new-era-estate-westbrook-investor-4m-mansion">will
evade taxes on the increased income</a>.
<p>
I hope the victims organize physical resistance to the evictions, and
to further use of the building by the anonymous new owners.


title: Thugs commit 1/6 of killings in Utah
uri: Thugs-commit-1-6-of-killings-in-Utah
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Thugs_commit_one-sixth_of_killings_in_Utah)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Thugs_commit_one-sixth_of_killings_in_Utah%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/1842489-155/killings-by-utah-police-">1/6 of all killings in Utah</a> are committed by thugs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Russia_moving_to_annex_Abkhazia)
title: Russia moving to annex Abkhazia
uri: Russia-moving-to-annex-Abkhazia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Russia_moving_to_annex_Abkhazia%29

content:
<p>
Russia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/25/georgia-russia-abkhazia-military-agreement-putin">moving
to annex Abkhazia</a>, a breakaway part of Georgia.
<p>
It is not exactly comparable to the case of Crimea: the Abkhazians
rebelled on their own rather than experiencing a Russian invasion.
Still, to be ruled by Russia is to suffer tyranny.


title: Disabled UK children hungry and sick
uri: Disabled-UK-children-hungry-and-sick
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Disabled_UK_children_hungry_and_sick)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Disabled_UK_children_hungry_and_sick%29

content:
<p>
Welfare cuts in the UK are leaving disabled children hungry and sick,
and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/25/disabled-children-cuts-no-conscience-austerity">their
parents are in even worse state</a>.
<p>
But it's even worse in the US, where 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#20_November_2014_(Rise_in_homeless_children_in_US)">over
2 million children were homeless during 2013</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Texas-approved_textbooks)
title: Texas-approved textbooks
uri: Texas-approved-textbooks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Texas-approved_textbooks%29
content:
<p>
Texas approved textbooks which 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/texas-approves-textbooks-moses-honorary-founding-father?paging=off">list
Moses as one of the founding fathers of the USA</a>.  And other wacky
stuff.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Thugs_shoot_12-year-old_boy_dead)
title: Thugs shoot 12-year-old boy dead
uri: Thugs-shoot-12-year-old-boy-dead
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Thugs_shoot_12-year-old_boy_dead%29

content:
<p>
Thugs shot a 12-year-old boy dead when he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/25/cleveland-police-video-officer-shooting-boy-clear">tried
to pull a pellet gun on them</a>.
<p>
The orange "this is a toy" indicator had been removed, so it looked
real.  Thus, I can't criticize the thugs for this one.  I would not
take their word for what happened, but if the boy's family saw the
video and doesn't disagree, I suppose their story is true this time.


title: Opportunity to debate Obama's wars
uri: Opportunity-to-debate-Obama-s-wars
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Opportunity_to_debate_Obamas_wars)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Opportunity_to_debate_Obamas_wars%29

content:
<p>
Hagel's resignation should provide an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/24/hagels-departure-should-open-debate-obamas-wars">opportunity
to debate Obama's wars</a>.
<p>
The US mainstream media will, however, express no doubts.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(1.5C_of_global_heating_locked_in)
title: 1.5C of global heating locked in
uri: 1-5C-of-global-heating-locked-in
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%281.5C_of_global_heating_locked_in%29

content:
<p>
Human emissions have already 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/24/planet-already-unavoidable-course-warming-world-bank-report">locked
in 1.5C of global heating</a>, and the consequences will be
disastrous.  The question is how soon we stop making it worse.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Senate_torture_investigation)
title: Senate torture investigation
uri: Senate-torture-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Senate_torture_investigation%29
content:
<p>
The Senate torture investigators 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/24/senate-torture-investigation-fails-interview-key-torture-victims">did
not try to talk with prisoners in Guantanamo</a> about how they were
tortured.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(US_govt_secret_search_engine)
title: US gov't secret search engine
uri: US-gov-t-secret-search-engine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28US_govt_secret_search_engine%29
content:
<p>
The US government has a secret search engine to 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/25/icreach-nsa-cia-secret-google-crisscross-proton/">search
through the billions of records</a> of Americans' and other people's
communications.
<p>
The agencies that use this data pretend that they didn't use it and it
doesn't exist.  They are legally required to minimize their retention
of data about Americans, but they ignore that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Monsanto_PR_campaign)
title: Monsanto PR campaign
uri: Monsanto-PR-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Monsanto_PR_campaign%29
content:
<p>
Monsanto asks people to calm down and have a civil conversation about
GMOS, even as it 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/11/12672/monsanto-launches-new-pr-campaign-sues-maui-direct-democracy">sues
to overturn the laws passed by Vermont and Maui</a>.


