# articles

feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(A_gods_sadism)
title: A god's sadism
uri: A-god-s-sadism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28A_gods_sadism%29
content:
<p>
Devout Muslims want their brain-damaged father, who has more or less
ceased to be conscious, kept alive with heroic measures so he can
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/nov/13/family-muslim-lose-right-to-life-case-god">suffer</a>.
<p>
They say that suffering brings him "closer to god".  I guess that god
is a sadist — which would fit the amount of suffering in the
world.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Corporate_America_s_New_Scam)
title: Corporate America's New Scam
uri: Corporate-America-s-New-Scam
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Corporate_America_s_New_Scam%29
content:
<p>
Corporate America's New
Scam: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/13-2">Industry
P.R. Firm Poses as Think Tank!</a>


title: US is bullying UK to conceal Dubya's discussions with B'liar
uri: US-is-bullying-UK-to-conceal-Dubya-s-discussions-with-B-liar
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(US_is_bullying_UK_to_conceal_Dubya's_discussions_with_B'liar)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28US_is_bullying_UK_to_conceal_Dubya%27s_discussions_with_B%27liar%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/14-3">US is
bullying the UK to conceal Dubya's discussions with B'liar</a>, which
would indicate how much B'liar shared responsibility for the invasion
and occupation of Iraq.


title: Watch the World's Forests Disappear on Google Earth
uri: Watch-the-World-s-Forests-Disappear-on-Google-Earth
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Watch_the_World's_Forests_Disappear_on_Google_Earth)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Watch_the_World%27s_Forests_Disappear_on_Google_Earth%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/11/watch-mapping-deforestation-google-earth">Watch
the World's Forests Disappear on Google Earth.</a>
<p>
If you are thinking of trying to use Google Earth yourself,
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">be sure
to disable Javascript first,</a> or
install <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/">LibreJS.</a>
If a site doesn't work with LibreJS enabled, you should not use it.


title: Urgent: Support the Drone Strike Transparency bill
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Drone-Strike-Transparency-bill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Urgent:_Support_the_Drone_Strike_Transparency_bill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Drone_Strike_Transparency_bill%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/pass-the-drone-strike?source=c.fwd&r_by=1135580">support
the Drone Strike Transparency bill.</a>


title: The EFF and other opponents of TPP challenged NSA
uri: The-EFF-and-other-opponents-of-TPP-challenged-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(The_EFF_and_other_opponents_of_TPP_challenged_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28The_EFF_and_other_opponents_of_TPP_challenged_NSA%29

content:
<p>
The EFF and other opponents of the
TPP <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/eff-and-other-groups-ask-nsa-are-you-spying-our-tpp-work">challenged
the NSA to affirm it is not spying on their work.</a>


title: How the NSA has converted the Internet
uri: How-the-NSA-has-converted-the-Internet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(How_the_NSA_has_converted_the_Internet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28How_the_NSA_has_converted_the_Internet%29

content:
<p>
How the NSA has converted the
Internet <a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/this-is-how-the-internet-backbone-has-been-turned-into-a-weapon/">into
a device for injecting malware.</a>


title: New street lights have audio recording, video cameras, and cell phone tracking
uri: New-street-lights-have-audio-recording-video-cameras-and-cell-phone
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(New_street_lights_have_audio_recording,_video_cameras,_and_cell_phone_tracking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28New_street_lights_have_audio_recording%2C_video_cameras%2C_and_cell_phone_tracking%29

content:
<p>
New street lights
have <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-free-speech-national-security/three-dimensions-privacy-apocalypse">audio
recording, video cameras, and cell phone tracking.</a> Because they
connect to the
Internet, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html#dispersal">they
are unacceptable surveillance.</a>
<p>
Worse, the proliferation of sensors threatens a regime of 100%
enforcement of lots of petty rules, that would leave people feeling
they are ruled by robots.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Trademark_Law)
title: Trademark Law
uri: Trademark-Law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Trademark_Law%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not-require-companies-tirelessly-censor-internet">Trademark
Law Does Not Require Companies To Tirelessly Censor the Internet.</a>


title: Urgent: Chris Christie condemned methods, then used the same ones
uri: Urgent-Chris-Christie-condemned-methods-then-used-the-same-ones
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Urgent:_Chris_Christie_condemned_methods,_then_used_the_same_ones)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Chris_Christie_condemned_methods%2C_then_used_the_same_ones%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Chris Christie condemned the previous governor's methods
for balancing the
budget, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/nyregion/christie-embraces-budget-strategies-he-scorned-as-a-candidate.html?_r=0">then
used the same ones.</a>
<p>
He
has <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/11/don-t-believe-the-chris-christie-hype-look-at-his-economic-record.html">not
done a good job economically in New Jersey.</a>
<p>
One point in that article is questionable.  Is it good for a state to
have a "business-friendly" tax policy?  Often it is bad.


title: Urgent: Block fracking on public lands
uri: Urgent-Block-fracking-on-public-lands
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Urgent:_Block_fracking_on_public_lands)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Block_fracking_on_public_lands%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=AE5CB93318F2CD50A8514DF1CCB196B6.app338a?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3271">block
fracking on public lands.</a>


title: Court ruled Google Books is fair use
uri: Court-ruled-Google-Books-is-fair-use
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Court_ruled_Google_Books_is_fair_use)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Court_ruled_Google_Books_is_fair_use%29

content:
<p>
A court ruled
that <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/google-books-ruled-legal-in-massive-win-for-fair-use/">Google
Books is fair use.</a>
<p>
Google tried first to get special permission by making a settlement
with a few large publishers.  Many authors, including me, objected to
this deal, and the court rejected the settlement.  Thus, Google was
forced to argue that this is fair use, which means we are all free to
do this.


title: UK thug filmed trying to recruit activist
uri: UK-thug-filmed-trying-to-recruit-activist
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(UK_thug_filmed_trying_to_recruit_activist)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28UK_thug_filmed_trying_to_recruit_activist%29

content:
<p>
A UK thug was filmed trying
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/14/police-cambridge-university-secret-footage">recruit
an activist in at Cambridge to report on students for dissident
behavior.</a>
<p>
This shows the real reason they want to spy on everyone.  The
"terrorists" they want to catch are the dissidents, often labeled as
"terrorists" by the enemies of democracy.


title: US gov't keeps track of who purchases books about lying and polygraphs
uri: US-gov-t-keeps-track-of-who-purchases-books-about-lying-and-polygraphs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(US_gov't_keeps_track_of_who_purchases_books_about_lying_and_polygraphs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28US_gov%27t_keeps_track_of_who_purchases_books_about_lying_and_polygraphs%29

content:
<p>
The US
government <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/14-1">keeps
track of who purchases books about lying and polygraphs.</a>


title: US wants the TPP to require ISPs to monitor and punish customers
uri: US-wants-the-TPP-to-require-ISPs-to-monitor-and-punish-customers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(US_wants_the_TPP_to_require_ISPs_to_monitor_and_punish_customers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28US_wants_the_TPP_to_require_ISPs_to_monitor_and_punish_customers%29

content:
<p>
The US wants the TPP
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/14-7">require
ISPs to monitor and punish their customers, and narrow down fair
use</a>.
<p>
Even one of these would be a disaster, so we must defeat the TPP.
<p>
More nasty stuff: <a href="http://keionline.org/node/1825">requiring
patents on medical treatments, raising prices of medicines (this will
kill people!), </a>
<p>
Watch out!  That article is steeped in enemy propaganda terms such as
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">"intellectual
property"</a>
and <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Protection">"protection".</a>
Using these terms helps the enemy.
<p>
The article also assumes that the unjust requirements of the WTO will
be maintained.  Thus, it disregards one big injustice in the
TPP: <a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/11/14/tpps-worst-evil-making-all.html">making
future copyright reform impossible.</a>


title: Urgent: Defend regulation of fracking on gov't land
uri: Urgent-Defend-regulation-of-fracking-on-gov-t-land
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Urgent:_Defend_regulation_of_fracking_on_govt_land)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Defend_regulation_of_fracking_on_govt_land%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy;?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2197">tell
your congresscritter</a> to oppose the bill to end regulation of
fracking on government land.


title: UK gov't condemns escape of prisoner after helping to torture him
uri: UK-govt-condemns-escape-of-prisoner-after-helping-to-torture-him
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(UK_govt_condemns_escape_of_prisoner_after_helping_to_torture_him)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28UK_govt_condemns_escape_of_prisoner_after_helping_to_torture_him%29

content:
<p>
The UK government condemns Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed's escape, but the UK
kidnaped him after helping to torture him, and then 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/13/terror-suspect-burqa-mi5-rendition">denied
him justice</a>.  Why shouldn't he escape?
<p>
He might have despicable Islamist views that don't respect other
people's human rights.  But that is no excuse for torturing him,
kidnaping him, or suppressing his lawsuit for torture.
<p>
When a government is accused of crimes, and the same government
obstructs justice, that is grounds to declare it 
<em>guilty as charged</em>.


title: Canada against reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
uri: Canada-against-reduction-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Canada_against_reduction_of_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Canada_against_reduction_of_greenhouse_gas_emissions%29

content:
<p>
Canada encourages other countries 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/13/canada-climate-australia-carbon-tax">not
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions</a>.
<p>
This shows that Canada's government has the explicit goal of frying
our planet.  Canada already has a clear policy of trying to increase
its own fossil fuel exports, but this goes even further.
<p>
Countries greatly threatened by global heating, such as Bangladesh and
Spain, should regard Canada's conduct as an act of war.  It can kill
millions of people.


title: Crime gangs worried about interference from Pope
uri: Crime-gangs-worried-about-interference-from-Pope
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Crime_gangs_worried_about_interference_from_Pope)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Crime_gangs_worried_about_interference_from_Pope%29

content:
<p>
Crime gangs are worried that Pope Francis will interfere with their
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/13/pope-francis-mafia-target-corruption">corruption
of the Vatican Bank</a>.


title: Life without parole in the US for nonviolent offenses
uri: Life-without-parole-in-the-US-for-nonviolent-offenses
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Life_without_parole_in_the_US_for_nonviolent_offenses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Life_without_parole_in_the_US_for_nonviolent_offenses%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/11/13-3">More Than
3,200 Serving Life Without Parole [in the US] for Nonviolent Offenses,
Finds ACLU</a>.


title: Qatar blocks football player from leaving country
uri: Qatar-blocks-football-player-from-leaving-country
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Qatar_blocks_football_player_from_leaving_country)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Qatar_blocks_football_player_from_leaving_country%29

content:
<p>
A football player who sued his team in Qatar for not paying his salary
has been blocked from leaving Qatar by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/13/french-footballer-claims-prevented-leaving-qatar">denying
him an exit visa</a>.
<p>
It is a fundamental injustice to require people to get an exit visa to
leave a country.  The Soviet Union did this.  But what else would you
expect from a country that
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#29_September_2013_(Migrant_workers_in_Qatar_worked_to_death)">works
foreigners to death</a>?
<p>
I think you'd have to be a fool to go to Qatar.


title: New method of freeing Americans from debt
uri: New-method-of-freeing-Americans-from-debt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(New_method_of_freeing_Americans_from_debt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28New_method_of_freeing_Americans_from_debt%29

content:
<p>
Occupy has found a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/13/occupy-wall-st-debt-buying-heart-capitalism">new
method</a> of freeing Americans from debt.
<p>
Since bankruptcy is available to clear most kinds of debt, but not
student loans, I wonder if it might be a good idea to apply this
specifically at student loans.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Guantanamo_12_Years_On)
title: Guantánamo 12 Years On
uri: Guantánamo-12-Years-On
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Guantanamo_12_Years_On%29
content:
<p>
Guantánamo 12 Years On: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/13/guantanamo-bay-missing-point">How
the Media [Are] Missing the Point</a>.


title: Protections for cod in the North Sea
uri: Protections-for-cod-in-the-North-Sea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Protections_for_cod_in_the_North_Sea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Protections_for_cod_in_the_North_Sea%29

content:
<p>
Protections for cod in the North Sea are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/13/north-sea-cod-fish-menu">starting
to raise the population</a>, so we need to keep them in place until
the numbers get high enough.
<p>
Protecting fish stocks generally entails overcoming the short-termism
of the fishermen.


title: EFF and other opponents of TPP challenge NSA
uri: EFF-and-other-opponents-of-TPP-challenge-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(EFF_and_other_opponents_of_TPP_challenge_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28EFF_and_other_opponents_of_TPP_challenge_NSA%29

content:
<p>
The EFF and other opponents of the
TPP <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/eff-and-other-groups-ask-nsa-are-you-spying-our-tpp-work">challenged
the NSA to affirm it is not spying on their work.</a>


title: Chris Christie condemns methods, then uses the same ones
uri: Chris-Christie-condemns-methods-then-uses-the-same-ones
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Chris_Christie_condemns_methods,_then_uses_the_same_ones)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Chris_Christie_condemns_methods%2C_then_uses_the_same_ones%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Chris Christie condemned the previous governor's methods
for balancing the
budget, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/nyregion/christie-embraces-budget-strategies-he-scorned-as-a-candidate.html?_r=0">then
used the same ones.</a>
<p>
He
has <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/11/don-t-believe-the-chris-christie-hype-look-at-his-economic-record.html">not
done a good job economically in New Jersey.</a>
<p>
One point in that article is questionable.  Is it good for a state to
have a "business-friendly" tax policy?  Often it is bad.


title: Court rules Google Books is fair use
uri: Court-rules-Google-Books-is-fair-use
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_November_2013_(Court_rules_Google_Books_is_fair_use)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Court_rules_Google_Books_is_fair_use%29

content:
<p>
A court ruled
that <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/google-books-ruled-legal-in-massive-win-for-fair-use/">Google
Books is fair use.</a>
<p>
Google tried first to get special permission by making a settlement
with a few large publishers.  Many authors, including me, objected to
this deal, and the court rejected the settlement.  Thus, Google was
forced to argue that this is fair use, which means we are all free to
do this.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_November_2013_(Urgent:_Petition_against_TPP)
title: Urgent: Petition against TPP
uri: Urgent-Petition-against-TPP
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Petition_against_TPP%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Sign 
<a href="https://openmedia.org/censorship">this petition</a> against
the TPP.


title: Urgent: Tell Nestle to stop drying up part of Pakistan
uri: Urgent-Tell-Nestle-to-stop-drying-up-part-of-Pakistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_November_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Nestle_to_stop_drying_up_part_of_Pakistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Nestle_to_stop_drying_up_part_of_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-water-pakistan/?sub=pr">tell
Nestle</a> to stop drying up part of Pakistan for bottled water.


title: Urgent: Tell ex-senator to stop representing Monsanto
uri: Urgent-Tell-ex-senator-to-stop-representing-Monsanto
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_November_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_ex-senator_to_stop_representing_Monsanto)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_ex-senator_to_stop_representing_Monsanto%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/ex-senator-blanche-lincoln-please-stop-influence-peddling-for-monsanto-and-the-rest">tell
ex-senator Blanche Lincoln</a> to stop representing Monsanto.


title: Japan abandons plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions
uri: Japan-abandons-plans-to-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_November_2013_(Japan_abandons_plans_to_cut_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_November_2013_%28Japan_abandons_plans_to_cut_greenhouse_gas_emissions%29

content:
<p>
Japan has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/15/japan-scaling-back-cut-greenhouse-gases">effectively
abandoned</a> its plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions.


title: People who look for food to survive after a disaster
uri: People-who-look-for-food-to-survive-after-a-disaster
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_November_2013_(People_who_look_for_food_to_survive_after_a_disaster)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_November_2013_%28People_who_look_for_food_to_survive_after_a_disaster%29

content:
<p>
The presumption that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/15/looting-typhoon-haiyan-philippines-new-orleans-haiti">people
looking for food to survive</a> after a disaster are "looters"
regularly provides an excuse to repress them.


title: Thugs seek informers in dissident groups on UK college campuses
uri: Thugs-seek-informers-in-dissident-groups-on-UK-college-campuses
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_November_2013_(Thugs_seek_informers_in_dissident_groups_on_UK_college_campuses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_November_2013_%28Thugs_seek_informers_in_dissident_groups_on_UK_college_campuses%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/15/student-protest-spy-cambridge-university">search
for informers in dissident groups</a> on UK college campuses is part
of a broader pattern of repression.


title: US judge rebukes gov't for not prosecuting banksters
uri: US-judge-rebukes-gov-t-for-not-prosecuting-banksters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_November_2013_(US_judge_rebukes_govt_for_not_prosecuting_banksters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_November_2013_%28US_judge_rebukes_govt_for_not_prosecuting_banksters%29

content:
<p>
A US judge rebuked the US government for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/14-4">not
prosecuting any banksters for their frauds</a>.


title: Acceleration of deforestation in Brazil
uri: Acceleration-of-deforestation-in-Brazil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_November_2013_(Acceleration_of_deforestation_in_Brazil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_November_2013_%28Acceleration_of_deforestation_in_Brazil%29

content:
<p>
Deforestation in Brazil 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/15/deforestation-amazon-jungle-rising-again">sped
up greatly in the past year</a>, partly due to a change in forestry
law that people 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#11_February_2012_(Urgent:_Brazil_Forest)">campaigned</a>
to stop.


title: Op-eds for austerity written by right-wing students
uri: Op-eds-for-austerity-written-by-right-wing-students
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_November_2013_(Op-eds_for_austerity_written_by_right-wing_students)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_November_2013_%28Op-eds_for_austerity_written_by_right-wing_students%29

content:
<p>
The plutocrats of Fix the Debt wrote op-eds for austerity and got
right-wing students to 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/11/12307/astroturf-%E2%80%9Ccampaign-fix-debt%E2%80%9D-caught-ghost-writing-college-kids">submit
the text as their own writing</a>.


title: Clearcutting threatens rare possum in Australia
uri: Clearcutting-threatens-rare-possum-in-Australia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_November_2013_(Clearcutting_threatens_rare_possum_in_Australia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_November_2013_%28Clearcutting_threatens_rare_possum_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/nov/14/toolangi-treehouse-victoria-leadbeaters-possum">rare
possum</a> in Australia is threatened by clearcutting.


title: Urgent: Call for reform of the ECPA
uri: Urgent-Call-for-reform-of-the-ECPA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_November_2013_(Urgent:_Call_for_reform_of_the_ECPA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_reform_of_the_ECPA%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reform-ecpa-tell-government-get-warrant/nq258dxk">call
for reform of the ECPA.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on the Supreme Court to apply ethical standards to itself
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-Supreme-Court-to-apply-ethical-standards-to-itself
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Supreme_Court_to_apply_ethical_standards_to_itself)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_the_Supreme_Court_to_apply_ethical_standards_to_itself%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/hold-justice-clarence-thomas-accountable-for-defying-the-code-of-conduct-for-us-judges">call
on the Supreme Court</a> to apply to itself the ethical standards for
all other federal judges.


title: Urgent: Petition against the Trans Pacific Partnership
uri: Urgent-Petition-against-the-Trans-Pacific-Partnership
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(Urgent:_Petition_against_the_Trans_Pacific_Partnership)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Petition_against_the_Trans_Pacific_Partnership%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: sign 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/TPP3strikes/">this
petition</a> against the Trans Pacific Partnership.


title: Urgent: Block the attempt to ban abortions after 20 weeks
uri: Urgent-Block-the-attempt-to-ban-abortions-after-20-weeks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(Urgent:_Block_the_attempt_to_ban_abortions_after_20_weeks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Block_the_attempt_to_ban_abortions_after_20_weeks%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.prochoiceamerica.org/site/Advocacy;?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5763">call
on the Senate</a> to block the attempt to ban abortions after 20
weeks.
<p>
Such late abortions are only done when something goes gravely wrong.


title: Urgent: Support Philippines Climate Commissioner Yeb Saño
uri: Urgent-Support-Philippines-Climate-Commissioner-Yeb-Saño
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Philippines_Climate_Commissioner_Yeb_Sano)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Philippines_Climate_Commissioner_Yeb_Sano%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Stand_with_the_Philippines/">stand
in support of Philippines Climate Commissioner Yeb Saño</a>,
demanding strong action to curb global heating.


title: Cameron calls for inquiry into Sri Lanka's human rights abuses
uri: Cameron-calls-for-inquiry-into-Sri-Lanka-s-human-rights-abuses
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(Cameron_calls_for_inquiry_into_Sri_Lankas_human_rights_abuses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28Cameron_calls_for_inquiry_into_Sri_Lankas_human_rights_abuses%29

content:
<p>
Cameron, embarrassed about having attended the Commonwealth summit in
Sri Lanka, now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/16/sri-lanka-cameron-international-war-crimes-inquiry">calls
for an international inquiry</a> into Sri Lanka's human rights abuses.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(UK_lawyers_plan_to_go_on_strike)
title: UK lawyers plan to go on strike
uri: UK-lawyers-plan-to-go-on-strike
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28UK_lawyers_plan_to_go_on_strike%29

content:
<p>
UK lawyers plan to go on strike against 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/nov/16/barristers-legal-aid-cuts-strike-threat">plans
to cut payments to defense lawyers</a>.


title: Anonymous activists accessing US gov't computers
uri: Anonymous-activists-accessing-US-gov-t-computers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(Anonymous_activists_accessing_US_govt_computers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28Anonymous_activists_accessing_US_govt_computers%29

content:
<p>
Anonymous activists have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/16/anonymous-fbi">accessing
US government computers</a>, putting the shoe on the other foot.
Strangely, the US government doesn't like being treated the way it
treats us.
<p>
It would in general be wrong to take money from individuals' bank
accounts; I hope these crackers are honest enough not to do that.


title: UK journalist in Sri Lanka blocked from observing Tamil areas
uri: UK-journalist-in-Sri-Lanka-blocked-from-observing-Tamil-areas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(UK_journalist_in_Sri_Lanka_blocked_from_observing_Tamil_areas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28UK_journalist_in_Sri_Lanka_blocked_from_observing_Tamil_areas%29

content:
<p>
A UK journalist in Sri Lanka reports that the government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/16/channel4-television">sent
crowds to block him</a> from travelling to the north to observe the
conditions in the Tamil areas.


title: The Assassination of Yasser Arafat
uri: The-Assassination-of-Yasser-Arafat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(The_Assassination_of_Yasser_Arafat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28The_Assassination_of_Yasser_Arafat%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery says it 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1384533822/">must
be Ariel Sharon</a> who ordered the assassination of Yasser Arafat.


title: Jeremy Hammond receives 10-year prison sentence
uri: Jeremy-Hammond-receives-10-year-prison-sentence
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(Jeremy_Hammond_receives_10-year_prison_sentence)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28Jeremy_Hammond_receives_10-year_prison_sentence%29

content:
<p>
Jeremy Hammond received a 10-year prison sentence, which he calls a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/15/jeremy-hammond-anonymous-hacker-sentenced">political
act</a>.
<p>
He said that the suggestions for which sites to target came
from the FBI tool, Sabu.
<p>
I do wish he would not use the word "hacking" to refer to security
breaking.  That confuses the public about the activities of hackers
like me, which don't involve security breaking.


title: Unarmed protesters shot and killed by Libyan militia
uri: Unarmed-protesters-shot-and-killed-by-Libyan-militia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(Unarmed_protesters_shot_and_killed_by_Libyan_militia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28Unarmed_protesters_shot_and_killed_by_Libyan_militia%29

content:
<p>
A Libyan militia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/libyan-militiamen-protesters-tripoli">shot
and killed</a> unarmed protesters calling on the militia to disband.


title: Eternal Austerity Makes Complete Sense — If You're Rich
uri: Eternal-Austerity-Makes-Complete-Sense-If-You-re-Rich
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(Eternal_Austerity_Makes_Complete_Sense_%26mdash;_If_You're_Rich)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28Eternal_Austerity_Makes_Complete_Sense_%2526mdash%3B_If_You%27re_Rich%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/15-0">Eternal
Austerity Makes Complete Sense — If You're Rich</a>.


title: CIA collecting financial records of nearly all Americans
uri: CIA-collecting-financial-records-of-nearly-all-Americans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(CIA_collecting_financial_records_of_nearly_all_Americans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28CIA_collecting_financial_records_of_nearly_all_Americans%29

content:
<p>
The CIA is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/15-0">collecting
the financial records</a> of nearly all Americans.


title: Right-wing extremist parties gaining strength in parts of Europe
uri: Right-wing-extremist-parties-gaining-strength-in-parts-of-Europe
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(Right-wing_extremist_parties_gaining_strength_in_parts_of_Europe)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28Right-wing_extremist_parties_gaining_strength_in_parts_of_Europe%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/15/far-right-threat-europe-integration">Right-wing
extremist</a> parties are gaining strength in many parts of Europe.
<p>
These parties are willing to fight hard against the immigrants that
they blame for the spread of poverty, while parties on the left are
generally timid about confronting the plutocrats that are really to
blame.  People who are willing to fight, and don't have a firm grip on
who the enemy is, may choose the right wing parties just to see a real
fight against <span style="text-decoration:underline;">someone</span>.


title: Commonwealth Foundation's charity events in Sri Lanka
uri: Commonwealth-Foundation-s-charity-events-in-Sri-Lanka
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(Commonwealth_Foundations_charity_events_in_Sri_Lanka)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28Commonwealth_Foundations_charity_events_in_Sri_Lanka%29

content:
<p>
Sri Lanka's government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/commonwealth-charity-staff-complain-sri-lankan-intimidation">tried
to take control</a> of the Commonwealth Foundation's charity events.


title: UK rapporteur accuses UK political leaders of verging on tyranny
uri: UK-rapporteur-accuses-UK-political-leaders-of-verging-on-tyranny
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_November_2013_(UK_rapporteur_accuses_UK_political_leaders_of_verging_on_tyranny)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_November_2013_%28UK_rapporteur_accuses_UK_political_leaders_of_verging_on_tyranny%29

content:
<p>
The UN rapporteur on freedom of expression accused UK political
leaders of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/uk-reputation-edward-snowden-un">verging
on tyranny</a> by calling the Guardian's journalism a crime.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Body_scanner_in_new_Xbox)
title: Body scanner in new Xbox
uri: Body-scanner-in-new-Xbox
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Body_scanner_in_new_Xbox%29
content:
<p>
The new Xbox has a body scanner that can make a 
<a href="http://www.infowars.com/new-xbox-to-produce-child-porn/">very
sharp image of your body under your clothing</a>.
<p>
When you enter someone's home, ask if there is an Xbox present and, if
so, insist on seeing it unplugged.


title: Nader calls on Washington Post to maintain editorial independence from owner
uri: Nader-calls-on-Washington-Post-to-maintain-editorial-independence-from
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Nader_calls_on_Washington_Post_to_maintain_editorial_independence_from_owner)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Nader_calls_on_Washington_Post_to_maintain_editorial_independence_from_owner%29

content:
<p>
Ralph Nader calls on the Washington Post to 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/11/06/an-open-letter-to-the-washington-post/">set
up a structure to maintain editorial independence</a> from its owner,
also the owner of Amazon.
<p>
Amazon 
<a href="http://stallman.org/amazon.html">mistreats nearly everyone
involved with books</a>, including its customers.


title: Company makes customers promise never to publicly criticize it
uri: Company-makes-customers-promise-never-to-publicly-criticize-it
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Company_makes_customers_promise_never_to_publicly_criticize_it)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Company_makes_customers_promise_never_to_publicly_criticize_it%29

content:
<p>
A nefarious company, Kleargear, 
<a href="http://www.kutv.com/news/features/gephardt/stories/vid_474.shtml">makes
customers promise never to publicly criticize the company</a>, and
"fines" them if they do.  The "fine" is probably not legally
enforceable, but poor people lack the resources to fight back.
<p>
One solution: someone else who has never done business with
Kleargear can post the condemnation.
<p>
If the TPP passes, foreign companies would be able to sue the US
government if it enforces the first amendment against such behavior.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Regulations_dont_destroy_jobs)
title: Regulations don't destroy jobs
uri: Regulations-don-t-destroy-jobs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Regulations_dont_destroy_jobs%29
content:
<p>
Businesses have a history
of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-lincoln/regulations-cost-more-tha_b_4270024.html">forecasting
that regulations will destroy lots of jobs</a>…but, in the end,
that never seems to happen.
<p>
What does destroy jobs?  Austerity.  Prioritizing efficiency over
jobs.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Election_in_the_Maldives)
title: Election in the Maldives
uri: Election-in-the-Maldives
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Election_in_the_Maldives%29
content:
<p>
The Maldives held a democratic election.   The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/17/abdul-yameen-wins-maldives-election">right-wing
islamist won</a>.
<p>
We will see how human right are treated subsequently.


title: Greek group claims responsibility for killing Golden Dawn supporters
uri: Greek-group-claims-responsibility-for-killing-Golden-Dawn-supporters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Greek_group_claims_responsibility_for_killing_Golden_Dawn_supporters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Greek_group_claims_responsibility_for_killing_Golden_Dawn_supporters%29

content:
<p>
A Greek group, never before heard of, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/16/golden-dawn-shootings-group-claims-responsibility">claimed
responsibility for killing Golden Dawn supporters</a> as retaliation
for a Golden Dawn's supporter's murder of a left-wing rapper.


title: Priority of the Australian gov't and fossil fuel industry
uri: Priority-of-the-Australian-gov-t-and-fossil-fuel-industry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Priority_of_the_Australian_govt_and_fossil_fuel_industry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Priority_of_the_Australian_govt_and_fossil_fuel_industry%29

content:
<p>
The highest priority policy goal of the Australian government is the
fossil fuel industry's priority, which is to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/nov/17/tony-abbott-climate-denier-coal-socialism">ensure
humanity uses the maximum amount of fossil fuel in the shortest
possible time</a>.


title: Prisoners with cancer in Arizona denied medical care
uri: Prisoners-with-cancer-in-Arizona-denied-medical-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Prisoners_with_cancer_in_Arizona_denied_medical_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Prisoners_with_cancer_in_Arizona_denied_medical_care%29

content:
<p>
Prisoners with cancer in Arizona are denied medical care and 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/15/2947931/arizona-death-yards/">told
to pray instead</a>.
<p>
That's religion for you.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Will_the_FBI_be_investigated)
title: Will the FBI be investigated?
uri: Will-the-FBI-be-investigated
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Will_the_FBI_be_investigated%29
content:
<p>
Jeremy Hammond says that 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/15-5">the FBI
directed him</a> (via its tool, Sabu) to crack web sites in Brazil,
Iran and Turkey, and the FBI then took advantage of this.
<p>
Will the FBI be investigated?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Urgent:_Expand_Social_Security)
title: Urgent: Expand Social Security
uri: 2013-11-18-Urgent-Expand-Social-Security
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Expand_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/social_security_infographic/">tell
Congress</a> to expand Social Security.


title: Urgent: Expand Medicare to all Americans
uri: Urgent-Expand-Medicare-to-all-Americans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Urgent:_Expand_Medicare_to_all_Americans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Expand_Medicare_to_all_Americans%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/medicare_for_all">Tell
Congress</a> to respect the progress in the Affordable Care Act, and
vote on expanding Medicare to all Americans.


title: Urgent: Oppose Feinstein's fake fix for gov't surveillance
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Feinstein-s-fake-fix-for-gov-t-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_Feinsteins_fake_fix_for_govt_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Feinsteins_fake_fix_for_govt_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to oppose
<a href="https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9437">Feinstein's
fake fix for government surveillance</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


title: Woman in Texas "colonias" cant get health care
uri: Woman-in-Texas-colonias-cant-get-health-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Woman_in_Texas_colonias_cant_get_health_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Woman_in_Texas_colonias_cant_get_health_care%29

content:
<p>
The women in Texas "colonias" near the Mexican border 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/11/13/2933641/rio-grande-texas-women-health-care/">can't
travel far enough to get an abortion, or a cancer test, or any other
health care</a>. Even when they can afford the treatment, they are
afraid of being deported while traveling for care, even if they are
legal US residents.


title: TPP a way for the US to reassert its role as world bully
uri: TPP-a-way-for-the-US-to-reassert-its-role-as-world-bully
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(TPP_a_way_for_the_US_to_reassert_its_role_as_world_bully)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28TPP_a_way_for_the_US_to_reassert_its_role_as_world_bully%29

content:
<p>
Richard Falkvinge says the TPP is the United States' way to 
<a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/us-trade-tpp-wikileaks-734/">reassert
its role as a world bully</a>.


title: Republicans blame Obama for insurance companies' actions
uri: Republicans-blame-Obama-for-insurance-companies-actions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Republicans_blame_Obama_for_insurance_companies_actions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Republicans_blame_Obama_for_insurance_companies_actions%29

content:
<p>
Republicans are 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/no-obama-didnt-lie-you-about-your-health-care-plans?paging=off">blaming
Obama</a> for the medical plans that insurance companies choose to
cancel, and the ones they created just recently knowing they couldn't
continue.
<p>
Setting aside those, which are the insurance companies' fault, Obama's
health care claim (that people can keep their old insurance plans) is
true.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Chinas_detention_system)
title: China's detention system
uri: China-s-detention-system
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Chinas_detention_system%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/china-re-education-through-labour-camps-2013-11-15">China:
Abolition of Labour Camps Must Lead to Wider Detention Reform</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(MPAAs_theater_security)
title: MPAA's theater security
uri: MPAA-s-theater-security
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28MPAAs_theater_security%29
content:
<p>
Alongside the TSA security theater, we suffer from the MPAA's 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/mpaa-theater-security/">theater
security</a>.


title: The USA FREEDOM Act does not go far enough
uri: The-USA-FREEDOM-Act-does-not-go-far-enough
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(The_USA_FREEDOM_Act_does_not_go_far_enough)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28The_USA_FREEDOM_Act_does_not_go_far_enough%29

content:
<p>
The EFF supports the USA FREEDOM Act as a first step, saying it 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/floor-not-ceiling-supporting-usa-freedom-act-step-towards-less-surveillance">does
not go far enough</a>.
<p>
The EFF says that additional measures are needed to limit the
government's access to data in private hands, and I agree about those
points.  However, that too fails to go far enough, because it does not
limit the government's own direct collection of data about people (for
instance, with license plate recognizers, surveillance cameras, and
microphones in places such as buses and lampposts) or business
collection of data about people.  Once data is collected, it will be
misused.  We therefore
must <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">strictly
limit the systematic collection of data about people</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(UKs_Iraq_war_inquiry)
title: UK's Iraq war inquiry
uri: UK-s-Iraq-war-inquiry
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28UKs_Iraq_war_inquiry%29
content:
<p>
Both the US and the UK governments are 
<a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/iraq-war-inquiry-uk-816/">trying to
spike the UK's Iraq war inquiry</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Urgent:_Stand_behind_Yeb_Sano)
title: Urgent: Stand behind Yeb Saño
uri: Urgent-Stand-behind-Yeb-Saño
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stand_behind_Yeb_Sano%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8846">stand
behind Yeb Saño</a>, Philippines negotiator at the climate
summit.


title: Urgent: Allow states to require labels on GMOs
uri: Urgent-Allow-states-to-require-labels-on-GMOs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Urgent:_Allow_states_to_require_labels_on_GMOs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Allow_states_to_require_labels_on_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12422">call
on Senator Warren</a> to withdraw support from the FDA's plan that
would ban states from requiring labels on GMOs.


