# articles

title: Systems that collect data about people
uri: Systems-that-collect-data-about-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Systems_that_collect_data_about_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Systems_that_collect_data_about_people%29

content:
<p>
The USA Freedom Act: a step in the right direction,
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/new-usa-freedom-act-step-right-direction-more-must-be-done">but
doesn't eliminate all the wrongs in the PAT RIOT Act</a>.
<p>
Even if the PAT RIOT Act were eliminated and FISA were made just,
other systems collect data about people in general and make digital
dossiers that
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">threaten
democracy and human rights</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Big_Banks_bullshit)
title: Big Banks' bullshit
uri: Big-Banks-bullshit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Big_Banks_bullshit%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/big-banks-claim-reform-will-hurt-economy-heres-why-thats-bullsht">Big
Banks Claim Reform Will Hurt the Economy</a>.  If We Don't Fix This
House of Cards, It Will Fall on Us Again.


title: FBI manipulation of mentally ill fanatics
uri: FBI-manipulation-of-mentally-ill-fanatics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(FBI_manipulation_of_mentally_ill_fanatics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28FBI_manipulation_of_mentally_ill_fanatics%29

content:
<p>
Some mentally ill fanatics fantasize about terrorism.  The FBI, rather
than help them steer away from this,
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/01/fbi-needs-stop-manufacturing-terrorist-plots/">pushes
them into making concrete plans</a> — so it can imprison them
permanently.
<p>
Meanwhile, fear of prosecution causes communities to eject such
people, which can encourage them to move towards real terrorism.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(UK_politicians_promises)
title: UK politicians' promises
uri: UK-politicians-promises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28UK_politicians_promises%29
content:
<p>
UK politicians expect voters to expect them to break their promises.
Therefore they now try out
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/01/politicians-living-lie-regain-trust-voters-honesty">special
terminology</a> for "promises meant to be kept".
<p>
In a minority or coalition government, parties won't be able to do
everything they wanted to do.  Recognizing this, we should choose
politicians with the right priorities, who will do their best to fund
the important programs and collect enough taxes for them.
<p>
If you feel the need to ask a politician to make a concrete promise
about a specific program, that is because you suspect that politician
doesn't give it as much priority as it deserves.  If you're right,
that suggests you should vote for someone else with better priorities.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Reduction_of_art)
title: Reduction of art
uri: Reduction-of-art
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Reduction_of_art%29
content:
<p>
We <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2015/may/01/arts-are-much-more-than-simply-money-making-creative-industries">must
not reduce art to a "creative industry"</a> whose mission is profit.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Sale_of_lion_carcasses)
title: Sale of lion carcasses
uri: Sale-of-lion-carcasses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Sale_of_lion_carcasses%29
content:
<p>
South Africa
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/south-africa-wants-kill-endangered-lions-supply-chinese-demand-parts">proposes
to legalize sale of lion carcasses</a> because its lion population is
thought to be increasing under protection.
<p>
There is some logic in the idea of selling excess lions, but the
danger is that this will fuel the demand for poaching lions elsewhere.
The demand for lion parts is based on ignorant superstition, and a
campaign of education could put an end to it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Access_to_thug_body_camera_videos)
title: Access to thug body camera videos
uri: Access-to-thug-body-camera-videos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Access_to_thug_body_camera_videos%29
content:
<p>
Proposed state laws could make thug body cameras
<a href="http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/04/across-country-bills-could-restrict-public-access-of-police-body-camera-videos/">fail
to do their job</a>.
<p>
The question of when and how these recordings can be used requires
regulation, but it has to be the right regulation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Brain_damage_en_route_to_Mars)
title: Brain damage en route to Mars
uri: Brain-damage-en-route-to-Mars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Brain_damage_en_route_to_Mars%29
content:
<p>
Astronauts heading for Mars
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/01/mars-astronauts-risk-brain-damage-from-cosmic-rays-say-scientists">might
suffer severe brain damage caused by cosmic rays</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Wikileaks_submission_system)
title: Wikileaks submission system
uri: Wikileaks-submission-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Wikileaks_submission_system%29
content:
<p>
Wikileaks has its submission system
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/05/wikileaks-finally-brings-back-submission-system-secrets/">working
again</a>.


title: Demands to eliminate encryption dismissed
uri: Demands-to-eliminate-encryption-dismissed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Demands_to_eliminate_encryption_dismissed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Demands_to_eliminate_encryption_dismissed%29

content:
<p>
Rep. Lieu dismissed spies' demands to eliminate encryption:
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/30/irate-congressman-gives-cops-easy-rule-just-follow-the-damn-constitution/">"Just
follow the damn Constitution."</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Lego_store_arrests_boy)
title: Lego store arrests boy
uri: Lego-store-arrests-boy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Lego_store_arrests_boy%29
content:
<p>
A Lego store in the US
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/30/lego-store-detains-11-year-old-boy-for-s">arrested
a boy</a> for coming there with money to spend it — alone.
<p>
I hope he decides to spend his money somewhere else from now on.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Toxic_coal_slurry)
title: Toxic coal slurry
uri: Toxic-coal-slurry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Toxic_coal_slurry%29
content:
<p>
Storage sites for toxic coal slurry, a byproduct of coal mining, are
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30471-the-us-has-nearly-600-coal-waste-sites-why-they-ve-got-west-virginians-worried">potential
accidents</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Oppression_of_women_in_Iraq)
title: Oppression of women in Iraq
uri: Oppression-of-women-in-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Oppression_of_women_in_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
The Iraqi government isn't officially theocratic, but it 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30466-iraq-s-female-citizens-prisoners-of-war">oppresses
women as if it were</a>.  And that's not even counting PISSI.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Forest_fires_California)
title: Forest fires California
uri: Forest-fires-California
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Forest_fires_California%29
content:
<p>
Forest fires are 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/what-we-do/people/john-upton">destroying
California forests faster than they can regrow</a>, making them a
source of greenhouse gases.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Lasting_effects_of_Agent_Orange)
title: Lasting effects of Agent Orange
uri: Lasting-effects-of-Agent-Orange
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Lasting_effects_of_Agent_Orange%29
content:
<p>
Vietnam 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30519-agent-orange-terrible-legacy-of-the-vietnam-war">still
suffers the damage of Agent Orange</a>, which the US knew at the time
was toxic to humans.  The US has never paid compensation.


title: Thug unions defeat accountability bills
uri: Thug-unions-defeat-accountability-bills
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Thug_unions_defeat_accountability_bills)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Thug_unions_defeat_accountability_bills%29

content:
<p>
Thug unions recently defeated Maryland bills to increase the
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/01/police-union-influence-maryland-runs-deep/">accountability
of thugs who commit murder or mayhem</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Six_Baltimore_thugs_charged)
title: Six Baltimore thugs charged
uri: Six-Baltimore-thugs-charged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Six_Baltimore_thugs_charged%29
content:
<p>
Six Baltimore thugs have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/01/baltimore-freddie-gray-death">charged
with the killing of Freddie Gray</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Genetic_editing_of_human_embryos)
title: Genetic editing of human embryos
uri: Genetic-editing-of-human-embryos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Genetic_editing_of_human_embryos%29
content:
<p>
Genetic editing of human embryos 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/01/fear-of-designer-babies-shouldnt-distract-us-from-the-goal-of-healthy-babies">ought
to be permitted</a>, at least to get rid of disease-causing genes,
once the technique is reliable and safe.


title: Investigation of Walker campaign finance
uri: Investigation-of-Walker-campaign-finance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Investigation_of_Walker_campaign_finance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Investigation_of_Walker_campaign_finance%29

content:
<p>
Prosecutors say Scott Walker is 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/04/12816/scott-walker-GOP-prosecutor-john-doe">lying
as he tries to sabotage the criminal investigation</a> of his campaign
finance.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(US_National_Petroleum_Council)
title: US National Petroleum Council
uri: US-National-Petroleum-Council
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28US_National_Petroleum_Council%29
content:
<p>
The US National Petroleum Council is an 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/01/cant-believe-lobbying-national-petroleum-council/">oil
company lobbying organization</a> pretending to offer neutral advice.


title: TV commentator criticize Australia's self-image
uri: TV-commentator-criticize-Australia-s-self-image
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(TV_commentator_criticize_Australia's_self-image)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28TV_commentator_criticize_Australia%27s_self-image%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=20963">Australian TV commentator Scott McIntyre made controversial tweets
that criticized Australia's official self-image about its wars</a>,
on the day reserved for boosting that self-image.
<p>
The minister in charge of Australian public TV was outraged,
so the head of the channel fired him immediately, claiming that
to question the official story constituted "disrespect" for the audience.
</p>
<p>
I mostly don't agree with McIntyre's statements.  First of all, I see
nothing immoral about the Gallipoli landings.  They were run badly,
and failed, but that's not immoral.  (The allies' armies suffered
generally from bad and rigid leadership.)  The use of the atomic bomb
against Japan is a complicated subject when it applies to the US
(bombing of cities with military installations was considered
normal at the time) but Australia was not responsible for it.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Cars_equipped_with_cell_phones_)
title: Cars equipped with cell phones
uri: Cars-equipped-with-cell-phones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Cars_equipped_with_cell_phones_%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/ecall-all-new-cars-april-2018">Europe will require all cars to be equipped with cell phones that
automatically call to report an accident.</a>
<p>
The feature is a good one; what will be its price in privacy?
If the phone is on all the time, and ready to make a call,
it will be tracked all the time.
</p>
<p>
This could be prevented by turning the phone on
only when it needs to call.  But will they do that?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Apes_wiped_out_by_global_heating)
title: Apes wiped out by global heating
uri: Apes-wiped-out-by-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Apes_wiped_out_by_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Jane Goodall: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/03/jane-goodall-climate-change-apes-fear">apes could be wiped out by global heating</a>.  They can't adapt
to very different environments.
<p>
Humans can't be wiped out by global heating; we are good at adapting
to many different environments.
</p>
<p>
What might get wiped out is technological civilization based on global
trade.  That is rather fragile.  I expect a few hundred million humans
could survive with low tech agriculture and fishing, once 6 to 9 billion
have died.
</p>
<p>
Heating won't make solar power stop working, and won't make computers
stop working.  But the wars it stimulates can destroy the globalize
manufacturing system, so that solar cells and computers can't be
replaced when they break.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Tories_are_destroying_the_NHS)
title: Tories are destroying the NHS
uri: Tories-are-destroying-the-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Tories_are_destroying_the_NHS%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/02/nhs-land-grab-private-firms-health-privatisation-fears">The Tories' gradual privatization of the NHS is taking a big leap</a>
as companies will be invited to provide "services" directly to patients.
<p>
As usual, the Tories deny that they are privatizing and destroying the
NHS.  They hope that some will be foolish enough to believe this claim
and fail to resist.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Mass_imprisonment_in_US)
title: Mass imprisonment in US
uri: Mass-imprisonment-in-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Mass_imprisonment_in_US%29
content:
<p>
The US has had a series of systems for oppressing blacks: slavery,
segregation laws, and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/02/baltimore-rebellion-is-uprising-against-austerity-freddie-gray">now repression by thugs leading to mass
imprisonment</a>.
<p>
The victims don't have to be limited to blacks.  Rather, when economic
pressure is the motive force, it catches whatever groups are easiest
to catch.  That often tends to be the groups that are already in a
weak position, perhaps because of lingering effects of an earlier
system of oppression.
</p>
<p>
To the extent that bigotry is practiced (consciously or not) by thugs,
the target group must be one they can recognize.  But that doesn't
mean it has to be a racial group.  It can be the poor, if they can be
recognized as a group by how they dress and where they are found.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Volunteers_arrested_in_Baltimore)
title: Volunteers arrested in Baltimore
uri: Volunteers-arrested-in-Baltimore
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Volunteers_arrested_in_Baltimore%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/03/freddie-gray-legal-volunteers-arrested-after-defying-baltimore-curfew">Baltimore thugs arrested legal and medical volunteers at a protest</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Journalists_threatened_in_Kenya)
title: Journalists threatened in Kenya
uri: Journalists-threatened-in-Kenya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Journalists_threatened_in_Kenya%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/03/journalists-prompts-fears-for-press-freedom-in-kenya">Journalists in Kenya are threatened by repressive laws and murderers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Bogus_progressive)
title: Bogus progressive
uri: Bogus-progressive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Bogus_progressive%29
content:
<p>
Clinton is trying to appeal to progressive voters by<a="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/03/hillary-clinton-2016-campaign-progressive-leftwing"> making a few
progressive declarations</a>.
<p>
I don't trust her.  If she doesn't condemn the TPP, she is a bogus
progressive like Obama.
</p>
<p>
Obama's push for the TPP ( Treacherous Plutocratic Poison
) demonstrates once again that a right-wing "Democrat" is not
much different from a Republican.  Shame on Americans who fall
for this trick again.
</p>
<p>
I support Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination,
and if he wins it, I will vote for him for president.
If Clinton wins the nomination, I will vote Green.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(UK_pardoned_Turing)
title: UK "pardoned" Turing
uri: UK-pardoned-Turing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28UK_pardoned_Turing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/02/turing-niece-demands-pardons-for-gay-men-outdated-laws">The UK has pardoned Turing for the "crime" of homosexuality</a>.
<p>
Now it should pardon 49,000 other people convicted of the same "crime".
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(UK_police_starves_out_activists)
title: UK police starves out activists
uri: UK-police-starves-out-activists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28UK_police_starves_out_activists%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/02/liverpool-police-accused-of-trying-to-starve-activists-out-of-occupied-bank">UK thugs are trying to starve out activists</a> who have seized a disused
bank building to shelter homeless people.
<p>
Has any political party said anything?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Stopped_aid_convoys_for_Nepal_)
title: Stopped aid convoys for Nepal
uri: Stopped-aid-convoys-for-Nepal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Stopped_aid_convoys_for_Nepal_%29
content:
<p>
Nepal denies blocking aid in customs, but it appears that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/02/nepal-government-criticised-blocking-earthquake-aid-remote-areas">private
aid convoys are being stopped and seized.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Yemen)
title: Yemen
uri: Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Yemen%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/02/john-kerry-yemen-not-yet-a-failed-state-despite-fighting">Kerry says Yemen is not a failed state…yet</a>.
<p>
The Saudis are still working on it.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(US_attack_killed_50_civilians)
title: US attack killed 50 civilians
uri: US-attack-killed-50-civilians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28US_attack_killed_50_civilians%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/02/death-toll-syria-climbs-us-led-air-strike">A US air attack in Syria killed 50 civilians</a>.
<p>
It is not clear from the article whether the target was in a battlefield.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Obama,_prove_that_TPP_is_good)
title: Obama, prove that TPP is good
uri: Obama-prove-that-TPP-is-good
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Obama%2C_prove_that_TPP_is_good%29
content:
<p>
Ralph Nader: Obama, if you want Americans to believe you that the TPP is good, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/02/obama-debate-senator-warren-global-economic-pact">you had better prove it.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Republicans_canceled_IUD_program)
title: Republicans canceled IUD program
uri: Republicans-canceled-IUD-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Republicans_canceled_IUD_program%29
content:
<p>
Colorado's IUD funding program reduced teen pregnancies by 40%
and teenagers' abortions by 35%, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/30/1381522/-Colorado-Republicans-vote-to-defund-award-winning-program-that-reduced-teen-births-by-40?detail=email">but Republicans voted to cancel it,
citing a strained excuse</a>.
<p>
Republicans value every embryo more than a real human being.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Victim_forced_to_leave_her_village)
title: Victim forced to leave her village
uri: Victim-forced-to-leave-her-village
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Victim_forced_to_leave_her_village%29

content:
<p>
Liz, in Kenya, campaigned successfully for her convicted rapists to
get sentenced to more than cutting the grass; but the rapists'
families, standing up for the rapists, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/02/victim-kenya-rape-conviction-forced-leave-village-liz">drove her and her family to
flee into hiding.</a>


title: Government Agents inspect aid for Nepal
uri: Government-Agents-inspect-aid-for-Nepal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Government_Agents_inspect_aid_for_Nepal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Government_Agents_inspect_aid_for_Nepal%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/02/nepal-customs-holding-up-relief-jamie-mcgoldrick-united-nations">Aid for Nepal is piling up at the airport</a>, government agents insist on
inspecting it slowly.


title: Maldives arrested leaders of the opposition
uri: Maldives-arrested-leaders-of-the-opposition
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Maldives_arrested_leaders_of_the_opposition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Maldives_arrested_leaders_of_the_opposition%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/02/maldives-arrests-opposition-leaders-imran-abdulla-violent-protests">The Maldives arrested all the leaders of the opposition</a>, after a protest calling for freedom for overthrown president Masheed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(They_want_you_to_police_your_users)
title: They want you to police your users
uri: They-want-you-to-police-your-users
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28They_want_you_to_police_your_users%29

content:
<p>
Run a Wi-Fi Network? HBO and Showtime <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/run-wifi-network-hbo-and-showtime-want-you-police-your-users">Want You to Police Your Users</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Take_care_of_DNA)
title: Take care of DNA
uri: Take-care-of-DNA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Take_care_of_DNA%29
content:
<p>
Think twice before <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/how-private-dna-data-led-idaho-cops-wild-goose-chase-and-linked-innocent-man-20">letting a company analyze or store your DNA</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(No_space_for_new_coal)
title: No space for new coal
uri: No-space-for-new-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28No_space_for_new_coal%29
content:
<p>
The UN climate chief <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/04/un-climate-chief-says-the-science-is-clear-there-is-no-space-for-new-coal">says</a> there is no room for new coal development.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Anything_in_Gaza_is_a_target)
title: Anything in Gaza is a target
uri: Anything-in-Gaza-is-a-target
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Anything_in_Gaza_is_a_target%29
content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers say they were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/04/israeli-soldiers-cast-doubt-on-legality-of-gaza-military-operation">ordered to consider anything in Gaza as
a valid target</a>. Some were ordered to shoot any anyone looking from a window at
Israeli forces.  Others were told to shoot at any adult man.
<p>
When the US kills people in Pakistan, it labels all adult males killed
as "enemy fighters".  Israeli forces went one step further when they
labeled two unarmed dead women as "terrorists".
</p>
<p>
Sometimes Israeli soldiers shelled buildings randomly, out of hatred
or as revenge for a dead soldier.  They also had a scheme for
intentionally shelling protected areas (such as UN compounds) and
disguising their acts in official logs.
</p>
<p>
Here are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/04/in-their-own-words-israeli-troops-break-ranks-on-gaza-campaign">quotations</a> from the soldiers.
</p>


title: China's projects threatened by heating
uri: China-s-projects-threatened-by-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(China's_projects_threatened_by_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28China%27s_projects_threatened_by_heating%29

content:
<p>
China's large construction projects are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/04/climate-change-threatens-major-building-projects-says-chinese-expert">threatened by global heating</a>, as China is heating faster than most of the world.
<p>
I suppose agriculture will be threatened too.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Boko_Haram)
title: Boko Haram
uri: Boko-Haram
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Boko_Haram%29
content:
<p>
Prisoners of Boko Haram said that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/03/freed-nigerian-women-tell-of-how-boko-haram-killed-men-and-boys">the fanatics killed the captured men
and boys immediately</a>, then took the women and girls into the forest
where many died from insufficient food.
<p>
Even after rescue, a few of them have died from the effects of
privation.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Buildings_need_repairs_in_Kathmandu)
title: Buildings need repairs in Kathmandu
uri: Buildings-need-repairs-in-Kathmandu
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Buildings_need_repairs_in_Kathmandu%29

content:
<p>
Most buildings in Kathmandu <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/03/most-buildings-in-kathmandu-deemed-uninhabitable-following-quake">need repairs before they can be
safe to live in</a>.
<p>
I fear the available construction crews would years to do this work.
If so, it will be necessary to bring in Indian construction workers.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Syrian_civilians_victims)
title: Syrian civilians victims
uri: Syrian-civilians-victims
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Syrian_civilians_victims%29
content:
<p>
Assad's air attacks <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/03/syria-children-killed-in-government-barrel-bomb-attack-say-rights-groups">kill Syrian civilians, too</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(US_thugs_killing_stats)
title: US thugs killing stats
uri: US-thugs-killing-stats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28US_thugs_killing_stats%29
content:
<p>
US thugs killed twice as many people in March 2013
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/01/1374908/-American-police-killed-more-people-in-March-111-than-in-the-entire-United-Kingdom-since-1900?detail=email">as UK thugs have killed since 1900</a>.
<p>
That is not a typo.  US thugs are killing people at 2000 times the rate of
UK thugs.
</p>
<p>
Of course, the US is more populous.  Its population is four times that
of the UK.  So US thugs are killing people 500 times as fast as they would
in a country like the UK but as big in population as the US.
</p>


title: Banned discrimination against Atheists
uri: Banned-discrimination-against-Atheists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Banned_discrimination_against_Atheists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Banned_discrimination_against_Atheists%29

content:
<p>
Madison, Wisconsin, has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/03/madison-wisconsin-bans-religious-discrimination-atheists">banned discrimination against Atheists</a>.
<p>
Religious freedom includes the freedom to have no religion, and laws
against discrimination based on religion should be interpreted as
including a prohibition against discrimination against those without
religion.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Xnet's_agenda_for_copyright_law)
title: Xnet's agenda for copyright law
uri: Xnet-s-agenda-for-copyright-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Xnet%27s_agenda_for_copyright_law%29
content:
<p>
Xnet's <a href="https://xnet-x.net/en/positive-agenda">positive agenda</a> for copyright law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(ICANN_wants_permanent_control_)
title: ICANN wants permanent control
uri: ICANN-wants-permanent-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28ICANN_wants_permanent_control_%29
content:
<p>
Since it looks like the world is ready to give ICANN temporary control
over internet addresses and protocols, ICANN <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/01/icann_iana_latest/">is demanding that that be
made permanent</a> or it will go on strike.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(US_needs_a_political_revolution)
title: US needs a political revolution
uri: US-needs-a-political-revolution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28US_needs_a_political_revolution%29
content:
<p>
Bernie Sanders <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/03/bernie-sanders-political-revolution-billionaire-democratic-2016-race">says</a> the US needs a "political revolution" against
the billionaire class.
<p>
Note that he did not say that candidates for federal office are billionaires.
Most of them are merely millionaires.  The point is that they work for
and report to the billionaires.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Urgent:_oppose_weak_freedom_act)
title: Urgent: oppose weak "freedom" act
uri: Urgent-oppose-weak-freedom-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_weak_freedom_act%29
content:
<p>US citizens: oppose the weak "USA FREEDOM Act": 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/usa_freedom_2015?t=1001&akid=14188.1183552.E7ascL">
insist on letting the PAT RIOT Act expire</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Privacy_of_DNA_databases)
title: Privacy of DNA databases
uri: Privacy-of-DNA-databases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Privacy_of_DNA_databases%29
content:
<p>Think twice before letting a company 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/how-private-dna-data-led-idaho-cops-wild-goose-chase-and-linked-innocent-man-20">
analyze or store your DNA</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(HBO_pre-emptive_court_order)
title: HBO "pre-emptive" court order
uri: HBO-pre-emptive-court-order
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28HBO_pre-emptive_court_order%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/run-wifi-network-hbo-and-showtime-want-you-police-your-users">
Run a Wi-Fi Network? HBO and Showtime Want You to Police Your
Users</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Everything_a_target_in_Gaza)
title: Everything a target in Gaza
uri: Everything-a-target-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Everything_a_target_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>Israeli soldiers say they were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/04/israeli-soldiers-cast-doubt-on-legality-of-gaza-military-operation">
ordered to consider anything in Gaza as
a valid target</a>.
Some were ordered to shoot any anyone looking from a window at
Israeli forces. Others were told to shoot at any adult man.</p>
<p>When the US kills people in Pakistan, it labels all adult males killed
as "enemy fighters". Israeli forces went one step further when they
labeled two unarmed dead women as "terrorists".</p>
<p>Sometimes Israeli soldiers shelled buildings randomly, out of hatred
or as revenge for a dead soldier. They also had a scheme for
intentionally shelling protected areas (such as UN compounds) and
disguising their acts in official logs.</p>
<p>Here are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/04/in-their-own-words-israeli-troops-break-ranks-on-gaza-campaign">
quotations from the soldiers</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(No_room_for_coal)
title: No room for coal
uri: No-room-for-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28No_room_for_coal%29
content:
<p>The UN climate chief says there is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/04/un-climate-chief-says-the-science-is-clear-there-is-no-space-for-new-coal">
no room for new coal development</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Global_heating_threatens_construction)
title: Global heating threatens construction
uri: Global-heating-threatens-construction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Global_heating_threatens_construction%29

