# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_September_2014_(Fast_food_staff_strike)
title: "Fast food" staff strike
uri: Fast-food-staff-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_September_2014_%28Fast_food_staff_strike%29
content:
<p>
Staff in "fast food" restaurants in several US states plan to go on
strike on Sep 4 and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/01/fast-food-strike-minimum-wage-workers-protest">protest
outside restaurants</a>.
<p>
Remember that "fast food" was not supposed to be <em>eaten</em>.
It was originally intended for fasting.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 04_September_2014_(ISIS_getting_desperate)
title: ISIS getting desperate
uri: ISIS-getting-desperate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#04_September_2014_%28ISIS_getting_desperate%29
content:
<p>
ISIS 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/02/isis-video-steven-sotloff-beheading">published
another beheading video</a>.
<p>
ISIS is really 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_August_2014_(ISIS)">desperate 
to get the US more involved in fighting</a>.


title: Activists protesting thug militarization conference
uri: Activists-protesting-thug-militarization-conference
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Activists_protesting_thug_militarization_conference)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Activists_protesting_thug_militarization_conference%29

content:
<p>
Activists in Oakland and San Francisco
are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/04/militarization-surveillance-and-profit-how-grassroots-groups-are-fighting-urban">protesting
the "Urban Shield" thug militarization conference</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Revitalizing_the_union_movement)
title: Revitalizing the union movement
uri: Revitalizing-the-union-movement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Revitalizing_the_union_movement%29

content:
<p>
Fast-food strikes
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/sep/04/fast-food-strike-work-unions-membership-restaurants">revitalizing
the union movement in the US</a>.


title: Russian TV Shows Funeral of Soldier Killed 'On Leave'
uri: Russian-TV-Shows-Funeral-of-Soldier-Killed-On-Leave
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Russian_TV_Shows_Funeral_of_Soldier_Killed_'On_Leave')

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Russian_TV_Shows_Funeral_of_Soldier_Killed_%27On_Leave%27%29

content:
<p>
Russian
TV <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/05/russia-tv-funeral-soldier-killed-ukraine-on-leave">Shows
Funeral of Soldier Killed 'On Leave' in Ukraine</a>.


title: Lessons to draw from the Ashya King case
uri: Lessons-to-draw-from-the-Ashya-King-case
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Lessons_to_draw_from_the_Ashya_King_case)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Lessons_to_draw_from_the_Ashya_King_case%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2014/sep/05/why-we-shouldnt-sneer-at-ashya-kings-parents">Lessons
to draw from the Ashya King case</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Torture)
title: Torture
uri: Torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Torture%29
content:
<p>
A country can't admit torture was
committed <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=4350">and
then fail to do anything about it.</a> Unless it is ruled by the Obama
regime.


title: Accused of Promoting Feminist Views
uri: Accused-of-Promoting-Feminist-Views
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Accused_of_Promoting_Feminist_Views)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Accused_of_Promoting_Feminist_Views%29

content:
<p>
Iranian Women's Magazine
Editor <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/sep/05/iran-editor-feminist-views">Accused
of Promoting Feminist Views</a>.


title: Fighting ISIS by making it look ridiculous
uri: Fighting-ISIS-by-making-it-look-ridiculous
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Fighting_ISIS_by_making_it_look_ridiculous)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Fighting_ISIS_by_making_it_look_ridiculous%29

content:
<p>
Fighting ISIS
by <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/09/03/kill-bill-and-everyone-else-spoofing-isis">making
it look ridiculous</a>.
<p>
The Arab World's Version of the Ice Bucket
Challenge: <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/09/lebanon-isis-flag-burning-challenge">Burning
ISIS Flags</a>.


title: Human rights activists disappeared by gov't
uri: Human-rights-activists-disappeared-by-gov-t
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Human_rights_activists_disappeared_by_gov't)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Human_rights_activists_disappeared_by_gov%27t%29

content:
<p>
Human rights activists investigating enslavement of workers in Qatar
appear to have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/04/qatar-british-human-rights-activists-feared-detained-police">disappeared
by the government</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Cradle-To-Prison_pipeline)
title: Cradle-To-Prison pipeline
uri: Cradle-To-Prison-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Cradle-To-Prison_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
The downtrodden parts of the US systematically direct youth into
prison, but some forms of aid have
shown <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/03/lets-interupt-cradle-prison-pipeline-empowering-our-nations-youth">they
can break the cradle-to-prison pipeline</a>.
<p>
We also have an obligation to end the systems that constitute the
pipeline: <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28San_Francisco_workers_threatened%29">running
the economy to keep most Americans
poor</a>, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_August_2014_%28Racism%29">racist
thugs</a>,
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#28_July_2012_%28War_on_Drugs%29">War
on Drugs</a>, and thugs in
schools <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_August_2014_%28School-to-prison_pipeline%29">shoving
students into the school-to-prison pipeline</a>.


title: Seattle activists blocked a train line
uri: Seattle-activists-blocked-a-train-line
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Seattle_activists_blocked_a_train_line)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Seattle_activists_blocked_a_train_line%29

content:
<p>
Seattle activists blocked a train line
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/03/climate-activists-stage-resistance-rail-yard-protest-fossil-fuel-takeover">protest
the transport of oil by train through their state</a>.


title: Refuges for women experiencing domestic violence
uri: Refuges-for-women-experiencing-domestic-violence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Refuges_for_women_experiencing_domestic_violence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Refuges_for_women_experiencing_domestic_violence%29

content:
<p>
Refuges for women experiencing domestic violence
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/04/refuges-close-domestic-abuse-women-violent-partners">necessary
so they don't have to stay with their abusers</a>.
<p>
Closing them down is part of the right-wing "family values" agenda,
which values compelling people to be in families rather than the
people as people.


title: Global heating and the plutocratic world order
uri: Global-heating-and-the-plutocratic-world-order
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Global_heating_and_the_plutocratic_world_order)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Global_heating_and_the_plutocratic_world_order%29

content:
<p>
Naomi Klein: global heating and the plutocratic world order are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/03/naomi-klein-degrowth-conference-climate-change-can-deliver-peoples-shock">hitting
the world at the same time</a>.  This means either disaster or perhaps
opportunity.
<p>
The plutocrats will seek to use the effects of global heating for
shock capitalism, so as to drive most people in developed world into
desperation such as we haven't seen since the 1930s.  If ending
plutocratic rule is necessary to avoid disaster, maybe that will spur
people to do it
<p>
Naomi, please don't call the plutocrats and their supporters
"Liberals".  A Liberal is someone like me, or (to cite a leader of
Liberals) someone like FDR.


title: Hamid Kehazaei was apparently killed by Australia
uri: Hamid-Kehazaei-was-apparently-killed-by-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Hamid_Kehazaei_was_apparently_killed_by_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Hamid_Kehazaei_was_apparently_killed_by_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Asylum seeker Hamid Kehazaei
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/04/asylum-seekers-family-mourn-son-declared-brain-dead">apparently
killed by Australia</a>, which sent him to an offshore prison in which
prisoners got bad and delayed medical treatment.


title: Ukraine and Russia-lead rebels agreed to cease-fire
uri: Ukraine-and-Russia-lead-rebels-agreed-to-cease-fire
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Ukaine_and_Russia-lead_rebels_agreed_to_cease-fire)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Ukaine_and_Russia-lead_rebels_agreed_to_cease-fire%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine and Russia-lead rebels
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/04/ukraine-nato-ceasefire-leaders-welcome-putin-poroshenko">agreed
to a cease-fire</a>.
<p>
The defeats suffered by Ukraine's forces, after weeks of slowly
gaining, seem to prove by themselves that Russia gave the rebels
armor, if not troops as well.  Therefore, I don't think Putin is
willing to let the matter end here.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(BP_guilty_of_gross_negligence)
title: BP guilty of "gross negligence"
uri: BP-guilty-of-gross-negligence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28BP_guilty_of_gross_negligence%29

content:
<p>
Billionaire Polluters will have to pay Billions in Penalties after a
judge
ruled <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/04/bp-reckless-conduct-oil-spill-judge-rules">BP
guilty of "gross negligence" in the Big Spill</a>.


title: Abott the suppository of false promises
uri: Abott-the-suppository-of-false-promises
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Abott_the_suppository_of_false_promises)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Abott_the_suppository_of_false_promises%29

content:
<p>
Abbott continued right up to the Australian election a year ago being
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/04/-sp-tony-abbott-one-year-on-how-trust-won-and-lost">suppository
of false promises</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Stopping_the_Ebola_outbreak)
title: Stopping the Ebola outbreak
uri: Stopping-the-Ebola-outbreak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Stopping_the_Ebola_outbreak%29
content:
<p>
Stopping the Ebola outbreak 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/04/ebola-six-nine-months-control-who-margaret-chan">will
cost half a billion dollars and take up to 9 months</a>.
<p>
That's if we commit the resources now.

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/sep/04/ashya-king-case-parents-let-down-law">Ashya
King Case Shows How Parents Can Be Let Down by the Law</a>.


title: Dalai Lama barred from South Africa
uri: Dalai-Lama-barred-from-South-Africa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Dalai_Lama_barred_from_South_Africa)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Dalai_Lama_barred_from_South_Africa%29

content:
<p>
South Africa 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/04/dalai-lama-denied-south-africa-visa-nobel-summit">barred
entry to the Dalai Lama</a> — again.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Playable_city)
title: "Playable city"
uri: Playable-city
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Playable_city%29
content:
<p>
The idea of a
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/04/playable-cities-the-city-that-plays-together-stays-together'>playable
city</a>".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Practices_of_Ferguson_thugs)
title: Practices of Ferguson thugs
uri: Practices-of-Ferguson-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Practices_of_Ferguson_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The US government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/04/ferguson-police-department-federal-inquiry">will
investigate</a> the practices of Ferguson thugs, in general as well as
relating to the killing of Michael Brown.
<p>
In Ferguson, if you're black and not rich, simply driving is enough to
get you 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=4182">fined over and
over, and jailed because you can't pay</a>.


title: Violation by Koch-funded organization
uri: Violation-by-Koch-funded-organization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Violation_by_Koch-funded_organization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Violation_by_Koch-funded_organization%29

content:
<p>
A Koch-funded organization appears to have 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/09/12584/leaked-audio-suggests-afp-violated-law-wisconsin">violated
IRS regulations on electioneering in 2012</a>.
<p>
Will Obama and Holder bestir themselves to have this investigated?


title: Pennsylvania facilitating fracking
uri: Pennsylvania-facilitating-fracking
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Pennsylvania_facilitating_fracking)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Pennsylvania_facilitating_fracking%29

content:
<p>
Pennsylvania, to facilitate fracking, has 
<a href="http://www.earthworksaction.org/library/detail/blackout">gutted
its inspection system and rushed the approval of projects</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_September_2014_(Googles_support_for_ALEC)
title: Google's support for ALEC
uri: Google-s-support-for-ALEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_September_2014_%28Googles_support_for_ALEC%29
content:
<p>
50 organizations have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/03/over-50-organizations-call-google-drop-membership-american-legislative-exchange">called
on Google to stop supporting ALEC</a>.
<p>
Google claims its motto is "Don't be evil", but there is little in US politics
that is more evil than 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#30_May_2011_(ALEC_Organization)">ALEC</a>.


title: Urgent: Do more than weakly criticize Israel's continued land-grab
uri: Urgent-Do-more-than-weakly-criticize-Israel-s-continued-land-grab
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Urgent:_Do_more_than_weakly_criticize_Israel's_continued_land-grab)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Do_more_than_weakly_criticize_Israel%27s_continued_land-grab%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell Kerry it is time
to <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/illegal-settlements-jstreet">do
more than weakly criticize Israel's continued land-grab in
Palestine</a>.


title: Urgent: Support journalists' freedom to report
uri: Urgent-Support-journalists-freedom-to-report
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Urgent:_Support_journalists'_freedom_to_report)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_journalists%27_freedom_to_report%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://cpj.org/campaigns/digital-freedom/right-to-report-sign-petition.php">support
journalists' freedom to report</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop selling off people's mortgages
uri: Urgent-Stop-selling-off-people-s-mortgages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_selling_off_people's_mortgages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_selling_off_people%27s_mortgages%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Tell the Department of Housing
to <a href="http://www.commongoodaction.org/hud_stop_selling_our_neighborhoods">stop
selling off people's mortgages to the same sort of "securitized"
market that screwed them</a>.


title: UK Green Party opposes plutocracy
uri: UK-Green-Party-opposes-plutocracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(UK_Green_Party_opposes_plutocracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28UK_Green_Party_opposes_plutocracy%29

content:
<p>
The UK Green Party is broadening its concerns to include 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/05/green-party-conference-natalie-bennett">opposing
plutocracy</a>.
<p>
It could replace the former UK Labour Party, which has transformed
itself into a center-right party on economic issues.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Sierra_Leone_lockdown)
title: Sierra Leone "lockdown"
uri: Sierra-Leone-lockdown
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Sierra_Leone_lockdown%29
content:
<p>
Sierra Leone has declared a four-day "lockdown" in about two weeks to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/06/sierra-leone-lockdown-ebola-outbreak">try
to halt the spread of Ebola</a>.
<p>
I think the need is sufficient to justify such a measure,
but is it likely to work?


title: Abbott's attacks against environment
uri: Abbott-s-attacks-against-environment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Abbotts_attacks_against_environment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Abbotts_attacks_against_environment%29

content:
<p>
Abbott treats Australia's environment as an enemy.  These are his 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2014/sep/05/abbott-first-year-environment-climate-ten-worst-decisions">ten
worst attacks</a> against the environment.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Arrest_at_Moral_Mondays_protest)
title: Arrest at Moral Mondays protest
uri: Arrest-at-Moral-Mondays-protest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Arrest_at_Moral_Mondays_protest%29

content:
<p>
At a Moral Mondays protest, thugs 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/02/3477768/police-arrest-young-black-politician-at-moral-mondays-rally/">arrested
a black politician for handing out voting rights leaflets</a> (which is
not a crime).
<p>
Right-wing Americans don't want people of minority groups to be able
to vote, and in many states have passed 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_April_2014_(Voter_suppression_laws)">laws 
designed to stop them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Cell_phone_interceptors)
title: Cell phone "interceptors"
uri: Cell-phone-interceptors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Cell_phone_interceptors%29
content:
<p>
Cell phone "interceptors", special modified cell towers, 
<a href="http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/mysterious-phony-cell-towers-could-be-intercepting-your-calls">can
take over a phone through the back door</a> in the baseband processor.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(ISIS_barbarity)
title: ISIS barbarity
uri: ISIS-barbarity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28ISIS_barbarity%29
content:
<p>
ISIS <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/captives-held-by-islamic-state-were-waterboarded/2014/08/28/2b4e1962-2ec9-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html">waterboarded
its captives</a>.
<p>
What a shame it is to America to have set an example of barbarity for
barbarians.  The US must punish its torturers, starting with Bush.
<p>
As for the prisoners that can't be put on trial because torture taints
the case against them, we must release them!  So what if they go to
ISIS or some affiliate of al Qa'ida?  They won't add much to the
strength of those organizations, but releasing them is crucial for the
moral strength of the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Fast_food_workers_strike)
title: Fast food workers' strike
uri: Fast-food-workers-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Fast_food_workers_strike%29
content:
<p>
State representatives and even a congresswoman joined in 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/09/12590/fight-15-gets-ring-taco-bell">fast
food workers' strike protests</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Koch_Operative)
title: Koch Operative
uri: Koch-Operative
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Koch_Operative%29
content:
<p>
Koch Operative: 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/09/12588/koch-strategist-connects-minimum-wage-fascism-suicide-bombers">Raise
the [minimum] Wage, Totalitarianism and Terrorism Follow</a>?


title: UK cuts funds for food inspection
uri: UK-cuts-funds-for-food-inspection
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(UK_cuts_funds_for_food_inspection)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28UK_cuts_funds_for_food_inspection%29

content:
<p>
The UK has cut funds for inspection of food and prosecution of
food fraud to the point where 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/04/horsemeat-scandal-report-urgent-comprehensive-reforms">fraud
is easy and profitable</a>.  That's the Tory philosophy: make crime
pay, when business wants it to.


title: Reducing militarization of thugs
uri: Reducing-militarization-of-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Reducing_militarization_of_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Reducing_militarization_of_thugs%29

content:
<p>
In San Jose, California, the thug department decided to act a little
more like a police department, by 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/20135428389/ferguson-debacle-results-armored-vehicles-being-removed-two-california-police-departments.shtml">getting
rid of the armored repression vehicles</a> that the US government gave
it.
<p>
In Davis, it was the city council that made this wise decision,
over the opposition of the thugs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Harmful_educational_reform)
title: Harmful educational reform
uri: Harmful-educational-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Harmful_educational_reform%29
content:
<p>
The supporters of harmful educational reform are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/04/conversation-corporate-education-reformers-want-versus-one-they-get">asking
for a less polarized discussion</a>.
<p>
That's what right-wingers say when they are in the driver's seat and
the people are getting angry enough to kick them out.


title: Urgent: Support fast food workers
uri: 2014-09-07-Urgent-Support-fast-food-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Urgent:_Support_fast_food_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_fast_food_workers%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/whatever-it-takes-for">support</a>
the fast food workers strike.


title: Urgent: Oppose drilling in Beaufort Sea
uri: Urgent-Oppose-drilling-in-Beaufort-Sea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_drilling_in_Beaufort_Sea)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_drilling_in_Beaufort_Sea%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3575">oppose</a>
oil drilling in the Beaufort Sea, off the coast of the Alaskan
National Wildlife Refuge.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(US_oil_production_rising)
title: US oil production rising
uri: US-oil-production-rising
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28US_oil_production_rising%29
content:
<p>
US oil production is rising, due to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/04/precisely-worst-moment-big-oil-america-back-vengeance">extraction
of shale oil</a>, and short-sighted politicians are claiming this is a
good thing.


title: Bombing kills a leader of al-Shabaab
uri: Bombing-kills-a-leader-of-al-Shabaab
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Bombing_kills_a_leader_of_al-Shabaab)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Bombing_kills_a_leader_of_al-Shabaab%29

content:
<p>
A US bombing 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/05/al-shabaab-leader-godane-killed-us-airstrike-somalia">killed
a leader of al-Shabaab</a>.
<p>
I predict this will have as little effect as the killing of the
previous leader.  These groups don't depend on one person.


title: Collapse of case against Kenyatta
uri: Collapse-of-case-against-Kenyatta
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Collapse_of_case_against_Kenyatta)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Collapse_of_case_against_Kenyatta%29

content:
<p>
The ICC case against Uhuru Kenyatta has collapsed because 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/05/kenya-president-uhuru-kenyatta-icc-trial-collapses">Kenya's
refusal to cooperate</a> has prevented collecting evidence.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Cease_fire_in_Ukraine_holding)
title: Cease fire in Ukraine holding
uri: Cease-fire-in-Ukraine-holding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Cease_fire_in_Ukraine_holding%29

content:
<p>
The cease fire in Ukraine is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/05/ukraine-ceasefire-holds-but-leaders-sceptical">holding
so far</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Towns_controlled_by_Boko_Haram)
title: Towns controlled by Boko Haram
uri: Towns-controlled-by-Boko-Haram
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Towns_controlled_by_Boko_Haram%29

content:
<p>
Boko Haram has seized towns and held them, and the Nigerian army is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/05/hundreds-flee-homes-nigeria-islamic-extremists-boko-haram">not
fighting back very well</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Blue_whale_population_recovery)
title: Blue whale population recovery
uri: Blue-whale-population-recovery
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Blue_whale_population_recovery%29

content:
<p>
The blue whales of California have recovered their numbers almost to
pre-whaling levels, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/05/blue-whales-return-california-us-west-coast">thanks
to lots of protection efforts</a>.
<p>
However, globally the blue whale population is only around 2% of what
it was 140 years ago.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Defeating_ISIS)
title: Defeating ISIS
uri: Defeating-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Defeating_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
Obama says he wants to destroy ISIS, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/05/obama-core-coalition-10-countries-to-fight-isis">will
not escalate until there is an Iraqi army that is strong enough to win
with help</a>.
<p>
This means he is rejecting the pressure to do something rash and
foolish.
<p>
However, he is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/05/us-troops-deployment-iraq-legal-justification">straining
the limits of the War Powers Act</a> to the breaking point.
<p>
ISIS propaganda videos are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/03/isis-beheading-videos-propaganda-working">designed
to recruit individual supporters</a> by making ISIS look tough and
harsh.
<p>
It is a mistake to go to war because ISIS killed two Americans, or
because ISIS kills people in a barbaric way.  As has been pointed out,
Saudi Arabia frequently kills people by beheading, and the practice is
just as barbaric there.
<p>
The murder of thousands of Iraqis and Syrians, and religious oppression
of those that live, are much bigger reasons to fight ISIS, but only
if that is likely to be effective.
<p>
Could it be effective?  
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/09/02/a-broad-approach-to-countering-the-islamic-state/">This
article</a>, although it frames the issue in terms of "what do we need
in order to win" rather than "does the approach make sense", points
out that defeating ISIS is unlikely unless it is done by a more
powerful army which is determined to fight and defeat ISIS, and which
can cut off ISIS from its supply of recruits.
<p>
A foreign army would tend rather to boost ISIS recruiting as a
reaction, while the Iraqi army lacks the commitment that could enable
it to win.


title: Children facing physical violence
uri: Children-facing-physical-violence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Children_facing_physical_violence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Children_facing_physical_violence%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/05/children-face-regular-physical-assault-unicef-report">60%
of the world's children</a> face regular physical violence, in many
cases from their parents.


title: Israel plans more houses in colonies
uri: Israel-plans-more-houses-in-colonies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Israel_plans_more_houses_in_colonies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Israel_plans_more_houses_in_colonies%29

content:
<p>
Israel has announced plans for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/05/israel-build-283-new-homes-west-bank">300
more houses</a> in its colonies in Palestinian territory.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Data_brokers)
title: Data brokers
uri: Data-brokers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Data_brokers%29
content:
<p>
A new data broker 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/05/datacoup-consumer-sell-data-control-privacy-advertising">offers
to pay people directly</a> for their personal data.
<p>
Datacoup's existence by itself will not eliminate ordinary data brokers;
something more is required.  Supposing that something more appears, and
other data brokers disappear, how much better will this be?
<p>
I would not give any data to the services that Datacoup works with.
In fact, the only one of them I might consider using is Twitter,
precisely because one doesn't have to give real personal data to it.
<p>
Therefore, I would not be interested in making such data available for
a mere $10 or $100 or $1000 a month.


title: Policies that keep poor people out
uri: Policies-that-keep-poor-people-out
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Policies_that_keep_poor_people_out)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Policies_that_keep_poor_people_out%29

content:
<p>
US inner-ring suburbs such as Ferguson are full of blacks, partly
because other suburban towns have adopted 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/05/death-america-suburban-dream-ferguson-missouri-resegregation">policies
to keep poor people out</a>.
<p>
Zoning laws are a big source of injustice, and play a major role in
the high cost of renting housing in the US.  I think we need to
invalidate some aspects of zoning laws in a broad fashion.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Using_TTIP_to_bully_the_EU)
title: Using TTIP to bully the EU
uri: Using-TTIP-to-bully-the-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Using_TTIP_to_bully_the_EU%29
content:
<p>
The TTIP is providing an excuse for companies to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/05/eu-gm-food-imports-us-canada">bully
the EU to accept GMO food imports</a>.
<p>
Modern free exploitation treaties, since the one that created the WTO,
are harmful by nature.  Politicians that endorse the project of making
a new free exploitation treaties have their hearts in the wrong place.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_September_2014_(Fads_for_unusual_pets)
title: Fads for unusual pets
uri: Fads-for-unusual-pets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_%28Fads_for_unusual_pets%29
content:
<p>
Movies trigger fads for unusual pets, which get 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/05/hapless-huskies-dumped-dalmatians-pets-game-thrones-twilight">abandoned
by the dozens or hundreds</a> a few years later.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Abottt_campaign_promises)
title: Abottt campaign promises
uri: Abottt-campaign-promises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Abottt_campaign_promises%29
content:
<p>
Abbott is betting that if
he <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/07/tony-abbott-protects-a-vulnerable-claim-that-he-hasnt-broken-promises">repeats
over and over that he did not break his campaign promises, voters will
forget that he did</a>.


title: Urgent: Defend network neutrality
uri: Urgent-Defend-network-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Urgent:_Defend_network_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Defend_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: if you haven't
already, <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=1035">submit
a comment to the FCC defending network neutrality</a>.


title: Debates between right-wing pundits that all agree
uri: Debates-between-right-wing-pundits-that-all-agree
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Debates_between_right-wing_pundits_that_all_agree)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Debates_between_right-wing_pundits_that_all_agree%29

content:
<p>
Mainstream US TV political shows
present <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/09/04/debating-war-corporate-media-style/">debates
between right-wing pundits that all agree</a> the US should launch
all-out war against ISIS.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/07/isis-reaction-from-west-military-strikes-not-best-option">"Three
things that won't defeat Isis are a kneejerk reaction to the videos of
western hostages being killed, going back to the old models of
dictatorship and airstrikes."</a>
<p>
Above all, it is necessary to show Iraqi Sunnis how they can have a
government they generally won't feel is their enemy.
<p>
Perhaps that requires offering to break up Iraq, so they can have
their own government as long as it isn't warlike.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Kidnaped_journalists)
title: Kidnaped journalists
uri: Kidnaped-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Kidnaped_journalists%29
content:
<p>
Many
journalists <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/07/reporters-die-public-kidnap-secret-james-foley-steven-sotloff">have
been kidnaped in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan</a>. Secrecy in many
individual cases has hidden the size of the problem.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(NATO)
title: NATO
uri: NATO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28NATO%29
content:
<p>
NATO: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/03/nato-part-solution-or-problem">Part
of Solution [in Ukraine] — Or Problem</a>.
<p>
I think the question is not quite right.  Nato expansion has clearly
contributed to provoking Russia, but that doesn't prevent NATO from
being useful for resisting Russia.  Putin is not an innocent good guy,
he is a former KGB officer.


title: If the bank doesn't make you homeless, thugs might try
uri: If-the-bank-doesn-t-make-you-homeless-thugs-might-try
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(If_the_bank_doesn't_make_you_homeless,_thugs_might_try)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28If_the_bank_doesn%27t_make_you_homeless%2C_thugs_might_try%29

content:
<p>
In Philadelphia, if the bank doesn't make you
homeless, <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2014-08-14/news/52772884_1_forfeiture-program-drug-trafficking-property">the
thugs might try it</a>.


title: Urgent: Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act
uri: Urgent-Students-Emergency-Loan-Refinancing-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Urgent:_Students_Emergency_Loan_Refinancing_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Students_Emergency_Loan_Refinancing_Act%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/StudentLoan/?t=1002&akid=5256.1906019.RJz_Wy">support
the Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Atheist_fanatics)
title: Atheist fanatics
uri: Atheist-fanatics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Atheist_fanatics%29
content:
<p>
Violent religious fanatics are a real
danger, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/07/militant-atheism-religious-apologists-intellectuals">but
there are no violent atheist fanatics nowadays</a>.  The closest thing
you can find are a few Communist dictatorships. They are cited to
create a false appearance of moral equivalence between secularism and
religion.
<p>
People do not need religion in order to treat each other well.  Humans
(except sociopaths) have a conscience as a matter of instinct, and can
train it through reflection.  It can even have the strength to prevail
over religious immorality.
<p>
A story from Samoa (*) says that the religious practice of human
sacrifice was ended when the son of the Malietoa (one of the top-level
chiefs) saw that the woman he loved was going to be sacrificed, and
presented himself for the sacrifice in place of her.  The Malietoa,
rather than sacrifice his son, banned human sacrifice thenceforth.
Whether or not this really occurred, the repetition of the story shows
that a human society can value conscience over religion, and it makes
an instructive contrast with the story of Abraham and Isaac.
<p>
* From Les religions du Pacifique et d'Australie by Nevermann, Worms,
and Petri.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(US_rate_of_job_generation)
title: US rate of job generation
uri: US-rate-of-job-generation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28US_rate_of_job_generation%29
content:
<p>
The US rate of job generation fell to a new
low, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/05/us-job-growth-slows-lowest-level-1970s">less
than ever since the 1970s</a>.
<p>
The 1970s is the last time we had a government that represented
Americans other than the elites.


title: Urgent: Hold a rally for network neutrality
uri: Urgent-Hold-a-rally-for-network-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Urgent:_Hold_a_rally_for_network_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Hold_a_rally_for_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
In the
US: <a href="http://www.freepress.net/save-internet-event-guide">hold
a rally for network neutrality</a>.


title: FBI censors Justice Dept. report
uri: FBI-censors-Justice-Dept-report
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(FBI_censors_Justice_Dept._report)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28FBI_censors_Justice_Dept._report%29

content:
<p>
The Justice Department's Inspector General released a report 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/09/03/when-can-fbi-use-national-secu.html">about
how the FBI can bypass new "guidelines" about getting journalists'
phone records and other data</a>, but the FBI censored it so badly
that all we know is that it's a secret.


title: Eritrean refugee gets asylum in UK
uri: Eritrean-refugee-gets-asylum-in-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Eritrean_refugee_gets_asylum_in_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Eritrean_refugee_gets_asylum_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
An Eritrean, imprisoned because of his religious sect, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/06/eritrea-dangerous-trek-to-britain-slavery-trafficking">took
3 years to reach Britain</a>, where he received asylum.
<p>
He had to fend off kidnapers in Sudan, which also lets the Eritrean
agents seize Eritrean refugees.
<p>
One thing I do not understand is why he snuck into the UK from Calais
rather than asking for asylum in France.  What is the attraction or
advantage of the UK for a person who has a valid claim to asylum?
Does anyone know?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Facebooks_curated_newsfeed)
title: Facebook's "curated" newsfeed
uri: Facebook-s-curated-newsfeed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Facebooks_curated_newsfeed%29
content:
<p>
Twitter told people about protests and thug violence in Ferguson
(those who are interested), while 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/06/twitter-beats-facebook-breaking-news-michael-brown-shooting-ferguson">Facebook
mostly steered people away</a>.


title: ISIS torturer shoots four at Jewish Museum
uri: ISIS-torturer-shoots-four-at-Jewish-Museum
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(ISIS_torturer_shoots_four_at_Jewish_Museum)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28ISIS_torturer_shoots_four_at_Jewish_Museum%29

content:
<p>
An ISIS torturer went to Brussels and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/06/jewish-museum-shooting-suspect-islamic-state-torturer-brussels-syria">shot
four people</a> at the Jewish Museum.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/06/richard-barrett-mi6-isis-counter-terrorism">Why
it would be a mistake</a> to discourage jihadis from western countries
from returning home if they have changed their mind about the issue.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Fast-food_strikers_motivation)
title: Fast-food striker's motivation
uri: Fast-food-striker-s-motivation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Fast-food_strikers_motivation%29

content:
<p>
One fast-food striker explains how he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/06/fast-food-striker-fight-for-15">chose
to get arrested for his daughter's sake</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Making_thugs_wear_cameras)
title: Making thugs wear cameras
uri: 2014-09-08-Making-thugs-wear-cameras
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Making_thugs_wear_cameras%29
content:
<p>
Making thugs wear cameras is not an automatic guaranteed solution to
thuggishness.  They tend to turn off their cameras when they shoot
people — and the cameras can contribute to massive general
surveillance.  
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/06/police-body-cam-privacy-recorded-cops">Careful
rules are needed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(Australias_threatened_species)
title: Australia's threatened species
uri: Australia-s-threatened-species
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28Australias_threatened_species%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government wants to delegate protection of threatened
species to the states, which are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/06/states-not-able-to-protect-threatened-species-and-world-heritage-sites-says-report">not
in a position to do it properly</a> even if they wanted to.
<p>
Of course, the point of the change is that the states don't even
want to try.


title: US pressuring Canada to seize medicines
uri: US-pressuring-Canada-to-seize-medicines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_September_2014_(US_pressuring_Canada_to_seize_medicines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_%28US_pressuring_Canada_to_seize_medicines%29

content:
<p>
The US is pressuring Canada to seize generic medicines in transit 
<a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/09/u-s-pressure-behind-stalled-canadian-anti-counterfeiting-bill-2/">on
behalf of patentholding pharma companies</a>.
<p>
These laws are murderous; officials who carry out such seizures should
be tried in the ICC.