title: Deforestation and the spread of Ebola
uri: Deforestation-and-the-spread-of-Ebola
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Deforestation_and_the_spread_of_Ebola)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Deforestation_and_the_spread_of_Ebola%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27504-deforestation-development-connected-to-spread-of-ebola-in-west-africa">Deforestation,
"Development" Connected to Spread of Ebola in West Africa</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(8000_Chinese_teachers_strike)
title: 8,000 Chinese teachers strike
uri: 8-000-Chinese-teachers-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%288000_Chinese_teachers_strike%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-21/in-china-8-000-teachers-go-on-strike">In
a Country Without Formal Unions, 8,000 Chinese Teachers Strike for
Higher Pay</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(No_shortage_of_US_tech_workers)
title: No shortage of US tech workers
uri: No-shortage-of-US-tech-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28No_shortage_of_US_tech_workers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-24/the-tech-worker-shortage-doesnt-really-exist">The
[US] Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Phony_scholarly_journals)
title: Phony "scholarly journals"
uri: Phony-scholarly-journals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Phony_scholarly_journals%29
content:
<p>
Phony "scholarly journals" 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/25/journal-accepts-paper-requesting-removal-from-mailing-list">will
accept any junk whatsoever for publication</a>.
<p>
I occasionally receive an invitation to register for a conference in
some foreign country.  Often the stated topic is human trafficking.  I
wonder whether these events really occur, people use them to take a
vacation and claim it's for a conference, or whether they only commit
credit card fraud.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Repression_of_Crimean_Tatars)
title: Repression of Crimean Tatars
uri: Repression-of-Crimean-Tatars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Repression_of_Crimean_Tatars%29
content:
<p>
Putin is carrying out stiff repression of Crimean Tatars, including
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/25/-sp-russia-crimean-tatars-soviet-ukraine">murder
of activists</a>.
<p>
The Tatars reject Russian rule of the Crimea but have not engaged in
violence.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Global_heating_denial)
title: Global heating denial
uri: 2014-11-27-Global-heating-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Global_heating_denial%29
content:
<p>
What global heating denial will look like 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/nov/25/climate-change-is-an-obvious-myth-how-much-more-evidence-do-you-need">in
100 years</a>, assuming civilization still exists.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Rasmea_Odeh)
title: Rasmea Odeh
uri: Rasmea-Odeh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Rasmea_Odeh%29
content:
<p>
Rasmea Odeh's lawyer calls for reconsideration of the verdict
that convicted her of concealing how she had been
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44706">framed
and tortured in Israel in 1967</a>.


title: Urgent: Fuel efficiency for trucks
uri: Urgent-Fuel-efficiency-for-trucks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Urgent:_Fuel_efficiency_for_trucks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Fuel_efficiency_for_trucks%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=GfZ0DXTdADp3fRm5AoNZ_A">call
on Obama</a> to require increases in fuel efficiency for trucks.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Urgent:_Prevent_racial_profiling)
title: Urgent: Prevent racial profiling
uri: Urgent-Prevent-racial-profiling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Prevent_racial_profiling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/DOJ-racial-profiling?emsrc=Nat_Appeal_AutologinEnabled&emissue=racialjustice&emtype=petition&ms=eml_141124_racialjustice&__spstate=full">call
for federal guidelines</a> to prevent racial profiling by state and
local thugs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Treaty_to_ban_cluster_bombs)
title: Treaty to ban cluster bombs
uri: Treaty-to-ban-cluster-bombs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Treaty_to_ban_cluster_bombs%29
content:
<p>
Although most countries have signed the treaty to ban cluster bombs,
Russia, China and the US have not, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/27/firms-invested-17bn-in-companies-making-cluster-bombs-report-says">many
banks and funds have invested in their production</a>.


title: Cost of gene modification treatment
uri: Cost-of-gene-modification-treatment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Cost_of_gene_modification_treatment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Cost_of_gene_modification_treatment%29

content:
<p>
A gene modification treatment for an obscure disease costs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/27/worlds-most-expensive-medicine-glybera-sale-1million-price">over
a million dollars per patient</a>.  What will happen to the poor?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(UK_spy_agencies_blame_Facebook)
title: UK spy agencies blame Facebook
uri: UK-spy-agencies-blame-Facebook
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28UK_spy_agencies_blame_Facebook%29

content:
<p>
The ham-fisted UK spy-on-all agencies are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/27/facebook-terror-war-tyranny-britain-fosters-fear-racism">blaming
Facebook as an excuse to get themselves off the hook for
incompetence</a> in detecting jihadists planning an attack; but the
real problem is the unjust interventions that make people so angry
they will kill.
<p>
It seems incorrect to call that attack "terrorism", because it was
aimed at a soldier, not at civilians.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Greek_economic_recovery)
title: Greek "economic recovery"
uri: Greek-economic-recovery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Greek_economic_recovery%29
content:
<p>
In the Greek "economic recovery", the state 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/27/is-the-greek-economy-improving">drains
people and schools to support banks that hardly lend money</a>.
<p>
I'd say it's an extractivist government of occupation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Warm_weather_in_autumn)
title: Warm weather in autumn
uri: Warm-weather-in-autumn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Warm_weather_in_autumn%29
content:
<p>
Warm weather in autumn 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/27/frogs-breeding-in-november-due-to-mild-weather">leads
some frogs to breed now</a> rather than in spring.  But it is a risky
bet.


title: Turkey bans reporting on corruption
uri: Turkey-bans-reporting-on-corruption
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Turkey_bans_reporting_on_corruption)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Turkey_bans_reporting_on_corruption%29

content:
<p>
Turkey has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/turkey-court-ruling-gagging-ban-reporting-corruption">banned
reporting about the investigation</a> of corruption accusations
against members of the government.
<p>
Erdogan 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#19_October_2014_(Corruption_charges_in_Turkey)">dismissed
the prosecutors that brought the accusations long ago</a>.


title: Fixing the racist system in the US
uri: Fixing-the-racist-system-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Fixing_the_racist_system_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Fixing_the_racist_system_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/26/justice-mike-brown-jesse-jackson-ferguson-protests">Suggestions</a>
for fixing the racist system that leads to killing so many black
people in the US.