content:
<p>China's large construction projects are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/04/climate-change-threatens-major-building-projects-says-chinese-expert">
threatened by global heating</a>,
as China is heating faster than most of the world.</p>
<p>I suppose agriculture will be threatened too.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Testimony_of_Boko_Haram's_prisoners)
title: Testimony of Boko Haram's prisoners
uri: Testimony-of-Boko-Haram-s-prisoners
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Testimony_of_Boko_Haram%27s_prisoners%29

content:
<p>Prisoners of Boko Haram said that the fanatics 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/03/freed-nigerian-women-tell-of-how-boko-haram-killed-men-and-boys">
killed the captured men
and boys immediately, then took the women and girls into the forest</a>
 where many died from insufficient food.
Even after rescue, a few of them have died from the effects of
privation.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Urgent:_thank_DA_Mosby)
title: Urgent: thank DA Mosby
uri: Urgent-thank-DA-Mosby
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_thank_DA_Mosby%29
content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/thank-you-marilyn-mosby/">
thank DA Mosby</a>
 for prosecuting the killers of Freddie Gray.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Buildings_in_Kathmandu_uninhabitable)
title: Buildings in Kathmandu uninhabitable
uri: Buildings-in-Kathmandu-uninhabitable
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Buildings_in_Kathmandu_uninhabitable%29

content:
<p>Most buildings in Kathmandu 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/03/most-buildings-in-kathmandu-deemed-uninhabitable-following-quake">
need repairs before they can be
safe to live in</a>.
</p>
<p>I fear the available construction crews would take years to do this
work.
If so, it will be necessary to bring in Indian construction workers.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Assad_air_attacks_kill_civilians)
title: Assad air attacks kill civilians
uri: Assad-air-attacks-kill-civilians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Assad_air_attacks_kill_civilians%29
content:
<p>Assad's air attacks 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/03/syria-children-killed-in-government-barrel-bomb-attack-say-rights-groups">
kill Syrian civilians</a>,
 too.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(US_thugs_kill_500x_as_fast_as_UK_ones)
title: US thugs kill 500x as fast as UK ones
uri: US-thugs-kill-500x-as-fast-as-UK-ones
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28US_thugs_kill_500x_as_fast_as_UK_ones%29

content:
<p>US thugs killed 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/01/1374908/-American-police-killed-more-people-in-March-111-than-in-the-entire-United-Kingdom-since-1900?detail=email">
twice as many people in March 2013
as UK thugs have killed since 1900</a>.
</p>
<p>That is not a typo. US thugs are killing people at 2000 times the rate
of
UK thugs.</p>
<p>Of course, the US is more populous. Its population is four times that
of the UK. So US thugs are killing people 500 times as fast as they would
in a country like the UK but as big in population as the US.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Urgent:_end_too_big_to_jail)
title: Urgent: end "too big to jail"
uri: Urgent-end-too-big-to-jail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_end_too_big_to_jail%29
content:
<p>US citizens: call on newly confirmed Attorney General Lynch to 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/lynchconfirm?nosig=1&t=1002&akid=14207.1183552.SWCNur">
end "too big to jail"</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Ban_on_discrimination_of_irreligious)
title: Ban on discrimination of irreligious
uri: Ban-on-discrimination-of-irreligious
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Ban_on_discrimination_of_irreligious%29

content:
<p>Madison, Wisconsin, has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/03/madison-wisconsin-bans-religious-discrimination-atheists">
banned discrimination against Atheists</a>.
</p>
<p>Religious freedom includes the freedom to have no religion, and laws
against discrimination based on religion should be interpreted as
including a prohibition against discrimination against those without
religion.
</p>


title: Alternative proposals for copyright law
uri: Alternative-proposals-for-copyright-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Alternative_proposals_for_copyright_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Alternative_proposals_for_copyright_law%29

content:
<p>Xnet's 
<a href="https://xnet-x.net/en/positive-agenda">
positive agenda</a>
 for copyright law.
</p>


title: Urgent: call on Obama to publish TPP text
uri: Urgent-call-on-Obama-to-publish-TPP-text
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Urgent:_call_on_Obama_to_publish_TPP_text)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_call_on_Obama_to_publish_TPP_text%29

content:
<p>US citizens: stand by senators Brown, Sanders and Warren in
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/tpp_reveal_cc/">
calling on Obama to publish the text of the TPP</a>
 and other so-called "trade agreements".
</p>
<p>We know that these treaties are nasty. If they weren't nasty, they
wouldn't serve the interests of the plutocrats. However, not everyone
follows that reasoning. As long as the text is secret, we can't point
to specific nasty things in it, and that enables Obama and the
Republicans to get away with misrepresenting it.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(ICANN_wants_control_over_the_internet)
title: ICANN wants control over the internet
uri: ICANN-wants-control-over-the-internet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28ICANN_wants_control_over_the_internet%29

content:
<p>Since it looks like the world is ready to give ICANN temporary control
over internet addresses and protocols, ICANN is 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/01/icann_iana_latest/">
demanding that that be made permanent</a>
 or it will go on strike.
</p>


title: Urgent: tell FEC to investigate Bush and Walker
uri: Urgent-tell-FEC-to-investigate-Bush-and-Walker
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Urgent:_tell_FEC_to_investigate_Bush_and_Walker)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_tell_FEC_to_investigate_Bush_and_Walker%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on the Federal Election Commission to immediately
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-the-fec-investigate-7?source=mo&id=114199-2794606-Ztk320x">
investigate candidates such as Jeb Bush and Scott Walker</a>,
 who are
pretending not to be candidates and claiming that excuses their
violations.
</p>


title: Bernie Sanders on the billionaire class
uri: Bernie-Sanders-on-the-billionaire-class
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_May_2015_(Bernie_Sanders_on_the_billionaire_class)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_May_2015_%28Bernie_Sanders_on_the_billionaire_class%29

content:
<p>Bernie Sanders says the US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/03/bernie-sanders-political-revolution-billionaire-democratic-2016-race">
needs a "political revolution" against
the billionaire class</a>.
</p>
<p>Note that he did not say that candidates for federal office are
billionaires.
Most of them are merely millionaires. The point is that they work for
and report to the billionaires.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_May_2015_(Attack_on_draw_Muhammad_competition)
title: Attack on "draw Muhammad" competition
uri: Attack-on-draw-Muhammad-competition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_May_2015_%28Attack_on_draw_Muhammad_competition%29

content:
<p>
Two gunmen attacked a "draw Muhammad" cartoon competition
and were shot dead.
<p>
The attack was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/04/garland-texas-shooting-attack-tweet-muhammad-exhibition">announced
in advance</a> by a tweet which proclaimed it as an act of religious
terrorism.
<p>
Either the attackers were real murderous fanatics, or they pretended
to be murderous fanatics (but that is implausible).
<p>
The organizers of the cartoon contest were deliberately provocative,
but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/04/texas-shooting-the-group-behind-the-muhammad-cartoon-contest">not 
violent.</a>
<p>
Ms Geller is wrong about some things.  There are millions of moderate
Muslims.  Even fanatics don't suppose they can impose Islam on the US
in the short term.
<p>
What Muslim fanatics typically demand, in Europe and the US, is
"respect" for Islam, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_January_2014_(UK_politician_threatened_for_not_condemning_cartoon_of_Jesus_and_Mohammed)">respect
to a degree that no person or belief is entitled to</a>.
<p>
Many Muslims who do not engage in violence nonetheless support this
demand.  While their methods are not wrong, the demand is still wrong.
Persistently exercising the right to criticize Islam (and any other
religion whose adherents demand to silence criticism) is a valid way
to defend that right.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_May_2015_(Cut_greenhous_emissions)
title: Cut greenhouse emissions
uri: Cut-greenhouse-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_May_2015_%28Cut_greenhous_emissions%29
content:
<p>
If we don't cut greenhouse emissions soon, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2015/may/05/melting-antarctic-failure-to-cut-emissions-now-could-raise-worlds-oceans-by-several-metres">we will commit</a> the world to
perhaps 17 meters of sea level rise, though it will take a few
centuries to occur.  By 2100 we may get 3 meters of rise.
<p>
These models are uncertain.  Should we bet the world's major cities on
the possibility that the real rise is less?  We would lose parts of
nearly every coastal city.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_May_2015_(Catch_Corinthians_Colleges)
title: Catch Corinthians Colleges
uri: Catch-Corinthians-Colleges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_May_2015_%28Catch_Corinthians_Colleges%29
content:
<p>
Why did it take so long to catch Corinthian Colleges for its illegalities
and shut it down?  Its political and lobbying <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/04/bankruptcy-filing-shows-corinthian-colleges-secretly-funded-d-c-think-tanks-dark-money-election-efforts/">donations may be the reason</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_May_2015_(Birdfeeding)
title: Bird feeding
uri: Bird-feeding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_May_2015_%28Birdfeeding%29
content:
<p>
If you want to feed birds, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2015/may/05/birdfeeding-favours-non-native-bird-species">take care</a> that your feeder doesn't encourage
introduced species at the expense of native species.
<p>
You might want to set up a bat house to shelter insectivorous bats, if
any live in your area.  They are really great for keeping the
mosquitos down.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_May_2015_(Global_heating)
title: Global heating
uri: 2015-05-06-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_May_2015_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
The BRIC Nations' Response to [global heating] <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/may/04/brazil-china-russia-india-climate-change-labor-economy-sustainability">Is Critical to the Fate of the
Planet</a>.
<p>
Reducing pollution and environmental degradation in India is a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/may/04/india-renewable-energy-population-density-pollution-environment">big challenge</a>
combined with reducing poverty.
</p>
<p>
The comparison between India and China is partly misleading.
Large parts of China are deserts, and the size of "China" probably
includes Tibet.
</p>
<p>
Nonetheless, India is clearly overpopulated.  The article has a blind
spot in treating population and population growth as beyond control.
Population growth is not a natural phenomenon; it is the result of
failure to make birth control and abortion easily available to women.
</p>
<p>
India's law against sex-selective abortion, to the extent that it is
enforced, promotes future population growth.  It will be limited by
the number of women;  men that don't have children won't
contribute.  Thus, parents that choose to have boys rather than girls
will reduce the size of future generations.  We should not discourage
them from helping to reduce the pressure on one side of the vice.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_May_2015_(Bicycles_in_Dutch_due_to_an_activist)
title: Bicycles in Dutch due to an activist
uri: Bicycles-in-Dutch-due-to-an-activist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_May_2015_%28Bicycles_in_Dutch_due_to_an_activist%29

content:
<p>
The predominance of bicycles in Dutch cities is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bicycle-capital-world-transport-cycling-kindermoord">due to an activist
campaign</a> that started in the 1970s.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_May_2015_(Solar_power)
title: Solar power
uri: Solar-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_May_2015_%28Solar_power%29
content:
<p>
A solar-powered lamp that costs $25 can pay for itself in fuel savings
in under two months.
<p>
Evans Wadongo <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/05/solar-mwangabora-evans-wadongo-lamps-climate-change">is doing</a> a great job as an individual alone.
But he has only distributed 50,000 solar lamps in Kenya in 10 years.
At this rate it would take millennia to reach the people that need them
in Kenya alone.
</p>
<p>
If the world were on a war footing to save itself from the danger of
global heating, it could easily have provided them to billions of
people by now.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_May_2015_(Burundi_judge_fled_into_exile)
title: Burundi judge fled into exile
uri: Burundi-judge-fled-into-exile
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_May_2015_%28Burundi_judge_fled_into_exile%29
content:
<p>
A judge on Burundi's Supreme Court <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/05/senior-burundi-judge-flees-rather-than-approve-presidents-candidacy">fled into exile</a>, citing death threats
demanding he approve the president's unconstitutional attempt to run again.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_May_2015_(Will_Qatar_abolish_semi-slavery)
title: Will Qatar abolish semi-slavery
uri: Will-Qatar-abolish-semi-slavery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_May_2015_%28Will_Qatar_abolish_semi-slavery%29
content:
<p>
Qatar's minister says he "hopes" its semi-slavery system for construction
workers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/05/qatar-no-labourers-killed-on-world-cup-stadiums-but-migrant-rules-to-change">will be abolished</a> this year.
<p>
I guess this "hope" is meant to substitute for real change.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_May_2015_(Battle_to_regulate_formaldehyde)
title: Battle to regulate formaldehyde
uri: Battle-to-regulate-formaldehyde
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_May_2015_%28Battle_to_regulate_formaldehyde%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/business/energy-environment/the-uphill-battle-to-better-regulate-formaldehyde.html">The Uphill Battle</a> to Better Regulate Formaldehyde.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_May_2015_(War_against_Mexican_gang)
title: War against Mexican gang
uri: War-against-Mexican-gang
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_May_2015_%28War_against_Mexican_gang%29
content:
<p>
A Mexican drug gang <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/04/mexico-declares-war-rising-drug-cartel-downs-military-helicopter">is fighting</a> the state in what is nearly a war.
<p>
Mexico needs to legalize drugs; that is the only way to stop
fueling these gangs.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(UN_meeting_to_control_pollutants)
title: UN meeting to control pollutants
uri: UN-meeting-to-control-pollutants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28UN_meeting_to_control_pollutants%29
content:
<p>Most of the world's countries (not including the US) are 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/the-dirty-dozen-and-other-deadly-chemicals/a-18422643">
meeting to reduce
the use of various persistent toxic pollutants</a>.
</p>
<p>It should be noted that Asbestos and mercury are not organic: they
don't contain carbon.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(Shell_agrees_to_clean_up_spills)
title: Shell agrees to clean up spills
uri: Shell-agrees-to-clean-up-spills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28Shell_agrees_to_clean_up_spills%29
content:
<p>Shell has agreed in court to 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/shell-to-clean-up-2008-niger-delta-oil-spills/a-18427811">
start cleaning up some oil spills</a>
 in Nigeria.
</p>
<p>Whether it is actually possible to clean them up is less clear.</p>


title: Industry resists formaldehyde regulations
uri: Industry-resists-formaldehyde-regulations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(Industry_resists_formaldehyde_regulations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28Industry_resists_formaldehyde_regulations%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/business/energy-environment/the-uphill-battle-to-better-regulate-formaldehyde.html">
The Uphill Battle to Better Regulate Formaldehyde.</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(Incidental_benefits_of_CO2_limits)
title: Incidental benefits of CO2 limits
uri: Incidental-benefits-of-CO2-limits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28Incidental_benefits_of_CO2_limits%29
content:
<p>The EPA's proposed CO2 emissions limits would have the byproduct of
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/health/epa-emissions-plan-will-save-thousands-of-lives-study-finds.html">
preventing thousands of deaths and heart attacks</a>
 each year.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(Rape_victim_denied_abortion)
title: Rape victim denied abortion
uri: Rape-victim-denied-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28Rape_victim_denied_abortion%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/04/paraguay-pregnant-10-year-old-abortion">
Pregnant 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Denied Abortion by Paraguayan
Authorities.</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(Price_of_privacy)
title: Price of privacy
uri: Price-of-privacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28Price_of_privacy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/were-entering-dangerous-era-where-companies-are-going-offer-you-discounts-your">
We're a Entering Dangerous Era Where Companies Are Going to Offer You 
Discounts for Your Most Private Info.</a>
</p>
<p>Once collected, that data will be available to the NSA and also by
subpoena for anyone's divorce case. In addition, as the article says,
others might get the data by cracking the company's system.</p>
<p>If we don't want privacy to be a luxury available only to the rich,
we need laws to limit what data companies can collect.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(How_to_privatize_everything)
title: How to privatize everything
uri: How-to-privatize-everything
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28How_to_privatize_everything%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/04/five-step-process-privatize-everything">
The Five-Step Process to Privatize Everything.</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(Full_Story_of_US_torture)
title: Full Story of US torture
uri: Full-Story-of-US-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28Full_Story_of_US_torture%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/03/cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-calls-journalists-tell-full-story-us-torture">
CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Calls on Journalists to Tell 'Full
Story' of US Torture</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(US_policy_on_Iran_is_domestic_politics)
title: US policy on Iran is domestic politics
uri: US-policy-on-Iran-is-domestic-politics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28US_policy_on_Iran_is_domestic_politics%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/04/why-iran-must-remain-us-enemy">
Why Iran Must Remain a US Enemy</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(TTP_is_bogus_economics)
title: TTP is bogus economics
uri: TTP-is-bogus-economics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28TTP_is_bogus_economics%29
content:
<p>The TPP is more 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/04/trans-pacific-trickle-down-economics">
bogus trickle-down economics</a>.
</p>
<p>Politicians advocate trickle-down economics because, directly or
indirectly, they are paid to do so.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(Urgent:_end_access_to_cheap_coal)
title: Urgent: end access to cheap coal
uri: Urgent-end-access-to-cheap-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_end_access_to_cheap_coal%29
content:
<p>US citizens: call for 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=9998CAD56E90C0756F51C924857A61AF.app367a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1795">
ending mining companies' access to cheap coal</a>
 on US public lands.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(Reporter_arrested_by_thugs)
title: Reporter arrested by thugs
uri: Reporter-arrested-by-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28Reporter_arrested_by_thugs%29
content:
<p>Shawn Carrié reports on his
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/02/my-49-hours-in-a-baltimore-cell-for-being-a-reporter">
arrest in Baltimore by thugs</a>
 that knew full well that he was a reporter.
And on his 49 hours in jail, during which time everyone's requests
for water, toilet paper and medical attention were denied.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(Israeli_soldiers_on_Gaza_atrocities)
title: Israeli soldiers on Gaza atrocities
uri: Israeli-soldiers-on-Gaza-atrocities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28Israeli_soldiers_on_Gaza_atrocities%29

content:
<p>More soldiers' 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/04/samples-israeli-horrific-brutality-war-criminality-gaza/">
testimony about atrocities</a>
 in Gaza.  
Some violence shocked Israeli soldiers
as gratuitous, but nobody was punished.
</p>


title: GOP creates group to sell off public lands
uri: GOP-creates-group-to-sell-off-public-lands
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(GOP_creates_group_to_sell_off_public_lands)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28GOP_creates_group_to_sell_off_public_lands%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/01/3653883/gop-action-group-seize-public-lands/">
GOP House Leaders Create "Action Group" To Seize And Sell America's 
Public Lands</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_May_2015_(Youtube_deletes_Rand_Paul_videos)
title: Youtube deletes Rand Paul videos
uri: Youtube-deletes-Rand-Paul-videos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_May_2015_%28Youtube_deletes_Rand_Paul_videos%29
content:
<p>Rand Paul is the 
<a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/youtubes-copyright-cave-in-the-unwarranted-takedown-of-rand-pauls-campaign-announcement-video">
latest target of Youtube's "content ID"</a>,
 which automatically deletes posted videos in a 
way copyright law does not require.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(Baltimore_whites_violated_the_curfew)
title: Baltimore whites violated the curfew
uri: Baltimore-whites-violated-the-curfew
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28Baltimore_whites_violated_the_curfew%29

content:
<p>
A bunch of whites protested Baltimore racism by violating the curfew
in an affluent area <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-hampden-curfew-20150502-story.html">to demonstrate that the thugs would treat them
differently</a>.


title: Computerized interface to government services
uri: Computerized-interface-to-government-services
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(Computerized_interface_to_government_services_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28Computerized_interface_to_government_services_%29

content:
<p>
Computerizing citizens' interface to government services <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/04/the_dangers_of_letting_algorithms_enforce_policy.single.html">is a systematic recipe
for injustice</a> to people with disabilities or principles.
<p>
I expect some day I will be denied legal rights for refusing to run nonfree
software, refusing to carry a portable phone, and so on.
</p>
<p>
I think there should be a general rule that algorithms can never make a final
decision about a person's rights: there must always be an appeal to a human
who can override the computer.
</p>
<p>
In addition, the criteria to be judged by the computer should be
published and chosen democratically.  We would not allow humans to
deny people rights based on secret criteria; why permit a machine to
do so?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(Arrested_Kevin_Moore)
title: Arrested Kevin Moore
uri: Arrested-Kevin-Moore
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28Arrested_Kevin_Moore%29
content:
<p>
Baltimore <a href="Http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/05/man-who-recorded-freddie-gray-video-arrested-after-voicing-fears-that-police-were-trying-to-intimidate-him/">thugs arrested Kevin Moore</a>, who made a video of the violent
arrest of Freddie Gray.
<p>
They also arrested his visitors from Ferguson who had come to set up
a branch of Copwatch.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(LA_thugs_fine_pedestrians)
title: LA thugs fine pedestrians
uri: LA-thugs-fine-pedestrians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28LA_thugs_fine_pedestrians%29
content:
<p>
People are starting to travel on foot in downtown Los Angeles,
but thugs leap at the chance to <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-walkability-downtown-20150412-story.html#page=1">fine them</a>.
<p>
It would be an awful shame to use pedestrians as an excuse to repress
homeless people more.  If you live in LA, please oppose this.
</p>
<p>
It appears that the fine of nearly 200 dollars for crossing a street
is a scheme to <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0426-lopez-eduardo-20150424-column.html#page=1">squeeze money</a> from the people who are too poor to push
back the Ferguson spirit at work.
</p>
<p>
In addition, it is inexcusable to judge the question of jaywalking by
when the pedestrian <em>starts</em> to cross.  This is an example
of a law that's an ass.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(War_in_Afghanistan)
title: War in Afghanistan
uri: War-in-Afghanistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28War_in_Afghanistan%29
content:
<p>
Obama said the war in Afghanistan is ending, but the government argues
in court that <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/the-justice-department-just-declared-that-the-war-in-afghanistan-is-not-over">he didn't mean it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(Cut_pesticide_use)
title: Cut pesticide use
uri: Cut-pesticide-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28Cut_pesticide_use%29
content:
<p>
Integrated pest management is effective for producing more food
with <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30557-cut-pesticide-use-to-boost-yields-it-s-worked-for-millions-of-farmers-in-asia-and-africa">less pesticide</a>.
<p>
US farms often used integrated pest management before GMOs became
prevalent.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(Universities_corrupted)
title: Universities corrupted
uri: Universities-corrupted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28Universities_corrupted%29
content:
<p>
Even "not for profit" <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/looking-in-the-cultural-mirror/201502/university-is-not-walmart">universities in the US</a> are being pervasively
corrupted by the everything-is-business market society.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(US_Tops_for_inequality)
title: US Tops for inequality
uri: US-Tops-for-inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28US_Tops_for_inequality%29
content:
<p>
US <a href="http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/us-tops-for-income-inequality-and-incarceration-but-near-bottom-for-national-health">Tops</a> for Income Inequality and Incarceration, but Near Bottom for National Health.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(Dutch_people_sue_the_government)
title: Dutch people sue the government
uri: Dutch-people-sue-the-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28Dutch_people_sue_the_government%29
content:
<p>
A group of Dutch people are suing the government <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2015/05/04/401971833/a-novel-dutch-lawsuit-demands-govt-cut-carbon-emissions">for failing to
protect the citizens from the disaster of global heating</a>, which threatens
to inundate their country.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_fast_track)
title: Urgent: Oppose "fast track"
uri: Urgent-Oppose-fast-track
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fast_track%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone Rep. Pelosi's office at (202) 225-4965
and call on her to oppose "fast track" (for the TPP and other
proposed corporate power treaties).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Urgent:_Food_labels)
title: Urgent: Food labels
uri: Urgent-Food-labels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Food_labels%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2053&autologin=true">call
on Obama</a> to preserve country of origin labeling for food.