title: Urgent: Oppose enlarging pipeline
uri: Urgent-Oppose-enlarging-pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_September_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_enlarging_pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_enlarging_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=14359">call
on Obama and Kerry</a> not to let Enbridge double the size of the
Alberta Clipper tar oil pipeline.
<p>
Also 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/enbridge_scheme">submit a
public comment</a> to the State Department.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_September_2014_(Zero-carbon-emissions_society)
title: Zero-carbon-emissions society
uri: Zero-carbon-emissions-society
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_September_2014_%28Zero-carbon-emissions_society%29

content:
<p>
To avoid disaster, we should convert with all possible speed to a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/06/zero-emissions-manifesto-climate-justice-movement">zero-carbon-emissions
society</a>.
<p>
I have to comment on some minor points.
<ul>
<li>It is a shame to cite Bill Gates as a positive example of
anything.  If the point is valid, it can be established without
mentioning him.</li>
<li>I distrust carbon offset schemes because many of them make
presumptions about future activities that may not come true.</li>
</ul>
But these do not invalidate the article's conclusion.  They only
affect side issues.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_September_2014_(Natural_gas_in_Ukraine)
title: Natural gas in Ukraine
uri: Natural-gas-in-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_September_2014_%28Natural_gas_in_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine has lots of natural gas that could make it an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/04/whys-behind-ukraine-crisis">ideal
target for fracking</a>, especially if it is in debt to the IMF and
can't resist.
<p>
The article erects a large superstructure of theories which I think
are strained and not convincing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_September_2014_(US_widening_air_bombing_in_Iraq)
title: US widening air bombing in Iraq
uri: US-widening-air-bombing-in-Iraq
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_September_2014_%28US_widening_air_bombing_in_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
The US is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/08/us-bombing-campaign-iraq-obama-isis">widening
its air bombing intervention</a> in Iraq.
<p>
As long as it remains limited to giving close air support to a local
ground army fighting in a non-urban battlefield, the harm to civilians
will be limited too.  If it goes beyond that, it could become the sort
of hatred-generator that drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen have
been.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_September_2014_(The_Rise_of_the_Warrior_Cop)
title: The Rise of the Warrior Cop
uri: The-Rise-of-the-Warrior-Cop
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_September_2014_%28The_Rise_of_the_Warrior_Cop%29
content:
<p>
The Rise of the Warrior Cop describe 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/searle20140830">the
horror felt in the early US about mixing the roles of army and
police</a>, and how Nixon's "War on Dregs" started to endorse mixing
them up.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_September_2014_(Estonian_investigator_kidnaped)
title: Estonian investigator kidnaped
uri: Estonian-investigator-kidnaped
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_September_2014_%28Estonian_investigator_kidnaped%29

content:
<p>
Russian troops or thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/07/russia-parades-detained-estonian-police-officer">kidnaped
an Estonian investigator</a> from a customs office on Estonian
territory; the former KGB now claims he was captured in Russia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_September_2014_(Anti-slavery_activist_on_trial)
title: Anti-slavery activist on trial
uri: Anti-slavery-activist-on-trial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_September_2014_%28Anti-slavery_activist_on_trial%29

content:
<p>
Anti-slavery activist Andy Hall has gone on trial in Thailand as
punishment for a stellar career of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/sep/07/labour-rights-activist-andy-hall-natural-fruit-company">defending
the rights of migrant workers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_September_2014_(Voter_ID_laws)
title: Voter ID laws
uri: 2014-09-09-Voter-ID-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_September_2014_%28Voter_ID_laws%29
content:
<p>
Judge Posner said his ruling in favor of voter ID laws was 
<a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/naughty-nuns-bad-bankers-and-ballot-bandits/">wrong</a>.
<p>
The ruling, which disenfranchised over 70,000 black voters in one state
still threatens US democracy.
<p>
There are too many activities in the US which require a
government-issued ID card, and this threatens to turn state
driver-or-equivalent licenses into the equivalent of a national ID
card.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_September_2014_(If_Israel_wants_security)
title: If Israel wants security
uri: If-Israel-wants-security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_September_2014_%28If_Israel_wants_security%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/07/israel-palestinian-unity-land-grab">For
Israel, the Beginning of Wisdom Is to Admit Its Mistakes</a>.  If
Israel wants security, it should stop the policies that insure
Palestine can't have any security.


title: Human rights defenders arrested in Qatar
uri: Human-rights-defenders-arrested-in-Qatar
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_September_2014_(Human_rights_defenders_arrested_in_Qatar)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_September_2014_%28Human_rights_defenders_arrested_in_Qatar%29

content:
<p>
Qatar has admitted arresting two foreign human rights defenders who
were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/07/qatar-detains-humn-rights-british-workers">investigating
slavery</a> in Qatar.
<p>
The delay in announcing this shows that the government hoped
the world would not notice, and that the "illegalities", if not
fabricated, are violations of laws Qatar will be ashamed to have.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_September_2014_(Big_Ag_in_Oregon)
title: Big Ag in Oregon
uri: Big-Ag-in-Oregon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_September_2014_%28Big_Ag_in_Oregon%29
content:
<p>
Big Ag in Oregon procured a law giving farms 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/09/12585/oregon-residents-challenge-states-right-farm-law">immunity
for dropping toxic pesticides on people's houses</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_September_2014_(The_US_justice_system)
title: The US justice system
uri: The-US-justice-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_September_2014_%28The_US_justice_system%29
content:
<p>
The US justice system will believe in the impossible, 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140828/11204628350/miraculous-works-criminal-justice-system.shtml">to
excuse killings by thugs, or to keep someone in jail</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_September_2014_(Russias_population_decreasing)
title: Russia's population decreasing
uri: Russia-s-population-decreasing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_September_2014_%28Russias_population_decreasing%29

content:
<p>
Russia's population has been 
<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/sep/02/dying-russians/">decreasing
for over 20 years</a>; Russians die younger and have few children.
One author says this is because Russian society has learned to give up
hope.
<p>
If that is true — I don't take it as certain — then it
probably relates to the cruel capitalism that took over Russia in
1991.  The same thing might happen in the US if the plutocrats cement
their power.


title: NY thugs get creative for arrest
uri: NY-thugs-get-creative-for-arrest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_September_2014_(NY_thugs_get_creative_for_arrest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_September_2014_%28NY_thugs_get_creative_for_arrest%29

content:
<p>
New York thugs got creative to 
<a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140902/midtown/mom-arrested-for-blocking-sidewalk-while-waiting-for-family-use-bathroom">find
an excuse to arrest a woman</a> who had left a protest, as she waited
near a restaurant for her family to come out of the toilet.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_September_2014_(UK_immigration_prison_death)
title: UK immigration prison death
uri: UK-immigration-prison-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_September_2014_%28UK_immigration_prison_death%29
content:
<p>
A UK immigration prison appears to have killed a prisoner by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/07/morton-hall-immigration-detention-centre-death-rubel-ahmed">doing
nothing when he reported chest pains</a>.


title: Killed by thugs after traffic stop
uri: Killed-by-thugs-after-traffic-stop
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_September_2014_(Killed_by_thugs_after_traffic_stop)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_September_2014_%28Killed_by_thugs_after_traffic_stop%29

content:
<p>
Illinois thugs have 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/02/1326585/-Another-man-dies-during-routine-traffic-stop-Cops-withhold-all-information">refused
to tell</a> Joshua Paul's family any details of why and how they
killed him.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_September_2014_(Death_penalty_unjustified)
title: Death penalty unjustified
uri: Death-penalty-unjustified
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_September_2014_%28Death_penalty_unjustified%29
content:
<p>
In 1994, Justice Scalia 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/02/1326644/-Does-a-Supreme-Court-Justice-just-say-oops">cited
two cases as examples that the death penalty could be incontrovertibly
justified</a>.  One of them was the case of the two men just 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/02/dna-evidence-north-carolina-death-mccollum-brown-artis">proved
innocent by DNA evidence</a>.


title: Urgent: Publish consumers' complaints about financial companies
uri: Urgent-Publish-consumers-complaints-about-financial-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Urgent:_Publish_consumers'_complaints_about_financial_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Publish_consumers%27_complaints_about_financial_companies%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell the CFPB
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=11908">publish
consumers' complaints about financial companies</a>.


title: Urgent: Require frackers to disclose all the chemicals they use
uri: Urgent-Require-frackers-to-disclose-all-the-chemicals-they-use
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Urgent:_Require_frackers_to_disclose_all_the_chemicals_they_use)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Require_frackers_to_disclose_all_the_chemicals_they_use%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA
to <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3579">require
frackers to disclose all the chemicals they use</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(The_ideology_of_ISIS)
title: The ideology of ISIS
uri: The-ideology-of-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28The_ideology_of_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
The ideology of ISIS
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/09/isis-jihadi-shaped-by-modern-western-philosophy">based
on modern European ideas</a>, notwithstanding its pretension to return
to the roots of Islam.
<p>
Exposing this might undermine ISIS propaganda.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Armored_cars_for_thugs)
title: Armored cars for thugs
uri: Armored-cars-for-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Armored_cars_for_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The manufactures of armored cars for thugs feel uncomfortable about
admitting
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/09/armored-vehicle-manufacturer-flips-out-after-its-representative-explains-why">they
are made to repress protesters</a>.
<p>
When US thugs use their military-style "counter-terrorism" gear for
suppressing protests, it turns out to be
illegal; <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/09/police-military-gear-riots-repay-millions-senate-ferguson">thug
departments that have done this could get in trouble</a>.
<p>
Rather than fining these thug departments, it would be far more
effective to take away their heavy weapons and armor.
<p>
Or maybe the rule won't get enforced.


title: Bahrain continues to repress dissidents
uri: Bahrain-continues-to-repress-dissidents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Bahrain_continues_to_repress_dissidents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Bahrain_continues_to_repress_dissidents%29

content:
<p>
Bahrain <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/09/bahrain-human-rights-activist-maryam-al-khawaja">continues
to repress dissidents</a>.


title: US thugs have taken 2.5 billion dollars
uri: US-thugs-have-taken-2-5-billion-dollars
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(US_thugs_have_taken_2.5_billion_dollars)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28US_thugs_have_taken_2.5_billion_dollars%29

content:
<p>
US thugs have taken 2.5 billion dollars in the past 13 years
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize/">from
people who were not charged with crimes</a>.
<p>
No matter what Kafkaesque excuses they make, this is punishment
without trial.
<p>
The US is
also <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/02/201321710236780782.html">turning
towards Pre-emptive prosecution</a>, where the question is not whether
you committed a crime but whether you might.


title: EU's dependence on Russia for natural gas
uri: EU-s-dependence-on-Russia-for-natural-gas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(EU's_dependence_on_Russia_for_natural_gas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28EU%27s_dependence_on_Russia_for_natural_gas%29

content:
<p>
The EU's dependence on Russia for natural gas
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/09/europe-dependency-russian-gas-energy-efficiency-eu">creating
strong pressure for energy efficiency improvements</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(TEPCO_is_withholding_pay)
title: TEPCO is withholding pay
uri: TEPCO-is-withholding-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28TEPCO_is_withholding_pay%29
content:
<p>
TEPCO
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/09/fukushima-daiichi-operators-face-court-for-unpaid-wages">withholding
pay from Fukushima cleanup workers</a>.
<p>
One would think that such an important job, which has to be done
right, should offer high pay to get the best workers.


title: Clinton's glowing review of Kissinger's book
uri: Clinton-s-glowing-review-of-Kissinger-s-book
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Clinton's_glowing_review_of_Kissinger's_book)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Clinton%27s_glowing_review_of_Kissinger%27s_book%29

content:
<p>
Clinton's glowing review of Kissinger's
book <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/08/hillary-clinton-serves-us-kissinger-kool-aid">shows
what she is really made of</a>.


title: Life Sentences for Some Homosexual Acts
uri: Life-Sentences-for-Some-Homosexual-Acts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Life_Sentences_for_Some_Homosexual_Acts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Life_Sentences_for_Some_Homosexual_Acts%29

content:
<p>
Gambia Passes
Bill <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/09/gambia-passes-bill-life-imprisonment-homosexual-acts">Imposing
Life Sentences for Some Homosexual Acts</a>.


title: Urgent: Call on OceanaGold to drop lawsuit
uri: Urgent-Call-on-OceanaGold-to-drop-lawsuit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Urgent:_Call_on_OceanaGold_to_drop_lawsuit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_OceanaGold_to_drop_lawsuit%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on OceanaGold
to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/el-salvador-mining-lawsuit/4/2/">drop
its lawsuit which claims El Salvador is not allowed to protect its
water supplies</a>.


title: Deforesters murdered Peruvian activists
uri: Deforesters-murdered-Peruvian-activists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Deforesters_murdered_Peruvian_activists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Deforesters_murdered_Peruvian_activists%29

content:
<p>
Deforesters murdered Peruvian activists
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/09/illegal-loggers-blamed-for-of-peru-forest-campaigner">campaigned
against illegal logging</a>.


title: US spending millions on aid projects that don't work
uri: US-spending-millions-on-aid-projects-that-don-t-work
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(US_spending_millions_on_aid_projects_that_don't_work)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28US_spending_millions_on_aid_projects_that_don%27t_work%29

content:
<p>
In Africa, as formerly in Iraq and
Afghanistan, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/08/how-not-win-hearts-and-minds-africa">the
US is spending millions on aid projects that generally don't work</a>
because they never made sense.


title: Urgent: Get a warrant before using drones
uri: Urgent-Get-a-warrant-before-using-drones
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Urgent:_Get_a_warrant_before_using_drones)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Get_a_warrant_before_using_drones%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: urge California Gov Brown to sign the bill
that <a href="https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu/ca/issues/alert/?alertid=63307506">requires
thugs to get a warrant before using drones</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Accusation_of_sharing)
title: Accusation of sharing
uri: Accusation-of-sharing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Accusation_of_sharing%29
content:
<p>
The BBC wants to make ISPs in
Australia <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/bbc-isps-should-assume-heavy-vpn-users-are-pirates-140908/">punish
their customers on accusation of sharing</a> — including anyone
that makes heavy use of a VPN.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(An_end_to_the_War_on_Drugs)
title: An end to the War on Drugs
uri: An-end-to-the-War-on-Drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28An_end_to_the_War_on_Drugs%29
content:
<p>
A group of former presidents and
ministers <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/09/citing-failed-war-drugs-world-leaders-call-widespread-decriminalization">calls
for an end to the War on Drugs</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Poverty_wages)
title: Poverty wages
uri: Poverty-wages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Poverty_wages%29
content:
<p>
Janitors don't have to be paid poverty wages
— <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/08/poverty-pay-isnt-just-about-economics-new-york">if
they unionize</a>.


title: Modi has started denying global heating
uri: Modi-has-started-denying-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Modi_has_started_denying_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Modi_has_started_denying_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Modi, since his election,
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/09/narendra-modi-india-prime-minister-climate-change-sceptic">started
denying global heating</a>.
<p>
Apparently he has surrendered to the "burn, baby, burn" lobby.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_Pebble_Mine)
title: Urgent: Oppose Pebble Mine
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Pebble-Mine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Pebble_Mine%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/epa_pebble_mine">tell the
EPA</a> not to allow the Pebble Mine.


title: Qatar slavery investigators freed
uri: Qatar-slavery-investigators-freed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Qatar_slavery_investigators_freed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Qatar_slavery_investigators_freed%29

content:
<p>
The slavery investigators disappeared in Qatar have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/09/uk-human-rights-researchers-qatar-freed">freed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Todays_climate_models)
title: Today's climate models
uri: Today-s-climate-models
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Todays_climate_models%29
content:
<p>
Today's climate models, applied to 1990s data, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/09/research-global-warming-hiatus">predicted
the slowdown in atmospheric heating of the 2000s</a>.
<p>
There was no slowdown in global heating; rather, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_September_2013_(Slowdown_in_atmospheric_heating_since_2000)">heat
started going into the oceans</a> rather than the low atmosphere.


title: Global heating threatens US birds
uri: Global-heating-threatens-US-birds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Global_heating_threatens_US_birds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Global_heating_threatens_US_birds%29

content:
<p>
Over 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/09/north-america-birds-extinction-study-climate-change">half
the bird species in the US</a>, including the bald eagle, are
threatened by global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Still_Scared_Stupid)
title: Still Scared Stupid
uri: Still-Scared-Stupid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Still_Scared_Stupid%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/04/still-scared-stupid-age-terrorism">Still
Scared Stupid in the Age of Terrorism</a>.


title: Greenpeace protesters face prosecution
uri: Greenpeace-protesters-face-prosecution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Greenpeace_protesters_face_prosecution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Greenpeace_protesters_face_prosecution%29

content:
<p>
Greenpeace protesters in the US face felony prosecutions 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/08/greenpeace-activist-guilty-felony-count-procter-gamble">for
a banner drop</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#10_October_2013_(Putins_men_claim_Greenpeace_protesters_guilty_of_piracy)">Putin
in America</a>?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Spanish_thugs_buying_more_arms)
title: Spanish thugs buying more arms
uri: Spanish-thugs-buying-more-arms
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Spanish_thugs_buying_more_arms%29

content:
<p>
Spanish thugs are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/08/spain-one-bn-on-riot-gear-autumn-of-protest">buying
more arms</a> to escalate repression of suffering Spaniards.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Kidnaping_of_Estonian_detective)
title: Kidnaping of Estonian detective
uri: Kidnaping-of-Estonian-detective
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Kidnaping_of_Estonian_detective%29

content:
<p>
More about 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/08/estonia-russia-fsb-trap-eston-kohver">Russia's
armed kidnaping</a> of an Estonian detective.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(NYC_thugs_beat_handcuffed_man)
title: NYC thugs beat handcuffed man
uri: NYC-thugs-beat-handcuffed-man
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28NYC_thugs_beat_handcuffed_man%29

content:
<p>
A gang of 6 thugs in New York City handcuffed a man and then 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/08/nypd-officers-assault-claims-gang-bronx">hit
him repeatedly with sticks</a>.


title: Companies show no shame at "Urban Shield"
uri: Companies-show-no-shame-at-Urban-Shield
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_September_2014_(Companies_show_no_shame_at_Urban_Shield)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_September_2014_%28Companies_show_no_shame_at_Urban_Shield%29

content:
<p>
The companies that sell armored vehicles and automatic weapons to US
thugs are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/08/sp-urban-shield-police-militarization-ferguson-oakland">showing
no shame</a> at "Urban Shield".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Limiting_global_heating)
title: Limiting global heating
uri: Limiting-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Limiting_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Limiting global heating to 2C was an arbitrary target, and appears to
be
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2014/sep/09/new-york-climate-summit-two-degrees-warming-policy-disaster">too
much heating for safety</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Violence_between_individuals)
title: Violence between individuals
uri: Violence-between-individuals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Violence_between_individuals%29

content:
<p>
Violence between individuals 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/09/domestic-violence-between-individuals-war">kills
ten times as many people as wars</a>, and costs 40 times as much.


title: US customs bans famous French cheeses
uri: US-customs-bans-famous-French-cheeses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(US_customs_bans_famous_French_cheeses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28US_customs_bans_famous_French_cheeses%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-new-fda-regulations-cheeses-20140903-story.html">silly
and annoying rule change</a> by US customs has banned famous French
cheeses.
<p>
Another silly and annoying US customs rule is the one that prohibits
import of all meat products, even soup mixes.  Yes, it is conceivable
that they could carry a prion disease — but nobody is going to
feed the soup to cattle.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Ill_treatment_of_models)
title: Ill treatment of models
uri: Ill-treatment-of-models
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Ill_treatment_of_models%29
content:
<p>
Models are in danger of
being <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/09/models-diet-go-broke-modeling-industry">denied
their pay unless they diet to an extent that is dangerously
unhealthy</a>.  Except the stars, of course.
<p>
These abuses 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_May_2014_(Mistreatment_of_prostitutes_by_their_employers)">resemble
what we see in other fields of work</a>, so I wonder if there are
general solutions that cover all fields.
<p>
For instance, how does it happen that models start in debt?
Should it be a crime to make workers pay money to get a job?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Greenhouse_gas_emissions)
title: Greenhouse gas emissions
uri: Greenhouse-gas-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Greenhouse_gas_emissions%29
content:
<p>
Greenhouse gas emissions in 2013 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/09/carbon-dioxide-emissions-greenhouse-gases">increased
faster than any time since 1984</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Open_carry_for_whites_only)
title: "Open carry" for whites only
uri: Open-carry-for-whites-only
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Open_carry_for_whites_only%29
content:
<p>
John Crawford was shot dead by thugs in a Walmart while 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/07/ohio-black-man-killed-by-police-walmart-doubts-cast-witnesss-account">holding
a BB gun he wanted to buy</a>.  It appears this was based on an
exaggerated and false accusation from someone who was in the store.
<p>
The article shows why "open carry" laws effectively apply only to
whites.  It's 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_August_2014_(Michael_Browns_autopsy_report)">too 
dangerous if you're black</a>.  Lawfully carrying a concealed gun can
cause you trouble if you're a black; thugs frequently search you, and
even though the gun is not a crime, the thugs will look for an excuse
to charge you with something.
<p>
As a result, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_August_2014_(Stand_your_ground_laws)">"stand 
your ground" laws</a> are also whites-only.


title: Obama trying to stretch presidential authority
uri: Obama-trying-to-stretch-presidential-authority
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Obama_trying_to_stretch_presidential_authority)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Obama_trying_to_stretch_presidential_authority%29

content:
<p>
Obama is trying
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/obama-isis-syria-air-strikes-legal-argument">stretch
presidential authority to cover air attacks anywhere in the
world</a>. This is a dangerous precedent.
<p>
Obama <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/barack-obama-tv-speech-on-isis-full-text">calls
ISIS a "terrorist group"</a>, but I think that term is misleading.
ISIS does not seem to have carried out any terrorist attacks against
civilians.  It is murderous and oppressive, but in a different form.
I would call it a gang army.  They have
been <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-sep-dec.html#07%20November%202008%20%28War%20in%20the%20Congo%29">known
for many years in the eastern Congo</a> and other parts of Africa.
<p>
Obama says he will employ the tactic of drone assassination against
ISIS
because <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_March_2014_%28Drone_attacks_in_Yemen_stir_up_terror_and_hatred%29">it
has been so successful in Yemen</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#28_January_2014_%28US_bomb_attack_in_Somalia%29">Somalia</a>. The
Islamist militias in those countries don't seem to have been defeated
by years of drone assassinations.
<p>
The current round of air strikes against ISIS don't pose the same
problems because they take the form of close air support in field
battles.  It is easy to distinguish soldiers with heavy weapons from
civilians, so mistakes are unlikely.  If some civilians are hit, their
relatives will understand that battle zones are dangerous places to
be.
<p>
But it appears that Obama expects the fight against ISIS to develop
into an assassination campaign.  If it does, it will generate support
for ISIS.


title: New plan for Detroit's water supply
uri: New-plan-for-Detroit-s-water-supply
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(New_plan_for_Detroit's_water_supply)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28New_plan_for_Detroit%27s_water_supply%29

content:
<p>
The new plan for Detroit's water
supply <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/10/detroits-new-regional-water-authority-prelude-privatization">eliminates
public accountability and paves the way towards future
privatization</a>.


title: Israel imprisoned retired Palestinian professor
uri: Israel-imprisoned-retired-Palestinian-professor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Israel_imprisoned_retired_Palestinian_professor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Israel_imprisoned_retired_Palestinian_professor%29

content:
<p>
Israel
has <a href="http://samidoun.ca/2014/09/action-alert-take-action-for-the-immediate-release-of-dr-yousef-abdul-haq/">imprisoned
a retired Palestinian professor</a>, Yousef Abdul Haq, without
charges.
<p>
Abdul Haq has been active in organizing nonviolent resistance to the
occupation.  It's not the first time he has been imprisoned without
charges.


title: Wounded in Gaza struggle to find medical treatment
uri: Wounded-in-Gaza-struggle-to-find-medical-treatment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Wounded_in_Gaza_struggle_to_find_medical_treatment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Wounded_in_Gaza_struggle_to_find_medical_treatment%29

content:
<p>
12,000 wounded people in
Gaza <a href="http://www.afp.com/en/node/2785846">struggle to find
medical treatment in the remaining hospitals</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(The_modern_American_witch_hunt)
title: The modern American witch hunt
uri: The-modern-American-witch-hunt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28The_modern_American_witch_hunt%29

content:
<p>
As part of the modern American witch hunt, a woman was convicted of
endangering a fetus
because <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/new-jersey-mother-methadone-child-abuse-register">she
took methadone prescribed by her doctor</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Inability_to_buy_newsprint)
title: Inability to buy newsprint
uri: Inability-to-buy-newsprint
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Inability_to_buy_newsprint%29
content:
<p>
Inability to buy newsprint
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/venezuela-el-impulso-stop-printing">forcing
some Venezuelan newspapers to close</a>.
<p>
It takes dollars to buy imported paper, and how many bolivares you
have to pay for each dollar depends on your level of privilege.


title: No reason to think ISIS wants to attack US
uri: No-reason-to-think-ISIS-wants-to-attack-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(No_reason_to_think_ISIS_wants_to_attack_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28No_reason_to_think_ISIS_wants_to_attack_US%29

content:
<p>
The Secretary of Homeland Security
says <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/jeh-johnson-dhs-chief-no-information-isis-attack-us-homeland">there
is no reason to think ISIS wants to attack the US</a>.
<p>
Don't be taken in by the exaggeration of politicians.


title: Atheist US Air Force officer is suing
uri: Atheist-US-Air-Force-officer-is-suing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Atheist_US_Air_Force_officer_is_suing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Atheist_US_Air_Force_officer_is_suing%29

content:
<p>
An Atheist US Air Force officer
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/us-air-force-sergeant-reenlist-god-oath">suing
for permission to take his oath of service without citing a deity</a>
— something that the Air Force permitted until a year ago.


title: Former Israeli officials back peace plan
uri: Former-Israeli-officials-back-peace-plan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Former_Israeli_officials_back_peace_plan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Former_Israeli_officials_back_peace_plan%29

content:
<p>
Former Israeli intelligence officials say 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=65998">Israel
should agree to the Arab peace plan</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Praise_for_Steven_Salaita)
title: Praise for Steven Salaita
uri: Praise-for-Steven-Salaita
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Praise_for_Steven_Salaita%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=66001">Praise for
Steven Salaita</a> from other teachers and from his students.
<p>
Salaita was offered a job by the University of Illinois, which
treacherously rescinded the offer a couple of weeks before the start of
the school year.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Boycott_of_Israeli_products)
title: Boycott of Israeli products
uri: 2014-09-12-Boycott-of-Israeli-products
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Boycott_of_Israeli_products%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://972mag.com/bringing-the-boycott-back-home-palestinian-stores-drop-israeli-goods/96278/">Palestinians
are boycotting</a> Israeli products.


title: IPCC proposal for dealing with debt
uri: IPCC-proposal-for-dealing-with-debt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(IPCC_proposal_for_dealing_with_debt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28IPCC_proposal_for_dealing_with_debt%29

content:
<p>
The IPCC proposed that governments surrender to their debt by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/10/adapting-climate-change-markets-extreme-weather-events-expensive">borrowing
more money</a> to cope with the damage caused by global heating.
<p>
This would wipe out what remains of democracy in the world, and would
not even reliably do what it is supposed to do.
<p>
Since the debt is the result of an unjust plutocratic regime,
it needs to be erased, not be catered to by increasing debt.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Chinese_censorship)
title: Chinese censorship
uri: Chinese-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Chinese_censorship%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/10/chinese-regime-web-censorship-state-china">Chinese
censorship</a> demonstrates that the internet empowers tyrannical
regimes, if they are clever.
<p>
To argue for human rights based on efficiency is turning things upside
down.  Freedom is more important than efficiency.  We should sacrifice
efficiency for freedom if necessary.
<p>
If we want freedom in the internet, we can't assume that will happen
due to the nature of the internet.  We have to fight for it.  YOU have
to fight for it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(ISIS_and_the_fear-war_complex)
title: ISIS and the fear-war complex
uri: ISIS-and-the-fear-war-complex
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28ISIS_and_the_fear-war_complex%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/10/american-fear-mongering-war-again-isis">fear-war
complex</a> has convinced lots of Americans that ISIS is a direct
threat to the US.
<p>
The US government is planning to pressure Iraq to adopt a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/john-kerry-baghdad-obama-isis-strategy">federal
scheme for the "security forces"</a>.
<p>
(Note that the article errs in speaking of the "Sunni majority".  The
Sunnis are a minority in Iraq, and the Iraqi government is controlled
by the Shi'ite majority, which has used this power to oppress the
Sunni minority.)
<p>
I don't know enough to say this can work, but it seems to be at least
vaguely headed in a sensible direction.
<p>
However, the idea of supporting Syrians that are fighting both Assad
and ISIS has 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_(Syria_calls_for_UK_to_support_Assad)">serious
problems</a>: some of them are almost as fanatical Islamists as ISIS,
and the rest tend to treat Islamists as rivals rather than enemies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Persecution_of_homeless_people)
title: Persecution of homeless people
uri: Persecution-of-homeless-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Persecution_of_homeless_people%29

content:
<p>
Hawai'i's hotels are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/hawaii-efforts-move-homeless-people-tourism">pushing
to make it a crime to sleep or even sit on the sidewalk in
Honolulu</a>.  The proper answer to those hotels is, "Give the
homeless people a better place to sleep and sit, or shut up!"
<p>
Meanwhile, providing a camp on Sand Island is better than what many
other US cities are doing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Neo-Nazi_Azov_militia_mumbling)
title: Neo-Nazi Azov militia mumbling
uri: Neo-Nazi-Azov-militia-mumbling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Neo-Nazi_Azov_militia_mumbling%29

content:
<p>
The neo-Nazi Azov militia battalion 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis">mumbles
about overthrowing the government of Ukraine</a>.


title: Russian troops withdrawn from Ukraine
uri: Russian-troops-withdrawn-from-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Russian_troops_withdrawn_from_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Russian_troops_withdrawn_from_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine says Russia has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/ukraine-russia-troops-border-east-poroshenko">withdrawn
most of its troops</a>.
<p>
Offering some sort of partial autonomy to eastern Ukraine seems like a
fine thing to do, and should not have required a war.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Global_fight_for_a_neutral_net)
title: Global fight for a neutral net
uri: Global-fight-for-a-neutral-net
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Global_fight_for_a_neutral_net%29

content:
<p>
Join the global fight for a neutral net: 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/09/10/join-the-global-fight-for-a-ne.html">Big
Telecom vs THE WORLD</a>.


title: B'Tselem to stop sharing with army
uri: B-Tselem-to-stop-sharing-with-army
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(B'Tselem_to_stop_sharing_with_army)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28B%27Tselem_to_stop_sharing_with_army%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem says it 
<a href="http://972mag.com/leading-israeli-human-rights-group-to-stop-cooperating-with-idf/96440/">will
not provide evidence of war crimes to the Israeli army</a>, because
the army has proved not to try seriously to investigate such crimes.


title: Funding for West Bank settlements
uri: Funding-for-West-Bank-settlements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Funding_for_West_Bank_settlements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Funding_for_West_Bank_settlements%29

content:
<p>
Israel gives 
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4568999,00.html">preferential
funding</a> to people living in colonies in Palestine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Special_Ops_corporate_bonanza)
title: Special Ops corporate bonanza
uri: Special-Ops-corporate-bonanza
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Special_Ops_corporate_bonanza%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=4505">Murky Special Ops
Have Become Corporate Bonanza, Says Report</a>.


title: Queensland bans suing to block mines
uri: Queensland-bans-suing-to-block-mines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Queensland_bans_suing_to_block_mines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Queensland_bans_suing_to_block_mines%29

content:
<p>
Queensland, a state in Australia, has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/queensland-laws-stop-vexatious-green-groups">banned
the general public from suing to block mines on environmental
grounds</a>.
<p>
Thus, when the state government is inclined to close its eyes to
probable environmental harm — which it clearly is, or it would
not pass such a law — citizens will be helpless to prevent the
harm.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Effects_of_daily_marijuana_use)
title: Effects of daily marijuana use
uri: Effects-of-daily-marijuana-use
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Effects_of_daily_marijuana_use%29

content:
<p>
A study finds that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/10/teenagers-who-use-cannabis-every-day-60-less-likely-to-finish-school">people
under 17 years old that use marijuana every day suffer various harmful
effects</a>.
<p>
I don't think this can justify prohibition, because prohibition hurts
a much larger number of people.


title: Urgent: Walmart video showing killing
uri: Urgent-Walmart-video-showing-killing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Urgent:_Walmart_video_showing_killing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Walmart_video_showing_killing%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/ReleaseTheTapes/">Call on
Walmart</a> to release the video showing the killing of John Crawford.


title: Urgent: Stop harassment for student loans
uri: Urgent-Stop-harassment-for-student-loans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_harassment_for_student_loans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_harassment_for_student_loans%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/student_loan_arne_duncan">call
on the Department of Education</a> to stop hiring debt collection
companies to harass people for student loans.
<p>
We really need to restore the possibility to eliminate student loans
through bankruptcy.  Until we do that, this is a necessary first step.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Congressional_approval_of_war)
title: Congressional approval of war
uri: Congressional-approval-of-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Congressional_approval_of_war%29

content:
<p>
Obama 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/09/obama-speech-isis-campaign-congress-approval">believes
he is allowed to order bombing of Syria without congress</a>.
<p>
If the president is allowed to bomb any country if he can convince it
to accept some "noncombat" US troops, the requirement for
Congressional approval of war is almost completely negated.  Congress
is inclined to approve this campaign, but it should demand to be asked
so it can say yes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Israel_presents_evidence)
title: Israel presents "evidence"
uri: Israel-presents-evidence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Israel_presents_evidence%29
content:
<p>
Israel presented a 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25999-israels-video-justifying-destruction-of-a-hospital-was-from-2009">video
from 2009 as "evidence" that Palestinians were firing from al-Wafa
hospital</a>.
<p>
The video was of a different building, and was put together with an
unrelated audio track talking about a house (not a big building).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Hindu_fanatics)
title: Hindu fanatics
uri: Hindu-fanatics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Hindu_fanatics%29
content:
<p>
Hindu fanatics in India say they are going to 
<a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/09/05/india-religion-modi-idINKBN0GZ2OC20140905">convert
"all" Christians and Muslims</a>.  This could only be done by threats
of violence.
<p>
Meanwhile, when supposedly "Hindu" Dalits try to convert officially
to Buddhism, they face 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_October_2013_(Dalits_will_meet_to_convert_to_Buddhism)">violent
interference</a>.


title: Arbitrary detention in Australia
uri: Arbitrary-detention-in-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Arbitrary_detention_in_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Arbitrary_detention_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Australia's government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/innocent-passengers-wont-be-detained-at-airports-scott-morrison-says">says
Australians shouldn't worry about being arbitrarily stopped from
leaving the country</a>, because the officials will be so well trained
that they will never make a mistake.


title: Teachout gets 1/3 of the vote
uri: Teachout-gets-1-3-of-the-vote
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Teachout_gets_one_third_of_the_vote)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Teachout_gets_one_third_of_the_vote%29

content:
<p>
Zephyr Teachout got 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-wins-democratic-primary">1/3
of the vote in the New York gubernatorial primary</a> against
incumbent business-subservient Democrat Andrew Cuomo.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Rapists_protected_by_UK_thugs)
title: Rapists protected by UK thugs
uri: Rapists-protected-by-UK-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Rapists_protected_by_UK_thugs%29

content:
<p>
An organized gang that raped children in the UK was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/09/researcher-rotherham-abuse-feared-for-life-police-visit">protected
assiduously by thugs</a>: when a researcher discovered what was going
on and reported it, they threatened to expose the researcher to the
gang.
<p>
There are laws that dishonestly claim that every time someone under 16
or 18 (depending on where) has sex, it is "rape".  Calling willing sex
"rape" does not make it rape, and calling a 17-year-old who wants to
have sex a "child" does not make that teenager a child.
<p>
However, this gang committed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/26/rotherham-children-sexually-abused-report">real
rapes, and other real violence, and its victims included real
children</a>.