title: Persecution of protesters in Mexico
uri: Persecution-of-protesters-in-Mexico
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Persecution_of_protesters_in_Mexico)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Persecution_of_protesters_in_Mexico%29

content:
<p>
It appears Mexican thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/25/mexican-authorities-accused-of-persecuting-peaceful-protesters">arrested
protesters more or less at random and charged them with attempted
murder</a>.
<p>
This is in addition to attacking other protesters.
<p>
The conduct of the thugs so far has already demonstrated that
protesters have plenty to worry about (including being murdered like
the 43 students that all this started with).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(The_current_Canadian_govt)
title: The current Canadian gov't
uri: The-current-Canadian-gov-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28The_current_Canadian_govt%29
content:
<p>
US Republicans 
<a href="http://whatsupic.com/special-canada/canada%E2%80%99s-quiet-coup.html">enabled
the current Canadian government to gain power</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Ferguson_verdict)
title: Ferguson verdict
uri: Ferguson-verdict
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Ferguson_verdict%29
content:
<p>
Ferguson, goddamn: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/24/ferguson-no-indictment-darren-wilson-protest">No
indictment for Darren Wilson is no surprise</a>.  This is why we
protest.
<p>
The law may have spoken but the Ferguson verdict is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/25/law-ferguson-verdict-not-justice-darren-wilson">not
justice</a>.


title: Australian whistleblower not charged
uri: Australian-whistleblower-not-charged
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Australian_whistleblower_not_charged)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Australian_whistleblower_not_charged%29

content:
<p>
The Australian whistleblower who leaked a report about an apparently
corrupt scholarship given to Prime Minister Abbott's daughter 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/25/freya-newman-no-conviction-recorded-over-leak-of-frances-abbott-scholarship">will
not face charges</a>, but still seems to face more criticism than the
parties apparently involved in the corrupt proceedings (the school and
the prime minister).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(New_scam_by_Facebook)
title: New scam by Facebook
uri: New-scam-by-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28New_scam_by_Facebook%29
content:
<p>
How did Mari Sherkin end up on a dating site unwillingly?  Through a
new scam by Facebook: it pops up windows showing other companies'
sites, which then 
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/facebook-info-sharing-created-zoosk-com-dating-profile-for-married-woman-1.2844953">trick
Facebook useds into "agreeing" to let those companies get their
personal data from Facebook</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Regin)
title: Regin
uri: Regin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Regin%29
content:
<p>
The extremely sophisticated cracking software referred to as "Regin",
used to attack computers in many countries including Belgium, seems
related to Stuxnet which ties it to the US and UK.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Term_limits)
title: Term limits
uri: Term-limits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Term_limits%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/11/are-term-limits-good-idea">Arguing
against term limits</a> on elected officials.
<p>
I have always opposed term limits for legislators.


title: Global heating will endanger honeybees
uri: Global-heating-will-endanger-honeybees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 27_November_2014_(Global_heating_will_endanger_honeybees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#27_November_2014_%28Global_heating_will_endanger_honeybees%29

content:
<p>
Global heating will endanger honeybees 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/26/bee-parasite-will-flourish-under-global-warming-study-warns">by
helping a parasite</a>.


title: Urgent: Defend the right to protest
uri: Urgent-Defend-the-right-to-protest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Urgent:_Defend_the_right_to_protest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Defend_the_right_to_protest%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/mike_brown_decision?t=1002">call
on Holder</a> to give justice for Michael Brown and to defend the
right to protest.


title: Urgent: Stricter carbon emission standards
uri: Urgent-Stricter-carbon-emission-standards
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Urgent:_Stricter_carbon_emission_standards)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stricter_carbon_emission_standards%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/letter/carbon_existing/">call for
stricter carbon emission standards</a> for existing power plants.


title: Urgent: Justice for Michael Brown
uri: Urgent-Justice-for-Michael-Brown
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Urgent:_Justice_for_Michael_Brown)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Justice_for_Michael_Brown%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/justicemikebrownforward/">Call
on Obama</a> to give justice for Michael Brown.


title: Oregon referendum on labeling GMOs
uri: Oregon-referendum-on-labeling-GMOs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Oregon_referendum_on_labeling_GMOs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Oregon_referendum_on_labeling_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
The Oregon referendum on labeling GMOs came out so close
that it
<a href="http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/3586/oregon-ge-labeling-vote-heads-to-a-recount">requires
a recount</a>.


title: Civil disobedience against oil pipeline
uri: Civil-disobedience-against-oil-pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Civil_disobedience_against_oil_pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Civil_disobedience_against_oil_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
Canadian scientist Alfredo Frid explained
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/25/protesting-burnaby-mountain-was-my-obligation-scientist-parent-and-canadian-citizen">why
he joined in civil disobedience</a> against an oil pipeline.
<p>
Frid is mistaken when he accuses the Canadian of "inaction" on
"climate change".  The Canadian government is a strong supporter of
global heating and takes many kinds of actions to speed it up,
including
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#29_February_2012_(Political_Science)">gagging
scientists</a> and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#11_July_2012_(Canadian_scientists_will_march)">shutting
down research projects that can monitor heating</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Ferguson_thugs_clamp_down_hard)
title: Ferguson thugs clamp down hard
uri: Ferguson-thugs-clamp-down-hard
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Ferguson_thugs_clamp_down_hard%29

content:
<p>
The thugs
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/26/ferguson-missouri-calm-police-protest-violence">clamped
down hard on protesters</a> in Ferguson.
<p>
One thug begged people not to burn down their city.  Considered by
normal standards it is foolish for people to burn down their own city,
but then, if they had normal lives and considered normal standards
applicable, they wouldn't want to do so.
<p>
The killings of blacks around the US is the extreme manifestation of a
racist system that
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/25/response-ferguson-systemic-problems-require-systemic-solutions">needs
systemic change</a>.
<p>
Of course, the system in the US oppresses whites plenty as well;
just not as much on the average.