title: Gov't forcing Greenpeace India shutdown
uri: Gov-t-forcing-Greenpeace-India-shutdown
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Govt_forcing_Greenpeace_India_shutdown)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Govt_forcing_Greenpeace_India_shutdown%29

content:
<p>
The government of India is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/05/greenpeace-india-could-close-within-a-month-due-to-government-crackdown">forcing
Greenpeace India to shut down</a> by freezing its funds.
<p>
The government is trying to serve the large companies that wish to
trash the environment in parts of India.  Greenpeace India has been
an effective obstacle.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Cruel_welfare_benefit_cuts)
title: Cruel welfare benefit cuts
uri: Cruel-welfare-benefit-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Cruel_welfare_benefit_cuts%29
content:
<p>
The Tories have not said how they will cut billions from welfare
benefits, but all ideas for doing so are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/05/revealed-coalition-plans-to-slash-welfare-for-sick-poor-young-and-disabled">crushingly
cruel</a>.
<p>
The Green Party would put Britons back to work implementing renewable energy
and energy efficiency.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Ukrainian_oligarch)
title: Ukrainian oligarch
uri: Ukrainian-oligarch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Ukrainian_oligarch%29
content:
<p>
A Ukrainian oligarch (comparable in power to the Koch brothers in the
US) claims that he arranged for Poroshenko to win the presidential
election by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/05/ukraine-oligarch-brokered-deal-petro-poroshenko-president-dmytro-firtash">persuading
his main opponent to step aside</a>.
<p>
That is a little stronger influence than US oligarchs exert; they
normally don't pressure someone not to run, only make it hopeless to
win.


title: Innocent blacks shot dead by Ohio thugs
uri: Innocent-blacks-shot-dead-by-Ohio-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Innocent_blacks_shot_dead_by_Ohio_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Innocent_blacks_shot_dead_by_Ohio_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Two innocent blacks were shot dead by Ohio thugs, months ago; 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/john-crawford-tamir-rice-ohio-police-shooting-deaths">neither
one is getting justice</a>.
<p>
In both cases, the thugs rushed to kill.  If they had taken a couple
of seconds to observe, they might have seen that the victims were
innocent and not threatening anyone.
<p>
Something must be done to teach US thugs the habit of waiting a couple
of seconds before they shoot.  This does not necessarily mean
prosecution.  If the killers were not thugs, and did not enjoy that
special immunity that incites thugs to kill and lie, and supposing
that the victims were white, would charges be brought against them?  I
don't know; can anyone tell me?
<p>
Perhaps this is what the "stand your ground" laws are about.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Heat_waves_in_Australia)
title: Heat waves in Australia
uri: Heat-waves-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Heat_waves_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Heat waves 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/05/heatwaves-impact-on-workplaces-costing-australia-792bn-a-year">cost
Australian businesses 8 billion dollars a year</a>.  This does not
include the danger to people's health, agriculture, fire, etc.


title: 10-year-old being forced to give birth
uri: 10-year-old-being-forced-to-give-birth
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(10-year-old_being_forced_to_give_birth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%2810-year-old_being_forced_to_give_birth%29

content:
<p>
Pregnancy is dangerous for a 10-year-old; Paraguay's government is not
just oppressing her by forcing her to give birth, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/05/to-make-a-10-year-old-give-birth-isnt-just-horrifying-its-life-threatening">it
may kill her</a>.


title: US-made cluster bombs dropped on Yemen
uri: US-made-cluster-bombs-dropped-on-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(US-made_cluster_bombs_dropped_on_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28US-made_cluster_bombs_dropped_on_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch says that Saudi Arabia is dropping 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2015/05/03/yemen-saudi-led-airstrikes-used-cluster-munitions">US-made
cluster bombs</a> on Yemen.
<p>
Cluster bombs scatter lots of bomblets.  Some of them 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-sep-dec.html#08%20November%202006%20(Cluster%20bombs)">remain
unexploded and kill children in subsequent years</a>.
<p>
Amnesty International finds that Assad's air force is dropping 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/05/syria-forces-war-crime-barrel-bombs-aleppo-amnesty-report">barrel
bombs</a> on Aleppo.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Corinthian_student_debt)
title: Corinthian student debt
uri: Corinthian-student-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Corinthian_student_debt%29
content:
<p>
The Department of Education 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/04/we-refuse-be-pawns-student-debt-strikers-slam-education-department">refuses
to forgive the debt of most Corinthian students</a>, and recommends
they transfer to other for-profit colleges.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(False_fear_of_kidnaping_of_children)
title: False fear of kidnaping of children
uri: False-fear-of-kidnaping-of-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28False_fear_of_kidnaping_of_children%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/04/viral-social-experiment-parenting-video">bogus
viral video</a> stirs up false fear of kidnaping of children by
strangers (which almost never happens in the US).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Shackled_and_tased_to_death_by_thugs)
title: Shackled and tased to death by thugs
uri: Shackled-and-tased-to-death-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Shackled_and_tased_to_death_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
When thugs tased Natasha McKenna to death, 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/13/1377417/-Report-confirms-that-police-killed-Natasha-McKenna-with-her-hands-cuffed-and-legs-shackled">she
was handcuffed and her legs were shackled</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Thugs_took_Freddie_Gray_on_long_ride)
title: Thugs took Freddie Gray on long ride
uri: Thugs-took-Freddie-Gray-on-long-ride
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Thugs_took_Freddie_Gray_on_long_ride%29

content:
<p>
Thugs took Freddie Gray on the long ride, during which he was fatally
injured, 
<a href="http://dailykos.com/story/2015/05/01/1381676/-Updated-route-of-Baltimore-Police-van-proves-they-were-deliberately-off-course-with-Freddie-Gray">when
they were two minutes away</a> from the station where they were
supposed to take him.


title: Imprisoning of 16-year-olds for sexting
uri: Imprisoning-of-16-year-olds-for-sexting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Imprisoning_of_16-year-olds_for_sexting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Imprisoning_of_16-year-olds_for_sexting%29

content:
<p>
People are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/04/sexting-teenagers-selfie-criminal-record-sex-offenders-register">starting
to recognize that it is an injustice</a> to imprison 16-year-olds for
sexting.
<p>
It should not be a crime to make a nude photo of yourself or your
lover.  Perhaps it should be a crime for anyone other than the subject
to distribute copies without explicit written permission of the
subject.


title: Automatic transcription of phone calls
uri: Automatic-transcription-of-phone-calls
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Automatic_transcription_of_phone_calls)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Automatic_transcription_of_phone_calls%29

content:
<p>
The NSA can automatically transcribe phone calls, so it can 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/05/nsa-speech-recognition-snowden-searchable-text/">convert
all calls to text and search them</a>.


title: Standard Chartered funds new coal mine
uri: Standard-Chartered-funds-new-coal-mine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(Standard_Chartered_funds_new_coal_mine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28Standard_Chartered_funds_new_coal_mine%29

content:
<p>
Standard Chartered bank says it does not fund fossil fuel projects
but it has lent 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/05/standard-chartered-face-pressure-to-cut-links-to-australian-carbon-bomb-project">2/3
of a billion dollars</a> for a new coal mine in Australia.


title: The practice of scapegoating immigrants
uri: The-practice-of-scapegoating-immigrants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 06_May_2015_(The_practice_of_scapegoating_immigrants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#06_May_2015_%28The_practice_of_scapegoating_immigrants%29

content:
<p>
The UK Greens 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/05/miliband-immigration-myths-nigel-farage-ukip-green-party">reject</a>
the practice of scapegoating immigrants for the country's problems.
<p>
Plutocracy is responsible for them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(Toxic_fracking_chemical_contamination)
title: Toxic fracking chemical contamination
uri: Toxic-fracking-chemical-contamination
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28Toxic_fracking_chemical_contamination%29

content:
<p>
A toxic fracking chemical has appeared in
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/05/confirming-fears-scientists-detect-fracking-chemicals-drinking-water">Pennsylvania
drinking water</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(Arctic_ice)
title: Arctic ice
uri: Arctic-ice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28Arctic_ice%29
content:
<p>
Arctic ice is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/05/arctic-ice-retreat-scientists-climate-change">melting
faster than expected</a>, and the winter peak was the smallest ever
observed.
<p>
The heating of the Arctic Ocean endangers arctic cod, seals, and polar
bears.  Worst of all, the loss of ice speeds global heating, since
liquid water absorbs sunlight that would have reflected from the ice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(USDA_accused_of_harassing_scientists)
title: USDA accused of harassing scientists
uri: USDA-accused-of-harassing-scientists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28USDA_accused_of_harassing_scientists%29

content:
<p>
The USDA is accused of harassing its own scientists
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/05/suppressing-science-monsanto-groups-demand-investigation-usda">whose
research is inconvenient for agribusiness</a>.  Specifically, they
have found danger in pesticides or GMOs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(Fracking_wont_cut_energy_prices)
title: Fracking won't cut energy prices
uri: Fracking-won-t-cut-energy-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28Fracking_wont_cut_energy_prices%29
content:
<p>
Greenpeace said that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/06/asa-rules-greenpeace-anti-fracking-ad-is-misleading-citing-cameron-claims">experts
agree</a> fracking won't cut energy prices.  The UK government said
this was a false claim because the prime minister says that it will.
<p>
He is no expert on this; his field of expertise is serving plutocrats,
not energy prices.
<p>
The question is a distraction anyway, since short-term savings in
costs could not justify fracking.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(Keystone_1_pipeline_corrosion)
title: Keystone 1 pipeline corrosion
uri: Keystone-1-pipeline-corrosion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28Keystone_1_pipeline_corrosion%29
content:
<p>
The Keystone 1 pipeline suffers
from <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/04/30/exclusive-transcanada-keystone-1-pipeline-suffered-major-corrosion-only-two-years-operation-95-worn-one-section">dangerous
corrosion after just two years of carrying tar sands oil</a>.
<p>
That's not coincidence.  Tar sands oil is very corrosive.  Spills are
a certainty.  The Keystone XL would spill oil too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_May_2015_(Financial_transactions_tax)
title: Financial transactions tax
uri: 2015-05-07-Financial-transactions-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_May_2015_%28Financial_transactions_tax%29
content:
<p>
Extending Europe's financial transactions tax to the US would
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30567-celebrating-the-flash-crash-with-a-wall-street-sales-tax">raise
substantial funds while stabilizing markets</a> — a double win.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#07_December_2012_(Tax_the_traders)">Stability</a>
was the reason that Tobin gave when he proposed this tax.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Smart_cities_in_India)
title: "Smart cities" in India
uri: Smart-cities-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Smart_cities_in_India%29
content:
<p>
India wants to build 100 "smart cities" on confiscated land, appoint
businesses as their local governments, then <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/07/india-100-smart-cities-project-social-apartheid">require everyone in them
to wear a tracking ID all the time</a>.
<p>
"Smart" is a pretty face for "elitist, authoritarian and oppressive".
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Market_into_personal_relationships)
title: Market into personal relationships
uri: Market-into-personal-relationships
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Market_into_personal_relationships%29

content:
<p>
"Friendship", when quantified and managed on the internet, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/07/how-friendship-became-tool-of-powerful">becomes a
tool</a> to introduce the market into personal relationships.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Surveillance_on_fish)
title: Surveillance on fish
uri: Surveillance-on-fish
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Surveillance_on_fish%29
content:
<p>
America Needs More Government Surveillance — <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/05/america-needs-government-surveillance-fish/">On Fish</a>.
<p>
Fish are not entitled to human rights, so surveilling them to any conceivable
extent is not an injustice.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Media_Consolidation)
title: Media Consolidation
uri: Media-Consolidation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Media_Consolidation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.freepress.net/blog/2015/05/06/just-what-doctor-didnt-order-more-media-consolidation">Just What the Doctor Didn't Order: More Media Consolidation.</a>


title: CO2 level exceed 400 parts per million
uri: CO2-level-exceed-400-parts-per-million
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(CO2_level_exceed_400_parts_per_million)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28CO2_level_exceed_400_parts_per_million%29

content:
<p>
The Earth's atmospheric CO2 level <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/06/global-carbon-dioxide-levels-break-400ppm-milestone">has now exceeded</a> 400 parts per million.
<p>
The rough limit for (probably) avoiding disaster is 350 parts per million.
</p>
<p>
We need to cut emissions drastically so that they are less than the Earth's
natural absorption.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(End_war_on_drugs!)
title: End "war on drugs"!
uri: End-war-on-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28End_war_on_drugs%21%29
content:
<p>
Human rights organizations <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/06/human-rights-abuses-rampant-under-drug-war-100-groups-tell-un">called on the UN</a> to end the "war on drugs".
<p>
When a war is on drugs, you must expect it to victimize people
indiscriminately.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Clinton_and_the_TPP)
title: Clinton and the TPP
uri: Clinton-and-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Clinton_and_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
Clinton is going to great lengths <a  href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/06/hillary-clinton-trade-deal-obama-congress-democrats">not to take a stand</a> about the TPP.
<p>
Perhaps she hopes the issue will be resolved before the 2016 election.
</p>
<p>
That might indeed happen.  Perhaps she is waiting to see how much money
she can raise without giving explicit support to something the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/06/wall-street-titans-who-crashed-global-economy-2008-go-big-tpp">plutocrats
want very much</a>.
</p>
<p>
Either way, this confirms that she cannot be relied on to protect
Americans against plutocracy, and is therefore unfit for public
office.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Abolition_of_prison_snitch_testimony)
title: Abolition of prison snitch testimony
uri: Abolition-of-prison-snitch-testimony
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Abolition_of_prison_snitch_testimony%29

content:
<p>
Texas is considering a bill to <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/06/texas-lawmaker-ban-snitch-testimony-death-penalty-cases/">abolish use of "prison snitch" testimony</a>,
in which a prisoner is effectively bribed to testify that someone else
confessed to a crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(PAT_RIOT_in_French)
title: PAT RIOT in French
uri: PAT-RIOT-in-French
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28PAT_RIOT_in_French%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/05/invasive-french-patriot-act-moves-forward-spurring-privacy-concerns">
Invasive 'French Patriot Act' Moves Forward, Spurring Privacy
Concerns</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Whistleblower_to_be_reinstated)
title: Whistleblower to be reinstated
uri: Whistleblower-to-be-reinstated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Whistleblower_to_be_reinstated%29
content:
<p>A UN tribunal ordered the UN to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/06/un-must-reinstate-whistleblower-who-exposed-allegations-child-sexual-abuse-tribunal">
reinstate Anders Kompass</a>,
 who leaked
a report about rapes committed by French peacekeeping troops.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Whose_nonviolence?)
title: Whose nonviolence?
uri: Whose-nonviolence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Whose_nonviolence%3F%29
content:
<p>How about 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/06/nonviolence-whom">
telling the thugs</a>
 that "violence isn't the answer"?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Effect_of_Mekong_dams)
title: Effect of Mekong dams
uri: Effect-of-Mekong-dams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Effect_of_Mekong_dams%29
content:
<p>Dams on the Mekong river could be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/may/06/dams-hydropower-mekong-river-thailand-laos-don-sahong-xayaburi">
devastating to fish populations</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Protecting_offensive_views)
title: Protecting offensive views
uri: Protecting-offensive-views
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Protecting_offensive_views%29
content:
<p>There is one good thing in which the US is still number one:
protection of freedom to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/06/texas-shootings-free-speech-constitution">
express views that others find offensive</a>.
</p>
<p>European "free" countries frequently punish people for expressing
their views; remember the Frenchman who was prosecuted for saying,
"Sarkozy, I see you", to criticize a government policy.</p>
<p>We weaken freedom of speech at great peril.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Video_of_thug_killing)
title: Video of thug killing
uri: Video-of-thug-killing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Video_of_thug_killing%29
content:
<p>South Carolina is sitting on the gruesome video in which thug Justin
Craven 
<a href="http://dailykos.com/story/2015/05/04/1382322/-SC-refuses-to-release-horrible-offensive-dashcam-video-of-officer-killing-unarmed-black-man?detail=email">
repeatedly shot unarmed Ernest Satterwhite</a>
 as the latter was sitting at the wheel of his car.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Urgent:_call_on_ISPs_to_quit_ALEC)
title: Urgent: call on ISPs to quit ALEC
uri: Urgent-call-on-ISPs-to-quit-ALEC
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_call_on_ISPs_to_quit_ALEC%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on AT&T, Verizon and Comcast to 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/att_verizon_comcast_alec">
quit ALEC</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Winter_vegetable_water_shortage)
title: Winter vegetable water shortage
uri: Winter-vegetable-water-shortage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Winter_vegetable_water_shortage%29
content:
<p>2/3 of America's winter vegetables 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/05/your-winter-vegetables-are-grown-desert-watered-dwindling-river">
come from the hyper-dry Imperial Valley</a>.
 It gets irrigation water from the Colorado River, which is
very low due to drought.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Clinton_lacks_transparency)
title: Clinton lacks transparency
uri: Clinton-lacks-transparency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Clinton_lacks_transparency%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/hillary-clinton-bundler-disclosure-campaign-finance">
Hillary Clinton Isn't Ready to Disclose Who's Funding Her
Campaign</a>.
</p>


title: Urgent: tell India to unfreeze Greenpeace funds
uri: Urgent-tell-India-to-unfreeze-Greenpeace-funds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Urgent:_tell_India_to_unfreeze_Greenpeace_funds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_tell_India_to_unfreeze_Greenpeace_funds%29

content:
<p>Indian citizens: demand that the government 
<a href="http://act.greenpeace.in/e2t/emailtohomeminister/?utm_campaign=Legitimacy&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=tweet&utm_term=EmailRajnathSingh">
unfreeze Greenpeace
India's accounts</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(TPP_opacity)
title: TPP opacity
uri: TPP-opacity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28TPP_opacity%29
content:
<p>Obama challenges opponents of the TPP to state 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150424/14443230784/president-obama-demands-critics-tell-him-whats-wrong-with-tpp-course-we-cant-do-that-because-he-wont-show-us-agreement.shtml?t=dXNlcmlkPTUyMzA2MTg4LGVtYWlsaWQ9OTcxNw==">
exactly what text they
disapprove of</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Repercussions_for_documenting_thugs)
title: Repercussions for documenting thugs
uri: Repercussions-for-documenting-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Repercussions_for_documenting_thugs%29

content:
<p>After Ramsey Orta recorded the thugs' killing of Eric Garner, thugs
<a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-jailed-filming-eric-garners-death-eat-rat-poison-prisons-food/">
stalked him until they found an excuse to arrest him</a>.
 In jail Orta
refuses to eat, expecting to be poisoned — and other prisoners
have found rat poison in their food.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Thugs'_new_tactics)
title: Thugs' new tactics
uri: Thugs-new-tactics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Thugs%27_new_tactics%29
content:
<p>Militarized thugs' 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/05/wars-come-home-five-step-guide-police-repression-protest-ferguson-baltimore-and">
new tactics</a>
 for attacking protests.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Mumia_Abu-Jamal_denied_medical_care)
title: Mumia Abu-Jamal denied medical care
uri: Mumia-Abu-Jamal-denied-medical-care
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Mumia_Abu-Jamal_denied_medical_care%29

content:
<p>The National Lawyers Guild says that Mumia Abu-Jamal is being 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/05/05/nlg-files-urgent-appeal-request-un-special-rapporteur-torture-citing-life">
denied medical care</a>
 for a life-threatening illness.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(Veterans_Administration_whistleblowers)
title: Veterans Administration whistleblowers
uri: Veterans-Administration-whistleblowers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28Veterans_Administration_whistleblowers%29

content:
<p>Officials 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/04/va-still-retaliating-against-whistleblow">
looked at the medical records of Veterans Administration
whistleblowers</a>,
 apparently looking for a way to discredit or harm them.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 7_May_2015_(US-Korea_trade_agreement)
title: US-Korea trade agreement
uri: US-Korea-trade-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#7_May_2015_%28US-Korea_trade_agreement%29
content:
<p>After the US-Korea "free trade agreement", 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/05/05/third-year-korea-fta-data-released-show-failure-obamas-last-more-exports-more">
US exports to Korea have decreased</a>
 and imports from Korea have surged.
In terms of national competition, the agreement was "bad for the
US". In those same terms, you could say it was "good for Korea."</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_NASA_climate_research)
title: Urgent: Protect NASA climate research
uri: Urgent-Protect-NASA-climate-research
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_NASA_climate_research%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://leftaction.com/action/save-nasa-climate-research">call
on Congress</a> to protect NASA climate research.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Lusitania)
title: Lusitania
uri: Lusitania
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Lusitania%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/08/lusitania-malaysia-airlines-mh17-germany-russia-disinformation">What
Can the Lusitania Teach Us about the Fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH17?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Kayakers_block_Arctic_drilling_plans)
title: Kayakers block Arctic drilling plans
uri: Kayakers-block-Arctic-drilling-plans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Kayakers_block_Arctic_drilling_plans%29

content:
<p>
Protesters in Seattle are using kayaks to
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-05-seattle-kayaktivists-arctic-oil-drilling.html">block
Shell's Arctic drilling plans</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Surveillance_planes_over_Baltimore)
title: Surveillance planes over Baltimore
uri: Surveillance-planes-over-Baltimore
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Surveillance_planes_over_Baltimore%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU wants to know what the
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/surveillance-planes-spotted-in-the-sky-for-days-after-west-baltimore-rioting/2015/05/05/c57c53b6-f352-11e4-84a6-6d7c67c50db0_story.html">surveillance
planes</a> are doing over Baltimore.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Water_privatization)
title: Water privatization
uri: Water-privatization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Water_privatization%29
content:
<p>
Water privatization is the point where Irish are
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30597-the-irish-are-fighting-back">resisting
plutocratic rule</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Oilfield_water)
title: Oilfield water
uri: Oilfield-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Oilfield_water%29
content:
<p>
Recycling oilfield water for irrigation sounds logical until you
wonder whether pollutants from the oil are getting
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-drought-oil-water-20150503-story.html#page=1">into
the food</a>.  Without more investigation, there is no way to tell
whether this is a significant danger.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Guantanamo_prisoner_freed_on_bail)
title: Guantanamo prisoner freed on bail
uri: Guantanamo-prisoner-freed-on-bail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Guantanamo_prisoner_freed_on_bail%29
content:
<p>
Omar Khadr has been
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/07/guantanamos-youngest-prisoner-finally-jail/">freed
on bail in Canada</a> while he appeals his conviction by a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-nov-feb.html#13%20February%202008%20(Kangaroo%20courts)">US kangaroo
court in Guantanamo</a>.
<p>
It appears that Khadr was a child soldier fighting against US forces.
If he didn't throw a grenade at US troops, he presumably wished to.
That was a valid reason to take him prisoner.  It would have been a
valid reason to shoot him, if he hadn't been incapacitated already.
That's war.
<p>
However, prisoners of war are not supposed to be accused of a crime
for waging war against our troops.  And they are not supposed to be
tortured — not even adult soldiers.  (Khadr's "confession",
extracted by torture, counts for nothing.)  As for child soldiers,
they are all victims.  It appears Omar Khadr does not want to fight
that war any more.
<p>
As for the Canadian government, when it called for keeping a Canadian
in prison to cater to a foreign government, it reached a low point of
servility.