title: Large number of Taliban reportedly killed by Afghan army
uri: Large-number-of-Taliban-reportedly-killed-by-Afghan-army
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Large_number_of_Taliban_reportedly_killed_by_Afghan_army)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Large_number_of_Taliban_reportedly_killed_by_Afghan_army%29

content:
<p>
The Afghan army has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/17/un-report-taliban-fighter-deaths">reportedly
killed a lot of Taliban</a>, but (as usual) that has little effect on
how the war is going.


title: UK tracks diplomats through 350 hotels
uri: UK-tracks-diplomats-through-350-hotels
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(UK_tracks_diplomats_through_350_hotels)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28UK_tracks_diplomats_through_350_hotels%29

content:
<p>
The UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/17/edward-snowden-diplomats-hotel-bookings-documents">tracks
diplomats through 350 important hotels</a> around the world, so as to
spy on them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Abuse_of_migrant_workers_in_Qatar)
title: Abuse of migrant workers in Qatar
uri: Abuse-of-migrant-workers-in-Qatar
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Abuse_of_migrant_workers_in_Qatar%29

content:
<p>
A Nepali worker in Qatar describes the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/17/qatar-nepali-construction-worker-world-cup">abusive
treatment by employers</a>.
<p>
Amnesty International says these abuses amount to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/17/qatar-migrant-workers-amnesty-international-report">forced
labor</a>.


title: The trees uprooted by Typhoon Haiyan
uri: The-trees-uprooted-by-Typhoon-Haiyan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(The_trees_uprooted_by_Typhoon_Haiyan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28The_trees_uprooted_by_Typhoon_Haiyan%29

content:
<p>
The trees uprooted by Typhoon Haiyan may never be replaced if more big
storms keep coming through.  If so, they will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2013/nov/17/typhoon-haiyan-trees-global-warming">give
global heating a permanent boost</a>.


title: UK gov't wants power to cancel citizenship
uri: UK-gov-t-wants-power-to-cancel-citizenship
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(UK_govt_wants_power_to_cancel_citizenship)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28UK_govt_wants_power_to_cancel_citizenship%29

content:
<p>
The UK government wants the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/12/theresa-may-british-terror-suspects-stateless-passport">power
to cancel citizenship</a>, leaving people stateless and exiled.


title: Gov't of Ireland proposes high fees for freedom of information requests
uri: Gov-t-of-Ireland-proposes-high-fees-for-freedom-of-information-request
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Govt_of_Ireland_proposes_high_fees_for_freedom_of_information_requests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Govt_of_Ireland_proposes_high_fees_for_freedom_of_information_requests%29

content:
<p>
The government of Ireland proposes to make freedom of information
requests 
<a href="http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2013/11/10/freedom-information-fees-multiplied-new-amendment/">so
expensive that hardly anyone would dare make them</a>.


title: Regulate automobile insurance the way California does
uri: Regulate-automobile-insurance-the-way-California-does
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Regulate_automobile_insurance_the_way_California_does)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Regulate_automobile_insurance_the_way_California_does%29

content:
<p>
All states
should <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/17-2">regulate
automobile insurance the way California does.</a>
<p>
In addition, they should ban insurance companies from collecting from
drivers any information about the car's location over time, or that
would enable deducing the car's location.


title: Christians teach lies about sex in US public schools
uri: Christians-teach-lies-about-sex-in-US-public-schools
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Christians_teach_lies_about_sex_in_US_public_schools)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Christians_teach_lies_about_sex_in_US_public_schools%29

content:
<p>
Christians <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/11/abstinence-speakers-public-schools-lookadoo">teach
lies about sex in US public schools.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Geithner_will_receive_his_reward)
title: Geithner will receive his reward
uri: Geithner-will-receive-his-reward
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Geithner_will_receive_his_reward%29

content:
<p>
Geithner will
now <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/16">receive
his reward for years of loyal service to Wall Street as Secretary of
the Treasury.</a>


title: How Our Public Schools Became a "Communist Threat"
uri: How-Our-Public-Schools-Became-a-Communist-Threat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(How_Our_Public_Schools_Became_a_Communist_Threat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28How_Our_Public_Schools_Became_a_Communist_Threat%29

content:
<p>
How Our Public Schools Became
a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/18-1">"Communist
Threat".</a>
<p>
Why
Taxpayers <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/17-4">Shouldn't
Fund Private Schools.</a>
<p>
Note how these two forms of plutocratic pressure line up ironically.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Anti-Drone_Movement_Speaks)
title: Anti-Drone Movement Speaks
uri: Anti-Drone-Movement-Speaks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Anti-Drone_Movement_Speaks%29
content:
<p>
Anti-Drone Movement
Speaks: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/15-4">'End
the Secrecy, No to Kill List'.</a>


title: Thugs spying on protesters offer excuse that they are "anarchists"
uri: Thugs-spying-on-protesters-offer-excuse-that-they-are-anarchists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Thugs_spying_on_protesters_offer_excuse_that_they_are_anarchists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Thugs_spying_on_protesters_offer_excuse_that_they_are_anarchists%29

content:
<p>
In North Carolina, the thugs spying on
protesters <a href="http://www.alternet.org/activism/anarchist-and-communist-labels?paging=off">offer
the excuse that they are "anarchists".</a>
<p>
Remember when it was "terrorists"?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Obama_jails_another_whistleblower)
title: Obama jails another whistleblower
uri: Obama-jails-another-whistleblower
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Obama_jails_another_whistleblower%29

content:
<p>
Obama
has <a href="http://en.rsf.org/united-states-who-will-dare-talk-to-the-media-15-11-2013,45459.html">jailed
another whistleblower.</a>
<p>
This one was found by massively searching journalists' phone records.


title: Jeremy Hammond and the Need to "Promote Respect for the Rule of Law"
uri: Jeremy-Hammond-and-the-Need-to-Promote-Respect-for-the-Rule-of-Law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Jeremy_Hammond_and_the_Need_to_Promote_Respect_for_the_Rule_of_Law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Jeremy_Hammond_and_the_Need_to_Promote_Respect_for_the_Rule_of_Law%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/11/15/jeremy-hammond-the-need-to-promote-respect-for-the-rule-of-law/">Jeremy
Hammond and the Need to "Promote Respect for the Rule of Law".</a>
<p>
I wish they did not equate "hacking" with "breaking security".
<p>
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">On
Hacking</a>


title: Long prison sentences for throwing pies at an official
uri: Long-prison-sentences-for-throwing-pies-at-an-official
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_November_2013_(Long_prison_sentences_for_throwing_pies_at_an_official)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_%28Long_prison_sentences_for_throwing_pies_at_an_official%29

content:
<p>
Spanish protesters
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/17/spanish-activists-trial-pie-protest">threatened
with long prison sentences for throwing pies at an official.</a>
<p>
This reflects the general attitude of the right-wing party that rules
Spain, which seeks to abolish democratic rights in practice even
though not in theory.


title: Urgent: Pressure Russia to free the Greenpeace 30
uri: Urgent-Pressure-Russia-to-free-the-Greenpeace-30
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Urgent:_Pressure_Russia_to_free_the_Greenpeace_30)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Pressure_Russia_to_free_the_Greenpeace_30%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/arctic-impacts/shell-gazprom-arctic-30/">Call
on Shell</a> to pressure Russia (actually Gazprom) to free the
Greenpeace 30.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Healthy_aging_is_an_oxymoron)
title: "Healthy aging" is an oxymoron
uri: Healthy-aging-is-an-oxymoron
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Healthy_aging_is_an_oxymoron%29
content:
<p>
"Healthy aging" is an oxymoron.  Aging is nothing other than the
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/konovalenko20131108">tendency
for bodies to become less healthy</a>.


title: Economic growth without growth in CO2 emissions
uri: Economic-growth-without-growth-in-CO2-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Economic_growth_without_growth_in_CO2_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Economic_growth_without_growth_in_CO2_emissions%29

content:
<p>
Economic growth 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/naam20131117">does not
require growth in CO<sub>2</sub> emissions</a>.  US per-capita
economic production has doubled since 1970 but per-capita
CO<sub>2</sub> emissions have gone down (though not enough).
<p>
The politicians who say this is impossible may be under the influence
of the fossil fuel companies.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(David_Hicks_deserves_an_apology)
title: David Hicks deserves an apology
uri: David-Hicks-deserves-an-apology
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28David_Hicks_deserves_an_apology%29

content:
<p>
David Hicks deserves an apology for the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/18/david-hicks-deserves-an-apology">torture
and unfair trial</a> that the US gave him.


title: Dead hand of dictator Pinochet blocks legal reforms in Chile
uri: Dead-hand-of-dictator-Pinochet-blocks-legal-reforms-in-Chile
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Dead_hand_of_dictator_Pinochet_blocks_legal_reforms_in_Chile)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Dead_hand_of_dictator_Pinochet_blocks_legal_reforms_in_Chile%29

content:
<p>
The dead hand of dictator Pinochet, in the form of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/18/chile-election-michelle-bachelet-falls-short-outright">screwy
election rules</a>, continues to block important legal reforms in
Chile.
<p>
Since Pinochet's rule was not legitimate in the first place,
one could argue for following the previous constitution.


title: Companies selling sophisticated surveillance equipment
uri: Companies-selling-sophisticated-surveillance-equipment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Companies_selling_sophisticated_surveillance_equipment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Companies_selling_sophisticated_surveillance_equipment%29

content:
<p>
Companies are selling sophisticated surveillance equipment, even able
to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/18/private-firms-mass-surveillance-technologies">tap
fibre cables</a>.


title: One thug's unreconciled testimony against a man shot dead
uri: One-thug-s-unreconciled-testimony-against-a-man-shot-dead
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(One_thugs_unreconciled_testimony_against_a_man_shot_dead)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28One_thugs_unreconciled_testimony_against_a_man_shot_dead%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/18/duggan-inquest-police-evidence-gun">No
one can reconcile one thug's testimony</a>, that Mark Duggan had a gun
in his hand when he was shot dead, with other thugs' report that they
found that gun 20 feet away, wrapped in a sock, on the other side of a
wall.
<p>
It seems that Duggan could not while dying have thrown the gun over
the wall, but above all, he could not have put a sock over it at that
time.
<p>
I suggest that Duggan had no gun, that the one thug is mistaken in
saying he saw one, and that another thug placed the gun to be found.


title: Funds to help poor countries survive global heating almost exhausted
uri: Funds-to-help-poor-countries-survive-global-heating-almost-exhausted
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Funds_to_help_poor_countries_survive_global_heating_almost_exhausted)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Funds_to_help_poor_countries_survive_global_heating_almost_exhausted%29

content:
<p>
The funds provided to help poor countries survive global heating are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/18/climate-change-fund-poor-empty">almost
exhausted</a> and little more is being given.


title: Mainstream media's "experts" in the field of climate science
uri: Mainstream-media-s-experts-in-the-field-of-climate-science
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Mainstream_medias_experts_in_the_field_of_climate_science)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Mainstream_medias_experts_in_the_field_of_climate_science%29

content:
<p>
Mainstream media can't find real climate scientists to deny global
heating, so they present 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/nov/18/global-warming-business-reporting">"experts"
with no scientific experience in that field</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Death_toll_from_Typhoon_Haiyan)
title: Death toll from Typhoon Haiyan
uri: Death-toll-from-Typhoon-Haiyan
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Death_toll_from_Typhoon_Haiyan%29

content:
<p>
The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/18/typhoon-haiyan-philippines-fears-not-all-survivors-reached">at
least 3,900</a>, and the repair will cost half a billion dollars (or
more).


title: Rich fossil-burning countries ought to pay for costs of weather disasters
uri: Rich-fossil-burning-countries-ought-to-pay-for-costs-of-weather-disast
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Rich_fossil-burning_countries_ought_to_pay_for_costs_of_weather_disasters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Rich_fossil-burning_countries_ought_to_pay_for_costs_of_weather_disasters%29

content:
<p>
Rich fossil-burning
countries <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/19/climate-talks-wealthy-countries-bill-weather-disasters-un-warsaw">ought
to pay for the costs of the weather disasters they impose on poor
countries.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Summary_of_why_TPP_is_harmful)
title: Summary of why TPP is harmful
uri: Summary-of-why-TPP-is-harmful
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Summary_of_why_TPP_is_harmful%29
content:
<p>
A clear summary
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/19/trans-pacific-partnership-corporate-usurp-congress">why
the TPP is harmful and unjust.</a>
<p>
Most Americans will lose economically, as well as losing freedom,
since these exploitation treaties transfer wealth from workers to
business owners.


title: The two central ideals of Gettysburg Address under threat
uri: The-two-central-ideals-of-Gettysburg-Address-under-threat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(The_two_central_ideals_of_Gettysburg_Address_under_threat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28The_two_central_ideals_of_Gettysburg_Address_under_threat%29

content:
<p>
The two central ideals of the Gettysburg
Address <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/19/gettysburg-address-150th-anniversary-ken-burns">are
under threat today.</a>


title: Some LG "smart" TVs send surveillance data to the manufacturer
uri: Some-LG-smart-TVs-send-surveillance-data-to-the-manufacturer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Some_LG_smart_TVs_send_surveillance_data_to_the_manufacturer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Some_LG_smart_TVs_send_surveillance_data_to_the_manufacturer%29

content:
<p>
Some LG "smart"
TVs <a href="http://doctorbeet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html">send
surveillance data to the manufacturer.</a>
<p>
A friend commented:

<blockquote>
Note the article makes a mistake: that the destination page returns a
404 error means nothing. First of all, it's extremely easy to fake an
error code (I know that in PHP it's just one line of code!). Second,
even if it's indeed missing, all the data is still going to the server
logs anyway, and it wouldn't be hard to retrieve it from there (in
fact, using this would make the load on the server much smaller as no
script ever gets executed).
</blockquote>


title: Labeling tar sands oil as highly polluting would "stigmatize" Canada
uri: Labeling-tar-sands-oil-as-highly-polluting-would-stigmatize-Canada
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Labeling_tar_sands_oil_as_highly_polluting_would_stigmatize_Canada)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Labeling_tar_sands_oil_as_highly_polluting_would_stigmatize_Canada%29

content:
<p>
Canada's "natural resources" minister charged
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/19/canada-tar-sands-oil-eu">labeling
tar sands oil as highly polluting would "stigmatize" Canada.</a>
<p>
Ready, aim, stigmatize!
<p>
Something that stigmatizes Canada even worse is its policy of
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_November_2013_%28Canada_against_reduction_of_greenhouse_gas_emissions%29">encouraging
other countries to help fry our planet.</a>


title: Oil spill inevitable if Russia drills in Arctic waters
uri: Oil-spill-inevitable-if-Russia-drills-in-Arctic-waters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Oil_spill_inevitable_if_Russia_drills_in_Arctic_waters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Oil_spill_inevitable_if_Russia_drills_in_Arctic_waters%29

content:
<p>
Oil spill expert Simon Boxall says
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/19/arctic-oil-drilling-russia">devastating
oil spill is inevitable if Russia drills in Arctic waters.</a>


title: Urgent: End filibusters on judicial nominees
uri: Urgent-End-filibusters-on-judicial-nominees
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Urgent:_End_filibusters_on_judicial_nominees)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_End_filibusters_on_judicial_nominees%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your senators
to <a href="http://www.reformthefilibuster.com">end filibusters on
judicial nominees.</a>


title: Urgent: Defend Obama's health care reform
uri: Urgent-Defend-Obama-s-health-care-reform
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Urgent:_Defend_Obama's_health_care_reform)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Defend_Obama%27s_health_care_reform%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Call on Congress
to <a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/DontGoBack?">defend
Obama's health care reform.</a>
<p>
What we really need is a national health service, but the right-wing
demand to undo what Obama did would make things worse.


title: Urgent: Oppose bills that pander to fossil fuels
uri: Urgent-Oppose-bills-that-pander-to-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_bills_that_pander_to_fossil_fuels)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_bills_that_pander_to_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your Congresscritter to oppose bills that pander to
fossil
fuels.  <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14597">Also
send email through this page. </a>
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Releasing prisoners from Guantanamo or trying them in civil court
uri: Urgent-Releasing-prisoners-from-Guantanamo-or-trying-them-in-civil-co
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Urgent:_Releasing_prisoners_from_Guantanamo_or_trying_them_in_civil_court)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Releasing_prisoners_from_Guantanamo_or_trying_them_in_civil_court%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your senators
to <a href="http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=520420&msource=W1311EASHR1">support
Senator Levin's bill to facilitate releasing prisoners from Guantanamo
or trying them in civil court.</a>


title: Walmart is soliciting food donations for its employees
uri: Walmart-is-soliciting-food-donations-for-its-employees
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Walmart_is_soliciting_food_donations_for_its_employees)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Walmart_is_soliciting_food_donations_for_its_employees%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/18/2960371/walmart-food-drive/">A
Walmart is soliciting food donations for its employees,</a> because
they can't afford a Thanksgiving meal on low Walmart wages.


title: Haitians protested demanding the resignation of the president
uri: Haitians-protested-demanding-the-resignation-of-the-president
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Haitians_protested_demanding_the_resignation_of_the_president)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Haitians_protested_demanding_the_resignation_of_the_president%29

content:
<p>
Thousands of
Haitians <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20131118-anti-government-protesters-police-clash-haiti">protested
demanding the resignation of the president,</a> who was more or less
imposed by the US.


title: EPA reducing amount of corn-based ethanol to use in US cars
uri: EPA-reducing-amount-of-corn-based-ethanol-to-use-in-US-cars
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(EPA_reducing_amount_of_corn-based_ethanol_to_use_in_US_cars)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28EPA_reducing_amount_of_corn-based_ethanol_to_use_in_US_cars%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/obama-admin-pisses-off-ethanol-industry-pleases-both-oil-industry-and-enviros/">EPA
is reducing the amount of corn-based ethanol to use in US cars</a>,
but it should reduce this to zero.


title: The Gates Foundation talks about giving everyone in the world a toilet
uri: The-Gates-Foundation-talks-about-giving-everyone-in-the-world-a-toilet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(The_Gates_Foundation_talks_about_giving_everyone_in_the_world_a_toilet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28The_Gates_Foundation_talks_about_giving_everyone_in_the_world_a_toilet%29

content:
<p>
The Gates Foundation talks
about <a href="http://malnutritionandmalaria.blogspot.com/2013/11/poverty-bill-gates-cant-build-toilet.html">giving
everyone in the world a toilet to use, but its solutions are
ridiculously expensive.</a>


title: Sentenced to prison for tweeting about trial of dissidents
uri: Sentenced-to-prison-for-tweeting-about-trial-of-dissidents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Sentenced_to_prison_for_tweeting_about_trial_of_dissidents)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Sentenced_to_prison_for_tweeting_about_trial_of_dissidents%29

content:
<p>
Waleed Al-Shehhi
was <a href="http://en.rsf.org/emirats-arabes-unis-two-years-in-prison-and-100-000-18-11-2013,45472.html">sentenced
to prison in the UAE for tweeting about the trial of Islamist
dissidents.</a>


title: Proposing state laws to turn off cooperation with NSA massive surveillance
uri: Proposing-state-laws-to-turn-off-cooperation-with-NSA-massive-surveill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Proposing_state_laws_to_turn_off_cooperation_with_NSA_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Proposing_state_laws_to_turn_off_cooperation_with_NSA_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Proposing state laws
to <a href="http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=15610">turn
off cooperation with NSA massive surveillance.</a>
<p>
If this effort is serious, it should start by deactivating the "fusion
centers" by which state and local thug departments share information
with the FBI about "terrorist suspects" such as Occupy protests.


title: Drones, tanks, and grenade launchers
uri: Drones-tanks-and-grenade-launchers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Drones,_tanks,_and_grenade_launchers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Drones%2C_tanks%2C_and_grenade_launchers%29

content:
<p>
Drones, tanks, and grenade
launchers: <a href="http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=15626">Coming
soon to a [thug] department near you.</a>


title: Thugs outraged that city plans to put GPS in their cars
uri: Thugs-outraged-that-city-plans-to-put-GPS-in-their-cars
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Thugs_outraged_that_city_plans_to_put_GPS_in_their_cars)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Thugs_outraged_that_city_plans_to_put_GPS_in_their_cars%29

content:
<p>
Boston thugs are outraged that
the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/cops-outraged-about-gps-tracking-plans-boston">city
plans to put GPS trackers in their official cars.</a>
<p>
These cars belong to the city, and their used for official work, so
personal privacy is not involved here.  Anyway, thugs while on duty
are not entitled to the
same <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">privacy
rights as an ordinary citizen.</a>


title: Supreme Court rejected challenge to legality of massive NSA surveillance
uri: Supreme-Court-rejected-challenge-to-legality-of-massive-NSA-surveillan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Supreme_Court_rejected_challenge_to_legality_of_massive_NSA_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Supreme_Court_rejected_challenge_to_legality_of_massive_NSA_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme
Court <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/scotus-phone-metadata-spying/">rejected
EPIC's challenge to the legality of massive NSA surveillance</a> of
American's phone calls.


title: Abusing copyright powers must be punished
uri: Abusing-copyright-powers-must-be-punished
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Abusing_copyright_powers_must_be_punished)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Abusing_copyright_powers_must_be_punished%29

content:
<p>
Abusing copyright
powers <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/we-must-start-punishing-copyright-monopoly-abuse-to-at-least-symmetry-131117/">must
be punished at least as hard as infringing copyright.</a>


title: US blogger imprisoned for disobeying prior censorship order
uri: US-blogger-imprisoned-for-disobeying-prior-censorship-order
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(US_blogger_imprisoned_for_disobeying_prior_censorship_order)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28US_blogger_imprisoned_for_disobeying_prior_censorship_order%29

content:
<p>
A US blogger has been imprisoned for disobeying an 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/united-states-blogger-held-after-ignoring-prior-14-11-2013,45450.html">unconstitutional
prior censorship order</a>.


title: Interview with organizers of anti-Assad militia in Syria
uri: Interview-with-organizers-of-anti-Assad-militia-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Interview_with_organizers_of_anti-Assad_militia_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Interview_with_organizers_of_anti-Assad_militia_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/18/syria-revolution-civil-war-conflict-rivalry">Interview
with the organizers</a> of an anti-Assad militia in Syria.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Change_in_the_sea)
title: Change in the sea
uri: Change-in-the-sea
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Change_in_the_sea%29
content:
<p>
How humans are changing the sea — 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/18/ocean-of-life-how-our-seas-are-changing-review">disastrously</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(Pope_Francis)
title: Pope Francis
uri: Pope-Francis
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28Pope_Francis%29
content:
<p>
When Pope Francis looks good, it is in contrast to the Church's record
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/18/pope-francis-liberal-bloody-sunday-catholic">bad,
bad, bad</a>.


title: UK universities working with thugs to repress student protest
uri: UK-universities-working-with-thugs-to-repress-student-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(UK_universities_working_with_thugs_to_repress_student_protest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28UK_universities_working_with_thugs_to_repress_student_protest%29

content:
<p>
UK universities are working with thugs to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/18/police-students-threat-law-and-order-politics">repress
student protest at the root</a>.
<p>
I think Michael Chessum made a mistake accepting release on the
condition that he not engage in protest in or near his university (let
alone others).  That neutralizes him semipermanently.
<p>
I would urge him to tell the court that he rejects the conditions and
will go to jail and be a political prisoner rather than legitimize
this repression.


title: UN climate chief says most coal reserves must be left in ground
uri: UN-climate-chief-says-most-coal-reserves-must-be-left-in-ground
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(UN_climate_chief_says_most_coal_reserves_must_be_left_in_ground)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28UN_climate_chief_says_most_coal_reserves_must_be_left_in_ground%29

content:
<p>
The UN climate chief told the World Coal Association that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2013/nov/19/warsaw-climate-talks-coal-pink-lungs">most
coal reserves must be left in the ground</a>.
<p>
Bravo!  But unless our governments stand behind this, coal will kill
us.


title: The NSA's Global Threat to Free Speech
uri: The-NSA-s-Global-Threat-to-Free-Speech
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(The_NSAs_Global_Threat_to_Free_Speech)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28The_NSAs_Global_Threat_to_Free_Speech%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/11/18/nsa-s-global-threat-free-speech">The
NSA's Global Threat to Free Speech</a>.


title: International agencies demand more austerity in Greece
uri: International-agencies-demand-more-austerity-in-Greece
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(International_agencies_demand_more_austerity_in_Greece)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28International_agencies_demand_more_austerity_in_Greece%29

content:
<p>
International agencies are demanding even more austerity in Greece,
despite the objection that this 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/18/greece-troika-lenders-anger-over-austerity">might
cause a revolution</a>.


title: US gov't owes Shaker Aamer apology and compensation
uri: US-gov-t-owes-Shaker-Aamer-apology-and-compensation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_November_2013_(US_govt_owes_Shaker_Aamer_apology_and_compensation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_November_2013_%28US_govt_owes_Shaker_Aamer_apology_and_compensation%29

content:
<p>
Shaker Aamer was interviewed on 60 Minutes, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/18/guantanamo-bay-british-resident">demanded
to be freed</a>.
<p>
Aamer and the others like him conclusively refute the claim that "If
you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear from the US
government."  The US government owes them an apology and compensation,
but most of all it must make sure not to repeat the offense with
anyone else.
<p>
David Hicks deserves an apology for the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/18/david-hicks-deserves-an-apology">torture
and unfair trial</a> that the US gave him.


title: 90 companies are responsible for most of global heating
uri: 90-companies-are-responsible-for-most-of-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(90_companies_are_responsible_for_most_of_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%2890_companies_are_responsible_for_most_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
90 companies
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/20/90-companies-man-made-global-warming-emissions-climate-change">responsible
for most of global heating.</a>


title: Costs that fossil fuel and global heating will impose
uri: Costs-that-fossil-fuel-and-global-heating-will-impose
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(Costs_that_fossil_fuel_and_global_heating_will_impose)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Costs_that_fossil_fuel_and_global_heating_will_impose%29

content:
<p>
Many businesses are recognizing
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/investors-fossil-fuel-climate-change">costs
that fossil fuel and global heating will impose on them.</a>
<p>
Investors are also pressuring fossil fuel companies to report on how
their profits would be affected if we cut emissions drastically by
2050.  I think the fossil fuel companies have already investigated
this and that their behavior
— <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_October_2013_%28BMW_and_Daimler_block_EU_requirement_to_limit_CO2_emissions%29">making
governments cancel or sabotage policies meant to reduce emissions</a>
— is their response.


title: International Violence Against Women Act
uri: International-Violence-Against-Women-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(International_Violence_Against_Women_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28International_Violence_Against_Women_Act%29

content:
<p>
The US should pass
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/20/international-violence-against-women-act-congress">International
Violence Against Women Act.</a>


title: Poor people in UK suffering from increasing endebtedness
uri: Poor-people-in-UK-suffering-from-increasing-endebtedness
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(Poor_people_in_UK_suffering_from_increasing_endebtedness)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Poor_people_in_UK_suffering_from_increasing_endebtedness%29

content:
<p>
Poor people in the UK
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/nov/20/personal-debt-mental-health-report">suffering
from increasing endebtedness,</a> which is also true in the US.


title: The next excuse for snooping on everything
uri: The-next-excuse-for-snooping-on-everything
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(The_next_excuse_for_snooping_on_everything)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28The_next_excuse_for_snooping_on_everything%29

content:
<p>
The next excuse for snooping on everything on the
Internet <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/18/david-cameron-gchq-child-abuse-images">will
be "child" pornography</a>.
<p>
The term "child abuse images" is deceptive: I think in practice it
includes teenagers labeled as "children", and stretches the word
"abuse" too.  However, some of these images will show real abuse of
real children.
<p>
The government should focus on protecting the children themselves, not
on censoring (and surveilling) all communication.


title: Urgent: Remove Koch brother from WGBH board
uri: Urgent-Remove-Koch-brother-from-WGBH-board
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(Urgent:_Remove_Koch_brother_from_WGBH_board)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_Koch_brother_from_WGBH_board%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/survey/connection_to_wgbh/">call
on WGBH</a> to remove the Koch brother from its board.


title: Urgent: End austerity and close tax loopholes in the US
uri: Urgent-End-austerity-and-close-tax-loopholes-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(Urgent:_End_austerity_and_close_tax_loopholes_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_End_austerity_and_close_tax_loopholes_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/november-18-online-federal-budget-day-of-action">phone
Congress on Dec 12</a> to end austerity and close tax loopholes.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Call on JP Morgan to pay its penalty
uri: Urgent-Call-on-JP-Morgan-to-pay-its-penalty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_JP_Morgan_to_pay_its_penalty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_JP_Morgan_to_pay_its_penalty%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/576">call on JP Morgan</a>
to pay its penalty and not shift it onto taxpayers.


title: Urgent: Oppose "fast-track authority" for the TPP
uri: Urgent-Oppose-fast-track-authority-for-the-TPP
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_fast-track_authority_for_the_TPP)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fast-track_authority_for_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/fast_track">this petition</a>
against "fast-track authority" for the TPP.
<p>
I've recommended several actions against the TPP; please do them all.
This is so bad that it's worth a few minutes of your time.


title: Urgent: Remove lead from aviation fuel
uri: Urgent-Remove-lead-from-aviation-fuel
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(Urgent:_Remove_lead_from_aviation_fuel)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_lead_from_aviation_fuel%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14605">call
on the EPA</a> to remove lead from aviation fuel.


title: Efforts to protect journalism in Iceland rendered ineffective
uri: Efforts-to-protect-journalism-in-Iceland-rendered-ineffective
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(Efforts_to_protect_journalism_in_Iceland_rendered_ineffective)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Efforts_to_protect_journalism_in_Iceland_rendered_ineffective%29

content:
<p>
Iceland's initiative to protect journalism may be rendered ineffective
by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/19/nsa-surveillance-iceland-free-speech">massive
surveillance that scares off sources</a>.


title: NSA provided information to other agencies
uri: NSA-provided-information-to-other-agencies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(NSA_provided_information_to_other_agencies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28NSA_provided_information_to_other_agencies%29

content:
<p>
The NSA defied the FISA court by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/19/fisa-court-documents-nsa-violations-privacy">providing
information to other agencies</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(Kenyan_anti-terror_thugs)
title: Kenyan anti-terror thugs
uri: Kenyan-anti-terror-thugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Kenyan_anti-terror_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The Kenyan anti-terror thugs are accused of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/19/kenya-human-rights-anti-terror-police-killings">killing
and disappearing people</a>.


title: Estimated cost of rebuilding the Philippines
uri: Estimated-cost-of-rebuilding-the-Philippines
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(Estimated_cost_of_rebuilding_the_Philippines)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Estimated_cost_of_rebuilding_the_Philippines%29

content:
<p>
New estimate for rebuilding the Philippines: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/19/typhoon-haiyan-rebuilding-cost-philippines">5
billion dollars</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(Socialism_in_the_US)
title: Socialism in the US
uri: Socialism-in-the-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Socialism_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
In the US, "Socialism" is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/19/seattle-socialist-city-council-kshama-sawant">no
longer tarred with the association of Communism</a>.
<p>
Nowadays, it's the US government that's spying on everyone, even worse
than the Soviet government did.


title: Urgent: Support Elizabeth Warren's pledge to expand Social Security
uri: Urgent-Support-Elizabeth-Warren-s-pledge-to-expand-Social-Security
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Elizabeth_Warrens_pledge_to_expand_Social_Security)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Elizabeth_Warrens_pledge_to_expand_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://my.elizabethwarren.com/page/s/socialsecurity">support
Elizabeth Warren's pledge</a> to expand Social Security.


title: 132 poor countries walk out of global heating conference in Warsaw
uri: 132-poor-countries-walk-out-of-global-heating-conference-in-Warsaw
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(132_poor_countries_walk_out_of_global_heating_conference_in_Warsaw)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28132_poor_countries_walk_out_of_global_heating_conference_in_Warsaw%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/20/climate-talks-walk-out-compensation-un-warsaw">132
poor countries have walked out</a> of the global heating conference in
Warsaw because the richer countries refused to discuss compensation.
<p>
The poor countries want compensation for the tremendous cost of
weather disasters caused by rich countries' CO<sub>2</sub> emissions,
such as 5 billion dollars to rebuild in the Philippines after just one
superstorm.
<p>
A billion Africans face dangers such as 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/20/climate-change-adaptation-cost-destabilise-african-countries">hunger
and flooding</a>, and likely resulting war.
<p>
With rich countries cutting their CO<sub>2</sub> commitments, it looks
like the talks are failing entirely and we are on a track towards
almost 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2013/nov/21/warsaw-climate-change-conference-global-warming">4C
of heating</a>.
<p>
It has been clear for several years that the rich countries'
governments, in thrall to fossil fuel companies, are determined to
continue making this problem worse.  Negotiating with them is useless,
and serves as cover for making things worse, much like the useless
"peace process" between Israel and Palestine.
<p>
Overt rupture might be good since it would show the world that
we are heading for disaster.


title: Why massive surveillance developed in the US
uri: Why-massive-surveillance-developed-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Why_massive_surveillance_developed_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Why_massive_surveillance_developed_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Massive surveillance developed in the US because 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/20/how-nsa-spying-got-this-bad-fisa-secret-court">a
pliant court operated in secret</a>.


title: Students don't want to pay to study neoclassical economics
uri: Students-don-t-want-to-pay-to-study-neoclassical-economics
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Students_dont_want_to_pay_to_study_neoclassical_economics)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Students_dont_want_to_pay_to_study_neoclassical_economics%29

content:
<p>
Students 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/20/orthodox-economists-failed-market-test">don't
want to pay to study neoclassical economics</a>, especially now that
it has catastrophically failed.
<p>
Neoclassical economics is a pseudoscience cult that gives academic
respectability to Reagan's bogus trickle-down economics.  How did
university departments end up hiring mostly cultists?  Influence of
the rich, that trickle-down was meant to serve, must have played some
role.  I think it would be interesting to investigate how this
occurred.


title: Skype allowed to send data from Europe to the US
uri: Skype-allowed-to-send-data-from-Europe-to-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Skype_allowed_to_send_data_from_Europe_to_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Skype_allowed_to_send_data_from_Europe_to_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Making a monkey out of European data protection law, Luxembourg ruled
that Skype is 
<a href="http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number11.22/luxembourg-dpa-decision-skype-microsoft">allowed
to send data to the US and the NSA</a>.


title: Anti-Net neutrality proposal in the hands of EU Parliament
uri: Anti-Net-neutrality-proposal-in-the-hands-of-EU-Parliament
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Anti-Net_neutrality_proposal_in_the_hands_of_EU_Parliament)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Anti-Net_neutrality_proposal_in_the_hands_of_EU_Parliament%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/will-the-eu-parliament-enable-discrimination-online-or-uncompromising-net-neutrality">Will
the EU Parliament Enable Discrimination Online or Uncompromising Net
Neutrality</a>?


title: Obama says one thing, does the opposite
uri: Obama-says-one-thing-does-the-opposite
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Obama_says_one_thing,_does_the_opposite)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Obama_says_one_thing%2C_does_the_opposite%29

content:
<p>
Obama says he's for legalizing unlocking of cell phones,
but he's 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/11/18/tpp_wikileaks_white_house_claims_to_support_cellphone_unlocking_but_treaty.html">pushing
for the TPP</a> to insist on banning it.