title: Obama plans more US troops in Afghanistan
uri: Obama-plans-more-US-troops-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Obama_plans_more_US_troops_in_Afghanistan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Obama_plans_more_US_troops_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
Obama is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/25/legacy-war-obama-quietly-hiking-us-troop-numbers-afghanistan">planning
to send some more US troops</a> to Afghanistan.
<p>
The US can never actually lose the war in Afghanistan, but it can't
win either, and continuing the fight means continuing the suffering
of Afghans and the expense and militarization of the US.
<p>
The resumption of night raids will increase the suffering.
<p>
I don't think war is justified under these circumstances.


title: Venezuelan opposition politician faces charges
uri: Venezuelan-opposition-politician-faces-charges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Venezuelan_opposition_politician_faces_charges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Venezuelan_opposition_politician_faces_charges%29

content:
<p>
A Venezuelan opposition politician faces charges of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/27/nicolas-maduro-plot-maria-corina-machado-charged">organizing
to kill President Maduro</a>.
<p>
This is not an absurd accusation, given that the opposition launched a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2003-nov-feb.html#25%20November%202003%20(Amnesty%20International)">coup
attempt against Chavez a decade ago</a>, organized by
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-may-aug.html#01%20July%202004%20(Venezuela)">the
US</a>.
<p>
However, it could also be stretching the facts.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Records_of_who_talks_to_whom)
title: Records of who talks to whom
uri: Records-of-who-talks-to-whom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Records_of_who_talks_to_whom%29
content:
<p>
A UN committee's resolution against massive surveillance left out
the crucial issue of recording
<a href="http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKKCN0J92I520141125?irpc=932">who
talks with whom</a>.
<p>
Records of who talks with whom are absolutely crucial.  Whistleblower
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_September_2013_(Convicted_of_giving_information_to_journalists)">Donald
Sachtleben</a> is in prison because the US government exhaustively
studied the phone records of dozens of journalists from the Associated
Press.
<p>
The UK asked Vodaphone for the phone records of one journalist, so
Vodaphone handed over the
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/26/met_police_we_need_a_phone_record_vodafone_take_the_whole_database/">phone
records of everyone at the same newspaper</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Handouts_to_banks)
title: Handouts to banks
uri: Handouts-to-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Handouts_to_banks%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/26/eu-cash-bomb-recession-juncker-new-fund">We
Should Cash-Bomb the People — Not the Banks</a>.
<p>
On the other hand, if officials' goal is to help billionaires,
not the rest, handouts to banks make perfect sense.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(20000_missing_people_in_Mexico)
title: 20,000 missing people in Mexico
uri: 20-000-missing-people-in-Mexico
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%2820000_missing_people_in_Mexico%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/mexico-missing-students-thousands-vanished-grave-diggers">Mexico's
Missing Students Draw Attention to 20,000 'Vanished' Others</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Drop_in_deforestation_in_Brazil)
title: Drop in deforestation in Brazil
uri: Drop-in-deforestation-in-Brazil
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Drop_in_deforestation_in_Brazil%29

content:
<p>
Deforestation in Brazil has become
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/26/deforestation-drop-brazil-amazon">substantially
less this year</a>.
<p>
It is not clear why.


title: Teenage protesters sentenced to prison
uri: Teenage-protesters-sentenced-to-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Teenage_protesters_sentenced_to_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Teenage_protesters_sentenced_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
In Egypt 78 teenagers were sentenced to prison
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/egyptian-court-sentences-78-children-to-jail-for-protesting">for
protesting for Morsi</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(CO2_emissions_from_ships)
title: CO2 emissions from ships
uri: CO2-emissions-from-ships
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28CO2_emissions_from_ships%29
content:
<p>
The EU has taken a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/26/ships-must-measure-co2-emissions-under-new-eu-law">feeble
first step towards controlling CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from
ships</a>, but it won't even start until 2018.
<p>
Charging a fee for emissions would cover this naturally; shipping any
load by air or sea should be charged for the emissions involved.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Factions_fighting_over_Libya)
title: Factions fighting over Libya
uri: Factions-fighting-over-Libya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Factions_fighting_over_Libya%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/libyan-prime-minister-bombing-air-strikes-tripoli-libya-dawn">Three
(or more) factions</a> are now fighting over Libya.
<p>
I am not sure whether there is a basis to prefer any one of them to
the rest.


title: Islamist fanatics kill polio vaccinators
uri: Islamist-fanatics-kill-polio-vaccinators
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Islamist_fanatics_kill_polio_vaccinators)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Islamist_fanatics_kill_polio_vaccinators%29

content:
<p>
Islamist fanatics
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/gunmen-kill-polio-workers-pakistan">killed
two polio vaccinators</a> in Pakistan.
<p>
This is an extreme example of the harm religion does to society.


title: UK thugs distributing fear propaganda
uri: UK-thugs-distributing-fear-propaganda
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(UK_thugs_distributing_fear_propaganda)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28UK_thugs_distributing_fear_propaganda%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs are distributing
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/26/police-leaflets-advise-run-hide-tell-terrorist-attack">fear
propaganda</a> which will aid their campaign for
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#18_June_2012_(Urgent:_In_The_UK)">further
surveillance and censorship</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Human_overpopulation)
title: Human overpopulation
uri: Human-overpopulation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Human_overpopulation%29
content:
<p>
Human overpopulation is leading to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/26/leopards-mumbai-life-death-living-ghosts-sgnp">increasing
human incursion into a national park</a> in Mumbai.