title: New rules of Federal Reserve Bank
uri: New-rules-of-Federal-Reserve-Bank
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(New_rules_of_Federal_Reserve_Bank)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28New_rules_of_Federal_Reserve_Bank%29

content:
<p>
A subtle change in the rules of the Federal Reserve Bank (an
organization run by the big US banks) requires those banks to dump
municipal bonds.  This 
<a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/09/preparing-to-asset-strip-local-government-the-feds-bizarre-new-rules/">could
force many US cities into bankruptcy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Crop_varieties)
title: Crop varieties
uri: Crop-varieties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Crop_varieties%29
content:
<p>
Development of new crop varieties depends on wild relatives of the
crops, but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/08/endless-war-fertile-crescent-how-modern-crises-threaten-ancient-food-supply">global
heating puts those relatives in danger</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(CIA_water_torture)
title: CIA water torture
uri: CIA-water-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28CIA_water_torture%29
content:
<p>
CIA water torture was even 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/08/they-got-medieval-his-ass-new-reporting-brutality-waterboarding">more
vicious than previously reported</a>.
<p>
If the US wants to be morally superior to ISIS, it must punish all the
torturers from Dubya on down.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Methane_leaks_from_fracking)
title: Methane leaks from fracking
uri: Methane-leaks-from-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Methane_leaks_from_fracking%29
content:
<p>
Obama and Clinton take note: due to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/09/note-president-obama-fracking-may-be-worse-burning-coal">methane
leaks</a>, fracking is a bridge to nowhere.  We must aim for
renewables without delay.
<p>
The US leads the way in 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/08/failing-reduce-carbon-emissions-us-leads-way-destroying-climate">failing
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Famous_tree-huggers)
title: Famous tree-huggers
uri: Famous-tree-huggers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Famous_tree-huggers%29
content:
<p>
Famous tree-huggers can inspire us to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/09/hugging-trees-age-climate-disruption">actions
that could save Earth's climate</a>.
<p>
A Massachusetts district attorney dropped charges against two
anti-coal protesters because he concluded their actions were 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/09/theyre-right-citing-climate-prosecutor-drops-charges-against-coal-blockaders">justified
to prevent global disaster</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(UKs_excuses_to_fine_the_poor)
title: UK's excuses to fine the poor
uri: UK-s-excuses-to-fine-the-poor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28UKs_excuses_to_fine_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has created lots of excuses to fine the poor,
so it is no surprise that one man's death is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/09/david-clapson-benefit-sanctions-death-government-policies">directly
tied to fining him</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(Ferguson_court_fine_income)
title: Ferguson court fine income
uri: Ferguson-court-fine-income
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28Ferguson_court_fine_income%29
content:
<p>
Ferguson's city council is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/09/ferguson-to-cap-court-fine-revenue">voting
to limit court fine income to 15% of the city revenue</a>, instead of
21% as now.
<p>
What directly oppresses the poor citizens of Ferguson is the rules
that the system follows, such as fining people for being unable to pay
fines.  Cutting out a little over 1/4 of the fines is insufficient to
make a qualitative difference.
<p>
Some of the other changes might matter more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_September_2014_(If_the_US_goes_to_war_with_ISIS)
title: If the US goes to war with ISIS
uri: If-the-US-goes-to-war-with-ISIS
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_%28If_the_US_goes_to_war_with_ISIS%29

content:
<p>
If the US goes to war with ISIS, 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=4462">how long before
Americans conclude that it was a mistake</a>?
<p>
ISIS is evil enough that fighting ISIS is not inherently wrong.
The same was true for Saddam Hussein — but launching a war
against his regime made things worse in Iraq, and the same thing
could easily happen again.
<p>
Thwarting ISIS in a conventional war of movement is easy.  Destroying
ISIS would mean an urban guerrilla war, which would be horrible (as it
was 8 years ago in the same part of Iraq) and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#21_December_2013_(West_must_not_ignore_message_that_its_wars_stir_up_hatred)">would
not succeed</a>.  To really defeat ISIS requires 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_August_2014_(Shi%27ite_militias_intend_to_expel_Sunnis)">convincing
Iraq's Sunnis to kick ISIS out</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop funding global heating denial
uri: Urgent-Stop-funding-global-heating-denial
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_September_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_funding_global_heating_denial)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_funding_global_heating_denial%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://forecastthefacts.org/disruptdenial/">call on Google,
Microsoft and others</a> to stop supporting global heating denialists.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_September_2014_(Clintons_push_for_fracking)
title: Clinton's push for fracking
uri: Clinton-s-push-for-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_September_2014_%28Clintons_push_for_fracking%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/10/how-hillary-clintons-state-department-sold-fracking-to-the-world">How
Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_September_2014_(Reversal_of_ozone_hole_growth)
title: Reversal of ozone hole growth
uri: Reversal-of-ozone-hole-growth
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_September_2014_%28Reversal_of_ozone_hole_growth%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/10/ozone-layer-recovery-report-shows">ban
on chlorofluorocarbons</a> is starting to reverse the former growth of
the ozone hole.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_September_2014_(Israeli_intel_vets_speak_out)
title: Israeli intel vets speak out
uri: Israeli-intel-vets-speak-out
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_September_2014_%28Israeli_intel_vets_speak_out%29

content:
<p>
43 veterans of Israel's military intelligence (equivalent to the NSA
in the US) 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/israeli-intelligence-reservists-refuse-serve-palestinian-territories">denounced
their work as a system of oppression and political manipulation</a>
rather than a matter of national security.
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/israeli-intelligence-veterans-letter-netanyahu-military-chiefs">full
text</a> of their letter.
<p>
Quotes from their personal testimonies: <i>The fact people were
innocent was not at all relevant</i>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_September_2014_(Fear_of_Ebola_in_Sierra_Leone)
title: Fear of Ebola in Sierra Leone
uri: Fear-of-Ebola-in-Sierra-Leone
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_September_2014_%28Fear_of_Ebola_in_Sierra_Leone%29

content:
<p>
Fear of Ebola is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/ebola-virus-sierra-leone">making
Sierra Leone life crazy</a>.
<p>
In Liberia, MSF's treatment center is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/11/ebola-treatment-centre-liberia">full</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_September_2014_(US_evidence_about_flight_MA-17)
title: US evidence about flight MA-17
uri: US-evidence-about-flight-MA-17
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_September_2014_%28US_evidence_about_flight_MA-17%29

content:
<p>
The US has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/10/malaysia-airlines-whodunnit-still-mystery">declined
to show whatever evidence it has</a> about who shot down flight MA-17.
<p>
I find it implausible anyone intentionally fired at an airliner.  Thus
I believe that rebels fired at what they thought was a Ukrainian
government plane.


title: Teacher risks dismissal for kids
uri: Teacher-risks-dismissal-for-kids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_September_2014_(Teacher_risks_dismissal_for_kids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_September_2014_%28Teacher_risks_dismissal_for_kids%29

content:
<p>
A Florida teacher is risking dismissal by 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/10/putting-job-risk-kindergarten-teacher-refuses-administer-standardized-test">refusing
to spend a week administering a standardized computerized test</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_September_2014_(Corporations_at_climate_summits)
title: Corporations at climate summits
uri: Corporations-at-climate-summits
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_September_2014_%28Corporations_at_climate_summits%29

content:
<p>
The UN has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/10/grassroots-groups-denounce-corporate-takeover-un-climate-summit">allowed
corporations' interests to pervade the climate summits</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_September_2014_(Illness_caused_by_fracking)
title: Illness caused by fracking
uri: Illness-caused-by-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_September_2014_%28Illness_caused_by_fracking%29
content:
<p>
In Pennsylvania, fracking causes illness in 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/10/research-shows-frightening-correlation-between-fracking-and-rates-illness">40%
of the households within 1km of a frackwell</a>.
<p>
Fracking 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_April_2014_(Fracking_emmissions_much_worse_than_predicted)">probably
contributes even more to global heating than coal</a>.  Fracking
should be banned, so that as we cut down coal mining, it is not
replaced by another fossil fuel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_September_2014_(Fijian_peacekeepers_released)
title: Fijian peacekeepers released
uri: Fijian-peacekeepers-released
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_September_2014_%28Fijian_peacekeepers_released%29

content:
<p>
Jabhat al-Nusra 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/jabhat-al-nusra-releases-hostages-fijian-syria">released
the 45 Fijian peacekeepers</a> that it took prisoner two weeks ago.
<p>
The job of these peacekeepers was to separate Syrian and Israeli
forces.  I think that no forces currently separate al-Nusra from the
Israeli border.


title: Urgent: Preserve food labeling law
uri: Urgent-Preserve-food-labeling-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_September_2014_(Urgent:_Preserve_food_labeling_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Preserve_food_labeling_law%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1605&autologin=true">call
on your senators</a> to preserve the US law requiring food to be
labeled by the country of origin.


title: UN's vote on stopping oppressive debt
uri: UN-s-vote-on-stopping-oppressive-debt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_September_2014_(UNs_vote_on_stopping_oppressive_debt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_September_2014_%28UNs_vote_on_stopping_oppressive_debt%29

content:
<p>
The UN General Assembly 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/10/un-bankruptcy-vote-could-stop-vulture-funds">voted
to start negotiations</a> on a treaty to allow states to get rid of
oppressive debt.
<p>
The US was among 10 countries that voted against.
Shame on you, Obama.


title: The courage that saved the ozone layer
uri: The-courage-that-saved-the-ozone-layer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_September_2014_(The_courage_that_saved_the_ozone_layer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_September_2014_%28The_courage_that_saved_the_ozone_layer%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/sep/11/stopping-climate-meltdown-needs-the-political-courage-that-saved-the-ozone-layer">Stopping
Climate Meltdown Needs the Courage That Saved the Ozone Layer</a>.
<p>
That means daring to tell powerful businesses to drop dead rather than
let them kill us.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_September_2014_(Ebola_intervention)
title: Ebola intervention
uri: Ebola-intervention
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_September_2014_%28Ebola_intervention%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/11/scientist-identified-ebola-quasi-military-intervention-peter-piot">Scientist
Who Identified Ebola Virus Calls for "Quasi-Military
Intervention"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_September_2014_(Expensive_UK_privatizations)
title: Expensive UK privatizations
uri: Expensive-UK-privatizations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_September_2014_%28Expensive_UK_privatizations%29
content:
<p>
The UK government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/11/poison-pill-probation-contracts-moj-serco-g4s">trying
to set up privatizations so that they are too expensive to cancel</a>.
<p>
They act like raiders who have taken control of the state and intend
to destroy as much as they can before they are chased out.
<p>
The just response would be to impose a 200% tax on those businesses,
or make it a crime to continue to exercise such a contract.


title: "School police" get armored vehicle
uri: School-police-get-armored-vehicle
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(School_police_get_armored_vehicle)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28School_police_get_armored_vehicle%29

content:
<p>
San Diego's "school police" has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/san-diego-school-police-mrap-armored-carrier">acquired
a mine-resistant armored vehicle</a>.  They must think students will
riot against whatever follows the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_August_2013_(Education_Standards)">Common
Core</a> and might turn to improvised explosive devices.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Citing_BP_for_gross_negligence)
title: Citing BP for "gross negligence"
uri: Citing-BP-for-gross-negligence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Citing_BP_for_gross_negligence%29

content:
<p>
Citing BP for "gross negligence" hardly did justice to the company's
<a href="http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=ada8fe3866&e=8283eff9b8">persistent
pattern of safety violations around the world</a>.


title: Key Points from Obama's Isis Speech
uri: Key-Points-from-Obama-s-Isis-Speech
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Key_points_from_Obamas_Isis_speech)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Key_points_from_Obamas_Isis_speech%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/obama-isis-speech-problems-key-points-mean">Seven
Key Points from Obama's Isis Speech And What They Actually Mean</a>.
<p>
I disagree with the article on the conclusion of the first point.  If
it's a question of fighting threats to the US, it does not follow that
the US should only fight the worst one.  But this is a side issue,
since it's relevant only if you believe that the most important thing
about ISIS is whether it threatens the US directly.
<p>
The second point's conclusion is simply wrong.  There is nothing
"preventive" about responding to a continuing armed attack.
<p>
However, the other five points are valid.


title: University of Sydney disinvites NGOs
uri: University-of-Sydney-disinvites-NGOs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(University_of_Sydney_disinvites_NGOs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28University_of_Sydney_disinvites_NGOs%29

content:
<p>
The University of Sydney 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/sydney-university-bows-to-request-from-sri-lankan-military-and-police">disinvited
two Sri Lankan NGOs from an international human rights event</a>,
caving to pressure from Sri Lanka's brutal government.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Dictatorship_in_Russia)
title: Dictatorship in Russia
uri: Dictatorship-in-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Dictatorship_in_Russia%29
content:
<p>
People have called Belarus "Europe's last dictatorship", but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/belarus-no-longer-europe-last-dictatorship">Russia
has more or less become equal to it</a>.
<p>
Regardless of what organizations it may join, Azerbaijan is not in
Europe.  It is in the Middle East.


title: NSA interception of mail packages
uri: NSA-interception-of-mail-packages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(NSA_interception_of_mail_packages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28NSA_interception_of_mail_packages%29

content:
<p>
It appears that the NSA 
<a href="http://www.storyleak.com/tor-developer-fears-nsa-interception-amazon-purchase/">intercepted
the Thinkpad keyboard that Andrea Shepard, a Tor developer in Seattle,
had ordered from Amazon</a>.  Presumably this was to sabotage it.  I
wonder if people have studied this keyboard to see what the NSA
changed.
<p>
If you are any sort of activist, don't order a computer by mail
yourself.  Have a friend order it, after discussing the plan in person
with no mobile phones around.


title: Divest from fossil fuel companies
uri: 2014-09-14-Divest-from-fossil-fuel-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Divest_from_fossil_fuel_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Divest_from_fossil_fuel_companies%29

content:
<p>
Almost 250 teachers at Boston University
have <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/11/wake-call-sounded-climate-university-faculty-launch-largest-divestment-effort-date">called
on the university to divest from fossil fuel companies</a>.
<p>
It is clear that conservation measures <em>in Boston University
itself</em> will have only a tiny influence on world fossil fuel
consumption.  In a market system, if A decides not to buy some
commodity, the price goes down and B or C buys more.  We need to
change the parameters of the system itself.
<p>
The direct financial effect of divestment <em>by Boston University
alone</em> would also be small, but this approach has a better chance
to turn into a movement by many universities, and that could intern
influence policies to change the parameters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Apple_redesigning_iThings)
title: Apple redesigning iThings
uri: Apple-redesigning-iThings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Apple_redesigning_iThings%29
content:
<p>
Apple is redesigning iThings to help companies communicate users'
personal data from one to another,
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2014/sep/11/apple-ios8-iphone6-iwatch-brands">enable
them to manipulate users better</a>.  This page shows the perverse
viewpoint of someone who is on the companies' side and presents this
malice as an advance.
<p>
They are also now designed
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/oliver-burkeman-column/2014/sep/11/apple-pay-bank-account-iphone-payment-technology">make
it harder for victims to keep control of their budgets</a>.
<p>
It is a truism that "if you don't pay, you're the product."  But now
we see that, with proprietary software, you are often the product even
if you do pay.


title: Urgent: Remove Koch brother from WGBH board
uri: 2014-09-14-Urgent-Remove-Koch-brother-from-WGBH-board
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Urgent:_Remove_Koch_brother_from_WGBH_board)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_Koch_brother_from_WGBH_board%29

content:
<p>
In Boston: rally at 3pm on Oct 1, at WGBH headquarters (1 Guest St),
to <a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/survey/Koch_wgbh_rsvp_survey14">remove
a Koch brother from the WGBH board</a>.


title: Constitutional limits on imprisonment of asylum seekers
uri: Constitutional-limits-on-imprisonment-of-asylum-seekers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Constitutional_limits_on_imprisonment_of_asylum_seekers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Constitutional_limits_on_imprisonment_of_asylum_seekers%29

content:
<p>
Australia's supreme court
placed <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/11/high-court-verdict-spells-the-end-for-australian-immigration-detention-as-we-know-it">constitutional
limits on imprisonment of asylum seekers</a>.


title: Criminal Investigations into Gaza Attacks
uri: Criminal-Investigations-into-Gaza-Attacks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Criminal_Investigations_into_Gaza_Attacks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Criminal_Investigations_into_Gaza_Attacks%29

content:
<p>
Israeli Military
Orders <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/israeli-military-criminal-investigations-gaza-attacks">Criminal
Investigations into Gaza Attacks</a>.
<p>
This is a promising development if they do an honest job, but I fear
its purpose is only to deflect criticism.


title: Reducing US greenhouse gas emissions
uri: Reducing-US-greenhouse-gas-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Reducing_US_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Reducing_US_greenhouse_gas_emissions%29

content:
<p>
Presenting a feasible program of investment
to <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/robert-pollin-build-green-economy">reduce
US greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030</a>.
<p>
It's doable, but the fossil fuel companies don't want it to be done.
They intend to to force us to stay on track to global catastrophe.


title: Russia sent another convoy of "humanitarian aid"
uri: Russia-sent-another-convoy-of-humanitarian-aid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Russia_sent_another_convoy_of_humanitarian_aid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Russia_sent_another_convoy_of_humanitarian_aid%29

content:
<p>
Russia
sent <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/13/vladimir-putin-wants-destroy-ukraine-says-arseny-yetseniuk">another
convoy of "humanitarian aid" into Ukraine</a> without Red Cross
inspection.
<p>
I am sure they are carrying ammunition.  If not, Putin would have had
the Red Cross inspect them so he could refute such accusations.


title: Russian military vehicle spotted in Ukraine
uri: Russian-military-vehicle-spotted-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Russian_military_vehicle_spotted_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Russian_military_vehicle_spotted_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
A Russian military vehicle
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/armoured-russian-vehicle-inside-ukraine">spotted
in Ukraine</a>.  The soldiers running it said they were Russian
mercenaries.  Then they repainted it to disguise its origin.


title: Global heating effects threaten agriculture
uri: Global-heating-effects-threaten-agriculture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Global_heating_effects_threaten_agriculture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Global_heating_effects_threaten_agriculture%29

content:
<p>
Global heating effects threaten agriculture, and the more diverse
agriculture is, the better it can withstand those effects.  Big
agribusiness monoculture
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/11/safety-diversity-adapting-unpredictable-climate-change">driving
agriculture in the wrong direction</a>.


title: Turkey has increased internet censorship
uri: Turkey-has-increased-internet-censorship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_September_2014_(Turkey_has_increased_internet_censorship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_%28Turkey_has_increased_internet_censorship%29

content:
<p>
Turkey
has <a href="http://www.euronews.com/2014/09/12/turkish-president-erdogan-tightens-grip-on-internet/">increased
internet censorship</a>.
<p>
Internet censorship was one of the early signs that Erdogan was going
to attack human rights in Turkey.


title: Urgent: Authorization for expanding war in Iraq or Syria
uri: Urgent-Authorization-for-expanding-war-in-Iraq-or-Syria
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Urgent:_Authorization_for_expanding_war_in_Iraq_or_Syria)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Authorization_for_expanding_war_in_Iraq_or_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/dont-rush-into-endless?source=c.url&r_by=1135580">get
authorization for expanding war in Iraq or Syria</a>.
<p>
For <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/opinion/obamas-betrayal-of-the-constitution.html">background</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Obama's_plans_for_war_with_ISIS)
title: Obama's plans for war with ISIS
uri: Obama-s-plans-for-war-with-ISIS
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Obama%27s_plans_for_war_with_ISIS%29

content:
<p>
Obama's plans for war with
ISIS <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/isis-offensive-obama-faith-unproven-allies">depend
on allies that have not shown an ability to do what is required</a>.
<p>
I think the article underestimates the peshmerga.  They had to retreat
when ISIS attacked with its captured US heavy weapons and armored
vehicles, but were able to advance with US air support.  So were the
Shi'ite Iraqi militias.  The problem with them is that strengthening
them pushes Iraqi Sunnis to support ISIS.


title: Australia's ancient rock art threatened
uri: Australia-s-ancient-rock-art-threatened
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Australia's_ancient_rock_art_threatened)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Australia%27s_ancient_rock_art_threatened%29

content:
<p>
Australia's ancient rock art
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/13/-sp-race-to-protect-australia-rock-art">threatened
by miners, tourists and animals</a>.


title: Boko Haram suffered a big defeat
uri: Boko-Haram-suffered-a-big-defeat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Boko_Haram_suffered_a_big_defeat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Boko_Haram_suffered_a_big_defeat%29

content:
<p>
Boko
Haram <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/13/boko-haram-commander-reportedly-killed-in-clash-with-nigerian-forces">suffered
a big defeat in a pitched battle in Nigeria</a>.
<p>
One such defeat won't destroy the group, but could inspire the Nigerian
army to fight harder from now on, if the government gives this
priority.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(New_Jersey_prosecuter_McClain)
title: New Jersey prosecutor McClain
uri: New-Jersey-prosecuter-McClain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28New_Jersey_prosecuter_McClain%29

content:
<p>
New Jersey prosecutor McClain went easy on a football player that
knocked his fiancée unconscious,
but <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=4730">threw the
book at a women for carrying a gun with a permit from
Pennsylvania</a>.
<p>
To carry a gun for protection against future robberies is not
necessarily a wise
idea; <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#27_March_2013_%28Guns_and_aggression%29">it
may cause more danger than it avoids</a>. That's an unrelated issue
and has no effect on this one, but I shouldn't mention the idea of
getting a gun for self-protection without mentioning these doubts
also.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Advertising_on_NPR)
title: Advertising on NPR
uri: Advertising-on-NPR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Advertising_on_NPR%29
content:
<p>
The new CEO of National Public Radio intends to get more money from
advertising
by <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/09/08/new-npr-boss-were-going-to-be-talking-about-brands-that-matter-a-little-bit-more/">advertising
more attractive products</a>.
<p>
I used to give money to a local NPR station, but I stopped when I
noticed that the shows had started to include commercials.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Urgent:_Encryption_standards)
title: Urgent: Encryption standards
uri: Urgent-Encryption-standards
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Encryption_standards%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to remove the requirement for
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/nsa_backdoor">NIST
to consult the NSA specially about encryption standards</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Republican_filibuster)
title: Republican filibuster
uri: Republican-filibuster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Republican_filibuster%29
content:
<p>
A Republican filibuster killed the constitutional amendment
to <a href="http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2014/0911/Is-money-still-speech-Yes-as-constitutional-amendment-bid-fails-in-Senate">stop
companies from buying elections for Republicans</a>.


title: Universities' choice of professors
uri: Universities-choice-of-professors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Universities'_choice_of_professors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Universities%27_choice_of_professors%29

content:
<p>
The Koch brothers are trying
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/koch-brothers-sought-say-academic-hiring-university-donation">buy
control over universities' choice of professors, for political
purposes</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(China_rents_pandas_to_zoos)
title: China rents pandas to zoos
uri: China-rents-pandas-to-zoos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28China_rents_pandas_to_zoos%29
content:
<p>
China rents pandas to zoos for a lot of money as part of a general
system
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/13/edinburgh-zoo-pandas-tian-tian-china-pandanomics-birth-cub">pressuring
countries for trade advantage</a>.  Meanwhile, the habitat for wild
pandas is being wiped out.


title: Being scared of partner not "normal"
uri: Being-scared-of-partner-not-normal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_September_2014_(Being_scared_of_partner_not_normal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_September_2014_%28Being_scared_of_partner_not_normal%29

content:
<p>
A relationship where the woman says she is scared of the man 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/12/oscar-pistorius-reeva-steenkamp-murder-normal-relationship">should
not be considered "normal"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_September_2014_(Gun_control_activist_threatened)
title: Gun control activist threatened
uri: Gun-control-activist-threatened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_September_2014_%28Gun_control_activist_threatened%29

content:
<p>
The leader of a gun control protest in Chicago is receiving 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/chicago-priest-receives-death-threats-gun-control-rally-outside-store">death
threats from US gun nuts, who call him a "terrorist"</a>.
<p>
He isn't one, but they and their threats are coming pretty close.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_September_2014_(Campaigns_of_false_criticism)
title: Campaigns of false criticism
uri: Campaigns-of-false-criticism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_September_2014_%28Campaigns_of_false_criticism%29

content:
<p>
Zoe Quinn is the victim of a campaign of false criticism that was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/12/zoe-quinn-gamergate-online-hate-mobs-depression-quest">organized
dishonestly from the beginning by people that wanted to do her
harm</a>.
<p>
You can see something similar though smaller in the attacks against me
that are posted in some forums.  They not only make strained
criticism, they also misrepresent the free software movement
drastically (as you can see for yourself by comparing their statements
with gnu.org).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_September_2014_(War)
title: War
uri: 2014-09-15-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_September_2014_%28War%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2014/sep/12/this-third-world-war-this-time-we-on-fringes">This
Is the Third World War — And This Time We Are on the
Fringes</a>.
<p>
I think there is some truth in this, but it's not entirely true.
Conflict between Shi'ites and Sunnis, like conflict between Catholics
and Orthodox and Muslims in the former Yugoslavia, is not inevitable.
It is stimulated or provoked by political parties that expect
short-term gain, and many of them could theoretically be convinced to
stop.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_September_2014_(Deforestation)
title: Deforestation
uri: Deforestation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_September_2014_%28Deforestation%29
content:
<p>
Most deforestation on Earth is done commercially, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/11/tropical-forests-illegally-destroyed-commercial-agriculture">half
of it is done to get products to sell to the wealthy countries</a>.
<p>
Deforestation in the Amazon 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/11/amazon-deforestation-jumps">jumped
by almost 1/3 last year</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Bombing_ISIS)
title: "Bombing" ISIS
uri: Bombing-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Bombing_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/12/obama-picking-targets-iraq-and-syria-while-missing-point">Obama
Is Picking Targets in Iraq and Syria While Missing the Point</a>.
<p>
US officials have big 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/world/middleeast/struggling-to-gauge-isis-threat-even-as-us-prepares-to-act.html">disagreements
about how dangerous ISIS is</a>, and whether bombing will hurt it or
help it.
<p>
The question is confused because the term "bombing" fails to
distinguish between air strikes on troops engaged in battle and drone
assassinations, but this distinction is crucial.  Tactical air support
focuses on heavy weapons and military vehicles, and it is easy to
distinguish them from civilians.  People don't have heavy weapons or
HUMVs at home, even in Iraq.  Thus, air support causes few civilian
casualties, and those few, when they occur, are understandable.
<p>
By contrast, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#5_April_2013_(US_Drones)">drone
assassinations often kill civilians in their homes and cars</a>; in
Pakistan and Yemen, those casualties, coming literally and
figuratively out of the blue, have inspired understandable lasting
hatred against the US.
<p>
For the moment, the US campaign against ISIS is mostly air support for
the armies fighting ISIS.  I'm in favor of providing such support.  We
see already that it is effective: it has prevented ISIS from
conquering thousands of people and likely butchering them wholesale.
It has also resulted in rather easy recapture of substantial
territory, a vital dam, and some towns.  As long as ISIS maintains
armies fighting in the field, fighting them this way will be effective
for the same reasons.
<p>
But Obama's speech shows he envisions continuing the fighting into a
drone assassination campaign.  A proper debate must treat those as two
separate issues.
<p>
A drone assassination campaign in Iraq would be self-defeating as well
as unjustifiable.  Iraqi Sunnis would form ranks behind ISIS in
response to the civilian casualties, producing a stalemate of
suffering like that in Yemen.  Such a stalemate never leads to
victory; each day, the US would face the choice to terminate it and
lose, or continue it and cause additional pointless suffering to
preserve the status quo.
<p>
When Congress debates fighting ISIS, as is its duty, it must
distinguish these two forms of fighting.  If I were a member of
Congress, I would vote for air support on the battlefield, for as long
as ISIS keeps fighting on battlefields, but insist on prohibiting
assassination campaigns.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(New_model_of_trade_negotiations)
title: New model of "trade" negotiations
uri: New-model-of-trade-negotiations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28New_model_of_trade_negotiations%29

content:
<p>
NGOs call on Congress to adopt a new model of "trade" negotiations, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/11/broad-coalition-calls-new-model-trade">with
goals to be stated in advance</a>.
<p>
Given a Congress not subservient to business, this new system
could give good results — but our current Congress is
too submissive to adopt it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(The_Need_For_Solidarity)
title: The Need For Solidarity
uri: The-Need-For-Solidarity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28The_Need_For_Solidarity%29
content:
<p>
The US suffers from a 
<a href="http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/solidarity.html">lack
of feelings and activities of general solidarity</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Taliban_advancing)
title: Taliban advancing
uri: Taliban-advancing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Taliban_advancing%29
content:
<p>
The Taliban are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/13/taliban-advance-sangin-helmand-afghanistan">advancing
in parts of Afghanistan</a>.
<p>
It's sad, but predictable.  The Afghan government's army doesn't have
the motivation needed to resist the Taliban.  Afghans who oppose the
Taliban aren't motivated to fight as much as the Taliban are motivated
to fight.
<p>
We could continue to keep the Taliban out with permanent US
intervention.  We could do that for as long as the US has resources to
do it, which won't be forever (in a few decades, global heating will
be causing disaster in the US).  But permanent victory against the
Taliban 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-mar-jun.html#5%20June%202010%20(Kudos%20all%20round)">depends
on Afghans</a>.  We could continue war there until we go broke, but at
the end the Taliban would come back unless Afghans opposed to the
Taliban.


title: Canada subjugated to Chinese investors
uri: Canada-subjugated-to-Chinese-investors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Canada_subjugated_to_Chinese_investors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Canada_subjugated_to_Chinese_investors%29

content:
<p>
Canada's government has, in effect, subjugated Canada to Chinese
investors (including the Chinese state) by 
<a href="http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/harper-oks-potentially-unconstitutional-china-canada-fipa-deal-coming-force-october-1">allowing
them to sue secretly to demand changes in Canadian government
policies</a>.
<p>
This includes extremely dangerous pipeline plans.
<p>
To subject one's country to such a treaty constitutes treason, in my
view.  A new Canadian government should abrogate the treaty.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(US_media_on_pension_cuts)
title: US media on pension cuts
uri: US-media-on-pension-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28US_media_on_pension_cuts%29
content:
<p>
The mainstream US media 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/09/12/cutting-pensions-and-responsible-politics/">describe
cutting workers' pensions as "responsible"</a>.  If the government is
forced to break promises, break promises to the rich before promises
to the non-rich.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Video_of_witnesses_in_Ferguson)
title: Video of witnesses in Ferguson
uri: Video-of-witnesses-in-Ferguson
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Video_of_witnesses_in_Ferguson%29

content:
<p>
Witnesses recorded immediately after Michael Brown was shot dead said
that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/13/ferguson-video-shows-michael-brown-hands-raised">he
had his hands up</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_September_2014_(Just-in-time_work_schedule)
title: "Just-in-time" work schedule
uri: Just-in-time-work-schedule
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Just-in-time_work_schedule%29
content:
<p>
"Just-in-time" scheduling of hourly workers means that their part-time
job rules them every hour of the week, although they 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26120-workers-are-constantly-on-the-edge-of-the-knife">only
get paid for a fraction of those hours</a>.
<p>
I think that businesses should be required to pay half wages for every
hour that an hourly worker is on call to work with less than a week's
notice.


title: Urgent: Oppose arming Syrian rebels
uri: Urgent-Oppose-arming-Syrian-rebels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_arming_Syrian_rebels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_arming_Syrian_rebels%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/votevets/sign/arming-the-syrian-rebels">this
petition</a> not to arm the Syrian rebels.


title: Urgent: Debate the war against ISIS
uri: Urgent-Debate-the-war-against-ISIS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Urgent:_Debate_the_war_against_ISIS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Debate_the_war_against_ISIS%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/vote_on_isis_plan/">call
on Congress</a> to debate the war against ISIS.
<p>
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/dont-rush-into-endless">Call
on Obama</a> to seek authorization for this war.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(FCC_receives_3_million_comments)
title: FCC receives 3 million comments
uri: FCC-receives-3-million-comments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28FCC_receives_3_million_comments%29

content:
<p>
The FCC received 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/15/fcc-receives-record-3m-comments-net-neutrality">3
million comments about network neutrality</a>.


title: Frack wells contaminate drinking water
uri: Frack-wells-contaminate-drinking-water
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Frack_wells_contaminate_drinking_water)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Frack_wells_contaminate_drinking_water%29

content:
<p>
Fracking's contamination of drinking water in Texas and Pennsylvania
was due to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/15/drinking-water-contaminated-by-shale-gas-boom-in-texas-and-pennslyvania-study">leaky
cement in frack wells</a>, a study finds.


title: An end to rain in part of Brazil
uri: An-end-to-rain-in-part-of-Brazil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(An_end_to_rain_in_part_of_Brazil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28An_end_to_rain_in_part_of_Brazil%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/15/drought-bites-as-amazons-flying-rivers-dry-up">Deforestation
and global heating</a> have put an end to rain in part of Brazil.


title: Librarians campaigning to protect users
uri: Librarians-campaigning-to-protect-users
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Librarians_campaigning_to_protect_users)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Librarians_campaigning_to_protect_users%29

content:
<p>
Some librarians are campaigning to 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html">protect
library users from massive digital surveillance</a>.


title: Press access to Canadian scientist denied
uri: Press-access-to-Canadian-scientist-denied
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Press_access_to_Canadian_scientist_denied)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Press_access_to_Canadian_scientist_denied%29

content:
<p>
A newspaper requested an interview with a Canadian scientist about
algae.  Government officials had a discussion of 
<a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/1234766-request-to-interview-federal-scientist-sparks-110-pages-of-government-emails">100
pages</a> before they refused permission for him to talk to the press.
<p>
This is because the facts about the algae demonstrate effects of
global heating, while the Canadian government wants to promote use of
fossil fuel.