title: Senators join lawsuit against massive surveillance
uri: Senators-join-lawsuit-against-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Senators_join_lawsuit_against_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Senators_join_lawsuit_against_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Senators joined a lawsuit, claiming there is 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/us-senators-say-theres-no-evidence-bulk-metadata-surveillance-is-useful/">no
evidence that massive metadata surveillance is "useful"</a>.
<p>
We should not base our argument on the claim that this can never do
even the tiniest "good".  It's hard to keep batting exactly zero
forever even if you're totally inept, so maybe someday this
surveillance will turn out to be helpful for <em>something</em>
positive.  If that happens, that won't be enough to justify it.


title: The forces pushing for bankruptcy in Detroit
uri: The-forces-pushing-for-bankruptcy-in-Detroit
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(The_forces_pushing_for_bankruptcy_in_Detroit)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28The_forces_pushing_for_bankruptcy_in_Detroit%29

content:
<p>
A report accuses the forces pushing for bankruptcy in Detroit have
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/detroit-accused-exaggerating-18bn-debts">greatly
exaggerated the city's debt</a>.
<p>
I suspect some persons or businesses hope to make a lot of money
from this bankruptcy.  Who are they?


title: Putting an end to trafficking and forced labor
uri: Putting-an-end-to-trafficking-and-forced-labor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Putting_an_end_to_trafficking_and_forced_labor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Putting_an_end_to_trafficking_and_forced_labor%29

content:
<p>
Trafficking and forced labor 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/nov/20/forced-labour-in-supply-chains">follow
patterns</a> which could be followed to put an end to the practice.
<p>
I suspect that the reason the UK does not trace these patterns and put
an end to the practice is a lack of will.  For instance, the major
supermarket chains pressure farm to cut prices, and the supermarkets
will be happy if farms do that by means of forced, trafficked workers
— as long as the supermarkets are not punished for it.
<p>
If supermarkets were fined 100 times the retain value of any products
they sell that are found to have been made with forced labor, they
would put an end to the practice for sure.


title: Right-wing think tanks receive $80 million from mysterious sources
uri: Right-wing-think-tanks-receive-80-million-from-mysterious-sources
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Right-wing_think_tanks_receive_$80_million_from_mysterious_sources)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Right-wing_think_tanks_receive_%2480_million_from_mysterious_sources%29

content:
<p>
A network of 64 right-wing think tanks received over $80 million in
money of 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/11/12311/tracie-sharp-bursar-mystery-money-and-ikea-model-materials-stinktanks">mysterious
origin</a>.
<p>
<a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12302">More information</a>.


title: Foreign exchange trading needs to be taxed for stability
uri: Foreign-exchange-trading-needs-to-be-taxed-for-stability
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Foreign_exchange_trading_needs_to_be_taxed_for_stability)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Foreign_exchange_trading_needs_to_be_taxed_for_stability%29

content:
<p>
Most foreign exchange trading is speculation; for stability, we need
to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/20/money-trading-economy-foreign-exchange-markets-economy">tax
these trades</a>.


title: Poor people in UK suffering from increasing indebtedness
uri: Poor-people-in-UK-suffering-from-increasing-indebtedness
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_November_2013_(Poor_people_in_UK_suffering_from_increasing_indebtedness)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Poor_people_in_UK_suffering_from_increasing_indebtedness%29

content:
<p>
Poor people in the UK
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/nov/20/personal-debt-mental-health-report">suffering
from increasing indebtedness,</a> which is also true in the US.


title: Canada's Refusal to Protect Polar Bears Scrutinised
uri: Canada-s-Refusal-to-Protect-Polar-Bears-Scrutinised
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Canada's_Refusal_to_Protect_Polar_Bears_Scrutinised)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Canada%27s_Refusal_to_Protect_Polar_Bears_Scrutinised%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/21/canada-refusal-protect-polar-bears-endangered-america">Canada's
Refusal to Protect Polar Bears Scrutinised.</a>
<p>
It is a rational policy in a way.  If you are determined to run our
whole planet off the climate cliff, and destroy most of the existing
species before human civilization ceases to be capable of causing more
heating, why spend any money on a doomed attempt to protect one of
them?


title: Men can reject the social pressure to be "masculine"
uri: Men-can-reject-the-social-pressure-to-be-masculine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Men_can_reject_the_social_pressure_to_be_masculine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Men_can_reject_the_social_pressure_to_be_masculine%29

content:
<p>
Men can reject the social pressure to be
"masculine", <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/be-that-guy-movement-end-violence-against-women">meaning
tough with themselves and cruel to women.</a>


title: Greenpeace and other organizations warn governments to expect rebellion
uri: Greenpeace-and-other-organizations-warn-governments-to-expect-rebellio
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Greenpeace_and_other_organizations_warn_governments_to_expect_rebellion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Greenpeace_and_other_organizations_warn_governments_to_expect_rebellion%29

content:
<p>
Greenpeace and other
organizations <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/21/climate-change-increase-civil-unrest-warning">warn
governments to expect rebellion around the world if they do not curb
global heating.</a>
<p>
They and other
organizations <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/21/mass-walk-out-un-climate-talks-warsaw">held
a walkout protest at the climate talks</a> because of the visible lack
of ambition to avoid disaster.
<p>
It is still possible to avoid 2C of global heating, but it will
require
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/21/climate-change-2c-rise">denying
the plutocrats the increased riches they want.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/21/world-delay-drastic-emissions-cuts">But
we have to start right away</a> — which Australia, Canada and
the US will not allow.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(GCHQ_is_in_trouble)
title: GCHQ is in trouble
uri: GCHQ-is-in-trouble
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28GCHQ_is_in_trouble%29
content:
<p>
GCHQ is in trouble
for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/21/sir-malcolm-rifkind-gchq-report-nsa-data-storage">helping
the NSA spy on Britons.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Urgent:_Free_Yorm_Bopha)
title: Urgent: Free Yorm Bopha
uri: Urgent-Free-Yorm-Bopha
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Free_Yorm_Bopha%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=520444">call on Cambodia</a> to free housing activist Yorm Bopha.


title: Urgent: Pledge to boycott GAP, Old Navy and Banana Republic
uri: Urgent-Pledge-to-boycott-GAP-Old-Navy-and-Banana-Republic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Urgent:_Pledge_to_boycott_GAP,_Old_Navy_and_Banana_Republic)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Pledge_to_boycott_GAP%2C_Old_Navy_and_Banana_Republic%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://other98.com/shop-your-values-not-sweatshops">Pledge to
boycott GAP, Old Navy and Banana Republic</a> until they sign the
agreement to enforce fair labor standards in Bangladesh.


title: Urgent: Support the Women's Health Protection Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Women-s-Health-Protection-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Urgent:_Support_the_Womens_Health_Protection_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Womens_Health_Protection_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call your congresscritter to support the Women's Health
Protection Act.  Also sign 
<a href="https://secure.prochoiceamerica.org/site/Advocacy;?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5775">this petition</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Support Green Party's budget approach
uri: Urgent-Support-Green-Party-s-budget-approach
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_November_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Green_Partys_budget_approach)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Green_Partys_budget_approach%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/civicrm/petition/sign?sid=1&reset=1">support</a>
the Green Party's budget approach.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_November_2013_(Decriminalizing_file-sharing)
title: Decriminalizing file-sharing
uri: Decriminalizing-file-sharing
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_November_2013_%28Decriminalizing_file-sharing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/european-parliament-considers-decriminalizing-file-sharing-131109/">European
Parliament Members Explore Decriminalizing File-Sharing</a>.


title: Spain to impose heavy fines on protesters
uri: Spain-to-impose-heavy-fines-on-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_November_2013_(Spain_to_impose_heavy_fines_on_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_November_2013_%28Spain_to_impose_heavy_fines_on_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Spain's right-wing austerity government plans to impose 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/spain-government-strict-anti-protest-laws">heavy
fines on protesters, without trial</a>.
<p>
You can send your images of Spanish thugs to me; I will find a way to
publish them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_November_2013_(The_Insanity_of_Our_Food_Policy)
title: The Insanity of Our Food Policy
uri: The-Insanity-of-Our-Food-Policy
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_November_2013_%28The_Insanity_of_Our_Food_Policy%29

content:
<p>
Joseph Stiglitz: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/17-3">The Insanity
of Our Food Policy</a>.


title: US Senate abolishes filibusters for presidential nominees
uri: US-Senate-abolishes-filibusters-for-presidential-nominees
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_November_2013_(US_Senate_abolishes_filibusters_for_presidential_nominees)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_November_2013_%28US_Senate_abolishes_filibusters_for_presidential_nominees%29

content:
<p>
The US Senate has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/harry-reid-senate-rules-republican-filibusters-nominations">abolished
filibusters for presidential nominees</a>.
<p>
This will put an end to one form of systematic Republican
obstructionism: blocking all Democratic appointments, not bothering to
judge them individually.


title: Corporate sponsorship of UN client negotiations
uri: Corporate-sponsorship-of-UN-client-negotiations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_November_2013_(Corporate_sponsorship_of_UN_client_negotiations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_November_2013_%28Corporate_sponsorship_of_UN_client_negotiations%29

content:
<p>
The UN client negotiations now have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/cop-19-warsaw-climate-change-corporations-conference">corporate
sponsors</a>, in effect corrupting the negotiations directly in
addition to the older indirect corruption through governments.


title: Irish women ask UN to denounce restrictive abortion law
uri: Irish-women-ask-UN-to-denounce-restrictive-abortion-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_November_2013_(Irish_women_ask_UN_to_denounce_restrictive_abortion_law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_November_2013_%28Irish_women_ask_UN_to_denounce_restrictive_abortion_law%29

content:
<p>
Irish women asked the UN to denounce 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/irish-abortion-ban-un-human-rights-medical-reasons">Ireland's
restrictive abortion law</a>.
<p>
Nicaragua's is 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2009-jul-oct.html#29%20July%202009%20(Nicaragua:%20total%20ban%20on%20abortion)">even worse</a>.


title: UK thugs use blackmail and bribery to recruit informers
uri: UK-thugs-use-blackmail-and-bribery-to-recruit-informers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_November_2013_(UK_thugs_use_blackmail_and_bribery_to_recruit_informers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_November_2013_%28UK_thugs_use_blackmail_and_bribery_to_recruit_informers%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs use 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2013/nov/21/undercover-police-and-policing-ukcrime">blackmail
and bribery</a> to recruit informers in activist groups.


title: Kuwait: 5 Years for Tweet 'Insulting' Prophet
uri: Kuwait-5-Years-for-Tweet-Insulting-Prophet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_November_2013_(Kuwait_5_Years_for_Tweet_Insulting_Prophet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_November_2013_%28Kuwait_5_Years_for_Tweet_Insulting_Prophet%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/11/19/kuwait-5-years-tweet-insulting-prophet">Kuwait:
5 Years for Tweet 'Insulting' Prophet</a>.


title: India's greatest hero of freedom and justice
uri: India-s-greatest-hero-of-freedom-and-justice
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Indias_greatest_hero_of_freedom_and_justice)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Indias_greatest_hero_of_freedom_and_justice%29

content:
<p>
India's greatest hero of freedom and justice,
<a href="http://caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/caste-iron">Dr.
Ambedkar</a>, tends to be ignored by upper-caste Hindus.


title: Norwegian ministers say NSA lied to them
uri: Norwegian-ministers-say-NSA-lied-to-them
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Norwegian_ministers_say_NSA_lied_to_them)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Norwegian_ministers_say_NSA_lied_to_them%29

content:
<p>
Norwegian ministers say the NSA falsely told them it wasn't doing
<a href="http://www.thelocal.no/20131119/nsa-recorded-m-phone-calls-of-nato-ally-norway">massive
surveillance of activities of Norwegians</a>.


title: Sweden to give thugs unlimited power to tap phone and email
uri: Sweden-to-give-thugs-unlimited-power-to-tap-phone-and-email
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Sweden_to_give_thugs_unlimited_power_to_tap_phone_and_email)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Sweden_to_give_thugs_unlimited_power_to_tap_phone_and_email%29

content:
<p>
Sweden plans to give thugs and various agencies 
<a href="http://falkvinge.net/2013/11/19/swedish-regime-to-give-police-customs-tax-authorities-realtime-access-to-citizens-phone-mail-more/">unlimited
and unchecked power</a> to tap any and all phone calls and emails.


title: Fossil fuel divestment campaigns at US colleges and universities
uri: Fossil-fuel-divestment-campaigns-at-US-colleges-and-universities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_November_2013_(Fossil_fuel_divestment_campaigns_at_US_colleges_and_universities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_November_2013_%28Fossil_fuel_divestment_campaigns_at_US_colleges_and_universities%29

content:
<p>
Campaigns to divest from fossil fuels are moving at 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/fossil-fuel-company-divestment-climate-change">400
US colleges and universities</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Urgent:_Change_YouTube_policies)
title: Urgent: Change YouTube policies
uri: Urgent-Change-YouTube-policies
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Change_YouTube_policies%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=RWWYouTubeTakeDown">call
on Google</a> to change YouTube policies to prevent people from sabotaging
a channel via false complaints of copyright infringement.


title: Urgent: Regulation of fracking on public land
uri: Urgent-Regulation-of-fracking-on-public-land
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Urgent:_Regulation_of_fracking_on_public_land)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Regulation_of_fracking_on_public_land%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy;?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2199">call
on your senators</a> to oppose Senator Hatch's bill that would ban
regulation of fracking on public lands.


title: UN resolution affirming privacy rights
uri: UN-resolution-affirming-privacy-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(UN_resolution_affirming_privacy_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28UN_resolution_affirming_privacy_rights%29

content:
<p>
The US, UK and Australia failed in the attempt to undermine and
sabotage a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/un-surveillance-resolution-us-uk-dilute-language">UN
resolution affirming privacy rights</a>.


title: Detectives try to protect quarterback from charges of rape
uri: Detectives-try-to-protect-quarterback-from-charges-of-rape
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Detectives_try_to_protect_quarterback_from_charges_of_rape)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Detectives_try_to_protect_quarterback_from_charges_of_rape%29

content:
<p>
When a woman accused a Florida State University quarterback of rape,
detectives tried to protect him and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/woman-fsu-sexual-assault-police-drop-claim">pressure
her to drop the charges</a>.


title: UK students from poor families will suffer from new budget cuts
uri: UK-students-from-poor-families-will-suffer-from-new-budget-cuts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(UK_students_from_poor_families_will_suffer_from_new_budget_cuts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28UK_students_from_poor_families_will_suffer_from_new_budget_cuts%29

content:
<p>
Half a million UK students from poor
families <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/nov/22/poorest-students-face-350m-cuts">will
suffer from a new budget cut.</a>
<p>
This and more austerity in the UK stem from subservience to businesses
that want
to <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_November_2013_%28The_Great_Austerity_Shell_Game%29">extract
money from the country and pay little tax.</a>
<p>
Corporations claim US taxes are too
high.  <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=298455&qid=2056752">Here's
how that is a lie.</a>


title: Boycott of the Olympic Games in Russia
uri: Boycott-of-the-Olympic-Games-in-Russia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Boycott_of_the_Olympic_Games_in_Russia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Boycott_of_the_Olympic_Games_in_Russia%29

content:
<p>
Nadia
Tolokonnikova <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/22/philosophers-support-pussy-riot-protester">endorses
the boycott of the Olympic Games in Russia.</a>


title: Urgent: Protect some species of bats that face the danger of extinction
uri: Urgent-Protect-some-species-of-bats-that-face-the-danger-of-extinctio
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Urgent:_Protect_some_species_of_bats_that_face_the_danger_of_extinction)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_some_species_of_bats_that_face_the_danger_of_extinction%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Fish and Wildlife Service
to <a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2671">protect
some species of bats that face the danger of extinction from
white-nose fungus</a>.


title: Urgent: Accurate and non-prudish sex education
uri: Urgent-Accurate-and-non-prudish-sex-education
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Urgent:_Accurate_and_non-prudish_sex_education)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Accurate_and_non-prudish_sex_education%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: call
for <a href="https://secure.prochoiceamerica.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=EC2C4D25DD1F9A8CC00DFDBA947467EA.app245a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5777&autologin=true">accurate
and non-prudish sex education.</a>


title: Corporate Espionage and the Secret War Against Citizen Activism
uri: Corporate-Espionage-and-the-Secret-War-Against-Citizen-Activism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Corporate_Espionage_and_the_Secret_War_Against_Citizen_Activism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Corporate_Espionage_and_the_Secret_War_Against_Citizen_Activism%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/21-3">Corporate
Espionage and the Secret War Against Citizen Activism.</a>
<p>
Companies implicated include Walmart, Monsanto, Bank of America, Dow
Chemical, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Chevron, Burger King, McDonald


title: Congressman votes for harsh punishments for drug users other than himself
uri: Congressman-votes-for-harsh-punishments-for-drug-users-other-than-hims
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Congressman_votes_for_harsh_punishments_for_drug_users_other_than_himself)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Congressman_votes_for_harsh_punishments_for_drug_users_other_than_himself%29

content:
<p>
A Republican Congressman will be sentenced to probation for buying
cocaine, which he called a "disease" in his own case, but he 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/21-9">voted to
impose drug tests on Americans that get food stamps and for punishing
them harshly</a>.


title: Thousands Protest in Japan against New State Secrets Bill
uri: Thousands-Protest-in-Japan-against-New-State-Secrets-Bill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Thousands_Protest_in_Japan_against_New_State_Secrets_Bill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Thousands_Protest_in_Japan_against_New_State_Secrets_Bill%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://rt.com/news/japan-secrets-bill-protests-133/">Thousands
Protest in Japan against New State Secrets Bill</a>, which would
punish whistleblowers severely.
<p>
There a world-wide wave of increasing government surveillance and
secrecy power, as various governments preemptively attack human rights
and democracy before the movement builds up to defend them.


title: FBI acts as buffer between Internet company staff and NSA
uri: FBI-acts-as-buffer-between-Internet-company-staff-and-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(FBI_acts_as_buffer_between_Internet_company_staff_and_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28FBI_acts_as_buffer_between_Internet_company_staff_and_NSA%29

content:
<p>
The FBI acts as a buffer to keep Internet company staff 
<a href="http://rt.com/usa/fbi-ditu-aids-nsa-surveillance-131/">unaware
that they are working for the NSA</a>.


title: EU proposes to ban sale of unregistered seed varieties
uri: EU-proposes-to-ban-sale-of-unregistered-seed-varieties
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(EU_proposes_to_ban_sale_of_unregistered_seed_varieties)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28EU_proposes_to_ban_sale_of_unregistered_seed_varieties%29

content:
<p>
The EU proposes to ban 
<a href="http://londonfreedomseedbank.wordpress.com/raising-awareness/eu-seed-law/">sale
of unregistered seed varieties</a>.  Registration is so expensive that
many varieties (especially for home gardeners) will disappear, along
with the small seed companies that sell them.


title: Asylum seeker fasting to death in UK prison
uri: Asylum-seeker-fasting-to-death-in-UK-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Asylum_seeker_fasting_to_death_in_UK_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Asylum_seeker_fasting_to_death_in_UK_prison%29

content:
<p>
Isa Muazu is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/20/asylum-seeker-human-beings-dying-muazu-hunger-strike">fasting
to death in prison</a> in the UK rather than return to Nigeria.
<p>
I don't know whether Muazu has a valid claim for asylum — in
particular, this article does not show whether he has a real reason to
fear being attacked by Boko Haram.  However, a system that is rigged
so that people with a valid claim can't prove it is prima facie
unjust.


title: Supreme Court allows law designed to make abortion unavailable
uri: Supreme-Court-allows-law-designed-to-make-abortion-unavailable
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Supreme_Court_allows_law_designed_to_make_abortion_unavailable)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Supreme_Court_allows_law_designed_to_make_abortion_unavailable%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom-womens-rights/dark-day-texas-women-dark-day-justice">allowed
a Texas law to take effect</a>, which imposes restrictions on abortion
designed for no reason except to make it unavailable.
<p>
This is not a final decision about the law's constitutionality; that
remains to be considered.  But it seems to imply the court is
considering declaring it constitutional.
<p>
In effect, the right-wing US Supreme Court has found a way to negate
the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, by allowing states
to ban it indirectly.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Automated_virus_synthesizer)
title: Automated virus synthesizer
uri: Automated-virus-synthesizer
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Automated_virus_synthesizer%29
content:
<p>
If you think 3D-printed guns are dangerous, consider an 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/science/developing-a-fax-machine-to-copy-life-on-mars.html?pagewanted=all">automated
virus synthesizer</a>.


title: Healthcare.gov contractor making lots of money from doing bad job
uri: Healthcare-gov-contractor-making-lots-of-money-from-doing-bad-job
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Healthcare.gov_contractor_making_lots_of_money_from_doing_bad_job)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Healthcare.gov_contractor_making_lots_of_money_from_doing_bad_job%29

content:
<p>
The contractor responsible for the failing Healthcare.gov site is
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/11/cgi_group_stock_price_theontractor_behind_obamacare_s_bum_website_is_doing.html">making
lots of money</a> from doing a bad job.
<p>
I suspect this is because the system was delivered to the US as
nonfree software so that no other company could even try to fix it.


title: Tony Blair let NSA spy on millions of UK citizens
uri: Tony-Blair-let-NSA-spy-on-millions-of-UK-citizens
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Tony_Blair_let_NSA_spy_on_millions_of_UK_citizens)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Tony_Blair_let_NSA_spy_on_millions_of_UK_citizens%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/21-3">Tony Blair
let the American NSA Spy on Millions of Britons and Store their
Private Data</a>.
<p>
Here's more detail of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-deal-surveillance-personal-data">what
the UK allows the NSA to do to UK citizens</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Problems_with_breeder_reactors)
title: Problems with breeder reactors
uri: Problems-with-breeder-reactors
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Problems_with_breeder_reactors%29

content:
<p>
CNN broadcast a misleading and one-sided pitch for breeder reactors.
Here are the 
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/07/opinion/lyman-nuclear-pandora/">problems</a>
that it did not mention.


title: People killed for no apparent reason in Central African Republic
uri: People-killed-for-no-apparent-reason-in-Central-African-Republic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(People_killed_for_no_apparent_reason_in_Central_African_Republic)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28People_killed_for_no_apparent_reason_in_Central_African_Republic%29

content:
<p>
A militia or militias have taken over the Central African Republic and
kill helpless people for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/22/central-african-republic-verge-of-genocide">no
obvious reason</a>.


title: Google might be able to smash Chinese internet censorship
uri: Google-might-be-able-to-smash-Chinese-internet-censorship
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Google_might_be_able_to_smash_Chinese_internet_censorship)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Google_might_be_able_to_smash_Chinese_internet_censorship%29

content:
<p>
Google might be able to smash Chinese internet censorship, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/22/google-end-china-web-censorship-10-days">if
it dares try</a>.


title: PM Cameron calls investment in renewable energy "green crap"
uri: PM-Cameron-calls-investment-in-renewable-energy-green-crap
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(PM_Cameron_calls_investment_in_renewable_energy_green_crap)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28PM_Cameron_calls_investment_in_renewable_energy_green_crap%29

content:
<p>
Prime Minister Cameron privately called investment in renewable energy
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/21/david-cameron-green-crap-comments-storm'>green
crap</a>".


title: Russia threatens economic warfare against Ukraine
uri: Russia-threatens-economic-warfare-against-Ukraine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Russia_threatens_economic_warfare_against_Ukraine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Russia_threatens_economic_warfare_against_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Russia threatened 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/22/russia-ukraine-eu-pact-lithuania">economic
warfare against Ukraine</a> to make Ukraine break off plans for a
closer trade relationship with the EU.
<p>
Russia is not alone in this.  The US uses threats of economic warfare
to bully countries into imposing 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#14_April_2013_(The_US_bullies_Spain)">anti-sharing
laws that repress their citizens</a>.


title: Walmart workers to protest through "black Friday"
uri: Walmart-workers-to-protest-through-black-Friday
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Walmart_workers_to_protest_through_black_Friday)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Walmart_workers_to_protest_through_black_Friday%29

content:
<p>
Walmart workers plan protests 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/11/21-5">now
through "black Friday"</a>, Nov 29.


title: Ironic history of decades of war in Afghanistan
uri: Ironic-history-of-decades-of-war-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_November_2013_(Ironic_history_of_decades_of_war_in_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_November_2013_%28Ironic_history_of_decades_of_war_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/167440/ideology-and-electricity-soviet-experience-afghanistan">ironic
history</a> of decades of war in Afghanistan.
<p>
How the inhabitants see the US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/afghans-see-america-cowboys-enemy-partner">today</a>.
<p>
The latter article refers to the former for the claim that the
Mujahedeen were ideologically united with the Communists by hatred for
the US, but I can't see any sign of that in the former article.


title: Anti-drone activists acquitted of charges
uri: Anti-drone-activists-acquitted-of-charges
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Anti-drone_activists_acquitted_of_charges)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Anti-drone_activists_acquitted_of_charges%29

content:
<p>
Anti-drone activists who protested at Hancock Air Force Base were
acquitted of charges after demonstrating they
were <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/31-6">actually
helping the US to follow the constitution.</a>


title: Interim agreement limiting Iran's uranium enrichment
uri: Interim-agreement-limiting-Iran-s-uranium-enrichment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Interim_agreement_limiting_Iran's_uranium_enrichment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Interim_agreement_limiting_Iran%27s_uranium_enrichment%29

content:
<p>
The US and Iran
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/24/iran-nuclear-deal-west-sanctions-relief">made
an interim agreement limiting Iran's uranium enrichment.</a>
<p>
The deal calls for diluting Iran's 20%-enriched uranium, which would
put any possible nuclear weapon further away.
<p>
Netanyahu hates this deal, for understandable reasons: it will deny
him the chance to get the US and Iran into war, and he will no longer
be able to cite Iran to distract attention from the occupation of
Palestine.


title: Repression that theocratic Christians want to impose on homosexuals
uri: Repression-that-theocratic-Christians-want-to-impose-on-homosexuals
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Repression_that_theocratic_Christians_want_to_impose_on_homosexuals)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Repression_that_theocratic_Christians_want_to_impose_on_homosexuals%29

content:
<p>
Uganda illustrates
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/23/uganda-no-country-gay-men">repression
that theocratic Christians want to impose on homosexuals
everywhere</a>, including in the US.


title: Iron age hill fort of Oswestry will be covered by new housing
uri: Iron-age-hill-fort-of-Oswestry-will-be-covered-by-new-housing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Iron_age_hill_fort_of_Oswestry_will_be_covered_by_new_housing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Iron_age_hill_fort_of_Oswestry_will_be_covered_by_new_housing%29

content:
<p>
Thanks to the UK's deregulation of planning,
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/24/old-oswestry-hill-fort-housing-threat">iron
age hill fort of Oswestry will be covered by new housing</a>.


title: UK took charity funds and spent it on Olympic Park
uri: UK-took-charity-funds-and-spent-it-on-Olympic-Park
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(UK_took_charity_funds_and_spent_it_on_Olympic_Park)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28UK_took_charity_funds_and_spent_it_on_Olympic_Park%29

content:
<p>
The UK took money from funds for normally local charities
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/24/charities-anger-olympics-budget">spent
it on the Olympic Park</a>. At the time, the government promised to
make up the loss, but it seems to be breaking that promise.
<p>
The Olympic Games leave behind debt, surveillance and repression; if
there is a proposal to hold them in your city, organize now to push
them away.


title: South African thugs who massacred striking miners
uri: South-African-thugs-who-massacred-striking-miners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(South_African_thugs_who_massacred_striking_miners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28South_African_thugs_who_massacred_striking_miners%29

content:
<p>
There is evidence that the South African thugs who massacred striking
miners had met with the mine management
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/24/lonmin-mine-shooting-police">made
a plan to break the strike.</a> This was designed to promote an
ANC-associated union and block the acceptance of an independent and
more vigorous union.
<p>
I don't think the ANC has done anything good since Nelson Mandela
ceased to be president.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Azerbaijan_corrupts_UK_MPs)
title: Azerbaijan corrupts UK MPs
uri: Azerbaijan-corrupts-UK-MPs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Azerbaijan_corrupts_UK_MPs%29
content:
<p>
An "independent" organization run by a relative of a minister of
Azerbaijan
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/24/azerbaijan-caviar-diplomacy-for-mps">corrupts
UK MPs with expensive vacations and parties.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Floating_windfarms)
title: Floating windfarms
uri: Floating-windfarms
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Floating_windfarms%29
content:
<p>
Floating windfarms
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/24/windfarms-float-on-sea-greener-future">cheaper
and can be located further away from the shore</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Politico's_Playbook)
title: Politico's "Playbook"
uri: Politico-s-Playbook
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Politico%27s_Playbook%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/11/22/politicos-pay-to-play/">sponsors
of Politico's "Playbook" seem to get favorable "news" coverage
there</a> that agrees with their ads.


title: Sued for posting official German safety standards
uri: Sued-for-posting-official-German-safety-standards
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Sued_for_posting_official_German_safety_standards)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Sued_for_posting_official_German_safety_standards%29

content:
<p>
Carl Malamud is being sued for posting 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/11/21/germany-threatens-to-jail-carl.html">official
German safety standards</a>, which the state is charging substantial
amounts to see.


title: Censorship at London School of Economics
uri: Censorship-at-London-School-of-Economics
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Censorship_at_London_School_of_Economics)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Censorship_at_London_School_of_Economics%29

content:
<p>
Two students at the London School of Economics sold atheist and
secularist books while wearing
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#18_February_2012_(Religious_People)">Jesus
and Mo</a> shirts, and met with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/23/censorship-in-uk-universities">censorship
from the university and the student union</a>.
<p>
I think the article generalizes too far about leftist students; I am
sure many of them are not inclined to support such censorship.


title: Registered voters in Kansas blocked from voting
uri: Registered-voters-in-Kansas-blocked-from-voting
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Registered_voters_in_Kansas_blocked_from_voting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Registered_voters_in_Kansas_blocked_from_voting%29

content:
<p>
Many registered voters in Kansas have been 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/kansas-voters-deserve-equality">blocked
from voting in state elections</a>.


title: 40% of workers for US businesses get no sick days
uri: 40-of-workers-for-US-businesses-get-no-sick-days
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(40_percent_of_workers_for_US_businesses_get_no_sick_days)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%2840_percent_of_workers_for_US_businesses_get_no_sick_days%29

content:
<p>
40% of workers for US businesses get no sick days and 
<a href="http://socialistworker.org/2013/11/21/getting-sick-can-be-hazardous">can
be fired if they miss a day of work for getting sick</a>.
<p>
Bills are being considered in 10 states to ban cities from taking
steps to protect workers from this.
<p>
The US government is a government of occupation on behalf of the
plutocrats.


title: China uses pandas as bargaining chips
uri: China-uses-pandas-as-bargaining-chips
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(China_uses_pandas_as_bargaining_chips)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28China_uses_pandas_as_bargaining_chips%29

content:
<p>
China lends pandas to countries as bargaining chips for 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/22/2984991/panda-diplomacy-uranium/">dirty
trade deals</a>.


title: Obama has shut out almost all press photographers
uri: Obama-has-shut-out-almost-all-press-photographers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Obama_has_shut_out_almost_all_press_photographers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Obama_has_shut_out_almost_all_press_photographers%29

content:
<p>
Obama has 
<a href="https://nppa.org/node/64152">shut out press photographers</a>
almost 100%.


title: Syrian refugees subject to iris scanning biometric ID
uri: Syrian-refugees-subject-to-iris-scanning-biometric-ID
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Syrian_refugees_subject_to_iris_scanning_biometric_ID)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Syrian_refugees_subject_to_iris_scanning_biometric_ID%29

content:
<p>
Aid for Syrian refugees is serving as a test platform for 
<a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/rush-to-aid-syrians-overlooks-protecting-right-to-privacy">iris
scanning biometric ID</a>, which is almost compulsory for them.


title: Internet freedom in India under attack
uri: Internet-freedom-in-India-under-attack
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Internet_freedom_in_India_under_attack)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Internet_freedom_in_India_under_attack%29

content:
<p>
Internet freedom in India is 
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/11/india-online-report-freedom-expression-digital-freedom/">under
attack from all directions</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_GMO_salmon)
title: Urgent: Oppose GMO salmon
uri: Urgent-Oppose-GMO-salmon
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_GMO_salmon%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/deadline_fda_salmon">tell the
FDA</a> not to approve GMO salmon.
<p>
These fish could cause 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2010-sep-dec.html#21%20November%202010%20(FWS%20on%20GM%20salmon)">harm
to wild salmon</a>.


title: NSA strategy to collect even more data about everyone
uri: NSA-strategy-to-collect-even-more-data-about-everyone
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(NSA_strategy_to_collect_even_more_data_about_everyone)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28NSA_strategy_to_collect_even_more_data_about_everyone%29

content:
<p>
With all the massive surveillance it does, the NSA was not satisfied.
In 2012 it 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/us/politics/nsa-report-outlined-goals-for-more-power.html?pagewanted=all">established
a strategy to collect even more data</a> about everyone.


title: Newly freed slaves get invited to more subtle form of submission
uri: Newly-freed-slaves-get-invited-to-more-subtle-form-of-submission
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Newly_freed_slaves_get_invited_to_more_subtle_form_of_submission)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Newly_freed_slaves_get_invited_to_more_subtle_form_of_submission%29

content:
<p>
Three women released from 30 years of slavery in a house in London
were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/22/london-slavery-story-escape-charity">shown
an iPad</a>, inviting them to enter into a more subtle form of
submission.


title: Greenpeace protester says prison won't make him regret protest
uri: Greenpeace-protester-says-prison-won-t-make-him-regret-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Greenpeace_protester_says_prison_wont_make_him_regret_protest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Greenpeace_protester_says_prison_wont_make_him_regret_protest%29

content:
<p>
Greenpeace protester Anthony Perrett says that if Russia imprisons him
he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/22/arctic-30-protester-climate-change">will
not regret his protest</a>.
<p>
The activists freed on bail must be glad, but if they talk by 
<a href="http://stallman.org/skype.html">Skype</a>,
another regime is surveilling them.


title: Residents of Lafourche vote to fund libraries instead of new jail
uri: Residents-of-Lafourche-vote-to-fund-libraries-instead-of-new-jail
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Residents_of_Lafourche_vote_to_fund_libraries_instead_of_new_jail)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Residents_of_Lafourche_vote_to_fund_libraries_instead_of_new_jail%29

content:
<p>
The residents of Lafourche Parish 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/20171-why-fund-the-library-when-you-could-build-a-new-jail">voted
to fund libraries rather than a new jail</a>.
<p>
The ebooks they are talking about are, apparently, commercial.  It is
a shame that these libraries promote commercial ebooks.  They should
reject those on <a href="media/d0e54868.ebooks.pdf" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/ebooks.pdf">ethical
grounds</a>.
<p>
Lafourche county's existing jail would be perfectly adequate if they
stop fighting the 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2009-jan-apr.html#10%20April%202009%20(Legalizing%20drugs%20would%20save%20billions)">War 
on Drugs</a>.


title: Hawaii legislator boasts of crushing the belongings of homeless people
uri: Hawaii-legislator-boasts-of-crushing-the-belongings-of-homeless-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Hawaii_legislator_boasts_of_crushing_the_belongings_of_homeless_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Hawaii_legislator_boasts_of_crushing_the_belongings_of_homeless_people%29

content:
<p>
Hawaii legislator Tom Brower 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18328-hawaii-reprimand-tom-brower-sledgehammer-attacks">boasts
of crushing the belongings of unsightly homeless people</a>.
<p>
People who are hungry in the midst of plenty of food are morally
entitled to steal food.  And if Brower doesn't like their use of
shopping baskets to carry around their few possessions, he should
provide them with some other way to store those.