title: German intel to limit its spying for NSA
uri: German-intel-to-limit-its-spying-for-NSA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(German_intel_to_limit_its_spying_for_NSA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28German_intel_to_limit_its_spying_for_NSA%29

content:
<p>
German intelligence says it will henceforth spy for the NSA
<a href="http://www.dw.de/german-intelligence-agency-halts-internet-monitoring-for-nsa/a-18435768">only
when given specific reasons for specific targets</a>.
<p>
Why did the US use Germany to
<a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-07/germany-spies-u-s-denies">spy
on Airbus</a>?  Perhaps so that the US can say "our agencies don't spy
for companies" without an outright lie.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(The_right_to_post_instructions)
title: The right to post instructions
uri: The-right-to-post-instructions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28The_right_to_post_instructions%29
content:
<p>
Cody Wilson has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/may/07/cody-wilson-3d-gun-lawsuit-state-department-free-speech">sued
to affirm his constitutional right to post instructions</a> for making
a 3D-printed gun.
<p>
In the case of weapons, there is a valid public interest argument for
prohibition, though it has to contend with freedom of expression.
<p>
The US already has a law prohibiting publishing code to do a certain
job: the DMCA, which makes it a crime to publish a recipe for breaking
digital handcuffs.  There was never a public interest argument for
this prohibition; this law was a simple sell-out to media companies.
<p>
<a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/">DefectiveByDesign.org</a>
<p>
I am concerned that the DMCA, which is pure injustice, will be cited
as an argument in Wilson's case, and that if he loses it will be used
to legitimize the DMCA.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Range_voting)
title: Range voting
uri: Range-voting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Range_voting%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://rangevoting.org/RangeVoting.html">Range voting</a>
seems to be better than other systems for voting.
<p>
There is no system of voting that satisfies all the criteria
that we intuitively believe elections should satisfy.
Every system has an imperfection.
<p>
In the case of range voting, the imperfection is that it does not
strictly satisfy the majority criterion: a candidate A preferred by
the majority of voters must win.  With range voting, another candidate
B can win, if most voters say that B is nearly as good as A, while a
fraction strongly prefers B to A.  That seems like a reasonable
outcome to me, given those stated preferences.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Plutocrats_win_in_UK)
title: Plutocrats win in UK
uri: Plutocrats-win-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Plutocrats_win_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
Plutocrats are happy that their party
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/08/pound-surges-after-shock-election-result-conservatives-seats-ftse-100">won
the UK election</a>.
<p>
For disabled, unemployed and working people, it means life will get
worse, and many will give up on voting.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Religious_intolerance_in_Afghanistan)
title: Religious intolerance in Afghanistan
uri: Religious-intolerance-in-Afghanistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Religious_intolerance_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
The prosecution of the murderers of Farkhunda may mean a step forward
against the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/08/farkhunda-murder-woman-change-afghanistan">oppression
of women in Afghanistan</a>.
<p>
However, the reaction disregards the fact that this murder was an
instance of religious intolerance as well as an instance of misogyny.
To say that killing Farkhunda was wrong because she didn't in fact
burn a Qur'an is to suggest that it would have been ok to kill her
if she had done so.
<p>
Burning a Qur'an is anyone's right, just like burning a Bible, a copy
of the US Constitution, or a copy of my writings or your writings.
This is what freedom of speech means.
<p>
We must be careful not to legitimize religious intolerance for a
religion that is deeply entwined with misogyny.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(US_labels_journalist_as_al_Qaida)
title: US labels journalist as al Qa'ida
uri: US-labels-journalist-as-al-Qa-ida
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28US_labels_journalist_as_al_Qaida%29
content:
<p>
The US labeled a prominent journalist as a member of al Qa'ida
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/08/u-s-government-designated-prominent-al-jazeera-journalist-al-qaeda-member-put-watch-list/">because
he interviewed some of them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(US_to_investigate_Baltimore_Thug_Dept)
title: US to investigate Baltimore Thug Dept
uri: US-to-investigate-Baltimore-Thug-Dept
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28US_to_investigate_Baltimore_Thug_Dept%29

content:
<p>
The US
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/08/freddie-gray-death-baltimore-police-to-face-civil-rights-investigation">will
investigate racist practice</a> of the Baltimore thug department.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Baltimore_thugs_arrest_49_children)
title: Baltimore thugs arrest 49 children
uri: Baltimore-thugs-arrest-49-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Baltimore_thugs_arrest_49_children%29

content:
<p>
Baltimore thugs arrested 49 children, of whom
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/07/baltimore-children-arrests-freddie-gray-protests">39
should legally have been released</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Growth_of_renewable_energy)
title: Growth of renewable energy
uri: 2015-05-09-Growth-of-renewable-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Growth_of_renewable_energy%29
content:
<p>
The US government makes forecasts about future use of energy sources,
and they
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/15/3646658/eia-report-ignores-renewable-potential/">repeatedly
underestimate growth of renewable energy</a>.
<p>
How much renewable energy is used in the future depends on government
policy decisions.  Thus, these forecasts are to some extent a
self-fulfilling prophecy that we will stay on the road to disaster.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Why_the_right-wing_lie_machine_works)
title: Why the right-wing lie machine works
uri: Why-the-right-wing-lie-machine-works
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Why_the_right-wing_lie_machine_works%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/correcting-political-rumors-0505">Science
explains</a> why the right-wing lie machine works: the only effective
way to correct a false rumor is by someone perceived to be on the same
political side.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Oil_tank_car_fires_and_derailments)
title: Oil tank car fires and derailments
uri: Oil-tank-car-fires-and-derailments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Oil_tank_car_fires_and_derailments%29

content:
<p>
The Department of Transportation decided to allow current oil tank
cars to be used on railroads for
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/06/north-dakota-town-evacuated-following-fiery-oil-train-derailment">8
more years</a>, even though they continue to catch fire in
derailments.


title: Bill to break up "too big to fail" banks
uri: Bill-to-break-up-too-big-to-fail-banks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Bill_to_break_up_too_big_to_fail_banks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Bill_to_break_up_too_big_to_fail_banks%29

content:
<p>
Senator Sanders introduced a bill to require
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/06/too-big-exist-sanders-introduces-bill-break-big-banks">breaking
up "too big to fail" banks into smaller pieces</a>.
<p>
I think a variant of my
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-big-to-fail/">progressive
tax proposal</a> would do a better job since it would induce them to
split up without requiring the government to take action on each one.


title: Policies that led to 2008 financial crash
uri: Policies-that-led-to-2008-financial-crash
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Policies_that_led_to_2008_financial_crash)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Policies_that_led_to_2008_financial_crash%29

content:
<p>
The US still
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/05/07/new-report-conditions-2008-financial-crash-still-linger-regulatory-response">has
not corrected</a> the policies that permitted banksters to cause the
2008 financial crash.
<p>
This is demonstrates the extent of banksters' control over the US
government.  They don't have total power over it, but they have far
too much.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(NSAs_mass_collection_of_phone_records)
title: NSA's mass collection of phone records
uri: NSA-s-mass-collection-of-phone-records
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28NSAs_mass_collection_of_phone_records%29

content:
<p>
A US appeals court ruled that the NSA's mass collection of phone call
records is illegal,
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/07/appellate-court-rules-nsas-bulk-collection-phone-records-illegal/">not
authorized by the PAT RIOT Act</a>.
<p>
More court procedure is required before the NSA may be ordered to stop.
And only a future Snowden will tell us whether the NSA really did stop.
If it instead invented another pretext, only a future Snowden
will enable us to find out about it and sue again.
<p>
Keep in mind that there are many systems of massive surveillance.  To
make journalism and democracy safe, we must curb
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html"><em>all</em>of
them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(The_Clintons_and_Their_Banker_Friends)
title: The Clintons and Their Banker Friends
uri: The-Clintons-and-Their-Banker-Friends
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28The_Clintons_and_Their_Banker_Friends%29

content:
<p>
The Clintons and Their
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/07/clintons-and-their-banker-friends">Banker
Friends</a>.


title: US-supported ground intervention in Yemen
uri: US-supported-ground-intervention-in-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(US-supported_ground_intervention_in_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28US-supported_ground_intervention_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
A US-supported ground intervention in Yemen is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/07/yemen-president-un-ground-intervention-halt-houthi-rebel-aden-hadi">on
the way</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_May_2015_(Chicago_thug_torture)
title: Chicago thug torture
uri: Chicago-thug-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_May_2015_%28Chicago_thug_torture%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/06/chicago-police-torture-victims-deal">Chicago
will pay compensation</a> to people tortured by the thugs in the 70s
and 80s.
<p>
It appears that torture by Chicago thugs
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#07_March_2015_(Chicago_thug_black_site)">continues
today</a>.


title: New spin maneuver of the educational testing industry
uri: New-spin-maneuver-of-the-educational-testing-industry
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(New_spin_maneuver_of_the_educational_testing_industry)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28New_spin_maneuver_of_the_educational_testing_industry%29

content:
<p>
The latest spin maneuver of the educational testing industry is to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/07/resistance-high-stakes-tests-serves-cause-equity-education-reply-we-oppose-anti">claim, falsely</a>, that only affluent whites are against these tests.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Refugees_within_their_own_countries)
title: Refugees within their own countries
uri: Refugees-within-their-own-countries
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Refugees_within_their_own_countries%29

content:
<p>
A record <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/07/refugee-numbers-break-new-record-millions-trapped-conflict-zones">38 million people are now refugees within their own countries</a>.
<p>
I can't trace this directly to human overpopulation and resource shortages,
but I think that must be indirectly responsible.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Baltimore_thug_kicked_Geremy_Faulkner)
title: Baltimore thug kicked Geremy Faulkner
uri: Baltimore-thug-kicked-Geremy-Faulkner
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Baltimore_thug_kicked_Geremy_Faulkner%29

content:
<p>
A Baltimore thug kicked Geremy Faulkner, stepped on his hand, and
jailed him for almost two days <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/206481/44-hours-baltimore-jail-filming-police?utm_source=Sailthru">for making a video of Baltimore
thugs pursuing an alleged looter</a>.
<p>
He is not alone.
</p>
<p>
Thugs that mauled people must be prosecuted even when they do not kill.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(USA_Today_defends_TPP)
title: USA Today defends TPP
uri: USA-Today-defends-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28USA_Today_defends_TPP%29
content:
<p>
USA Today tries defending the TPP and <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/07/calling-tpp-foes-simplistic-usa-today-simply-gets-numbers-wrong">gets the numbers wrong</a>.


title: Drought killed millions trees in California
uri: Drought-killed-millions-trees-in-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Drought_killed_millions_trees_in_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Drought_killed_millions_trees_in_California%29

content:
<p>
Drought <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/08/california-drought-raises-wildfire-concerns">has killed 12 million trees in California</a>, fires are coming next, which will pour CO2 into the air and cause
more heating and drought.


title: India falls short of stating emissions cap
uri: India-falls-short-of-stating-emissions-cap
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(India_falls_short_of_stating_emissions_cap)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28India_falls_short_of_stating_emissions_cap%29

content:
<p>
India wants to be thought of as working to curb global heating
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/08/india-pledges-to-fight-climate-change-but-falls-short-of-stating-emissions-cap">without committing to really do so</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Hand_over_personal_informations)
title: Hand over personal informations
uri: Hand-over-personal-informations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Hand_over_personal_informations%29
content:
<p>
The Theater of Security Agency plans to use the privilege of shorter
security checks (TSA-PRE) to get Americans to <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/tsas-precheck-program-whitelist-or-blacklist">hand over lots of
personal information, as well as their fingerprints</a>.
<p>
One anomaly is that I got TSA-PRE without applying for it.
</p>
<p>
I wonder how common that is.
</p>


title: Urgent: Medical insurance law enforcement
uri: Urgent-Medical-insurance-law-enforcement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Urgent:_Medical_insurance_law_enforcement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Medical_insurance_law_enforcement%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/zpg/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=497&autologin=true">call
for enforcement</a> of the law that medical insurance companies must
cover birth control.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_tar_sands_oil_pipeline)
title: Urgent: Oppose tar sands oil pipeline
uri: Urgent-Oppose-tar-sands-oil-pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_tar_sands_oil_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of British Columbia: 
<a href="http://bcreview.dogwoodinitiative.org/">oppose</a> the tar
sands oil pipeline.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Urgent:_Reject_the_REINS_Act)
title: Urgent: Reject the REINS Act
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-REINS-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_REINS_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4681">call
on Congress</a> to reject the REINS Act that would block regulatory
agencies from doing their jobs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Urgent:_Allow_abortion)
title: Urgent: Allow abortion
uri: Urgent-Allow-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Allow_abortion%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=38416">call
on Paraguay</a> to allow the raped 10-year-old an abortion.


title: Customers sue Wells Fargo Bank for fraud
uri: Customers-sue-Wells-Fargo-Bank-for-fraud
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Customers_sue_Wells_Fargo_Bank_for_fraud)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Customers_sue_Wells_Fargo_Bank_for_fraud%29

content:
<p>
Customers of Wells Fargo Bank are suing the bank for fraud.  It seems
that bank staff were pressured to open 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/06/1382900/-Wells-Fargo-just-got-served-papers-for-fraud-by-Los-Angeles-California">phony
accounts in customers' names</a>.  When they were caught doing so, the
bank hardly punished them.
<p>
If our government were not working for the banksters, it would
prosecute the bank and specific executives.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Filming_US_thugs)
title: Filming US thugs
uri: Filming-US-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Filming_US_thugs%29
content:
<p>
US thugs are aware that videos 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30628-that-s-what-you-get-for-filming-the-police">threaten
their ability to commit crimes with impunity</a>; they often attack
the people who make the videos, frame them, and steal the equipment to
erase the videos.
<p>
We need to prosecute and jail the thugs that attack the citizens'
truth squad.


title: Bank clients' phone and location records
uri: Bank-clients-phone-and-location-records
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Bank_clients_phone_and_location_records)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Bank_clients_phone_and_location_records%29

content:
<p>
Banks are studying the idea of using clients' phone call and location
records 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150502/08183230858/banks-now-eyeing-cell-phone-metadata-to-determine-your-loan-risk.shtml">to
decide about loans</a>.
<p>
The algorithms used to evaluate the call records would be created by
"machine learning", meaning they are opaque.  Thus, a bank could
easily develop an algorithm that effectively discriminates based on
race, without making it explicit.  It would be easy for some algorithm
to use the phone data to produce a result 99% equivalent to "You're
black" or "You live in neighborhood X".
<p>
We must make it illegal for banks to ask for or obtain these data.


title: Baltimore thugs threaten to sue prosecutor
uri: Baltimore-thugs-threaten-to-sue-prosecutor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Baltimore_thugs_threaten_to_sue_prosecutor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Baltimore_thugs_threaten_to_sue_prosecutor%29

content:
<p>
Arrogant Baltimore thugs threaten to sue prosecutor Mosby, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/08/baltimore-freddie-gray-police-threaten-to-sue-marilyn-mosby">claiming
she is "unprofessional"</a>.  By their definition, a "professional"
prosecutor would never prosecute a thug.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Australias_new_data_retention_laws)
title: Australia's new data retention laws
uri: Australia-s-new-data-retention-laws
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Australias_new_data_retention_laws%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/09/edward-snowden-says-australias-new-data-retention-laws-are-dangerous">Edward
Snowden Says Australia's New Data Retention Laws Are 'Dangerous'</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(US_government_secrecy)
title: US government secrecy
uri: US-government-secrecy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28US_government_secrecy%29
content:
<p>
The US government 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/08/governments-bid-keep-gitmo-force-feeding-videos-secret-runs-skeptical-judges/">claims
its right to secrecy is absolute</a>, that courts cannot order release
of any secret materials even if they are being concealed only to cover
up wrongdoing.


title: The thug charged with killing Freddie Gray
uri: The-thug-charged-with-killing-Freddie-Gray
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(The_thug_charged_with_killing_Freddie_Gray)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28The_thug_charged_with_killing_Freddie_Gray%29

content:
<p>
Thug Brian Rice, charged with the killing of Freddie Gray, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/08/baltimore-officer-brian-rice-freddie-gray">demanded
the arrest of his ex-girlfriend's husband</a>, who he had previously
threatened to kill.


title: US aids Mexico without checking massacres
uri: US-aids-Mexico-without-checking-massacres
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(US_aids_Mexico_without_checking_massacres)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28US_aids_Mexico_without_checking_massacres%29

content:
<p>
The US is providing millions in training and investigation support to
Mexico, but it doesn't check the 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/08/ayotzinapa-mexico-u-s-security-aid-keeps-flowing/">spread
of massacres by the army</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(Obama_spreading_bullshit_about_TPP)
title: Obama spreading bullshit about TPP
uri: Obama-spreading-bullshit-about-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28Obama_spreading_bullshit_about_TPP%29

content:
<p>
Obama held a fund-raiser at a company famous for outsourcing to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/08/obama-democratic-support-nike-hq">spread
his bullshit about the TPP</a>.


title: US foreclosures and racial segregation
uri: US-foreclosures-and-racial-segregation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(US_foreclosures_and_racial_segregation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28US_foreclosures_and_racial_segregation%29

content:
<p>
The wave of US foreclosures hit mainly racial minorities, and caused a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/07/foreclosure-crisis-fueled-dramatic-rise-racial-segregation-study">big
increase in racial segregation</a>.
<p>
Keep in mind that many of these foreclosures were 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#22%20October%202010%20(Caught%20pants%20down)">carried 
out by fraud</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_May_2015_(The_right_to_criticize_Islam)
title: The right to criticize Islam
uri: The-right-to-criticize-Islam
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_May_2015_%28The_right_to_criticize_Islam%29
content:
<p>
Universities must defend 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/07/university-of-minnesota-cracks-down-on-c">the
right to criticize</a> Islam (or any other religious position), not
cater to sensitivities of those who resent being criticized.
<p>
Muslims are a paradoxical case.  In Western countries, they are a weak
minority, sometimes targets of discrimination and bigotry.  Meanwhile,
in countries where they dominate, they often 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#19_February_2012_(Blasphemy)">punish
anyone that criticizes their views</a> and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jan-apr.html#18%20April%202007%20(Courageous%20ex-Muslims)">deny
religious freedom to ex-Muslims</a>.  We should defend minority
Muslims from bigotry, while insisting they (like everyone else) learn
to live with freedom of speech, so as to give no comfort to the
oppressive policies of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Malaysia and so many
more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Support_for_US_troops)
title: "Support" for US troops
uri: Support-for-US-troops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Support_for_US_troops%29
content:
<p>
The US government
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/08/patriotism-price-us-military-paid-nfl-teams-honor-soldiers-games">paid
football teams millions to "honor" local soldiers</a>.  This is part
of what convinces so many Americans that they have to "support the
troops" (which, in practice, means don't criticize wars).
<p>
The most important support Americans should give US troops is not to
send them to fight a war that isn't morally imperative.  They signed
up to serve their country, not to build somebody's empire.  War is
hell in any case, but war for an unjust cause is hell at two levels.
<p>
I refuse to endorse some secondary kind of "support" which serves as a
distraction from this essential one.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Baltimore_thugs_post_false_reports)
title: Baltimore thugs post false reports
uri: Baltimore-thugs-post-false-reports
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Baltimore_thugs_post_false_reports%29

content:
<p>
The Baltimore thug department posted
<a href="http://fair.org/home/unverified-threats-uncritically-reported-a-tradition-as-old-as-protest/">false
reports that it was under attack from the public</a>, apparently to
stir up fear and demonize protesters.
<p>
You can't blame Baltimore blacks for
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/08/bringing-crisis-head-baltimore">responding
to violence with violence</a>.


title: Fossil fuels extracted from public land
uri: Fossil-fuels-extracted-from-public-land
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Fossil_fuels_extracted_from_public_land)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Fossil_fuels_extracted_from_public_land%29

content:
<p>
1/4 of US greenhouse gas emissions come from
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/05/08/department-interior-leasing-policies-responsible-one-quarter-us-carbon-emissions">fossil
fuels extracted from public land</a>.  The US should charge for this
based on the harm that the emissions will cause.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Bernie_Sanders_for_president)
title: Bernie Sanders for president
uri: 2015-05-10-Bernie-Sanders-for-president
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Bernie_Sanders_for_president%29
content:
<p>
A major US TV news show, whose host is "obsessed with elections",
mentioned many possible presidential candidates, but not
<a href="http://fair.org/home/for-meet-the-press-bernie-sanders-is-he-who-must-not-be-named/">Bernie
Sanders</a>.
<p>
Apparently someone powerful doesn't like him.  Which is why I am going
to vote for him.
<p>
The New York Times presented various Republican candidates, but
<a href="http://fair.org/home/nyt-presents-2016-race-as-gop-candidates-vs-hillary-clinton/">mentioned
no Democratic candidate other than Clinton</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(NSA_mass_surveillance)
title: NSA mass surveillance
uri: NSA-mass-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28NSA_mass_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2015/05/02/meeting-snowden-in-princeton/">summary
of Snowden's recent talk</a> about the range and methods status of NSA
mass surveillance.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Obstruction_of_voter_registration)
title: Obstruction of voter registration
uri: Obstruction-of-voter-registration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Obstruction_of_voter_registration%29
content:
<p>
The Republican-dominated government of North Carolina is doing
something to
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/07/1382846/-BREAKING-Board-of-Elections-data-reveal-voter-registration-irregularities-under-NC-Gov-Pat-McCrory">obstruct
voter registration by citizens applying for food stamps</a>.
<p>
This appears to violate a federal law, and various organizations will
sue.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Shot_by_thug_in_training_accident)
title: Shot by thug in "training accident"
uri: Shot-by-thug-in-training-accident
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Shot_by_thug_in_training_accident%29
content:
<p>
A Georgia thug
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/07/1383096/-The-Georgia-sheriff-who-is-above-the-law">shot
a woman</a>, who may yet die from her wounds, and claimed it was a
"training accident".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Growing_up_in_a_better_neighborhood)
title: Growing up in a better neighborhood
uri: Growing-up-in-a-better-neighborhood
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Growing_up_in_a_better_neighborhood%29

content:
<p>
Growing up in a US better neighborhood
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/upshot/why-the-new-research-on-mobility-matters-an-economists-view.html?rref=upshot&smid=tw-upshotnyt&abt=0002&abg=0&_r=3">greatly
aids a child's success</a>, independent of what the child's parents
are like.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_May_2015_(Students_attacked_with_guns)
title: Students attacked with guns
uri: Students-attacked-with-guns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_May_2015_%28Students_attacked_with_guns%29
content:
<p>
In Ayotzinapa thugs and/or gangsters <a href="http://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/04/how-43-students-disappeared-in-mexico-part-1/">attacked students with guns</a> for hours.
<p>
The state's story about what happened to those students <a href="http://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/04/mexico-ayotzinapa-43-students-disappeared-part-2/">seems to be fabricated</a>, perhaps to cover the involvement of the army in their disappearance.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Urgent:_Suspend_use_of_glyphosate)
title: Urgent: Suspend use of glyphosate
uri: Urgent-Suspend-use-of-glyphosate
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Suspend_use_of_glyphosate%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/its-time-to-get-rid-of">call
on the EPA</a> to suspend use of glyphosate now that it is suspected
of causing cancer.


title: Urgent: Cancel firing of Chik-Fil-A employee
uri: Urgent-Cancel-firing-of-Chik-Fil-A-employee
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Urgent:_Cancel_firing_of_Chik-Fil-A_employee)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_firing_of_Chik-Fil-A_employee%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://action.rhrealitycheck.org/page/s/let-ashante-rush-come-back-to-work">call
on Chik-Fil-A</a> to cancel firing employee Ashante Rush for wearing
her hair in braids.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_use_of_conflict_minerals)
title: Urgent: Stop use of conflict minerals
uri: Urgent-Stop-use-of-conflict-minerals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_use_of_conflict_minerals%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens:
<a href="http://www.walkfree.org/tackle-conflict-minerals-trade/">call
on the European Parliament</a> to take firm action against use of
conflict minerals.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Political_prisoners_in_Indonesia)
title: Political prisoners in Indonesia
uri: Political-prisoners-in-Indonesia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Political_prisoners_in_Indonesia%29
content:
<p>
Indonesia says it will allow foreign journalists into West Papua,
and has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/10/joko-widodo-releases-five-west-papuan-political-prisoners-and-pledges-reforms">freed
some political prisoners</a>.  Many more, including nonviolent
independence protesters, remain in prison.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Mubarak_convicted)
title: Mubarak convicted
uri: Mubarak-convicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Mubarak_convicted%29
content:
<p>
Former military dictator Hosni Mubarak has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/09/egypt-hosni-mubarak-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison">convicted
by the current Egyptian military government</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(The_US_must_apologize_to_Snowden)
title: The US must apologize to Snowden
uri: The-US-must-apologize-to-Snowden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28The_US_must_apologize_to_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
Now that an appeals court
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/07/edward-snowden-whistleblower-nsa-bulk-surveillance-illegal">ruled
that the NSA is going beyond the excessive latitude of the PAT RIOT
Act</a>, the US must apologize to Snowden and welcome him home as a
hero.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 10_May_2015_(Singapore_shuts_news_web_site)
title: Singapore shuts news web site
uri: Singapore-shuts-news-web-site
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Singapore_shuts_news_web_site%29
content:
<p>
Singapore has
<a href="https://www.ifex.org/singapore/2015/05/06/website_closed/">shut
a news web site</a>, claiming it harms "the public interest, public
order, and national harmony."
<p>
When unjust regimes repress dissent, sometimes they give excuses like
that, and sometimes they fabricate accusations of unrelated real
crimes such as fraud, tax evasion, sodomy, etc.