title: Rich French people dodging taxes
uri: Rich-French-people-dodging-taxes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Rich_French_people_dodging_taxes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Rich_French_people_dodging_taxes%29

content:
<p>
Thousands of rich French people are dodging taxes by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/14/french-rich-belgium-holdings-tax">moving
their money to Belgium</a>.
<p>
France needs to tax these people no matter where they go.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(How_LA_thugs_see_black_people)
title: How LA thugs see black people
uri: How-LA-thugs-see-black-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28How_LA_thugs_see_black_people%29

content:
<p>
LA thugs saw a black woman kiss a white man in a car, and handcuffed
her, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/14/django-unchained-actor-alleges-racial-bias-arrest-los-angeles">making
the assumption based on that alone that she was a prostitute</a>.
They do this every day, but this time they were embarrassed because
she was a film star.
<p>
Real prostitutes don't deserve to be treated that way either, so
jumping to the conclusion because of her race makes it two wrongs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Biometric_ID_cards)
title: Biometric ID cards
uri: Biometric-ID-cards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Biometric_ID_cards%29
content:
<p>
Nigeria is imposing biometric ID cards that include fingerprints and
iris scans.
<a href="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/09/03/nigeria_s_orwellian_biometric_id_is_brought_to_you_by_mastercard">
And share all the data with Mastercard.</a>
<p>
National ID cards such as this are inherently oppressive.
Nigeria faces a big terrorist threat, but these
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jan-apr.html#14%20February%202007%20%28Real%20ID%20plan%29">
cards will do no good</a>
whatsoever against it.


title: Airport expansions in London area
uri: Airport-expansions-in-London-area
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Airport_expansions_in_London_area)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Airport_expansions_in_London_area%29

content:
<p>
British politicians 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/14/guardian-view-unchanging-message-climate-scientists">distract
attention from the need to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions</a> by
debating where to expand airports in the London area.
<p>
At least the estuary airport would be self-limiting, since global
heating will eventually make it unserviceable.


title: UK eager to surrender sovereignty
uri: UK-eager-to-surrender-sovereignty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(UK_eager_to_surrender_sovereignty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28UK_eager_to_surrender_sovereignty%29

content:
<p>
The UK's right-wing parties talk about recovering sovereignty from the
EU, but they are eager to surrender sovereignty to businesses through
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/14/ttip-deal-british-sovereignty-cameron-ukip-treaty">TTIP
(This Treaty Is Plutocratic)</a>.


title: Uruguayan marine faces charges in Italy
uri: Uruguayan-marine-faces-charges-in-Italy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Uruguayan_marine_faces_charges_in_Italy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Uruguayan_marine_faces_charges_in_Italy%29

content:
<p>
An Uruguayan marine who snuck out to Italy when investigated for
participation in government torture now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/14/uruguayan-naval-officer-alleged-torture-italy">faces
charges in Italy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Firing_people_for_being_gay)
title: Firing people for being gay
uri: Firing-people-for-being-gay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Firing_people_for_being_gay%29
content:
<p>
A Republican congresscritter 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/08/1328117/-GOP-congressman-calls-firing-gay-people-one-of-the-freedoms-we-enjoy">champions
the right to fire people for being gay</a>.


title: Urgent: UN control of fuel rod removal
uri: Urgent-UN-control-of-fuel-rod-removal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Urgent:_UN_control_of_fuel_rod_removal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_UN_control_of_fuel_rod_removal%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: sign 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/the-world-community-must">this
petition</a> for the UN to take control of the removal of fuel rods
from the fuel pool at Fukushima #4.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Whaling)
title: Whaling
uri: Whaling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Whaling%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/15/japans-whaling-has-produced-more-sushi-than-science">Scientists
Don't Need to Kill Whales to Study Them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Plastic_in_the_sea)
title: Plastic in the sea
uri: Plastic-in-the-sea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Plastic_in_the_sea%29
content:
<p>
Sea animals near Australia are eating plastic, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/15/plastic-rubbish-from-land-not-ships-killing-australian-sea-life-scientists">3/4
of which comes from waste from cities</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Israeli_military_intelligence)
title: Israeli military intelligence
uri: Israeli-military-intelligence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Israeli_military_intelligence%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli military intelligence reservists who revealed that their
work included blackmailing innocent Palestinians have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/15/israeli-refuseniks-are-criminals-defence-minister">condemned</a>
for puncturing the claim that Israel's army is "the most moral in the
world".
<p>
Those reservists believe their army is really supposed to be
the world's most moral.  That's why they are disgusted with what
it really is.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Militarization_of_thug_forces)
title: Militarization of thug forces
uri: Militarization-of-thug-forces
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Militarization_of_thug_forces%29

content:
<p>
Militarization of thug forces implies that they are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/19/story-power-country-ferguson-institutionalized-racism-and-militarization-police">
occupying enemy
territory</a>, but who in the US is the enemy?  Blacks, principally.  This
article makes the connection between militarization and racism.
<p>
The article also explains that the occupation of Ferguson puts on
display the weapons and armor that most often are used to attack
private homes, unseen by anyone except the people who live there.
<p>
Although non-blacks are not inherently part of the enemy, anyone such
as a protester or journalist whose actions support the enemy
is treated as one of them.


title: Urgent: Put a price on carbon emissions
uri: Urgent-Put-a-price-on-carbon-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Urgent:_Put_a_price_on_carbon_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Put_a_price_on_carbon_emissions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://act.pricingcarbon.org/petition">this petition</a> to
put a price on carbon emissions.


title: Urgent: Disclose fracking chemicals
uri: Urgent-Disclose-fracking-chemicals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Urgent:_Disclose_fracking_chemicals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Disclose_fracking_chemicals%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12581">this
petition</a> to require disclosure of fracking chemicals.


title: Urgent: Abortions in Pennsylvania
uri: Urgent-Abortions-in-Pennsylvania
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Urgent:_Abortions_in_Pennsylvania)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Abortions_in_Pennsylvania%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/get-involved/actions/pa-legislature.html">call
on the Pennsylvania legislature</a> to stop impeding abortion.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(NSAs_penetration_in_Germany)
title: NSA's penetration in Germany
uri: NSA-s-penetration-in-Germany
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28NSAs_penetration_in_Germany%29
content:
<p>
Information provided by Edward Snowden proves that the NSA has
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=4792">penetrated
national and international networks</a> operated by German companies
in ways that they cannot figure out.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Global_heating_and_plutocracy)
title: Global heating and plutocracy
uri: Global-heating-and-plutocracy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Global_heating_and_plutocracy%29

content:
<p>
Naomi Klein 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/14/naomi-klein-interview-capitalism-vs-the-climate">connects
global heating to the plutocratic system</a> that has subjugated
democracy.
<p>
Klein is right that reducing your personal energy consumption is not
an effective action.  Under a market system, the fossil fuel you don't
use will be sold to someone else.  The way to reduce the total use of
fossil fuel is by macro-policies such as placing more tax on such use.
<p>
The let's-win-over-the-billionaires environmentalism that Klein shows
is ineffective is the climate analogue of "open source," which says,
"Let's win over the businesses by not saying things they wouldn't
like."
They got a lot of
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">
shallow success</a>, but it didn't have deep roots.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Endangered_sharks)
title: Endangered sharks
uri: Endangered-sharks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Endangered_sharks%29
content:
<p>
Shark meat is popular in Indonesia, and tuna fishers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/the-coral-triangle/2014/sep/15/how-the-tuna-we-buy-is-killing-sharks-in-indonesia">catch
and sell lots of endangered sharks as "by catch"</a>.


title: Yangtze river sturgeon going extinct
uri: Yangtze-river-sturgeon-going-extinct
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Yangtze_river_sturgeon_going_extinct)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Yangtze_river_sturgeon_going_extinct%29

content:
<p>
The Yangtze river sturgeon is following the Yangtze river dolphin 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/15/wild-chinese-sturgeon-on-brink-of-extinction-in-polluted-yangtze">into
extinction</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(UK_prison_budget_cuts)
title: UK prison budget cuts
uri: UK-prison-budget-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28UK_prison_budget_cuts%29
content:
<p>
In the UK, prisoners 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/15/prison-suicides-tory-crime">regularly
die or commit suicide as a result of prison budget cuts</a>.  They see
no point in reporting when they are raped.
<p>
There are no funds for rehabilitation, which puts a burden on the rest
of society when they get out.


title: Massive surveillance in New Zealand
uri: Massive-surveillance-in-New-Zealand
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Massive_surveillance_in_New_Zealand)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Massive_surveillance_in_New_Zealand%29

content:
<p>
The Prime Minister of New Zealand says that there is no massive
surveillance there.  Edward Snowden 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=4849">proves he is
lying</a>.
<p>
This was implemented in 2012/2013, under a law that was 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=4767">misrepresented as
having a much smaller effect</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(California_drought)
title: California drought
uri: 2014-09-17-California-drought
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28California_drought%29
content:
<p>
The almond farms of California are rapidly 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/14/alarm-almond-farmers-drain-california-dry">exhausting
the state's ground water</a>.
<p>
Global heating will make droughts in California more frequent.  For
the short term, the state needs to manage its water rather than allow
farmers to pump it at will.
<p>
For the long term…there won't be much farming in California, by
and by, unless we curb global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Unschoolers)
title: Unschoolers
uri: Unschoolers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Unschoolers%29
content:
<p>
A study of unschoolers — people who were allowed as children to
learn on their own for some years — shows that they
<a href="http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/09/how-do-unschoolers-turn-out/">turned
out quite well as adults</a>.  They had no trouble getting into
college or being successful there.
<p>
I suspect that one of the conditions for this to be successful was
that the children did not feel the threat of poverty and were not
surrounded by despair.  It might not work for most children of the
non-rich in the US today.


title: China harassing foreign journalists
uri: China-harassing-foreign-journalists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(China_harassing_foreign_journalists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28China_harassing_foreign_journalists%29

content:
<p>
China is 
<a href="http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/foreign-journalists-in-china-see-decline-in-reporting-conditions/">systematically
harassing and excluding foreign journalists</a>, and pressuring their
Chinese assistants to spy on them.
<p>
The US is not blemish-free in this area: it 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-may-aug.html#17%20June%202004%20(Elena%20Lappin)">requires
foreign journalists to get a special visa</a>.  The US should repeal
this law so that it can effectively criticize other countries.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(The_right_to_offend_people)
title: The right to offend people
uri: The-right-to-offend-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28The_right_to_offend_people%29
content:
<p>
A teenager in Pennsylvania 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/09/pennsylvania-teenager-hump-oral-sex-jesus-statue-prison">faces
two years in prison for faking oral sex with a statue of Jesus</a>.
<p>
This law should certainly be unconstitutional.  The right to offend
people is part of freedom of speech.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Ransoming_hostages)
title: Ransoming hostages
uri: Ransoming-hostages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Ransoming_hostages%29
content:
<p>
The relatives of James Foley report that US officials told them that
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/government-threatened-foley-family-ransom-payments-mother-slain/story?id=25453963&singlePage=true">paying
a ransom for him would be a crime</a>.
<p>
This policy is just and necessary to avoid encouraging the taking of
more hostages.  Foley's relatives, mad with grief, would have saved
Foley by endangering others; the officials prevented this.  It's not
that they didn't understand what it's like to be a relative of a
hostage.  Rather, it's that they recognized their duty was not solely
to that family.  I only wish President Reagan could have been
prosecuted for ransoming hostages from terrorists.
<p>
The one doubt that occurs to me is whether ransoming hostages might
encourage terrorism <em>less</em> than letting them be used in the
snuff videos that are effective propaganda for ISIS.  The current
policy was not chosen for a situation like this, which nobody
envisioned.
<p>
Meanwhile, it is foolish to criticize the US government for not
rescuing Foley.  I'm sure the Pentagon was looking for a chance to
rescue these hostages, but that is much easier said than done.
Many attempts to rescue hostages have ended up killing them
instead.
<p>
There are plenty of reasons to criticize US foreign policy, but we
shouldn't endorse every criticism just because the US is its target.


title: More hunger as agribusiness grows
uri: More-hunger-as-agribusiness-grows
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(More_hunger_as_agribusiness_grows)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28More_hunger_as_agribusiness_grows%29

content:
<p>
The concentration of agribusiness has resulted in 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/09/we-must-degrow-corporate-food-regime-food-sovereignty-advocate">record
production</a> while hunger continues to grow.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Asylum-seekers_in_Australia)
title: Asylum-seekers in Australia
uri: 2014-09-17-Asylum-seekers-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Asylum-seekers_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Asylum-seekers in Australia are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/-sp-ariak-life-in-annexe-six-months-in-solitary-in-immigration-detention">treated
worse than the inmates of asylums</a>; they can be put in solitary
confinement for long periods.
<p>
I hope the recent 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_September_2014_(Constitutional_limits_on_imprisonment_of_asylum_seekers)">supreme
court decision</a> puts an end to this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(National_ID_cards)
title: National ID cards
uri: National-ID-cards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28National_ID_cards%29
content:
<p>
The Modi government expressed doubts about mandatory ID cards, before
the election.  Now in power it 
<a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/public-sector/3571617/indias-biometric-id-project-is-back-on-track/">strongly
supports the imposition of ID cards</a>.
<p>
Requiring a national ID card is an 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jan-apr.html#14%20February%202007%20(Real%20ID%20plan)">injustice
in itself</a>; taking everyone's fingerprints or iris scans is an even
worse injustice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_September_2014_(Republicans_United)
title: Republicans United
uri: Republicans-United
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_%28Republicans_United%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/12/senate-kills-citizens-united-reform">Not
one Republican</a> voted for the amendment to reverse the "Citizens
United" decision.


title: Teenagers doing less harmful things
uri: Teenagers-doing-less-harmful-things
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Teenagers_doing_less_harmful_things)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Teenagers_doing_less_harmful_things%29

content:
<p>
Teenagers in many countries
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/teenage-kicks-young-people-future-teacher-generation-sensible">drinking
less, using drugs less, even getting pregnant less</a>.  Perhaps
that's because they expect to be punished all their lives if they do
those things, and expect the adult world to be one that condemns all
but a small fraction winners to hopeless poverty.
<p>
It's good that teenagers do less of these harmful things, but not good
at all that plutocracy has made adult life so hard.


title: Curbing global heating without harming economic growth
uri: Curbing-global-heating-without-harming-economic-growth
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Curbing_global_heating_without_harming_economic_growth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Curbing_global_heating_without_harming_economic_growth%29

content:
<p>
The New Climate Economy report claims it
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/16/7-things-we-learned-from-lord-sterns-new-climate-economy-report">possible
to curb global heating without harming economic growth</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Urgent:_Support_H.Con.Res.114)
title: Urgent: Support H.Con.Res.114
uri: Urgent-Support-H-Con-Res-114
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_H.Con.Res.114%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter
to <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/syria-iraq-call-in">support
H.Con.Res.114</a>, which says that any sustained US combat in Iraq or
Syria requires congressional authorization.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Medical_marijuana)
title: Medical marijuana
uri: Medical-marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Medical_marijuana%29
content:
<p>
An Australian state
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/medical-marijuana-closer-legal-nsw">moving
to legalize medical marijuana but only for people who are dying</a>.
<p>
The people who need this most are the ones that might be saved by
chemotherapy if they can stand the suffering it causes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Forest_fires)
title: Forest fires
uri: Forest-fires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Forest_fires%29
content:
<p>
Indonesia has agreed to do more
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/16/indonesia-forest-fire-pollution-haze-singapore-palm-oil">stop
the forest fires that people set for the purpose of deforestation</a>.
<p>
Indonesia should make it illegal to farm land that was forest less
than 10 years ago, use satellite photos to identify such farms, and
destroy them so that the forest can come back.


title: Giganews logging accesses to newsgroups for FBI
uri: Giganews-logging-accesses-to-newsgroups-for-FBI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Giganews_logging_accesses_to_newsgroups_for_FBI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Giganews_logging_accesses_to_newsgroups_for_FBI%29

content:
<p>
An insider accuses Giganews
of <a href="http://cryptome.org/2014/09/giganews-fbi.htm">logging all
accesses to newsgroups for the FBI</a>.


title: US must stop claiming that the law is secret
uri: US-must-stop-claiming-that-the-law-is-secret
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(US_must_stop_claiming_that_the_law_is_secret)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28US_must_stop_claiming_that_the_law_is_secret%29

content:
<p>
To comply with the principles of human rights,
the <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/secret-law-not-law">US
must stop claiming that the law is secret</a>.  Secret "law" is really
arbitrary rule.
<p>
The "13 Necessary and Proportionate Principles" that the EFF advocates
may be necessary and proportionate, but they are not sufficient to
achieve their goal: to protect society from massive total
surveillance.  They were designed for a different context, before
Snowden showed us how far surveillance really goes even in "free"
countries; then they were transferred to this issue without rethinking
them.
<p>
What we really need is
to <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">redesign
digital systems so they don't surveil and track people</a>.


title: Former guard at Auschwitz charged
uri: Former-guard-at-Auschwitz-charged
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Former_guard_at_Auschwitz_charged)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Former_guard_at_Auschwitz_charged%29

content:
<p>
A former guard at Auschwitz has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/auschwitz-guard-charged-with-being-accessory-to-300000-murders">charged
as an accessory to 300,000 murders</a>.
<p>
It turns out that this guard
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/case-oskar-groning-auschwitz-highlight-german-judiciary-holocaust-problem">campaigned
against holocaust deniers</a>.


title: Hagel proposes sending US troops into combat in Iraq
uri: Hagel-proposes-sending-US-troops-into-combat-in-Iraq
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Hagel_proposes_sending_US_troops_into_combat_in_Iraq)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Hagel_proposes_sending_US_troops_into_combat_in_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
"Defense" secretary Hagel proposes sending US troops into combat in
Iraq <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/us-war-isis-iraq-hagel-dempsey-congress-combat">to
fight an unending war with no concept of victory</a>.
<p>
Chelsea Manning — who was an Iraq intelligence analyst before
becoming a heroic whistleblower
— <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/chelsea-manning-isis-strategy">explains
why this won't work</a>.
<p>
If the goal is to win Iraqi Sunnis away from supporting ISIS, sending
US troops to attack
them <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-nov-feb.html#17%20November%202004%20%28Falluja%20in%20ruins%29">again</a>
is the stupidest possible strategy.  However, if the goal is to
distract Americans with war fervor from the way plutocracy is
oppressing them, it might work.


title: Large protests for democracy continue in Hong Kong
uri: Large-protests-for-democracy-continue-in-Hong-Kong
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Large_protests_for_democracy_continue_in_Hong_Kong)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Large_protests_for_democracy_continue_in_Hong_Kong%29

content:
<p>
Large <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/15/pro-democracy-movement-grows-thousands-march-hong-kong">protests
for democracy continue in Hong Kong</a> after China rejected free
elections there.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Labeling_GMOs)
title: Labeling GMOs
uri: Labeling-GMOs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Labeling_GMOs%29
content:
<p>
Look at the companies donating money
to <a href="http://oregonrighttoknow.org/no-on-92-coalition-donors/">oppose
the Oregon referendum to require labeling GMOs</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Groundwater_management)
title: Groundwater management
uri: Groundwater-management
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Groundwater_management%29
content:
<p>
California
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/california-groundwater-jerry-brown-drought-basins">enacted
groundwater management</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Syria_intervention_plans)
title: Syria intervention plans
uri: Syria-intervention-plans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Syria_intervention_plans%29
content:
<p>
Senator Machin says he
will <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=4972">oppose
Obama's misguided Syria intervention plans</a>.


title: Another step towards near-universal poverty
uri: Another-step-towards-near-universal-poverty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Another_step_towards_near-universal_poverty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Another_step_towards_near-universal_poverty%29

content:
<p>
Web sites for that make desperate people bid to do jobs for the lowest
pay move
society <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/alfred-app-sharing-economy-poor-work">another
step towards near-universal poverty</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(A_Diet_for_a_Healthy_Planet)
title: A Diet for a Healthy Planet
uri: A-Diet-for-a-Healthy-Planet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28A_Diet_for_a_Healthy_Planet%29
content:
<p>
For the First Time,
U.S. Agencies <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/15/first-time-us-agencies-consider-diet-healthy-planet">Consider
a Diet for a Healthy Planet</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Israeli_war_crimes_in_Gaza)
title: Israeli war crimes in Gaza
uri: Israeli-war-crimes-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Israeli_war_crimes_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch identified several Israeli actions in Gaza
that <a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=66061">appear
to be war crimes and must be investigated</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(US_military_to_fight_Ebola)
title: US military to fight Ebola
uri: US-military-to-fight-Ebola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28US_military_to_fight_Ebola%29
content:
<p>
Obama will
send <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/16/obama-to-announce-ebola-force-of-3000-us-military-personnel">3000
US military personnel to Africa to fight Ebola</a>.
<p>
I can't judge the details but it seems to be a necessary job.


title: Urgent: Blanket use of antibiotics on farm animals
uri: Urgent-Blanket-use-of-antibiotics-on-farm-animals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Urgent:_Blanket_use_of_antibiotics_on_farm_animals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Blanket_use_of_antibiotics_on_farm_animals%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=11985">put
a stop to blanket use of antibiotics on farm animals</a>.


title: Tortured to death in an Israeli prison
uri: Tortured-to-death-in-an-Israeli-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Tortured_to_death_in_an_Israeli_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Tortured_to_death_in_an_Israeli_prison%29

content:
<p>
An autopsy suggests that a Palestinian prisoner
was <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/69107">tortured to death in
an Israeli prison</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Sacrificing_the_Vulnerable)
title: Sacrificing the Vulnerable
uri: Sacrificing-the-Vulnerable
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Sacrificing_the_Vulnerable%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/15/sacrificing-vulnerable-gaza-america">Sacrificing
the Vulnerable</a>, From Gaza to America.


title: Urgent: Block another Enbridge pipeline
uri: Urgent-Block-another-Enbridge-pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Urgent:_Block_another_Enbridge_pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Block_another_Enbridge_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Kerry
to <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3586">block
another Enbridge pipeline plan for exporting Canadian tar sands
oil</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Comcast_threatens_Tor_users)
title: Comcast threatens Tor users
uri: Comcast-threatens-Tor-users
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Comcast_threatens_Tor_users%29
content:
<p>
Users of Comcast are reporting that Comcast says they are not allowed
to use Tor and 
<a href="http://www.deepdotweb.com/2014/09/13/comcast-declares-war-tor/">threatening
to terminate their service</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(One-use_plastic_bags)
title: One-use plastic bags
uri: One-use-plastic-bags
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28One-use_plastic_bags%29
content:
<p>
California has 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/california-bans-plastic-bags">banned
stores from handing out gratis one-use plastic bags</a>.
<p>
We need to make bags, and other food packaging, out of plastics
that will truly biodegrade in a few years.
<p>
I taught myself a couple of years ago to reuse larger, tougher plastic
bags.  I carry 3 of them in my computer bag and mostly avoid
single-use bags.


title: "Democrats" backed by Chamber of Commerce
uri: Democrats-backed-by-Chamber-of-Commerce
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Democrats_backed_by_Chamber_of_Commerce)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Democrats_backed_by_Chamber_of_Commerce%29

content:
<p>
The US Chamber of Commerce is backing some "Democrats", 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/democratic-candidates-chamber-commerce-endorsement">the
sort who are almost like today's Republicans</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_September_2014_(Foreign_policy_lessons_learned)
title: Foreign policy lessons learned
uri: Foreign-policy-lessons-learned
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_September_2014_%28Foreign_policy_lessons_learned%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/09/obama-has-indeed-learned-some-foreign-policy-lessons-just-not-ones-establishment-">Obama
Has Indeed Learned Some Foreign Policy Lessons, Just Not the Ones the
Establishment Likes</a>


title: Urgent: Statement of support for Greenpeace protesters
uri: Urgent-Statement-of-support-for-Greenpeace-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Urgent:_Statement_of_support_for_Greenpeace_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Statement_of_support_for_Greenpeace_protesters%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1707&autologin=true">sign
a statement of support for Greenpeace protesters</a> in Cincinnati,
who face ten years' imprisonment under Putinesque charges.


title: Urgent: Cleanup of pipeline spill
uri: Urgent-Cleanup-of-pipeline-spill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Urgent:_Cleanup_of_pipeline_spill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Cleanup_of_pipeline_spill%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Tell House Energy Chair Upton to give the polluters'
campaign money to
the <a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petition_mi6_pipeline/">cleanup
of the pipeline spill in his district</a>.


title: ISIS threatening to attack the White House
uri: ISIS-threatening-to-attack-the-White-House
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_September_2014_(ISIS_threatening_to_attack_the_White_House)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_September_2014_%28ISIS_threatening_to_attack_the_White_House%29

content:
<p>
ISIS released another provocative video, this
one <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/17/islamic-state-video-threatens-white-house-us-troops">threatening
to attack the White House</a>.
<p>
The ISIS propaganda team is clever, and surely expects this to make a
lot of US politicians demand war so that they can look tough.  I
continue to claim that ISIS wants the US to fight so that it can
convince Iraqi Sunnis that they have no choice but to support ISIS.


title: Urgent: Powerplant carbon limits
uri: Urgent-Powerplant-carbon-limits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Urgent:_Powerplant_carbon_limits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Powerplant_carbon_limits%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1400&autologin=true">make
powerplant carbon limits strong enough to do the job</a>.


title: Thugs attacked a BBC team in Moscow
uri: Thugs-attacked-a-BBC-team-in-Moscow
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Thugs_attacked_a_BBC_team_in_Moscow)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Thugs_attacked_a_BBC_team_in_Moscow%29

content:
<p>
A group of thugs (not necessarily official state
thugs) <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/18/bbc-journalists-attacked-equipment-damaged-moscow-complaint">attacked
a BBC team in Moscow</a>; while the team was reporting the attack to
the official thugs, someone erased their computers' memories.
<p>
Apparently some of Putin's men wanted to stop them from reporting on a
Russian soldier apparently killed in Ukraine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Russian_writer_Mikhail_Shishkin)
title: Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin
uri: Russian-writer-Mikhail-Shishkin
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Russian_writer_Mikhail_Shishkin%29

content:
<p>
Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin says
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/russia-ukraine-europe-putin-black-hole">Putin
has taken Russia back to "Soviet times of total lies"</a>, and that
Putin's violence is preparing Russians to support a series of wars.
<p>
Putin's nationalist propaganda resembles the US propaganda used to
convince Americans to have faith that the US is the "good guy" in
every war, in disregard of all truth.  However, Putin's version is
even stronger.
<p>
Here's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/putin-aggression-leaves-europe-in-pre-war-state-says-author">more
about Mikhail Shishkin</a>.
<p>
I am saddened by the Americans that grasp at straws to argue that
Putin's lies are truth and that the fault lies entirely with Kiev.
<p>
There certainly is some wrong on Kiev's side.  Its deal with the EU
could pave the way
for <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Ukraine-EU_austerity_pact%29">"shock
capitalism" and disastrous debt</a>. There are
indeed <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_August_2014_%28Ukrainian_Neo-Nazis%29">neo-nazi
militias fighting for Kiev</a>.
<p> Kiev's rejection of easterners' demands for limited autonomy was
unjustified.  But none of this alters the nature of Putin's military
aggression in Ukraine.


title: Pakistani professor assassinated
uri: Pakistani-professor-assassinated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Pakistani_professor_assassinated)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Pakistani_professor_assassinated%29

content:
<p>
A Pakistani professor who promoted a liberal interpretation of Islam's
social
rules <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/liberal-professor-islam-shot-dead-pakistan-karachi">was
assassinated</a>.


title: Battle over cutting Tasmania's old-growth forests
uri: Battle-over-cutting-Tasmania-s-old-growth-forests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Battle_over_cutting_Tasmania's_old-growth_forests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Battle_over_cutting_Tasmania%27s_old-growth_forests%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/-sp-tasmanian-forestry-peace-deal">battle
over cutting Tasmania's old-growth forests will resume</a>, with a
government ban on protests condemned by the UN.


title: Chevron trying to buy city council election
uri: Chevron-trying-to-buy-city-council-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Chevron_trying_to_buy_city_council_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Chevron_trying_to_buy_city_council_election%29

content:
<p>
Chevron is trying
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/17/chevron-sounds-alarm-against-east-bay-anarchism">buy
the city council election in Richmond, California</a> using smears and
confusion.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Sucking_the_US_into_war)
title: Sucking the US into war
uri: Sucking-the-US-into-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Sucking_the_US_into_war%29
content:
<p>
Many experts warn that ISIS propaganda videos are intended to suck the
US into a war that
would <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=5015">legitimize
ISIS among Sunnis and thus strengthen it</a>.
<p>
US hawks that call for immediate war are motivated by domestic
politics.  If as a byproduct of political gain they strengthen ISIS,
that's not important to them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Cutting_poverty)
title: Cutting poverty
uri: Cutting-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Cutting_poverty%29
content:
<p>
What the US government must
do <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/17/top-10-solutions-cut-poverty-and-grow-middle-class">if
it wants to cut poverty</a>.


title: Posting negative reviews about businesses
uri: Posting-negative-reviews-about-businesses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Posting_negative_reviews_about_businesses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Posting_negative_reviews_about_businesses%29

content:
<p>
California passed a
bill <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/congress-fight-for-your-right-to-yelp-20140915">banning
businesses from making customers agree not to post negative
reviews</a>.  One is proposed at the US level.
<p>
I wonder whether these measures also cover the attempt to require
customers to assign copyright on their reviews to the business.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Nationalism)
title: Nationalism
uri: Nationalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Nationalism%29
content:
<p>
As surrender to plutocracy spreads poverty across
Europe, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/16/rise-nationalism-unites-scotland-england-independence">nationalism
offers the prospect of a magical escape</a> without confronting the
real root of the injustice.
<p>
Often nationalism puts the blame for poverty on "parasitic" immigrants
rather the principal parasites — the rich.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(FinFisher)
title: FinFisher
uri: FinFisher
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28FinFisher%29
content:
<p>
The German government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/16/wikileaks-finfisher-files-malware-surveillance">allowed
the intrusion software FinFisher to be sold to governments that
trample human rights</a>.
<p>
The article errs in talking about "Linux computers"; the context shows
that this refers to the 
<a href="http://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a> system.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Hottest_August_ever_recorded)
title: Hottest August ever recorded
uri: Hottest-August-ever-recorded
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Hottest_August_ever_recorded%29

content:
<p>
August 2014 was the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/16/august-was-hottest-on-record-worldwide-says-nasa">hottest
August ever recorded</a>, just like May and June.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(China_torturing_professor)
title: China torturing professor
uri: China-torturing-professor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28China_torturing_professor%29
content:
<p>
Professor Ilham Tohti, who wrote in favor of Uighurs' rights, is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/uighur-academic-ilham-tohti-separatism-charges-china-shackles">being
tortured</a> as preparation for his show trial.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Global_heating_denial_for_kids)
title: Global heating denial for kids
uri: Global-heating-denial-for-kids
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Global_heating_denial_for_kids%29

content:
<p>
Texas is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/16/texas-proposes-rewriting-school-text-books-to-deny-manmade-climate-change">trying
to rewrite textbooks</a> to deny global heating.


title: Limited autonomy in Eastern Ukraine
uri: Limited-autonomy-in-Eastern-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Limited_autonomy_in_Eastern_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Limited_autonomy_in_Eastern_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine's government has adopted 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/ukraine-votes-more-power-separatist-east">partial
autonomy</a> for the Eastern region where the rebellion is occurring.
<p>
This limited autonomy seems natural to me, given that every part of
the United States has it.  Did Ukraine offer this limited autonomy at
the beginning?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Apples_unjust_power_over_users)
title: Apples unjust power over users
uri: Apples-unjust-power-over-users
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Apples_unjust_power_over_users%29

content:
<p>
Lots of iThing users are complaining that they did not want the U2
album "gift" that Apple stuck them with — and that it was 
<a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/apples-free-u2-album-perplexes-and-annoys-some-users/">hard
to delete</a>.
<p>
These complaints focus on a superficial problem, which reflects the
shallow thinking that Apple instills in its users.  Ironically,
though, this superficial problem reflects a much deeper problem that
the complainers have failed to notice: the unjust power that Apple has
imposed on whoever uses an iThing or iTunes.


title: TSA gropes passenger after flight
uri: TSA-gropes-passenger-after-flight
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(TSA_gropes_passenger_after_flight)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28TSA_gropes_passenger_after_flight%29

content:
<p>
Agents of the Theater of Security Agency demanded to grope a passenger
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140913/06350828511/tsa-not-sure-if-it-groped-man-before-flight-demands-to-grope-him-after-flight-is-over.shtml">after
he got off a flight</a>, claiming it was because they had forgotten to
do this before the flight.


title: Resource distribution for voting places
uri: Resource-distribution-for-voting-places
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Resource_distribution_for_voting_places)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Resource_distribution_for_voting_places%29

content:
<p>
Some US states provide fewer resources to voting places with more
minority groups, causing 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/15/new-study-lack-voting-resources-leads-long-lines-delays-longer-minority">long
waiting lines</a>.
<p>
One must suspect this is another method of Republican voter
suppression.


title: New Mexico sheriff faces charges
uri: New-Mexico-sheriff-faces-charges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(New_Mexico_sheriff_faces_charges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28New_Mexico_sheriff_faces_charges%29

content:
<p>
A New Mexico sheriff faces charges for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/15/new-mexico-sheriff-indicted-as-federal-charges-mount-in-case">two
cases of attacking passing drivers</a>.


title: Mass surveillance in New Zealand
uri: Mass-surveillance-in-New-Zealand
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Mass_surveillance_in_New_Zealand)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Mass_surveillance_in_New_Zealand%29

content:
<p>
New Zealand Prime Minister Key is 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=4926">changing and
contradicting his statements to try to deny revelations</a> about the
massive surveillance he started.