title: Toxic lakes of waste water from tar sands oil extraction
uri: Toxic-lakes-of-waste-water-from-tar-sands-oil-extraction
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Toxic_lakes_of_waste_water_from_tar_sands_oil_extraction)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Toxic_lakes_of_waste_water_from_tar_sands_oil_extraction%29

content:
<p>
Oil
companies <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-22/oil-sands-miners-play-russian-roulette-with-toxic-water.html">plan
to create enormous toxic lakes</a> full of waste water from tar sands
oil extraction.
<p>
There is no way of knowing how far the toxins will spread.
At low temperatures they may degrade especially slowly.
(Toxic metals last forever, unless they happen to be radioactive.)
<p>
If the cost of proper disposal of these toxins were included in the
cost
of that oil, it would be so expensive that nobody would buy it today.


title: US Chamber of Commerce Attempting to Undermine Anti-Bribery Law
uri: US-Chamber-of-Commerce-Attempting-to-Undermine-Anti-Bribery-Law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(US_Chamber_of_Commerce_Attempting_to_Undermine_Anti-Bribery_Law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28US_Chamber_of_Commerce_Attempting_to_Undermine_Anti-Bribery_Law%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=4030">U.S.
Chamber of Commerce Attempting to Undermine Anti-Bribery Law, Public
Citizen Report Shows</a>.


title: Commercial use of face recognition
uri: Commercial-use-of-face-recognition
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(Commercial_use_of_face_recognition)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28Commercial_use_of_face_recognition%29

content:
<p>
Senator Franken 
<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/191141-senator-asks-commerce-agency-to-examine-facial-recognition">asks
for a federal investigation</a> of commercial use of face recognition.
<p>
I think this is a positive step, but what we really need to
investigate, and limit, is the use of face recognition by the
government, and its ability to collect images to recognize.


title: House committee rejects greater accountability for drone attacks
uri: House-committee-rejects-greater-accountability-for-drone-attacks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_November_2013_(House_committee_rejects_greater_accountability_for_drone_attacks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_November_2013_%28House_committee_rejects_greater_accountability_for_drone_attacks%29

content:
<p>
A House committee 
<a href="http://rt.com/usa/house-schiff-drone-amendment-162/">rejected
a small step towards greater accountability</a> for civilian
casualties of drone attacks.


title: Urgent: Support a basic income for all citizens
uri: Urgent-Support-a-basic-income-for-all-citizens
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Urgent:_Support_a_basic_income_for_all_citizens)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_a_basic_income_for_all_citizens%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8734">support</a>
a basic income for all citizens.


title: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in turkey meat
uri: Antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-in-turkey-meat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Antibiotic-resistant_bacteria_in_turkey_meat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Antibiotic-resistant_bacteria_in_turkey_meat%29

content:
<p>
Feeding antibiotics to turkeys has led to 
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_28777.cfm">antibiotic-resistant
bacteria in turkey meat</a>.


title: Unfinished spy feature in LG Smart TV to be removed
uri: Unfinished-spy-feature-in-LG-Smart-TV-to-be-removed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Unfinished_spy_feature_in_LG_Smart_TV_to_be_removed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Unfinished_spy_feature_in_LG_Smart_TV_to_be_removed%29

content:
<p>
LG said its Smart TV was 
<a href="https://plus.google.com/+LaurenWeinstein/posts/dMK71nyCsT8">sending
back filenames found on USB drives</a> as part of an unfinished
feature to search for other things "you might also like".
<p>
We are fortunate it was not finished, or they would have
presented it as a reason not to remove the feature.


title: Egypt's military-controlled gov't bans protests
uri: Egypt-s-military-controlled-gov-t-bans-protests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Egypts_military-controlled_govt_bans_protests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Egypts_military-controlled_govt_bans_protests%29

content:
<p>
Egypt's military-controlled government has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/24/egypt-interim-president-anti-protest-law">banned
protests</a> (without special permission).


title: Poverty makes it hard to do things perceived to be easy
uri: Poverty-makes-it-hard-to-do-things-perceived-to-be-easy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Poverty_makes_it_hard_to_do_things_perceived_to_be_easy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Poverty_makes_it_hard_to_do_things_perceived_to_be_easy%29

content:
<p>
A poor person in the US explains how poverty makes it 
<a href="http://killermartinis.kinja.com/why-i-make-terrible-decisions-or-poverty-thoughts-1450123558">hard
and expensive</a> to do things middle class people think ought to be
easy and cheap.


title: Urgent efforts needed to protect Great Barrier Reef
uri: Urgent-efforts-needed-to-protect-Great-Barrier-Reef
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Urgent_efforts_needed_to_protect_Great_Barrier_Reef)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Urgent_efforts_needed_to_protect_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/01/great-barrier-reef-strategic-assessment">Urgent
efforts are needed</a> to protect the Great Barrier Reef.
<p>
Part of the urgent effort Australia must make is to extract less coal.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(The_carbon_bubble)
title: The carbon bubble
uri: The-carbon-bubble
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28The_carbon_bubble%29
content:
<p>
Companies with valuations based on the carbon bubble 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/01/gore-warns-carbon-bubble">must
warn investors</a>.


title: Urgent: Support the Affordable Care Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Affordable-Care-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Urgent:_Support_the_Affordable_Care_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Affordable_Care_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/48-million-uninsured">this
petition</a> in support of the Affordable Care Act.


title: Urgent: Say no to trusting Transcanada to avoid oil spills
uri: Urgent-Say-no-to-trusting-Transcanada-to-avoid-oil-spills
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Urgent:_Say_no_to_trusting_Transcanada_to_avoid_oil_spills)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Say_no_to_trusting_Transcanada_to_avoid_oil_spills%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12358">say
no</a> to trusting Transcanada to avoid oil spills on the Keystone XL
pipeline notwithstanding its horrible maintenance record.


title: Urgent: Support diplomacy with Iran
uri: Urgent-Support-diplomacy-with-Iran
content: <p> US citizens: <a href="http://www.berim.org/diplomacy">support</a> diplomacy with Iran.
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Urgent:_Support_diplomacy_with_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_diplomacy_with_Iran%29


title: NAFTA and US Farmers — 20 Years Later
uri: NAFTA-and-US-Farmers-20-Years-Later
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(NAFTA_and_US_Farmers_20_Years_Later)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28NAFTA_and_US_Farmers_20_Years_Later%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/25-3">NAFTA and US
Farmers — 20 Years Later</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(New_passport)
title: New passport
uri: New-passport
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28New_passport%29
content:
<p>
I just got a new passport.  It came with a brochure whose front page
says, "With Your U.S. Passport, the World Is Yours."
<p>
What a claim!


title: Nonviolent protesters face charges carrying a year in prison
uri: Nonviolent-protesters-face-charges-carrying-a-year-in-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Nonviolent_protesters_face_charges_carrying_a_year_in_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Nonviolent_protesters_face_charges_carrying_a_year_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
Nonviolent protesters against the JP Morgan Chase bank face charges in
the US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/25/reverend-billy-jpmorgan-chase-toad-protest-talen">carrying
a year in prison</a>.
<p>
Their protest criticized the company for bankrolling massive
environmental damage that is going to kill thousands, maybe millions
of people.  Of the forecast of a 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_October_2013_(Heat_waves)">hundred
million human casualties from global heating by 2030</a>, to be
followed by larger numbers afterward, surely JP Morgan Chase will be
responsible for at least 1%.
<p>
We see increased repression of environmental protesters, in the US as
in Russia.  I predict it will increase steadily, because the fossil
fuel companies will demand ever more repression to keep a lid on the
people who see the current system is going to kill them.


title: High and stable carbon price needed to avert disaster
uri: High-and-stable-carbon-price-needed-to-avert-disaster
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(High_and_stable_carbon_price_needed_to_avert_disaster)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28High_and_stable_carbon_price_needed_to_avert_disaster%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/climate-talks-carbon-price">high
and stable carbon price</a> is needed to avert disaster.
<p>
I will go further and assert that this must be implemented via a
carbon tax.  A cap-and-trade system is easy to game.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Myths_about_retail_jobs)
title: Myths about retail jobs
uri: Myths-about-retail-jobs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Myths_about_retail_jobs%29
content:
<p>
Correcting 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/25/10-myths-retail-sector-jobs">myths
about retail jobs</a>.
<p>
Now imagine what these people will do if they are replaced by
automated sales machines.  Beg on the street?  That is why I refuse to
use those machines, and call on other customers to refuse too.
<p>
Technology is not the main cause of increased poverty in the US.
Mostly it is due to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/25/technology-middle-class-jobs-policy">policies
that favor the rich</a>.
<p>
Nonetheless, eliminating millions of jobs through technology will add
to the problem.  The US does not need more efficiency, it needs to
support everyone better.


title: Antibiotic-resistant bladder infections
uri: Antibiotic-resistant-bladder-infections
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Antibiotic-resistant_bladder_infections)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Antibiotic-resistant_bladder_infections%29

content:
<p>
Antibiotic-resistant bladder infections are linked to bacteria found in
<a href="http://grist.org/news/researchers-find-link-between-drug-resistant-bladder-infections-and-poultry-antibiotics/">chicken
treated with antibiotics</a>.
<p>
We must end the regular use of antibiotics in farm animals, and if the
result is to make meat more expensive, we'll probably eat a more
healthful diet.


title: How Economic Growth Has Become Anti-Life
uri: How-Economic-Growth-Has-Become-Anti-Life
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(How_Economic_Growth_Has_Become_Anti-Life)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28How_Economic_Growth_Has_Become_Anti-Life%29

content:
<p>
Vandada Shiva: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/01/how-economic-growth-has-become-anti-life">How
Economic Growth Has Become Anti-Life</a>.


title: Nothing achieved at Warsaw climate summit
uri: Nothing-achieved-at-Warsaw-climate-summit
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Nothing_achieved_at_Warsaw_climate_summit)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Nothing_achieved_at_Warsaw_climate_summit%29

content:
<p>
The Warsaw climate summit achieved little except to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2013/nov/25/climate-change-warsaw-rich-countries-blame-paris-deal">decide
to decide on something later</a>.  If indeed they do so.


title: Afghan gov't plans to bring back stoning and flogging
uri: Afghan-gov-t-plans-to-bring-back-stoning-and-flogging
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Afghan_govt_plans_to_bring_back_stoning_and_flogging)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Afghan_govt_plans_to_bring_back_stoning_and_flogging%29

content:
<p>
The Afghan government plans to bring back stoning (a form of
execution) and flogging as 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/afghanistan-reintroduction-public-stoning-adulterers">punishments
for adultery</a>.
<p>
I supported the intervention in Afghanistan to end the Taliban's
oppression of women, but it has been creeping back for years, and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/public-stoning-womens-rights-afghanistan-government-adultery">accelerating
recently</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(Revenge_porn)
title: Revenge porn
uri: Revenge-porn
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28Revenge_porn%29
content:
<p>
A crusader writes about her experience 
<a href="http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunter-moore-erin-brockovich-revenge-porn">fighting
and defeating a revenge porn site</a>.
<p>
Revenge porn achieves its intended effect because of a neurotic taboo
against nudity.  Why fire someone for making a nude photo that gets
posted by someone else?  Why fire someone for making a nude photo and
intentionally posting it?  Why fire someone for stripping in a bar, or
in Central Park?  It is all gratuitous cruelty, and that cruelty makes
Moore's cruelty possible.  In effect, his activities are part of the
harm done by the taboo.
<p>
We could make it illegal to fire people such as Jill the teacher.
That would be better than nothing.  However, the real solution is not
at the legal level.  Rather, we need to get over the nudity taboo, so
that nobody thinks of firing such people.
<p>
Facebook could do something good for society
(<a href="http://stallman.org/facebook.html">for a change</a>) if it
required each of its users to post a nude selfie.  After a few months
of that, revenge porn would no longer succeed in bothering anyone.
Victims would say, "Oh, you're going to post another nude photo of me?
Please tell me the URL so I can link to it."  The Hunter Moores of the
world would have to search for some other way to harass people.
<p>
The wrong of the taboo does not excuse revenge porn — or any
company that argues, "What we're doing is lawful, and you can't
criticize us for anything that's lawful and profitable."  Yes we can!
That the nastiness is lawful is no excuse, ethically.  In general,
someone who exploits a flaw in a system to hurt people is responsible
for his actions, and the system is <em>also</em> responsible if it
could be better.


title: United Airlines wants confidentiality agreement after nearly killing passenger's dog
uri: United-Airlines-wants-confidentiality-agreement-after-nearly-killing-p
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_November_2013_(United_Airlines_wants_confidentiality_agreement_after_nearly_killing_passengers_dog)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_November_2013_%28United_Airlines_wants_confidentiality_agreement_after_nearly_killing_passengers_dog%29

content:
<p>
United Airlines, after nearly killing a woman's dog, offered to pay
the vet bill, but 
<a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/United-Airlines-Pet-Safe-Program-Confidentiality-Agreement-232739231.html">only
if she signs a confidentiality agreement</a>.
<p>
I flew on United a few days ago.  Before the usual safety announcement
there was an ad showing staff (or perhaps actors) talking about how
good service was their priority.  I didn't pay it much attention, but
it occurred to me for a moment to think, "Don't tell us — show
us!"
<p>
I think there should be a law invalidating any confidentiality
commitment made to a business by a client.


title: Very urgent: Support Walmart workers protests' on Nov 29
uri: Very-urgent-Support-Walmart-workers-protests-on-Nov-29
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_November_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Walmart_workers_protests_on_Nov_29)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Walmart_workers_protests_on_Nov_29%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: support Walmart workers' 
<a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4023/c/33/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=7526">protests 
on Nov 29</a>, and pledge to 
<a href="http://other98.com/support-striking-walmart-workers-boycott-walmart-this-black-friday/">boycott 
Walmart on Nov 29</a>.


title: Common Excuses for NSA Mass Surveillance
uri: Common-Excuses-for-NSA-Mass-Surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Common_Excuses_for_NSA_Mass_Surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Common_Excuses_for_NSA_Mass_Surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/busting-eight-common-excuses-nsa-surveillance">Busting
Eight Common Excuses for NSA Mass Surveillance.</a>
<p>
When you decide to help fight against massive surveillance, remember
that we need to go beyond limiting the state's access to the data
companies collect.  We need
to <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">reduce
the accumulation of data about everyone.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Biofuels_made_from_food_crops)
title: Biofuels made from food crops
uri: Biofuels-made-from-food-crops
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Biofuels_made_from_food_crops%29
content:
<p>
Biofuels made from food crops are
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/nov/26/burning-food-crops-biofuels-crime-humanity">"crime
against humanity".</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Thug_proved_to_have_lied)
title: Thug proved to have lied
uri: Thug-proved-to-have-lied
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Thug_proved_to_have_lied%29
content:
<p>
A thug who
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/26/plebgate-police-officer-charged-andrew-mitchell">proved
to have lied</a>, claiming he heard Andrew Mitchell call another thug
a "pleb", will face prosecution.
<p>
Thugs often lie to put someone in the wrong; they think they are
privileged to do so.  I am glad that they get prosecuted when they do
this to a powerful politician.  I wish they got prosecuted when they
do this to other people.


title: Corporate lobbying sabotaged negotiations to curb global heating
uri: Corporate-lobbying-sabotaged-negotiations-to-curb-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Corporate_lobbying_sabotaged_negotiations_to_curb_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Corporate_lobbying_sabotaged_negotiations_to_curb_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
The world media don't mention the massive corporate lobbying effort
that has
<a href="http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=749:endless-stalemate-how-fossil-fuel-interests-are-killing-climate-action&catid=51:alerts-2013&Itemid=202">sabotaged
negotiations that were supposed to curb global heating.</a>


title: US banks threaten to charge for savings accounts
uri: US-banks-threaten-to-charge-for-savings-accounts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(US_banks_threaten_to_charge_for_savings_accounts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28US_banks_threaten_to_charge_for_savings_accounts%29

content:
<p>
US
banks <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/26-1">threaten
to charge for savings accounts</a> because interest rates are so low.
<p>
Why are they so low?  To promote "economic growth" of the sort that
benefits companies but not workers.  The effective way to promote true
economic growth is with deficit spending, but Republicans have blocked
this since 2010, so the Federal Reserve uses "quantitative easing" as
a substitute that doesn't quite work.


title: Global heating refugee denied asylum
uri: Global-heating-refugee-denied-asylum
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Global_heating_refugee_denied_asylum)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Global_heating_refugee_denied_asylum%29

content:
<p>
Ioane Teitiota, from Kiribati,
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/26/climate-change-refugee-new-zealand-court">denied
asylum in New Zealand as a global heating refugee.</a>
<p>
He asked for asylum because his home is certain to become
uninhabitable due to rising sea level.  The court denies the danger.
It is clear that he is probably safe in Kiribati this year and next
year.  It is equally clear that they will be inundated.
<p>
Reportedly growth of coral is enlarging some of the islands at
present.  However, in a few decades the coral will be killed
by <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#10_July_2012_%28Ocean_acidification_due_to_CO2%29">ocean
acidification,</a> and the islands won't be able to grow after that.
<p>
Will people be accepted as climate refugees when inundation gets
closer?
<p>
What about the millions who live at low elevations in Bangladesh?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Urgent:_Reject_the_TPP)
title: Urgent: Reject the TPP
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-TPP
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: call on world
leaders <a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4041">to
reject the TPP.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Prisoners_in_Guantanamo)
title: Prisoners in Guantanamo
uri: Prisoners-in-Guantanamo
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Prisoners_in_Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>
Prisoners in Guantanamo can get
out, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/26-0">if
they have strong enough al Qa'ida ties, by turning informer.</a> On
the other hand, if you were captured for being in the wrong place at
the wrong time, you may never get out.
<p>
I have no objection to infiltrating al Qa'ida.  Unlike the dissident
movements that the thugs usually infiltrate, al Qa'ida supports
neither human rights nor democracy.  What does bother me is that this
might be part of the motive for the oppressive practice of imprisoning
people indefinitely without a trial.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(NSA_employs_over_1000_crackers)
title: NSA employs over 1000 crackers
uri: NSA-employs-over-1000-crackers
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28NSA_employs_over_1000_crackers%29

content:
<p>
The NSA employs over 1000 crackers and
has <a href="http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/11/23/nsa-infected-50000-computer-networks-with-malicious-software/?utm_campaign=rss&utm_source=syndication">infected
over 50,000 computer networks with malware</a> to be activated later.
<p>
(Please don't use "hackers" to mean "people who break security".)
<p>
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">On
Hacking</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Poverty_in_the_US)
title: Poverty in the US
uri: Poverty-in-the-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Poverty_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Poverty in the US is not only
painful, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/177304/inequality-literally-killing-america">it
is deadly.</a>


title: Driver faces charges of driving car with secret compartment
uri: Driver-faces-charges-of-driving-car-with-secret-compartment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_November_2013_(Driver_faces_charges_of_driving_car_with_secret_compartment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_November_2013_%28Driver_faces_charges_of_driving_car_with_secret_compartment%29

content:
<p>
A driver in
Ohio <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/21/driver-arrested-in-ohio-for-secret-car-c">faces
charges of driving a car which has a secret compartment in
it</a>. They simply assume his intent was to smuggle drugs.


title: UK gov't wiped out offshore windfarm project
uri: UK-gov-t-wiped-out-offshore-windfarm-project
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_November_2013_(UK_gov't_wiped_out_offshore_windfarm_project)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_November_2013_%28UK_gov%27t_wiped_out_offshore_windfarm_project%29

content:
<p>
The UK government wiped out a large offshore windfarm project by
talking
about <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/26/renewable-energy-rwe-drops-uk-turbine-project">cancelling
previously promised subsidies.</a>
<p>
I don't think this is a stumble, and I don't think the UK government's
ambitions run in the green direction at all.  It has given plenty of
signs that it is subservient to the fossil fuel companies.  I think it
did this to keep fossil fuel use high.


title: Each year more species are under threat
uri: Each-year-more-species-are-under-threat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_November_2013_(Each_year_more_species_are_under_threat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_November_2013_%28Each_year_more_species_are_under_threat%29

content:
<p>
Despite success of efforts to protect some endangered
species, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/26/iucn-red-list-endangered-species-extinction">each
year more species are under threat.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_November_2013_(UK_visa_law)
title: UK visa law
uri: UK-visa-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_November_2013_%28UK_visa_law%29
content:
<p>
UK visa
law <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/26/domestic-workers-modern-slavery-visa-laws-tie-employers">leads
directly to slavery for immigrant domestic workers</a>.
<p>
Why pass a law that is so obviously unjust?  Who would ask for such a
law?  Evidently the people wealthy enough to employ live-in servants.
In other words, plutocrats legalized domestic slavery in the UK.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_November_2013_(Deaths_from_AIDS)
title: Deaths from AIDS
uri: Deaths-from-AIDS
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_November_2013_%28Deaths_from_AIDS%29
content:
<p>
Deaths from AIDS have gone
down, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/26/aids-deaths-soar-young-people-health-services">except
in teenagers.</a>
<p>
I have a hunch that prudish attitudes contribute to this.


title: Urgent: Tell Google to stop supporting ALEC
uri: Urgent-Tell-Google-to-stop-supporting-ALEC
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Google_to_stop_supporting_ALEC)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Google_to_stop_supporting_ALEC%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/google_stop_funding_alec/">tell
Google</a> to stop supporting ALEC.
<p>
ALEC is a right-wing scheme by which businesses 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#02_November_2012_(ALEC_routes_corporate_money_to_state_legislators)">twist
state legislators</a> to pass the bills those businesses want.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Urgent:_Rebuke_US_Airways)
title: Urgent: Rebuke US Airways
uri: Urgent-Rebuke-US-Airways
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Rebuke_US_Airways%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/respect-for-the-blind-and-service-dogs">rebuke
US Airways</a> for kicking a blind man and service dog off a flight.
<p>
If you've flown a while, you know that flight crew can act like little
tyrants when they take it into their heads to push passengers around,
and that when they say he was "disruptive", that is an exaggerated way
to say "He talked back to us."


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Ukraines_deal_with_the_EU)
title: Ukraine's deal with the EU
uri: Ukraine-s-deal-with-the-EU
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Ukraines_deal_with_the_EU%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/26/ukraine-u-turn-eu-pact-putin">IMF
harshness</a> helped spike Ukraine's deal with the EU.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Corporate_front_groups)
title: Corporate front groups
uri: Corporate-front-groups
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Corporate_front_groups%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/20174-how-a-shadowy-network-of-corporate-front-groups-distorts-the-marketplace-of-ideas">How
a Shadowy Network of Corporate Front Groups Distorts the Marketplace
of Ideas</a>.


title: An iPad on Every Desk: A Trojan Horse
uri: An-iPad-on-Every-Desk-A-Trojan-Horse
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(An_iPad_on_Every_Desk_A_Trojan_Horse)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28An_iPad_on_Every_Desk_A_Trojan_Horse%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.labornotes.org/2013/11/ipad-every-desk-trojan-horse-teachers-say">An
iPad on Every Desk: A Trojan Horse, Teachers Say</a>.
<p>
They don't realize this is 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary.html">true in the
computing sense</a> too.


title: Corporate espionage undermines democracy
uri: Corporate-espionage-undermines-democracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Corporate_espionage_undermines_democracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Corporate_espionage_undermines_democracy%29

content:
<p>
Ralph Nader: 
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/11/26/corporate-espionage-undermines-democracy/">Corporate
espionage undermines democracy</a>.


title: Pressure in Wall Street to deceive customers
uri: Pressure-in-Wall-Street-to-deceive-customers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Pressure_in_Wall_Street_to_deceive_customers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Pressure_in_Wall_Street_to_deceive_customers%29

content:
<p>
A former Wall Street mathematician describes how his job was to invent
complex financial instruments so as to dupe customers, and all
managers participated in the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/25/wall-street-hard-time-ethical">pressure
to be more deceptive than the competition</a>.


title: Proposed cuts to US food assistance
uri: Proposed-cuts-to-US-food-assistance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Proposed_cuts_to_US_food_assistance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Proposed_cuts_to_US_food_assistance%29

content:
<p>
Proposed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/report-hunger-political-action-congressional-cuts">cuts
to US food assistance</a> will cancel out all voluntary food donations
to the poor.


title: Anti-protest laws threaten democracy
uri: Anti-protest-laws-threaten-democracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Anti-protest_laws_threaten_democracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Anti-protest_laws_threaten_democracy%29

content:
<p>
From Quebec to Spain, anti-protest laws are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/25/quebec-spain-anti-protest-laws-democracy">threatening true
democracy</a>.
<p>
The more government becomes a mechanism for control by the plutocrats,
the less it can tolerate protest or democracy.


title: French couple's manifesto for legalization of choice to die
uri: French-couple-s-manifesto-for-legalization-of-choice-to-die
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(French_couples_manifesto_for_legalization_of_choice_to_die)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28French_couples_manifesto_for_legalization_of_choice_to_die%29

content:
<p>
A French couple, age 86, committed suicide together, leaving behind a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/suicide-elderly-couple-france-paris-euthanasia-debate">manifesto
for legalization of the choice to die</a>.


title: Assad to negotiate with his Syrian enemies
uri: Assad-to-negotiate-with-his-Syrian-enemies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Assad_to_negotiate_with_his_Syrian_enemies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Assad_to_negotiate_with_his_Syrian_enemies%29

content:
<p>
Assad and his Syrian enemies will have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/syria-geneva-peace-talks-january-un">negotiations</a>.
<p>
It will not be easy to find anything they can agree on.  Meanwhile,
the goal of the original protesters, a secular democracy, has been
completely ruined by Assad and Saudi proxies.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Lavender_crop_in_France_wiped_out)
title: Lavender crop in France wiped out
uri: Lavender-crop-in-France-wiped-out
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Lavender_crop_in_France_wiped_out%29

content:
<p>
Global heating has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/cicada-destroy-provence-lavender-fields-plague-southern-france">encouraged
an insect pest</a> to wipe out the lavender crop in France.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_November_2013_(Pointless_consumption)
title: Pointless consumption
uri: Pointless-consumption
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Pointless_consumption%29
content:
<p>
The wealthier the country, the less its people care how they treat
the natural world — perhaps because of the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/25/christmas-selling-things-nobody-wants">industry
of pointless consumption</a>.


title: Urgent: A farm bill that protects wildlife
uri: Urgent-A-farm-bill-that-protects-wildlife
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Urgent:_A_farm_bill_that_protects_wildlife)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_A_farm_bill_that_protects_wildlife%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call your congresscritter to 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2674">pass
a farm bill that protects wildlife</a>.
<p>
Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641, and
888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Rebuke Kmart for ordering workers to work during Thanksgiving
uri: Urgent-Rebuke-Kmart-for-ordering-workers-to-work-during-Thanksgiving
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Urgent:_Rebuke_Kmart_for_ordering_workers_to_work_during_Thanksgiving)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Rebuke_Kmart_for_ordering_workers_to_work_during_Thanksgiving%29

content:
<p>
In the US (or any country where Kmart operates): 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-kmart-let-your-workers-spend-thanksgiving-with-family">rebuke
Kmart</a> for ordering workers to work during Thanksgiving.


title: Urgent: Oppose approval of genetically modified apples
uri: Urgent-Oppose-approval-of-genetically-modified-apples
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_approval_of_genetically_modified_apples)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_approval_of_genetically_modified_apples%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14649">call
on the USDA</a> not to approve genetically modified apples.


title: Investigations into massacre repeatedly blocked by UK gov't
uri: Investigations-into-massacre-repeatedly-blocked-by-UK-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Investigations_into_massacre_repeatedly_blocked_by_UK_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Investigations_into_massacre_repeatedly_blocked_by_UK_govt%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/26/governments-blocked-investigations-malaysian-massacre-cover-up">repeatedly
blocked investigations</a> into a massacre of Malay civilians by
British soldiers.


title: Small businesses forced into bankruptcy by RBS bank
uri: Small-businesses-forced-into-bankruptcy-by-RBS-bank
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Small_businesses_forced_into_bankruptcy_by_RBS_bank)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Small_businesses_forced_into_bankruptcy_by_RBS_bank%29

content:
<p>
It appears the RBS bank forced small businesses into bankruptcy to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/26/mark-carney-rbs-deeply-troubling-serious">buy
up their assets</a>.
<p>
This is a natural result of the culture of 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_(Pressure_in_Wall_Street_to_deceive_customers)">competing
to be less ethical than the other banks</a>.
<p>
Larger banks are doing the same thing to states, most notably 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2011-jan-apr.html#17%20March%202011%20(Small%20relief)">Greece</a>
but many others too.


title: Companies had special access to Warsaw global heating negotiations
uri: Companies-had-special-access-to-Warsaw-global-heating-negotiations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Companies_had_special_access_to_Warsaw_global_heating_negotiations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Companies_had_special_access_to_Warsaw_global_heating_negotiations%29

content:
<p>
The Polish government gave 11 companies 
<a href="http://corporateeurope.org/pressreleases/2013/11/eu-and-big-polluters-ignore-climate-action-pushing-expand-carbon-markets-cop19">special
access</a> to the ineffective Warsaw global heating negotiations,
including some that lobby furiously to keep burning fossil fuels.
<p>
The "ETS" is the emissions trading system, which was meant to pressure
industry to reduce emissions, but has 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_(EU%27s_broken_emission_trading_system)">fallen
flat on its face</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(How_the_NSA_Slipped_its_Leash)
title: How the NSA Slipped its Leash
uri: How-the-NSA-Slipped-its-Leash
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28How_the_NSA_Slipped_its_Leash%29
content:
<p>
PR Watch: 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/10/12290/return-nixonland-how-nsa-slipped-its-leash-under-bush-obama">Return
to Nixonland: How the NSA Slipped its Leash</a>.


title: Investigation into assassination of Alexander Litvinenko silenced
uri: Investigation-into-assassination-of-Alexander-Litvinenko-silenced
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Investigation_into_assassination_of_Alexander_Litvinenko_silenced)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Investigation_into_assassination_of_Alexander_Litvinenko_silenced%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has finally 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/27/alexander-litvinenko-inquest-secrecy-order">silenced</a>
the investigation into the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko.


title: Dictator of Angola regularly kills dissidents
uri: Dictator-of-Angola-regularly-kills-dissidents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Dictator_of_Angola_regularly_kills_dissidents)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Dictator_of_Angola_regularly_kills_dissidents%29

content:
<p>
The dictator of Angola 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/27/britain-angola-silence-british-media-colonial">regularly
has dissidents shot, or feeds them to crocodiles</a>, but since he
controls lots of oil, he buys international support.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Journalists_attacked_in_Bangkok)
title: Journalists attacked in Bangkok
uri: Journalists-attacked-in-Bangkok
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Journalists_attacked_in_Bangkok%29

content:
<p>
Anti-Shinawatra protesters in Bangkok have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/nov/27/journalist-safety-thailand">attacked
journalists they consider unsympathetic to their cause</a>.
<p>
These protesters do not represent the majority, but seem to be
an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/27/thailand-protests-evacuation-government-bangkok">influential
minority</a>.


title: Using Interpol's system to catch dissidents and refugees
uri: Using-Interpol-s-system-to-catch-dissidents-and-refugees
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Using_Interpols_system_to_catch_dissidents_and_refugees)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Using_Interpols_system_to_catch_dissidents_and_refugees%29

content:
<p>
Interpol's system is used by repressive regimes to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/27/interpol-accused-red-notice-requests">catch
dissidents and refugees</a>.


title: Selling the destruction of parts of nature
uri: Selling-the-destruction-of-parts-of-nature
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Selling_the_destruction_of_parts_of_nature)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Selling_the_destruction_of_parts_of_nature%29

content:
<p>
Putting a financial value on parts of nature 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/nov/27/price-nature-markets-natural-capital">invites
companies to pay that much to destroy them</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Drone_Weapons)
title: Drone Weapons
uri: Drone-Weapons
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Drone_Weapons%29
content:
<p>
The US, in pushing development drone weapons, is
<a href="http://www.thebulletin.org/which-drone-future-will-americans-choose">
failing to consider</a>
what will result when its enemies have drones too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Help_Real_Children)
title: Help Real Children
uri: Help-Real-Children
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Help_Real_Children%29
content:
<p>
Rather than censorship,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/19/intenet-sexual-culture-resisted-in-real-world">
the way to end abuse of real children</a> is with
social workers that help real children.
<p>
Since poverty often brings out the worst in people, ending austerity
would help a lot too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Rainforest_in_Sumatra)
title: Rainforest in Sumatra
uri: Rainforest-in-Sumatra
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Rainforest_in_Sumatra%29
content:
<p>
A road planned to go through a rainforest in Sumatra, for coal export,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/09/conservation-wildlife">
could wipe out many endangered species</a>.


title: The absurdity of considering human rights for companies
uri: The-absurdity-of-considering-human-rights-for-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(The_absurdity_of_considering_human_rights_for_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28The_absurdity_of_considering_human_rights_for_companies%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court plans to consider a case in which a company's owners
claim that paying for health care that covers birth control violates
their 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/27/obamacare-contraception-supreme-court-religious-freedom">religious
freedom</a>.
<p>
I fear that this Supreme Court will rule for that company.  It has
granted companies absurd 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#18_January_2012_(Urgent:_Human_Right)">"human"
rights</a> on other questions.


title: Belgium on track to approve voluntary euthanasia with no age limit
uri: Belgium-on-track-to-approve-voluntary-euthanasia-with-no-age-limit
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Belgium_on_track_to_approve_voluntary_euthanasia_with_no_age_limit)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Belgium_on_track_to_approve_voluntary_euthanasia_with_no_age_limit%29

content:
<p>
Belgium is on track to approve 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/27/euthanasia-terminally-ill-children-belgium
">voluntary euthanasia with no age limit</a>.
<p>
I am in favor of this.  The safeguards must be quite careful so that
children are not pressured into a decision they are not sure they
want.
<p>
If we can allow minors the choice of dying, it is ridiculous to deny
them the far less drastic choice of having sex.  That too should be
permitted, with suitable safeguards; for instance, that the minor
would declare in advance an intention to start having sex.


title: Berlusconi ousted from Italian senate
uri: Berlusconi-ousted-from-Italian-senate
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Berlusconi_ousted_from_Italian_senate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Berlusconi_ousted_from_Italian_senate%29

content:
<p>
Berlusconi has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/27/silvio-berlusconi-ousted-italian-parliament-tax-fraud-conviction">ousted
from the Italian senate</a> because of his criminal convictions.


title: EU demands that US stop spying massively
uri: EU-demands-that-US-stop-spying-massively
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(EU_demands_that_US_stop_spying_massively)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28EU_demands_that_US_stop_spying_massively%29

content:
<p>
The EU demands that the US stop spying massively 
<a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20131127-eu-lays-down-steps-us-must-take-protect-data">if
it wants US companies to hold data on business in Europe</a>.
<p>
This not strong enough, however.


title: Problems of privately financed public parks
uri: Problems-of-privately-financed-public-parks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Problems_of_privately_financed_public_parks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Problems_of_privately_financed_public_parks%29

content:
<p>
On the problems of 
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/11/21/why-privately-financed-public-parks-are-a-bad-idea/">building
public parks based on tax-deductible donations from the rich</a>.
<p>
If we taxed them enough, we would not have this problem.