title: Weakening inspection rules for farm animals
uri: Weakening-inspection-rules-for-farm-animals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_November_2014_(Weakening_inspection_rules_for_farm_animals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_November_2014_%28Weakening_inspection_rules_for_farm_animals%29

content:
<p>
The UK government wants to follow the US in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/25/ministers-considering-cuts-to-farm-checks-for-avian-flu-and-other-diseases">weakening
the inspection rules for farm animals</a>.
<p>
This would save money for companies in ordinary operation
and make some rare big dangers more likely.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_November_2014_(Judge_rejects_DNA_testing)
title: Judge rejects DNA testing
uri: Judge-rejects-DNA-testing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_November_2014_%28Judge_rejects_DNA_testing%29
content:
<p>
A judge rejected DNA testing that 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=9186">might support
Rodney Reed's claim he is innocent of murder</a>.  The judge would
rather kill a man than recognize doubt in a past verdict.
<p>
The death penalty is inherently wrong, because it can't be undone when
evidence shows the convicted person was innocent.  And 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#14_August_2011_(Truth_About_Lethal_Injection)">other
reasons too</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Jail_Term_for_Blasphemy)
title: Jail Term for Blasphemy
uri: Jail-Term-for-Blasphemy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Jail_Term_for_Blasphemy%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan's Geo News to Appeal against
Owner's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/pakistan-geo-news-appeal-owner-jail-term-blasphemy">26-Year
Jail Term for Blasphemy</a>.
<p>
Two people in the Indian film industry were sentenced
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/27/bollywood-veena-malik-sentenced-26-years-jail-religious-blasphemy-wedding">26
years for "blasphemy" consisting of having a religious song playing
during a wedding scene</a>.
<p>
Pakistan should beg the world forgiveness for censoring criticism of
religion, but in the second case it wasn't even criticism.
<p>
India
is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#6_July_2012_%28Delhi_Police%29">not
very good in this department either</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Railroad_Privatization_in_UK)
title: Railroad Privatization in UK
uri: Railroad-Privatization-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Railroad_Privatization_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
One railroad line in the UK was run by the state, and was run so well
that
it <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/27/privatising-east-coast-rail-rip-off">became
an embarrassment to right-wing politicians</a> who insist on
privatization.
<p>
Privatization of the railroads in the UK has been a rip-off.  They
should all be renationalized.


title: Plans to protect forests and peatlands
uri: Plans-to-protect-forests-and-peatlands
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Plans_to_protect_forests_and_peatlands)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Plans_to_protect_forests_and_peatlands%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia's
president <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/27/indonesia-cracks-down-on-deforestation-symbolic-u-turn">proposes
plans to protect forests and peatlands</a>.


title: The Five Leaders Who Failed Ferguson
uri: The-Five-Leaders-Who-Failed-Ferguson
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(The_Five_Leaders_Who_Failed_Ferguson)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28The_Five_Leaders_Who_Failed_Ferguson%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/27/ferguson-five-leaders-failed-michael-brown">Five
Leaders Who Failed Ferguson</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(UK_tory_leader_lost_libel_suit)
title: UK tory leader lost libel suit
uri: UK-tory-leader-lost-libel-suit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28UK_tory_leader_lost_libel_suit%29

content:
<p>
A former UK tory
leader <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/27/andrew-mitchell-plebgate-gamble-career-fails">lost
his libel suit</a>: the judge believed the thug who said the
politician called him a "pleb".
<p>
The judge said that the thug didn't have enough imagination to have
made this up,
but <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#07_February_2013_%28Testilying_thugs%29">lying
in court, for a thug, is not the stretch it would be for you or
me</a>.
<p>
I can't find either of them credible enough to believe.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Nuclear_weapons)
title: Nuclear weapons
uri: 2014-11-30-Nuclear-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Nuclear_weapons%29
content:
<p>
Nuclear weapons can be detonated by accidents and rebellions, making
them so
dangerous <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/27/nuclear-weapons-near-misses-iran-bomb-peace">we
need to eliminate them all</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Ransoming_hostages_from_PISSI)
title: Ransoming hostages from PISSI
uri: Ransoming-hostages-from-PISSI
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Ransoming_hostages_from_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
Refusing to ransoming hostages from PISSI, so that they got beheaded
for propaganda instead, may have done the US and
UK <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/25/hostage-takers-us-uk-war-obama-and-cameron">more
harm than ransoming would have done</a>.


title: US public schools charge students for lunch
uri: US-public-schools-charge-students-for-lunch
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(US_public_schools_charge_students_for_lunch)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28US_public_schools_charge_students_for_lunch%29

content:
<p>
US public schools are so poorly supported that they charge students
for lunch,
and <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/education/2014/11/22/3596022/school-lunch-denied/">when
students' parents have not paid, they go hungry</a>.  Some students
receive lunch gratis, but they are treated as objects of scorn.
<p>
When I was a child, the public school gave all students lunch.
<p>
Meanwhile, it seems to me that rejecting the idea that the poor
deserve to be looked down on is one important lesson for schools to
teach.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_November_2014_(Indian_rich)
title: Indian rich
uri: Indian-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_November_2014_%28Indian_rich%29
content:
<p>
Indian rich fritter away millions on
frivolities, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/28/mumbai-wealthy-elite-extremes-bollywood-parties-super-rich">displaying
contempt for the rest of society</a>.