title: Urgent: Ban uranium mining near Grand Canyon
uri: Urgent-Ban-uranium-mining-near-Grand-Canyon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_May_2015_(Urgent:_Ban_uranium_mining_near_Grand_Canyon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_uranium_mining_near_Grand_Canyon%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/grand-canyon-uranium/">call for a
ban</a> on uranium mining near the Grand Canyon.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_May_2015_(Ending_austerity_in_Greece)
title: Ending austerity in Greece
uri: 2015-05-12-Ending-austerity-in-Greece
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_May_2015_%28Ending_austerity_in_Greece%29
content:
<p>
Syriza may be unable to keep Greece in the euro zone without 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/10/greece-alexis-tsipras-syriza-revolt-debt-showdown">breaking
its commitment to end austerity</a>.
<p>
Greeks wanted to end austerity and stay in the euro zone, and believed
it was possible.  If that is not possible, it would be treachery for
Syriza to surrender to austerity and become a government of
occupation.  I am glad that Tsipras says he will ask Greeks to vote on
which of those two goals to give up.
<p>
The article's author takes for granted that surrender to austerity is
the right choice.  That reflects an attitude of defeatism in
confronting the tyranny of the banksters.  I think Greece should do
whatever hurts the banksters the most; in the long run, that is best
for all the world except the banksters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_May_2015_(Belize_to_allow_undersea_oil_drilling)
title: Belize to allow undersea oil drilling
uri: Belize-to-allow-undersea-oil-drilling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_May_2015_%28Belize_to_allow_undersea_oil_drilling%29

content:
<p>
Belize plans to allow undersea oil drilling in places 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/10/belize-offshore-drilling-great-blue-hole">near
UNESCO world heritage sites and the world's second-largest coral
reef</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_May_2015_(CIA_director_called_on_to_admit_lies)
title: CIA director called on to admit lies
uri: CIA-director-called-on-to-admit-lies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_May_2015_%28CIA_director_called_on_to_admit_lies%29

content:
<p>
Some senators called on CIA director Brennan to 
<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/politics/senate-democrats-john-brennan-cia-computer-search/">admit
he lied to them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_May_2015_(Standard_fear-mongering)
title: Standard fear-mongering
uri: Standard-fear-mongering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_May_2015_%28Standard_fear-mongering%29
content:
<p>
US spook leaders 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/10/nsa-surveillance-domestic-texas-isis">bring
out their standard fear-mongering</a> to claim, yet again, that
massive surveillance is needed to prevent a minor terrorist attack
that was stopped by security personnel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_May_2015_(NSA_snoops_and_Baltimore_thugs)
title: NSA snoops and Baltimore thugs
uri: NSA-snoops-and-Baltimore-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_May_2015_%28NSA_snoops_and_Baltimore_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Glenn Greenwald, in an interview, 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/05/05/it%E2%80%99s_pure_authoritarianism_glenn_greenwald_exposes_the_link_between_baltimores_uprising_and_the_nsa/">relates
the NSA snoops to the Baltimore thugs</a>.
<p>
He also says that Loretta Lynch is likely to do a bad job as Attorney
General, based on her record.  While it is good to show that a black
woman can have that office, what matters most is what an official
does, not what group the official belongs to.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_May_2015_(Macedonians_protest)
title: Macedonians protest
uri: Macedonians-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_May_2015_%28Macedonians_protest%29
content:
<p>
Macedonians protested after learning that high officials plotted to
cover up 
<a href="http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/macedonia-police-quells-anti-government-protest">the
state's responsibility for a murder by thugs</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_May_2015_(Delaware_thug_faces_charges)
title: Delaware thug faces charges
uri: Delaware-thug-faces-charges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_May_2015_%28Delaware_thug_faces_charges%29
content:
<p>
A thug from Delaware faces charges for 
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-delaware-cop-indited-kicking-20150507-story.html">kicking
a man unconscious</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_May_2015_(Comcast_demands_customers_sign_NDA)
title: Comcast demands customers sign NDA
uri: Comcast-demands-customers-sign-NDA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_May_2015_%28Comcast_demands_customers_sign_NDA%29

content:
<p>
Comcast 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/05/read-the-nda-a-comcast-customer-was-told-to-sign-to-get-a-600-refund/">demands
customers sign an NDA</a> before giving them a refund.
<p>
It ought to be a crime for a company even to ask for this.
<p>
You'll note that I often suggest laws to make it a crime for a company
to do certain things.  Companies have power to intimidate mere people,
so we have to treat them like gangsters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(Urgent:_Political_spending_disclosure)
title: Urgent: Political spending disclosure
uri: 2015-05-12-Urgent-Political-spending-disclosure
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Political_spending_disclosure%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/tell-mary-jo-white-stop-dark-money/">call
on the SEC</a> to require public companies to disclose political
spending.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(Urgent:_Ban_oil_tank_cars)
title: Urgent: Ban oil tank cars
uri: Urgent-Ban-oil-tank-cars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_oil_tank_cars%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=15699">call
for a ban</a> on oil tank cars that easily catch fire.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(Atheist_blogger_stabbed_to_death)
title: Atheist blogger stabbed to death
uri: Atheist-blogger-stabbed-to-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28Atheist_blogger_stabbed_to_death%29
content:
<p>
Bangladeshi Atheist blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/12/third-atheist-blogger-killed-in-bangladesh-after-knife-attack">stabbed
to death</a> by a gang of masked men.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(Reject_Keurig)
title: Reject Keurig
uri: Reject-Keurig
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28Reject_Keurig%29
content:
<p>
Forget the rumors: Keurig has <em>not</em> said it will get rid of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/11/keurig-takes-steps-towards-abandoning-coffee-pod-drm">its
DRM</a>.  It plans only to relax it a little bit, and hopes people
will now accept it.
<p>
Keep on rejecting Keurig, and all products designed to restrict you.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(Antarctic_ice_loss)
title: Antarctic ice loss
uri: Antarctic-ice-loss
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28Antarctic_ice_loss%29
content:
<p>
Satellite measurements show that West Antarctica is losing ice
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/may/11/ice-loss-in-west-antarctica-is-speeding-up">faster
than previously believed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(Defeat_of_UK_Labour)
title: Defeat of UK Labour
uri: Defeat-of-UK-Labour
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28Defeat_of_UK_Labour%29
content:
<p>
UK Labour was defeated because instead of having a vision of a country
that offers everyone a decent life, it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/11/labour-missing-soul-burnham-umunna-cooper-disconnected-values">chased
after the label of "center"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(Toxic_waste_in_California_aquifers)
title: Toxic waste in California aquifers
uri: Toxic-waste-in-California-aquifers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28Toxic_waste_in_California_aquifers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://news.vice.com/article/the-oil-industry-is-pumping-toxic-chemicals-into-californias-aquifers">The
Oil Industry Is Pumping Toxic Chemicals Into California's
Aquifers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(US_targeted_killing_program)
title: US targeted killing program
uri: US-targeted-killing-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28US_targeted_killing_program%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/04/we-need-full-transparent-review-us-targeted-killing-program">We
Need a Full, Transparent Review of the US Targeted Killing
Program</a>.
<p>
Alas, I think a panel appointed by Obama will be a whitewash.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(UK_to_reject_human_rights_principles)
title: UK to reject human rights principles
uri: UK-to-reject-human-rights-principles
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28UK_to_reject_human_rights_principles%29

content:
<p>
The UK government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/10/michael-gove-to-proceed-with-tories-plans-to-scrap-human-rights-act">plans
to reject European human rights principles</a>.


title: Rejection of NSA phone record collection
uri: Rejection-of-NSA-phone-record-collection
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(Rejection_of_NSA_phone_record_collection)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28Rejection_of_NSA_phone_record_collection%29

content:
<p>
The appeals court's rejection of the NSA's massive collection of phone
call records also endorses fundamental arguments of the 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/eff-case-analysis-appeals-court-rules-nsa-phone-records-dragnet-illegal">opposition
to the "we can collect anything and everything" stance</a> of the
Obama regime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(Norway_to_impose_biometric_ID)
title: Norway to impose biometric ID
uri: Norway-to-impose-biometric-ID
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28Norway_to_impose_biometric_ID%29
content:
<p>
Norway will impose a 
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html">national
biometric ID card</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(Anti-austerity_protests)
title: Anti-austerity protests
uri: Anti-austerity-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28Anti-austerity_protests%29
content:
<p>
An anti-austerity group plans a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/10/anti-austerity-group-plans-major-protest-outside-bank-of-england">summer
of protests in London</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(Protection_of_green_sea_turtles)
title: Protection of green sea turtles
uri: Protection-of-green-sea-turtles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28Protection_of_green_sea_turtles%29
content:
<p>
Protection of green sea turtles in Florida has been a great success,
but it 
<a href="http://www.defendersblog.org/2015/04/green-sea-turtles-making-a-comeback-in-florida/">took
decades</a>, since those turtles take 40 years to mature.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(License_plate_readers)
title: License plate readers
uri: 2015-05-12-License-plate-readers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28License_plate_readers%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU has sued Virginia about 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/06/aclu-lawsuit-fairfax-county-virginia-license-plate-readers-data-storage">storing
data from license plate readers</a>.  This was used in 2008 to track
people attending election rallies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_May_2015_(EU_considering_trade_secret_directive)
title: EU considering trade secret directive
uri: EU-considering-trade-secret-directive
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_May_2015_%28EU_considering_trade_secret_directive%29

content:
<p>
The EU is considering a trade secret directive that 
<a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/trade-secrets-open-3610447/">would
prosecute journalists for publishing companies' secrets</a>.
<p>
It would also make it dangerous for employees to move to
a competing company.
<p>
Under the EU's pitiful excuse for democracy, if the Parliament
amends the directive to fix these things, the Commission can change
them right back, and it is hard for Parliament to resist that.
The only safe thing for Parliament to do is reject the directive.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Use_renewables)
title: Use renewables
uri: Use-renewables
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Use_renewables%29
content:
<p>
Avoiding climate disaster <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/solar-expansion-critical-for-climate-mit-18973">will require converting 1/3 of humanity's
energy use to renewables by 2050</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Engage_with_fossil_fuel_companies)
title: "Engage" with fossil fuel companies
uri: Engage-with-fossil-fuel-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Engage_with_fossil_fuel_companies%29
content:
<p>
Edinburgh University proposes to "engage" with fossil fuel companies
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/12/edinburgh-university-rejects-calls-to-divest-from-all-fossil-fuels">rather than selling stock in them</a>.
<p>
It sounds nice, but I don't think Edinburgh University's investments
are so big that these companies will make concessions to keep them.
</p>
<p>
Basically, "engagement" with fossil fuel companies is a way to keep
supporting them while pretending to others, and/or perhaps to
yourself, that you're getting them to change.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Why_did_Nemtsov_die_)
title: Why did Nemtsov die?
uri: Why-did-Nemtsov-die
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Why_did_Nemtsov_die_%29
content:
<p>
Friends of Boris Nemtsov have published a report on the details of
how <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/12/boris-nemtsov-allies-release-report-on-russian-troops-in-ukraine">Putin sent Russian troops to fight in Ukraine</a>: something like what Nemtsov was reportedly working on when he was
assassinated.
<p>
The report is a summary of information already published, and doesn't
contain surprising new recommendations.  I don't think anyone would have
had Nemtsov killed to avoid the publication of a report like this.
Thus, I wonder whether Nemtsov had other information that died with him.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(E-waste_discarded_illegally)
title: E-waste discarded illegally
uri: E-waste-discarded-illegally
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28E-waste_discarded_illegally%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/12/up-to-90-of-worlds-electronic-waste-is-illegally-dumped-says-un">Most e-waste is discarded illegally</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Save_white_rhinos)
title: Save white rhinos
uri: Save-white-rhinos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Save_white_rhinos%29
content:
<p>
Only one male northern white rhino remains, and seems unwilling to mate,
so it appears the species <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/12/last-male-northern-white-rhino">will soon become extinct</a>.
<p>
Do we know how to do artificial insemination on them? In-vitro fertilization?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(FBI_spied_on_protesters)
title: FBI spied on protesters
uri: FBI-spied-on-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28FBI_spied_on_protesters%29
content:
<p>
The FBI <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/12/revealed-fbi-spied-keystone-xl-opponents">spied</a> on protesters against the Keystone XL pipeline
in disregard of its own rules.
<p>
If the FBI and its head don't pay a penalty for this, why won't they
do it again?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Subsidies_for_Refineries)
title: Subsidies for Refineries
uri: Subsidies-for-Refineries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Subsidies_for_Refineries%29
content:
<p>
Refineries of big oil companies <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/12/us-taxpayers-subsidising-worlds-biggest-fossil-fuel-companies">are getting big subsidies in the US</a>,
thanks to politicians that these companies support generously.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Dalit's_wedding_attacked)
title: Dalit's wedding attacked
uri: Dalit-s-wedding-attacked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Dalit%27s_wedding_attacked%29
content:
<p>
Upper caste villagers <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/dalit-groom-forced-to-wear-helmet-as-upper-caste-villagers-stone-baraat/">attacked a Dalit's wedding procession with stones</a>. They say he wasn't supposed to ride a horse as upper caste Hindus do.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(No_rapes_in_Kenya)
title: No rapes in Kenya
uri: No-rapes-in-Kenya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28No_rapes_in_Kenya%29
content:
<p>
When Charlotte Campbell-Stephen was raped in Kenya, the state told her
it was pointless to try to prosecute.  She had to struggle to get them
convicted of violent robbery, since <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/12/i-will-not-be-silenced-fight-for-justice-that-gave-kenyan-victims-a-voice">it is impossible to convict
anyone of rape in Kenya</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Sanders_exposes_tax-dodgers)
title: Sanders exposes tax-dodgers
uri: Sanders-exposes-tax-dodgers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Sanders_exposes_tax-dodgers%29
content:
<p>
Senator Sanders <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/08/1356547/-Good-Times-The-Day-Bernie-Sanders-Exposed-18-Top-Corporate-Tax-Dodgers?detail=email">exposes the top corporate tax-dodgers and job-exporters</a>.


title: Florida Governor was lying about extending Medicare
uri: Florida-Governor-was-lying-about-extending-Medicare
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Florida_Governor_was_lying_about_extending_Medicare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Florida_Governor_was_lying_about_extending_Medicare%29

content:
<p>
Florida Governor Scott <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/08/1383477/-Florida-Man-reelected-governor-admits-he-used-dead-mother-in-campaign-as-a-sham?detail=email">admits</a> he was lying when he said that he had
come to appreciate the value of extending Medicare.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Sri_Lanka_will_protect_its_mangroves)
title: Sri Lanka will protect its mangroves
uri: Sri-Lanka-will-protect-its-mangroves
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Sri_Lanka_will_protect_its_mangroves%29

content:
<p>
Sri Lanka <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/12/sri-lanka-to-become-the-first-nation-in-the-world-to-protect-all-its-mangroves">will fund coastal women to protect all its mangroves</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Can't_oppose_file_sharing)
title: Can't oppose file sharing
uri: Can-t-oppose-file-sharing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Can%27t_oppose_file_sharing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/you-cant-defend-public-libraries-and-oppose-file-sharing-150510/">Rick Falkvinge: You Can't Defend Public Libraries and Oppose File-Sharing</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Repercussions_for_blacks)
title: Repercussions for blacks
uri: Repercussions-for-blacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Repercussions_for_blacks%29
content:
<p>
The paucity of black lawyers in the US <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/11/why-the-us-needs-black-lawyers">has legal repercussions
for blacks who are accused of crimes, or victims of crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Manicurists_cheated)
title: Manicurists cheated
uri: Manicurists-cheated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Manicurists_cheated%29
content:
<p>
Manicurists in New York City <a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/5/11/8585863/salons-safe-chemicals">are being cheated of their pay</a>
and are using chemicals that injure them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Discrimination_for_being_pregnant)
title: Discrimination for being pregnant
uri: Discrimination-for-being-pregnant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Discrimination_for_being_pregnant%29
content:
<p>
Women <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2015/may/12/pregnant-but-screwed-the-truth-about-workplace-discrimination">face discrimination in the workplace for being pregnant</a>,
and then are pressured not to talk about it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Jeffrey_Sterling_sentenced)
title: Jeffrey Sterling sentenced
uri: Jeffrey-Sterling-sentenced
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Jeffrey_Sterling_sentenced%29
content:
<p>
Jeffrey Sterling, accused of telling reporter James Risen about the
failed CIA attempt to deceive Iran about nuclear weapons designs, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/11/former-cia-man-jeffrey-sterling-42-months-prison-iran-leaks">has
been sentenced</a> to over 3 years in prison.
<p>
A sentence of 20 years was proposed.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Osama_bin_Laden_was_arrested)
title: Osama bin Laden was arrested
uri: Osama-bin-Laden-was-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Osama_bin_Laden_was_arrested%29
content:
<p>
Two independent lines of research lead to the same conclusion: Osama
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/11/former-professor-reported-basics-hershs-bin-laden-story-2011-seemingly-different-sources/">bin Laden was being kept under house arrest by Pakistani intelligence,
and an inside source leaked the information to the US</a>.
<p>
Thus, the official story about how he was found was fabricated (
to protect the inside source, I suppose) with the side effect
of connecting polio vaccination with US war and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#19_July_2012_(Doctor_visiting_Pakistan_shot)">turning fanatical
Muslim idiots against vaccination</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Protect_journalists_from_repression)
title: Protect journalists from repression
uri: Protect-journalists-from-repression
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Protect_journalists_from_repression%29

content:
<p>
Chelsea Manning <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/07/prison-chelsea-manning-proposes-free-speech-protection-bill">has proposed a law</a> that would protect journalists from
repression and make the government more transparent.
<p>
<a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Chelsea-Manni">Here's</a> an analysis of the specific provisions.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Climate)
title: Climate
uri: Climate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Climate%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Avoiding climate disaster will require converting 1/3 of humanity's
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/solar-expansion-critical-for-climate-mit-18973">
energy use to renewables by 2050.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Rhino)
title: Rhino
uri: Rhino
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Rhino%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Only one male northern white rhino remains, and seems unwilling to
mate,
so it appears the species <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/12/last-male-northern-white-rhino">
will soon become extinct.</a></p>
<p>Do we
know how to do artificial insemination on them?  In-vitro fertilization?</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Edinburgh_University)
title: Edinburgh University
uri: Edinburgh-University
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Edinburgh_University%29
content:
<p>
Edinburgh University proposes to "engage" with fossil fuel companies
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/12/edinburgh-university-rejects-calls-to-divest-from-all-fossil-fuels">
rather than selling stock in them.</a>
</p>
<p>It sounds nice, but I don't think Edinburgh University's investments
are so big that these companies will make concessions to keep them.</p>
<p>Basically, "engagement" with fossil fuel companies is a way to keep
supporting them while pretending to others, and/or perhaps to
yourself, that you're getting them to change.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Russian_Troops)
title: Russian Troops
uri: Russian-Troops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Russian_Troops%29
content:
<p>Friends of Boris Nemtsov have published a report on the details of
how <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/12/boris-nemtsov-allies-release-report-on-russian-troops-in-ukraine">
Putin sent Russian troops to fight in Ukraine —</a>
something like what Nemtsov was reportedly working on when he was
assassinated.</p>
<p>The report is a summary of information already published, and doesn't
contain surprising new recommendations.  I don't think anyone would have
had Nemtsov killed to avoid the publication of a report like this.
Thus, I wonder whether Nemtsov had other information that died with
him.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(E-waste)
title: E-waste
uri: E-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28E-waste%29
content:
<p>Most e-waste is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/12/up-to-90-of-worlds-electronic-waste-is-illegally-dumped-says-un">
discarded illegally.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Protesters)
title: Protesters
uri: Protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Protesters%29
content:
<p>
The FBI spied on protesters against the Keystone XL pipeline
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/12/revealed-fbi-spied-keystone-xl-opponents">
in disregard of its own rules.</a></p>
<p>If the FBI and its head don't pay a penality for this, why won't they
do it again?</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Fuel_Companies)
title: Fuel Companies
uri: Fuel-Companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Fuel_Companies%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Refineries of big oil companies are getting big subsidies in the US,
thanks to politicians that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/12/us-taxpayers-subsidising-worlds-biggest-fossil-fuel-companies">
these companies support generously.</a<</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(India)
title: India
uri: India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28India%29
content:
<p>Upper caste villagers attacked a Dalit's wedding <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/dalit-groom-forced-to-wear-helmet-as-upper-caste-villagers-stone-baraat/">
procession with
stones.</a>
They say he wasn't supposed to ride a horse as upper caste Hindus do.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Raped_in_Kenya)
title: Raped in Kenya
uri: Raped-in-Kenya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Raped_in_Kenya%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>When Charlotte Campbell-Stephen was raped in Kenya, the state told her
it was pointless to try to prosecute.  She had to struggle to get them
convicted — of violent robbery, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/12/i-will-not-be-silenced-fight-for-justice-that-gave-kenyan-victims-a-voice">
since it is impossible to
convict
anyone of rape in Kenya.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Sanders)
title: Sanders
uri: Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Sanders%29
content:
<p>Senator Sanders exposes the top corporate <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/08/1356547/-Good-Times-The-Day-Bernie-Sanders-Exposed-18-Top-Corporate-Tax-Dodgers?detail=email">
tax-dodgers and
job-exporters.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Medicare)
title: Medicare
uri: 2015-05-13-Medicare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Medicare%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Florida Governor Scott admits he was lying when he said that he had
come to appreciate <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/08/1383477/-Florida-Man-reelected-governor-admits-he-used-dead-mother-in-campaign-as-a-sham?detail=email">
the value of extending Medicare.</a></p>
<p>He justifies the lie by saying it was meant to trick the US government
with a deal he did not intend to keep.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Sri_Lanka)
title: Sri Lanka
uri: Sri-Lanka
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Sri_Lanka%29
content:
<p>Sri Lanka will fund coastal women to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/12/sri-lanka-to-become-the-first-nation-in-the-world-to-protect-all-its-mangroves">
protect all its
mangroves.</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Sharing)
title: Sharing
uri: Sharing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Sharing%29
content:
<p>Rick Falkvinge: You Can't Defend Public Libraries <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/you-cant-defend-public-libraries-and-oppose-file-sharing-150510/">
and Oppose
File-Sharing.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Chelsea_Manning)
title: Chelsea Manning
uri: Chelsea-Manning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Chelsea_Manning%29
content:
<p>
Chelsea Manning has proposed a law that would protect journalists from
repression and <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/07/prison-chelsea-manning-proposes-free-speech-protection-bill">
make the government more transparent.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Chelsea-Manni">
Here's an analysis</a> of the specific provisions.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Lawyers)
title: Lawyers
uri: Lawyers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Lawyers%29
content:
<p>
The paucity of black lawyers in the US has legal repercussions
for blacks who are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/11/why-the-us-needs-black-lawyers">
accused of crimes, or victims of crime.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(NYC:_Manicurists)
title: NYC: Manicurists
uri: NYC-Manicurists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28NYC%3A_Manicurists%29
content:
<p>
Manicurists in New York City are being cheated of their pay
and are using <a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/5/11/8585863/salons-safe-chemicals">
chemicals that injure them.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Nuclear_Weapons)
title: Nuclear Weapons
uri: Nuclear-Weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Nuclear_Weapons%29
content:
<p>Jeffrey Sterling, accused of telling reporter James Risen about the
failed CIA attempt to deceive Iran about nuclear weapons designs, has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/11/former-cia-man-jeffrey-sterling-42-months-prison-iran-leaks">
sentenced to over 3 years in prison.</a></p>
<p>A sentence of 20 years was proposed.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_May_2015_(Discrimination)
title: Discrimination
uri: Discrimination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_May_2015_%28Discrimination%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Women face discrimination in the workplace for being pregnant,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2015/may/12/pregnant-but-screwed-the-truth-about-workplace-discrimination">
and then are pressured not to talk about it.</a></p>


title: Warrant for using cell phone detection
uri: Warrant-for-using-cell-phone-detection
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Warrant_for_using_cell_phone_detection)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Warrant_for_using_cell_phone_detection%29

content:
<p>Washington State 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/cops-must-now-get-a-warrant-to-use-stingrays-in-washington-state/">
has required thugs to get a warrant</a>
 before they can use
a stingray cell phone detection and attack device.
</p>
<p>Note that they can also get the location data of cell phones from the
phone company.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(TTIP)
title: TTIP
uri: 2015-05-14-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28TTIP%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/12/obama-trans-pacific-partnership-senate-vote">
The US Senate rejected "fast track" for the Treacherous Plutocratic
Poison</a>