title: Pope Francis calls for action on income inequality
uri: Pope-Francis-calls-for-action-on-income-inequality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Pope_Francis_calls_for_action_on_income_inequality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Pope_Francis_calls_for_action_on_income_inequality%29

content:
<p>
Pope Francis condemned trickle-down economics and the greed of the
plutocrats, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2013/nov/27/pope-francis-inequality-biggest-issue-our-time">called
for action on income inequality</a>.
<p>
As a supporter of this cause for many years, I welcome this additional
support.


title: 79 Egyptian secular dissidents arrested
uri: 79-Egyptian-secular-dissidents-arrested
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(79_Egyptian_secular_dissidents_arrested)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%2879_Egyptian_secular_dissidents_arrested%29

content:
<p>
79 Egyptian secular dissidents have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/27/egypt-secular-activists-arrested-protest-law">arrested
under the new ban on protests</a>.
<p>
Ever since the massacres of Morsi supporters protesting on the street,
it has increasingly appeared that the military was taking Egypt
towards another military dictatorship.


title: Polar bear populations in Canada falling
uri: Polar-bear-populations-in-Canada-falling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Polar_bear_populations_in_Canada_falling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Polar_bear_populations_in_Canada_falling%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/27/polar-bears-climate-change-canada-hudson-bay">Polar
bear populations in Canada are falling</a> due to the effects of
global heating, but the minister in charge is a global heating denier.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(The_Real_Fix_for_Obamacares_Flaws)
title: The Real Fix for Obamacare's Flaws
uri: The-Real-Fix-for-Obamacare-s-Flaws
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28The_Real_Fix_for_Obamacares_Flaws%29

content:
<p>
The Real Fix for Obamacare's Flaws: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/27/obamacare-flaws-medicare-for-all">Medicare
for All</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 29_November_2013_(Urgent:_Endorse_deal_with_Iran)
title: Urgent: Endorse deal with Iran
uri: Urgent-Endorse-deal-with-Iran
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#29_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Endorse_deal_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Hillary
Clinton <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/3am-wheres-hillary-on?source=c.url&r_by=1135580">to
endorse the deal with Iran.</a>


title: Possible prosecution of Julian Assange
uri: Possible-prosecution-of-Julian-Assange
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Possible_prosecution_of_Julian_Assange)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Possible_prosecution_of_Julian_Assange%29

content:
<p>
Regarding the possible prosecution of Julian
Assange, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/nov/26/julian-assange-lawyer-us-prosecution-decision">the
Obama regime is trying to have it both ways</a>: on the one hand,
spreading rumors that Assange is "unlikely" to be prosecuted; on the
other, keeping the prosecution option open.
<p>
The nastiest part is when people condemn Assange for prudently
refusing to bet the rest of his life on the truth these rumors.


title: UK Internet censorship will cover some political views
uri: UK-Internet-censorship-will-cover-some-political-views
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(UK_Internet_censorship_will_cover_some_political_views)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28UK_Internet_censorship_will_cover_some_political_views%29

content:
<p>
UK Internet
censorship <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/27/ministers-order-isps-block-terrorist-websites">will
cover some political views.</a>
<p>
I don't like those views much either, but freedom of speech means the
freedom to say things that you and I and the UK government don't like.
<p>
I wonder how long it will take before the UK blocks access to
stallman.org.


title: Alexis Tsipras will run for president of European Commission
uri: Alexis-Tsipras-will-run-for-president-of-European-Commission
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Alexis_Tsipras_will_run_for_president_of_European_Commission)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Alexis_Tsipras_will_run_for_president_of_European_Commission%29

content:
<p>
Alexis Tsipras, head of the anti-austerity Greek opposition, will run
for president of the European
Commission <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/27/austerity-left-unite-europe-alexis-tsipras">to
galvanize opposition to austerity across Europe.</a>


title: "Bedroom tax" is an excuse to squeeze the poor
uri: Bedroom-tax-is-an-excuse-to-squeeze-the-poor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Bedroom_tax_is_an_excuse_to_squeeze_the_poor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Bedroom_tax_is_an_excuse_to_squeeze_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
The UK's clever "bedroom tax" is supposed to make people move to
smaller apartments, but no smaller apartments are available, so it
really amounts
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/27/bedroom-tax-benefits-claimants-smaller-homes">an
excuse to squeeze the poor.</a>
<p>
Someone has to suffer to enable banksters to take home more pay.


title: Journalist Kostas Vaxevanis acquitted
uri: Journalist-Kostas-Vaxevanis-acquitted
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Journalist_Kostas_Vaxevanis_acquitted)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Journalist_Kostas_Vaxevanis_acquitted%29

content:
<p>
Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, prosecuted for publishing a list of
suspected tax
evaders, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/27/greek-court-acquits-kostas-vaxevanis-leaked-lagarde-list-tax-evaders-privacy">has
been acquitted.</a>


title: Requirement for ID to connect to the Internet
uri: Requirement-for-ID-to-connect-to-the-Internet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_November_2013_(Requirement_for_ID_to_connect_to_the_Internet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_%28Requirement_for_ID_to_connect_to_the_Internet%29

content:
<p>
A broad coalition opposes the requirement
to <a href="http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2013/11/19/ecuadorean-activists-say-no-to-cybercafe-surveillance/">demand
ID from everyone that connects to the Internet in Ecuador.</a>
<p>
The wording of the law would require you to record the ID and make a
video even if you let someone use your network at home.  I campaigned
against this measure when I was in Ecuador in October.
<p>
But this is the first I heard that Peru had adopted this nasty law.  I
will have to think twice before going there again.


title: Strict rules against electioneering by tax-exempt organizations
uri: Strict-rules-against-electioneering-by-tax-exempt-organizations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Strict_rules_against_electioneering_by_tax-exempt_organizations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Strict_rules_against_electioneering_by_tax-exempt_organizations%29

content:
<p>
Obama has
proposed <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/us/politics/new-campaign-rules-proposed-for-tax-exempt-nonprofits.html">strict
rules against electioneering by tax-exempt organizations.</a> This is
good because it will hinder the rich and corporations from
contributing lots of money <em>secretly</em> to campaigns.


title: Portugal descended to even greater austerity measures
uri: Portugal-descended-to-even-greater-austerity-measures
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Portugal_descended_to_even_greater_austerity_measures)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Portugal_descended_to_even_greater_austerity_measures%29

content:
<p>
Portugal
has <a href="http://rt.com/business/portugal-austerity-budget-protests-357/">descended
to even greater austerity measures.</a>
<p>
The euro imposes a vicious circle: its rules require budget cuts to
reduce the deficit, but these shrink the economy so tax receipts fall,
and the deficit continues despite them.
<p>
Portugal's austerity
is <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#20_March_2012_%28Portugal%29">killing
people.</a>


title: ACLU sued to demand information about CIA's torture practices
uri: ACLU-sued-to-demand-information-about-CIA-s-torture-practices
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(ACLU_sued_to_demand_information_about_CIA's_torture_practices)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28ACLU_sued_to_demand_information_about_CIA%27s_torture_practices%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU
has <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/human-rights-national-security/aclu-sues-cia-reports-its-torture-program">sued
to demand publication of information about the CIA's torture
practices.</a>


title: Muslims try to impose their religion on everyone else
uri: Muslims-try-to-impose-their-religion-on-everyone-else
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Muslims_try_to_impose_their_religion_on_everyone_else)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Muslims_try_to_impose_their_religion_on_everyone_else%29

content:
<p>
Once
again, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/28/bottles-beer-smashed-sharia-nigeria-alcohol">Muslims
try to impose their religion on everyone else</a> — this time in
Nigeria.


title: Fertilizer runoff does great harm to coral
uri: Fertilizer-runoff-does-great-harm-to-coral
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Fertilizer_runoff_does_great_harm_to_coral)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Fertilizer_runoff_does_great_harm_to_coral%29

content:
<p>
An experiment shows
that <a href="http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2013/nov/large-study-shows-pollution-impact-coral-reefs-%E2%80%93-and-offers-solution">fertilizer
runoff does great harm to coral,</a> and that the coral can recover
quickly if the fertilizer runoff stops.


title: Planning to "survive" by causing more global heating
uri: Planning-to-survive-by-causing-more-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Planning_to_survive_by_causing_more_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Planning_to_survive_by_causing_more_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
A port in Canada says it plans to "survive"
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/28/canadian-arctic-port-and-rail-company-pins-hope-on-oil-exports">taking
advantage of global heating to bring oil in by train for export</a>,
thus causing more global heating. How narrowminded.  This attitude,
"We are going to 'survive' (i.e., maintain our business) by killing
people elsewhere", is why the world does nothing to escape disaster.
<p>
The trains will from time to
time <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_July_2013_(Deeper_corporate_crime_behind_the_oil_train_explosion)">explode
and kill people.</a>
<p>
This is the sort of behavior that should lead the rest of the world to
forcibly stop it.


title: Execution by stoning as a penalty for adultery
uri: Execution-by-stoning-as-a-penalty-for-adultery
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Execution_by_stoning_as_a_penalty_for_adultery)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Execution_by_stoning_as_a_penalty_for_adultery%29

content:
<p>
Karzai says Afghanistan
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/28/stoning-not-brought-back-afghan-president-karzai">not
use execution by stoning as a penalty for adultery.</a>
<p>
What will Afghanistan do to people who have sex outside marriage?
Something else almost as nasty?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Businesses_spying_on_activists)
title: Businesses spying on activists
uri: Businesses-spying-on-activists
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Businesses_spying_on_activists%29

content:
<p>
Businesses spying on
activists <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/nov/28/war-on-democracy-corporations-spy-profit-activism">can
buy the support of the FBI and CIA for their War on Democracy,</a>
which in many cases is part of their War on the Ecosphere.


title: Urgent: Oppose "trade" treaties that give businesses more power
uri: Urgent-Oppose-trade-treaties-that-give-businesses-more-power
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_trade_treaties_that_give_businesses_more_power)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_trade_treaties_that_give_businesses_more_power%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12360">oppose
"trade" treaties that give businesses more power.</a>


title: A panel controlled by the lumber industry
uri: A-panel-controlled-by-the-lumber-industry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(A_panel_controlled_by_the_lumber_industry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28A_panel_controlled_by_the_lumber_industry%29

content:
<p>
A panel to propose ways to protect the Australian endangered
Leadbeater's possum is controlled by the lumber industry,
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/28/vested-interests-are-harming-efforts-to-save-the-leadbeaters-possum">refuses
to consider any serious plan to protect their habitat.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Attempt_to_sue_Apple_failed)
title: Attempt to sue Apple failed
uri: Attempt-to-sue-Apple-failed
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Attempt_to_sue_Apple_failed%29
content:
<p>
An attempt to sue Apple for designing the iThings so that apps could
easily snoop on the user failed
because <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/28/apple-consumer-lawsuit-data-privacy-dismissed-us-judge">the
requirements for winning are so strict that it would be almost
impossible to meet them.</a>
<p>
What this shows is that the US lacks proper privacy law.


title: Arrested for posting a parody video
uri: Arrested-for-posting-a-parody-video
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Arrested_for_posting_a_parody_video)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Arrested_for_posting_a_parody_video%29

content:
<p>
People in Dubai have
been <a href="http://mwcnews.net/news/middle-east/33774-dubai-arrests-us-man.html">arrested
for posting a parody video and for posting a video of a man battering
another on a bus.</a>
<p>
This policy is one reason why I absolutely refuse to go to Dubai.
<p>
In the US, you might get arrested
for <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_May_2013_(Arrested_for_making_video)">making
a video of an attack, if the attacker is a thug</a>. And even in that
case, you can probably prevail in court.


title: US military manipulates news coverage of wars
uri: US-military-manipulates-news-coverage-of-wars
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(US_military_manipulates_news_coverage_of_wars)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28US_military_manipulates_news_coverage_of_wars%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19722-are-we-depending-too-much-on-the-militarys-media-management">US
military manipulates news coverage of wars</a>, and turns movies into
war propaganda, with devastating effects on politics.


title: Increased drought and fire in the western US
uri: Increased-drought-and-fire-in-the-western-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Increased_drought_and_fire_in_the_western_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Increased_drought_and_fire_in_the_western_US%29

content:
<p>
Research suggests that deforestation in Amazonia will contribute cause
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-11-tree-falls-brazilhellip-amazon-deforestation.html">increased
drought and fire in the western US.</a>
<p>
Global heating is making the western US dry out anyway, but since it
also threatens to dry out Amazonia, this will mean even more aridity
there.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(FBI_Antisec_group)
title: FBI Antisec group
uri: FBI-Antisec-group
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28FBI_Antisec_group%29
content:
<p>
Jeremy Hammond believes that the FBI was running the Antisec group
<a href="https://medium.com/quinn-norton/654abf6aeff7">to crack
security of systems around the world for the FBI's sake.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Use_of_the_DMCA_for_censorship)
title: Use of the DMCA for censorship
uri: Use-of-the-DMCA-for-censorship
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Use_of_the_DMCA_for_censorship%29

content:
<p>
WordPress joined two
bloggers <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/striking-back-against-censorship/">to
sue over use of the DMCA for censorship.</a>


title: Persistent, repeated harassment by thugs
uri: Persistent-repeated-harassment-by-thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Persistent,_repeated_harassment_by_thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Persistent%2C_repeated_harassment_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Alex Saleh installed a video camera in his store to protect his
customers and staff
from <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/21/v-fullstory/3769823/in-miami-gardens-store-video-catches.html">persistent,
repeated harassment by thugs.</a>
<p>
One of Saleh's employees was arrested 62 times for "trespassing" in
Saleh's store.


title: Caught on video tasing a handcuffed prisoner
uri: Caught-on-video-tasing-a-handcuffed-prisoner
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Caught_on_video_tasing_a_handcuffed_prisoner)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Caught_on_video_tasing_a_handcuffed_prisoner%29

content:
<p>
A thug in Pennsylvania
was <a href="http://m.wpxi.com/news/news/local/man-sues-millvale-officer-chief-over-stun-gun-inci/nb5MP/">caught
on video tasing a handcuffed prisoner and laughing about it.</a>


title: Protesters oppose Japan's new secrecy bill
uri: Protesters-oppose-Japan-s-new-secrecy-bill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Protesters_oppose_Japan's_new_secrecy_bill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Protesters_oppose_Japan%27s_new_secrecy_bill%29

content:
<p>
Protesters <a href="http://japandailypress.com/critics-rise-up-in-protest-as-japans-ruling-party-rams-secrecy-bill-through-lower-house-2840243/">oppose
Japan's new secrecy bill.</a>


title: Urgent: Tell Walmart to give workers a raise
uri: Urgent-Tell-Walmart-to-give-workers-a-raise
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Walmart_to_give_workers_a_raise)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Walmart_to_give_workers_a_raise%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8905">tell
Walmart to give workers a raise.</a>


title: Chinese business power has prevailed over the UK government
uri: Chinese-business-power-has-prevailed-over-the-UK-government
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Chinese_business_power_has_prevailed_over_the_UK_government)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Chinese_business_power_has_prevailed_over_the_UK_government%29

content:
<p>
Chinese business power
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/30/david-cameron-distance-britain-dalai-lama-china-visit">prevailed
over the UK government</a>, which will shun the Dalai Lama.
<p>
Politicians that approach international relations prioritizing exports
over all else are despicable.


title: Ukraine's thugs attacked protesters
uri: Ukraine-s-thugs-attacked-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Ukraine's_thugs_attacked_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Ukraine%27s_thugs_attacked_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine's
thugs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/30/violent-police-crackdown-kiev-protest">attacked
protesters who object to the president's decision to align with Russia
rather than the EU</a>.
<p>
The government of Ukraine appears to be repressive, but rejecting the
"trade" treaty may be wise.  I have no information about what it says,
but quite likely it contains unjust
requirements, <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_(Free_trade_never_really_about_trade)">since
that's normal for "trade" treaties.</a>


title: Independence activist threatened with arrest
uri: Independence-activist-threatened-with-arrest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Independence_activist_threatened_with_arrest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Independence_activist_threatened_with_arrest%29

content:
<p>
An independence activist from West Papua has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/30/west-papua-activist-png-threatening-arrest">threatened
with arrest in neighboring Papua New Guinea for planning a peaceful
protest for independence.</a>


title: Soldiers sent to fight wars, then return to become thugs
uri: Soldiers-sent-to-fight-wars-then-return-to-become-thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Soldiers_sent_to_fight_wars,_then_return_to_become_thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Soldiers_sent_to_fight_wars%2C_then_return_to_become_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Soldiers sent to fight wars, then return to become
thugs, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/28">may
contribute to violence at home.</a>


title: High School Student Tasered in School by Cop Is in a Coma
uri: High-School-Student-Tasered-in-School-by-Cop-Is-in-a-Coma
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(High_School_Student_Tasered_in_School_by_Cop_Is_in_a_Coma)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28High_School_Student_Tasered_in_School_by_Cop_Is_in_a_Coma%29

content:
<p>
High School Student Tasered in School by
Cop <a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/high-school-student-tasered-school-cop-coma-mother-says">Is
in a Coma, Mother Says.</a>


title: Microsoft's competitive staff ranking
uri: Microsoft-s-competitive-staff-ranking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Microsoft's_competitive_staff_ranking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Microsoft%27s_competitive_staff_ranking%29

content:
<p>
After the Gates
Foundation <a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/billionaire-bill-gates-and-his-army-reformers-terrible-idea-bringing-ruthless-corporate?paging=off">pushed
Microsoft's competitive staff ranking system on US public schools,
Microsoft has abandoned it</a>, concluding it was harmful to rank the
staff.
<p>
I don't think the US politicians who imposed this system will regret
it.  They don't want public schools to achieve anything; they just
want to spend less on them and destroy teachers' unions.


title: Boeing machinists voted down a contract with give-backs
uri: Boeing-machinists-voted-down-a-contract-with-give-backs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Boeing_machinists_voted_down_a_contract_with_give-backs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Boeing_machinists_voted_down_a_contract_with_give-backs%29

content:
<p>
Boeing
machinists <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20327-courageous-boeing-workers-say-no-to-corporate-extortion">voted
down a contract with give-backs.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Technological_progress)
title: Technological "progress"
uri: Technological-progress
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Technological_progress%29
content:
<p>
Technological "progress" now
means <a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-11-technology-reveals-kind-shopper.html">more
cunning tracking of people's purchases so as to offer different prices
to different people.</a>


title: In Afghanistan, the killers of journalists enjoy impunity
uri: In-Afghanistan-the-killers-of-journalists-enjoy-impunity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(In_Afghanistan,_the_killers_of_journalists_enjoy_impunity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28In_Afghanistan%2C_the_killers_of_journalists_enjoy_impunity%29

content:
<p>
In
Afghanistan, <a href="http://www.ifex.org/afghanistan/2013/11/28/impunity_culture/">the
killers of journalists enjoy impunity.</a>


title: EU should not allow personal data to be sent to US companies
uri: EU-should-not-allow-personal-data-to-be-sent-to-US-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(EU_should_not_allow_personal_data_to_be_sent_to_US_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28EU_should_not_allow_personal_data_to_be_sent_to_US_companies%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/stormy-harbour-eu-urges-us-to-make-personal-data-transfers-safer">EU
should not allow personal data to be sent to US companies</a> unless
they follow a data protection regime as in the EU.


title: Canadian opposition politicians outraged by spying
uri: Canadian-opposition-politicians-outraged-by-spying
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Canadian_opposition_politicians_outraged_by_spying)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Canadian_opposition_politicians_outraged_by_spying%29

content:
<p>
Canadian opposition politicians are outraged that Canada's spy agency,
legally barred from spying in Canada, did such spying
by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/29/world/americas/ire-in-canada-over-report-nsa-spied-from-ottawa.html">outsourcing
it to the NSA.</a>


title: Several Egyptian activists have been arrested
uri: Several-Egyptian-activists-have-been-arrested
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Several_Egyptian_activists_have_been_arrested)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Several_Egyptian_activists_have_been_arrested%29

content:
<p>
Several prominent Egyptian secular freedom
activists <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/29/egypt-activist-arrest-crackdown-dissent-alaa-abd-el-fattah">have
been arrested.</a>
<p>
US
law <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_(Morsis_downfall)">requires
cutting off aid to the Egyptian military</a>, as was pointed out in
August. Will Obama continue to deny that there has been a military
coup?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Women_attacked_with_acid)
title: Women attacked with acid
uri: Women-attacked-with-acid
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Women_attacked_with_acid%29
content:
<p>
Two British women who went to Zanzibar to teach English as volunteers
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/29/zanzibar-acid-attack-kirstie-trup-katie-giee">were
attacked with acid</a>, apparently by a stranger.
<p>
Since it seems the attacker did not know them personally and did not
rob them, only an ideological motive remains.  I suspect it was
motivated by hostility to foreigners, or to women not dressed as
strict Muslims.


title: Britons protested law criminalizing squatting
uri: Britons-protested-law-criminalizing-squatting
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_November_2013_(Britons_protested_law_criminalizing_squatting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Britons_protested_law_criminalizing_squatting%29

content:
<p>
Britons <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/28/tory-mp-mike-freer-police-daft">protested
at a right-wing MP's office against the law criminalizing
squatting</a>, while the UK's empty buildings could house the
country's homeless.
<p>
I'm delighted that this time the thugs did not intervene, as they so
often do, on the side of the wealthy and against the downtrodden.
<p>
This
cruelty <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/nov/29/uk-house-prices-rising-nationwide">contributes
to the fast-rising housing prices.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on Walmart to pay a decent wage
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Walmart-to-pay-a-decent-wage
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Walmart_to_pay_a_decent_wage)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Walmart_to_pay_a_decent_wage%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/walmart-pay-workers-a">call
on Walmart</a> to pay a decent wage.


title: Urgent: Block proposed giant oil terminal in Washington state
uri: Urgent-Block-proposed-giant-oil-terminal-in-Washington-state
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Urgent:_Block_proposed_giant_oil_terminal_in_Washington_state)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Block_proposed_giant_oil_terminal_in_Washington_state%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14670">call
on the governor of Washington</a> to block a proposed giant oil
terminal.
<p>
Shipping the oil, by train and ship, would endanger the Columbia River
and cities including Spokane and Vancouver.  Burning the oil would
endanger everyone in the world.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Autonomous_killer_robots)
title: Autonomous killer robots
uri: Autonomous-killer-robots
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Autonomous_killer_robots%29
content:
<p>
Current US robotics research turns out to be just what's needed for
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/science/already-anticipating-terminator-ethics.html">autonomous
killer robots</a>.


title: China's "drug rehabilitation" forced labor camps
uri: China-s-drug-rehabilitation-forced-labor-camps
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Chinas_drug_rehabilitation_forced_labor_camps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Chinas_drug_rehabilitation_forced_labor_camps%29

content:
<p>
China's "re-education" forced labor camps have been changed into 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/01/china-work-camps-human-rights-concerns-drug-offenders">"drug
rehabilitation" forced labor camps</a>.
<p>
<em>Most</em> US prisoners had the option of a trial, though most get
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#15_March_2013_(Non-rich_get_raw_deal_when_charged_with_crimes)">pressured
into a plea bargain</a> so they didn't have a trial.  And the US puts
a 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2007-may-aug.html#30%20July%202007%20(American%20prisoners%20turned%20in%20slave%20labor%20force)">larger
percentage of its population in prison</a> than China does.


title: 100,000 pro-EU protesters mobilize in Ukraine
uri: 100-000-pro-EU-protesters-mobilize-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(100000_pro-EU_protesters_mobilize_in_Ukraine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28100000_pro-EU_protesters_mobilize_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Repression of pro-EU protesters in Ukraine 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/01/ukraine-protesters-police-kiev-independence-square-eu-rally">mobilized
100,000 of them</a>.
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/01/optimistic-young-ukrainians-europe-russian-power">background</a>
for the protests in Ukraine.


title: Accusation of election fraud in Honduras
uri: Accusation-of-election-fraud-in-Honduras
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Accusation_of_election_fraud_in_Honduras)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Accusation_of_election_fraud_in_Honduras%29

content:
<p>
Xiomara Castro 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/01/honduras-opposition-candidate-election-recount">accused
election fraud in Honduras</a>, which seems plausible given that 30%
of the registered voters were invalid and that the difference between
her percentage and the establishment candidate's percentage was less
than 30%.
<p>
What did the exit polls say?


title: France punishing clients of prostitutes
uri: France-punishing-clients-of-prostitutes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(France_punishing_clients_of_prostitutes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28France_punishing_clients_of_prostitutes%29

content:
<p>
France has copied Sweden's harmful policy of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/01/french-mps-fines-prostitutes-customers">punishing
the clients of prostitutes</a>.
<p>
I am not surprised that this law repression prostitution, but that is
no help to those who choose (or might have chosen) to become
prostitutes.  It could discourage human trafficking that forces people
to become prostitutes, but there are other ways to do that: (1)
interviewing possibly trafficked immigrants in private in their own
languages as they enter the country, (2) giving them advice on how to
get help if they find they have been enslaved, and (3) visiting them
once or twice a year for a private conversation to ask and check
whether they have been enslaved.


title: Anti-gov't rallies fighting with gov't supporters in Thailand
uri: Anti-gov-t-rallies-fighting-with-gov-t-supporters-in-Thailand
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Anti-govt_rallies_fighting_with_govt_supporters_in_Thailand)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Anti-govt_rallies_fighting_with_govt_supporters_in_Thailand%29

content:
<p>
In Thailand, anti-government mass rallies have started 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/01/thailand-protest-yingluck-shinawatra-violence">fighting</a>
with mass groups of government supporters.
<p>
The anti-government crowds have seized various government buildings,
one after another.


title: Concealing published information from US readers
uri: Concealing-published-information-from-US-readers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Concealing_published_information_from_US_readers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Concealing_published_information_from_US_readers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/11/28/pretending-a-name-is-still-secret-in-the-name-of-the-cult-of-secrecy/">Pretending
a Name Is Still Secret — in the Name of the Cult of Secrecy</a>.


title: Giant conglomerate buys 40,000 houses across the US
uri: Giant-conglomerate-buys-40-000-houses-across-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Giant_conglomerate_buys_40000_houses_across_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Giant_conglomerate_buys_40000_houses_across_the_US%29

content:
<p>
A giant conglomerate, Blackstone, has bought 40,000 houses across
the US, using money obtained from a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/26-5">wacky new
financial instrument</a>.
<p>
The housing subsidiary, "Invitation Homes", bullies renters for "late
fees" when it makes a mistake collecting their rents.  Many companies
do this nowadays.  It should be a felony to <em>ask for</em> any sort
of extra fee from someone who has a contract for service.
<p>
If the new financial instrument goes belly-up, the company could fail.
That could knock 40,000 US families out of their rented homes all at
once.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(The_US_govt_has_been_robbed)
title: The US gov't has been robbed
uri: The-US-gov-t-has-been-robbed
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28The_US_govt_has_been_robbed%29
content:
<p>
Government in the US hasn't gone broke by spending too much.  Rather,
it has been robbed — 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/27-7">by
business</a>.


title: Citizens charged with "unlawful assembly" in Papua New Guinea
uri: Citizens-charged-with-unlawful-assembly-in-Papua-New-Guinea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Citizens_charged_with_unlawful_assembly_in_Papua_New_Guinea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Citizens_charged_with_unlawful_assembly_in_Papua_New_Guinea%29

content:
<p>
Visiting activists from West Papua were not arrested at the
independence rally in Papua New Guinea, but three citizens of Papua
New Guinea were charged with 
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/01/arrests-west-papua-flag-raising'>unlawful 
assembly</a>".
<p>
Charging anyone with "unlawful assembly" is a crime by the state.  Of
course, it is possible for protesters to do things which are properly
prohibited.  But assembling, as such, must not be prohibited.


title: Latin American countries working to end War on Drugs
uri: Latin-American-countries-working-to-end-War-on-Drugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Latin_American_countries_working_to_end_War_on_Drugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Latin_American_countries_working_to_end_War_on_Drugs%29

content:
<p>
Several Latin American countries are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/30/un-drugs-policy-split-leaked-paper">working
to make the UN accept ending the War on Drugs</a>.


title: Company sues for trademark infringement in search engine
uri: Company-sues-for-trademark-infringement-in-search-engine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Company_sues_for_trademark_infringement_in_search_engine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Company_sues_for_trademark_infringement_in_search_engine%29

content:
<p>
The cosmetics company Lush, which refuses to sell through Amazon, has
sued Amazon for trademark infringement because 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/nov/30/lush-amazon-trademark-court-battle">searching
for "lush" there finds other products</a>.
<p>
I sympathize with Lush's motivation, but I think it is wrong on this
case.  "Lush" is an English word and everyone has the right to use it
as such.  If Amazon's search facility searches for any English word,
it would be wrong to ban this one as an exception.  However, I see no
harm in requiring Amazon to present a clear statement that these
products are not made by Lush, and that Lush does not sell through
Amazon.
<p>
In directory.fsf.org, if you search for names of nonfree programs, we
don't show them (they don't qualify to be listed); instead we show
their free counterparts.  It would be unfortunate if we were banned
from doing this.
<p>
I think Lush is more entitled to prevail in regard to Amazon's adwords
articles.
<p>
The use of the vague term "intellectual property" where "trademark"
would have been clearer added avoidable confusion to the article.
See 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html</a>
for why that term spreads confusion.
<p>
See <a href="http://stallman.org/amazon.html">stallman.org/amazon.html</a>
for many other reasons to refuse to buy from Amazon.  See
stallman.org/ebooks.pdf for why the Kindle and Kindle ebooks are an
attack on your freedom.


title: UK attempts to deport hunger striker
uri: UK-attempts-to-deport-hunger-striker
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(UK_attempts_to_deport_hunger_striker)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28UK_attempts_to_deport_hunger_striker%29

content:
<p>
The UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/30/theresa-may-hunger-striker-ifa-muaza-asylum-uk">attempted
to suddenly deport Ifa Muaza before he could fast to death</a>, but
Nigeria did not allow the plane to land, so it brought him back to the
UK.
<p>
"You proved your toughness at the expense of your humanity" —
well said.


title: Another form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in poultry
uri: Another-form-of-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-found-in-poultry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Another_form_of_antibiotic-resistant_bacteria_found_in_poultry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Another_form_of_antibiotic-resistant_bacteria_found_in_poultry%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/26/mrsa-poultry-east-anglia-infected">Another
form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria</a> has been found on poultry.
<p>
Even though this strain is not very dangerous to humans, the next one
might be.  Have we got our eyes shut towards dangerous business
practices?


title: Venezuelan president given powers to legislate by decree
uri: Venezuelan-president-given-powers-to-legislate-by-decree
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Venezuelan_president_given_powers_to_legislate_by_decree)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Venezuelan_president_given_powers_to_legislate_by_decree%29

content:
<p>
The Venezuelan congress voted President Maduro powers to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/nicolas-maduro-powers-venezuelan-economy">legislate
by decree on economic matters</a>.
<p>
This is in accord with the constitution, but that doesn't mean it is a
good idea.  Price controls tend to cause shortages, and Venezuela
already has shortages.  I feel no sympathy for store owners that
gouge, but preventing future gouging requires changing the system that
generates the gouging.
<p>
The corruption accusations against Asambleadora Aranguren are not
inherently implausible, but this still seems fishy.  The alleged
corruption took place before she ran for election as a supporter of
Chavez.  However, the accusations were made in September 2013, after
she had switched parties, and when her vote became inconvenient.
<p>
It is proper to take action against corrupt legislators, but it should
be done in an unbiased way, not selectively based on their politics.


title: British Red Cross launches food drive for hungry Britons
uri: British-Red-Cross-launches-food-drive-for-hungry-Britons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(British_Red_Cross_launches_food_drive_for_hungry_Britons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28British_Red_Cross_launches_food_drive_for_hungry_Britons%29

content:
<p>
The British Red Cross is launching a food drive for hungry Britons,
for the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/29/uk-biggest-food-drive-second-world-war-poverty-welfare">first
time since World War II</a>.
<p>
1/4 of the population has had trouble getting enough food this year,
due to the poverty that the government has inflicted.


title: Behavior pattern in Canadian women helps men dominate them
uri: Behavior-pattern-in-Canadian-women-helps-men-dominate-them
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Behavior_pattern_in_Canadian_women_helps_men_dominate_them)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Behavior_pattern_in_Canadian_women_helps_men_dominate_them%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/29/sexual-violence-against-girls-open-our-eyes">behavior
pattern found in Canadian women</a> helps men dominate them.
<p>
The article errs when claiming the experiment described is proof that
this behavior pattern is "hard-wired".  The experiment does not tell
us whether it is neurological or cultural.


title: UK gov't offers to abolish taxes meant for energy efficiency
uri: UK-gov-t-offers-to-abolish-taxes-meant-for-energy-efficiency
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(UK_govt_offers_to_abolish_taxes_meant_for_energy_efficiency)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28UK_govt_offers_to_abolish_taxes_meant_for_energy_efficiency%29

content:
<p>
The UK government asked UK energy companies to keep prices stable for
a while (through the next election) in exchange for the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/nov/29/government-energy-firms-freeze-prices-green-cuts">abolition
of taxes meant to pay for energy efficiency</a>.
<p>
In other words, the ruling parties want to give the public a
short-term pleasure (cheap energy for the moment) in order to avoid
investing in the country's future.


title: US hospitals' new trick to charge medicare patients more
uri: US-hospitals-new-trick-to-charge-medicare-patients-more
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(US_hospitals_new_trick_to_charge_medicare_patients_more)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28US_hospitals_new_trick_to_charge_medicare_patients_more%29

content:
<p>
US hospitals have a new trick to charge medicare patients a lot more:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/29/observation-purgatory-killing-elderly-patients">put
them on "observation"</a> when they ought to be admitted as
inpatients.


title: Judges say Berlusconi paid witnesses to lie in court
uri: Judges-say-Berlusconi-paid-witnesses-to-lie-in-court
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Judges_say_Berlusconi_paid_witnesses_to_lie_in_court)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Judges_say_Berlusconi_paid_witnesses_to_lie_in_court%29

content:
<p>
Judges say Berlusconi 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/29/silvio-berlusconi-paid-witnesses-says-court">paid
witnesses to lie in court</a>.


title: US bomb kills civilians in Afghanistan
uri: US-bomb-kills-civilians-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(US_bomb_kills_civilians_in_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28US_bomb_kills_civilians_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
A US bomb 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/29/us-broken-promises-afghanistan-airstrike-deaths">killed
civilians</a> in Afghanistan, and Karzai demands greater efforts to
avoid such casualties.
<p>
Accidentally hitting civilians is an inevitable part of war:
bombs do miss, even despite the best attempts to hit the target.
Thus, this event is not a war crime.
<p>
I wish, however, that the US made the best possible efforts to avoid
killing civilians and that it owned up to civilian casualties when
they occur.  
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_October_2013_(%27Targeted%27_Killings_and_US_Drones%27_Civilian_Victims)">It
does not</a>.


title: Criminal charges against UK protester who called MP a "coward"
uri: Criminal-charges-against-UK-protester-who-called-MP-a-coward
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Criminal_charges_against_UK_protester_who_called_MP_a_coward)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Criminal_charges_against_UK_protester_who_called_MP_a_coward%29

content:
<p>
A protester in the UK 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/protester-cleared-of-threatening-behaviour-for-calling-hove-mp-a-coward-8937208.html">faced
criminal charges</a> for calling the MP behind the anti-squatting law
a "coward".
<p>
The fact that such charges could even be brought demonstrates that the
UK does not respect freedom of speech.
<p>
I don't know whether that MP is a coward, but it is clear that he is
cruel and chooses to make the poor suffer.  Which, in my book, is much
worse than being a coward.