title: Urgent: Reduce power plant CO2 emissions
uri: Urgent-Reduce-power-plant-CO2-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Urgent:_Reduce_power_plant_CO2_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reduce_power_plant_CO2_emissions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/letter/carbon_existing/">call 
on the EPA</a> to push harder and faster to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> 
emissions from power plants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Women_fighting_global_heating)
title: Women fighting global heating
uri: Women-fighting-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Women_fighting_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/nov/28/cop21-women-climate-change-frontline-small-grants-mama-aleta-baun-west-timor">Women
on Climate Change Frontline Make Big Impact on Small Grants</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Olive_production_devastated)
title: Olive production devastated
uri: Olive-production-devastated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Olive_production_devastated%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/11/looming-olive-oil-apocalypse">Weather</a>
has devastated olive production in many countries.
<p>
Specific occurrences of these kinds of bad weather are random, but our
global heating activities are making them more frequent.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(UK_poultry_contamination)
title: UK poultry contamination
uri: UK-poultry-contamination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28UK_poultry_contamination%29
content:
<p>
Most poultry in the UK is contaminated with
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/27/chicken-contamination-public-should-stop-buying-poultry">potentially
fatal bacteria</a>, and the UK government is failing to tackle the
problem.
<p>
Instead it is considering an industry proposal to cut inspections.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Censorship_threats_in_India)
title: Censorship threats in India
uri: Censorship-threats-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Censorship_threats_in_India%29
content:
<p>
An Indian version of Hamlet faces
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/27/hamlet-remake-provokes-outcry-india-something-rotten-in-state">censorship
threats</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Thugs_beat_up_HK_protest_leaders)
title: Thugs beat up HK protest leaders
uri: Thugs-beat-up-HK-protest-leaders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Thugs_beat_up_HK_protest_leaders%29

content:
<p>
Thugs beat up Hong Kong protest leaders
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/27/hong-kong-student-leader-police-arrest-joshua-wong-protest">after
arresting them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(EU_trying_to_limit_Google_search)
title: EU trying to limit Google search
uri: EU-trying-to-limit-Google-search
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28EU_trying_to_limit_Google_search%29

content:
<p>
The European Union is trying to impose
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/27/eu-to-google-expand-right-to-be-forgotten-to-googlecom">the
right to have articles dropped from searches for your name on Google
world-wide</a>.
<p>
I don't think this particular requirement is a big deal, but it is
dangerous for any country to have the power to limit search engines
world wide.


title: Totalitarianism predicted by Dostoevski
uri: Totalitarianism-predicted-by-Dostoevski
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Totalitarianism_predicted_by_Dostoevski)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Totalitarianism_predicted_by_Dostoevski%29

content:
<p>
Dostoevski predicted the totalitarianism that can occur
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30129713">when people
abandon individual morality by going to any lengths to fight for some
cause</a>.
<p>
It is a mistake, however, to equate morality with religion.
<p>
The problem he presents is not in having ideals, not as such, but in
approaching them with the assumption that they justify any means
whatsoever.


title: Responding to religious fundamentalism
uri: Responding-to-religious-fundamentalism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Responding_to_religious_fundamentalism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Responding_to_religious_fundamentalism%29

content:
<p>
Pope Francis, visiting Turkey, calls for responding to religious
fundamentalism
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/28/tackle-poverty-to-combat-fundamentalism-urges-pope-francis">helping
the poor and marginalized</a>.
<p>
It seems that he and I agree on political issues, except for those
related to sex and reproduction.


title: Threatened for studying Tibetan language
uri: Threatened-for-studying-Tibetan-language
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Threatened_for_studying_Tibetan_language)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Threatened_for_studying_Tibetan_language%29

content:
<p>
A Chinese
official <a href="http://freetibet.org/news-media/na/chinese-officials-speech-angers-tibetan-students">threatened
Tibetan students with punishment later if they study the Tibetan
language</a>.
<p>
Some of China's methods
of <a href="http://freetibet.org/news-media/na/success-youtube-removes-fake-china-accounts">spreading
propaganda about Tibet</a>.


title: Balloon-Suspended cameras over Jerusalem
uri: Balloon-Suspended-cameras-over-Jerusalem
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Balloon-Suspended_cameras_over_Jerusalem)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Balloon-Suspended_cameras_over_Jerusalem%29

content:
<p>
Israel
deploys <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4596708,00.html">balloon-suspended
cameras over Jerusalem</a> which can track all protesters, and
everyone else too.


title: Arrested after pointing a banana at a thug
uri: Arrested-after-pointing-a-banana-at-a-thug
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Arrested_after_pointing_a_banana_at_a_thug)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Arrested_after_pointing_a_banana_at_a_thug%29

content:
<p>
A man in the US
was <a href="http://kdvr.com/2014/11/25/man-arrested-for-pointing-banana-at-deputies-near-grand-junction/">arrested
after pointing a banana at a thug as if it were a weapon</a>.
<p>
It is foolish to pretend to threaten armed people with a gun, even if
it without anything that looks much like a gun.  If he had succeeded
in fooling them, they couldn't be blamed for shooting him in perceived
self-defense.
<p>
However, once they knew it was a banana, they also knew it was never
seriously meant as a threat.  Thus, it was wrong for them to arrest
and charge the man with threatening anyone.  Mere folly should not be
treated as a crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Slave_labor_in_UK)
title: Slave labor in UK
uri: Slave-labor-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Slave_labor_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
A study estimates
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/29/13000-slaves-uk-four-times-higher-previously-thought">over
10,000 people in the UK are in slave labor</a>.
<p>
In general, the estimates for numbers of slave laborers in various
countries
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/nov/28/global-slavery-index-walk-free-human-trafficking-anne-gallagher">include
a lot of guesswork</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Exit_International)
title: Exit International
uri: Exit-International
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Exit_International%29
content:
<p>
Exit
International <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/29/i-helped-my-best-friend-to-die-euthanasia">teaches
how to commit suicide painlessly</a>.  People flock to learn this in
case they will need it later.
<p>
I think everyone should have the right to commit suicide, though it
makes sense to impose a waiting period and to treat people for
depression if that's the root of their wish to die.
<p>
Death is unfair; that people must die is a fundamental injustice in
the universe (though there is no one to blame for it).  But when life
is so horrible that even death is better, forcing the person to go on
living is a kind of torture.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Botched_executions)
title: Botched executions
uri: Botched-executions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Botched_executions%29
content:
<p>
Ohio has been embarrassed by a series of botched executions, so now
Republicans plan
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/29/ohio-republicans-law-details-executions-secret">block
even courts from investigating how they are carried out</a>.