title: US gov't still trying to smear Snowden
uri: US-gov-t-still-trying-to-smear-Snowden
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(US_govt_still_trying_to_smear_Snowden)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28US_govt_still_trying_to_smear_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
The US government continues trying to smear Snowden with 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=4961">falsified
claims</a> that his disclosures aided terrorists.
<p>
Even if they had been of some use to underground enemies of Americans,
that harm would be small compared with the
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">positive
contribution of giving us a chance to recover democracy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Cost_of_sea_level_rise)
title: Cost of sea level rise
uri: Cost-of-sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Cost_of_sea_level_rise%29
content:
<p>
Sea level rise could cause over 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/17/rising-sea-levels-sleeping-giant-could-cost-226bn-australia">200
billion dollars</a> in damages to buildings and infrastructure in
Australia in this century.
<p>
For the US, I would guess it is ten times that.  Has anyone seen a
recent estimate?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Man_shot_in_the_back_by_thugs)
title: Man shot in the back by thugs
uri: Man-shot-in-the-back-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Man_shot_in_the_back_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Thugs said they shot Darrien Hunt because he lunged at them with a sword.
However, an autopsy found he was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/darrien-hunt-shot-in-the-back-by-utah-police-says-family-attorney">shot
in the back</a>.
<p>
Surveillance camera recordings have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/darrien-hunt-surveillance-footage-utah-police-shooting">provided
to the thugs but not to Hunt's family</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Racism_among_US_thugs)
title: Racism among US thugs
uri: Racism-among-US-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Racism_among_US_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Attorney General Holder launched a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/eric-holder-justice-department-racial-bias-study-police">study
of racism among US thugs</a>.
<p>
It is a good idea.  If only he went after the banksters and the
torturers, he'd be doing a good job.


title: Persecution of Botswana journalists
uri: Persecution-of-Botswana-journalists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Persecution_of_Botswana_journalists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Persecution_of_Botswana_journalists%29

content:
<p>
The president of Botswana is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/17/trouble-paradise-botswana-journalist">persecuting
journalists</a> that reported on his car accident.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Prisoner_granted_euthanasia)
title: Prisoner granted euthanasia
uri: Prisoner-granted-euthanasia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Prisoner_granted_euthanasia%29
content:
<p>
Belgium has 
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29209459">granted a
prisoner's petition for euthanasia</a>.
<p>
I understand and sympathize with a prisoner's wish to die rather than
spend life in prison.
<p>
It worries me that there's a danger this will encourage prison
conditions designed to encourage suicide, a de-facto death penalty.
However, such conditions exist in many countries, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#6%20January%202011%20(Solitary%20confinement%20as%20torture)">including 
the US</a>, where euthanasia is not allowed.


title: New pollution controls cut Australian coal
uri: New-pollution-controls-cut-Australian-coal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(New_pollution_controls_cut_Australian_coal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28New_pollution_controls_cut_Australian_coal%29

content:
<p>
New Chinese pollution controls on coal 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/17/chinas-ban-on-dirty-coal-could-cost-australian-mining-almost-15bn">will
cut into Australian coal exports</a>.
<p>
This is a great opportunity for Australia to cancel all the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_(Australia_approves_new_coal_mine)">planned
expansions</a> in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_August_2014_(New_Australian_coal_mine)">coal
mining</a>.


title: Imprisonment of Ghoncheh Ghavami
uri: Imprisonment-of-Ghoncheh-Ghavami
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Imprisonment_of_Ghoncheh_Ghavami)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Imprisonment_of_Ghoncheh_Ghavami%29

content:
<p>
Ghoncheh Ghavami has been imprisoned in Iran for 3 months 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/iran-uk-citizen-prison-ghoncheh-ghavami">for
asking to be allowed to watch a sporting event alongside men</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(The_Fate_of_the_Gaza_Ceasefire)
title: The Fate of the Gaza Ceasefire
uri: The-Fate-of-the-Gaza-Ceasefire
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28The_Fate_of_the_Gaza_Ceasefire%29

content:
<p>
Noam Chomsky: 
<a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175892/tomgram%3A_noam_chomsky%2C_the_fate_of_the_gaza_ceasefire">The
Fate of the Gaza Ceasefire</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Invasion_by_Israeli_settlers)
title: Invasion by Israeli "settlers"
uri: Invasion-by-Israeli-settlers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Invasion_by_Israeli_settlers%29

content:
<p>
Israeli "settlers" invaded Hebron and 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/69123">pepper-sprayed two
Palestinian children</a>, who had to be taken to a hospital.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Googles_support_for_ALEC)
title: Google's support for ALEC
uri: 2014-09-19-Google-s-support-for-ALEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Googles_support_for_ALEC%29
content:
<p>
Google 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/09/12595/google-refuses-respond-letter-questioning-alec-ties">refuses
to respond to public criticism</a> of its support for ALEC.


title: Drug smuggling funds Jihadi groups
uri: Drug-smuggling-funds-Jihadi-groups
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Drug_smuggling_funds_Jihadi_groups)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Drug_smuggling_funds_Jihadi_groups%29

content:
<p>
Jihadi groups in north Mali run on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/islamist-groups-african-drug-smuggling-operation">funds
obtained by smuggling drugs north</a>.
<p>
I seem to recall that Islam disapproves of these drugs.
It would be hard to reconcile the smuggling with being an "Islamist".


title: Tax rules for multinational companies
uri: Tax-rules-for-multinational-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Tax_rules_for_multinational_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Tax_rules_for_multinational_companies%29

content:
<p>
44 economically powerful countries are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/sep/16/international-tax-rule-updates-g20-countries">drawing
up a plan</a> to make multinational companies pay taxes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_September_2014_(Deal_made_with_Qatar)
title: Deal made with Qatar
uri: Deal-made-with-Qatar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Deal_made_with_Qatar%29
content:
<p>
Qatar has made a deal to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/qatar-orders-expulsion-exiled-egyptian-muslim-brotherhood-leaders">reduce
its support for Islamist parties</a>.  The deal also includes ordering
al-Jazeera to stop criticizing Egypt for its bloody suppression of the
Muslim Brotherhood.
<p>
I shed no tears for those religious extremists, but al-Jazeera
has been hurt by this.  
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#28_December_2012_(Senior_Al_Jazeera_journalist_quits)">We
have seen evidence of bias in al-Jazeera imposed from above</a>, but
this blatant censorship is shameful nonetheless.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_September_2014_(The_silence_on_global_heating)
title: The silence on global heating
uri: The-silence-on-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_September_2014_%28The_silence_on_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/17/silence-climate-change-peoples-march">The
Silence on Climate Change Is Deafening.  It's Time for Us to Get
Loud.</a>
<p>
The term "climate change" was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_June_2014_(Destroyed_by_global_heating)">coined 
by the denialist movement to make global heating sound neutral rather
than dangerous</a>.  It makes no sense for us to use that term.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_September_2014_(Price_of_meeting_UK_ministers)
title: Price of meeting UK ministers
uri: Price-of-meeting-UK-ministers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_September_2014_%28Price_of_meeting_UK_ministers%29

content:
<p>
The Tories have been so successful at enriching UK businesses
that they have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/17/tories-charge-business-executives-conference-access-ministers">doubled
the price</a> of meeting ministers.


title: Canadian PM to skip climate summit
uri: Canadian-PM-to-skip-climate-summit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_September_2014_(Canadian_PM_to_skip_climate_summit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_September_2014_%28Canadian_PM_to_skip_climate_summit%29

content:
<p>
Canadian PM Harper 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/16/harper-will-be-no-show-un-climate-summit-next-week">will
skip the climate summit</a>.
<p>
Not surprising, for a government that 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_September_2014_(Press_access_to_Canadian_scientist_denied)">gags
scientists to cover up the unpleasant facts of global heating</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_September_2014_(US_criticism_undermined)
title: US criticism undermined
uri: US-criticism-undermined
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_September_2014_%28US_criticism_undermined%29
content:
<p>
US criticism of Putin's expansionism and destabilization is undermined
by 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/16/us-leadership-against-russia-crippled-its-own-hypocrisy">several
instances where the US did or supported similar actions</a>.


title: US universities militarizing thugs
uri: US-universities-militarizing-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_September_2014_(US_universities_militarizing_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_September_2014_%28US_universities_militarizing_thugs%29

content:
<p>
US universities are getting 
<a href="http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/campus-cops-with-m-16s/">M-16
assault rifles, even grenade launchers</a>, for their campus thugs.
It is dangerous for them to have such weapons.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Torture_by_Nigerian_thugs)
title: Torture by Nigerian thugs
uri: Torture-by-Nigerian-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Torture_by_Nigerian_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Torture is 
<A href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/nigeria-police-torture-extract-confessions-amnesty-international">standard
practice for Nigerian thugs</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Fire_near_Sacramento)
title: Fire near Sacramento
uri: Fire-near-Sacramento
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Fire_near_Sacramento%29
content:
<p>
A fire near Sacramento has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/california-wildfire-explosive-growth-pollock-pines">burned
over 110 square miles</a> and is threatening 2000 houses.
<p>
Since global heating is making California more arid, this will be a
frequent occurrence in a couple of decades.


title: Agent Orange-resistant GMO crops
uri: Agent-Orange-resistant-GMO-crops
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Agent_Orange-resistant_GMO_crops)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Agent_Orange-resistant_GMO_crops%29

content:
<p>
The USDA approved GMO corn and soybeans 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/17/organic-consumers-condemns-usda-approval-dows-new-gmo-crops">resistant
to the herbicide 2,4-D</a>, which was used in Agent Orange during the
Vietnam war.
<p>
Superweeds will experience a temporary setback, but in a few years
they will evolve resistance to this chemical too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Paying_to_prevent_discussions)
title: Paying to prevent discussions
uri: Paying-to-prevent-discussions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Paying_to_prevent_discussions%29

content:
<p>
Many companies give money to political parties to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/11/political-donations-corrupt-democracy-in-ways-you-might-not-realise">prevent
an issue from ever being discussed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(For-profit_schools)
title: For-profit schools
uri: For-profit-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28For-profit_schools%29
content:
<p>
A US for-profit college company has been sued for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/17/profit-college-chain-sued-feds-predatory-lending-scheme">predatory
lending</a>.
<p>
I think it is a good idea to prohibit for-profit schools, and
for-profit hospitals too.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/17/you-are-not-loan-rolling-jubilee-abolishes-millions-student-debt">Philanthropists
are buying the students' loans</a> in order to forgive them.
<p>
This is necessary because the US has made it impossible to get rid of
student loans through bankruptcy.  That law is cruel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Obamas_free_trade_proposals)
title: Obama's "free trade" proposals
uri: Obama-s-free-trade-proposals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Obamas_free_trade_proposals%29
content:
<p>
Obama continues to propose to boost exports with antidemocratic "free
trade" treaties.  The existing ones have not had that effect, but the
US Trade Representative is giving Congress 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/17/presidents-export-council-meets-no-chance-meet-obamas-export-doubling-goal">fudged
statistics</a> to pretend that they did.
<p>
Even if they did boost exports, it would not be particularly good,
because that principally means more profit for US businesses.
Nowadays that growth does little good for US workers, due to the
antidemocratic effects of these same treaties.  So there is no reason
for Americans to make increased exports a goal at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Pay_toilets)
title: Pay toilets
uri: Pay-toilets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Pay_toilets%29
content:
<p>
How pay toilets were 
<a href="http://www.psmag.com/navigation/business-economics/dont-pay-toilets-america-bathroom-restroom-free-market-90683/">eliminated
in the US</a>.
<p>
I wish other countries would pass similar laws.


title: Assad may help US target bombing of ISIS
uri: Assad-may-help-US-target-bombing-of-ISIS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Assad_may_help_US_target_bombing_of_ISIS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Assad_may_help_US_target_bombing_of_ISIS%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/18/reported-us-syrian-accord-air-strikes">Reports
say that Assad has agreed</a> to US bombing of ISIS forces in Syria.
<p>
If Assad does indeed help target the attacks, that would be useful
since they would be less likely to hit the wrong targets.  But I worry
about one thing: would Assad dishonestly supply coordinates of
non-ISIS rebels, claiming they were ISIS?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Japans_scientific_whaling)
title: Japan's "scientific" whaling
uri: Japan-s-scientific-whaling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Japans_scientific_whaling%29
content:
<p>
Japan's "scientific" whaling has produced just 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/18/the-truth-about-the-peer-reviewed-science-produced-by-japans-whaling">two
peer-reviewed papers since 2005</a>.
<p>
The papers were based on 9 out of the 3600 minke whales Japan has
killed during that time.


title: US citizen reports from Yemen prison
uri: US-citizen-reports-from-Yemen-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(US_citizen_reports_from_Yemen_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28US_citizen_reports_from_Yemen_prison%29

content:
<p>
Sharif Mobley found a way to phone his wife and told her he was being
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/15/us-man-yemen-contact-wife-sharif-mosley">tortured
in Yemen's prison</a>.
<p>
It appears that the Obama regime and Yemen's regime are collaborating
to imprison him without trial.  He faces criminal charges, perhaps
bogus, but the Yemen regime is sabotaging the trial by refusing to
bring him to court.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Estate_tax)
title: Estate tax
uri: Estate-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Estate_tax%29
content:
<p>
Senator Sanders proposes a law to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/18/real-plutocracy-prevention-act">make
rich heirs start paying estate tax again</a>.


title: Japan to disregard vote on whaling
uri: Japan-to-disregard-vote-on-whaling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Japan_to_disregard_vote_on_whaling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Japan_to_disregard_vote_on_whaling%29

content:
<p>
Japan announced it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/18/japan-whaling-southern-ocean-iwc-ruling">will
disregard</a> the International Whaling Commission's vote to limit
whaling in the Southern Ocean.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Price_on_carbon_emissions)
title: Price on carbon emissions
uri: Price-on-carbon-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Price_on_carbon_emissions%29
content:
<p>
Big investment groups called for a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/18/investors-call-for-climate-change-deal">"stable,
reliable and economically meaningful" price</a> on carbon emissions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Metadata)
title: Metadata
uri: 2014-09-20-Metadata
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Metadata%29
content:
<p>
What can be learned about Ton Siedsma from one week of his metadata?
<a href="https://www.bof.nl/2014/07/30/how-your-innocent-smartphone-passes-on-almost-your-entire-life-to-the-secret-service/">Quite
a lot</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Playing_while_black)
title: Playing while black
uri: Playing-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Playing_while_black%29
content:
<p>
Darrien Hunts' sword had a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/17/darrien-hunt-police-shooting-family-friends-remember">rounded
edge</a>, so he could hardly have seriously threatened anyone with it.
It appears that, before the thugs shot him, he was making moves with
the sword as a form of pretend play, away from other people.
<p>
The most dangerous looking thing about him was his skin color.
If you're a black male, in the US, people will often perceive your
actions as dangerous; if a while male did the same thing, people
would not consider it dangerous.  Over and over, this leads thugs
to kill innocent people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Enslaved_Malaysian_workers)
title: Enslaved Malaysian workers
uri: Enslaved-Malaysian-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Enslaved_Malaysian_workers%29
content:
<p>
A large fraction of the workers in Malaysia's electronics factories
are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/17/modern-day-slavery-malaysia-electronics-industry">enslaved</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Being_lured_into_war_by_videos)
title: Being lured into war by videos
uri: Being-lured-into-war-by-videos
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Being_lured_into_war_by_videos%29

content:
<p>
The head of the Lib Dems says he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/17/nick-clegg-uk-cannot-afford-religious-war-isis-islamic-state">won't
let the UK be lured into war with ISIS by provocative videos</a>.
There are surely some US politicians that are wise enough to reject
that, but the mainstream media don't present them much.


title: Record-breaking fires in California
uri: Record-breaking-fires-in-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Record-breaking_fires_in_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Record-breaking_fires_in_California%29

content:
<p>
California has had the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/-sp-california-wildfires-climate-change">driest
three years ever recorded</a>, causing record-breaking fires, and it's
expected to get worse in the coming months.
<p>
The fire season in the US west has increased, typically, by 70 days
since a few decades ago.  That is long-term change, global heating at
work.
<p>
The fires convert trees into carbon dioxide, adding to global heating.
Positive feedbacks like this mean that at some point (which we can't
predict) global heating will become self-perpetuating.
<p>
The fools running the University of California 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/19/university-california-fossil-feul-investment-divest-climate-change">refused
to divest from fossil fool companies</a>.
<p>
They think divestment would cut the income for running the university.
That's probably true, for the next few years at least.  They'd
certainly be better off continuing the status quo — but they are
fools to think that is what they have chosen.
<p>
Have they thought about how much funds the University of California
will lose when global heating wrecks the state economy?  When drought
eliminates half the farming in California, and the forests are burning
up, do they think the state will prioritize the university over
firefighters?  If global heating continues unchecked, some sort of
University of California may still exist in 30 years, but it will be a
shadow of its present-day self.
<p>
If the regents were wiser, they would grab at any chance to avoid that
fate.  Divestment at least offers a chance.
<p>
This is much worse than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.  They
are on the oil train, rolling slowly torwards Lac-Mégantic, and
trying to save money by not putting on the brakes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Wisconsin_voter_ID_law)
title: Wisconsin voter ID law
uri: Wisconsin-voter-ID-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Wisconsin_voter_ID_law%29
content:
<p>
Republican judges authorized Wisconsin's voter ID law less than two
months before the election.  
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/09/12604/thousands-wi-students-could-be-disenfranchised">300,000
voters may be disenfranchised</a>, and it would be very hard for them
to get IDs even if they can afford to try.
<p>
Republicans impose voter ID laws because most citizens that don't have
IDs are among the weak who are likely to vote Democrat.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(London_thugs_beat_helpless_man)
title: London thugs beat helpless man
uri: London-thugs-beat-helpless-man
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28London_thugs_beat_helpless_man%29

content:
<p>
The London thug department apologized to Nordell Edmonson.  A gang of
thugs
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/18/nordell-edmondson-metropolitan-police-race-discrimination">pulled
him out of his car and hit him with sticks while he was helpless</a>
— supposedly because he was driving without insurance.
<p>
If he was indeed driving without insurance — I would not take
the thugs word for it — he deserved to be tried, not beat up.
<p>
Edmonson is not satisfied with payment of compensation, because that
helps him only.  He wants action to curb the violence of the thugs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Australian_anti-terrorism_law)
title: Australian "anti-terrorism" law
uri: Australian-anti-terrorism-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Australian_anti-terrorism_law%29

content:
<p>
The proposed Australian "anti-terrorism" law 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/asio-torture-warning-fears-new-powers-will-allow-suspects-to-be-harmed">would
permit torture</a>.
<p>
This law is clearly unnecessary; an alleged terrorist plot involving
real violence was watched and the planners were arrested yesterday.


title: Putin to set up internet disconnect switch
uri: Putin-to-set-up-internet-disconnect-switch
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Putin_to_set_up_internet_disconnect_switch)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Putin_to_set_up_internet_disconnect_switch%29

content:
<p>
Putin is plans to set up means to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/vladimir-putin-plan-unplug-russia-internet-emergency-kremlin-moscow">disconnect
the Russian internet from the rest of the world</a> in an "emergency".
<p>
"Emergency" in this case means Russians' paying attention to criticism
of Putin.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(NSA_part_of_blackmail_system)
title: NSA part of blackmail system
uri: NSA-part-of-blackmail-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28NSA_part_of_blackmail_system%29

content:
<p>
Since the NSA hands over 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/18/new-questions-raised-about-nsa-israel-intelligence-sharing">data
about Palestinian-Americans' communications</a> to Israel, and Israel
uses such data to blackmail Palestinians in Palestine, it looks like
the NSA is part of the blackmail system.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Transportation_of_oil)
title: Transportation of oil
uri: Transportation-of-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Transportation_of_oil%29
content:
<p>
Canada's extraction lobbyist 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/18/albertas-tar-sands-lobbyist-were-just-one-devastating-lac-megantic-experience-away">hopes
that more disasters with oil trains will convince the US to approve
Keystone XL</a>.
<p>
However, looking at the harm done by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_May_2014_(Canada_attacks_science)">extracting 
it</a> as well as by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#03_July_2012_(Prediction_of_peak_oil_proves_false)">burning 
it</a> the best option is to stop transporting that oil in any way.


title: Rebuking abuses of power in China
uri: Rebuking-abuses-of-power-in-China
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Rebuking_abuses_of_power_in_China)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Rebuking_abuses_of_power_in_China%29

content:
<p>
Ilham Tohti is about to be convicted of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/china-ilham-toti-uighur-criticism-ethnic-policies">bogus
charges</a> after a phony trial.  His unpardonable crime was to rebuke
abuses of power rather than advocate Uighur nationalism.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_September_2014_(Abandoned_oil_wells)
title: Abandoned oil wells
uri: Abandoned-oil-wells
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_September_2014_%28Abandoned_oil_wells%29
content:
<p>
Pennsylvania has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/18/pennsylvania-abandoned-fracking-wells-methane-leaks-hidden">200,000
abandoned oil wells</a>, and when fracking is done near them, they
become channels for leaking methane.


title: Mexican soldiers captured and then summarily shot 22 people
uri: Mexican-soldiers-captured-and-then-summarily-shot-22-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Mexican_soldiers_captured_and_then_summarily_shot_22_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Mexican_soldiers_captured_and_then_summarily_shot_22_people%29

content:
<p>
Mexican
soldiers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/mother-dead-girl-mexican-troops-executed-22-drug-gang-suspects">captured
and then summarily shot 22 people</a>, including members of a drug
gang, and others who said they had been kidnaped by the gang.


title: Egypt's regime has made religion an arm of the state
uri: Egypt-s-regime-has-made-religion-an-arm-of-the-state
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Egypt's_regime_has_made_religion_an_arm_of_the_state)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Egypt%27s_regime_has_made_religion_an_arm_of_the_state%29

content:
<p>
Egypt's
regime <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/religion-still-leads-the-way-in-post-morsi-gypt">has
made religion an arm of the state</a>.  Atheists have been threatened
with arrest.


title: NFL player charged with violence against a woman
uri: NFL-player-charged-with-violence-against-a-woman
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(NFL_player_charged_with_violence_against_a_woman)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28NFL_player_charged_with_violence_against_a_woman%29

content:
<p>
Yet another NFL football player
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/nfl-jonathan-dwyer-head-butted-wife-sex">charged
with violence against a woman</a>: he appears have tried to force his
wife to have sex, then hit her and broke her nose. This together with
manipulative threats.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(The_world's_population)
title: The world's population
uri: The-world-s-population
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28The_world%27s_population%29
content:
<p>
Decrease of the human population growth
rate <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/18/world-population-new-study-11bn-2100">has
ceased in sub-Saharan Africa</a>.  The world's population threatens to
grow to 11 billion by 2100.
<p>
I don't think it can reach that level — the consequences will
cause global disaster before then, and many children will die.  But
that is a horrible way to limit the population.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Microbeads_in_toothpaste)
title: Microbeads in toothpaste
uri: Microbeads-in-toothpaste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Microbeads_in_toothpaste%29
content:
<p>
Microbeads in toothpaste
can <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/18/brushing-your-teeth-plastic-dentists-say-microbeads-bad-news">hurt
users' gums, as well as wildlife</a> after they go down the drain.


title: Forced to Collect Human Waste by Hand
uri: Forced-to-Collect-Human-Waste-by-Hand
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Forced_to_Collect_Human_Waste_by_Hand)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Forced_to_Collect_Human_Waste_by_Hand%29

content:
<p>
India's "Untouchables"
Are <a href="http://time.com/3172895/dalits-sewage-untouchables-hrs-human-waste-india-caste/">Still
Being Forced to Collect Human Waste by Hand</a>.
<p>
There are two wrongs here: the fact that many Indians don't have
flushing toilets (which is a matter of poverty and overpopulation) and
the fact that certain people are forced to clean them.  If caste
prejudice were eliminated, the second wrong would be gone but the
first wrong would remain.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(License_plate_cameras)
title: License plate cameras
uri: License-plate-cameras
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28License_plate_cameras%29
content:
<p>
A California court denied a driver's suit
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/california-license-plate-judge-privacy-police-government">gain
access to the data that license plate cameras have collected about
him</a>.
<p>
We
should <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">not
allow license plate cameras to record seeing any particular plate</a>,
unless that plate is invalid or sought by court order.


title: Enslavement of high tech workers in Malaysia
uri: Enslavement-of-high-tech-workers-in-Malaysia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Enslavement_of_high_tech_workers_in_Malaysia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Enslavement_of_high_tech_workers_in_Malaysia%29

content:
<p>
More
about <a href="http://www.itworld.com/it-management/436552/use-forced-labor-systemic-malaysian-it-manufacturing?mm_ref=http%3A%2F%2Fboingboing.net%2F2014%2F09%2F18%2Fmalaysias-tech-manufacturing.html">enslavement
of high tech workers in Malaysia</a>, and suggestions for ending it.


title: Vote counting for Scotland's referendum
uri: Vote-counting-for-Scotland-s-referendum
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Vote_counting_for_Scotland's_referendum)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Vote_counting_for_Scotland%27s_referendum%29

content:
<p>
Russian observers say that the vote counting for Scotland's referendum
on
independence <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/19/russia-calls-foul-scottish-referendum">was
not done in accord with international norms</a>.
<p>
This is a cheap shot — the Scottish referendum should have been
run according to standards, but that does not validate
Putin's <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_March_2014_%28Why_the_election_in_Crimea_is_bogus%29">phony
elections in the Crimea</a> or
in <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-nov-feb.html#13%20November%202007%20%28Even%20jokes%29">Russia.</a>


title: Mother Jailed for Sending Semi-Naked Photos of Daughters
uri: Mother-Jailed-for-Sending-Semi-Naked-Photos-of-Daughters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Mother_Jailed_for_Sending_Semi-Naked_Photos_of_Daughters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Mother_Jailed_for_Sending_Semi-Naked_Photos_of_Daughters%29

content:
<p>
Mother Jailed
for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/mother-jailed-for-sending-semi-naked-photos-of-daughters-to-dance-teacher">Sending
Semi-Naked Photos of Daughters to Dance Teacher</a>.
<p>
It appears that the dance teacher manipulated her into doing this so
that her daughters would be admitted or kept in the dance school.  He
abused his power, but I don't think she should be punished.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(The_West_Is_Acting_on_Ebola)
title: The West Is Acting on Ebola
uri: The-West-Is-Acting-on-Ebola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28The_West_Is_Acting_on_Ebola%29
content:
<p>
Finally, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/19/west-ebola-drop-bombs-iraq-while-drugs-africa">The
West Is Acting on Ebola</a>.  What Took Us So Long?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Atheist_airman)
title: Atheist airman
uri: Atheist-airman
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Atheist_airman%29
content:
<p>
The US Air Force allowed an Atheist airman
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/us-air-force-atheist-airman-reeinlist">swear
his oath to support the Constitution without citing a deity</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_September_2014_(Thousands_protested_in_Moscow)
title: Thousands protested in Moscow
uri: Thousands-protested-in-Moscow
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_September_2014_%28Thousands_protested_in_Moscow%29

content:
<p>
Thousands <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/21/protest-moscow-russia-ukraine">protested
in Moscow against aggression in Ukraine</a>.


title: Only in US would people propose this law
uri: Only-in-US-would-people-propose-this-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_September_2014_(Only_in_US_would_people_propose_this_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_September_2014_%28Only_in_US_would_people_propose_this_law%29

content:
<p>
Only in the US would people
propose <a href="http://www.reason.com/blog/2014/09/18/are-the-parents-of-a-teen-murderer-guilt">a
law to punish parents simply because their teenage children commit
crimes</a>.


title: Failing completely to reduce CO2 emissions
uri: Failing-completely-to-reduce-CO2-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_September_2014_(Failing_completely_to_reduce_CO2_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_September_2014_%28Failing_completely_to_reduce_CO2_emissions%29

content:
<p>
Humanity
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/21/record-co2-emissions-committing-world-to-dangerous-climate-change">failing
completely to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions</a>; they are headed for a record
this year.


title: Afghanistan was unable to conclude an election
uri: Afghanistan-was-unable-to-conclude-an-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_September_2014_(Afghanistan_was_unable_to_conclude_an_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_September_2014_%28Afghanistan_was_unable_to_conclude_an_election%29

content:
<p>
Afghanistan was unable to conclude an election to choose between two
candidates for president, so
eventually <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/21/afghanistan-power-sharing-deal-abdullah-ashraf-ghani-ahmadzai">the
two leading candidates made a power-sharing deal</a>.
<p>
It does not betoken a government with sufficient unity and strength to
fight the Taliban.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_September_2014_(Fighting_fossil_fuels)
title: Fighting fossil fuels
uri: Fighting-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_September_2014_%28Fighting_fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>
Desmond Tutu calls
for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/21/desmond-tutu-climate-change-united-nations">fighting
fossil fuels with the tactics used to fight apartheid</a>, including
boycotting anything sponsored by fossil fuel companies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_September_2014_(Secret_prison_in_Afghanistan)
title: Secret prison in Afghanistan
uri: Secret-prison-in-Afghanistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_September_2014_%28Secret_prison_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
The US handed over
some <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/20/us-releases-14-pakistani-detainees-afghanistan">Pakistani
prisoners from its secret prison in Afghanistan to prison in
Pakistan</a>.
<p>
This Bagram prison is even nastier than Guantanamo; the prisoners have
been brought there from around the world, can't even see a lawyer, and
the US won't even say who is imprisoned there.  In effect, they have
been disappeared.
<p>
No matter what those men did, or are accused (perhaps spuriously) of
doing, it can't justify this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_September_2014_(A_wave_of_assassinations)
title: A wave of assassinations
uri: A-wave-of-assassinations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_September_2014_%28A_wave_of_assassinations%29
content:
<p>
Libyan Islamists appear to be behind
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/20/teenaged-libyan-peace-activists-assassinations-benghazi-libya-tripoli">wave
of assassinations of non-Islamists in Benghazi</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Ebola_virus)
title: Ebola virus
uri: Ebola-virus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Ebola_virus%29
content:
<p>
In the horrible world where Ebola virus
spreads, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/21/ebola-makes-you-a-risk-to-yourself-sierra-leone">anyone
who comes near you could kill you</a>.
<p>
If we stop the spread of Ebola reasonably soon, the long-term
population growth will be unaffected.  Having "neighbourhood
festivities" when a baby is born might be partly responsible for the
dangerously high growth rate.  We need to do something about that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(The_privatization_of_Britain)
title: The "privatization" of Britain
uri: The-privatization-of-Britain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28The_privatization_of_Britain%29

content:
<p>
How the "privatization" of
Britain <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/21/private-island-britain-belongs-someone-else-review-compelling-study-industries-foreign-hands">replaced
government services with foreign-controlled monopolies</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Poor_people_can_barely_cope)
title: Poor people can barely cope
uri: Poor-people-can-barely-cope
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Poor_people_can_barely_cope%29
content:
<p>
Why poor people eat junk food and smoke, and can't make long-term
plans that would improve their
circumstances: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/21/linda-tirado-poverty-hand-to-mouth-extract">they
can barely cope with each week</a>.
<p>
Being sleepy all the time makes it harder for people to plan well.
When the system imposes that on people, it's the system that must be
changed.  However, discouragement plays a role too.  It is hard to
summon up attention for long-term dangers when you know you can't
protect yourself from the immediate dangers.
<p>
This shows that the US needs to undo the plutocratic changes since
1980, so as to make most people's lives no worse than they were then.
<p>
However, it also shows the importance of helping the poor in ways that
don't require them to make plans, choose carefully among options, and
apply for support.  Because they don't have the time for that on top
of their daily obligations.
<p>
When a woman who did not want to get pregnant has an abortion, it
means the system failed to give her the means to avoid pregnancy and
she is correcting that failure.
<p>
We should help poor women avoid pregnancy by having high school steer
students into effective modern birth control, such as implants or
IUDs.  The state should pay for these, for all women.  To refuse is
stupid penny-pinching.
<p>
If you want to buy Ms Tirado's book, please don't order
it, <a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html">especially not from
Amazon.</a> Buy it with anonymous cash in a local independent book
store.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Fingerprinting_students)
title: Fingerprinting students
uri: Fingerprinting-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Fingerprinting_students%29
content:
<p>
UK schools have taken the fingerprints of a million students
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/privacy-concerns-raised-as-more-than-one-million-pupils-are-fingerprinted-in-schools-9034897.html">as
if it were nothing</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Google)
title: Google
uri: Google
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Google%29
content:
<p>
Assange: Google is effectively the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/19/google-acts-privatized-nsa-wikileaks-julian-assange">private
equivalent of the NSA</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Global_heating_denial)
title: Global heating denial
uri: 2014-09-22-Global-heating-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Global_heating_denial%29
content:
<p>
Global heating's effects are all around us, but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/19/climate-change-you-can-believe">powerful
plutocrats suppress recognition</a> of global heating in the US (and
Canada, Australia and the UK).  So US cities that want to plan to cope
with the consequences expected in the next few decades have to tiptoe
around the cause.


title: US massive surveillance programs
uri: US-massive-surveillance-programs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(US_massive_surveillance_programs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28US_massive_surveillance_programs%29

content:
<p>
The CDT and ACLU reported 5 US massive surveillance programs to the UN
as especially 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/19/five-us-surveillance-programs-undermining-global-human-rights">threatening
to human rights</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Paranoia_in_Australia)
title: Paranoia in Australia
uri: Paranoia-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Paranoia_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Paranoia in Australia: a passenger was kicked off a flight because
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/20/terror-doodles-removal-australian-man-tiger-airways">someone
saw him scribbling in a notebook about the fear of terrorism</a>.
<p>
This sort of paranoia helps governments attack human rights,
which does far more damage than terrorists ever could.