(and other corporate power treaties — the bill is a blank check
for
a certain time period).
</p>
<p>Since Syriza says Greece will kill 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Business_Regulations%29">
This Treaty Is Plutocratic</a>, we may have
fouled off this round of attacks on democracy.
But we can't depend on fouling off all the corporate power treaties
they pitch at us, one by one, forever.  We need to elect a congress
and president that reject the idea of making treaties to give
companies power.  Then we can campaign to abolish the existing ones.</p>
<p>Bernie Sanders for President!
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Racism)
title: Racism
uri: 2015-05-14-Racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Racism%29
content:
<p>Michelle Obama affirmed that racism against blacks is still real and
still
doing harm.  
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/12/michelle-obama-reverse-racist-speech">
Reactionary whites condemn this as "reverse racism"</a>.
</p>
<p>Identifying and condemning bigotry is not an instance of bigotry.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(NSA's_defenders)
title: NSA's defenders
uri: NSA-s-defenders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28NSA%27s_defenders%29
content:
<p>Many of the 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/12/intelligence-industry-cash-flows-media-echo-chamber-defending-nsa-surveillance/">
NSA's Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Shell_safety_equipment_malfunctioned)
title: Shell safety equipment malfunctioned
uri: Shell-safety-equipment-malfunctioned
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Shell_safety_equipment_malfunctioned%29

content:
<p>In 2012, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/12/arctic-drilling-shell-oil-spills-infrastructure">
Shell tried to drill in Arctic waters</a>
 and is safety equipment
(among others) malfunctioned.  It is not much better now.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Urgent:_Senator_Warren)
title: Urgent: Senator Warren
uri: Urgent-Senator-Warren
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Senator_Warren%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.peaceteam.net/smear.php">tell Obama</a> to stop
smearing Senator Warren.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Arrest_of_journalist_at_protest)
title: Arrest of journalist at protest
uri: Arrest-of-journalist-at-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Arrest_of_journalist_at_protest%29
content:
<p>
A Palestinian journalist from Jerusalem reports on what it's like to
be <a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=68772">arrested
"by mistake" while covering a protest</a>.  It's even worse than in the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_August_2014_(Journalist_reports_on_his_arrest_in_Ferguson)">US</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Israeli_army_policies)
title: Israeli army policies
uri: Israeli-army-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Israeli_army_policies%29
content:
<p>
Several Israeli army policies combined to 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=68775">guarantee
killing lots of civilians in Gaza</a>.  For instance, after they
dropped leaflets on a large area, they presumed that anyone left there
was an enemy combatant — never mind that that wasn't true.  And
once the "target bank was depleted", their policy automatically called
for firing closer to civilians.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Palestinian_village_faces_demolition)
title: Palestinian village faces demolition
uri: Palestinian-village-faces-demolition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Palestinian_village_faces_demolition%29

content:
<p>
The Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya faces 
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20150510_civil_administration_mapping_susiya">imminent
demolition</a> as part of Israel's campaign of ethnic cleansing of the
land near the Jordan River.


title: Detroit to cut off water for 25,000 people
uri: Detroit-to-cut-off-water-for-25-000-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Detroit_to_cut_off_water_for_25000_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Detroit_to_cut_off_water_for_25000_people%29

content:
<p>
Detroit's imposed, nondemocratic government is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/11/calls-obama-intervention-detroit-threatens-water-shut-another-25000-residents">planning
to cut off water for 25,000 people</a> who are too poor to pay their
water bills.
<p>
The city demands that they pay even more to avoid a shutoff, which
evidently they can't do.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Judgment_against_big_hospital_chain)
title: Judgment against big hospital chain
uri: Judgment-against-big-hospital-chain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Judgment_against_big_hospital_chain%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/05/11/us-court-appeals-issues-scathing-judgment-against-big-hospital-chain-ordering">U.S. Court
of Appeals Issues Scathing Judgment Against Big Hospital Chain,
Ordering CHS to Repay Union Costs for "Willful" Failure to Bargain
with RNs</a>.


title: Teacher brings students to visit prison
uri: Teacher-brings-students-to-visit-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Teacher_brings_students_to_visit_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Teacher_brings_students_to_visit_prison%29

content:
<p>
A teacher 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/11/taking-my-students-prison">brings
his students to visit a prison</a>, one of the few that still allow
visits.
<p>
The long-term and harsh prisons are so cruel that they don't want
anyone outside the system to see what they are like.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Canadian_company_using_kangaroo_court)
title: Canadian company using kangaroo court
uri: Canadian-company-using-kangaroo-court
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Canadian_company_using_kangaroo_court%29

content:
<p>
The Canadian company that wanted to run a mine in El Salvador, which
was blocked because it might pollute the country's main water supply,
is suing in an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/11/amid-tpp-fight-el-salvador-mining-case-shows-danger-corporate-tribunals">international
kangaroo court established by a corporate power treaty</a>.  A
delegation of Salvadoreans is visiting Canada to teach them about how
dangerous this is for all countries that get involved in it.


title: Putting pressure on Israel and Palestine
uri: Putting-pressure-on-Israel-and-Palestine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Putting_pressure_on_Israel_and_Palestine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Putting_pressure_on_Israel_and_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
Former ministers of EU countries called for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/israel-occupation-european-leaders-binyamin-netanyahu">stronger
measures to pressure Israel and the Palestinians to make peace</a>.
Each side should be pressured when it rejects peace.
<p>
The best part is that they dismiss the pretense that Netanyahu
negotiates sincerely for peace.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Most_indebted_US_college_class_ever)
title: Most indebted US college class ever
uri: Most-indebted-US-college-class-ever
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Most_indebted_US_college_class_ever%29

content:
<p>
The US college class of 2015 is the 
<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/05/08/congratulations-class-of-2015-youre-the-most-indebted-ever-for-now/">most
indebted ever</a>, but that record will surely fall a year from now to
the class of 2016.


title: Pipeline company faces opposition in Iowa
uri: Pipeline-company-faces-opposition-in-Iowa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Pipeline_company_faces_opposition_in_Iowa)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Pipeline_company_faces_opposition_in_Iowa%29

content:
<p>
In Iowa, a pipeline company is facing opposition which is promoting a
law to
<a href="http://iowapublicradio.org/post/landowner-rights-vs-bakken-pipeline">stop
the company from using eminent domain</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Verizon)
title: Verizon
uri: Verizon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Verizon%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/verizons-just-the-latest-big-evil-media-conglomerate-wa-1703886014">Verizon's
Just the Latest Big Evil Media Conglomerate Waiting to Happen</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_May_2015_(Arbitrary_confiscation_by_DEA)
title: Arbitrary confiscation by DEA
uri: Arbitrary-confiscation-by-DEA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_May_2015_%28Arbitrary_confiscation_by_DEA%29
content:
<p>
DEA agents took $16,000 in cash from a black teenager who was heading
to LA to make a music video with it.  The DEA says it 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150511/09225630958/dea-takes-16000-train-passenger-because-it-can.shtml">presumes
"the money is guilty"</a>.
<p>
Money is not a moral actor; it can't be guilty of anything.  It is the
person whose money they took that they treated as guilty, without
trial.  What the government calls "civil forfeiture" is really
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_November_2014_(Legalized_robbery_by_thugs)">arbitrary
confiscation</a>.


title: Why does non-rich vote for right-wing?
uri: Why-does-non-rich-vote-for-right-wing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(Why_does_non-rich_vote_for_right-wing?)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28Why_does_non-rich_vote_for_right-wing%3F%29

content:
<p>When non-rich vote for the right-wing, they are "turkeys voting for
Christmas" (or, in the US, for Thanksgiving, which is when we tend to
eat turkeys in the US).
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/14/working-class-tories-are-not-just-turkeys-voting-for-christmas">
The article also shows</a>
, almost without intending to, a crucial part of
why they do this: right-wingers in control of the state have done them
harm over and over, and taught them to blame this on the state rather
than on right-wing government.  Thus they give up on the only avenue
that they could use to stop this.</p>
<p>It's not the only reason many poor people didn't support the Labour
Party.  The article is right that it didn't try to offer them much.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(Less_money_for_poor_people)
title: Less money for poor people
uri: Less-money-for-poor-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28Less_money_for_poor_people%29
content:
<p>US politicians, to give more money to rich idlers, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/14/subsidizing-idle-rich-while-poor-kids-go-hungry">
want to cut support
for poor people</a>
 that work (or can't find work, or are disabled).
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(PISSI_close_to_capturing_Palmyra)
title: PISSI close to capturing Palmyra
uri: PISSI-close-to-capturing-Palmyra
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28PISSI_close_to_capturing_Palmyra%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/isis-syria-palmyra-iraq">
PISSI is close to capturing Palmyra</a>
, which it would then destroy.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(FSF_seeking_deputy_director)
title: FSF seeking deputy director
uri: FSF-seeking-deputy-director
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28FSF_seeking_deputy_director%29
content:
<p>
The Free Software Foundation is looking for possible candidates for
a <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-announces-deputy-director-search">deputy
director</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(Greatest_threat_to_free_speech)
title: Greatest threat to free speech
uri: Greatest-threat-to-free-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28Greatest_threat_to_free_speech%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/13/greatest-threat-free-speech-comes-terrorism-claiming-fight/">Greatest
Threat to Free Speech Comes Not From Terrorism, But From Those
Claiming to Fight It</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(Wrongfully_convicted_sex_offender)
title: Wrongfully convicted "sex offender"
uri: Wrongfully-convicted-sex-offender
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28Wrongfully_convicted_sex_offender%29
content:
<p>
Michael McAlister has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/14/virginia-man-pardoned-29-years-prison-attempted-rape">pardoned</a>
and will not be imprisoned for life as a "sex offender" for the rape
it is established he didn't commit.
<p>
He was caught in a loophole where he couldn't be freed unless he
confessed to the crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(War_in_Afghanistan_won't_end)
title: War in Afghanistan won't end
uri: War-in-Afghanistan-won-t-end
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28War_in_Afghanistan_won%27t_end%29
content:
<p>A US government agency 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/14/government-watchdog-afghan-military-will-need-help-foreseeable-future/">
acknowledged</a>
 that the war in Afghanistan is not
going to end in the foreseeable future.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(E-voting_is_unsafe)
title: E-voting is unsafe
uri: E-voting-is-unsafe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28E-voting_is_unsafe%29
content:
<p>Online Voting Is Convenient, But If the Results Aren't Verifiable 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-05-online-voting-convenient-results-worth.html">
It's  
Not Worth The Risk</a>
.
</p>
<p>Simply using computers for voting 
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20101019133156/http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/summary.html">
is already unsafe</a>
;
to even consider
doing it over the internet is the work of clowns.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(Excited_delirium)
title: Excited delirium
uri: Excited-delirium
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28Excited_delirium%29
content:
<p>Thugs 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/existence-of-excited-delirium-ruling-in-va-womans-death-has-experts-split/2015/05/06/b1cc9499-ddaa-474c-9e8a-9ae89a9ae679_story.html">
present</a>
 a possibly imaginary medical condition, "excited
delirium", as an excuse for the death of prisoners.
</p>
<p>Even if "excited delirium" is real, it is quite likely that the taser
contributed to her death.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(Children's_online_privacy)
title: Children's online privacy
uri: Children-s-online-privacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28Children%27s_online_privacy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-05-parents-threaten-children-online-privacy.html">
How parents threaten children's online privacy</a>
.
</p>


title: Lotteries are "encouragement of bad decisions"
uri: Lotteries-are-encouragement-of-bad-decisions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(Lotteries_are_encoragement_of_bad_decisions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28Lotteries_are_encoragement_of_bad_decisions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/lotteries-americas-70-billion-shame/392870/">
Americans spend 70 billion dollars a year on lotteries</a>
, a tremendous
waste, and half of it comes from people who can't afford it.
</p>
<p>You can think of the lotteries as a "tax on stupidity",
but it really is more like "encouragement of bad decisions".</p>
<p>States use lotteries to raise money because there is resistance to
using
taxes for this.  But the taxes could be aimed mainly at the rich
and
businesses that can afford them.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(John_Deere)
title: John Deere
uri: John-Deere
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28John_Deere%29
content:
<p>John Deere Clarifies: 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150513/18001030993/john-deere-clarifies-trying-to-abuse-copyright-law-to-stop-you-owning-your-own-tractor-because-it-cares-about-you.shtml">
It's Trying To Abuse Copyright Law To Stop You  
From Owning Your Own Tractor</a>
, Because It Cares About You.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(Sharif_Mobley)
title: Sharif Mobley
uri: 2015-05-16-Sharif-Mobley
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28Sharif_Mobley%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/american-sharif-mobley-phone-call-yemen">
Sharif Mobley found a smuggled phone inside the prison in Yemen</a>
, and said
that guards were attacking him.
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Sharif_Mobley%29">
The US government helped Yemen's government capture him</a>
, 5 years ago,
and has protected Yemen's disappearance of him.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(Australia_wants_to_stop_UNESCO)
title: Australia wants to stop UNESCO
uri: Australia-wants-to-stop-UNESCO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28Australia_wants_to_stop_UNESCO%29
content:
<p>The Australian government is frantically trying to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/14/australia-lobbies-unesco-stop-listing-great-barrier-reef-as-in-danger">
stop Unesco</a>

from recognizing how its policies threaten the Great Barrier Reef.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(False_copyright_infringement_claims)
title: False copyright infringement claims
uri: False-copyright-infringement-claims
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28False_copyright_infringement_claims%29

content:
<p>Google and the movie and record companies work together to
automatically

<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/youtuber-sues-google-viacom-over-content-id-takedowns-150513/">
enforce false copyright infringement claims</a>
; one victim is
suing.
</p>


title: Northern England included in independent Scotland?
uri: Northern-England-included-in-independent-Scotland
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(Northern_Englad_included_in_indipendent_Scotland?)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28Northern_Englad_included_in_indipendent_Scotland%3F%29

content:
<p>Thousands of people 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/the-northerner/2015/may/14/thousands-sign-petition-calling-for-north-of-england-to-be-part-of-scotland">
have signed a petition</a>
 asking to include
northern England in an independent Scotland.
</p>
<p>Does this make sense?  It wouldn't be Scotland any more, if it
included part of England.</p>
<p>I wonder if people in southern England would also prefer to be part of
Scotland.</p>
<p>This demonstrates the idiocy of the "English identity" that the Tories
want to promote.  It also suggests that Scottish nationalism is a
stand-in for rejection of plutocratic rule by the City of London.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_May_2015_(Texas_Republicans_should_feel_ashamed)
title: Texas Republicans should feel ashamed
uri: Texas-Republicans-should-feel-ashamed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_May_2015_%28Texas_Republicans_should_feel_ashamed%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/11/1384073/-Texas-House-passes-bill-to-stigmatize-patients-getting-insurance-through-nbsp-Obamacare?detail=email">
Texas Republicans think poor people should feel ashamed</a>
 of getting a
subsidy for health insurance.
</p>
<p>It's the Texas Republicans who should feel ashamed of wanting to
make poor people sick or dead.</p>


title: Evidence that ALEC is violating tax law
uri: Evidence-that-ALEC-is-violating-tax-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Evidence_that_ALEC_is_violating_tax_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Evidence_that_ALEC_is_violating_tax_law%29

content:
<p>
Whistleblowers' evidence shows that ALEC is violating tax law by
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/05/12/groups-add-evidence-whistleblower-tax-fraud-claim-against-alec">pretending
to be a charity</a>.  Will the IRS prosecute?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Bernie_Sanders_proposed_policies)
title: Bernie Sanders' proposed policies
uri: Bernie-Sanders-proposed-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Bernie_Sanders_proposed_policies%29
content:
<p>
Under Bernie Sanders' proposed socialist policies, the US would be in
danger of becoming like 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/12/7-charts-show-socialist-hellscape-america-would-be-under-bernie-sanders">Scandinavia</a>.
Look how bad that would be.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Criticism_of_US_human_rights_record)
title: Criticism of US human rights record
uri: Criticism-of-US-human-rights-record
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Criticism_of_US_human_rights_record%29

content:
<p>
The US is facing criticism of its human rights record in a periodic 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/12/drones-abroad-police-brutality-home-un-slams-us-human-rights-record">UN review</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Defending_a_home_while_black)
title: Defending a home while black
uri: Defending-a-home-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Defending_a_home_while_black%29
content:
<p>
A black man who tried to use a gun to fight off robbers 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/10/1383784/-Black-Man-calls-cops-to-report-home-invasion-What-happened">made
the mistake of calling 911</a>.  A thug came and shot him, because
their standard assumption is that a black man with a gun must be a
criminal.
<p>
I expect that the thug perceived a black man with a gun as a threat
due to unconscious racism.


title: Urgent: Stop bottling water in California
uri: 2015-05-16-Urgent-Stop-bottling-water-in-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_bottling_water_in_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_bottling_water_in_California%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/WalmartDrought_CC/">call
on Wal-Mart</a> to stop bottling water in California.
<p>
Even if you shun Wal-Mart in general, that doesn't stop you from
signing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Urgent:_Ban_driftnets)
title: Urgent: Ban driftnets
uri: Urgent-Ban-driftnets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_driftnets%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.oceana.org/sign/save-the-whales-with-kate-mara">protect
marine mammals</a> by supporting a ban on driftnets on the West Coast.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Bee_colonies_dying_at_peak_levels)
title: Bee colonies dying at peak levels
uri: Bee-colonies-dying-at-peak-levels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Bee_colonies_dying_at_peak_levels%29
content:
<p>
Death of bee colonies is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/13/honeybee-deaths-colonies-beekeepers">at
peak levels again in the US</a>, and ominously many colonies died last
summer when they would normally thrive.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Monsanto_wants_merger_with_Syngenta)
title: Monsanto wants merger with Syngenta
uri: Monsanto-wants-merger-with-Syngenta
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Monsanto_wants_merger_with_Syngenta%29

content:
<p>
Monsanto, a giant seed company, 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/05/monsanto-syngenta-merger-45-billion-pesticides">wants
to merge with Syngenta</a>, a giant pesticide company.
<p>
This shows an inadequacy in today's antitrust law.  A merger of large
companies can be very harmful when the companies make coordinated
products rather than competing products.  The state should forbid such
mergers.


title: Opposition to large telescope on Mauna Kea
uri: Opposition-to-large-telescope-on-Mauna-Kea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Opposition_to_large_telescope_on_Mauna_Kea)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Opposition_to_large_telescope_on_Mauna_Kea%29

content:
<p>
Hawaiians are protesting the construction of another 
<a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/5/4/8542521/thirty-meter-telescope">large
telescope on Mauna Kea</a>.
<p>
The article claims that astronomers have "expressed doubts about the
project", but these doubts are not about its merit.  Some scientists
feel they should cater to religion.
<p>
I don't agree: advancing real knowledge is more important.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(India's_labor_reforms)
title: India's "labor reforms"
uri: India-s-labor-reforms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28India%27s_labor_reforms%29
content:
<p>India's "labor reforms" show how far neoliberals really want to go:

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/may/13/india-child-labour-reforms-dangerous-invest">
restricting unions, allowing gender discrimination, legalizing
child
labor</a>
.
</p>
<p>This goes with 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_June_2013_%28India_shutting_NGOs_associated_with_antinuclear_protests%29">
attacking NGOs</a>
 that stand against abusive practices.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Homelessness_in_Detroit)
title: Homelessness in Detroit
uri: Homelessness-in-Detroit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Homelessness_in_Detroit%29
content:
<p>30,000 people in Detroit 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/13/detroit-residents-deadline-extension-taxes">
face homelessness</a>
 because they have not paid
taxes on their houses.  Unlike companies such as Apple, Amazon and
Google, these people don't pay because they are poor, which is why
the state of Michigan is cracking down on them.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(UK_subsidizes_fossil_fuel)
title: UK subsidizes fossil fuel
uri: UK-subsidizes-fossil-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28UK_subsidizes_fossil_fuel%29
content:
<p>The UK's right-wing government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/13/tory-pledge-to-end-wind-subsidies-risks-green-economy-say-industry-leaders">
plans to end</a>
 the overt subsidy for wind
power.
</p>
<p>No doubt they will say that subsidies distort markets, but preventing
worldwide disaster justifies a lot more subsidy than now.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, they show no sign of ending the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_March_2015_%28UK_favoring_fossil_fuels_over_renewables%29">
much bigger subsidies for
fossil fuels</a>

and

<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#7_May_2012_%28The_UK_Government%29">
nuclear energy</a>
,
which distort markets too.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Thug_will_not_face_charges)
title: Thug will not face charges
uri: Thug-will-not-face-charges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Thug_will_not_face_charges%29
content:
<p>The thug that shot Tony Robinson 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/12/police-officer-wisconsin-teenager-no-charges">
will not face charges</a>
.
He says that Robinson attacked him with fists and he was afraid
of losing consciousness, and that he had been informed that Robinson
was intoxicated.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Pouring_scorn)
title: Pouring scorn
uri: Pouring-scorn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Pouring_scorn%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/16/california-drought-shaming-takes-on-a-class-conscious-edge">
Californians are pouring scorn on rich water-wasters</a>
.
</p>
<p>The spirit of plutocracy is that the rich should not have to share the
sacrifices imposed on society by their expensive life styles.
In 40 or 80 years, the plutocrats will try to buy their way out
of the problems that their fossil fuel policies are causing.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Nauru)
title: Nauru
uri: Nauru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Nauru%29
content:
<p>When Australia sends refugees to imprisonment in Nauru, their
conditions are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/may/16/pregnant-asylum-seekers-on-nauru-forced-to-create-makeshift-toilets">
atrocious</a>
.  Their toilets and water supplies are so far
away that those who are pregnant can't walk that far.
</p>
<p>Some of them may be pregnant because they were raped by the prison
guards.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Canada_extends_copyright)
title: Canada extends copyright
uri: Canada-extends-copyright
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Canada_extends_copyright%29
content:
<p>Canada's plutocratic government 
<a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/05/harper-letter-to-music-canada-on-budget-day-confirms-copyright-extension-the-product-of-industry-lobbying/">
is extending copyright on musical recordings
as a rider in a spending bill</a>
, with no public consultation.
</p>
<p>Plutocracy means businesses pull the strings and the state obeys.
Plutocracy is not a legitimate system of government.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Legalization_of_computer_intrusion)
title: Legalization of computer intrusion
uri: Legalization-of-computer-intrusion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Legalization_of_computer_intrusion%29

content:
<p>GCHQ was being sued by victims of computer intrusion, so the UK
government