title: Thug in Ferguson shot at a woman in a car
uri: Thug-in-Ferguson-shot-at-a-woman-in-a-car
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Thug_in_Ferguson_shot_at_a_woman_in_a_car)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Thug_in_Ferguson_shot_at_a_woman_in_a_car%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/29/ferguson-police-woman-blinded-one-eye">thug
in Ferguson shot at a woman in a car</a>, causing her to lose an eye.


title: Urgent: Stand with Elizabeth Warren
uri: Urgent-Stand-with-Elizabeth-Warren
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Urgent:_Stand_with_Elizabeth_Warren)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stand_with_Elizabeth_Warren%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: stand with Elizabeth Warren
in <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/weiss_treasury">rejecting
bankster Antonio Weiss as an official of the US Treasury</a>.


title: Peaceful protests closed shopping malls
uri: Peaceful-protests-closed-shopping-malls
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(Peaceful_protests_closed_shopping_malls)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28Peaceful_protests_closed_shopping_malls%29

content:
<p>
Peaceful
protests <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/29/15-arrested-ferguson-black-friday-protests">closed
shopping malls around Ferguson on Fools' Friday</a>, and other
activities around the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_November_2014_(E-Cigarettes)
title: E-Cigarettes
uri: E-Cigarettes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_November_2014_%28E-Cigarettes%29
content:
<p>
Some
e-cigarettes <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/28/japan-e-cigarette-safety">contain
a lot of formaldehyde</a>, which is carcinogenic.
<p>
I suggest that they should be sold like tobacco itself: to adults but
not to minors.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Urgent:_Lima_negotiations)
title: Urgent: Lima negotiations
uri: Urgent-Lima-negotiations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Lima_negotiations%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=14735">call
on the US</a> to stand for strong measures to curb global heating in
the Lima negotiations.
<p>
In my message, I used the term "global heating" to underline how
serious the danger is, rather than the denialists' term 
<a href="http://blog.oregonlive.com/myoregon/2010/02/letters_global_warming_bpa_amt.html">"climate
change"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Michael_Browns_killer_quits)
title: Michael Brown's killer quits
uri: Michael-Brown-s-killer-quits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Michael_Browns_killer_quits%29
content:
<p>
Michael Brown's killer 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/30/michael-brown-shooting-ferguson-police-officer-resigns">quit
the Ferguson thug department</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Black_Friday_buying_fever)
title: Black Friday buying fever
uri: Black-Friday-buying-fever
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Black_Friday_buying_fever%29
content:
<p>
The buying fever on Black Friday is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/30/black-friday-shopping-frenzy-shameful">disgrace
to society</a>, as well as a distraction from more important
things.
<p>
The people who do it don't understand how pathetic their obsession
with appliances is.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(PISSI)
title: PISSI
uri: 2014-12-02-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28PISSI%29
content:
<p>
According to reports smuggled out of Raqqa, PISSI lords it over
the inhabitants like an occupying army, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/30/raqqa-isis-capital-crucifixions-civilians-suffer-jihadis-red-bull">doesn't
bother defending them from Assad's bombers when they attack civilian
areas</a>.
<p>
If this is accurate (it could be an exaggeration), it would be easy to
get people's help in pushing PISSI out, if only there were a decent
alternative on offer.  But 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_November_2014_(Things_getting_worse_in_Syria)">there
isn't</a>.
<p>
I wonder why Assad continues making them hate him.
<p>
Note: PISSI is the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_September_2014_(PISSI)">Pseudo-Islamic
State in Syria and Iraq</a>.


title: Charges against Mubarak dismissed
uri: Charges-against-Mubarak-dismissed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Charges_against_Mubarak_dismissed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Charges_against_Mubarak_dismissed%29

content:
<p>
Murder and corruption charges against Mubarak and some of his henchmen 
were dismissed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/30/cairo-court-clears-mubarak">in
an arbitrary way</a>.
<p>
With the supporters of democracy and human rights under total
repression, I guess al-Sisi doesn't need to pretend to hold the
previous military ruler accountable for anything.


title: Italy trying to weaken net neutrality
uri: Italy-trying-to-weaken-net-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Italy_trying_to_weaken_net_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Italy_trying_to_weaken_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
Italy
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/27/european-commission-net-neutrality">trying
to weaken EU standards</a> for network neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Brazils_Javari_Valley_threatened)
title: Brazil's Javari Valley threatened
uri: Brazil-s-Javari-Valley-threatened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Brazils_Javari_Valley_threatened%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/nov/28/brazil-javari-valley-threatened-peruvian-oil-tribes">Brazil's
Javari Valley Threatened by Peruvian Oil, Warn Tribes</a>.
<p>
The Peruvian president, Ollanta Humala, gave an impression of being
vaguely leftist, but this does not seem to be very much the case.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(The_harm_done_by_fracking)
title: The harm done by fracking
uri: The-harm-done-by-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28The_harm_done_by_fracking%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/28/fracking-risk-compared-to-thalidomide-and-asbestos-in-walport-report">harm
done by fracking</a> could be comparable to that of thalidomide,
tobacco or asbestos.