title: Obama to "forward-deploy" some "advisers"
uri: Obama-to-forward-deploy-some-advisers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Obama_to_forward-deploy_some_advisors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Obama_to_forward-deploy_some_advisors%29

content:
<p>
Obama says he won't send ground troops to fight in Iraq, but instead
will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/20/obama-war-legal-rationale-isis">"forward-deploy"
some of the "advisers"</a>.  In practice, it may be the same thing.
<p>
There may be some advantage in this disguise; until ISIS kills some on
the battlefield, the US could claim not to have troops fighting in
Iraq, much as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_September_2014_(Thousands_of_Russian_soldiers_sent_to_places_near_Ukraine)">Putin
pretended not to have Russian troops fighting in Ukraine</a>.


title: US thugs waiting to rob Canadians
uri: US-thugs-waiting-to-rob-Canadians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(US_thugs_waiting_to_rob_Canadians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28US_thugs_waiting_to_rob_Canadians%29

content:
<p>
Warning to Canadians: in the US, thugs are 
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/world/story/1.2760736">waiting to
rob you</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Artificial_sweeteners)
title: Artificial sweeteners
uri: Artificial-sweeteners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Artificial_sweeteners%29
content:
<p>
A study gives a preliminary suggestion that common artificial
sweeteners 
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/17/6338403/zero-calorie-blood-sugar-risk">can
affect intestinal bacteria in some people</a>, causing them to
experience high blood sugar levels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Antibiotic_resistance)
title: Antibiotic resistance
uri: 2014-09-22-Antibiotic-resistance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Antibiotic_resistance%29
content:
<p>
The proposed US law to prevent antibiotic resistance won't help; it
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/19/congress-should-oppose-bill-undermines-patient-safety-and-fails-tackle-rise">will
make the system worse</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Wars_of_Choice)
title: Wars of Choice
uri: Wars-of-Choice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Wars_of_Choice%29
content:
<p>
Ralph Nader: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/19/damaging-our-country-wars-choice">Damaging
Our Country from Wars of Choice</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(US_news_editors_rebuke_Obama)
title: US news editors rebuke Obama
uri: US-news-editors-rebuke-Obama
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28US_news_editors_rebuke_Obama%29

content:
<p>
Leading US news editors 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/19/top-news-editors-slam-white-house-secrecy-intimidation">rebuked
Obama</a> for making the US government more secretive and for
intimidation of journalists.


title: The poor to bear global heating cost
uri: The-poor-to-bear-global-heating-cost
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(The_poor_to_bear_global_heating_cost)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28The_poor_to_bear_global_heating_cost%29

content:
<p>
Rich countries including the US are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/20/us-climate-change-aid-poor-nations-un-summit">going
back on their promises to help poor countries cope</a> with the
damages of global heating.
<p>
It was inevitable that, as those increased, the rich countries would
someday face so much expense coping with those increasing damages that
they would refuse to help other countries.  Eventually the rich
countries themselves will be unable to cope.
<p>
However, the austerity that the plutocrats have imposed on the US
has made it happen sooner.


title: Less CO2 emissions from Australia
uri: Less-CO2-emissions-from-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Less_CO2_emissions_from_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Less_CO2_emissions_from_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Australia is drifting into less CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, which is good, but
means it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/20/australias-emissions-pledge-is-getting-easier-to-achieve-new-figures-show">should
adopt a more ambitious target</a>.


title: New Zealand voters reelect spying liars
uri: New-Zealand-voters-reelect-spying-liars
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(New_Zealand_voters_reelect_spying_liars)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28New_Zealand_voters_reelect_spying_liars%29

content:
<p>
New Zealand voters 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/20/new-zealand-election-john-key-national-overwhelming-victory">reelected
the rulers that spy on them all and lied about it</a>.
<p>
One might be tempted to say that they deserve such mistreatment, but
that is fallacious.  Only half of them chose it — but all are
now stuck with it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Nadya_ToloKonnikova)
title: Nadya ToloKonnikova
uri: Nadya-ToloKonnikova
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Nadya_ToloKonnikova%29
content:
<p>
Nadya Tolokonnikova 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/sep/19/nadya-tolokonnikova-pussy-riot-interview-nothing-to-lose">continues
working in Russia to oppose Putin's regime</a>, and global capitalism
on the side.
<p>
I don't oppose capitalism as such — the existence of private
businesses.  However, what some call "global capitalism" is more
plutocracy than capitalism as such, and I oppose plutocracy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_September_2014_(Peanut_contamination_hidden)
title: Peanut contamination hidden
uri: Peanut-contamination-hidden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_September_2014_%28Peanut_contamination_hidden%29
content:
<p>
Executives of a US peanut plant have been sentenced to prison for
falsifying contamination test records.  
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/three-convicted-tainted-peanuts-salmonella-outbreak">9
people died</a> from the contamination that they hid this way.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_September_2014_(Right_of_first_sale)
title: Right of first sale
uri: Right-of-first-sale
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_September_2014_%28Right_of_first_sale%29
content:
<p>
Congress is considering a 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/bill-introduced-congress-let-you-actually-own-things-even-if-they-contain-software">bill
to allow resale of devices that contain software covered by EULAs</a>.
<p>
This is a first step in the right direction.  The right of first sale
should trump all EULAs, and so should personal modification.
<p>
The article refers to <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org">DRM
(digital restrictions management)</a> by the unfortunate term 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalLocks">"digital
locks"</a>.  This grants them legitimacy by comparing them to ordinary
locks.  Please criticize that term when you see it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_September_2014_(March_for_the_Climate)
title: March for the Climate
uri: March-for-the-Climate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_September_2014_%28March_for_the_Climate%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/19/while-we-march-climate-governments-meet-polluters">While
We March for the Climate, Governments Meet with Polluters</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_September_2014_(Uber_drivers_getting_shafted)
title: Uber drivers getting shafted
uri: Uber-drivers-getting-shafted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_September_2014_%28Uber_drivers_getting_shafted%29

content:
<p>
Uber drivers are 
<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/against-sharing/">getting
shafted</a>; Uber can arbitrarily cut their pay, and they have to work
15 hours a day.  Some are trying to unionize.
<p>
Uber 
<a href="https://stallman.org/uber.html">requires running nonfree
software</a>, too; if you value your freedom, you won't consider Uber
an option.
<p>
We should not accept the whitewash label of "sharing economy" for
companies like Uber.  A more accurate term is "piecework subcontractor
economy".


title: University divestment from fossil fuels
uri: 2014-09-23-University-divestment-from-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_September_2014_(University_divestment_from_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_September_2014_%28University_divestment_from_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
The University of Dayton has 
<a href="http://ncronline.org/blogs/eco-catholic/university-dayton-divests-fossil-fuels">decided
to divest from fossil fuels</a> and invest some of those funds in
green energy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_September_2014_(Folly_of_school_lockdown_drills)
title: Folly of school "lockdown" drills
uri: Folly-of-school-lockdown-drills
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_September_2014_%28Folly_of_school_lockdown_drills%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://karenfraid.tumblr.com/post/42953390104/permanent-lockdown-and-the-ethics-of-lying-to-children">The
folly</a> of repeated "lockdown" drills in US schools.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Google_breaks_with_ALEC)
title: Google breaks with ALEC
uri: Google-breaks-with-ALEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Google_breaks_with_ALEC%29
content:
<p>
Google has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/23/google-to-cut-ties-with-rightwing-lobby-group-over-climate-change-lies">broken
with ALEC</a>.
<p>
Being willing to work with ALEC even over some other issue suggests
a moral blindness.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(US_air_strikes_against_ISIS)
title: US air strikes against ISIS
uri: US-air-strikes-against-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28US_air_strikes_against_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
The US started air strikes against ISIS in Syria,
including in the city of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/us-launches-air-strikes-against-isis-targets-in-syria">Raqaa</a>,
with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/arab-allies-helping-us-fight-isis">cooperation
from Jordan</a>.
<p>
An announcement on CNN said, "A military official said the strikes are
meant to target the ability of the terror group to command and
control, resupply and train."  There is nothing wrong with those goals
in principle, but this means the attacks are not against troops in the
field — and therefore are likely to kill civilians.
<p>
If the people living in Raqaa resent ISIS and wish they could kick
ISIS out, they will welcome these attacks; if some of them are killed,
they will consider that a necessary evil and blame ISIS.  But if they
don't resent ISIS, they will blame the US for those deaths, and give
ISIS more support.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(The_tax_inversion_loophole)
title: The "tax inversion" loophole
uri: The-tax-inversion-loophole
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28The_tax_inversion_loophole%29
content:
<p>
Obama says 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/obama-target-firms-us-taxes">administrative
measures</a> will close the "tax inversion" loophole.
<p>
It will be good to shut it this way, but that ought to be firmed up in
law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(The_spying-industrial_complex)
title: The spying-industrial complex
uri: 2014-09-24-The-spying-industrial-complex
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28The_spying-industrial_complex%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://whatsupic.com/news-politics-usa/5-companies46873874.html">spying-industrial
complex</a>: 5 companies that get contracts from US intelligence
agencies and continually exaggerate the danger of terrorism.
<p>
Terrorists do exist, but the threat they pose to Americans is minute
compared with the danger of cars, smoking, and the plutocratic regime
that leaves tens of millions of Americans with no health care except
the emergency room.
<p>
Terrorism hype is striking Australia too, and being used as the 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=5325">excuse to attack
civil liberties there</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Harassment_of_US_journalists)
title: Harassment of US journalists
uri: Harassment-of-US-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Harassment_of_US_journalists%29

content:
<p>
The Committee to Protect Journalists 
<a href="http://cpj.org/2014/09/cpj-urges-us-mitigate-threats-journalism-newsgathering.php">rebuked
the Obama regime again</a> for its harassment and prosecution of
journalists.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(400,000_people_march_in_NYC)
title: 400,000 people march in NYC
uri: 400-000-people-march-in-NYC
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28400%2C000_people_march_in_NYC%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/22/largest-global-call-climate-action-history">400,000
people joined in the climate march</a> in New York City.
<p>
This was followed by the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/22/flood-wall-street-protest-arrest-police-climate-change-new-york">Flood
Wall Street protest</a>.  The protesters couldn't get inside the stock
exchanges, but pointed out that the ocean <em>will</em> get in, unless
we stop the global heating that raises sea level.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Private_US_college_tuition)
title: Private US college tuition
uri: Private-US-college-tuition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Private_US_college_tuition%29
content:
<p>
Private US colleges are 
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-18/colleges-make-low-income-families-pay-more-than-ever">demanding
more money from poor families while offering scholarships to the
wealthy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Hong_Kong_students_protest)
title: Hong Kong students protest
uri: Hong-Kong-students-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Hong_Kong_students_protest%29
content:
<p>
Hong Kong students have called a week of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/hong-kong-students-democracy-protest">strikes
to demand democratic elections</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Australia_cutting_intel_budget)
title: Australia cutting intel budget
uri: Australia-cutting-intel-budget
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Australia_cutting_intel_budget%29

content:
<p>
Australia has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/australias-national-security-at-risk-from-spy-agency-funding-cuts">cutting
the budget for intelligence agencies</a>.  Proposed 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_August_2014_(New_counter-terrorism_proposals_in_Australia)">attacks 
on human rights</a> are apparently meant to compensate for that.


title: Effects of global heating on the poor
uri: Effects-of-global-heating-on-the-poor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Effects_of_global_heating_on_the_poor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Effects_of_global_heating_on_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
Coping with the effects of global heating is leaving some poor countries
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/22/poor-nations-climate-change-budget-health-education">short
of funds for health care and education</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Employment)
title: Employment
uri: Employment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Employment%29
content:
<p>
Extending unemployment benefits 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/12/1329302/-Republicans-Caught-in-A-Colossal-Lie-About-Unemployment-Benefits">has
no effect on when or whether people get back to work</a>.  But it sure
helps them avoid living in the street unless/until they get work
again.
<p>
What does help get people work is government spending directed in ways
that create a lot of jobs — not spending on banks or weapons.
For instance, unemployment benefits feed money into the economy, and
the recipients are sure to spend it right away on job-creating
activities.
<p>
Almost 40% of potentially employed people in the US are not working,
because there aren't jobs for them.  Most of them are in some degree
of hardship.  Automation is likely to make this a lot worse.
<p>
The solution is a 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/brain20140916">basic
income for everyone</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Courageous_Australian_MP)
title: Courageous Australian MP
uri: Courageous-Australian-MP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Courageous_Australian_MP%29
content:
<p>
A courageous Australian MP calls for former prime minister Howard to
be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/howard-should-be-tried-for-conspiracy-to-commit-mass-says-andrew-wilkie">prosecuted
by the ICC for starting a war based on lies</a>.
<p>
Hear, hear!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Ban_on_Fracking)
title: Ban on Fracking
uri: Ban-on-Fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Ban_on_Fracking%29
content:
<p>
The Urgent
Case <a href="http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/R?i=DLoIHQbXC3T9kaHZxjo-kg">for
a Ban on Fracking</a>.


title: Republicans blocking voter registrations
uri: Republicans-blocking-voter-registrations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Republicans_blocking_voter_registrations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Republicans_blocking_voter_registrations%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in Georgia
are <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/18/1330565/-GA-SOS-suppressing-51-000-voter-registrations-because?detail=email">blocking
51,000 voter registrations</a>, apparently because they are from
minority groups.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Preventative_detention)
title: "Preventative detention"
uri: Preventative-detention
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Preventative_detention%29
content:
<p>
Australia has ordered some sort
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/indefinite-ban-reporting-counter-terrorism-preventative-detention-order">"preventative
detention"</a> for people associated in some way with an alleged
terror plot.  Everyone is forbidden to publish any information about
what is going on, including (it appears) the names of the people
imprisoned.
<p>
Are those people's friends talking about their absence?


title: UK may sneak secretly into a ground war in Iraq
uri: UK-may-sneak-secretly-into-a-ground-war-in-Iraq
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(UK_may_sneak_secretly_into_a_ground_war_in_Iraq)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28UK_may_sneak_secretly_into_a_ground_war_in_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
The UK
may <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/defence-and-security-blog/2014/sep/22/sas-iraq-syria">sneak
secretly into a ground war in Iraq using commando groups</a>, while
imposing new secrecy rules to thwart democracy.


title: Global economy needs to cut its carbon intensity
uri: Global-economy-needs-to-cut-its-carbon-intensity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Global_economy_needs_to_cut_its_carbon_intensity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Global_economy_needs_to_cut_its_carbon_intensity%29

content:
<p>
The global
economy <a href="media/16705b4c.low-carbon-economy-index-2014.pdf" data-original-source="http://pwc.co.uk/assets/pdf/low-carbon-economy-index-2014.pdf">needs
to cut its carbon intensity by 6% per year from now till 2100</a> to
avoid more than 2 degrees of heating.
<p>
And that's assuming good luck, that we don't hit an unexpected
positive feedback that sends heating shooting ahead.


title: Exports of fossil fuels and uranium
uri: Exports-of-fossil-fuels-and-uranium
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Exports_of_fossil_fuels_and_uranium)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Exports_of_fossil_fuels_and_uranium%29

content:
<p>
Australia's government plans
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/23/energy-superpower-coalitions-grand-fossil-fuel-plan-for-australia">increase
exports of fossil fuels and uranium</a>, effectively aiming to push
the rest of the world to cause global heating disaster.


title: Western Australia killed an aboriginal woman
uri: Western-Australia-killed-an-aboriginal-woman
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Western_Australia_killed_an_aboriginal_woman)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Western_Australia_killed_an_aboriginal_woman%29

content:
<p>
Western Australia killed an aboriginal woman
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/death-in-custody-over-unpaid-parking-fines-independent-inquiry-urged">jailing
her for unpaid parking tickets and denying her medical care</a>.


title: Queensland returning land to aboriginal traditional owners
uri: Queensland-returning-land-to-aboriginal-traditional-owners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Queensland_returning_land_to_aboriginal_traditional_owners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Queensland_returning_land_to_aboriginal_traditional_owners%29

content:
<p>
Queensland
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/cape-york-land-handover-to-traditional-owners-repairs-a-historical-wrong">returning
20,000 square km of land to aboriginal traditional owners</a>.
<p>
Europeans took the land of Australia from the aboriginal peoples, and
it is right to give some of it back.
<p>
However, I do not approve of the aboriginal culture's idea that major
aspects of that culture, its laws in effect, should be the property of
small groups.  Secret law is not law.  It
does <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Drone_assassination_memo%29">far
more harm in Obama's hands</a>, or the <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Preventative_detention%29">Australian government's hands</a>,
than in the aboriginal people's hands, because the latter have
comparatively little power.  It is wrong in principle nonetheless.


title: Single mothers occupied boarded-up building
uri: Single-mothers-occupied-boarded-up-building
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Single_mothers_occupied_boarded-up_building)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Single_mothers_occupied_boarded-up_building%29

content:
<p>
29 single mothers, made homeless by the UK's crush-the-poor policies
and threatened with being sent 200 miles
away, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/23/real-politics-empty-london-housing-estate">have
occupied a boarded-up building in their town</a>.


title: Life in prison for publishing political views
uri: Life-in-prison-for-publishing-political-views
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Life_in_prison_for_publishing_political_views)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Life_in_prison_for_publishing_political_views%29

content:
<p>
China sentenced Ilham Tohti
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/xinjiang-china-court-ilham-tohti-muslim-uighur-life-in-prison">life
in prison for publishing political views</a>.
<p>
The US is not in a position to sneer at China, given what it continues
to do in Guantanamo.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(ISIS_released_video)
title: ISIS released video
uri: ISIS-released-video
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28ISIS_released_video%29
content:
<p>
ISIS released a video calling on supporters
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/islamic-states-call-to-kill-westerners-has-terrorism-experts-divided">kill
non-Muslims in Australia, Canada, Europe and the US</a>.
<p>
It is a valid point that this video shows ISIS does not have the power
to carry out such attacks itself.
<p>
A more important point becomes visible when we consider why ISIS made
this statement.  They can't help knowing that it will inflame
war-fever in those countries, so that must be their aim.  They must
want those countries to engage in an overt war that will boost support
for ISIS among the people it rules.  They are telling us, enemies they
can barely touch, to "come out and fight like a man" so they can
profit from that mistake.
<p>
One Australian
politician <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/islamic-state-labor-mp-says-rational-debate-drowned-out-by-drums-of-war">questions
the logic of trying to destroy ISIS by war.</a> "We must curb our
instinctive reaction and look at the root causes."
<p>
Jordan's participation in the attack on ISIS in Syria was
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/arab-allies-helping-us-fight-isis">good
move for Obama</a>, since it will undermine ISIS's message to Sunnis.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Home_of_the_brave)
title: Home of the brave
uri: Home-of-the-brave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Home_of_the_brave%29
content:
<p>
The thug who accosted Danielle Watts had no legal basis to do so, and
he handcuffed for 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/15/1329845/-Daniele-Watts-Wasn-t-Detained-for-Prostitution-it-s-Much-Worse-than-That">calmly
exercising the legal rights everyone is supposed to have in the US</a>.
<p>
Three cheers for Danielle Watts!


title: Walmart dumps cost of uniforms on workers
uri: Walmart-dumps-cost-of-uniforms-on-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Walmart_dumps_cost_of_uniforms_on_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Walmart_dumps_cost_of_uniforms_on_workers%29

content:
<p>
Walmart is 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/17/1330399/-Walmart-finds-a-new-way-to-exploit-workers-with-a-new-dress-code">dumping
the cost of new uniforms on its workers</a> by calling the uniforms a
"dress code".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Thug_tases_teenage_driver)
title: Thug tases teenage driver
uri: Thug-tases-teenage-driver
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Thug_tases_teenage_driver%29
content:
<p>
A thug tased a teenage driver, apparently because the car's electric
window on the passenger side did not open.  Dragged out of the car,
the driver's head seems to have hit the ground, causing a grave brain
injury.
<p>
This is unremarkable in the US, but this teenager was not a mere
citizen.  He was the son of another thug.  So 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/16/1330050/-Another-Out-Of-Control-Cop-Story-But-This-Cop-May-Have-Messed-With-The-Wrong-Kid">shit
is hitting the fan</a>.
<p>
I hope that kid gets justice, but it won't be a lot of justice if
it applies only when the victim is the child of a thug.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(After_Scotlands_vote)
title: After Scotland's vote
uri: After-Scotland-s-vote
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28After_Scotlands_vote%29
content:
<p>
After Scotland almost voted to exit the UK, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/21/miliband-memo-britain-social-order-bankrupt">will
that be enough to convert the timid Labour Party</a> into something
ready to fix what is wrong?


title: Rockefellers to divest from fossil fuel
uri: Rockefellers-to-divest-from-fossil-fuel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Rockefellers_to_divest_from_fossil_fuel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Rockefellers_to_divest_from_fossil_fuel%29

content:
<p>
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/22/rockefellers-and-investors-pledge-50bn-divestment-from-fossil-fuels">pledged
to divest from fossil fuel</a>.
<p>
In addition to punishing fossil fuel companies' stock price —
which could be cancelled out if other investors buy in — the
divestment movement can concentrate plutocratic lobbying power in
favor of decarbonization.  Plutocratic lobbying power is an injustice,
and to restore democracy we must get rid of it, but in the mean time
setting some of it against global heating is a step forward.


title: Surrendering France to plutocrats
uri: Surrendering-France-to-plutocrats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Surrendering_France_to_plutocrats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Surrendering_France_to_plutocrats%29

content:
<p>
The French government, under the Socialist Party, plans to make France
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/manuel-valls-praise-angela-merkel-french-economic-reform-plans">"more
competitive"</a>.  That's the code word for "surrender to the
plutocrats."


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Militarization_of_US_thugs)
title: Militarization of US thugs
uri: 2014-09-24-Militarization-of-US-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Militarization_of_US_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The Pentagon gives military weapons even to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/pentagon-police-military-gear-civil-rights-justice-department">thug
departments that the US government considers likely to violate
people's rights</a>.  It is a mistake to suppose that the other thug
departments won't do this.  Hardly any of them should get military
weapons.
<p>
The existence of a SWAT team 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#11_March_2013_(Giving_US_thugs_military_weapons)">impels 
rules to use it frequently</a>, and that use puts people's lives in
danger.  The US needs 20 SWAT teams in cities distributed around the
country; more than that is an avoidable risk.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Bearers_of_economic_risks)
title: Bearers of economic risks
uri: Bearers-of-economic-risks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Bearers_of_economic_risks%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/22/why-ordinary-people-bear-economic-risks-and-donald-trump-doesnt">Why
Ordinary People Bear Economic Risks and Donald Trump Doesn't.</a>


title: India's attack against Greenpeace
uri: India-s-attack-against-Greenpeace
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Indias_attack_against_Greenpeace)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Indias_attack_against_Greenpeace%29

content:
<p>
India denied entry to a Greenpeace official, as part of a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/22/greenpeace-worker-refused-entry-india">broad
attack against Greenpeace</a>.
<p>
The Modi government is turning out to be an even greater sellout to
business than the Congress Party was.


title: Evidence that Darrien Hunt was cosplaying
uri: Evidence-that-Darrien-Hunt-was-cosplaying
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Evidence_that_Darrien_Hunt_was_cosplaying)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Evidence_that_Darrien_Hunt_was_cosplaying%29

content:
<p>
There is evidence suggesting Darrien Hunt was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/darrien-hunt-sketches-fantasy-cosplay">cosplaying
when thugs shot him</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Ocean_acidification)
title: Ocean acidification
uri: 2014-09-24-Ocean-acidification
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Ocean_acidification%29
content:
<p>
Human CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, by acidifying the oceans, are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/22/the-uns-new-york-climate-summit-is-guilty-of-a-major-sin-of-omission">reducing
the ocean's ability to absorb CO<sub>2</sub></a>.  This means more of the
emissions will go into the atmosphere and global heating will speed
up.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_September_2014_(Sports_teams_bully_US_cities)
title: Sports teams bully US cities
uri: Sports-teams-bully-US-cities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_%28Sports_teams_bully_US_cities%29

content:
<p>
Arrogant sports teams 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/22/-sp-how-american-sports-franchises-sell-cities-short">bully
US cities into funding stadiums for them</a>, promising the cities
economic growth — which benefits only a few, if it happens at
all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Protesters_block_UK_coal_train)
title: Protesters block UK coal train
uri: Protesters-block-UK-coal-train
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Protesters_block_UK_coal_train%29

content:
<p>
Greenpeace protesters in the UK 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/23/fifty-activists-and-polar-bear-halt-uk-coal-train">blocked
a coal train</a> and packed the coal into bags saying to return it to
Putin.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Mass_protest_in_Tokyo)
title: Mass protest in Tokyo
uri: Mass-protest-in-Tokyo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Mass_protest_in_Tokyo%29
content:
<p>
A mass protest in Tokyo 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/23/remember-fukushima-thousands-rally-against-nuclear-restart-japan">against
restarting nuclear power plants</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Plagiarism_of_policy_proposals)
title: "Plagiarism" of policy proposals
uri: Plagiarism-of-policy-proposals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Plagiarism_of_policy_proposals%29

content:
<p>
Two Republican legislators 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/09/12606/wi-alec-plagiarists-criticize-burke-copying-jobs-plan">criticized
a Democratic candidate for "plagiarizing" part of the text of a policy
proposal</a>.  The same two Republicans did not hesitate to copy a
nasty ALEC model bill and present it as their own work.
<p>
The concept of plagiarism is not applicable to policy proposals and
laws.  It would be total folly to refrain from advocating a good
policy just because someone else has advocated it before.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Science_and_political_issues)
title: Science and political issues
uri: Science-and-political-issues
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Science_and_political_issues%29

content:
<p>
Scientists must 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2014/sep/24/martyrs-science-history-galileo-nazi">resist
the idea that science is above politics and that they ought to be
apolitical</a>.
<p>
Today, several areas of science tie directly to the most important
political issues of our age, including global heating, privacy, and
toxic agricultural practices.


title: Attempt to hold torturers responsible
uri: Attempt-to-hold-torturers-responsible
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Attempt_to_hold_torturers_responsible)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Attempt_to_hold_torturers_responsible%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/sep/24/pakistani-citizen-uk-torture-case">Trying
again</a> to hold British soldiers in the Bush forces responsible for
torture carried out in cahoots with the US government.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Metaphors_and_global_heating)
title: Metaphors and global heating
uri: Metaphors-and-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Metaphors_and_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Taking metaphors seriously is 
<a href="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/015994.html">no
way to understand an important issue such as global heating</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Fines_issued_by_thug_in_rage)
title: Fines issued by thug in rage
uri: Fines-issued-by-thug-in-rage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Fines_issued_by_thug_in_rage%29

content:
<p>
A thug in Seattle expressed his hostility to another official by
<a href="http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Prosecutor-to-drop-all-Seattle-marijuana-tickets-276204811.html">giving
80 people fines for smoking marijuana</a>, apparently illegally.


title: China promises cap on greenhouse gas
uri: China-promises-cap-on-greenhouse-gas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(China_promises_cap_on_greenhouse_gas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28China_promises_cap_on_greenhouse_gas%29

content:
<p>
China pledged to publish soon a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/chinas-choice/2014/sep/24/china-pledges-to-cut-emissions-at-un-climate-summit">schedule
for capping and reducing greenhouse gas emissions</a>.
<p>
If China goes through with this, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/24/five-ways-ban-ki-moons-summit-has-changed-international-climate-politics-forever">the
US had better do it too</a>.
<p>
Most of the increase in greenhouse gas emissions comes from 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/sep/24/record-year-for-fossil-fuel-emissions-declared-pushes-carbon-budget-to-the-brink">China,
the US, and India</a>.


title: Tasmania's proposed anti-protest laws
uri: Tasmania-s-proposed-anti-protest-laws
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Tasmanias_proposed_anti-protest_laws)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Tasmanias_proposed_anti-protest_laws%29

content:
<p>
Tasmania's proposed law, meant to crush protests against logging,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/tasmania-to-overhaul-draconian-anti-protest-laws-aimed-at-forestry">will
exclude places such as stores and public areas</a>.  But it will
still be aimed at forests, factories, and farms, so it is still
unacceptable.


title: Australia's plans for asylum seekers
uri: Australia-s-plans-for-asylum-seekers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Australias_plans_for_asylum_seekers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Australias_plans_for_asylum_seekers%29

content:
<p>
Australia is trying to make asylum seekers go to Papua New Guinea,
including some who are gay — 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/gay-asylum-seekers-manus-island-fear-persecution-png">but
they would be persecuted there</a>.
<p>
It <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/asylum-seekers-morrison-will-sign-resettlement-deal-with-cambodia">plans
to force them to Cambodia</a> instead.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Turkey_to_fight_ISIS)
title: Turkey to fight ISIS
uri: Turkey-to-fight-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Turkey_to_fight_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
Turkey 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/turkey-us-air-strikes-isis-syria-erdogan">will
participate in fighting ISIS</a>.
<p>
This support is clearly useful, but even though Turkey's government is
not as bad as Saudi Arabia's or Bahrain's or Qatar's, it is still
Islamist and an 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#22_January_2013_(Human_rights_lawyers_arrested_in_Turkey)">enemy
of human rights</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Duck_Duck_Go_gains_prestige)
title: Duck Duck Go gains prestige
uri: Duck-Duck-Go-gains-prestige
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Duck_Duck_Go_gains_prestige%29
content:
<p>
China awarded Duck Duck Go its most prestigious internet medal:
<a href="http://www.techinasia.com/duckduckgo-joins-google-blocked-china/">censorship</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(UK_children_retarded_by_poverty)
title: UK children retarded by poverty
uri: UK-children-retarded-by-poverty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28UK_children_retarded_by_poverty%29

content:
<p>
Plutocrat-imposed poverty in the UK shows up in children: half the
children of the age to start school are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/23/half-children-reception-unready-school">not
mentally developed enough</a>.  Their parents are too short of money
to do what the children need.
<p>
The Tory Party has condemned those children to a life of backwardness,
but Labour says it will make only marginal improvements.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Right-wing_donations_laundered)
title: Right-wing donations laundered
uri: Right-wing-donations-laundered
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Right-wing_donations_laundered%29

content:
<p>
Dinesh D'Souza 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/dinesh-dsouza-guilty-sentenced-campaign-finance-service">confessed
to laundering donations</a> for right-wing political campaigns.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(US_airstrikes_in_Raqqa)
title: US airstrikes in Raqqa
uri: US-airstrikes-in-Raqqa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28US_airstrikes_in_Raqqa%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/raqqa-residents-divided-us-air-strikes-isis-syria">Interviews
with civilians</a> in Raqqa about the US airstrikes there.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Spains_right-wing_govt)
title: Spain's right-wing gov't
uri: Spain-s-right-wing-gov-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Spains_right-wing_govt%29
content:
<p>
Spain's right-wing government has given up on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/spain-abandons-plan-introduce-tough-new-abortion-laws">attacking
abortion rights</a>.
<p>
However, it has already made a large fraction of Spaniards poor, and
attacked the right to protest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_September_2014_(Unemployment_in_Italy)
title: Unemployment in Italy
uri: Unemployment-in-Italy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_September_2014_%28Unemployment_in_Italy%29
content:
<p>
An Italian town's last-ditch effort to help the unemployed people is
to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/sardinian-town-novel-way-cut-unemployment-pay-people-to-leave">give
some of them funds to try to emigrate</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(Israeli_soldiers_kill_suspects)
title: Israeli soldiers kill suspects
uri: Israeli-soldiers-kill-suspects
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28Israeli_soldiers_kill_suspects%29

content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers found the two Palestinians that were suspected of
kidnaping and murdering three Israeli teenagers, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/israel-kills-palestinian-suspects-teenagers-murder">killed
them</a>.
<p>
Why weren't they arrested instead?  Maybe they fought and made it
impossible to arrest them.  Or maybe the Israelis preferred to kill
them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_September_2014_(US_allied_with_vicious_regimes)
title: US allied with vicious regimes
uri: US-allied-with-vicious-regimes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28US_allied_with_vicious_regimes%29

content:
<p>
The US is now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/obama-hails-arab-allies-isis-syrian-air-strikes">allied
with Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and
Qatar</a>, in fighting in Syria.
<p>
It makes strategic sense to ally with Sunni monarchies to undermine
the claims of ISIS to the loyalty of Sunnis.  But I can't understand
how anyone can be "proud to stand shoulder to shoulder" with these
vicious regimes.  Saudi Arabia 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#11_August_2011_(Beheading_Fuels_Backlash)">beheads 
people regularly</a>, and oppresses women almost as badly as ISIS
does.  As for Bahrain, remember the protests and the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#20%20February%202011%20(Protesters%20attacked)">massacres</a>?


title: Urgent: Strict limits on shipping oil on trains
uri: Urgent-Strict-limits-on-shipping-oil-on-trains
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Urgent:_Strict_limits_on_shipping_oil_on_trains)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Strict_limits_on_shipping_oil_on_trains%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/oil_trains">strict limits
on shipping oil on trains</a>.


title: Urgent: Make commitments for renewable energy
uri: Urgent-Make-commitments-for-renewable-energy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Urgent:_Make_commitments_for_renewable_energy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Make_commitments_for_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Amazon
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1709">make
commitments for renewable energy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Painful_reality_of_poverty)
title: Painful reality of poverty
uri: Painful-reality-of-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Painful_reality_of_poverty%29
content:
<p>
Talking about
"inequality" <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/24/language-of-poverty-inequality-britain">covers
up the painful reality of poverty</a>.


title: Jailed for a year without charges or lawyers
uri: Jailed-for-a-year-without-charges-or-lawyers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Jailed_for_a_year_without_charges_or_lawyers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Jailed_for_a_year_without_charges_or_lawyers%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU is suing to free people that Mississippi jailed for as much
as a
year <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/mississippi-inmates-held-without-indictments-aclu-lawsuit">without
charges or lawyers</a>.


title: Massive and broad attack on Australians' freedom
uri: Massive-and-broad-attack-on-Australians-freedom
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Massive_and_broad_attack_on_Australians'_freedom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Massive_and_broad_attack_on_Australians%27_freedom%29

content:
<p>
Australia's government is using far-away ISIS as
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/tony-abbott-trade-freedom-security">excuse
for a massive and broad attack on Australians' freedom</a>, including
imprisonment of reporters and whistleblowers, massive surveillance,
and punishment without trial.
<p>
ISIS is a horrible threat to people in Iraq and Syria; for Australia,
the danger of ISIS is a pinprick compared with this.