title: Protester in UK faces criminal charges for calling MP a "coward"
uri: Protester-in-UK-faces-criminal-charges-for-calling-MP-a-coward
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Protester_in_UK_faces_criminal_charges_for_calling_MP_a_coward)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Protester_in_UK_faces_criminal_charges_for_calling_MP_a_coward%29

content:
<p>
A protester in the UK 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/protester-cleared-of-threatening-behaviour-for-calling-hove-mp-a-coward-8937208.html">faced 
criminal charges</a> for calling the MP behind the anti-squatting law
a "coward".
<p>
The fact that such charges could even be brought demonstrates that the
UK does not respect freedom of speech.
<p>
I don't know whether that MP is a coward, but it is clear that he is
cruel and chooses to make the poor suffer.  Which, in my book, is much
worse than being a coward.


title: Dominican Republic receives gay US ambassador
uri: Dominican-Republic-receives-gay-US-ambassador
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Dominican_Republic_receives_gay_US_ambassador)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Dominican_Republic_receives_gay_US_ambassador%29

content:
<p>
The US sent the Dominican Republic an ambassador who is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/29/dominican-republic-gay-us-ambassador">gay
and in a same-sex marriage</a>.
<p>
Around 20 years ago the US sent a black ambassador to South Africa,
which was surely intended as rebuke to racism.  I don't know whether
this choice was meant as a rebuke to bigotry; it might be he was
promoted due to merit and given the next available country.
<p>
In either case, now that religious bigots are demanding that the US
accede to their bigotry, it must not do so.  Bigotry is not the sort
of "local custom" that deserves respect.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Nonfree_software_in_cars)
title: Nonfree software in cars
uri: Nonfree-software-in-cars
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Nonfree_software_in_cars%29
content:
<p>
The battery for the Zoe electric car has to be rented,
and when the rental contract runs out, the battery can be
<a href="http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2013/11/28/renault-zoe">disabled
by remote control</a>.
<p>
Cars are full of nonfree software, and it is common for nonfree
software to be 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary.html">malware</a>.


title: Public Citizen to sue Kleargear for ruining customers' credit ratings
uri: Public-Citizen-to-sue-Kleargear-for-ruining-customers-credit-ratings
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Public_Citizen_to_sue_Kleargear_for_ruining_customers_credit_ratings)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Public_Citizen_to_sue_Kleargear_for_ruining_customers_credit_ratings%29

content:
<p>
Public Citizen will sue on behalf of the customers whose credit rating
was 
<a href="http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2013/11/utah-couple-seeks-relief-after-credit-ruined-over-non-disparagement-clause-in-a-websites-fine-print.html">ruined
when Kleargear "fined" them for publishing a criticism</a>.


title: LA plans to ban giving food to homeless people from a truck
uri: LA-plans-to-ban-giving-food-to-homeless-people-from-a-truck
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(LA_plans_to_ban_giving_food_to_homeless_people_from_a_truck)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28LA_plans_to_ban_giving_food_to_homeless_people_from_a_truck%29

content:
<p>
Los Angeles finds homeless people unsightly and 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/us/as-homeless-line-up-for-food-los-angeles-weighs-restrictions.html?pagewanted=all">plans
to ban giving them food from a truck</a>.
<p>
If it bothers you that there are homeless people in your neighborhood,
remember that their lives are much more unpleasant and dangerous than
yours.  The reason they look unsightly is that they don't have much
money and they have no place to keep clothing while not wearing it.
If they defecate in the street, they surely feel rather uncomfortable
doing so, but they have no practical choice.
<p>
The excuses that these anticompassionate people give are full of holes
so obvious you have to shut your eyes to fail to see them.  If the
neighborhood homeowners are annoyed that the homeless people don't
have a proper place to defecate, they should set up a toilet.  If they
are annoyed that the homeless people sleep in the bushes, they should
set up a camping space.


title: Contracts to German universities aimed at US weapons development
uri: Contracts-to-German-universities-aimed-at-US-weapons-development
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Contracts_to_German_universities_aimed_at_US_weapons_development)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Contracts_to_German_universities_aimed_at_US_weapons_development%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-universities-under-fire-for-taking-pentagon-contracts-a-935704.html">US
research contracts</a> to German universities seem to be aimed at
weapons development.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Pollution_in_the_Ganges)
title: Pollution in the Ganges
uri: Pollution-in-the-Ganges
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Pollution_in_the_Ganges%29
content:
<p>
The Ganges is so polluted now that 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/indias-polluted-ganges-river-threatens-peoples-livelihoods/a-17237276">nobody
can drink from it</a>.


title: NSA obtains embarrassing information to discredit or blackmail people
uri: NSA-obtains-embarrassing-information-to-discredit-or-blackmail-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(NSA_obtains_embarrassing_information_to_discredit_or_blackmail_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28NSA_obtains_embarrassing_information_to_discredit_or_blackmail_people%29

content:
<p>
The NSA obtained embarrassing information against "radicalizers" so as
to 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html">discredit
or blackmail them</a>.
<p>
If these techniques are applied to foreign enemies of the American
nation, I could not criticize it.  But they can just as well be
applied to Americans, and to democratic political activists of other
countries, at which point the practice resembles J. Edgar Hoover's
blackmail (which focused on US politicians).


title: 40% decrease in moose population in New Hampshire in 5 years
uri: 40-decrease-in-moose-population-in-New-Hampshire-in-5-years
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(40_percent_decrease_in_moose_population_in_New_Hampshire_in_5_years)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%2840_percent_decrease_in_moose_population_in_New_Hampshire_in_5_years%29

content:
<p>
Global heating has caused a 
<a href="http://online.nwf.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=144811.0&dlv_id=150188">40%
decrease</a> in the moose population in New Hampshire in just 5 years.
<p>
They are not endangered yet, but with 30 more years of increased heat,
maybe they will be.


title: Proposed African "cybersecurity" treaty
uri: Proposed-African-cybersecurity-treaty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Proposed_African_cybersecurity_treaty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Proposed_African_cybersecurity_treaty%29

content:
<p>
A proposed African "cybersecurity" treaty could turn into 
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/11/african-convention-cybercrimes-silence-free-speech-online/">censorship</a>.


title: Amazon warehouse conditions could make illness more likely
uri: Amazon-warehouse-conditions-could-make-illness-more-likely
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 01_December_2013_(Amazon_warehouse_conditions_could_make_illness_more_likely)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#01_December_2013_%28Amazon_warehouse_conditions_could_make_illness_more_likely%29

content:
<p>
A stress expert, looking at an undercover report about an Amazon
warehouse, says these conditions 
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25034598">make physical
and mental illness more likely</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Australia's_digital_spying_agency)
title: Australia's digital spying agency
uri: Australia-s-digital-spying-agency
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Australia%27s_digital_spying_agency%29

content:
<p>
Australia's digital spying
agency <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/02/revealed-australian-spy-agency-offered-to-share-data-about-ordinary-citizens">offered
to share raw, complete data about Australians with the US</a>. This
practice may have been directly illegal.
<p>
The agency discussed including medical and legal information too;
whether it went ahead and did so is not stated.


title: Bashar al-Assad is tied directly to war crimes
uri: Bashar-al-Assad-is-tied-directly-to-war-crimes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Bashar_al-Assad_is_tied_directly_to_war_crimes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Bashar_al-Assad_is_tied_directly_to_war_crimes%29

content:
<p>
UN investigators
say <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/02/syrian-officials-involved-war-crimes-bashar-al-assad-un-investigators">Bashar
al-Assad is tied directly to war crimes.</a>
<p>
I hope there is an investigation of what led to the armed uprising
which supplanted the initial nonviolent protest movement.  Was it
funded by Saudi Arabia?


title: How massive surveillance affects us all
uri: How-massive-surveillance-affects-us-all
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(How_massive_surveillance_affects_us_all)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28How_massive_surveillance_affects_us_all%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/02/work-surveillance-snowden-spying-security">How
massive surveillance affects us all.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(The_Corporate_Bully)
title: The Corporate Bully
uri: The-Corporate-Bully
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28The_Corporate_Bully%29
content:
<p>
The Corporate Bully Whose Front
Groups, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/richard-bermans-propaganda-wars-take-us-politics-gutter?paging=off">Willful
Distortions and Hate-Mongering Has Poisoned U.S. Politics.</a>


title: Most Americans today consider other people untrustworthy
uri: Most-Americans-today-consider-other-people-untrustworthy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Most_Americans_today_consider_other_people_untrustworthy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Most_Americans_today_consider_other_people_untrustworthy%29

content:
<p>
Most Americans
today <a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-12-poll-americans-dont.html">consider
other people untrustworthy.</a>  This has major effects.
<p>
Americans' purchases of gifts for their kids are part of
overconsumption
that <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/29/2997011/black-friday-climate/">endangers
the world they will live in.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(10-year_moratorium_on_fracking)
title: 10-year moratorium on fracking
uri: 10-year-moratorium-on-fracking
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%2810-year_moratorium_on_fracking%29

content:
<p>
Massachusetts is considering
a <a href="http://rt.com/usa/fracking-texas-activists-concerned-510/">10-year
moratorium on fracking.</a>
<p>
A permanent ban would be safer.


title: Writer barred from US because she had been hospitalized for depression
uri: Writer-barred-from-US-because-she-had-been-hospitalized-for-depression
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Writer_barred_from_US_because_she_had_been_hospitalized_for_depression)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Writer_barred_from_US_because_she_had_been_hospitalized_for_depression%29

content:
<p>
A Canadian writer
was <a href="http://rt.com/usa/dhs-canada-depression-richardson-495/">barred
from the US because she had been hospitalized for depression</a>.  She
wonders how the US found out about this — whether the Canadian
government illegally gave her records to the US.
<p>
It is absurd for the US to bar people for depression.  It is not
communicable.


title: Removing DRM boosts sales of copies of music
uri: Removing-DRM-boosts-sales-of-copies-of-music
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 02_December_2013_(Removing_DRM_boosts_sales_of_copies_of_music)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#02_December_2013_%28Removing_DRM_boosts_sales_of_copies_of_music%29

content:
<p>
Research confirms that removing DRM 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/what-piracy-removing-drm-boosts-music-sales-by-10-percent-131130/">boosts
sales of copies of music</a>, except for the biggest sellers, which
are not affected at all.
<p>
Please don't call sharing "piracy"; it is propaganda for our enemies.
A US judge, presiding over a trial for copyright infringement,
recognized that 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-banned-from-using-piracy-and-theft-terms-in-hotfile-trial-131129/">"piracy"
and "theft" are smear-words</a>.


title: Programs that recognize facial expression
uri: Programs-that-recognize-facial-expression
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 02_December_2013_(Programs_that_recognize_facial_expression)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#02_December_2013_%28Programs_that_recognize_facial_expression%29

content:
<p>
A new threat to your privacy: programs to 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/technology/when-algorithms-grow-accustomed-to-your-face.html">recognize
facial expression</a>.
<p>
If the program that recognizes expressions does not record the video,
that doesn't make it ok.  Indeed, another program might run at the
same time to do that.


title: Leading scientists call for protection of forests and climate
uri: Leading-scientists-call-for-protection-of-forests-and-climate
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 02_December_2013_(Leading_scientists_call_for_protection_of_forests_and_climate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#02_December_2013_%28Leading_scientists_call_for_protection_of_forests_and_climate%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/slyutse/41_leading_scientists_call_on.html">41
Leading Scientists Call on EPA to Protect Our Forests And Climate</a>.


title: Population of migrating monarch butterflies plummets
uri: Population-of-migrating-monarch-butterflies-plummets
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 02_December_2013_(Population_of_migrating_monarch_butterflies_plummets)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#02_December_2013_%28Population_of_migrating_monarch_butterflies_plummets%29

content:
<p>
The population of migrating monarch butterflies has plummeted from 60
million last year (already a record low) to 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the-monarch-didnt-appear.html">a
few million</a>.
<p>
This is because US agriculture has dropped conservation as a priority
and switched to new pesticides.


title: US to sell more advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia
uri: US-to-sell-more-advanced-weapons-to-Saudi-Arabia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 02_December_2013_(US_to_sell_more_advanced_weapons_to_Saudi_Arabia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#02_December_2013_%28US_to_sell_more_advanced_weapons_to_Saudi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
The US plans to sell more advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia while
Saudi Arabia 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20347-pentagon-approves-record-sale-of-advanced-arms-to-countries-at-war">arms
Islamist fanatics in Syria</a>.
<p>
Saudi Arabia also 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2011-jan-apr.html#03%20April%202011%20(Intervention%20Against%20Gaddafi)">organized
the repression in Bahrain</a>.


title: Christian extremism correlates with global heating denialism
uri: Christian-extremism-correlates-with-global-heating-denialism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 02_December_2013_(Christian_extremism_correlates_with_global_heating_denialism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#02_December_2013_%28Christian_extremism_correlates_with_global_heating_denialism%29

content:
<p>
Christian extremism 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2013/12/creationists_and_climate_change_political_union_of_science_critics.html">correlates
with global heating denialism</a>.


title: Certain pesticides affect multiple generations of progeny of rats
uri: Certain-pesticides-affect-multiple-generations-of-progeny-of-rats
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 02_December_2013_(Certain_pesticides_affect_multiple_generations_of_progeny_of_rats)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#02_December_2013_%28Certain_pesticides_affect_multiple_generations_of_progeny_of_rats%29

content:
<p>
Exposing rats to certain pesticides can cause damage to their
descendants 
<a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/jsass/scientific_evidence_to_support.html">3
generations later</a>.


title: Glossary for NSA massive surveillance
uri: Glossary-for-NSA-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 02_December_2013_(Glossary_for_NSA_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#02_December_2013_%28Glossary_for_NSA_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/02/dishfire-wabash-spy-language-snowden-files-nsa-surveillance-glossary">glossary</a>
for NSA massive surveillance.


title: Canada approves producing GMO salmon eggs in quantity
uri: Canada-approves-producing-GMO-salmon-eggs-in-quantity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 02_December_2013_(Canada_approves_producing_GMO_salmon_eggs_in_quantity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#02_December_2013_%28Canada_approves_producing_GMO_salmon_eggs_in_quantity%29

content:
<p>
Canada approved 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/25/canada-genetically-modified-salmon-commercial">producing
GMO salmon eggs in quantity</a>.
<p>
I don't think it is likely these salmon would hurt people that eat
them.  
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2010-sep-dec.html#21%20November%202010%20(FWS%20on%20GM%20salmon)">Their
danger is to wild salmon</a>.
<p>
Maybe these are safe for the environment if raised in Panama.  But
fish eggs and young fish can drift a long way in the ocean.  They
would be much safer if they were engineered to be sterile.  When
there's a small chance of a big and irreparable harm, we need multiple
lines of defense, each of which ought to be sufficient by itself.


title: Israel's position on the US-Iran deal
uri: Israel-s-position-on-the-US-Iran-deal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 02_December_2013_(Israels_position_on_the_US-Iran_deal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#02_December_2013_%28Israels_position_on_the_US-Iran_deal%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery, regarding Israel's position on the US-Iran deal:
"<a href='http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1385746190/'>The
fools would have been amusing, if they had not been our fools.</a>"


title: Urgent: Tax benefit for renewable energy projects
uri: Urgent-Tax-benefit-for-renewable-energy-projects
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Urgent:_Tax_benefit_for_renewable_energy_projects)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tax_benefit_for_renewable_energy_projects%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy;pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=3901">support
the bill</a> to allow renewable energy projects a sort of tax benefit
available to fossil fuel projects.


title: Aging US nuclear plants kept open by reducing safety standards
uri: Aging-US-nuclear-plants-kept-open-by-reducing-safety-standards
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Aging_US_nuclear_plants_kept_open_by_reducing_safety_standards)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Aging_US_nuclear_plants_kept_open_by_reducing_safety_standards%29

content:
<p>
As US nuclear plants age, and various parts rust or become brittle,
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission keeps the plants open by 
<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43455859/ns/us_news-environment/">reducing
safety standards over and over</a>.


title: US pressure for Japan to continue using nuclear plants
uri: US-pressure-for-Japan-to-continue-using-nuclear-plants
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(US_pressure_for_Japan_to_continue_using_nuclear_plants)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28US_pressure_for_Japan_to_continue_using_nuclear_plants%29

content:
<p>
Nikkei Shimbun reported that US pressure for Japan to continue
using nuclear power plants 
<a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/american-government-is-dictating-japanese-nuclear-policy.html">came
from Obama himself</a>.
<p>
I don't think we need to worry about occasionally eating seafood
caught near Fukushima.  The level of radioactive material in it is
small compared with the radiation we are normally exposed to.


title: US gov't persistently treats journalists as terrorists
uri: US-gov-t-persistently-treats-journalists-as-terrorists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(US_govt_persistently_treats_journalists_as_terrorists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28US_govt_persistently_treats_journalists_as_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
The US government has a persistent habit of 
<a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/u-s-points-out-that-only-tyrants-treat-journalists-as-terrorists-then-does-it-itself.html">treating
journalists as terrorists</a>, and refused to promise not to prosecute
journalist for publishing interviews with terrorists.


title: Legislative proposals being considered by ALEC
uri: Legislative-proposals-being-considered-by-ALEC
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Legislative_proposals_being_considered_by_ALEC)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Legislative_proposals_being_considered_by_ALEC%29

content:
<p>
ALEC is considering proposals to 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/11/12318/ALECs-extreme-legislative-agenda-for-2014">attack
the rights of workers, patients, customers and students</a>, vis-a-vis
employers and businesses.


title: Small pieces of plastic harming sea life
uri: Small-pieces-of-plastic-harming-sea-life
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Small_pieces_of_plastic_harming_sea_life)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Small_pieces_of_plastic_harming_sea_life%29

content:
<p>
Small pieces of plastic in the ocean are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/02/microplastic-pollution-harms-lugworms-sea-oceans">harming
worms that are food for many other species</a>.
<p>
Pieces 5mm in size shouldn't be called "microplastics".  Perhaps some
pieces are small enough to deserve that name.
<p>
Once the worms have a low level of toxins, the animals that eat the
worms will accumulate higher levels, and the animals that eat those
will get even higher levels.  The same thing happens with mercury,
which is why tuna have so much mercury that they are dangerous for
humans to eat.


title: Failure of the Warsaw climate negotiations
uri: Failure-of-the-Warsaw-climate-negotiations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Failure_of_the_Warsaw_climate_negotiations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Failure_of_the_Warsaw_climate_negotiations%29

content:
<p>
<a href="media/75f4ff8f.cop19_guide_to_corporate_lobbying-with_references.pdf" data-original-source="http://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/cop19_guide_to_corporate_lobbying-with_references.pdf">Intense
business lobbying</a> — for false solutions or just against real
ones — helped make the Warsaw climate negotiations a failure.
<p>
It's too bad the report uses the nebulous term
"<a href='http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html'>intellectual
property</a>".  I suppose the companies reported on used that term,
because the confusion it spreads serves their purposes; those who
oppose them would do well to pull that veil aside.


title: Cuts in food stamps put families in trouble
uri: Cuts-in-food-stamps-put-families-in-trouble
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Cuts_in_food_stamps_put_families_in_trouble)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Cuts_in_food_stamps_put_families_in_trouble%29

content:
<p>
With cuts in food stamps, many families are in trouble if children are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/03/fraud-wall-street-food-stamps-congress-cuts">dismissed
from school before lunch</a>.


title: What 4C of global heating will mean for Australia
uri: What-4C-of-global-heating-will-mean-for-Australia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(What_4C_of_global_heating_will_mean_for_Australia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28What_4C_of_global_heating_will_mean_for_Australia%29

content:
<p>
A book spells out 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/02/australia-must-cut-emissions-40-by-2020-to-avoid-dramatic-climatic-shifts">what
4C of global heating will mean for Australia</a> — what it is
going to experience if it does not join in cutting emissions.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Mood_sweater)
title: Mood sweater
uri: Mood-sweater
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Mood_sweater%29
content:
<p>
A new sweater 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/03/wearable-tech-ger-mood-sweater">changes
color</a> depending on the wearer's feelings.
<p>
Imagine wearing this sweater while playing poker.
<p>
Now imagine hacking one to show whatever color you tell it color to
show, and wearing it while playing poker.


title: Denmark offers child care to all young children
uri: Denmark-offers-child-care-to-all-young-children
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Denmark_offers_child_care_to_all_young_children)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Denmark_offers_child_care_to_all_young_children%29

content:
<p>
Denmark offers child care to all young children, and it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/03/denmark-universal-nursery-care-working-families">isn't
overprotective</a>.
<p>
American children used to organize their own play, too.  They didn't
need help from adults.


title: Caste Hindus attack Dalits with impunity
uri: Caste-Hindus-attack-Dalits-with-impunity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Caste_Hindus_attack_Dalits_with_impunity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Caste_Hindus_attack_Dalits_with_impunity%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/a-dalit-village-waits-uneasily-for-justice/?_r=0">Repeatedly</a>,
caste Hindus that attack Dalits in Bihar, India, are given impunity.


title: Measuring success by material things
uri: Measuring-success-by-material-things
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 03_December_2013_(Measuring_success_by_material_things)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_%28Measuring_success_by_material_things%29

content:
<p>
A study reports people who measure success by material things fall
into a
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/news/2013/dec/02/shoppers-beware-materialism-worse-than-thought'>loneliness
loop</a>" and then have trouble coping with reverses.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_TPP)
title: Urgent: Oppose the TPP
uri: Urgent-Oppose-the-TPP
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: sign 
<a href="http://campaigns.350.org/petitions/say-no-to-corporate-power-grabs-reject-the-trans-pacific-partnership">this
petition</a> opposing the TPP.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Urgent:_End_the_sequester)
title: Urgent: End the sequester
uri: Urgent-End-the-sequester
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_End_the_sequester%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/november-18-online-federal-budget-day-of-action">end
the sequester</a> which is killing more jobs every year.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Require public companies to disclose political spending
uri: Urgent-Require-public-companies-to-disclose-political-spending
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Urgent:_Require_public_companies_to_disclose_political_spending)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Require_public_companies_to_disclose_political_spending%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Once again, 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9213">tell
the SEC</a> to move forward with requiring public companies to
disclose political spending.
<p>
The SEC said it would do this, then quietly dropped it.


title: Noam Chomsky: America Hates Its Poor
uri: Noam-Chomsky-America-Hates-Its-Poor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Noam_Chomsky:_America_Hates_Its_Poor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Noam_Chomsky%3A_America_Hates_Its_Poor%29

content:
<p>
Noam Chomsky: 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/12/01/noam_chomsky_america_hates_its_poor_partner/">America
Hates Its Poor</a>.
<p>
He explains how the "tea party" idea that "We want the government off
our backs" is used to distract working-class Americans from organizing
for Liberal (social-democratic) that they favor when asked.


title: Law to impose nasty copyright punishments in Canada
uri: Law-to-impose-nasty-copyright-punishments-in-Canada
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Law_to_impose_nasty_copyright_punishments_in_Canada)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Law_to_impose_nasty_copyright_punishments_in_Canada%29

content:
<p>
Canada's legislature is 
<a href="http://excesscopyright.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/bill-c-8-re-anti-counterfeiting-is_26.html">quietly
pushing</a> a law to impose nasty copyright punishments.
<p>
Please don't follow this article by using the term
"<a href='http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html'>intellectual
property</a>" to formulate your thoughts or your words.


title: NSA gives staff "talking points" that praise the NSA
uri: NSA-gives-staff-talking-points-that-praise-the-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(NSA_gives_staff_talking_points_that_praise_the_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28NSA_gives_staff_talking_points_that_praise_the_NSA%29

content:
<p>
The NSA gave its staff "talking points" to tell their families,
praising the NSA and its massive surveillance.  
<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/12/02/nsa-sent-home-talking-points-for-employees-to-use-in-conversations-with-family-friends-during-holidays/">This
article</a> refutes them.


title: Anti-Miloshevic activist spied on opposition groups for Stratfor
uri: Anti-Miloshevic-activist-spied-on-opposition-groups-for-Stratfor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Anti-Miloshevic_activist_spied_on_opposition_groups_for_Stratfor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Anti-Miloshevic_activist_spied_on_opposition_groups_for_Stratfor%29

content:
<p>
Anti-Miloshevic activist Srdja Popovic spied on various opposition
groups <a href="http://www.occupy.com/article/exposed-globally-renowned-activist-collaborated-intelligence-firm-stratfor">for
Stratfor</a>.
<p>
The opposition to Miloshevic was funded by the US, and this may have
brought him into contact with Stratfor.
<p>
Removing Miloshevic was a worthy cause, notwithstanding this.


title: FCC chairman advocates selling privileges to certain web sites
uri: FCC-chairman-advocates-selling-privileges-to-certain-web-sites
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(FCC_chairman_advocates_selling_privileges_to_certain_web_sites)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28FCC_chairman_advocates_selling_privileges_to_certain_web_sites%29

content:
<p>
The new chairman of the FCC in his first speech endorsed network
neutrality as a principle, then 
<a href="http://publicknowledge.org/blog/did-fcc-chairman-just-endorse-pay-play-intern">advocated
selling privileges to certain web sites</a>, although that directly
conflicts with network neutrality.


title: Australian gov't stops giving visas to asylum seekers
uri: Australian-gov-t-stops-giving-visas-to-asylum-seekers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Australian_govt_stops_giving_visas_to_asylum_seekers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Australian_govt_stops_giving_visas_to_asylum_seekers%29

content:
<p>
The government of Australia wants to give refugees arriving by boat
temporary visas instead of permanent visas, but since the opposition
blocked the law to make this change, the government has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/scott-morrison-uses-ministerial-decree-to-halt-permanent-protection-visas">decided
arbitrarily not to give visas to asylum seekers at all</a>.
<p>
In effect, it is holding recognized refugees hostage to ram through
that law.


title: Japanese politician equates protesters' shouts to terrorism
uri: Japanese-politician-equates-protesters-shouts-to-terrorism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Japanese_politician_equates_protesters_shouts_to_terrorism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Japanese_politician_equates_protesters_shouts_to_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
An important Japanese politician, 
<a href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/editorial/AJ201312030036">defending
the proposed anti-whistleblower law</a>, said protesters' shouts were
in essence much like terrorism.


title: Scientists expect greater sea level rise than IPCC predicts
uri: Scientists-expect-greater-sea-level-rise-than-IPCC-predicts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Scientists_expect_greater_sea_level_rise_than_IPCC_predicts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Scientists_expect_greater_sea_level_rise_than_IPCC_predicts%29

content:
<p>
A survey of climate scientists suggests most expect sea level rise to
be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/dec/04/experts-ipcc-underestimated-sea-level-rise">more
than the IPCC predicted</a>.
<p>
How much sea level rises will depend on unknown aspects of global
heating but also on how much greenhouse gas we emit.


title: Obama regime is "most hostile" to journalists in US history
uri: Obama-regime-is-most-hostile-to-journalists-in-US-history
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Obama_regime_is_most_hostile_to_journalists_in_US_history)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Obama_regime_is_most_hostile_to_journalists_in_US_history%29

content:
<p>
Former CNN correspondent Bob Franken says that
the <a href="http://rt.com/usa/obama-franken-hostile-journalists-605/">Obama
regime is the "most hostile" to journalists in US history.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Prohibition_of_child_pornography)
title: Prohibition of "child pornography"
uri: Prohibition-of-child-pornography
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Prohibition_of_child_pornography%29

content:
<p>
Prohibition of "child
pornography" <a href="http://www.ifex.org/barbados/2013/12/03/criminal_charges/">led
to charges against journalists that published a video of two students
having sex in a classroom alongside an article</a>
<p>
I wish I knew who made the video, who distributed it, and whether the
students in it approved of doing so.  Depending on those facts,
someone might have done something wrong here, but probably not the
news site.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(2C_of_global_heating)
title: 2C of global heating
uri: 2C-of-global-heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%282C_of_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
A study projects that 2C of global heating in the short term
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/03/un-2c-global-warming-climate-change">would
lead to considerably more later.</a>
<p>
Thus, it is not an adequate target for curbing short-term heating
— and yet it is almost unattainable.


title: Full-Time video surveillance of a home for a long period of time
uri: Full-Time-video-surveillance-of-a-home-for-a-long-period-of-time
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Full-Time_video_surveillance_of_a_home_for_a_long_period_of_time)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Full-Time_video_surveillance_of_a_home_for_a_long_period_of_time%29

content:
<p>
The EFF argues in court that full-time video surveillance of a home
for a long period of
time <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/eff-amicus-brief-video-surveillance-home-month-without-warrant-violates-fourth">should
require a warrant.</a>


title: Israel's plan to imprison asylum seekers
uri: Israel-s-plan-to-imprison-asylum-seekers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Israel's_plan_to_imprison_asylum_seekers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Israel%27s_plan_to_imprison_asylum_seekers%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty
International <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/israel-reject-indefinite-detention-asylum-seekers-2013-12-03">criticizes
Israel's plan to imprison asylum seekers.</a>


title: Catholic hospitals in the US endanger womens' lives
uri: Catholic-hospitals-in-the-US-endanger-womens-lives
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Catholic_hospitals_in_the_US_endanger_womens'_lives)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Catholic_hospitals_in_the_US_endanger_womens%27_lives%29

content:
<p>
Catholic hospitals in the
US <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom-womens-rights-religion-belief/pregnant-woman-suffers-you-wont-believe-whos">endanger
womens' lives rather than abort pregnancies.</a>
<p>
Even more absurdly (I won't say "worse", since it isn't actually
worse), they do this if the fetus is doomed anyway.
<p>
Hospitals should be required to provide all services including
abortion, and if the Catholic Church doesn't like that, it should sell
the hospitals.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Leader_of_protesters_in_Thailand)
title: Leader of protesters in Thailand
uri: Leader-of-protesters-in-Thailand
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Leader_of_protesters_in_Thailand%29

content:
<p>
The leader of protesters in Thailand demanded that six TV channels
<a href="http://www.ifex.org/thailand/2013/12/02/free_channel/">cease
broadcasting government statements and broadcast only his side.</a>
<p>
This suggests that these "protesters" think they have a lot of power
behind them.  This is not a popular protest movement even if it looks
like one.


title: Tortured by US agents while held in a secret prison
uri: Tortured-by-US-agents-while-held-in-a-secret-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Tortured_by_US_agents_while_held_in_a_secret_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Tortured_by_US_agents_while_held_in_a_secret_prison%29

content:
<p>
The European Court of Human Rights is considering the case of two
prisoners in Guantanamo who accuse they
were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/03/guantanamo-cia-rendition-torture-poland">tortured
in Poland by US agents while held in a secret prison.</a>
<p>
The US does not allow these prisoners to testify.  It should try them
or release them.  Maybe they are guilty of crimes, but so is the US in
torturing them.


title: French team says Arafat was not poisoned
uri: French-team-says-Arafat-was-not-poisoned
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(French_team_says_Arafat_was_not_poisoned)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28French_team_says_Arafat_was_not_poisoned%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/03/yasser-arafat-died-natural-causes-french-investigators">French
team says Arafat was not poisoned</a>, disagreeing with the Swiss team
that found radioactive Polonium that implied he was murdered.
<p>
This disagreement begs for further investigation to discover the
reason for it.


title: Netanyahu pretends Israel is going to attack Iran
uri: Netanyahu-pretends-Israel-is-going-to-attack-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Netanyahu_pretends_Israel_is_going_to_attack_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Netanyahu_pretends_Israel_is_going_to_attack_Iran%29

content:
<p>
Netanyahu pretends Israel is going to attack Iran, so as
to <a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=62185">keep his
supporters in the US Congress activated to sabotage the US-Iran
nuclear treaty.</a>


title: Israeli troops attacked foreign journalists
uri: Israeli-troops-attacked-foreign-journalists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Israeli_troops_attacked_foreign_journalists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Israeli_troops_attacked_foreign_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
troops <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=653209">attacked
foreign journalists</a>, shooting at their heads with rubber-coated
steel bullets, and shooting them in the back.
<p>
This is not the first time Israeli soldiers
have <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_November_2013_%28Israeli_troops_shot_and_killed_Ahmad_Tazaz%27ah%29">shot
to kill and then denied it.</a>


title: Families have trouble getting fuel for cooking, and water
uri: Families-have-trouble-getting-fuel-for-cooking-and-water
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Families_have_trouble_getting_fuel_for_cooking,_and_water)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Families_have_trouble_getting_fuel_for_cooking%2C_and_water%29

content:
<p>
In
Gaza, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/life-in-gaza-we-wake-up-to-terrifying-sonic-booms-and-try-to-sleep-while-israelis-are-shelling-8976091.html">families
have trouble getting fuel for cooking, and water.</a>


title: Israeli forces used bulldozers to destroy wells in Palestine
uri: Israeli-forces-used-bulldozers-to-destroy-wells-in-Palestine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Israeli_forces_used_bulldozers_to_destroy_wells_in_Palestine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Israeli_forces_used_bulldozers_to_destroy_wells_in_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
forces <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=653548">used
bulldozers to destroy wells in Palestine.</a> They also bulldozed
tents that Palestinians lived in.
<p>
This is part of a long-term campaign of ethnic cleansing
to <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#10_August_2011_%28Colonies_Linked_To_Demolition%29">evict
Palestinians from a large slice of Palestine near the border with
Jordan.</a>


title: Alec lost 40 corporate sponsors after the killing of Trayvon Martin
uri: Alec-lost-40-corporate-sponsors-after-the-killing-of-Trayvon-Martin
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Alec_lost_40_corporate_sponsors_after_the_killing_of_Trayvon_Martin)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Alec_lost_40_corporate_sponsors_after_the_killing_of_Trayvon_Martin%29

content:
<p>
Alec lost 40 corporate sponsors after the killing of Trayvon Martin,
but it is
furiously <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/03/alec-funding-crisis-big-donors-trayvon-martin">planning
how to get them back into a new organization with a different
name.</a>
<p>
One sponsor it has not lost yet is Google.
Please <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_November_2013_%28Urgent:_Tell_Google_to_stop_supporting_ALEC%29">sign
the petition calling on Google to stop supporting Alec.</a>


title: Australia arrested former official who was going to be a witness at the Hague
uri: Australia-arrested-former-official-who-was-going-to-be-a-witness-at-th
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Australia_arrested_former_official_who_was_going_to_be_a_witness_at_the_Hague)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Australia_arrested_former_official_who_was_going_to_be_a_witness_at_the_Hague%29

content:
<p>
Australia <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/03/timor-leste-spy-witness-held-lawyers-office-raided-asio">arrested
a former official who was going to be a witness at the Hague</a>, and
raided his lawyer's office for legal documents.
<p>
The case concerns Australian spying during negotiations with East
Timor for a treaty over fossil fuels.  The witness was going to prove
that Australia bugged the Timorese negotiating team.  Apparently the
current Australian government is so subservient to fossil fuel
interests that it will trash traditional civil liberties for them.
<p>
The court should regard the witness's claims as proven conclusively by
his arrest.  That will serve the cause of justice in this case.
Repairing the damage to civil liberties in Australia will take rather
more.