<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/15/case_against_gchq_scrambled_by_under_the_radar_legislation/">
passed a law to retroactively legalize that</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Morsi_sentenced_to_death)
title: Morsi sentenced to death
uri: Morsi-sentenced-to-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Morsi_sentenced_to_death%29
content:
<p>Former President Morsi 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/16/mohammed-morsi-sentenced-death-egyptian-court-former-president">
has been sentenced to death</a>
.
</p>
<p>It is not clear these charges even make any sense.  What does it mean
to accuse the president of "espionage"?  But that's Egypt for you:
people can be sentenced to death for just about anything.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Greenland's_glaciers)
title: Greenland's glaciers
uri: Greenland-s-glaciers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Greenland%27s_glaciers%29
content:
<p>Greenland's glaciers 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/05/13/crevasses_on_greenland_glaciers_are_evidence_of_the_increasing_rate_of_ice.html">
are flowing faster</a>
 — 
increased crevasses demonstrate how much faster.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Colombia_will_stop_kill_coca_plants)
title: Colombia will stop kill coca plants
uri: Colombia-will-stop-kill-coca-plants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Colombia_will_stop_kill_coca_plants%29

content:
<p>Colombia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/colombia-herbicide-glyphosate-coca-fields-cancer">
will stop</a>
 spraying glyphosate to kill coca plants.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Divest_from_fossil_fuel)
title: Divest from fossil fuel
uri: Divest-from-fossil-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Divest_from_fossil_fuel%29
content:
<p>In the UK, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/16/how-to-divest-your-bank-account-of-fossil-fuels">
you can divest</a>
 from fossil fuels by moving your money out
of the five big banks.
</p>
<p>In the US, people moved money out of the big banks after they caused
the financial crisis.  It's still a good idea to do that.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Poaching_of_rhinos)
title: Poaching of rhinos
uri: Poaching-of-rhinos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Poaching_of_rhinos%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/16/nepals-rhino-numbers-rise-steadily-thanks-to-anti-poaching-measures">
Nepal has been very effective</a>
 at blocking poaching of rhinos.
The population has increased for 10 years.</p>
<p>I fear that poachers will take advantage of the distraction of
the earthquake to come back in.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Ban_phones_in_school)
title: Ban phones in school
uri: Ban-phones-in-school
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Ban_phones_in_school%29
content:
<p>Banning mobile phones in school seems to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/may/15/mobile-phone-bans-improve-school-exam-results-research-shows">
help students succeed in school</a>
,
especially those from disadvantageous backgrounds.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Automatic_control_of_train_speeds)
title: Automatic control of train speeds
uri: Automatic-control-of-train-speeds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Automatic_control_of_train_speeds%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/15/wall-street-analyst-demanded-rail-industry-invest-lobbying-train-speed-safety-regulations/">
US railroads, including Amtrak, have lobbied hard to avoid
implementing
automatic control of train speeds</a>
.
</p>
<p>I will not support campaigns to increase Amtrak's funding while
Amtrak continues to demand ID from passengers.</p>


title: Facebook wants to kill indipendent journalism
uri: Facebook-wants-to-kill-indipendent-journalism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Facebook_wants_to_kill_indipendent_journalism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Facebook_wants_to_kill_indipendent_journalism%29

content:
<p>Facebook's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/14/feudalism-facebook-new-pay-play-news-feed-indy-media-killer">
corporate-only news feed</a>
 both directs users away from
independent ournalism and tracks their reading.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(SOPA)
title: SOPA
uri: SOPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28SOPA%29
content:
<p>The copyright lobby 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/sopa-anyone-entertainment-lobby-uses-hearing-domain-names-revive-awful-censorship">
is trying to bring back</a>
 SOPA through a different path.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Computer_crime)
title: "Computer crime"
uri: Computer-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Computer_crime%29
content:
<p>California 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/california-wants-create-high-tech-crime-task-force-guess-whos-not-invited-table">
proposes to review</a>
 "computer crime", inviting thugs, prosecutors
and businesses only.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Climate_scientists_intimidated)
title: Climate scientists intimidated
uri: Climate-scientists-intimidated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Climate_scientists_intimidated%29
content:
<p>Climate scientists 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/15/are-climate-scientists-cowed-by-sceptics">
have been intimidated by denialist</a>
 campaigns into
presenting facts as uncertain.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Thugs_pepper_sprayed_protesters)
title: Thugs pepper sprayed protesters
uri: Thugs-pepper-sprayed-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Thugs_pepper_sprayed_protesters%29
content:
<p>Thugs in Minneapolis 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/15/minneapolis-police-pepper-spray-10-year-old-taye-montgomery">
pepper sprayed protesters without warning</a>
, which
is something thugs do.  This time, one of the protesters was 10 years
old, so people are noticing.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Military_coup_defeated_in_Burundi)
title: Military coup defeated in Burundi
uri: Military-coup-defeated-in-Burundi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Military_coup_defeated_in_Burundi%29
content:
<p>The president of Burundi, who has staged a sort of coup himself,

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/burundi-president-returns-to-divided-capital-after-failed-coup">
defeated</a>
 the military coup attempt to remove him.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Cost_fo_wars)
title: Cost fo wars
uri: Cost-fo-wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Cost_fo_wars%29
content:
<p>Counting the cost of America's wars usually 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/15/disabled-veterans-and-the-myth-of-american-warfare/">
doesn't consider</a>
 the
hundreds of thousands of soldiers disabled by wounds, and more
hundreds of thousands driven half-mad by their experiences.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(PISSI)
title: PISSI
uri: 2015-05-17-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28PISSI%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/iraqi-troops-routed-by-isis-ramadi">
PISSI is advancing in Ramadi</a>
 against the Iraqi army, although that is not
crumbling.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Tar_sands_oil)
title: Tar sands oil
uri: Tar-sands-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Tar_sands_oil%29
content:
<p>Canada 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/canada-reneges-emissions-targets-tar-sands-production">
has let</a>
 tar sands oil override its previous pledges to reduce
greenhouse gas.
</p>


title: US does not recognize civilians victims
uri: US-does-not-recognize-civilians-victims
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(US_does_not_recognize_civilians_victims)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28US_does_not_recognize_civilians_victims%29

content:
<p>The US refuses to recognize that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/slaughter-iraqi-family-us-air-strike-isis">
its bombing of PISSI kills civilians</a>
.
</p>
<p>That sort of denial breeds hatred, and it isn't necessary.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(No_benefit_from_stop_sharing)
title: No benefit from stop sharing
uri: No-benefit-from-stop-sharing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28No_benefit_from_stop_sharing%29
content:
<p>The copyright industry 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/shutting-down-pirate-sites-is-ineffective-european-commission-finds-150514/">
gained very little benefit from shutting down a
forbidden sharing site</a>
 in 2011.  Mostly, the public had less access to
published works for a while, until replacement sites arose.
</p>
<p>The article uses propaganda terms such as "pirate" and "consume"
that we should avoid.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Palestinians_trapped_in_airport)
title: Palestinians trapped in airport
uri: Palestinians-trapped-in-airport
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Palestinians_trapped_in_airport%29
content:
<p>Two Palestinians 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/trapped-in-dubai-airport-the-father-and-son-who-had-nowhere-to-go">
who had fled Syria were trapped in Dubai airport</a>

as no country would let them in.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Legal_pressure_for_Facebook)
title: Legal pressure for Facebook
uri: Legal-pressure-for-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Legal_pressure_for_Facebook%29
content:
<p>Facebook 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/15/facebook-must-stop-tracking-users-non-users-legal-action">
is under legal pressure in Europe</a>
 for its practices of tracking
people's browsing through Like buttons.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Global_heating_in_troposphere)
title: Global heating in troposphere
uri: Global-heating-in-troposphere
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Global_heating_in_troposphere%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-05-climate-scientists-elusive-tropospheric-hot.html">
Global heating in the upper troposphere has been found, as
predicted</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Private_water)
title: Private water
uri: Private-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Private_water%29
content:
<p>US private water companies 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30724-exclusive-dispatch-private-water-industry-says-water-bills-have-to-go-up">
are seeking an excuse to raise rates</a>

in the continuing bad economy and government situation.
</p>
<p>I think
governments should raise water rates to businesses, including
farms and bottlers.  Just not to poor people.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Obama's_denial)
title: Obama's denial
uri: Obama-s-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Obama%27s_denial%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/opinion/obamas-catastrophic-climate-change-denial.html?ref=opinion">
Obama's Catastrophic Climate-Change Denial</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Saudi_Arabia_execute_a_dissident)
title: Saudi Arabia execute a dissident
uri: Saudi-Arabia-execute-a-dissident
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Saudi_Arabia_execute_a_dissident%29
content:
<p>Saudi Arabia 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/45301">
is about to execute</a>
 a dissident.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Rand_Paul)
title: Rand Paul
uri: 2015-05-17-Rand-Paul
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Rand_Paul%29
content:
<p>Rand Paul 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/05/31/232182/rand-paul-criminalize-speech/">
wants to jail</a>
 people for attending political speeches.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/03/07/rand_pauls_mixed_civil_liberties_track_record/">
>He has other bad positions on human rights issues</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Can't_make_photo_of_pollution)
title: Can't make photo of pollution
uri: Can-t-make-photo-of-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Can%27t_make_photo_of_pollution%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/13/3657795/wyoming-pollution-photography-jail-time/">
Wyoming has made it a crime</a>
 to collect a sample of pollution, or even take
a photo of it, to show to a government agency.
</p>
<p>This is typical of laws adopted by plutocratist politicians.  They
don't make any sense except as a reinforcement of illegitimate rule.
The first one I know of was the DMCA, which made it a crime to break
DRM.</p>
<p>DefectiveByDesign.org</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Big_spill)
title: Big spill
uri: Big-spill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Big_spill%29
content:
<p>At the site of the big spill, an area of sea floor 
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/14/30_million_gallons_under_the_sea">
is covered by a
two-inch blanket of oil</a>
.
</p>
<p>It's going to stay there for a long time.  Microbes consumed 5/6 of
the big spill.  What's left spill is the part that was too toxic for
microbes, mixed with corexit making it even more toxic.  That will
remain for a long, long time.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(EU_subsidizes_coal_mining)
title: EU subsidizes coal mining
uri: EU-subsidizes-coal-mining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28EU_subsidizes_coal_mining%29
content:
<p>The EU has a "research" fund that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/15/activists-call-on-eu-to-shut-down-100m-slush-fund-for-coal">
subsidizes</a>
 coal mining,
about 15 million dollars a year.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Larsen_B_ice_shelf_will_break_up)
title: Larsen B ice shelf will break up
uri: Larsen-B-ice-shelf-will-break-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Larsen_B_ice_shelf_will_break_up%29
content:
<p>The Larsen B ice shelf 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/15/antarctic-ice-shelf-larsen-b-disintegration-nasa">
is expected to break up by 2020</a>
.
This will remove an obstacle that slows the flow of ice from the
nearby land-based ice sheet into the ocean, and that will lead to
faster loss of ice — faster sea level rise.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(HIV_in_Russia)
title: HIV in Russia
uri: HIV-in-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28HIV_in_Russia%29
content:
<p>Russian repression 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/russian-hiv-aids-epidemic-worsening-under-kremlin-policies-says-expert">
has promoted</a>
 the spread of HIV infection.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Heartbleed)
title: "Heartbleed"
uri: Heartbleed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Heartbleed%29
content:
<p>The name "heartbleed" 
<a href="http://techrights.org/2015/05/14/venom-heartbleed-microsoft/">
was coined as a PR move by a company closely
related to Microsoft</a>
.
</p>
<p>Apparently the PR goal was to direct special public attention
to one of the many bugs discovered each year in various programs,
free or nonfree.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_May_2015_(Facebook_danger)
title: Facebook danger
uri: Facebook-danger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_May_2015_%28Facebook_danger%29
content:
<p>Facebook 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/13/global-internet-activists-give-thumbs-down-facebooks-internetorg">
wants to give millions of poor people access to a small
part of the internet</a>
.
</p>
<p>The danger of such censorship (and tracking, since it doesn't include
access to a VPN) is more important than any good of giving people
internet access sooner.  (They will get access by and by.)</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Prosecution_of_journalist_in_Angola)
title: Prosecution of journalist in Angola
uri: Prosecution-of-journalist-in-Angola
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Prosecution_of_journalist_in_Angola%29

content:
<p>
The journalist that revealed torture in Angola is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/angolan-journalist-who-accused-generals-of-rights-abuses-faces-court">being
prosecuted for libel</a>.
<p>
To make libel a crime is prima facie injustice.
<p>
The US also jails people for revealing US torture practices,
such as
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#16_September_2012_(Prosecuting_only_the_whistleblower)">John
Kiriakou</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(House_passes_weak_NSA_reform_bill)
title: House passes weak NSA reform bill
uri: House-passes-weak-NSA-reform-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28House_passes_weak_NSA_reform_bill%29
content:
<p>
The House of Representatives passed a
<a href="http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/241994-house-backs-nsa-reform">weak
NSA reform bill</a> which is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_(USA_Freedom_Act_inadequate)">far
less than what is needed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Fracked_gas_export_terminals)
title: Fracked gas export terminals
uri: Fracked-gas-export-terminals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Fracked_gas_export_terminals%29
content:
<p>
The City of Portland has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/13/portland-oregon-canada-fracking-gas-pembina">killed
a fracked gas export terminal</a>.
<p>
They will look for other places to put it, and other terminals
are planned.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Emerging_populist_agenda_in_the_US)
title: Emerging populist agenda in the US
uri: Emerging-populist-agenda-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Emerging_populist_agenda_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/12/emerging-populist-agenda">The
Emerging Populist Agenda (in the US)</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Decaying_US_suburbs)
title: Decaying US suburbs
uri: Decaying-US-suburbs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Decaying_US_suburbs%29
content:
<p>
The US must convert its decaying suburbs into more like the
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/10/1383237/-The-next-public-health-challenge-Retrofitting-Suburbia-Huh">newly
desirable cities</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Luckwarmers)
title: "Luckwarmers"
uri: Luckwarmers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Luckwarmers%29
content:
<p>
The "luckwarmers" accept that humans are causing global heating, but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/may/13/lukewarmers-the-third-stage-of-climate-denial">want
to bet civilization's future on the chance that it won't be as bad as
it appears</a>.
<p>
It is a mistake to compare these postures with personal grief.
These people are not acting out of a sense of loss.
The loss has not yet occurred, although climate scientists
tell us that it will.  These are not stages in grief, they are stages
in a campaign of persuasion that abandons an untenable position
to take the next line that will justify the conclusion it wants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(A_school_for_doing_sex_well)
title: A school for doing sex well
uri: A-school-for-doing-sex-well
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28A_school_for_doing_sex_well%29
content:
<p>
A school for doing sex well has opened in — of all places
— 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/the-school-teaching-kyrgyzstan-the-art-of-good-sex">Kyrgyzstan</a>.


title: UK plans new measures to repress opinions
uri: UK-plans-new-measures-to-repress-opinions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(UK_plans_new_measures_to_repress_opinions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28UK_plans_new_measures_to_repress_opinions%29

content:
<p>
The UK's new government is planning tyrannical measures to repress
opinions that are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/theresa-mays-counter-extremism-proposals-are-fraught-with-difficulties">"anti-democratic"
and/or "spread hatred"</a>.
<p>
I wonder whether that will include condemnation of "democratically"
imposed austerity and hatred of tax-dodgers.  Would UK Uncut's
protests be banned, and its leaders forbidden to speak in public?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Philadelphia_thug_firebombing)
title: Philadelphia thug firebombing
uri: Philadelphia-thug-firebombing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Philadelphia_thug_firebombing%29
content:
<p>
30 years ago, thugs in Philadelphia dropped a firebomb on the home of
a radical black group called Move, then 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/13/osage-avenue-bombing-philadelphia-30-years">chose
to allow the whole block to burn down</a>.  250 people, mostly or all
blacks, were left homeless.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Warrantless_searches_of_computers)
title: Warrantless searches of computers
uri: Warrantless-searches-of-computers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Warrantless_searches_of_computers%29
content:
<p>
A judge 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/warrantless-airport-search-of-laptop-cannot-be-justified-judge-rules/">ruled
that US agents can't search a computer without a warrant</a> just
because its owner is near a border or flying out of the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Labour)
title: Labour
uri: Labour
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Labour%29
content:
<p>
Labour basically 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/13/ed-miliband-leftwing-labour-not-paying-attention">accepted
Tory austerity plans</a> aside from a few details, so there was little
reason to support it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Bernie_Sanders_challenges_Clinton)
title: Bernie Sanders challenges Clinton
uri: Bernie-Sanders-challenges-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Bernie_Sanders_challenges_Clinton%29
content:
<p>
Bernie Sanders challenges Clinton on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/10/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-trans-pacific-partnership">the
TPP and global heating</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Drought_in_Queensland)
title: Drought in Queensland
uri: Drought-in-Queensland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Drought_in_Queensland%29
content:
<p>
The continuing drought in Queensland (the northernmost part of
Australia) is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/13/drought-tightens-grip-on-queensland-as-record-80-of-state-succumbs">even
bigger than it was a year ago</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Smuggle_of_people_from_Libya)
title: Smuggle of people from Libya
uri: Smuggle-of-people-from-Libya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Smuggle_of_people_from_Libya%29
content:
<p>
Europe is considering a ground intervention in Libya to block
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/migrant-crisis-eu-plan-to-strike-libya-networks-could-include-ground-forces">smuggling
of people from there to Europe</a>.
<p>
It will be hard getting approval of the two competing governments of
Libya, which are in civil war.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Making_the_disabled_more_disabled)
title: Making the disabled more disabled
uri: Making-the-disabled-more-disabled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Making_the_disabled_more_disabled%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/13/tory-win-disabled-cuts-benefits">Cuts
in support</a> for the disabled make them more disabled — it can
take away their ability to leave the house, or even to leave the bed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Nauru_to_make_protesting_a_crime)
title: Nauru to make protesting a crime
uri: Nauru-to-make-protesting-a-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Nauru_to_make_protesting_a_crime%29
content:
<p>
Nauru, where Australia has forcibly sent refugees, is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/nauru-asylum-seekers-could-face-jail-for-protesting-conditions-under-new-law">planning
to make protesting a crime</a>.  The 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_(Conditions_of_refugees_in_Nauru)">conditions
of their exile</a> give them a lot to protest about.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Torture_in_Chinese_jails)
title: Torture in Chinese jails
uri: Torture-in-Chinese-jails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Torture_in_Chinese_jails%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/torture-still-routine-in-chinese-jails-says-human-rights-watch-report">Torture
Still Routine in Chinese Jails, says Human Rights Watch</a>.
<p>
I wish the US were in a position to criticize this with moral
authority.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Frances_debt_to_Haiti)
title: France's debt to Haiti
uri: France-s-debt-to-Haiti
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Frances_debt_to_Haiti%29
content:
<p>
French President Hollande acknowledges France has a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/hollande-haiti-visit-france-former-colony">debt
to Haiti</a> because France demanded Haiti pay dearly for ending
slavery and colonization.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Arresting_people_for_being_homeless)
title: Arresting people for being homeless
uri: Arresting-people-for-being-homeless
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Arresting_people_for_being_homeless%29

content:
<p>
Arresting people for being homeless, or for doing things homeless
people must do, turns out to be 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/05/11/3657404/washington-homeless-criminalizaton/">very
expensive</a> as well as cruel and unjust.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Seizure_of_prescription_records)
title: Seizure of prescription records
uri: Seizure-of-prescription-records
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Seizure_of_prescription_records%29
content:
<p>
The US seizes prescription of records of hundreds of people at a time
to
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/the-big-drug-database-in-the-sky-one-firefighters-year-long-legal-nightmare/">fish
for something to charge them with</a>.


title: Blue Cross Blue Shield defrauding clients
uri: Blue-Cross-Blue-Shield-defrauding-clients
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Blue_Cross_Blue_Shield_defrauding_clients)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Blue_Cross_Blue_Shield_defrauding_clients%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/05/11/17317/court-case-shows-how-health-insurers-rip-you-and-your-employer">Blue
Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Added Hidden Fees to Hospital
Claims</a>, thus defrauding its clients.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(NSAs_massive_phone_surveillance)
title: NSA's massive phone surveillance
uri: NSA-s-massive-phone-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28NSAs_massive_phone_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU's court victory against NSA's massive phone surveillance was
an incremental step forward, but decided 
<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_the_aclus_big_victory_against_nsa_surveillance_falls_short_20150512">only
parts of the issue</a>.
<p>
Ending this kind of surveillance will depend on Congress to let that
part of the PAT RIOT Act expire.
<p>
Meanwhile, there are 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">many
other surveillance systems</a> and more are being created.


title: Conscientious objectors face persecution
uri: Conscientious-objectors-face-persecution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(Conscientious_objectors_face_persecution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28Conscientious_objectors_face_persecution%29

content:
<p>
Conscientious objectors in South Korea face 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/amnesty-international-south-korea-free-conscientious-objectors">persecution</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_May_2015_(In_Israel_while_black)
title: In Israel while black
uri: In-Israel-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_%28In_Israel_while_black%29
content:
<p>
Israelis of Ethiopian descent protested after thugs beat up one of
them (a soldier, as it happened), and 
<a href="http://972mag.com/ethiopian-israelis-protest-against-police-violence-is-met-with-police-violence/106280/">the
thugs attacked them violently</a>.
<p>
Apparently racism against blacks in Israel is comparable to that in
the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Long-range_iris_scanning)
title: Long-range iris scanning
uri: Long-range-iris-scanning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Long-range_iris_scanning%29
content:
<p>A professor says he has developed 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/05/long-range-iris-scanning-is-here/393065/">
long-range iris scanning</a>,
 which means
cameras could recognize everyone who walks down the street.
</p>
<p>Iris scanning can help governments imprison whistleblowers, which can
enable governments to 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">
get away with killing thousands or hundreds of thousands</a>,
 but he thinks he's going to "save a life". Well-meaning
but sad.</p>
<p>The professor makes a calculatedly ambiguous statement that "people"
are being tracked in other ways. Indeed, many people carry portable
phones and pay with credit cards, so they are tracked in other ways.
Many people, but not all!</p>
<p>Some of us protect our privacy by refusing to do those things. It is
still possible to do this. Many people do this, part of the time.</p>
<p>If his statement is criticized, he can claim that he didn't say
"absolutely all people". He only said "people", which means "some
people". Strictly speaking, that statement is true -- but it fails to
support his conclusion. This gap makes his argument false.</p>
<p>It is true that people are under strong pressure to do those foolish
things. Due to that pressure, we cannot dismiss the harm of those
practices by saying "They do those things voluntarily". We need to
take that pressure off people in general. But at the same time, it is
also false to argue that "Everyone does them, so further surveillance
does people no harm." That's equivalent to, "He has cancer, so if we
give him pneumonia on top of that, that will do him no harm."</p>
<p>Can we develop technology to protect ourselves from iris scanning?</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Resisting_internet_surveillance)
title: Resisting internet surveillance
uri: Resisting-internet-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Resisting_internet_surveillance%29
content:
<p>The internet data companies have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/17/sold-our-souls-and-more-to-internet-giants-privacy-surveillance-bruce-schneier">
become feudal lords</a>,
 and today's ordinary use of the internet requires 
submitting to one or another of them.
</p>
<p>The article errs in claiming that it is impossible to refuse to
submit. The title, in its use of "we", inspires me to respond,
"What you mean 'we', white man?" I refuse, and I am not the only one.</p>
<p>Of course, we must go beyond resisting individually: we must organize
to require redesign of internet systems so that they do not track us.
But this activism often springs from individual resistance, so
endorsing the idea that individuals cannot refuse to submit is
debilitating for resistance.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Banks_deserve_reputation)
title: Banks deserve reputation
uri: Banks-deserve-reputation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Banks_deserve_reputation%29
content:
<p>Economists find that banks 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/05/11/finance-deserves-its-corrupt-r.html">
deserve their reputation</a>
 for injustice.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_cutting_Medicare)
title: Urgent: Oppose cutting Medicare
uri: Urgent-Oppose-cutting-Medicare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_cutting_Medicare%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/tpp_medicare">tell
Congress</a> not to cut Medicare to compensate for a small part of the
harm that that the TPP would do.
<p>
That the "victory" Democrats won is as much harm as good shows how
twisted their ideas are.  The wrong of Treacherous Plutocratic Poison
would be immense, and retraining a few workers would not come near
compensating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(How_To_Cope_with_Losing_Our_World)
title: How To Cope with Losing Our World
uri: How-To-Cope-with-Losing-Our-World
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28How_To_Cope_with_Losing_Our_World%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/14/great-grief-how-cope-losing-our-world">The
Great Grief: How To Cope with Losing Our World</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(US_ignores_Saudi_repression)
title: US ignores Saudi repression
uri: US-ignores-Saudi-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28US_ignores_Saudi_repression%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/13/obamas-gulf-meeting-protocol-shake-hands-smile-ignore-repression-repeat">finances
Saudi Arabia</a> as it devastates Yemen and represses its own
citizens.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(The_not-just-for-border_patrol)
title: The not-just-for-border patrol
uri: The-not-just-for-border-patrol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28The_not-just-for-border_patrol%29
content:
<p>
A motorist in New York State objected when a US not-just-border patrol
immigration checkpoint wanted to 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/15/tased-motorist-to-cbp-agent-what-the-fuc">search
her car for drugs without cause</a>, and forced her to wait for a
drug-sniffing dog which failed to give them anything.
<p>
Laying assault charges against the victims of thugs' assaults is the
standard arrant dishonesty of US thugs.  In the case of the
not-just-border patrol, they can beat people up for no reason too.
<p>
The US still 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-sep-dec.html#15%20December%202009%20(How%20the%20law%20really%20works)">owes
Peter Watts an apology</a> for its vicious treatment of him, which we
should never forget.