title: John Crawford was not threatening anyone
uri: John-Crawford-was-not-threatening-anyone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(John_Crawford_was_not_threatening_anyone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28John_Crawford_was_not_threatening_anyone%29

content:
<p>
Walmart's security camera shows that John Crawford was not threatening
anyone, bothering anyone, or pointing the BB rifle at anyone when
thugs shot him.  He
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/surveillance-video-walmart-shooting-john-crawford-police">standing
still, talking on his phone</a>.
<p>
A passerby told the thugs that Crawford was pointing the BB rifle at
people, and the thugs who killed Crawford falsely repeated that claim,
but they shot him without taking a couple of seconds of care to check
it.
<p>
If thugs can get away with this sort of excuse, nobody is safe.
However, whites are in less danger than blacks: people are less likely
to falsely perceive whites as threatening others, and thugs are less
likely to shoot whites before asking questions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Plutocratic_extremists_in_US)
title: Plutocratic extremists in US
uri: Plutocratic-extremists-in-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Plutocratic_extremists_in_US%29

content:
<p>
Plutocratic extremists in the US want
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/23/if-children-are-being-crowded-out-it-being-done-rich-people">set
retired people and children against each other</a>, hoping parents
will blame the retired and fight them for the dwindling share of the
nation's production that plutocrats allow to everyone else.


title: Urgent: Stop trying to patent mutant human genes
uri: Urgent-Stop-trying-to-patent-mutant-human-genes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_trying_to_patent_mutant_human_genes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_trying_to_patent_mutant_human_genes%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Myriad Genetics
to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/australia-breast-cancer-myriad-genetic/">stop
trying to patent mutant human genes</a>.
<p>
Of course, what is really needed is a law to eliminate all such
patents in Australia, that's no reason not to pressure the companies
that try to exploit the existing bad law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Palo_Alto's_electricity)
title: Palo Alto's electricity
uri: Palo-Alto-s-electricity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Palo_Alto%27s_electricity%29
content:
<p>
Palo Alto's
electricity <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2014/09/palo_alto_power_supply_how_the_home_of_stanford_became_carbon_neutral.html">is
carbon-neutral</a>, and cheap compared with the rest of California.
<p>
However, that doesn't include the cars; there is still a long way to
go.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Thugs_will_not_be_prosecuted)
title: Thugs will not be prosecuted
uri: Thugs-will-not-be-prosecuted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Thugs_will_not_be_prosecuted%29

content:
<p>
The thugs that shot John Crawford, while he carried a BB-gun he was
about to
buy, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/walmart-shooting-grand-jury-declines-indict-john-crawford">will
not be prosecuted</a>.
<p>
The US legal system, through a combination of its official rules and
its unstated prejudices, empowers thugs to shoot innocent black men
from time to time, and to harass them continually.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Israeli_crime)
title: Israeli crime
uri: Israeli-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Israeli_crime%29
content:
<p>
Kidnaping and killing three Israeli teenagers was a horrible crime, by
every day standards, but Israel used it as
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/24/guardian-view-human-economic-political-costs-gaza-war">excuse
to commit a crime 400 times as big</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Privacy_research)
title: Privacy research
uri: Privacy-research
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Privacy_research%29
content:
<p>
Google gave money to Stanford for research, but made Stanford accept
the
condition <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/stanford-promises-not-to-use-google-money-for-privacy-research">not
to use it to fund privacy research</a>.
<p>
[later] It seems the original report was based on a misunderstanding;
everyone now says there was no such restriction.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Marine_reserves_in_the_Pacific)
title: Marine reserves in the Pacific
uri: Marine-reserves-in-the-Pacific
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Marine_reserves_in_the_Pacific%29

content:
<p>
The US and
Kiribati <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/25/barack-obama-worlds-largest-ocean-reserve-pacific">will
create vast marine reserves in the Pacific</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(US_attack_on_ISIS_oil_wells)
title: US attack on ISIS oil wells
uri: US-attack-on-ISIS-oil-wells
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28US_attack_on_ISIS_oil_wells%29
content:
<p>
The US attacked ISIS oil wells and refineries to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/analysis-syria-us-air-strikes-oil-wells">cut
off its funding</a>.
<p>
It seems like an intelligent way to damage ISIS, but it risks causing
horrible pollution.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Pseudoscience_in_UK_schools)
title: Pseudoscience in UK schools
uri: Pseudoscience-in-UK-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Pseudoscience_in_UK_schools%29
content:
<p>
UK schools teach 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/sep/25/pseudoscience-creationist-schools-uk-accelerated-christian-education-ace">creationist
pseudoscience</a> and some universities recognize it academically.


title: EU research on oil spill containment
uri: EU-research-on-oil-spill-containment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(EU_research_on_oil_spill_containment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28EU_research_on_oil_spill_containment%29

content:
<p>
A large EU research project for containing oil spills from undersea
oil wells 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/25/row-over-eu-marine-protection-fund-tasked-with-lobbying-for-oil-drilling
">has the stated goal of encouraging public support for such wells</a>.
<p>
Research on containing spills is a valid goal; risking the spills is
not.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Germanys_genocide_in_Namibia)
title: Germany's genocide in Namibia
uri: Germany-s-genocide-in-Namibia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Germanys_genocide_in_Namibia%29

content:
<p>
Germany's first 20th century genocide, in Namibia, 
<a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek240914.htm">trained
many of the people who carried out Nazi genocide</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(US_high_school_dress_rules)
title: US high school dress rules
uri: US-high-school-dress-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28US_high_school_dress_rules%29
content:
<p>
Students in many US high schools protested the dress rules 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/24/us-high-schools-dress-codes-protest-sexism-hemline">imposed
on girls by the American Taliban</a>, and the nasty punishments used 
to enforce them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(US_beer_market)
title: US beer market
uri: US-beer-market
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28US_beer_market%29
content:
<p>
One giant beer conglomerate 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/24/giant-corporations-want-control-all-your-beer">controls
half the US market</a>.  Four companies control almost 80%.
<p>
That's about as bad as the ISP market, the book publishing market, and
the recorded music market.
<p>
I think we should take whatever steps are needed so that no company,
unless it is a regulated monopoly, controls more than 5% of any field.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Cal_students_under_control)
title: Cal students under control
uri: Cal-students-under-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Cal_students_under_control%29
content:
<p>
50 years ago, students at UC Berkeley defeated an attempt to control
them with censorship.  Today, under plutocratic rule, students are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/24/fifty-years-later-who-really-won-battle-berkeley">controlled
with debt they can't pay</a>, because the plutocrats got out of paying
taxes.


title: Attacking without UN authorization
uri: Attacking-without-UN-authorization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Attacking_without_UN_authorization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Attacking_without_UN_authorization%29

content:
<p>
Attacking ISIS in Syria, without authorization from the UN Security
Council, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/24/obama-bombs-syria-and-threatens-wider-war-violation-un-charter">violates
the treaties that created the UN</a>, and Obama's argument that it is
Iraq's right of self-defense is invalid.
<p>
If it were valid, it would 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/24/obamas-novel-lawyering-bomb-syria">equally
well authorize Assad to bomb Turkey</a>.
<p>
The ethical argument that convinces me it is right to bomb ISIS forces
in the field as they try to conquer cities and big dams is that we
must protect those people from horrible oppression including mass
murder.  I don't know how that plays out against the UN charter, but
that's not the argument Obama made.


title: Urgent: Protest unfair trade treaties
uri: Urgent-Protest-unfair-trade-treaties
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Urgent:_Protest_unfair_trade_treaties)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protest_unfair_trade_treaties%29

content:
<p>
In Europe: <a href="http://www.stop-ttip-ceta-tisa.eu/">join protests
on Oct 11</a> against unfair trade treaties.


title: Rare bits of nature to be destroyed
uri: Rare-bits-of-nature-to-be-destroyed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Rare_bits_of_nature_to_be_destroyed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Rare_bits_of_nature_to_be_destroyed%29

content:
<p>
A hill in England that hosts 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/25/-sp-nightingales-lodge-hill-sanctuary-conservation-britain">old
trees, nightingales and rare butterflies</a> is slated for building;
all those things will be lost.
<p>
The UK urgently needs more council housing, but that does not require
destroying rare bits of nature.  It is much better to replace
low-density housing near train stations with apartment buildings.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Painful_experiences)
title: Painful experiences
uri: Painful-experiences
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Painful_experiences%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/25/aspirin-stiff-upper-lip-best-remedies-broken-heart">Advice
to distance yourself from painful experiences</a>, not rehearse them
as a grievance.
<p>
If the painful experience was an injustice, the one feeling you
shouldn't try to weaken is your support for others to whom such an
injustice happens.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Protection_of_wolves_in_Wyoming)
title: Protection of wolves in Wyoming
uri: Protection-of-wolves-in-Wyoming
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Protection_of_wolves_in_Wyoming%29

content:
<p>
The few remaining wolves in Wyoming are 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/09/wolf-hunts-canceled-wyoming-endangered-species-gray-wolf">once
again protected</a>.
<p>
Protection enabled wolves to recover, but some states don't like that,
and seek to use the successful recovery of the species as an excuse to
wipe it out again.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Iraqi_military_a_total_disaster)
title: Iraqi military a total disaster
uri: Iraqi-military-a-total-disaster
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Iraqi_military_a_total_disaster%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/iraq-army-security-force-billions">$26
Billion in US Aid Later, the Iraqi Military Is a Total Disaster</a>.


title: Briton charged with blasphemy in Pakistan
uri: Briton-charged-with-blasphemy-in-Pakistan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Briton_charged_with_blasphemy_in_Pakistan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Briton_charged_with_blasphemy_in_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
A Briton in Pakistan, who has been charged with blasphemy, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/pakistani-police-officer-shoots-briton-blasphemy">survived
an assassination attempt by a thug</a>.
<p>
This law is why I refuse to visit Pakistan.
<p>
I recommend that the US and other countries require all visitors to
make a public pledge in support of freedom of speech (which would
include condemning laws against "blasphemy") before allowing them to
enter.


title: Sierra Leone imposes quarantines
uri: Sierra-Leone-imposes-quarantines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Sierra_Leone_imposes_quarantines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Sierra_Leone_imposes_quarantines%29

content:
<p>
Sierra Leone has imposed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/ebola-epidemic-sierra-leone-quarantine-un-united-nations">quarantines
on large zones</a> containing more than 1/3 of the population.
<p>
I am skeptical that this will be effective for stopping the spread of
Ebola.  Surely there are infected people in each of the zones that the
country is now divided into.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Unity_Govt_control_of_Gaza)
title: Unity Gov't control of Gaza
uri: Unity-Gov-t-control-of-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Unity_Govt_control_of_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/fatah-hamas-palestinian-unity-government-gaza">Fatah
and Hamas Agree Deal for Unity Government to Take Control of Gaza</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(ISIS)
title: ISIS
uri: 2014-09-27-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28ISIS%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/25/obama-isis-coalition-iran-rouhani-un">Both
the US and Iran have their blind spots</a> when talking about ISIS.


title: California thug agrees to resign
uri: California-thug-agrees-to-resign
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(California_thug_agrees_to_resign)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28California_thug_agrees_to_resign%29

content:
<p>
A thug that punched a woman in California with no grounds has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/woman-punched-california-officer-settlement">agreed
to resign</a>.
<p>
Good, but he should be prosecuted.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Coal_train_protest)
title: Coal train protest
uri: Coal-train-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Coal_train_protest%29
content:
<p>
A coal train protester says ending coal shipments is the government's
job, but since it failed to do its job, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/25/blocked-coal-train-protest-britain-addiction-dirty-fuel">the
responsibility fell to him</a>.


title: Disrupting military drone manufacturing
uri: Disrupting-military-drone-manufacturing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Disrupting_military_drone_manufacturing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Disrupting_military_drone_manufacturing%29

content:
<p>
Scottish protesters 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/23/another-scotland-possible-activists-shut-down-factory-behind-israeli-drones">shut
down a factory making components</a> for Israeli military drones.


title: Seattle bans neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Seattle-bans-neonicotinoid-pesticides
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Seattle_bans_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Seattle_bans_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
Seattle has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/24/seattle-says-yes-compost-yes-bees">banned
neonicotinoid pesticides in the city</a>.
<p>
It also will fine people that don't do composting.
I am not sure how this is supposed to work for people
that live in apartments and have no gardens.


title: US politicians want to cancel citizenships
uri: US-politicians-want-to-cancel-citizenships
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(US_politicians_want_to_cancel_citizenships)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28US_politicians_want_to_cancel_citizenships%29

content:
<p>
US politicians 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/09/ted_cruz_and_scott_brown_think_being_an_american_citizen_is_about_ideology.html">want
to cancel the citizenship of people that support ISIS</a>.
<p>
There are crimes that we have good reason to punish, some by life
imprisonment, but denial of citizenship is never legitimate.
(It also violates treaties to make someone stateless.)
<p>
Sad to say, the US has a history of revoking citizenship of immigrants
for political reasons.  For instance, Emma Goldman's US citizenship
was revoked because of her political activities: draft resistance and
birth control.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Repression_of_gays_in_Egypt)
title: Repression of gays in Egypt
uri: Repression-of-gays-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Repression_of_gays_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>
Egypt is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/eight-men-trial-cairo-egypt-alleged-gay-marriage">systematically
repressing gays</a> (extralegally) after a video was posted of an
unofficial wedding of two men.


title: Prosecution of Romanian prison commander
uri: Prosecution-of-Romanian-prison-commander
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Prosecution_of_Romanian_prison_commander)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Prosecution_of_Romanian_prison_commander%29

content:
<p>
In Romania, the commander of a prison under Ceausescu is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/romania-trial-prison-camp-alexandru-visinescu">being
prosecuted</a>.
<p>
When will the US prosecute people who presided over torture in
Guantanamo?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Facebooks_real_name_policy)
title: Facebook's "real name" policy
uri: Facebook-s-real-name-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Facebooks_real_name_policy%29
content:
<p>
Facebook with its "real name" policy makes itself the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/24/facebook-real-name-policy-drag-performers-outing">arbiter
of other people's selves</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Students_in_Colorado_protest)
title: Students in Colorado protest
uri: Students-in-Colorado-protest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Students_in_Colorado_protest%29

content:
<p>
Students in Colorado walked out and protested a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/denver-students-walkout-protest-history-school-board">right-wing
plan for one-sided education in obeying authority</a>.


title: UK to phase out old coal power plants
uri: UK-to-phase-out-old-coal-power-plants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(UK_to_phase_out_old_coal_power_plants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28UK_to_phase_out_old_coal_power_plants%29

content:
<p>
Cameron says the UK plans to phase out old coal power plants over the
next 15 years, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/24/uk-coal-power-plants-david-cameron-un-climate-pledge">does
not make a clear commitment to replace them with safe renewable
power</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Human_rights_NGOs_threatened)
title: Human rights NGOs threatened
uri: Human-rights-NGOs-threatened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Human_rights_NGOs_threatened%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian "president" al-Sisi has made a decree that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/egypt-human-rights-crackdown-foreign-funding">threatens
human rights NGOs with prosecution</a>.


title: Perverse redefinitions of common terms
uri: Perverse-redefinitions-of-common-terms
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Perverse_redefinitions_of_common_terms)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Perverse_redefinitions_of_common_terms%29

content:
<p>
What Obama says about fighting in Iraq is misleading due to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/24/obama-misleading-war-isis-syria">perverse
redefinitions of common terms</a> such as "imminent attack",
"civilians", militants" and "ground troops".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(New_Zealand_election)
title: New Zealand election
uri: New-Zealand-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28New_Zealand_election%29
content:
<p>
The pro-business party in New Zealand won reelection through a
long-term organized practice of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/24/new-zealand-elections-dirty-tricks-helped-john-key-win-another-term">smearing
opponents through proxies</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Spread_of_Ebola)
title: Spread of Ebola
uri: Spread-of-Ebola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Spread_of_Ebola%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/23/ebola-cdc-millions-infected-quarantine-africa-epidemic">Over
a million people could be infected with Ebola virus by January</a> if
it keeps spreading at the current rate.


title: UK's deportation of Tamil refugees
uri: UK-s-deportation-of-Tamil-refugees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(UKs_deportation_of_Tamil_refugees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28UKs_deportation_of_Tamil_refugees%29

content:
<p>
Sri Lanka continues to torture Tamils regularly, often demanding
information about Tamil refugees in the UK.  Meanwhile, the UK
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/tamil-asylum-seekers-sri-lanka-torture">continues
deporting those refugees to Sri Lanka</a>.
<p>
This is prima facie evidence that the UK minister in charge of
deportations is callously blind to justice, law and humanity.


title: Obama's speech about global heating
uri: Obama-s-speech-about-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_September_2014_(Obamas_speech_about_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_September_2014_%28Obamas_speech_about_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Bill McKibben 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/23/bill-mckibben-reacts-president-obamas-climate-summit-speech">critiques</a>
Obama's speech about global heating.


title: Privately run NHS hospital neglecting patients
uri: Privately-run-NHS-hospital-neglecting-patients
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Privately_run_NHS_hospital_neglecting_patients)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Privately_run_NHS_hospital_neglecting_patients%29

content:
<p>
The one privately run NHS hospital in Britain has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/26/care-quality-commission-hinchingbrooke-hospital">neglecting
patients</a>.
<p>
Why am I not surprised?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Collective_punishment)
title: Collective punishment
uri: Collective-punishment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Collective_punishment%29
content:
<p>
An in-depth study shows that a feeling of being subject to collective
punishment is
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/26/extremism-kenya-somalia-research">primary
ingredient in the making of a terrorist fanatic</a>.


title: Head of FBI condemned tech companies
uri: Head-of-FBI-condemned-tech-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Head_of_FBI_condemned_tech_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Head_of_FBI_condemned_tech_companies%29

content:
<p>
The head of the FBI condemned tech companies that have improved
security against massive surveillance, saying they
are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/26/fbi-director-equates-protecting-personal-privacy-lawlessness">helping
people "place themselves beyond the law"</a>.
<p>
That's a falsehood; people have no legal obligation to open their
window shades to help the FBI spy on their private lives.  It is the
US spy agencies that
have <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_September_2013_%28NSA_disobeyed_FISA_courts_requirements%29">placed
itself "beyond the law"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(African_palm_oil)
title: African palm oil
uri: African-palm-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28African_palm_oil%29
content:
<p>
Will African palm oil
be <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/23/planet-palm-oil-peasants-pay-price-cheap-vegetable-oil">produced
by local farmers or by corporate plantations?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Urgent:_New_attorney_general)
title: Urgent: New attorney general
uri: Urgent-New-attorney-general
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_New_attorney_general%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama to choose a new attorney general that will
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1185">stop
the cruelty of the War on Drugs</a>.


title: Urgent: Google funding politicians that deny global heating
uri: Urgent-Google-funding-politicians-that-deny-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Urgent:_Google_funding_politicians_that_deny_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Google_funding_politicians_that_deny_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Google
to <a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/google_drops_ALEC/">stop
funding politicians that deny global heating</a>.
<p>
Here's info
on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/sep/22/google-ge-climate-change-denial-congress-politicians-legislation">how
Google funds them (and other companies too)</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_supporting_ALEC)
title: Urgent: Stop supporting ALEC
uri: 2014-09-28-Urgent-Stop-supporting-ALEC
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_supporting_ALEC%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: Phone Ebay and call on that company
to <a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/call/call_ebay/">stop
supporting ALEC</a>.
<p>
ALEC
pushes <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#30_May_2011_%28ALEC_Organization%29">plutocratic
laws at the state level in the US</a>.


title: Why The Islamic State Is Not Islamic
uri: Why-The-Islamic-State-Is-Not-Islamic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Why_The_Islamic_State_Is_Not_Islamic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Why_The_Islamic_State_Is_Not_Islamic%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=5595">Why The Islamic
State Is Not Islamic</a>.
<p>
I am thinking about using another name for it; perhaps Da'esh.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Sham_peace_negotiations)
title: Sham "peace negotiations"
uri: Sham-peace-negotiations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Sham_peace_negotiations%29
content:
<p>
Abbas, speaking to the
UN, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/26/mahmoud-abbas-un-israeli-withdrawal-occupied-territories">condemned
the US-sponsored sham "peace negotiations"</a> and said that any new
negotiations must be aimed at creating an independent Palestine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Different_way_to_deal_with_ISIS)
title: Different way to deal with ISIS
uri: Different-way-to-deal-with-ISIS
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Different_way_to_deal_with_ISIS%29

content:
<p>
Groups that campaign for peace generally oppose Obama's new war in
Iraq and Syria.  They
recommend <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=817844&qid=3908725">a
different way to deal with ISIS</a>.
<p>
I support providing air support to the armies fighting ISIS armies.
I've explained why that is urgently needed,
and <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_September_2014_%28Bombing_ISIS%29">less
likely to result in civilian casualties</a>.
<p>
Aside from that, I agree with the peace groups.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Housing:_a_Political_Problem)
title: Housing: a Political Problem
uri: Housing-a-Political-Problem
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Housing%3A_a_Political_Problem%29

content:
<p>
Housing: How Many Have to Be Unable to Afford It Before
It <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/26/housing-east-london-estate-viability-affordability">Becomes
a Political Problem</a>?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Expanding_use_of_natural_gas)
title: Expanding use of natural gas
uri: Expanding-use-of-natural-gas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Expanding_use_of_natural_gas%29

content:
<p>
Expanding use of natural gas in the
US <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/25/study-natural-gas-expansion-will-raise-emissions-worsen-climate">will
increase future carbon emissions</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Soft_on_criminal_big_business)
title: Soft on criminal big business
uri: Soft-on-criminal-big-business
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Soft_on_criminal_big_business%29

content:
<p>
Attorney General Holder has made a habit
of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/25/statement-response-resignation-attorney-general-eric-holder">going
soft on criminal big business</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Voluntary_cooperation)
title: Voluntary cooperation
uri: Voluntary-cooperation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Voluntary_cooperation%29
content:
<p>
Psychology explains how Burning Man creates a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2014/sep/26/gifts-in-the-desert-psychology-burning-man-altruism">high
level of voluntary cooperation</a>.
<p>
The word "market" means buying and selling.  To use that word to refer
to altruistic cooperation is an abuse of language; I am not going to
use the word that way.


title: Australia's new ban on journalism
uri: Australia-s-new-ban-on-journalism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Australias_new_ban_on_journalism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Australias_new_ban_on_journalism%29

content:
<p>
Australia's new ban on journalism will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/26/journalists-and-whistleblowers-will-go-to-jail-under-new-national-security-laws">imprison
journalists and their sources</a>.
<p>
If it had been in effect two years ago, articles we have read about
Australia's spying would have led to imprisonment of the authors.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Uzbek_political_prisoners)
title: Uzbek political prisoners
uri: Uzbek-political-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Uzbek_political_prisoners%29
content:
<p>
Uzbekistan holds 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/26/thousands-jailed-uzbekistan-politically-motivated-charges">thousands
of political prisoners</a>.


title: How biometric ID in the US began
uri: How-biometric-ID-in-the-US-began
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(How_biometric_ID_in_the_US_began)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28How_biometric_ID_in_the_US_began%29

content:
<p>
Biometric ID in the US began as a 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1476">scheme to stop slaves
from escaping</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Thugs_acting_fast)
title: Thugs acting fast
uri: Thugs-acting-fast
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Thugs_acting_fast%29
content:
<p>
The thugs that killed John Crawford had recently seen a video
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/ohio-walmart-police-slideshow-active-shooter-presentation">encouraging
them to act fast against people who are shooting other people</a>.
<p>
Great work, except that they didn't stop to find that out
that John Crawford was not shooting anyone.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Facebook_rats)
title: Facebook rats
uri: Facebook-rats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Facebook_rats%29
content:
<p>
Julian Assange:
'<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/25/julian-assange-eric-schmidt-google-wikileaks">When
you post to Facebook, you're being a rat</a>.'
<p>
I've stated the same point in my speeches for a few years, asking people
not to post photos of me to Facebook and explaining why.


title: Marijuana legalization campaign in Alaska
uri: Marijuana-legalization-campaign-in-Alaska
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Marijuana_legalization_campaign_in_Alaska)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Marijuana_legalization_campaign_in_Alaska%29

content:
<p>
Charlo Greene's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/alaska-anchor-quit-fuck-it-marijuana-campaign-legal">boosted
the marijuana legalization campaign in Alaska</a> by quitting her TV
job on the air.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(The_CIA-cocaine_scandal_story)
title: The CIA-cocaine scandal story
uri: The-CIA-cocaine-scandal-story
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28The_CIA-cocaine_scandal_story%29

content:
<p>
The CIA helped a few major US newspapers 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=5282">nitpick the
CIA-cocaine scandal story to death</a>.
<p>
It seems unlikely that the people in charge of each of those
newspapers ordered the major biased efforts spontaneously.  It must
have been coordinated somehow.  Since these CIA documents don't show
how, it remains to be investigated.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Turkey_blocks_Syrian_border)
title: Turkey blocks Syrian border
uri: Turkey-blocks-Syrian-border
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Turkey_blocks_Syrian_border%29
content:
<p>
Turkey has started blocking the smuggling of oil from ISIS in Syria,
but it is also 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/turkey-syria-border-crossing-harder-movement-isis-smugglers">blocking
refugees from leaving that part of Syria</a>.


title: Urgent: Limit US war in Iraq and Syria
uri: Urgent-Limit-US-war-in-Iraq-and-Syria
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Urgent:_Limit_US_war_in_Iraq_and_Syria)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Limit_US_war_in_Iraq_and_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/help-the-progressive?source=c.em&r_by=1135580">this
petition</a> for Congress to limit US war in Iraq and Syria, regarding
both time and methods.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Minimum_wage)
title: Minimum wage
uri: Minimum-wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
Los Angeles legislated a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/los-angeles-hotel-minimum-wage-city-council">$15/hr
minimum wage</a> for hotel workers in large hotels.
<p>
If some hotels move to nearby towns, that will show the whole region
ought to have a higher minimum wage.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Cambodia_unfit_to_take_refugees)
title: Cambodia unfit to take refugees
uri: Cambodia-unfit-to-take-refugees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Cambodia_unfit_to_take_refugees%29

content:
<p>
Cambodian protesters say Cambodia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/26/cambodians-protest-australia-using-country-refugee-dumping-ground">doesn't
respect human rights enough</a> to be a fit place to send refugees who
went to Australia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(UK_cuts_in_legal_aid)
title: UK cuts in legal aid
uri: 2014-09-28-UK-cuts-in-legal-aid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28UK_cuts_in_legal_aid%29
content:
<p>
UK cuts in legal aid are supposedly meant to save money, but they
won't do much of that; rather they will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/26/legal-aid-cuts-britains-justice-system-legal-profession-reforms-fairness">deny
justice to the non-rich</a>.


title: Liberian food production crippled
uri: Liberian-food-production-crippled
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Liberian_food_production_crippled)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Liberian_food_production_crippled%29

content:
<p>
The reaction to Ebola is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/26/ebola-food-shortage-fears-liberia">crippling
food production in Liberia</a>.


title: No plan for winning war against ISIS
uri: No-plan-for-winning-war-against-ISIS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(No_plan_for_winning_war_against_ISIS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28No_plan_for_winning_war_against_ISIS%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/26/plan-winning-war-against-isis-obama-success">The
West Has No Plan for Winning the War against Isis — Only
Avoiding Defeat</a>.


title: Indonesia abolishes direct presidential elections
uri: Indonesia-abolishes-direct-presidential-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Indonesia_abolishes_direct_presidential_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Indonesia_abolishes_direct_presidential_elections%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia's lame duck parliament 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/26/indonesia-scraps-direct-elections-democracy-fears">voted
to abolish direct presidential elections</a> — which seem to
offer too much democracy.


title: Australians protest for renewable energy
uri: Australians-protest-for-renewable-energy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_September_2014_(Australians_protest_for_renewable_energy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_September_2014_%28Australians_protest_for_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
Australians held 30 protests to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/26/renewable-energy-target-rallies-held-across-australia">keep
the existing target for renewable energy</a>.


title: Urgent: Take action for real net neutrality
uri: Urgent-Take-action-for-real-net-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(Urgent:_Take_action_for_real_net_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Take_action_for_real_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="https://cms.fightforthefuture.org/obama/">take action for
real net neutrality</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(Retirement_benefits)
title: Retirement benefits
uri: Retirement-benefits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28Retirement_benefits%29
content:
<p>
The Washington Post recommends governments cut retirement benefits for
government employees, so Bezos (its new
owner) <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/09/25/jeff-bezos-takes-wapos-advice-rips-off-wapo-workers/">decided
to do this to the staff of the Washington Post</a>.


title: Veterans of the Bush forces suing
uri: Veterans-of-the-Bush-forces-suing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(Veterans_of_the_Bush_forces_suing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28Veterans_of_the_Bush_forces_suing%29

content:
<p>
Veterans of the Bush forces
are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/26/veteran-seeks-answers-depleted-uranium">suing
to get precise information about where DU (dirty uranium) weapons were
used</a>, to gauge whether they were exposed to this carcinogen.


title: Urgent: No Federal Contracts for Corporate Deserters Act
uri: Urgent-No-Federal-Contracts-for-Corporate-Deserters-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(Urgent:_No_Federal_Contracts_for_Corporate_Deserters_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_Federal_Contracts_for_Corporate_Deserters_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support
the <a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-congress-ban-corporations-that-go-offshore-from-getting-u-s-government-contracts?akid=11778.1183552.7BLvP0&rd=1&suppress_one_click=true&t=1002">No
Federal Contracts for Corporate Deserters Act</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Modi_went_to_New_York)
title: Modi went to New York
uri: Modi-went-to-New-York
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Modi_went_to_New_York%29
content:
<p>
Indian Prime Minister Modi went to New York for a triumph but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/27/narendra-modi-india-us-new-york-protest">encountered
a lawsuit from victims of the massacre</a> of Muslims in Gujarat that
he is suspected of encouraging.


title: Commercial photography banned in federal wildlife
uri: Commercial-photography-banned-in-federal-wildlife
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Commercial_photography_banned_in_federal_wildlife)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Commercial_photography_banned_in_federal_wildlife%29

content:
<p>
The US Forest Service claims to
have <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/09/7_things_you_should_know_about.html">banned
commercial photography (including for journalism) in federal wildlife
areas</a>.


title: Prison employee raped by a prisoner
uri: Prison-employee-raped-by-a-prisoner
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Prison_employee_raped_by_a_prisoner)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Prison_employee_raped_by_a_prisoner%29

content:
<p>
A Pennsylvania prison employee was raped by a prisoner, and
the <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/24/justice/woman-blamed-for-her-rape/index.html?hpt=hp_t2">state
claimed in court that it was the employee's fault</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Urgent:_Phone_Walmart)
title: Urgent: Phone Walmart
uri: Urgent-Phone-Walmart
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Phone_Walmart%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: phone Walmart at 1-800-WALMART to tell that company
to <a href="http://abc7chicago.com/news/walmart-employees-protest-low-wages-at-chatham-store/94037/">give
Thelma Moore her job back</a>.  She was fired for being injured while
pregnant.


title: Proposed European Commissioner for the environment
uri: Proposed-European-Commissioner-for-the-environment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Proposed_European_Commissioner_for_the_environment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Proposed_European_Commissioner_for_the_environment%29

content:
<p>
The proposed European Commissioner for the environment seems to be
tied to Malta's policy allowing mass shooting of migrating birds, and
people suspect his choice was part of a larger plan to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/27/birds-slaughter-malta-karmenu-vella-europe-environment-commissioner">sabotage
EU environmental protection</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_September_2014_(Effects_of_global_heating)
title: Effects of global heating
uri: Effects-of-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_September_2014_%28Effects_of_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Effects of global heating
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/28/climate-change-has-arrived-global-warming-icecaps-deserts">causing
damage around the world</a>, even though it is just the beginning.
<p>
If you are young and in the
US, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/28/america-climate-refugees-us-population-shift-rising-temperatures">you
may become an environmental refugee</a> later in this century.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(PISSI)
title: PISSI
uri: PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28PISSI%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/sep/21/islamic-state-isis-isil-daesh">What
to call the theocratic state in Syria and Iraq</a>?  Calling it the
"Islamic State" endorses their claim to represent Islam.  That's
dubious, since most Muslims say otherwise; it also plays into their
hands.
<p>
Since it stands for a twisted and distorted version of Islam, it is
really a pseudo-Islamic state.  Thus, I propose PISSI, for
Pseudo-Islamic State of Syria and Iraq.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(Trusting_Apple_)
title: Trusting Apple?
uri: Trusting-Apple
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28Trusting_Apple_%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2014-September/022919.html">Can
we trust</a> Apple's improved support for users' privacy?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(Ignoring_global_heating)
title: Ignoring global heating
uri: Ignoring-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28Ignoring_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/23/why-our-brains-wired-ignore-climate-change-united-nations">Why
Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore [Global Heating] And What To Do about
It</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(Remote_car_shutoff_devices)
title: Remote car shutoff devices
uri: Remote-car-shutoff-devices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28Remote_car_shutoff_devices%29
content:
<p>
Car loans in the US now come with 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/09/25/class-war-meets-the-war-on-gen.html">remote
control car shutoff devices</a>.
<p>
I don't think this should be allowed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(ACLU_suing_Oklahoma_thugs)
title: ACLU suing Oklahoma thugs
uri: ACLU-suing-Oklahoma-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28ACLU_suing_Oklahoma_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU is suing Oklahoma thugs over their private network for
keeping 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140916/05371228529/oklahoma-sherriff-accused-keeping-extensive-database-citizens.shtml">records
on lots of citizens</a>.