title: Mark Duggan was surrendering when a thug shot him
uri: Mark-Duggan-was-surrendering-when-a-thug-shot-him
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Mark_Duggan_was_surrendering_when_a_thug_shot_him)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Mark_Duggan_was_surrendering_when_a_thug_shot_him%29

content:
<p>
A witness says Mark Duggan was surrendering, with his hands up and a
phone in his
hand, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/03/mark-duggan-was-holding-mobile-phone-when-shot">when
a thug shot him.</a>


title: Google funds many right-wing campaigns in the US
uri: Google-funds-many-right-wing-campaigns-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 04_December_2013_(Google_funds_many_right-wing_campaigns_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#04_December_2013_%28Google_funds_many_right-wing_campaigns_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/11/12319/google-funding-grover-norquist-heritage-action-alec-and-more">Google
funds many right-wing campaigns in the US</a>,
including <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#18_May_2012_%28ALEC_funds%29">ALEC</a>
and tea party
nut <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Senator_Cruz_mini-filibuster%29">Senator
Cruz,</a>
and <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/grover-norquist-the-billionaires-best-friend-20111109?print=true">"tax
reform" that would tax the rich less.</a>


title: Brazil will attack protesters' legal rights
uri: Brazil-will-attack-protesters-legal-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 06_December_2013_(Brazil_will_attack_protesters'_legal_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#06_December_2013_%28Brazil_will_attack_protesters%27_legal_rights%29

content:
<p>
Brazil
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/dec/04/brazil-world-cup-courts">attack
protesters' legal rights on behalf of the World Cup.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on Google, Facebook and Yelp not to fund ALEC
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Google-Facebook-and-Yelp-not-to-fund-ALEC
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 06_December_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Google,_Facebook_and_Yelp_not_to_fund_ALEC)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#06_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Google%2C_Facebook_and_Yelp_not_to_fund_ALEC%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8648">Sign
this petition calling on Google, Facebook and Yelp not to fund
ALEC.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 06_December_2013_(Isa_Muaza_won_a_new_court_heating)
title: Isa Muaza won a new court heating
uri: Isa-Muaza-won-a-new-court-heating
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#06_December_2013_%28Isa_Muaza_won_a_new_court_heating%29

content:
<p>
Isa Muaza, who has been on hunger strike more than 100
days, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/05/asylum-seeker-isa-muaza-granted-more-time-uk">won
a new court hearing about whether he can stay in the UK</a>.


title: Solitary confinement for advocating proper medical care
uri: Solitary-confinement-for-advocating-proper-medical-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 06_December_2013_(Solitary_confinement_for_advocating_proper_medical_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#06_December_2013_%28Solitary_confinement_for_advocating_proper_medical_care%29

content:
<p>
Prisoner Carol Lester
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/05/grandmother-cancer-prison-solitary-confinement">put
in solitary confinement for advocating proper medical care for other
prisoners.</a>
<p>
The privatized prison can't make a profit without squeezing someone,
so it has a reason to isolate those who complain about the squeezing.
But non-privatized
prisons <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_October_2013_%28Prisoner_asks_UN_to_investigate_US_practice_of_solitary_confinement%29">use
solitary confinement eagerly too.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(GMO_corn_and_cancer)
title: GMO corn and cancer
uri: GMO-corn-and-cancer
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28GMO_corn_and_cancer%29
content:
<p>
After the journal journal Food and Chemical Toxicology published a
paper reporting that GMO corn caused cancer in rats, it hired a new
editor who used to work for Monsanto,
and <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/ob405.html">he
retracted the paper.</a>
<p>
The article links to change.org, which is unfortunate since you can't
sign an article there except by running a nonfree program.  The same
with links to vimeo.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Egyptian_military_repression)
title: Egyptian military repression
uri: Egyptian-military-repression
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Egyptian_military_repression%29
content:
<p>
The Egyptian military government has shown clearly
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/egypt-charges-activists-cairo-protest">repression
isn't just for Islamists.</a>
<p>
The proposed new
constitution <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/constitution-referendum-egyptians-deja-vu">allows
various sorts of repression.</a>


title: Sussex University sparked strong student resistance
uri: Sussex-University-sparked-strong-student-resistance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Sussex_University_sparked_strong_student_resistance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Sussex_University_sparked_strong_student_resistance%29

content:
<p>
Sussex
University <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/05/students-sussex-suspended">sparked
strong student resistance by suspending 5 students</a>, including some
who participated in an occupation protest, and at least one who didn't
participate.
<p>
Note the standard bullshit statement from the university
administration saying that it has to do this to protect "students,
staff and visitors" from disruption or (in their imagination only)
worse.
<p>
This is part of a broader pattern of students' campaigning for decent
treatment of workers,
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/05/students-protests-police-repression-university-of-london">increased
repression by the state which advocates bad treatment of workers.</a>


title: Biggest threat to Israel's security
uri: Biggest-threat-to-Israel-s-security
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Biggest_threat_to_Israel's_security)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Biggest_threat_to_Israel%27s_security%29

content:
<p>
The former head of Israel's secret service said that the biggest
threat to Israel's security is
its <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/israeli-security-chief-conflict-threat-iran">refusal
to make peace with Palestine.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Marijuana_Legalization_Plan)
title: Marijuana Legalization Plan
uri: Marijuana-Legalization-Plan
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Marijuana_Legalization_Plan%29
content:
<p>
Uruguayan President Asks for World
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/03-11">Support
His Marijuana Legalization Plan.</a>
<p>
States should withdraw from that 1961 UN treaty.


title: Methods that will enable blocking anything in the future
uri: Methods-that-will-enable-blocking-anything-in-the-future
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Methods_that_will_enable_blocking_anything_in_the_future)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Methods_that_will_enable_blocking_anything_in_the_future%29

content:
<p>
The methods now being developed to obstruct access to "child"
pornography <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/surveillance-technology-government-censorship">will
enable blocking anything in the future</a>, such as perhaps the
revelations of the next Snowden.


title: Urgent: Call on Obama to support reform of the ECPA
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Obama-to-support-reform-of-the-ECPA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Obama_to_support_reform_of_the_ECPA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Obama_to_support_reform_of_the_ECPA%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reform-ecpa-tell-government-get-warrant/nq258dxk">this
petition</a> calling on Obama to support reform of the ECPA to require
the government to get a warrant to examine people's email.
<p>
This is a fairly small change: under current law, the warrant is
needed for recent emails (those that arrived in the last 6 months),
but not needed for emails that have remained for longer.


title: Urgent: Stop the wave of TV station mergers
uri: Urgent-Stop-the-wave-of-TV-station-mergers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_the_wave_of_TV_station_mergers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_the_wave_of_TV_station_mergers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/consol_mergers_FCC/">call on
the FCC</a> to block the wave of TV station mergers.


title: Urgent: Publish names of Third Way's financial sponsors
uri: Urgent-Publish-names-of-Third-Way-s-financial-sponsors
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Urgent:_Publish_names_of_Third_Ways_financial_sponsors)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Publish_names_of_Third_Ways_financial_sponsors%29

content:
<p>
Everyone with a relation to the US: 
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/third_way_petition/">tell
Third Way</a> to publish the names of its financial sponsors, so we
know the origin of its "advice" to Democrats not to be real Democrats
like Elizabeth Warren.


title: Urgent: Tell companies not to join ALEC again
uri: Urgent-Tell-companies-not-to-join-ALEC-again
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_companies_not_to_join_ALEC_again)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_companies_not_to_join_ALEC_again%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell companies that quit ALEC 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/dont_support_alec?source=mailing">not
to join it again</a>, not even under a 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_(Scandals_revealed_by_ALEC_leak)">different
name</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Scandals_revealed_by_ALEC_leak)
title: Scandals revealed by ALEC leak
uri: Scandals-revealed-by-ALEC-leak
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Scandals_revealed_by_ALEC_leak%29

content:
<p>
Scandals revealed by the 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/12/12328/leaked-docs-show-alecs">ALEC
leak</a>:
<ul>
<li> The organization's choice of issues to focus on is determined
by how much business money various issues bring in.
<li> It claims to have grown while in
fact it has lost membership.
<li> It is changing its legal status, with a
new name, hoping to lure companies back
and escape charges of violating tax laws.
</ul>


title: NSA collects 5 billion cell phone locations per day
uri: NSA-collects-5-billion-cell-phone-locations-per-day
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(NSA_collects_5_billion_cell_phone_locations_per_day)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28NSA_collects_5_billion_cell_phone_locations_per_day%29

content:
<p>
The NSA collects 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_print.html">5
billion cell phone locations per day</a>, from hundreds of millions of
phones.
<p>
The NSA uses this to determine when people meet each other physically.
Thus, if you are going to a meeting, take the batteries out of your
phone well before you get to it, as a courtesy to those you will meet
with.
<p>
Here are some significant 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/snowden-cell-phone-location-spying-surveillance-nsa">conclusions</a>.
<p>
We did not know that the NSA was tracking phones world-wide, but we
have known all along that they were being tracked by phone companies,
and the governments that control them, and often by Apple and Google
too.  That's already unacceptable.
<p>
I have never "connected to our modern communication system" because I
refused to be tracked.  I have refused for 15 years now.  This does
not require me to "live in a cave".  In my travels, if I need to make
a call in a train or on the street, I ask whoever is there to call for
me.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Why_We_Need_A_State_-_FIX)
title: Why We Need A State - FIX
uri: Why-We-Need-A-State-FIX
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Why_We_Need_A_State_-_FIX%29
content:
<p>
A horrible typo was fixed in <a
href="http://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">Why We
Need a State</a>.  It incorrectly said "the many non-poor" when it
should have said "the many non-rich".


title: Ads tuned based on people's emotional state
uri: Ads-tuned-based-on-people-s-emotional-state
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Ads_tuned_based_on_peoples_emotional_state)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Ads_tuned_based_on_peoples_emotional_state%29

content:
<p>
The next "advance" in exploiting people through their computers: 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/12/emotion_detecting_advertising_regulators_aren_t_ready_for_it.html">ads
tuned based on people's emotional state</a>.
<p>
These ads are typically shown by software and services that are
malicious in other ways — for example, a game server that
monitors you might also show ads based on figuring out when you are
vulnerable, or a car might monitor your emotional state using
proprietary software you can't change.


title: Attempts to justify cultural practices with evolutionary stories
uri: Attempts-to-justify-cultural-practices-with-evolutionary-stories
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Attempts_to_justify_cultural_practices_with_evolutionary_stories)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Attempts_to_justify_cultural_practices_with_evolutionary_stories%29

content:
<p>
Be skeptical of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/04/shame-sex-women-regret-evolution">attempts
to invent evolutionary stories to justify cultural practices</a> such
as sexism.
<p>
It is very difficult to tell whether a widespread human behavior
pattern is genetically determined or not.


title: How the UK can win independence from the banksters
uri: How-the-UK-can-win-independence-from-the-banksters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(How_the_UK_can_win_independence_from_the_banksters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28How_the_UK_can_win_independence_from_the_banksters%29

content:
<p>
The UK could win independence from the banksters simply 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/04/goldman-sachs-warns-london-exit-britain-eu">by
exiting the EU</a>.
<p>
Then it would be able to tax businesses including Amazon that extract
money from the UK.


title: Gas companies sue cities that have imposed bans on fracking
uri: Gas-companies-sue-cities-that-have-imposed-bans-on-fracking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Gas_companies_sue_cities_that_have_imposed_bans_on_fracking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Gas_companies_sue_cities_that_have_imposed_bans_on_fracking%29

content:
<p>
Gas companies are 
<a href="http://rt.com/usa/colorado-fracking-ban-lawsuit-709/">suing
cities</a> that have imposed bans on fracking.
<p>
We need a national ban on fracking.  Most known fossil fuel
reserves need to be left in the ground, and the first to be left
are those whose extraction might poison water supplies.
<p>
Riot thugs attacked anti-fracking protesters in Romania
<a href="http://rt.com/news/romania-shale-gas-chevron-652/">so that
Chevron could start fracking</a>, and kept journalists away so they
could hide their dirty work.


title: Devastation of large animals in the Sahara
uri: Devastation-of-large-animals-in-the-Sahara
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Devastation_of_large_animals_in_the_Sahara)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Devastation_of_large_animals_in_the_Sahara%29

content:
<p>
Large animals in the Sahara has been 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-12-documents-catastrophic-collapse-sahara-wildlife.html">devastated</a>
— many are extinct or remain in only a small part of their
former range.


title: Commercial advertising in Philadelphia schools
uri: Commercial-advertising-in-Philadelphia-schools
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Commercial_advertising_in_Philadelphia_schools)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Commercial_advertising_in_Philadelphia_schools%29

content:
<p>
Philadelphia should reject 
<a href="https://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=4035">commercial
advertising in schools</a>.


title: EU monitors wanted to report election rigging in Honduras
uri: EU-monitors-wanted-to-report-election-rigging-in-Honduras
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(EU_monitors_wanted_to_report_election_rigging_in_Honduras)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28EU_monitors_wanted_to_report_election_rigging_in_Honduras%29

content:
<p>
A whistleblower in the EU team of election monitors in Honduras says
most of the team wanted to report the election was rigged, but the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/03/honduras-election-eu-oas-observer-fraud-violence">team
leaders insisted on approving it</a>.


title: Detroit allowed to declare bankruptcy
uri: Detroit-allowed-to-declare-bankruptcy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Detroit_allowed_to_declare_bankruptcy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Detroit_allowed_to_declare_bankruptcy%29

content:
<p>
Detroit has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/03/detroit-bankruptcy-protection-judge-rules">allowed
to declare bankruptcy</a>.  This is likely to mean drastic pension
cuts for present and former city workers.


title: Former Stanford student sues to get taken off "terrorist watch list"
uri: Former-Stanford-student-sues-to-get-taken-off-terrorist-watch-list
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Former_Stanford_student_sues_to_get_taken_off_terrorist_watch_list)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Former_Stanford_student_sues_to_get_taken_off_terrorist_watch_list%29

content:
<p>
Rahinah Ibrahim, formerly a student at Stanford, is 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/terror-watchlist-trial/">suing
to get taken off a US "terrorist watch list"</a>, or at least find out if
she is really on it.
<p>
I can't tell whether the list in question is the "no-fly" list or some
other list.  Does anyone know?


title: Surveillance in subways and City Colleges of Chicago
uri: Surveillance-in-subways-and-City-Colleges-of-Chicago
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Surveillance_in_subways_and_City_Colleges_of_Chicago)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Surveillance_in_subways_and_City_Colleges_of_Chicago%29

content:
<p>
Chicago's subways make it very expensive not to be spied on, and the
City Colleges of Chicago demand 
<a href="http://socialistworker.org/2013/12/02/big-brother-comes-to-campus">biometric
ID from the staff</a>.
<p>
I would be willing to use a biometric system to get my pay, if it
tested some part of my body other than my finger tips.


title: Traceability requirements for meat in Europe
uri: Traceability-requirements-for-meat-in-Europe
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Traceability_requirements_for_meat_in_Europe)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Traceability_requirements_for_meat_in_Europe%29

content:
<p>
The French government says that the EU, supported by the UK, are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/04/horsemeat-scandal-uk-brussels-failing-france">blocking</a>
stricter traceability requirements for meat.


title: Ethical questions for custodians of the natural world
uri: Ethical-questions-for-custodians-of-the-natural-world
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 05_December_2013_(Ethical_questions_for_custodians_of_the_natural_world)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_December_2013_%28Ethical_questions_for_custodians_of_the_natural_world%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/04/ethical-kill-deer-badgers-conservationists-wildlife">Ethical
questions</a> for custodians of the natural world.
<p>
I don't think that animals in general have a right to life — not
even whales.  I don't think, for instance, that we have a duty to stop
orcas (one type of whale) from killing other whales as we would
protect humans from being killed.  I don't think we have a duty to
stop chimps from killing other chimps.
<p>
But it is important to prevent the loss of species and ecosystems,
because that is an irrecoverable loss.


title: Cuts in health care are subjecting old people in UK to pain and danger
uri: Cuts-in-health-care-are-subjecting-old-people-in-UK-to-pain-and-danger
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Cuts_in_health_care_are_subjecting_old_people_in_UK_to_pain_and_danger)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Cuts_in_health_care_are_subjecting_old_people_in_UK_to_pain_and_danger%29

content:
<p>
Conservatives' cuts in health care are subjecting old people in the UK
to pain and danger
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/05/nhs-savings-target-elderly-knee-hip-cataract">delaying
needed operations.</a>


title: Pakistani anti-drone protesters blocked US supplies to Afghanistan
uri: Pakistani-anti-drone-protesters-blocked-US-supplies-to-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Pakistani_anti-drone_protesters_blocked_US_supplies_to_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Pakistani_anti-drone_protesters_blocked_US_supplies_to_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
Pakistani anti-drone protesters
have <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/04-3">blocked
US supplies to Afghanistan for 10 days.</a> They say they will
continue until the US stops the drone attacks.
<p>
As weapons of war, drones are not very different from bombers with
human crews.  Drones raise a special issue when they are used away
from battlefields, in countries where the US says it is not fighting
— Pakistan, for instance.  In these cases, they more resemble
death squads or terror campaigns than a war.


title: Senator Warren call for big banks to disclose contributions to "think tanks"
uri: Senator-Warren-call-for-big-banks-to-disclose-contributions-to-think
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Senator_Warren_call_for_big_banks_to_disclose_contributions_to_think_tanks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Senator_Warren_call_for_big_banks_to_disclose_contributions_to_think_tanks%29

content:
<p>
Senator Warren called for the big banks
to <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/elizabeth-warren-contribution-think-tank">disclose
their contributions to "think tanks"</a> (which in many cases are
really <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#20_February_2013_(Funneling_money_to_right-wing_think_tanks)">right-wing
pressure groups</a>).
<p>
Suffolk
University <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/host-university-research-group-climate-suffolk-university">denounced
a right-wing think tank that it hosts</a> for a politically-minded
campaign to undermine regional greenhouse gas reduction initiative.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Network_of_right-wing_think_tanks)
title: Network of right-wing "think tanks"
uri: Network-of-right-wing-think-tanks
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Network_of_right-wing_think_tanks%29

content:
<p>
A network of right-wing "think
tanks" <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/state-conservative-groups-assault-education-health-tax">campaign
for right-wing laws in many US states.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Urgent:_Cut_the_military_budget)
title: Urgent: Cut the military budget
uri: Urgent-Cut-the-military-budget
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Cut_the_military_budget%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and urge them to cut the military
budget.
Also <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/161/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14693">sign
this petition.</a>
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.</p>


title: Urgent: Call on Senator Warren to endorse deal with Iran
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Senator-Warren-to-endorse-deal-with-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Senator_Warren_to_endorse_deal_with_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Senator_Warren_to_endorse_deal_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: call on Senator Warren
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/sen-elizabeth-warren">endorse
the deal with Iran.</a>


title: Another apology that deserves an apology
uri: Another-apology-that-deserves-an-apology
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Another_apology_that_deserves_an_apology)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Another_apology_that_deserves_an_apology%29

content:
<p>
Another apology that deserves an
apology: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/04/martin-bashir-resigns-msnbc-sarah-palin">Martin
Bashir's apology for what he said about Sarah Palin.</a>
<p>
Bashir said that if anyone deserved the punishments that slaves
received, it would be Ms Palin.  The use of "deserved" indicates a
counterfactual: Bashir explicitly avoided saying that she, or anyone,
deserves those punishments.  He was criticized wrongly for a palinode
that was entirely justified.


title: Urgent: Oppose bill to increase NSA massive surveillance
uri: Urgent-Oppose-bill-to-increase-NSA-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_bill_to_increase_NSA_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_bill_to_increase_NSA_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your senators
to <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/Internet_FISA_Feinstein/?akid=4529.9489429.3016Vq&rd=1&t=1002">oppose
Senator Feinstein's bill to increase NSA massive surveillance.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on mining company not to sue Costa Rica in World Bank
uri: Urgent-Call-on-mining-company-not-to-sue-Costa-Rica-in-World-Bank
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_mining_company_not_to_sue_Costa_Rica_in_World_Bank)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_mining_company_not_to_sue_Costa_Rica_in_World_Bank%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on a mining
company <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14685">not to sue Costa Rica in
the World Bank.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_funding_ALEC)
title: Urgent: Stop funding ALEC
uri: Urgent-Stop-funding-ALEC
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_funding_ALEC%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on all companies
to <a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ditchalec">stop
funding ALEC.</a>


title: US gov't lies in court about use of no-fly list to block witness
uri: US-gov-t-lies-in-court-about-use-of-no-fly-list-to-block-witness
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 06_December_2013_(US_govt_lies_in_court_about_use_of_no-fly_list_to_block_witness)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#06_December_2013_%28US_govt_lies_in_court_about_use_of_no-fly_list_to_block_witness%29

content:
<p>
Rahinah Ibrahim's daughter, who is a US citizen, was supposed to go to
the US and testify as a witness in Ms Ibrahim's lawsuit.  The US
government blocked her return by putting her on the no-fly list, then
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131204/10434025453/dhs-puts-witness-trial-over-legality-no-fly-list-no-fly-list-making-her-late-her-testimony.shtml">lied
about it in court</a>.
<p>
This article says that the list Rahinah is suing to be removed from
is the no-fly list.
<p>
The government's lawyers are claiming that the government can exclude
"secret" information from the case even if it has been published.
We've seen this contempt for reality in the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_(US_govt_pretends_Snowdens_leaks_still_secret)">Obama 
regime's attitude</a> towards secrets revealed by Wikileaks and
Snowden.
<p>
Over and over we see that US government agents are willing to lie to
achieve their missions.  Some lie to Congress, while others lie in
court.  These lawyers should be disbarred, just as Clapper should be
jailed for contempt of Congress.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 06_December_2013_(Thanksgiving_at_Toys-R-Us)
title: Thanksgiving at Toys-R-Us
uri: Thanksgiving-at-Toys-R-Us
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#06_December_2013_%28Thanksgiving_at_Toys-R-Us%29
content:
<p>
Toys-R-Us 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20131128">tried to
replace the idea of Thanksgiving</a> with the idea of "I want more".


title: World Cup provides excuse to evict 19,000 poor families
uri: World-Cup-provides-excuse-to-evict-19-000-poor-families
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 06_December_2013_(World_Cup_provides_excuse_to_evict_19000_poor_families)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#06_December_2013_%28World_Cup_provides_excuse_to_evict_19000_poor_families%29

content:
<p>
The World Cup has provided an excuse to evict 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/world-cup-favelas-socially-cleansed-olympics">19,000
poor families</a> in Rio de Janeiro and move them up to 25 miles away.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 06_December_2013_(Bloggers_arrested_in_Iran)
title: Bloggers arrested in Iran
uri: Bloggers-arrested-in-Iran
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#06_December_2013_%28Bloggers_arrested_in_Iran%29
content:
<p>
Five bloggers have been arrested in Iran for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/iran-revolutionary-guards-arrest-internet-activists">publishing
criticism</a> of the theocratic tyranny.


title: Robert F Kennedy Jr. killed by a bomb in his plane?
uri: Robert-F-Kennedy-Jr-killed-by-a-bomb-in-his-plane
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Robert_F_Kennedy_Jr._killed_by_a_bomb_in_his_plane_)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Robert_F_Kennedy_Jr._killed_by_a_bomb_in_his_plane_%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.barrychamish.com">This site</a> alleges that Robert F
Kennedy Jr. was killed by a bomb in his plane, which was followed by a
US government coverup effort, and alleges this was done by Israeli
secret agents because he was about to publish secrets of their
involvement in the assassination of Israeli Premier Rabin.
<p>
This extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof, and this
article isn't enough.  So I am not convinced this claim is rue.  But I
think it is not immediately dismissable.  To verify the truth of the
facts cited would be a lot of work.  I don't have time to do that.
<p>
Thus I have decided to point readers at his report without saying I
believe any of it.


title: Some pro-Morsi protesters were released with suspended sentences
uri: Some-pro-Morsi-protesters-were-released-with-suspended-sentences
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Some_pro-Morsi_protesters_were_released_with_suspended_sentences)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Some_pro-Morsi_protesters_were_released_with_suspended_sentences%29

content:
<p>
Some pro-Morsi protesters were released with suspended sentences,
meaning
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/07/egypt-frees-21-female-protesters">if
they protest again they will automatically be imprisoned.</a>
<p>
The UK uses a similar nasty trick, giving accused
protesters <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#03_December_2012_%28UK_thugs_attacked_striking_miners_in_1984%29">bail
with conditions</a> banning them from coming anywhere near a protest.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Apple_tracking)
title: Apple tracking
uri: Apple-tracking
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Apple_tracking%29
content:
<p>
Apple
will <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/06/apple-store-ibeacon_n_4396350.html">invite
fanboys to let it track them around the Apple Store.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Geoengineering_could_lead_to_war)
title: Geoengineering could lead to war
uri: Geoengineering-could-lead-to-war
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Geoengineering_could_lead_to_war%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/6/5181736/who-sets-the-planets-thermostat-the-politics-of-geoengineering">Geoengineering
could lead to war</a> between countries that have different needs for
how to engineer the Earth's climate.
<p>
Any geoengineering method that aims to affect temperature directly
will not do anything to stop ocean acidification due to dissolved CO2.
This threatens to destroy all coral reefs, along with all the other
species that depend on coral reefs.  The result could easily be the
loss of most of the sea food that a billion humans depend on.
<p>
In experiments, CO2 affected the behavior of some species of fish too
-- they ceased to hide from predators.  That could wipe them out.


title: Refuse to surrender to the privatization of the university
uri: Refuse-to-surrender-to-the-privatization-of-the-university
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Refuse_to_surrender_to_the_privatization_of_the_university)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Refuse_to_surrender_to_the_privatization_of_the_university%29

content:
<p>
Suspended student protest leaders in Sussex University
say <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/07/bullied-to-allow-university-privatisation">they
refuse to surrender to the privatization of the university.</a>


title: Thugs in London punched student protesters
uri: Thugs-in-London-punched-student-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Thugs_in_London_punched_student_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Thugs_in_London_punched_student_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in
London <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/05/police-clash-student-london">punched
student protesters and pushed them to the ground.</a>
<p>
One student leader said he thinks this was a planned tactic intended
to pre-emptively intimidate other students who might potentially join
protests.  Instead it inspired a "cops off campus" protest.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Facebook_is_a_tax_dodger)
title: Facebook is a tax dodger
uri: Facebook-is-a-tax-dodger
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Facebook_is_a_tax_dodger%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/05/facebook-tax-cayman">Facebook
is a tax dodger.</a>
<p>
Of course, it's not the only one, but that is no excuse.


title: A Move Towards Generalised Internet Surveillance in France?
uri: A-Move-Towards-Generalised-Internet-Surveillance-in-France
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(A_Move_Towards_Generalised_Internet_Surveillance_in_France_)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28A_Move_Towards_Generalised_Internet_Surveillance_in_France_%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/a-move-towards-generalised-internet-surveillance-in-france">A
Move Towards Generalised Internet Surveillance in France?</a>
<p>
Many states are launching preemptive attacks to abolish privacy rights
before people get motivated to defend them.


title: Wikileaks activist wanted not to go home
uri: Wikileaks-activist-wanted-not-to-go-home
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Wikileaks_activist_wanted_not_to_go_home)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Wikileaks_activist_wanted_not_to_go_home%29

content:
<p>
Wikileaks activist Sarah Harrison has been warned not to go home to
the UK
because <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/06/wikileaks-sarah-harrison-omidyar-greenwald-ebay-paypal">its
laws can label any sort of protest as "terrorism".</a>


title: ALEC says it is in favor of "local control"
uri: ALEC-says-it-is-in-favor-of-local-control
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(ALEC_says_it_is_in_favor_of_local_control)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28ALEC_says_it_is_in_favor_of_local_control%29

content:
<p>
ALEC says it is in favor of "local control", but many of its proposed
state laws
are <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/12/12335/alec-supports-local-control">designed
to prohibit local regulation of business</a>, even prohibit local
municipal broadband.


title: Urgent: Support bills to reduce harsh minimum sentences
uri: Urgent-Support-bills-to-reduce-harsh-minimum-sentences
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Urgent:_Support_bills_to_reduce_harsh_minimum_sentences)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_bills_to_reduce_harsh_minimum_sentences%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your senators
to <a href="https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=6E8E1C4DFF7354641635D1ABD78A1746.app253a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1029">support
bills to reduce harsh minimum sentences for nonviolent drug
crimes</a>, including for those already in prison.


title: Urgent: Present success stories of Obama's health care law
uri: Urgent-Present-success-stories-of-Obama-s-health-care-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Urgent:_Present_success_stories_of_Obama's_health_care_law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Present_success_stories_of_Obama%27s_health_care_law%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on CBS
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/cbs-evening-news-tell">present
the success stories of Obama's health care law.</a>


title: Social movements criticize the WTO agreement
uri: Social-movements-criticize-the-WTO-agreement
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(Social_movements_criticize_the_WTO_agreement)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28Social_movements_criticize_the_WTO_agreement%29

content:
<p>
Social
movements <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/06/anti-poverty-groups-condemn-wto-pact">criticize
the WTO agreement.</a>


title: Japan Reacts to Fukushima Crisis By Banning Journalism
uri: Japan-Reacts-to-Fukushima-Crisis-By-Banning-Journalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Japan_Reacts_to_Fukushima_Crisis_By_Banning_Journalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Japan_Reacts_to_Fukushima_Crisis_By_Banning_Journalism%29

content:
<p>
Japan Reacts to Fukushima Crisis
By <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/japan-reacts-fukushima-crisis-banning-journalism.html">Banning
Journalism.</a>


title: Merger between American Airlines and US Airways
uri: Merger-between-American-Airlines-and-US-Airways
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Merger_between_American_Airlines_and_US_Airways)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Merger_between_American_Airlines_and_US_Airways%29

content:
<p>
The US
has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/08-6">given up
resisting a merger between American Airlines and US Airways</a>, which
will mean even less competition.


title: European Parliament wants to talk with Snowden by video
uri: European-Parliament-wants-to-talk-with-Snowden-by-video
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(European_Parliament_wants_to_talk_with_Snowden_by_video)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28European_Parliament_wants_to_talk_with_Snowden_by_video%29

content:
<p>
The European
Parliament <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/edward-snowden-nsa-evidence-eu-parliament-surveillance">wants
to talk with Snowden by video.</a>
<p>
I am surprised that Snowden is willing to do this.  A couple of months
ago, he refused to speak remotely with the German Parliament; he
insisted on getting a safe-conduct to go there.


title: Urgent: Take a clear stand against fast track for the TPP
uri: Urgent-Take-a-clear-stand-against-fast-track-for-the-TPP
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Urgent:_Take_a_clear_stand_against_fast_track_for_the_TPP)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Take_a_clear_stand_against_fast_track_for_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Phone Nancy Pelosi's office
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/call/pelosi_tpp/">pressure her
to take a clear stand against "fast track" for the TPP.</a>


title: Radioactive material leaking from Fukushima meltdown will kill people
uri: Radioactive-material-leaking-from-Fukushima-meltdown-will-kill-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Radioactive_material_leaking_from_Fukushima_meltdown_will_kill_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Radioactive_material_leaking_from_Fukushima_meltdown_will_kill_people%29

content:
<p>
The radioactive material leaking from the Fukushima
meltdowns <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/06-6">will
kill people</a>, including an estimated 800 eventual deaths (not soon)
from eating contaminated fish.
<p>
This is 800 out of the millions who are likely to eat some of that
fish.
<p>
800 deaths is a large number to result from a single accident.  It is
important to try to stop more radiative material from leaking into the
ocean from Fukushima, since that as it continues leaking, it could
kill more hundreds.
<p>
On the other hand, the danger to any individual from these leaks is
minuscule; there is no point taking any trouble to make sure you never
eat even a little of that fish.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Urgent:_Ban_menthol_cigarettes)
title: Urgent: Ban menthol cigarettes
uri: Urgent-Ban-menthol-cigarettes
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_menthol_cigarettes%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the FDA
to <a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/menthol">ban menthol
cigarettes</a>. Menthol in cigarettes encourages people to start
smoking.


title: Humanity is unprepared for possible abrupt climate impacts
uri: Humanity-is-unprepared-for-possible-abrupt-climate-impacts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Humanity_is_unprepared_for_possible_abrupt_climate_impacts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Humanity_is_unprepared_for_possible_abrupt_climate_impacts%29

content:
<p>
Humanity
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/04-1">unprepared
for possible abrupt climate impacts.</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose getting palm oil from deforestation
uri: Urgent-Oppose-getting-palm-oil-from-deforestation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_getting_palm_oil_from_deforestation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_getting_palm_oil_from_deforestation%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy;?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1539">call
on the Consumer Goods Forum</a> to require its members to stop getting
palm oil from deforestation.


title: Urgent: Demand a hearing about Keystone XL pipeline
uri: Urgent-Demand-a-hearing-about-Keystone-XL-pipeline
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Urgent:_Demand_a_hearing_about_Keystone_XL_pipeline)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Demand_a_hearing_about_Keystone_XL_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Phone Senator Warner's office to 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12367">demand
a hearing</a> about the Keystone XL pipeline.


title: American Library Association denounces NSA surveillance
uri: American-Library-Association-denounces-NSA-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(American_Library_Association_denounces_NSA_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28American_Library_Association_denounces_NSA_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The American Library Association has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/04-6">denounced
NSA surveillance</a>.
<p>
I think libraries should adopt a system that makes it difficult for
the library to find out who has borrowed a book unless the book
becomes overdue.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Mandela_quotes)
title: Mandela quotes
uri: Mandela-quotes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Mandela_quotes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/06-0">12 Mandela
Quotes That Won't Be In the Corporate Media Obituaries</a>.
<p>
I think it is very important for outside observers to monitor
elections in most countries, and perhaps the US needs them too.


title: Violent porn should not be censored
uri: Violent-porn-should-not-be-censored
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Violent_porn_should_not_be_censored)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Violent_porn_should_not_be_censored%29

content:
<p>
We're supposed to be concerned about anonymous web sites because some
of them 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/how-violent-porn-sites-manage-to-hide-information-that-should-be-public/2013/12/06/e0861378-3773-11e3-ae46-e4248e75c8ea_story.html">distribute
violent porn</a>.
<p>
I don't want to watch violent porn, or violent non-porn, but neither
should be censored.
<p>
However, if a business sells videos of real rapes or other real crimes
and pays or rewards those who commit the crimes, the business
participates in those crimes.  That is valid grounds for prosecution.
<p>
I am surprised that the credit card payments can't be used to trace
the business that runs the site.


title: Nelson Mandela's life falsified by mainstream media
uri: Nelson-Mandela-s-life-falsified-by-mainstream-media
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Nelson_Mandelas_life_falsified_by_mainstream_media)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Nelson_Mandelas_life_falsified_by_mainstream_media%29

content:
<p>
Mainstream media commemorations of Nelson Mandela's life often falsify
him, 
<a href="https://medium.com/editors-picks/b4f31118a558">pretending
that he stood for nonviolent resistance</a>.
<p>
Mandela was right: nonviolence is not the only ethical way to resist
oppression.  Those oppressed with violence are entitled to fight back
with violence.  Of course, the founding fathers of the United States
said the same thing about resistance to British oppression.
<p>
Here 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/12/06/nyt-takes-mandelas-death-as-a-chance-to-mock-his-fight-to-free-his-country/">Mandela
explains the ANC's motives</a> for adopting first sabotage, then
guerrilla warfare.
<p>
Chief among them was that the state's crackdown on dissent had closed
off the possibility of nonviolent resistance.