title: Legal excuse used to spy on citizens
uri: Legal-excuse-used-to-spy-on-citizens
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Legal_excuse_used_to_spy_on_citizens)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Legal_excuse_used_to_spy_on_citizens%29

content:
<p>
The Germany spy agency came up with a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/29/german-loophole-allows-bnd-agency-spy-own-people">tricky
legal excuse</a> to spy on the communications of some Germans.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Automatic_face_recognition)
title: Automatic face recognition
uri: Automatic-face-recognition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Automatic_face_recognition%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/bar-code.html">Your Face
Is Not a Bar Code: Arguments Against Automatic Face Recognition in
Public Places</a>.
<p>
This article is as valid as when it was written a decade ago.
However, I must disagree with one point in the article: fear of
terrorists is not justifiable for Americans in general.  The danger of
terrorism in the US is so tiny that it is foolish to worry about it,
unless you're one of the small fraction who has a job to do to prevent
it.


title: "Fusion center" monitors protesters
uri: Fusion-center-monitors-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Fusion_center_monitors_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Fusion_center_monitors_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The Massachusetts "fusion center", created to try to find
"terrorists", was 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1603">used to monitor Black
Lives Matter protesters</a> in Boston last week.


title: Brock proposes to work for Clinton
uri: Brock-proposes-to-work-for-Clinton
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Brock_proposes_to_work_for_Clinton)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Brock_proposes_to_work_for_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
David Brock used to get Republicans elected; now he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/29/david-brock-former-republican-hitman-hillary-clinton">proposes
to work for Ms Clinton</a>, who is almost a Republican.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Mainstream_media_propaganda)
title: Mainstream media propaganda
uri: Mainstream-media-propaganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Mainstream_media_propaganda%29
content:
<p>
An example shows how mainstream media propaganda for Wall Street works:
by 
<a href="http://fair.org/blog/2014/11/26/nyt-columnists-faulty-attack-on-elizabeth-warrens-rage/">grossly
misrepresenting what progressives said</a>.
<p>
And it handles the issue of the Keystone XL pipeline by 
<a href="http://fair.org/blog/2014/11/24/nbcs-energy-debate-oil-exec-vs-oil-industry-adviser/">presenting
a "debate" between two associates of the oil industry</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Protesters_shot_by_thugs)
title: Protesters shot by thugs
uri: Protesters-shot-by-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Protesters_shot_by_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Haitian thugs 
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/protesters-wounded-gunfire-northeast-haiti-27224536">shot
and wounded protesters</a> who want the US-supported sweatshop next to
their town to provide them with electricity.


title: Activists charged with fictitious acts
uri: Activists-charged-with-fictitious-acts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Activists_charged_with_fictitious_acts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Activists_charged_with_fictitious_acts%29

content:
<p>
Chinese activists are being tried for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/29/chinese-rights-activist-denies-public-disorder-charges-trial">fictitious
acts of "disorder"</a>.


title: UK women left vulnerable unless they pay
uri: UK-women-left-vulnerable-unless-they-pay
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(UK_women_left_vulnerable_unless_they_pay)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28UK_women_left_vulnerable_unless_they_pay%29

content:
<p>
The UK legal system leaves many women 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/29/how-uk-legal-system-failing-domestic-violence-victims">vulnerable
to their ex-abusers who are released from prison</a>, unless they have
extra money to spend.
<p>
Of course, women in that position tend to be short of money.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(Racism_and_its_effects_in_the_US)
title: Racism and its effects in the US
uri: Racism-and-its-effects-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28Racism_and_its_effects_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The US needs to seriously address the question of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/29/america-race-conversation-ferguson-commission">racism
and its effects</a>.
<p>
Practical racism interacts with the growing inequality of wealth.
With ever more Americans poor, groups that are targets of prejudice
will tend to get poor first.


title: UN human rights report reproves the US
uri: UN-human-rights-report-reproves-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_December_2014_(UN_human_rights_report_reproves_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_December_2014_%28UN_human_rights_report_reproves_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The UN human rights report reproved the US for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/nov/28/un-condemns-sleep-deprivation-among-us-detainees">imposing
sleep deprivation on prisoners</a>.


title: Chicago's schools lost 100 million dollars
uri: Chicago-s-schools-lost-100-million-dollars
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_December_2014_(Chicago's_schools_lost_100_million_dollars)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_December_2014_%28Chicago%27s_schools_lost_100_million_dollars%29

content:
<p>
Chicago's
schools <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/11/chicago-public-schools-100-million-swaps-debacle-demonstrates-high-cost-high-finance.html">lost
100 million dollars after banksters led them into a tricky financial
scheme</a>, telling them not to worry about the fine print.
<p>
The crucial point is that banksters had shortly before procured a
state law to permit this sort of scheme.  That's the way they work.
All the "financial deregulation" laws of the past 20 years should
simply be repealed.


title: Homelessness and destitution are becoming normal in UK
uri: Homelessness-and-destitution-are-becoming-normal-in-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_December_2014_(Homelessness_and_destitution_are_becoming_normal_in_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_December_2014_%28Homelessness_and_destitution_are_becoming_normal_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
In the
UK, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/01/poverty-deadly-evidence-austerity-britain">homelessness
and destitution are becoming normal</a>: people are starting to accept
it as a permanent state of affairs which need not be corrected.
<p>
The same happened in the US in the 1980s; it is part of Reagan's
legacy.