title: UK repeats mistake by fighting ISIS
uri: UK-repeats-mistake-by-fighting-ISIS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(UK_repeats_mistake_by_fighting_ISIS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28UK_repeats_mistake_by_fighting_ISIS%29

content:
<p>
A member of B'liar's cabinet says that the UK, by fighting ISIS, is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/27/john-prescott-uk-stay-out-of-isis-regional-dispute">repeating
the mistake he made</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(Ferguson_thug_chiefs_apology)
title: Ferguson thug chief's apology
uri: Ferguson-thug-chief-s-apology
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28Ferguson_thug_chiefs_apology%29

content:
<p>
The Ferguson thug chief apologized for a secondary detail of the
killing of Michael Brown.  His apology 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/28/ferguson-unrest-police-officer-injured-in-shooting-as-violence-flares-again">has
not been accepted</a>.


title: Man tortured to death by Taliban
uri: Man-tortured-to-death-by-Taliban
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(Man_tortured_to_death_by_Taliban)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28Man_tortured_to_death_by_Taliban%29

content:
<p>
The Taliban captured a visiting Afghan-Australian and tortured him to death,
apparently 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/28/australian-man-tortured-and-killed-by-taliban-in-afghanistan-family-says">just
because of his ethnic group</a>.


title: New solar electricity generators
uri: New-solar-electricity-generators
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(New_solar_electricity_generators)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28New_solar_electricity_generators%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/28/solar-energy-sunflower-ibm-airlight-electricity">new
invention</a> uses 80% of incoming sunlight to generate electricity
and desalinate water.


title: Bullies obstruct free expression
uri: Bullies-obstruct-free-expression
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(Bullies_obstruct_free_expression)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28Bullies_obstruct_free_expression%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/28/exhibit-b-barbican-censorship-lee-jasper-hilary-mantel">What
Price Artistic Freedom When the Bullies Turn Up?</a>


title: What ISIS may gain from air strikes
uri: What-ISIS-may-gain-from-air-strikes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_September_2014_(What_ISIS_may_gain_from_air_strikes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_%28What_ISIS_may_gain_from_air_strikes%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/28/what-isis-loses-strength-air-strikes-gain-legitimacy">"What
the Isis jihadis lose in strength from the air strikes they may gain
in legitimacy"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Urgent:_End_prison_quota_system)
title: Urgent: End prison quota system
uri: Urgent-End-prison-quota-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_prison_quota_system%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to put an end to the 
<a href="http://dwn-production.herokuapp.com/bedtimestories">quota
system for keeping unauthorized immigrants in prison</a>.
<p>
The quota system means that they always keep the prison full,
and if there aren't enough unauthorized immigrants that there's
a reason to imprison, they have to fill the bed with someone else
that there is no reason to imprison.  It's as wrong as giving thugs
a daily quota for traffic tickets.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


title: Iran executes religious innovator
uri: Iran-executes-religious-innovator
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Iran_executes_religious_innovator)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Iran_executes_religious_innovator%29

content:
<p>
Iran executed a religious innovator for
"<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/iran-executes-man-heresy-mohsen-amir-aslani">heresy</a>".
<p>
For cover, other charges were listed with no evidence presented.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Changes_in_political_views)
title: Changes in political views
uri: Changes-in-political-views
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Changes_in_political_views%29
content:
<p>
Old people change their political and ethical views as much as younger
adults, and they tend to change in the direction of 
<a href="media/38c6f4e5.2007-danigelis.pdf" data-original-source="http://web.archive.org/web/20130128122821/http://www.gwern.net/docs/2007-danigelis.pdf">greater
tolerance</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Australian_uranium)
title: Australian uranium
uri: Australian-uranium
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Australian_uranium%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2014/sep/29/australian-uranium-india-fukushima">Is
it right or wrong</a> for Australia to mine and export uranium?


title: NDA for cell phone snooping devices
uri: NDA-for-cell-phone-snooping-devices
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(NDA_for_cell_phone_snooping_devices)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28NDA_for_cell_phone_snooping_devices%29

content:
<p>
The FCC requires local thug departments to sign a 
<a href="media/156a7ee9.nda_redacted.pdf" data-original-source="https://muckrock.s3.amazonaws.com/foia_files/nda_redacted.pdf">nondisclosure
agreement with the FBI</a>, as an excuse to keep the use of cell phone
snooping devices secret.
<p>
The text of the NDA itself is also secret.  Nice of them
to at least admit that the contract is an NDA.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Racism_in_the_US)
title: Racism in the US
uri: 2014-09-30-Racism-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Racism_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Racism in the US is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/29/racism-black-people-experience">more
pervasive than even black Americans realize</a>.


title: Private sex lives none of our business
uri: Private-sex-lives-none-of-our-business
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Private_sex_lives_none_of_our_business)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Private_sex_lives_none_of_our_business%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/28/foolish-out-brooks-newark-sexting-resignation">So
[Tory Minister] Brooks Newmark Sent Some Explicit Pictures — Why
Should He Resign?</a>
<p>
I am glad to see prominent rejection of the absurdly exaggerated
importance given to politician's private sex lives.  The same foolish
idea was the basis for impeaching President Clinton.
<p>
That Tory minister is not fit to be in office because he's on the
plutocratic side.  The same was true of Clinton.  Their sex lives
were none of our business and not relevant at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Russia_wants_social_media_data)
title: Russia wants social media data
uri: Russia-wants-social-media-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Russia_wants_social_media_data%29

content:
<p>
Russia will block access to Facebook, Twitter and Google unless they
<a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/public-sector/3574078/russia-requires-facebook-twitter-and-google-to-register-as-social-networks-or-be-blocked/">register
and keep all data on Russian users in Russia</a>.
<p>
That policy would make the users safer (perhaps) from NSA spying
but more vulnerable to spying by the ex-KGB.  For people in Russia,
the Russian state is much more of a threat than the American state,
so this law oppresses them.
<p>
By contrast, the European Union has better data protection law than
the US, so requiring European users' data to be kept in Europe is an
<a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3574041/google-gets-privacy-policy-lesson-from-eu-data-protection-authorities/">improvement
in their privacy</a>.
<p>
However, that improvement will only fully take effect if the EU
prevents the US from 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/29/us-court-microsoft-personal-data-emails-irish-server">subpoena'ing
user data</a> that subsidiaries of US companies keep in Europe.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Hong_Kong_protests)
title: Hong Kong protests
uri: Hong-Kong-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Hong_Kong_protests%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/hong-kong-pro-democracy-protests-surprising-police">Hong
Kong Surprises Itself with the Exuberance And Spontaneity of
Protests</a>.
<p>
Thugs were 
<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/09/28/241302_hong-kongs-harshest-crackdown.html">unable
to shut the protests down</a>.
<p>
So the government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/hong-kong-citizens-democracy-protests-riot-police-withdrawn">withdrew
the thugs</a>.


title: Protesters block Israeli ship in California
uri: Protesters-block-Israeli-ship-in-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Protesters_block_Israeli_ship_in_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Protesters_block_Israeli_ship_in_California%29

content:
<p>
Protesters have again 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/28/pro-palestine-protesters-israeli-cargo-ship-oakland">blocked
an Israeli ship from unloading cargo</a> in the port of Oakland.


title: Syrian al Qa'ida affiliate joins PISSI
uri: Syrian-al-Qa-ida-affiliate-joins-PISSI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Syrian_al_Qa'ida_affiliate_joins_PISSI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Syrian_al_Qa%27ida_affiliate_joins_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
The al Qa'ida affiliate in Syria has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/28/isis-al-qaida-air-strikes-syria">joined
up with PISSI (the pseudo-Islamic state)</a>.  This will simplify
Obama's argument that Congressional authorization for war against al
Qa'ida covers fighting PISSI.
<p>
Fighting PISSI might offer a path towards 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/28/west-isolation-syria-president-assad-us-air-strikes">ending
the fighting between Assad and the other Syrian rebels</a>.


title: Urgent: End sports tax exemption
uri: Urgent-End-sports-tax-exemption
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Urgent:_End_sports_tax_exemption)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_sports_tax_exemption%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/nfl_tax_exempt">support</a>
taking away tax exemption from professional sports leagues.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(World_Bank_carbon_offset_plan)
title: World Bank carbon offset plan
uri: World-Bank-carbon-offset-plan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28World_Bank_carbon_offset_plan%29

content:
<p>
A World Bank carbon offset plan involved 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/29/world-bank-kenya-forest-dwellers">kicking
people off their lands</a> so that a forest could grow.
<p>
This is a fundamental conflict, and human population growth makes it
worse.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Growth_of_renewable_energy)
title: Growth of renewable energy
uri: Growth-of-renewable-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Growth_of_renewable_energy%29
content:
<p>
The UK Conservatives are so embarrassed by the growth of renewable
energy that they have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2014/sep/29/george-osborne-burying-the-good-news-of-the-green-economy">decided
not to report statistics on it</a>.
<p>
They are in cahoots with fossil fuel and nuclear power companies, for
which this growth is an inconvenient embarrassment.


title: Obama trying to cover up torture
uri: Obama-trying-to-cover-up-torture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Obama_trying_to_cover_up_torture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Obama_trying_to_cover_up_torture%29

content:
<p>
Obama is trying to cover up torture by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/obama-guantanamo-bay-force-feeding-hearing-secret">holding
Guantanamo torture hearings in secret</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Detroits_water_shutoffs)
title: Detroit's water shutoffs
uri: Detroit-s-water-shutoffs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Detroits_water_shutoffs%29
content:
<p>
Detroit's water shutoffs for the poor have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/detroit-water-shutoffs-legal-judge-bankruptcy-revenue">approved
by a plutocratic court</a>.


title: Obama regime wants more nuclear weapons
uri: Obama-regime-wants-more-nuclear-weapons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Obama_regime_wants_more_nuclear_weapons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Obama_regime_wants_more_nuclear_weapons%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/congress-nuclear-weapons-new-mexico-radioactivity">wants
to spend lots of money making more plutonium cores for nuclear
weapons</a>.  Never mind that the US has lots of extra ones in
storage.


title: US hospitals in HMOs outsource ER doctors
uri: US-hospitals-in-HMOs-outsource-ER-doctors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(US_hospitals_in_HMOs_outsource_ER_doctors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28US_hospitals_in_HMOs_outsource_ER_doctors%29

content:
<p>
US hospitals in HMOs hire doctors in the emergency room who are not in
the HMO — so that the doctors can 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/09/heres-yet-another-rage-inducing-scam-american-health-care-system">gouge
patients</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(News_coverage_with_CIA_approval)
title: News coverage with CIA approval
uri: News-coverage-with-CIA-approval
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28News_coverage_with_CIA_approval%29

content:
<p>
A former LA Times reporter, covering the CIA, 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-cleared-stories-cia-publication/">showed
his stories to the CIA to get approval of them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Gitmo_Hunger_Strikes)
title: Gitmo Hunger Strikes
uri: Gitmo-Hunger-Strikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Gitmo_Hunger_Strikes%29
content:
<p>
Gitmo Hunger Strikes Are a Cry for
Help.  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/30/gitmo-hunger-strikes-secret-force-feeding">Why
Is the US Fighting Back with Secret Torture?</a>


title: Apple may have to return tens of millions of euros
uri: Apple-may-have-to-return-tens-of-millions-of-euros
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Apple_may_have_to_return_tens_of_millions_of_euros)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Apple_may_have_to_return_tens_of_millions_of_euros%29

content:
<p>
Apple may have to return tens of millions of euros
in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/30/apple-repay-millions-irish-government-tax-deal">illegal
state funds to the Irish state</a>.


title: The misogyny of ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel
uri: The-misogyny-of-ultra-orthodox-Jews-in-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(The_misogyny_of_ultra-orthodox_Jews_in_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28The_misogyny_of_ultra-orthodox_Jews_in_Israel%29

content:
<p>
The misogyny of ultra-orthodox Jews in
Israel <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/30/israeli-airline-ultra-orthodox-men-bullying-women">spills
over constantly to seating on airlines</a>.
<p>
When it happens on airlines, it is funny, but in Israel it makes
secular Jews think of emigrating.  I don't think Arabs will destroy
Israel (most of the governments no longer even say they want to).
Orthodox theocracy will do it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Nicaragua's_planned_canal)
title: Nicaragua's planned canal
uri: Nicaragua-s-planned-canal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Nicaragua%27s_planned_canal%29
content:
<p>
Nicaragua's planned canal
would <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/30/nicaragua-canal-forest-displace-people">destroy
and pollute forests where endangered species live</a>.
<p>
I have to wonder whether a railroad might do a better job.  Now that
containers make it quick and easy to load and unload ships, the time
it takes to move cargo from ship to train is only a matter of how long
a ship must wait to be unloaded.  Building more port facilities can
reduce that to any level.
<p>
A train line could carry the containers from one shore to the other
faster than a ship could go through the canal.  If one train line
isn't enough, even ten parallel tracks would hurt the forest and the
surrounding inhabitants less than a canal.
<p>
Animals can run across the tracks, but it would be easy to make
bridges across the train lines since trains are much less tall than
ships.


title: Occupy Central with Love & Peace (Hong Kong)
uri: Occupy-Central-with-Love-Peace-(Hong-Kong)
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Occupy_Central_with_Love_%26_Peace_(Hong_Kong))

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Occupy_Central_with_Love_%2526_Peace_%28Hong_Kong%29%29

content:
<p>
Press Release
by <a href="http://oclp.hk/index.php?route=occupy/eng_detail&eng_id=30">Occupy
Central with Love & Peace (Hong Kong).</a>
<p>
Mass protests
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/30/hong-kong-activists-protesters-democracy-china">succeeded
in Hong Kong before</a>.


title: Hottest ever recorded spring and summer
uri: Hottest-ever-recorded-spring-and-summer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Hottest_ever_recorded_spring_and_summer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Hottest_ever_recorded_spring_and_summer%29

content:
<p>
Australia's hottest ever recorded spring and summer, a year ago,
were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/30/greenhouse-gases-made-hottest-year-on-record-2000-times-more-likely">2000
times more likely due to the global heating that has occurred in
recent decades</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Killing_of_John_Crawford)
title: Killing of John Crawford
uri: Killing-of-John-Crawford
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Killing_of_John_Crawford%29
content:
<p>
Comparing the video of the killing of John Crawford with what the
thugs said had
happened <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/30/police-officer-shot-john-crawford-walmart-lied-victims-mother-says">shows
their story was false</a>.
<p>
The thugs call that "testilying".


title: Sentenced to death for an underground abortion
uri: Sentenced-to-death-for-an-underground-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Sentenced_to_death_for_an_underground_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Sentenced_to_death_for_an_underground_abortion%29

content:
<p>
A nurse in Kenya has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/30/kenya-nurse-death-sentence-abortion-debate">sentenced
to death for an underground abortion which went wrong</a>, but Kenya's
restrictive abortion law is the real killer.


title: Earth has lost half its wild animals since 40 years ago
uri: Earth-has-lost-half-its-wild-animals-since-40-years-ago
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_September_2014_(Earth_has_lost_half_its_wild_animals_since_40_years_ago)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Earth_has_lost_half_its_wild_animals_since_40_years_ago%29

content:
<p>
WWF estimates that Earth
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/earth-lost-50-wildlife-in-40-years-wwf">lost
half its wild animals since 40 years ago</a>. They have been wiped out
by human activity and its consequences.
<p>
I think the count refers to vertebrates only.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Urgent:_Mortgages)
title: Urgent: Mortgages
uri: Urgent-Mortgages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Mortgages%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/julian_castro_wallstreet">tell
HUD</a> to stop selling mortgages to wall street.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Urgent:_Poultry_inspections)
title: Urgent: Poultry inspections
uri: Urgent-Poultry-inspections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Poultry_inspections%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1635">call
on the USDA</a> to abandon its plan to let poultry companies do their
own inspections.
<p>
Only a government working for the foxes would put them in charge of
the hen house.


title: Non-plutocratic policies in Brazil
uri: Non-plutocratic-policies-in-Brazil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Non-plutocratic_policies_in_Brazil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Non-plutocratic_policies_in_Brazil%29

content:
<p>
Brazil's government has successfully given a larger fraction of GNP to
the
non-rich, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/29/report-examines-economy-and-social-indicators-during-past-decade-brazil">lifting
millions out of poverty</a>, by adopting non-plutocratic policies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Open-plan_offices)
title: "Open-plan" offices
uri: Open-plan-offices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Open-plan_offices%29
content:
<p>
"Open-plan" offices appear to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/work-blog/2014/sep/29/open-plan-office-health-productivity">harm
workers' health and productivity</a>.
<p>
I wonder why businesses use them.  The savings in rent can hardly be
enough to be the reason.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Snooping_on_the_entire_internet)
title: Snooping on the entire internet
uri: Snooping-on-the-entire-internet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Snooping_on_the_entire_internet%29

content:
<p>
The Australian spy agency can get 
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/au/asio-powers-to-spy-over-the-entire-internet-pass-the-senate-7000034073/">permission
to snoop on the entire internet by getting just one warrant</a>.


title: Referendum on "blasphemy" in Ireland
uri: Referendum-on-blasphemy-in-Ireland
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Referendum_on_blasphemy_in_Ireland)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Referendum_on_blasphemy_in_Ireland%29

content:
<p>
Ireland will have a referendum on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/30/ireland-referendum-blasphemy-law">abolishing
the crime of "blasphemy"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Space_debris)
title: Space debris
uri: Space-debris
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Space_debris%29
content:
<p>
Small satellites, "cubesats", are being placed in long-lived orbits
thus 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-09-space-debris-expert-cubesat-collision.html">increasing
the danger of collisions that generate space debris</a>.
<p>
The disaster shown in the movie Gravity is in fact happening, though
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#06%20July%202010%20(Global%20Warming%20and%20space%20junk)">far
more slowly than in the movie</a>.  The question is whether we can
find a way to stop it.
<p>
In the mean time, we should not do stupid things that are likely to
speed it up.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Israeli_soldiers_aid_fanatics)
title: Israeli soldiers aid fanatics
uri: Israeli-soldiers-aid-fanatics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Israeli_soldiers_aid_fanatics%29
content:
<p>
Israeli fanatics, aided by soldiers, 
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=730914">forced
a Palestinian family out of its apartment</a> in Jerusalem.
<p>
The army 
<a href="http://972mag.com/how-the-army-helps-settlers-establish-illegal-outposts/96997/">regularly
helps them establish outposts that the government says it has not
authorized</a>.  (It is misleading to call only these colonies
"illegal", since they are 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jul-oct.html#23%20July%202009%20(Israel%20may%20remove%20outposts)">all
illegal under international law</a>.)
<p>
The army demolished an apartment building in Abu Dis, a Palestinian
town just across the annexation wall from Jerusalem, 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/69257">not giving the
inhabitants time to remove their belongings</a>.
<p>
The Palestinian Authority had given permission to build additional
three floors, but Israel treats those permits as invalid as an excuse
to practice systematic harassment of Palestinians.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Facebook)
title: Facebook
uri: 2014-10-02-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Facebook%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Facebook now allows people to use aliases, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/01/victory-drag-queens-facebook-apologises-real-name-policy">
but only if they are
generally known by those aliases.</a>
</p>
<p>This is not much better than the previous "real names" policy.
You can't have one account to show your boss and your parents
and another for your friends.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Putin)
title: Putin
uri: Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Putin%29
content:
<p>
Putin remains, in spirit, a Soviet secret policeman who watched
watched the East German tyranny collapse.  He is determined to attack
any challenge to the regime pre-emptively, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/01/putin-power-east-germany-russia-kgb-dresden">
to prevent protesters from
winning.</a>
</p>
<p>Nothing will convince Putin let go, but sooner or later he will die or
become incapacitated.  Economic sanctions against Russia may convince
Putin's successors not to continue his tyranny.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Single_Mothers)
title: Single Mothers
uri: Single-Mothers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Single_Mothers%29
content:
<p>Single Mothers Are the Real Casualties in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/01/single-mothers-david-cameron-class-war-conservatives-tory-party-conference">
Cameron's Class War.</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Israel)
title: Israel
uri: Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Israel%29
content:
<p>
In Israel, people who disagree with prevailing hatred of Palestinians
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/opinion/how-israel-silences-dissent.html">
are fired, attacked, and get death threats.
</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Hong_Kong_Students)
title: Hong Kong Students
uri: Hong-Kong-Students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Hong_Kong_Students%29
content:
<p> Some Hong Kong students are preparing for a <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-30/hong-kongs-protesters-watch-and-wait">
theoretical Chinese
invasion.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Wealth_Hampers)
title: Wealth Hampers
uri: Wealth-Hampers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Wealth_Hampers%29
content:
<p>
How concentration of wealth hampers efforts to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/30/why-unequal-planet-can-never-be-green">
make a sustainable
civilization.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Fracking)
title: Fracking
uri: 2014-10-02-Fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Fracking%29
content:
<p> </p>
<p>Another danger from fracking: mining the fine-grain sand <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/09/12611/frac-sand-mining-puts-upper-midwest-communities-risk-report-confirms">
it uses
can
poison water and air.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(The_UK_Grown_in_GDP)
title: The UK Grown in GDP
uri: The-UK-Grown-in-GDP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28The_UK_Grown_in_GDP%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>The UK has grown in GDP since the economic crisis, but workers' pay
remains lower <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/30/fall-uk-living-standards-deeper-ons-tuc">
than it was before the crisis.
</a></p>
<p>The average decrease is just a few percent, so the UK government plans
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/30/david-cameron-cut-benefits-working-poor">
to cut aid to the working poor.
</a></p>
<p>The Tories won't be satisfied until they have millions of Britons
living in closets.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Commercial)
title: Commercial
uri: Commercial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Commercial%29
content:
<p>A commercial carbon-capture coal-burning <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/01/canada-switches-on-worlds-first-carbon-capture-power-plant">
power plant has opened.</a>
</p>
<p>In principle this can be part of a solution for reducing greenhouse
gas emissions.  If other forms of fossil fuel are cheaper, a simple
tax can make them more expensive.</p>
<p>Subsidizing fossil fuel use is harmful, but subsidizing a decrease
in the CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use makes sense.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Gaza)
title: Gaza
uri: Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Gaza%29
content:
<p>Uri Avnery: Palestinian President Abbas offers Israel a partner for
negotiations, provided the <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1411916560">
negotiations are sincere.</a></p>
<p>Avnery says it is an exaggeration to call the attack on Gaza
"genocide",
but according to the official definition, <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/09/gaza-crime-crimes-201492664043551756.html">
the accusation may be
valid.
</a>
</p>
<p>This case, imposing destructive conditions of life on a part of the
targeted people that are likely to kill some fraction of the victims,
but nowhere near all of the victims, seems to be an edge case.  I tend
to think it should not be considered genocide.  The official
definition may be a little too broad, depending on how it is
interpreted.</p>
<p>However, I think that is a side issue.  Provoking a war as an
opportunity to kill and wound 10,000 people is a great crime
regardless of whether it qualifies as "genocide".
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Economic_Growth)
title: Economic Growth
uri: 2014-10-02-Economic-Growth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Economic_Growth%29
content:
<p>It's Time to Shout Stop on This War <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/oct/01/george-monbiot-war-on-the-living-world-wildlife">
on the Living World.</a></p>
<p>The world needs economic growth for the benefit of the poor,
which can be done together with less waste for the rich;
but that is not what plutocratic governments are likely to do.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Neocons)
title: Neocons
uri: Neocons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Neocons%29
content:
<p>Neocons hope to pressure Obama into attacking <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/30/neocons-noses-syrian-tenta">
Assad as well as
PISSI.</a></p>
<p>(PISSI is the Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.)</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(California)
title: California
uri: California
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28California%29
content:
<p>California has implemented "gun restraining orders": if you feel a
relative
is likely to shoot people, you can ask a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/california-gun-restraining-order-law-signed">
judge to order his guns taken
away.
</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(UK_Torture)
title: UK Torture
uri: UK-Torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28UK_Torture%29
content:
<p>Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo prisoner and now human rights
investigator, was imprisoned in the UK and accused of terrorism after
he went to Syria to investigate evidence of UK torture.</p>
<p><a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=5806">
He has now been freed.</a></p>
<p>The UK government will violate any rights to prevent the facts about
its torture from being brought out in court.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Antarctica)
title: Antarctica
uri: Antarctica
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Antarctica%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>The loss of ice in Antarctica is big enough to affect the Earth's
gravity <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/09/melting-antarctic-ice-shifting-gravity/">
as measured by satellites.
</a>
</p>
<p>Melting is unlikely to continue at 500 cubic kilometers per year.
The greenhouse gases we have already emitted will make the atmosphere
hotter, and melting will speed up.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Florida)
title: Florida
uri: Florida
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Florida%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Florida thugs tased and arrested a woman as she was walking away
after <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/florida-police-shoot-woman-stun-gun">
asking about arrests of other people.</a></p>
<p>I wonder whether she was concerned on general principles
or because she saw something that looked wrong.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Media)
title: Media
uri: Media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Media%29
content:
<p>How US corporate media promote <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/30/tv-generals-and-precision-bombs-corporate-media-go-war">
US wars.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(European_Commission)
title: European Commission
uri: European-Commission
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28European_Commission%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>MEPs are concerned that the European Commission wants to cancel
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/30/meps-demand-reassurances-eu-green-policies-are-not-being-downgraded">
conservation policies and deregulate instead.
</a></p>
<p>Deregulation of business means that plutocrats have less in their way
as they build businesses that make profit for them while poisoning you.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Syria)
title: Syria
uri: Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Syria%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>A food aid worker in Syria tweeted the coordinates of a bunker being
used by PISSI.  PISSI says it <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/swiss-aid-worker-isis-tweet">
will kill him for this.
</a>
</p>
<p>This shows why humanitarian aid workers should remain neutral —
so that they can get the support of all sides in a conflict.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Intelligence_Agencies)
title: "Intelligence Agencies"
uri: Intelligence-Agencies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Intelligence_Agencies%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>The US spends almost 70 billion dollars a year on "intelligence
agencies", but they hardly ever predict the major events <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/america-intelligence-off-guard-isis-arab-spring">
that the US
might rationally want them to predict.</a></p>
<p>They probably do a good job of suppressing many journalists and
protesters.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Walruses)
title: Walruses
uri: Walruses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Walruses%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>The lack of sea ice has forced 35,000 walruses to go ashore in Alaska,
rather than resting on sea ice to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/walrus-mass-vast-numbers-alaska-beach-sea-ice-retreats">
take quick trips to feed.</a>
</p>
<p>This surely makes it hard for them to eat, and will therefore
interfere
with reproduction.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Hong_Kong)
title: Hong Kong
uri: Hong-Kong
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Hong_Kong%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>China's efforts to keep the public ignorant of protests in Hong Kong
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/world/asia/chinese-web-censors-struggle-with-hong-kong-protest.html">
show occasional slips.</a></p>
<p>Nonetheless, we have found no way to defeat the tyranny of internet
censorship, which has spread to many supposedly "free" countries
including France and the UK.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Ebola)
title: Ebola
uri: Ebola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Ebola%29
content:
<p>The US public health defenses that prevent an outbreak <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/30/ebola-dallas-spreading-across-america">
of Ebola in
the US.</A>
</p>
<p>The scandal is that extractivism and short-sightedness won't let
Sierra Leone and Liberia have the medical systems necessary to prevent
Ebola outbreaks there.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Invisible_Art)
title: "Invisible Art"
uri: Invisible-Art
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Invisible_Art%29
content:
<p>A hoax about a show of "invisible art" <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/988267-invisible-art-satire-new-york-artist-lana-newstrom-creates-art-worth-millions-is-humor/">
satirizes the art
world.</a></p>
<p>The most bizarre part is that there really <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/sep/30/invisible-art-hoax-lana-newstrom-cbc">
is invisible
"art".<1></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Coal_Burning)
title: Coal Burning
uri: Coal-Burning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Coal_Burning%29
content:
<p>Modi's government plans a big increase in coal burning, and hopes that
a parallel investment in renewable energy will distract from the fact
that this pushes <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/01/india-will-be-renewables-superpower-says-energy-minister">
human civilization closer to the invisible edge of
the cliff.
</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Zero-Waste_Restaurant)
title: Zero-Waste Restaurant
uri: Zero-Waste-Restaurant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Zero-Waste_Restaurant%29
content:
<p> A zero-waste (or else recycled materials) <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/30/simple-sustainable-not-superchef-silo-uk-first-zero-waste-restaurant">
restaurant in the
UK.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Water_Supply)
title: Water Supply
uri: Water-Supply
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Water_Supply%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>A US court declined to stop Detroit from continuing to shut off
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/30/detroiters-vow-resistance-after-judge-rules-there-no-human-right-water">
poor residents' water supply.
</a></p>
<p>Citizens plan to continue their resistance.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Pakistan)
title: Pakistan
uri: Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Pakistan%29
content:
<p>
Polio is resurging in Pakistan as a result of religious extremists
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/01/pakistan-struggling-cope-surge-polio-cases">
that fight against vaccination.</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(60_Students)
title: 60 Students
uri: 60-Students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%2860_Students%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>A gang of Mexican thugs killed and kidnaped around 60 students,
perhaps because the thugs are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/30/scores-students-missing-after-ambush-gunmen-mexican-police">
connected with a drug gang.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Abortions)
title: Abortions
uri: Abortions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Abortions%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/01/mexican-women-high-price-abortion-laws">
In Mexico (aside from one state)</a>, women are imprisoned for years
for
having abortions.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Privacy)
title: Privacy
uri: 2014-10-02-Privacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Privacy%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Outgoing <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/01/eric-holder-raises-concerns-over-privacy-advances-by-technology-companies">
Attorney General Holder</a> has joined the US government
campaign
against online privacy.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Aral_Sea)
title: Aral Sea
uri: Aral-Sea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Aral_Sea%29
content:
<p>The former Aral Sea dried up completely <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/satellite-images-show-aral-sea-basin-completely-dried">
this summer.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 01_October_2014_(Military_Equipment)
title: Military Equipment
uri: Military-Equipment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Military_Equipment%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Many US thug departments want to return military equipment that the
Pentagon says is "on loan" to them, but the Pentagon <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/police-departments-struggle-return-pentagon-military-surplus-gear">
won't take the
equipment back.</a></p>


title: Urgent: Global Frackdown on Oct 11
uri: Urgent-Global-Frackdown-on-Oct-11
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(Urgent:_Global_Frackdown_on_Oct_11)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Global_Frackdown_on_Oct_11%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/01/ahead-global-frackdown-movement-ban-deadly-gas-drilling-gains-momentum">Participate</a>
in the Global Frackdown on Oct 11.


title: Urgent: Unblock voters' registrations
uri: Urgent-Unblock-voters-registrations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(Urgent:_Unblock_voters_registrations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Unblock_voters_registrations%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=1061">call
on Georgia</a> to stop blocking 50,000 voters' registrations.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(Urgent:_Smarter_Sentencing_Act)
title: Urgent: Smarter Sentencing Act
uri: 2014-10-03-Urgent-Smarter-Sentencing-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Smarter_Sentencing_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://dailykos.com/campaigns/957?detail=email">call on
Congress</a> to pass the Smarter Sentencing Act.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(Transporting_oil_by_rail)
title: Transporting oil by rail
uri: Transporting-oil-by-rail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Transporting_oil_by_rail%29
content:
<p>
Railroad companies 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/01/despite-calls-immediate-ban-oil-rail-industry-bullies-regulators-keep-cars-tracks">want
to take 7 years to replace the explosion-prone tanker cars</a> used
for transporting oil.
<p>
Instead, transporting oil should simply be banned starting now.  Any
time some activity with fossil fuel causes a second problem in
addition to global heating, we should ban that activity.  If we ban
enough of them, it may reduce the use of fossil fuel enough to avert
global heating disaster.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(New_York_City_seawall)
title: New York City seawall
uri: New-York-City-seawall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28New_York_City_seawall%29
content:
<p>
New York City is building a 
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/1/6874925/can-a-massive-seawall-save-new-york-from-flooding">10-mile-long
seawall/recreation-area</a> to prevent flooding for a few decades.
<p>
If we don't stop pumping CO<sub>2</sub> into the air, no seawall will
protect New York City.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(Religious_extremists_in_Florida)
title: Religious extremists in Florida
uri: Religious-extremists-in-Florida
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Religious_extremists_in_Florida%29

content:
<p>
A town in Florida is under the 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/30/1332354/-Ave-Maria-University-s-Strangle-Hold-on-Women-Goes-Way-Beyond-Suing-Obamacare">perpetual
legal control of a rich religious extremist</a> who gets support from
religious extremist elected officials and religious extremists on the
Supreme Court.


title: Goldman Sachs and the Federal Reserve
uri: Goldman-Sachs-and-the-Federal-Reserve
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(Goldman_Sachs_and_the_Federal_Reserve)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Goldman_Sachs_and_the_Federal_Reserve%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/10/elizabeth-warren-regulators-wall-street-cozy">Leaked
recordings</a> show that the Federal Reserve is too cozy with Goldman
Sachs.
<p>
This may be partly because the Federal Reserve is owned by private
banks.


title: Protesters block Israeli ship in Florida
uri: Protesters-block-Israeli-ship-in-Florida
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(Protesters_block_Israeli_ship_in_Florida)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Protesters_block_Israeli_ship_in_Florida%29

content:
<p>
US protests blocking unloading of Israeli ships have spread to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/02/nobel-peace-summit-south-africa-dalai-lama-visa">Tampa</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(Nobel_peace_summit_cancelled)
title: Nobel peace summit cancelled
uri: Nobel-peace-summit-cancelled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Nobel_peace_summit_cancelled%29
content:
<p>
A meeting of Nobel peace prize winners was cancelled because 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/02/nobel-peace-summit-south-africa-dalai-lama-visa">South
Africa would not give the Dalai Lama a visa to attend</a>.


title: US media supports tyranny in Egypt
uri: US-media-supports-tyranny-in-Egypt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(US_media_supports_tyranny_in_Egypt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28US_media_supports_tyranny_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
US media supported democracy in Egypt for 6 weeks, but is now firmly
(with the US government) 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=5925">on the side of
military repression</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(Sudan_flogs_women)
title: Sudan flogs women
uri: Sudan-flogs-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Sudan_flogs_women%29
content:
<p>
In Sudan, women get 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/02/sudan-morality-laws-women-report">flogged
for not covering their hair</a>.  Jailing is common, for women who
aren't totally submissive.