title: Shanghai raises threshold for alerts of bad air quality
uri: Shanghai-raises-threshold-for-alerts-of-bad-air-quality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Shanghai_raises_threshold_for_alerts_of_bad_air_quality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Shanghai_raises_threshold_for_alerts_of_bad_air_quality%29

content:
<p>
Shanghai's solution to frequent bad air quality is to 
<a href="http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/8476317.html">>raise
the threshold for alerts</a>.


title: Large leak at uranium mine in Australia
uri: Large-leak-at-uranium-mine-in-Australia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Large_leak_at_uranium_mine_in_Australia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Large_leak_at_uranium_mine_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
A large leak at a uranium mine in Australia has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/07/kakadu-ranger-spill-radioactive-material">contained</a>
— for now.


title: Error behind claim that male and female brains are wired differently
uri: Error-behind-claim-that-male-and-female-brains-are-wired-differently
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Error_behind_claim_that_male_and_female_brains_are_wired_differently)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Error_behind_claim_that_male_and_female_brains_are_wired_differently%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/07/brain-science-ditch-male-female-cliche">error</a>
behind claims that male brains and female brains are wired very
differently.


title: Urgent: Extend unemployment insurance
uri: Urgent-Extend-unemployment-insurance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Urgent:_Extend_unemployment_insurance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Extend_unemployment_insurance%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say, "Don't play Scrooge
— extend unemployment insurance."  Also sign 
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=677">this
petition</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Urgent:_Support_cuts_to_military)
title: Urgent: Support cuts to military
uri: Urgent-Support-cuts-to-military
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_cuts_to_military%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: state your support for 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/civicrm/petition/sign?sid=1&reset=1">cuts
to the military</a> and the people's budget.


title: Urgent: Let Congress decide on whether to keep troops in Afghanistan
uri: Urgent-Let-Congress-decide-on-whether-to-keep-troops-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Urgent:_Let_Congress_decide_on_whether_to_keep_troops_in_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Let_Congress_decide_on_whether_to_keep_troops_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.jeffmerkley.com/petition/end-the-war-in-afghanistan/">insist
that Congress have the chance</a> to approve or reject any agreement
to keep troops in Afghanistan.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(The_Great_Corporate_Tax_Shift)
title: The Great Corporate Tax Shift
uri: The-Great-Corporate-Tax-Shift
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28The_Great_Corporate_Tax_Shift%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/great-corporate-tax-shift-complete">The
Great Corporate Tax Shift</a>.


title: Dangerous proposal against net neutrality in EU Parliament
uri: Dangerous-proposal-against-net-neutrality-in-EU-Parliament
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Dangerous_proposal_against_net_neutrality_in_EU_Parliament)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Dangerous_proposal_against_net_neutrality_in_EU_Parliament%29

content:
<p>
La Quadrature du Net: 
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-eu-parliament-must-amend-kroes-dangerous-proposal">Net
Neutrality: EU Parliament Must Amend Kroes' Dangerous Proposal</a>.


title: UK trying to quietly bury most accusations of killing prisoners
uri: UK-trying-to-quietly-bury-most-accusations-of-killing-prisoners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(UK_trying_to_quietly_bury_most_accusations_of_killing_prisoners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28UK_trying_to_quietly_bury_most_accusations_of_killing_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
A UK soldier has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/06/royal-marine-blackman-10-years-jail-taliban-murder">killing
a prisoner in Afghanistan</a>.
<p>
However, the UK government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/06/mod-public-inquest-civilian-deaths-custody">trying
to quietly bury</a> most accusations of killing prisoners.


title: Chicken sold in the EU with 30% added water
uri: Chicken-sold-in-the-EU-with-30-added-water
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Chicken_sold_in_the_EU_with_30_percent_added_water)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Chicken_sold_in_the_EU_with_30_percent_added_water%29

content:
<p>
Some chicken sold in the EU has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/06/supermarket-frozen-chicken-breasts-water">30%
added water</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Barbie_dolls)
title: Barbie dolls
uri: Barbie-dolls
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Barbie_dolls%29
content:
<p>
Barbie dolls have changed: now all their outfits are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/dec/06/why-wont-buy-barbie-daughter-christmas">hypersexy</a>.


title: Newly passed bill discourages use of patents of questionable validity
uri: Newly-passed-bill-discourages-use-of-patents-of-questionable-validity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Newly_passed_bill_discourages_use_of_patents_of_questionable_validity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Newly_passed_bill_discourages_use_of_patents_of_questionable_validity%29

content:
<p>
The House of Representatives passed a bill 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/house-votes-325-91-to-pass-innovation-act-first-anti-patent-troll-bill/">discouraging
the use of patents whose validity is questionable</a>, and some other
abusive practices.
<p>
This bill would be a step forward, but it fails to address today's
biggest patent aggressors, such as Apple.
<p>
The real solution to the problem of patents in the software field is
to 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">take
software out of the scope of patents</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Right-wing_political_think_tanks)
title: Right-wing political "think tanks"
uri: Right-wing-political-think-tanks
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Right-wing_political_think_tanks%29

content:
<p>
How 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/12/12325/state-policy-network-stealth-network-dramatically-influencing-state-law">right-wing
political "think-tanks"</a> operate, perhaps mislead the IRS, and are
tied to ALEC.


title: Abdulelah Haider Shaye receives Human Rights Defenders award
uri: Abdulelah-Haider-Shaye-receives-Human-Rights-Defenders-award
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Abdulelah_Haider_Shaye_receives_Human_Rights_Defenders_award)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Abdulelah_Haider_Shaye_receives_Human_Rights_Defenders_award%29

content:
<p>
Journalist 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/06/yemen-journalist-shaye-human-rights-defenders-award-drones">Abdulelah
Haidar Shaye</a>, imprisoned in Yemen on request from Obama himself,
was given the Alkarama Human Rights Defenders award.


title: Mainstream media downplays danger of global heating
uri: Mainstream-media-downplays-danger-of-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 08_December_2013_(Mainstream_media_downplays_danger_of_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_%28Mainstream_media_downplays_danger_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
The mainstream media that supported Dubya's conquest of Iraq, treating
weak evidence as sufficient, now downplays the danger of global
heating, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/dec/06/media-failure-iraq-war-climate-change">treating
powerful evidence as dubious</a>.
<p>
I suspect that both show oil money at work.


title: John F Kennedy Jr. killed by a bomb in his plane?
uri: John-F-Kennedy-Jr-killed-by-a-bomb-in-his-plane
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 07_December_2013_(John_F_Kennedy_Jr._killed_by_a_bomb_in_his_plane_)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_December_2013_%28John_F_Kennedy_Jr._killed_by_a_bomb_in_his_plane_%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.barrychamish.com">This site</a> alleges that John F
Kennedy Jr. was killed by a bomb in his plane, which was followed by a
US government coverup effort, and alleges this was done by Israeli
secret agents because he was about to publish secrets of their
involvement in the assassination of Israeli Premier Rabin.
<p>
This extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof, and this
article isn't enough.  So I am not convinced this claim is true.  But
I think it is not immediately dismissable.  To verify the truth of the
facts cited would be a lot of work.  I don't have time to do that.
<p>
Thus I have decided to point readers at his report without saying I
believe any of it.


title: AIG gets bail-out while Detroit and Chicago workers get pension cuts
uri: AIG-gets-bail-out-while-Detroit-and-Chicago-workers-get-pension-cuts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(AIG_gets_bail-out_while_Detroit_and_Chicago_workers_get_pension_cuts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28AIG_gets_bail-out_while_Detroit_and_Chicago_workers_get_pension_cuts%29

content:
<p>
Why does bankrupt AIG get a bail-out while bankrupt Detroit and
Chicago workers get 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/09/chicago-detroit-pensions-might-be-cut">pension
cuts</a>?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Thai_govt_calls_new_elections)
title: Thai gov't calls new elections
uri: Thai-gov-t-calls-new-elections
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Thai_govt_calls_new_elections%29
content:
<p>
The Thai government called new elections to cater to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/thai-protests-snap-election-yingluck">protesters'
demands</a>.


title: Edward Snowden wins Guardian's person of the year election
uri: Edward-Snowden-wins-Guardian-s-person-of-the-year-election
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Edward_Snowden_wins_Guardians_person_of_the_year_election)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Edward_Snowden_wins_Guardians_person_of_the_year_election%29

content:
<p>
Edward Snowden won the Guardian's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/edward-snowden-voted-guardian-person-of-year-2013">person
of the year election</a>.
<p>
When I talk about surveillance in my speeches, I call for "three
cheers for Edward Snowden."  You might think this is superfluous
because everyone knows that he deserves our admiration.  Not so!  US
politicians (especially those that support massive surveillance)
continue trying to demonize Snowden.  We have to defeat them, and the
way to do it is by <em>showing</em> our views.


title: The Over-Policing of America and Criminalizing Everyday Life
uri: The-Over-Policing-of-America-and-Criminalizing-Everyday-Life
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(The_Over-Policing_of_America_and_Criminalizing_Everyday_Life)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28The_Over-Policing_of_America_and_Criminalizing_Everyday_Life%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/09-0">The
Over-Policing of America and Criminalizing Everyday Life</a>.


title: Urgent: Transparency about gov't surveillance from Verizon and AT&T
uri: Urgent-Transparency-about-gov-t-surveillance-from-Verizon-and-AT-T
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Urgent:_Transparency_about_govt_surveillance_from_Verizon_and_ATT)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Transparency_about_govt_surveillance_from_Verizon_and_ATT%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/verizon_att_come_clean">call on
Verizon and AT&T</a> to support transparency about government
surveillance.


title: Urgent: Support diplomacy with Iran
uri: 2013-12-10-Urgent-Support-diplomacy-with-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Urgent:_Support_diplomacy_with_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_diplomacy_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/congress_diplomacy_iran">Tell
Congress</a> to support diplomacy with Iran, not to sabotage it.


title: Senator Warren proposes ways to increase Social Security
uri: Senator-Warren-proposes-ways-to-increase-Social-Security
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Senator_Warren_proposes_ways_to_increase_Social_Security)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Senator_Warren_proposes_ways_to_increase_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
Senator Warren rejected the idea of formulating the issue of Social
Security in terms of how much to cut, and 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/elizabeth-warren-expand-social-security-third-way">proposed
ways to fund increasing it</a>.
<p>
Cutting social security is a right-wing idea that most Americans
reject.  Please don't grant it a sort of legitimacy by calling it the
"center".  It is only "central" between the two right-wing major
parties.


title: The boycott of Israeli academic institutions
uri: The-boycott-of-Israeli-academic-institutions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(The_boycott_of_Israeli_academic_institutions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28The_boycott_of_Israeli_academic_institutions%29

content:
<p>
The American Studies Association
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/11/26-1">voted to
join the boycott</a> of Israeli academic institutions.
<p>
This follows a debate at a meeting in which 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/26-12">over 80% of
the speakers (randomly chosen from those who asked to speak) supported
the boycott</a>.
<p>
The full membership is now 
<a href="http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m103102&hd=&l=e">voting on the
resolution</a>.


title: Israel's obsolete "security concerns"
uri: Israel-s-obsolete-security-concerns
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Israels_obsolete_security_concerns)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Israels_obsolete_security_concerns%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Kerry is making the mistake of taking Israel's 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1386347855/">obsolete
"security concerns"</a> seriously.


title: The K Street Perversion of Cost-Benefit Analysis
uri: The-K-Street-Perversion-of-Cost-Benefit-Analysis
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(The_K_Street_Perversion_of_Cost-Benefit_Analysis)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28The_K_Street_Perversion_of_Cost-Benefit_Analysis%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.citizenvox.org/2013/12/02/the-k-street-perversion-of-cost-benefit-analysis/">The
K Street Perversion of Cost-Benefit Analysis</a>.


title: Amnesty International to sue UK about phone call snooping
uri: Amnesty-International-to-sue-UK-about-phone-call-snooping
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Amnesty_International_to_sue_UK_about_phone_call_snooping)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Amnesty_International_to_sue_UK_about_phone_call_snooping%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty International will sue the UK about 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/amnesty-international-legal-action-uk-security-services">probable
phone call snooping</a>.
<p>
The UK government has created excuses to ignore such cases by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/current.html#09_November_2013_(UK_to_quash_torture_case_with_new_court_procedure)">hearing
the evidence secretly</a>.


title: $8 trillion spent by US Pentagon to guard oil
uri: 8-trillion-spent-by-US-Pentagon-to-guard-oil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(8_trillion_dollars_spent_by_US_Pentagon_to_guard_oil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%288_trillion_dollars_spent_by_US_Pentagon_to_guard_oil%29

content:
<p>
Solar Would Be Cheaper: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/08-2">US Pentagon
Has Spent $8 Trillion to Guard Gulf Oil</a>.
<p>
Without the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2011-mar-jun.html#20%20May%202011%20(Oil%20Subsidies)">large
government subsidies for fossil fuel</a>, solar would be cheaper
anyway.


title: Life is more fun in a society with more equality
uri: Life-is-more-fun-in-a-society-with-more-equality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 09_December_2013_(Life_is_more_fun_in_a_society_with_more_equality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_%28Life_is_more_fun_in_a_society_with_more_equality%29

content:
<p>
Life is more fun in a society with 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/08-11">more
equality</a>.


title: Urgent: Call on Suffolk University to reject funding from Koch brothers
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Suffolk-University-to-reject-funding-from-Koch-brother
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Suffolk_University_to_reject_funding_from_Koch_brothers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Suffolk_University_to_reject_funding_from_Koch_brothers%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/suffolk_university_keep_out_kochs_money/">call
on Suffolk University</a> to reject politicized funding from the Koch
brothers.


title: Urgent: Oppose any new sanctions on Iran
uri: Urgent-Oppose-any-new-sanctions-on-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_any_new_sanctions_on_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_any_new_sanctions_on_Iran%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say you oppose any new
sanctions on Iran now — give diplomacy a chance!
<p>
Then 
<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/cantor-call-in">report
your call</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: Euro crisis used as excuse to wipe out workers' rights
uri: Euro-crisis-used-as-excuse-to-wipe-out-workers-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Euro_crisis_used_as_excuse_to_wipe_out_workers_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Euro_crisis_used_as_excuse_to_wipe_out_workers_rights%29

content:
<p>
European governments have used the euro crisis as an excuse to 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/business/economy/the-americanization-of-european-labor-policy.html?_r=0">wipe
out workers' rights</a> and adopt US-style precarity.
<p>
It adds up to a campaign that attacks workers' rights in 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/04">one country
at a time</a>.


title: Australia likely to need twice as many firefighters by 2030
uri: Australia-likely-to-need-twice-as-many-firefighters-by-2030
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Australia_likely_to_need_twice_as_many_firefighters_by_2030)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Australia_likely_to_need_twice_as_many_firefighters_by_2030%29

content:
<p>
Australia is likely to need 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/firefighter-numbers-will-need-to-double-by-2030-climate-council">twice
as many firefighters by 2030</a> due to effects of global heating.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(US_zero_tolerance)
title: US "zero tolerance"
uri: US-zero-tolerance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28US_zero_tolerance%29
content:
<p>
US "zero tolerance" reaches new heights of insanity: a child is
threatened with expulsion from school for miming the 
<a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/12/10-year-old-johnny-jones-suspended-for-shooting-imaginary-arrow/">shooting
of an imaginary arrow with an imaginary bow</a>.


title: NSA snoops on users of online games
uri: NSA-snoops-on-users-of-online-games
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(NSA_snoops_on_users_of_online_games)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28NSA_snoops_on_users_of_online_games%29

content:
<p>
The NSA 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-spies-online-games-world-warcraft-second-life">snoops
on chats between users</a> of online games.


title: How schools teach gender stereotypes
uri: How-schools-teach-gender-stereotypes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(How_schools_teach_gender_stereotypes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28How_schools_teach_gender_stereotypes%29

content:
<p>
How schools teach 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2013/dec/09/gender-stereotypes-schools-children-choices">gender
stereotypes</a>.


title: How unemployment benefits create jobs
uri: How-unemployment-benefits-create-jobs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(How_unemployment_benefits_create_jobs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28How_unemployment_benefits_create_jobs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/09-7">How unemployment benefits create jobs.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(The_Volcker_rule)
title: The Volcker rule
uri: The-Volcker-rule
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28The_Volcker_rule%29
content:
<p>
Finally the US
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/10/volcker-rule-us-banks-curb-risky-trading">adopt
the Volcker rule to restrict banks' speculation.</a>
<p>
I am worried that the complexity of the rule will make it hard to
enforce.  We will see.
<p>
As for the possibility that this will reduce banks' speculation, I
hope
so.  <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#26_November_2012_%2835_percent_of_US_GDP_goes_to_banksters_as_interest%29">Too
large a fraction of the US GNP goes to banks.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Who_will_put_the_bell_on_the_cat_)
title: Who will put the bell on the cat?
uri: Who-will-put-the-bell-on-the-cat
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Who_will_put_the_bell_on_the_cat_%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/10/cats-killing-birds-gardens-david-attenborough">Who
will put the bell on the cat?  You!</a>


title: Canada wants to claim seabed at north pole
uri: Canada-wants-to-claim-seabed-at-north-pole
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Canada_wants_to_claim_seabed_at_north_pole)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Canada_wants_to_claim_seabed_at_north_pole%29

content:
<p>
Canada wants
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/canada-north-pole-claim">claim
the seabed at the north pole for the fossil fuels there</a>.
<p>
Oil and natural gas from the north pole have no value because they
will never be used.  To extract even 30% of the known reserves will
lead to global heating disaster.  Before civilization gets to the
point of extracting the expensive fossil fuels from the north pole, it
will collapse.
<p>
However, Canada and companies can pretend these fuel reserves have
value,
thus <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_August_2013_(Carbon_Bubble)">adding
to the carbon bubble.</a>


title: Movement Rises to Kick 'Corporate Reform' Out of Public Schools
uri: Movement-Rises-to-Kick-Corporate-Reform-Out-of-Public-Schools
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Movement_Rises_to_Kick_'Corporate_Reform'_Out_of_Public_Schools)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Movement_Rises_to_Kick_%27Corporate_Reform%27_Out_of_Public_Schools%29

content:
<p>
Movement Rises
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/09-4">Kick
'Corporate Reform' Out of Public Schools.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Biometric_data_collection)
title: Biometric data collection
uri: Biometric-data-collection
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Biometric_data_collection%29
content:
<p>
In the UK, children have the right
to <a href="http://informationrightsandwrongs.com/2013/12/07/the-kids-all-have-rights/">opt
out of biometric data collection.</a>


title: British man being prosecuted for sex with teenager
uri: British-man-being-prosecuted-for-sex-with-teenager
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(British_man_being_prosecuted_for_sex_with_teenager)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28British_man_being_prosecuted_for_sex_with_teenager%29

content:
<p>
A British man is
being <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/10/police-officer-christopher-semak-sex-girl-court">prosecuted
for having sex with a teenager who said she was having voluntary sex
with him</a> and asked please don't prosecute him.
<p>
His defense, as reported here, would be vile if anyone were likely to
believe it.  Since no one could take it seriously, I can't condemn him
for saying it, but I don't see what the point is.
<p>
Overall, this is another example of "protecting" "children" in a way
that does nothing but harm to everyone involved.  They will probably
say that he "raped" her.


title: Brazil's President Kubitschek was murdered
uri: Brazil-s-President-Kubitschek-was-murdered
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Brazil's_President_Kubitschek_was_murdered)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Brazil%27s_President_Kubitschek_was_murdered%29

content:
<p>
Brazil's President Kubitschek
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/brazil-truth-commission-kubitschek-president-murdered">murdered
by the military dictatorship which pretended he had been killed in a
car crash.</a>


title: UK thugs persistently infiltrated and snooped on anti-apartheid campaigners
uri: UK-thugs-persistently-infiltrated-and-snooped-on-anti-apartheid-campai
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(UK_thugs_persistently_infiltrated_and_snooped_on_anti-apartheid_campaigners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28UK_thugs_persistently_infiltrated_and_snooped_on_anti-apartheid_campaigners%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs
persistently <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2013/dec/10/undercover-police-and-policing-nelsonmandela">infiltrated
and snooped on anti-apartheid campaigners.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Geithner_is_now_a_bankster)
title: Geithner is now a bankster
uri: Geithner-is-now-a-bankster
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Geithner_is_now_a_bankster%29
content:
<p>
Former treasury
secretary <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/10-2">Geithner
is now a bankster.</a>
<p>
Previously he was
the <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#12_July_2012_%28Geithner_knew_about_Libor_manipulation%29">"banksters'
man in Washington."</a>


title: Australian gov't trying to intimidate public broadcasting organization
uri: Australian-gov-t-trying-to-intimidate-public-broadcasting-organization
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Australian_gov't_trying_to_intimidate_public_broadcasting_organization)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Australian_gov%27t_trying_to_intimidate_public_broadcasting_organization%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is trying to intimidate the Australian
public broadcasting organization ABC
so <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/coalition-accused-of-organising-assault-on-abc-over-spying-revelations">it
won't publish news such as that Australia was spying on Indonesia</a>.
<p>
The accusation of "cannibalizing local media" might be true, but if
so, the solution is not what the right-wing government would want to
do.


title: FBI has launched prosecutions of prison guards in LA
uri: FBI-has-launched-prosecutions-of-prison-guards-in-LA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(FBI_has_launched_prosecutions_of_prison_guards_in_LA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28FBI_has_launched_prosecutions_of_prison_guards_in_LA%29

content:
<p>
The FBI
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/sheriffs-deputies-arrested-la-inmate-abuse">launched
prosecutions of prison guards in LA.</a>
<p>
I am glad to see the statement that they will prosecute even though
these abuses have become institutional.  If only they adopted the same
policy towards banksters.


title: Urgent: Universal health care bill
uri: Urgent-Universal-health-care-bill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Urgent:_Universal_health_care_bill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Universal_health_care_bill%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: urge Senator Rockefeller
to <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12370">co-sponsor
Senator Sanders' universal health care bill.</a>


title: Urgent: Renew credits for renewable energy
uri: Urgent-Renew-credits-for-renewable-energy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Urgent:_Renew_credits_for_renewable_energy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Renew_credits_for_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your senators
to <a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14725">renew
credits for renewable energy.</a>
<p>
You might as well call on them at the same time to cut subsidies for
fossil fuels and nuclear energy.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Obama_pardons)
title: Obama pardons
uri: Obama-pardons
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Obama_pardons%29
content:
<p>
Obama pardons turkeys
but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/10/barack-obama-least-pardons-of-any-president">hardly
ever pardons human beings.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Corporate_social_responsibility)
title: "Corporate social responsibility"
uri: Corporate-social-responsibility
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Corporate_social_responsibility%29

content:
<p>
"Corporate social responsibility" practices can psychologically
influence
executives <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/comapanies-csr-policies-corporate-irresponsibility-new-study">to
adopt antisocial policies feeling that they already did their good
deed for the year</a>.
<p>
One study is not enough to prove this is true, but if it is, it
suggests that we need to tax companies more to pay for social needs
rather than inviting companies to make donations.


title: Chinese agents kidnaped human rights activist
uri: Chinese-agents-kidnaped-human-rights-activist
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Chinese_agents_kidnaped_human_rights_activist)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Chinese_agents_kidnaped_human_rights_activist%29

content:
<p>
Chinese agents kidnaped human rights activist Wang Bingzhang from
Vietnam,
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/10/human-rights-day-unhrc-progress-china-abuse">imprisoned
him for life after a secret trial.</a>  He has been in solitary
confinement for a decade.
<p>
This is what
the <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#17_April_2013_%28Americas_highest_officials_responsible_for_torture_of_prisoners%29">US
calls "rendition".</a>


title: "Away from the center" according to Washington Post
uri: Away-from-the-center-according-to-Washington-Post
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 11_December_2013_(Away_from_the_center_according_to_Washington_Post)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_December_2013_%28Away_from_the_center_according_to_Washington_Post%29

content:
<p>
The Washington Post warns that Senator Warren might pull the
Democratic Party
"<a href='http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/12/02/washington-post-the-problem-with-populism/'>away
from the center</a>" by championing progressive policies.
<p>
This is despite the fact that 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#06%20January%202011%20%28Most%20Americans%20are%20Liberals%29">Americans 
generally agree with them</a>.
<p>
This "center" is only a "center" in the sense of being located in
between the two mainstream right-wing parties.  It's used to suppress
what most Americans want.


title: Urgent: Reject the Scrooge budget deal
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-Scrooge-budget-deal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Urgent:_Reject_the_Scrooge_budget_deal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_Scrooge_budget_deal%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/budget">Tell
Congress</a> to reject the Scrooge budget deal.


title: Urgent: Support diplomacy with Iran
uri: 2013-12-13-Urgent-Support-diplomacy-with-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Urgent:_Support_diplomacy_with_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_diplomacy_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/make-peace-with-iran">call
on the Massachusetts senators</a> to support diplomacy with Iran.


title: Australian gov't denies short-term visa for medical treatment
uri: Australian-gov-t-denies-short-term-visa-for-medical-treatment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Australian_govt_denies_short-term_visa_for_medical_treatment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Australian_govt_denies_short-term_visa_for_medical_treatment%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government's malice against foreigners has reached the
point of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/scott-morrison-urged-to-grant-somali-woman-visa-for-medical-treatment">denying
a short-term visa for medical treatment</a>.


title: Australia imprisons boat people in Papua New Guinea
uri: Australia-imprisons-boat-people-in-Papua-New-Guinea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Australia_imprisons_boat_people_in_Papua_New_Guinea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Australia_imprisons_boat_people_in_Papua_New_Guinea%29

content:
<p>
Australia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/gay-asylum-seekers-told-they-could-be-reported-to-png-police-amnesty-says">imprisons
boat people in Papua New Guinea</a>, where homosexuality is illegal,
and the prisoners have been told that any homosexual acts will be
reported to the local thugs.


title: A&TT offers discount in exchange for snooping on users
uri: A-TT-offers-discount-in-exchange-for-snooping-on-users
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(ATT_offers_discount_in_exchange_for_snooping_on_users)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28ATT_offers_discount_in_exchange_for_snooping_on_users%29

content:
<p>
AT&T offers a discount on broadband in exchange for 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/att-offers-gigabit-internet-discount-in-exchange-for-your-web-history/">snooping
on users' browsing</a>.
<p>
Another way to put it is, even a shadow of privacy costs extra.
<p>
I think this demonstrates the fallacy trying to address the problem of
surveillance by saying users "own" the personal data that companies
want.  Companies have so much clout that they can get people to "sell"
nearly anything — especially with mass unemployment and falling
wages making people desperate.


title: Cookie used by Google to track users also used by the NSA
uri: Cookie-used-by-Google-to-track-users-also-used-by-the-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Cookie_used_by_Google_to_track_users_also_used_by_the_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Cookie_used_by_Google_to_track_users_also_used_by_the_NSA%29

content:
<p>
Google uses a third-party cookie to track users from one site to
another.  
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/nsa-uses-google-cookies-to-pinpoint-targets-for-hacking/">The
NSA looks at the same cookie</a> to do the same job.
<p>
It's wrong for the NSA to track people in general, and wrong for
Google to do it.  We need to change browsers so they do not cooperate
with this.  GNU IceCat blocks most third-party material in web pages.
<p>
As for the cooperation that the NSA gets from portable phone apps, you
should accept nothing less from proprietary software.


title: Thug threatens to kill dogs when lawyer demands warrant
uri: Thug-threatens-to-kill-dogs-when-lawyer-demands-warrant
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Thug_threatens_to_kill_dogs_when_lawyer_demands_warrant)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Thug_threatens_to_kill_dogs_when_lawyer_demands_warrant%29

content:
<p>
When lawyer Eric Crinnian told thugs they couldn't search his home
without a warrant, a thug 
<a href="http://fox4kc.com/2013/11/27/man-says-police-officer-threatened-to-kill-his-dogs/">threatened
to exercise the warrant at night, breaking down his door and kill his
dogs</a>, gratuitously.
<p>
That shows thugs' attitude towards our rights.  If these threats by
thugs are not illegal, we need to make them illegal.
<p>
Furthermore, the thugs should be required to carry audio recorders at
all times when on duty.  If when accused they don't present recordings
to show the accusation is false, courts should take the citizen's word
over the thug's word.


title: Students protest against anti-protest violence by UK thugs
uri: Students-protest-against-anti-protest-violence-by-UK-thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Students_protest_against_anti-protest_violence_by_UK_thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Students_protest_against_anti-protest_violence_by_UK_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Students held protests around the UK against 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/11/students-national-action-police-campus">anti-protest
violence</a> by the thugs.


title: Earths awesome rate of CO2 emission
uri: Earths-awesome-rate-of-CO2-emission
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Earths_awesome_rate_of_CO2_emission)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Earths_awesome_rate_of_CO2_emission%29

content:
<p>
Earth's awesome rate of CO<sub>2</sub> emission, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2013/dec/12/climate-change-awesome-australia-fossil-fuel-great-barrier-reef-abbot-point-coal">what
it means</a>.


title: Pollution from coal kills 250,000 in China per year
uri: Pollution-from-coal-kills-250-000-in-China-per-year
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Pollution_from_coal_kills_250,000_in_China_per_year)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Pollution_from_coal_kills_250%2C000_in_China_per_year%29

content:
<p>
Pollution from coal burnt in China kills 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/12/china-coal-emissions-smog-deaths">250,000
people each year</a>.


title: Fraudulent food an organized crime practice in the UK
uri: Fraudulent-food-an-organized-crime-practice-in-the-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Fraudulent_food_an_organized_crime_practice_in_the_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Fraudulent_food_an_organized_crime_practice_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
Fraudulent food is a widespread 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/12/uk-food-crime-endemic-illegal-activity">organized
crime practice</a> in the UK.
<p>
I attribute it to the deregulation that makes it easy to change the
supply chain frequently.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Shareholders_sue_Aetna)
title: Shareholders sue Aetna
uri: Shareholders-sue-Aetna
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Shareholders_sue_Aetna%29
content:
<p>
Aetna shareholders have sued the company for misleading them about 
<a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/aetna">its political
spending</a>.


title: Apple censoring all bitcoin apps for iThings
uri: Apple-censoring-all-bitcoin-apps-for-iThings
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Apple_censoring_all_bitcoin_apps_for_iThings)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Apple_censoring_all_bitcoin_apps_for_iThings%29

content:
<p>
Apple appears to
be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/10/apple-blocks-bitcoin-payments-on-secure-messaging-app-gliph">censoring
all bitcoin apps for iThings.</a>
<p>
It should be illegal to make or distribute computers which are
platforms for censorship.


title: UK thugs systematically cancel domain names
uri: UK-thugs-systematically-cancel-domain-names
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(UK_thugs_systematically_cancel_domain_names)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28UK_thugs_systematically_cancel_domain_names%29

content:
<p>
The UK
thugs <a href="http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/pipcu-censoring-internet-133799">systematically
cancel domain names without trial by quietly intimidating domain name
registrars</a>.
<p>
They do this in the name of the bogus concept of "intellectual
property", <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">propaganda
that conveys a misunderstanding of the various unrelated laws it is
applied to.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Israeli_thugs_attacked_protesters)
title: Israeli thugs attacked protesters
uri: Israeli-thugs-attacked-protesters
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Israeli_thugs_attacked_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
thugs <a href="http://972mag.com/beaten-arrested-threatened-a-personal-account-from-the-anti-prawer-protest/82936/">attacked
protesters against the plan to kick the Bedouin of the Negev out of
their homes</a> and force them into villages where they have no
livelihood.  The thugs attacked even children with violence.


title: China considering a ban on smoking anywhere in public
uri: China-considering-a-ban-on-smoking-anywhere-in-public
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(China_considering_a_ban_on_smoking_anywhere_in_public)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28China_considering_a_ban_on_smoking_anywhere_in_public%29

content:
<p>
China
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/china-considers-nationwide-ban-smoking-public">considering
a ban on smoking anywhere in public.</a>
<p>
I am strongly in favor of discouraging smoking, but I don't see a
justification for going so far.


title: Focusing on whether a few women have an equal chance to be executives
uri: Focusing-on-whether-a-few-women-have-an-equal-chance-to-be-executives
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Focusing_on_whether_a_few_women_have_an_equal_chance_to_be_executives)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Focusing_on_whether_a_few_women_have_an_equal_chance_to_be_executives%29

content:
<p>
Focusing on whether a few women have an equal chance to be executives
and board
members <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/11/corporate-feminism-capitalism-womens-working-lives">is
a distraction from how most women (and men) are treated by
society.</a>


title: Doctor that helped the US find Osama bin Laden
uri: Doctor-that-helped-the-US-find-Osama-bin-Laden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Doctor_that_helped_the_US_find_Osama_bin_Laden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Doctor_that_helped_the_US_find_Osama_bin_Laden%29

content:
<p>
The Pakistani doctor that helped the US find Osama bin
Laden <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/lawyer-doctor-bin-laden-pakistan-death-threats">faces
repeated bogus accusations</a>, and his defense lawyer has been driven
into exile by death threats.
<p>
To use a vaccination program as a front for a manhunt was extremely
harmful because it fed suspicion of vaccination programs.  This has
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#07_September_2012_%28Pakistan_punishes_Save_the_Children%29">impeded
the eradication of polio.</a>
<p>
However, that doesn't make these bogus charges valid.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Islamist_fanatics_seized_supplies)
title: Islamist fanatics seized supplies
uri: Islamist-fanatics-seized-supplies
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Islamist_fanatics_seized_supplies%29

content:
<p>
Islamist fanatics in
Syria <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/syrian-crisis-us-uk-suspend-aid-islamist-weapons-stores">seized
supplies that the US had provided to non-Islamist rebels.</a>


title: Is it lawful for the USPS to record the outside of all envelopes?
uri: Is-it-lawful-for-the-USPS-to-record-the-outside-of-all-envelopes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Is_it_lawful_for_the_USPS_to_record_the_outside_of_all_envelopes_)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Is_it_lawful_for_the_USPS_to_record_the_outside_of_all_envelopes_%29

content:
<p>
Is it lawful for the USPS
to <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/another-reminder-oversight-constant-battle">record
the outside of all envelopes?</a>


title: Global heating will affect bats' ability to echolocate
uri: Global-heating-will-affect-bats-ability-to-echolocate
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Global_heating_will_affect_bats'_ability_to_echolocate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Global_heating_will_affect_bats%27_ability_to_echolocate%29

content:
<p>
Global heating of even a few degrees
will <a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-12-global-echolocation-abilities.html">affect
bats' ability to echolocate.</a>
<p>
In the long term, many thousands of years, bats could evolve to cope
with this.  But the heating we are causing today is too fast for
evolution to adapt to.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Ice_loss_on_West_Antarctica)
title: Ice loss on West Antarctica
uri: Ice-loss-on-West-Antarctica
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Ice_loss_on_West_Antarctica%29
content:
<p>
Ice loss on West Antarctica
is <a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-12-east-antarctica-sideways-ice-loss.html">causing
Antarctica, the continent, to shift.</a>


title: An alpine glacier warming and melting rapidly
uri: An-alpine-glacier-warming-and-melting-rapidly
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(An_alpine_glacier_warming_and_melting_rapidly)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28An_alpine_glacier_warming_and_melting_rapidly%29

content:
<p>
An alpine glacier that was stable for thousands of years
is <a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-12-alpine-glacier-unchanged-thousands-years.html">warming
up and melting rapidly.</a>