title: Respect for the right to have other views
uri: Respect-for-the-right-to-have-other-views
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Respect_for_the_right_to_have_other_views)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Respect_for_the_right_to_have_other_views%29

content:
<p>
In the UK, some courageous young people raised as Muslims dare to
reject their religion, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/may/17/losing-their-religion-british-ex-muslims-non-believers-hidden-crisis-faith">braving
pressure from family as well as potential threats from fanatics</a>.
<p>
We scorn the Church of Scientology for systematically making members
ostracize ex-members; Islam deserves the same scorn for that.
<p>
For Muslims to have a place in a free society, they must learn to
fully respect the right to have other views, including the right to
leave their religion, just as every other belief system must.
<p>
This is what we should demand of Muslims, rather than a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/17/islam-reformation-extremism-muslim-martin-luther-europe">"reformation"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Super_Pacs)
title: Super Pacs
uri: Super-Pacs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Super_Pacs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/17/when-is-a-campaign-not-a-campaign-when-its-a-super-pac">When
Is a Campaign Not a Campaign?  When It's a Super Pac</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Burundis_president-turned-tyrant)
title: Burundi's president-turned-tyrant
uri: Burundi-s-president-turned-tyrant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Burundis_president-turned-tyrant%29
content:
<p>
Burundi's president-turned-tyrant is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/16/burundi-media-suffers-backlash-after-failed-coup-attempt">starting
to repress journalists</a>.
<p>
Naturally, he 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#24_May_2012_(Terrorism_(or_political_opposition))">calls
protesters "terrorists"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Effect_of_increased_CO2_on_shellfish)
title: Effect of increased CO2 on shellfish
uri: Effect-of-increased-CO2-on-shellfish
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Effect_of_increased_CO2_on_shellfish%29

content:
<p>
Shellfish will be hit hard by human-emitted CO<sub>2</sub> in the
ocean.  
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/16/global-warming-shellfish-warning">Those
not killed outright will be shriveled and small</a>, which could make
them vulnerable to predators as well as not useful for us to eat.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Global_heating,_allergies_and_asthma)
title: Global heating, allergies and asthma
uri: Global-heating-allergies-and-asthma
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Global_heating%2C_allergies_and_asthma%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/sneezing/contents.asp">How
Climate Change Could Increase Ragweed Allergies, Air Pollution, and
Asthma: 2015 Update</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Public_transportation)
title: Public transportation
uri: Public-transportation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Public_transportation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/stranded-how-americas-failing-public-transportation-increases-inequality/393419/">Stranded:
How America's Failing Public Transportation Increases Inequality</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Old_people_hide_impairments)
title: Old people hide impairments
uri: Old-people-hide-impairments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Old_people_hide_impairments%29
content:
<p>In housing for old people, residents 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/15/us-senior-housing-stigmas-idUSKBN0O025620150515">
hide developing impairments</a>
 from fear the staff will take away their autonomy.
</p>
<p>Those who can still take care of themselves
are terrified of being labeled as "memory impaired", and tend to shun
those
who are closer to death as if fearing magical contagion.</p>
<p>I
sympathize totally with the former. The latter is an unfortunate
mistake; associating with those who are dying won't speed your own
death, but irrational fear of contagion is a general human error
tendency.</p>
<p>Those who fear that the staff are watching them (and listening to
them) may well be right.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(How_far_the_NSA_has_gone)
title: How far the NSA has gone
uri: How-far-the-NSA-has-gone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28How_far_the_NSA_has_gone%29
content:
<p>We have seen details about many NSA massive surveillance programs, but
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/05/11/if-youre-not-outraged-about-the-nsa-surveillance-heres-why-you-should-be/">
adding them up to get an overall picture is difficult</a>.
 Most Americans still don't realize how far the NSA has gone.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Drought_hits_Washington)
title: Drought hits Washington
uri: Drought-hits-Washington
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Drought_hits_Washington%29
content:
<p>Washington State is being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/16/washington-state-drought-emergency">
hit by drought</a>
 along with California; agriculture is at risk.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Fine_won't_deter_polluters)
title: Fine won't deter polluters
uri: Fine-won-t-deter-polluters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Fine_won%27t_deter_polluters%29
content:
<p>Duke Energy's record fine, for pollution by coal ash, is still 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/15/guilty-charged-duke-energy-pay-record-fine-coal-ash-crimes">
not enough to deter further crimes</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Reclaim_adulthood)
title: Reclaim adulthood
uri: Reclaim-adulthood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Reclaim_adulthood%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/oliver-burkeman-column/2015/may/12/the-cult-of-youth-cheats-young-and-old-alike-lets-reclaim-adulthood">
The Cult of Youth Cheats Young And Old Alike.  Let's Reclaim
Adulthood.</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Snowden_vindicated)
title: Snowden vindicated
uri: Snowden-vindicated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Snowden_vindicated%29
content:
<p>Edward Snowden's most famous leak is now 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/the-vindication-of-edward-snowden/392741/">
vindicated by the appeals court</a>
 which ruled that his revelation was a violation of constitutional order.
</p>
<p>I didn't need an appeals court to recognize that Snowden is a hero.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Urgent:_oppose_return_of_PAT_RIOT_Act)
title: Urgent: oppose return of PAT RIOT Act
uri: Urgent-oppose-return-of-PAT-RIOT-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_return_of_PAT_RIOT_Act%29

content:
<p>US citizens: phone your senators to 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/call/internet_surveillance_reauth?t=1002">
oppose reauthorization</a>
 of parts of the PAT RIOT Act.
</p>


title: Urgent: tell Congress to respect law on discrimination
uri: Urgent-tell-Congress-to-respect-law-on-discrimination
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Urgent:_tell_Congress_to_respect_law_on_discrimination)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Congress_to_respect_law_on_discrimination%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to 
<a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=dcnondiscrimination&autologin=true">
respect Washington, DC's law against discrimination</a>
 based on abortion, contraception, and pregnancy.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Urgent:_protect_whales_in_California)
title: Urgent: protect whales in California
uri: Urgent-protect-whales-in-California
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_protect_whales_in_California%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Obama to 
<a href="http://sierra.force.com/actions/SierraRise?actionId=AR0000224">
reroute shipping in California</a>
 to protect whales.
</p>


title: Urgent: ban use of glyphosate on federal land
uri: Urgent-ban-use-of-glyphosate-on-federal-land
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Urgent:_ban_use_of_glyphosate_on_federal_land)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_ban_use_of_glyphosate_on_federal_land%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on the US to 
<a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/ban-monsanto-s-toxic-roundup-herbicide-on-federal-land">
ban use of glyphosate</a>
 on federal land.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Urgent:_block_Republican_abortion_ban)
title: Urgent: block Republican abortion ban
uri: Urgent-block-Republican-abortion-ban
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_block_Republican_abortion_ban%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on the Senate to 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Senate_AbortionBan?t=1003">
block the Republican ban</a>
 on some abortions.
</p>


title: Urgent: get Congress to pass the KOCH Act
uri: Urgent-get-Congress-to-pass-the-KOCH-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Urgent:_get_Congress_to_pass_the_KOCH_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_get_Congress_to_pass_the_KOCH_Act%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to 
<a href="http://act.endcitizensunited.org/KOCH-Act">
pass the KOCH Act</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Urgent:_support_Sanders_for_president)
title: Urgent: support Sanders for president
uri: Urgent-support-Sanders-for-president
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_Sanders_for_president%29

content:
<p>US citizens: state your 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1234?detail=email">
support for Bernie Sanders</a>
 for president.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Urgent:_support_the_KOCH_Act)
title: Urgent: support the KOCH Act
uri: Urgent-support-the-KOCH-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_the_KOCH_Act%29
content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.endcitizensunited.org/page/s/koch-act">
support the KOCH Act</a>.
</p>


title: Urgent: tell AP to stop pandering to denialists
uri: Urgent-tell-AP-to-stop-pandering-to-denialists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Urgent:_tell_AP_to_stop_pandering_to_denialists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_tell_AP_to_stop_pandering_to_denialists%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on the Associated Press to 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/ap_deniers_skeptics/">
stop calling global heating
denialists "skeptics"</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Urgent:_stop_TPP_in_the_House)
title: Urgent: stop TPP in the House
uri: Urgent-stop-TPP-in-the-House
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_stop_TPP_in_the_House%29
content:
<p>US citizens: help 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/senate-reverses-course-and-advances-tpp-fast-track-bill">
stop the TPP</a>
 in the House of Representatives.
</p>


title: Urgent: support Community Broadband Act
uri: Urgent-support-Community-Broadband-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Urgent:_support_Community_Broadband_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_Community_Broadband_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/community_broadband_act">support</a>
the Community Broadband Act.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(6000_people_stranded_at_sea)
title: 6000 people stranded at sea
uri: 6000-people-stranded-at-sea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%286000_people_stranded_at_sea%29
content:
<p>
6000 boat people have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/migrant-crisis-south-east-asia-rohingya-malaysia-thailand">denied
entry to Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia</a>.
<p>
This reminds me of what happened to a shipful of Jewish refugees on
the MS St. Louis trying to escape Germany in 1939.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Revitalizing_the_Labour_Party)
title: Revitalizing the Labour Party
uri: Revitalizing-the-Labour-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Revitalizing_the_Labour_Party%29
content:
<p>
Making the Labour Party good for something 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/13/leftwing-labour-latin-america-grassroots-revolution-spin">depends
on bottom-up community organizing</a>.  Acting like a right-wing party
produces a right-wing party.
<p>
Perhaps instead of revitalizing the Labour Party, Britons should go
Green.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Warrant_for_body_cavity_searches)
title: Warrant for body cavity searches
uri: Warrant-for-body-cavity-searches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Warrant_for_body_cavity_searches%29
content:
<p>
Texas is 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2015/05/11/why-is-that-cops-finger-in-your-butt">considering
a bill</a> to require thugs to get a warrant for body cavity searches,
so they can't arbitrarily do this to people at traffic stops.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Obama_regime_stirs_up_fear)
title: Obama regime stirs up fear
uri: Obama-regime-stirs-up-fear
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Obama_regime_stirs_up_fear%29
content:
<p>
The Obama regime is stirring up fear again, while 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/11/government-terrorism-fearmongering-just">trying
to get the PAT RIOT Act renewed</a>.
<p>
It is using generalized fear to make the US a 
<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_nation_of_snitches_20150510">nation
of snitches</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Facebook_news)
title: Facebook news
uri: Facebook-news
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Facebook_news%29
content:
<p>
Facebook threatens to take control of how suckers 
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0513/New-York-Times-on-Facebook-Will-it-change-how-we-read-news">read
news and other publications</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Fast_track)
title: "Fast track"
uri: Fast-track
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Fast_track%29
content:
<p>
The US Senate turned around and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/13/senate-obama-trade-tpp-ttip-fast-track-bill">allowed
"fast track" to pass</a>.
<p>
Apparently some senators wanted to claim they tried to defeat the TPP
while actually surrendering to it.


title: Paying big pharma to develop antibiotics
uri: Paying-big-pharma-to-develop-antibiotics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Paying_big_pharma_to_develop_antibiotics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Paying_big_pharma_to_develop_antibiotics%29

content:
<p>
A Tory-chosen economist 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/14/pay-big-pharma-solve-antibiotics-crisis-uk-government-review-jim-oneill">proposes
to pay pharma companies a bonus</a> for developing new antibiotics.
<p>
It is worth spending our money on developing new antibiotics, provided
we make sure they won't be ruined soon by feeding them to animals as a
default practice.  However, the method proposed is simultaneously
a system for subsidizing big businesses wastefully.
<p>
Big pharma companies don't do much lifesaving research anyway; that's
usually funded by governments.  So let's fund the whole process, and
make the new life-saving antibiotics available with no patents
to save lives of poor people too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Qatars_foreign_workers)
title: Qatar's foreign workers
uri: Qatar-s-foreign-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Qatars_foreign_workers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/for-qatars-foreign-workers-global-scrutiny-working-to-a-point">For
Qatar's Foreign Workers, Global Scrutiny Is Working — to a
Point</a>.
<p>
This example of a country without labor laws shows 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">why
we need them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Burundi_constitution)
title: Burundi constitution
uri: Burundi-constitution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Burundi_constitution%29
content:
<p>
Part of the army of Burundi 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/burundi-coup-outcome-balance-both-sides-claim-victory">held
a coup</a> to stop the president from ending constitutional
government.
<p>
I expect that neither side is acting in accord with the constitution,
but there is no way to follow the constitution.
<p>
Now the two sides are in 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/heavy-fighting-erupts-between-rival-burundi-troops-witnesses">heavy
combat</a>.


title: Indonesia checks military recruits' virginity
uri: Indonesia-checks-military-recruits-virginity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_May_2015_(Indonesia_checks_military_recruits_virginity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Indonesia_checks_military_recruits_virginity%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/indonesian-military-insists-on-virginity-tests-to-determine-naughty-female-recruits">requires
female recruits to the military to be virgins</a>, on the bizarre
grounds that non-virgins have "bad mentality".
<p>
Strangely, Indonesia makes no attempt to determine whether male
soldiers are virgins.  I wonder what sort of "bad mentality" they
think goes with having sex.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Charter_school_scam)
title: Charter school scam
uri: Charter-school-scam
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Charter_school_scam%29
content:
<p>The US has put 3 billion dollars into building up charter schools,
following a system 
<a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12830">
designed to make it easy for that money to be wasted</a>
 or siphoned off.
</p>
<p>I think this explains why there has been so much hype about charter
schools
and so much political support for them.</p>
<p>
<a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12831">
Part 2</a>
 of the article.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Thug_appears_to_have_lied)
title: Thug appears to have lied
uri: Thug-appears-to-have-lied
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Thug_appears_to_have_lied%29
content:
<p>The North Carolina thug that killed Nijza Lamar Hagans 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=23225">
appears to have told a false story</a>
 to present it as self defense.
</p>
<p>We cannot trust their claims that he had a gun (which in any case he
never used).</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Privacy-free_shops_in_Denmark)
title: Privacy-free shops in Denmark
uri: Privacy-free-shops-in-Denmark
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Privacy-free_shops_in_Denmark%29
content:
<p>A party in Denmark 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/no-wallet-no-worries-denmark-considering-cash-free-shops">
proposed permitting stores not to accept cash</a>.
</p>
<p>In the US, there is no regulation about this, and there are some
sellers that don't accept cash. What is really dangerous is to reward
them. Since I only pay stores with cash, I never buy from them.
Please join me in insisting on paying cash — and <em>don't</em>
back down when a store refuses to take cash.</p>
<p>The proposal in Denmark was rejected, but in my speech there I urged
people to insist on paying cash.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Puerto_Rico_water_rationing)
title: Puerto Rico water rationing
uri: Puerto-Rico-water-rationing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Puerto_Rico_water_rationing%29
content:
<p>The water rationing in San Juan, Puerto Rico is so strict now
that people have water supply 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/puerto-rico-water-rationing-san-juan-el-nino">
only on alternate days</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(ACLU_sues_Fairfax_thugs)
title: ACLU sues Fairfax thugs
uri: ACLU-sues-Fairfax-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28ACLU_sues_Fairfax_thugs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://privacysos.org/node/1730">
ACLU of Virginia Sues Fairfax Police over Illegal License Plate
Tracking.</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Rohingya_in_concentration_camps)
title: Rohingya in concentration camps
uri: Rohingya-in-concentration-camps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Rohingya_in_concentration_camps%29
content:
<p>Burma has put many of the Rohingya, Muslims whose home is in Burma,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/17/rohingya-burma-refugees-boat-migrants">
into concentration camps</a>.
</p>
<p>Going by Wikipedia, the Rohingya are mostly descendants of Bengalis
that moved to Arakhan during the time of British rule, before World
War II. It follows that nearly all the Rohingya living today were
born in Burma. Some have fled to Bangladesh but apparently Bangladesh
does not let them integrate into the population.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Drug_companies_gaming_the_system)
title: Drug companies gaming the system
uri: Drug-companies-gaming-the-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Drug_companies_gaming_the_system%29
content:
<p>Genentech is blocking the use of Avastin for treating macular
degeneration, by not applying to license it in Europe, apparently so
as to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/17/cheap-blindness-drug-should-be-made-widely-available-says-who">
pressure countries to use another drug</a>
 for which it charges far more.
</p>
<p>I think the basic mistake is the system of letting companies be in
charge of obtaining approval for new drugs.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Banks_need_breaking_up)
title: Banks need breaking up
uri: Banks-need-breaking-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Banks_need_breaking_up%29
content:
<p>The US is about to fine 5 big banks for felonies, with 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/17/if-too-big-fail-means-too-big-jail-it-should-mean-too-big-be">
fines too small to dissuade them</a>
 from repeating, then exempt them from laws
restricting the actions of felonious corporations.
</p>
<p>We need a way to break up these banks, either as punishments for the
giant crimes that they are regularly caught committing, or as a
precaution.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Macedonians_protest_government)
title: Macedonians protest government
uri: Macedonians-protest-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Macedonians_protest_government%29
content:
<p>1% of the population of the Republic of Macedonia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/17/20000-macedonians-demand-resignation-of-gruevski-government">
protesting in the capital</a>,
 calling for resignation of the government.
Massive state surveillance is one of their grievances.</p>
<p>They say their protest will be peaceful, but the thugs are preparing
for violence.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Railway_threatens_the_Amazon)
title: Railway threatens the Amazon
uri: Railway-threatens-the-Amazon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Railway_threatens_the_Amazon%29
content:
<p>China's planned cross-South-America railway 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/16/amazon-china-railway-plan">
threatens to wipe out indigenous peoples and indigenous species</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(17-year-old_suicide_bomber)
title: 17-year-old suicide bomber
uri: 17-year-old-suicide-bomber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%2817-year-old_suicide_bomber%29
content:
<p>Boko Haram sent a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/16/nigerian-child-suicide-bomber-kills-several-at-crowded-bus-station">
12-year-old suicide bomber</a>
 to kill people randomly at a bus station.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_May_2015_(Urgent:_Reject_fake_internet)
title: Urgent: Reject fake internet
uri: Urgent-Reject-fake-internet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_fake_internet%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://nofakeinternet.org/?src=157763">reject</a> Facebook's
fake internet.


title: Urgent: Medical coverage for contraception
uri: Urgent-Medical-coverage-for-contraception
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_May_2015_(Urgent:_Medical_coverage_for_contraception)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Medical_coverage_for_contraception%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="https://act1.myngp.com/Forms/6920625252384899072">support a
Massachusetts law</a> requiring medical insurance to cover
contraception.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_May_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_the_CFPB)
title: Urgent: Protect the CFPB
uri: Urgent-Protect-the-CFPB
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_the_CFPB%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.civilrights.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=4481">support
and protect</a> the CFPB.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_May_2015_(Urgent:_No_deforestation_for_pizza)
title: Urgent: No deforestation for pizza
uri: Urgent-No-deforestation-for-pizza
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_deforestation_for_pizza%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/pizza-hut-jardines-palm-oil/">tell
Pizza Hut</a> to keep its pledge and stop its franchised operator from
deforestation in Sumatra.


title: Urgent: Living wage for McDonald's workers
uri: 2015-05-20-Urgent-Living-wage-for-McDonald-s-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_May_2015_(Urgent:_Living_wage_for_McDonalds_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Living_wage_for_McDonalds_workers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/mcdonald-s-it-s-time-to-do-the-right-thing-and-pay-people-enough-to-live">Call
on McDonald's</a> to pay workers $15 an hour.


title: Independent journalists needed in Ukraine
uri: Independent-journalists-needed-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_May_2015_(Independent_journalists_needed_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_May_2015_%28Independent_journalists_needed_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
A militia in Ukraine 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/18/two-russian-soldiers-captured-near-rebel-controlled-luhansk-says-ukraine">claims
to have captured two Russian soldiers</a> in Ukraine.
<p>
To confirm it calls for letting independent journalists examine the
proof.  If this is confirmed, it will provide additional proof that
Putin provides the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_September_2014_(Thousands_of_Russian_soldiers_sent_to_places_near_Ukraine)">muscle
for the rebels</a>.  We already have 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_January_2015_(Business_trips_for_Russian_soldiers)">clear
proof of this</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Gun_violence)
title: Gun violence
uri: Gun-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Gun_violence%29
content:
<p>Trigger Warning: 10 Shocking 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/18/gun-violence-waco-texas-shot">
Truths</a>
 about Gun Violence.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Internet.org_is_not_Internet)
title: Internet.org is not Internet
uri: Internet-org-is-not-Internet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Internet.org_is_not_Internet%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/internetorg-not-neutral-not-secure-and-not-internet">
Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Fracking_state-wide)
title: Fracking state-wide
uri: Fracking-state-wide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Fracking_state-wide%29
content:
<p>Texas 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/19/fracking-texas-governor-stops-cities-and-towns-banning-hydraulic-gas-mining">
has imposed fracking state-wide</a>
, denying towns and communities control
over whether to permit it.
</p>
<p>The state government has shown that its first loyalty is to the fossil
fuel industry, above its citizens.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Houses_and_global_heating)
title: Houses and global heating
uri: Houses-and-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Houses_and_global_heating%29
content:
<p>The US population 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/19/climate-change-americans-crowding-into-future-heatwave-zones-study-says">
is shifting</a>
 to areas where global heating is going
to hit badly.
</p>
<p>It's not wise to buy a house in those places unless you plan to sell
it pretty soon.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Global_Heating)
title: Global Heating
uri: 2015-05-20-Global-Heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Global_Heating%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-05-evidence-global-wheat-production.html">
New Evidence</a>
 That Global [Heating] Will Hurt US Wheat Production.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Thugs'_equipment)
title: Thugs' equipment
uri: Thugs-equipment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Thugs%27_equipment%29
content:
<p>Obama 
<a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/the_rutherford_institute_commends_president_obama_for_curbing_military_recy">
has reduced</a>
 the range of military equipment available to US thugs.
</p>
<p>However, thugs have already learned to act like an occupying army, and
this
alone won't teach them different.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Trigger_warnings)
title: Trigger warnings
uri: Trigger-warnings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Trigger_warnings%29
content:
<p>"Trigger warnings" about sexual violence in fiction may 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/18/life-doesnt-come-with-trigger-warnings-why-should-books">
rule out</a>

a lot of literature.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Ramadi)
title: Ramadi
uri: Ramadi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Ramadi%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/18/iraqi-militias-anbar-ramadi-isis">
Iraq plans</a>
 to send Shi'ite militias to reconquer the Sunni city of Ramadi.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Protest_is_rebellion_in_Burundi)
title: Protest is rebellion in Burundi
uri: Protest-is-rebellion-in-Burundi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Protest_is_rebellion_in_Burundi%29
content:
<p>Burundi's president declares that protest is rebellion
so protesters 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/18/burundi-nkurunziza-cabinet-coup">
will be punished as rebels</a>
.
</p>
<p>The coup has nothing to do with the protests, except that both opposed
the same president.  To equate them is blatant contempt for logic,
such as we frequently see from right-wing politicians in the US and
the UK.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Trade_traties)
title: Trade treaties
uri: Trade-treaties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Trade_traties%29
content:
<p>Some "trade treaties" require certain minimum standard of rights for
workers, but the US government hardly enforces them; it says that even
repeated 
<a href="http://rinf.com/alt-news/featured/how-americas-news-media-killed-americas-democracy-tpp-ttip/">
assassination of union leaders doesn't count as
noncompliance</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Qatar's_foreign_workers)
title: Qatar's foreign workers
uri: 2015-05-20-Qatar-s-foreign-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Qatar%27s_foreign_workers%29
content:
<p>Qatar invited a BBC team to observe its progress in improving the
treatment of foreign workers, then 
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-32775563">
arrested them for two days</a>
 for not
sticking to the official tour.
</p>
<p>Perhaps some improvements have been made, but most of the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_%28Qatars_foreign_workers%29">
unjust system</a>

remains in force.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Business_on_water)
title: Business on water
uri: Business-on-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Business_on_water%29
content:
<p>Baltimore 
<a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-water-shutoffs-20150515-story.html#page=1">
is shutting off poor people's water</a>
, while businesses get away
with owing much larger water bills.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Russian_exile_killed)
title: Russian exile killed
uri: Russian-exile-killed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Russian_exile_killed%29
content:
<p>A Russian exile in the UK appears to have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/18/russian-whistleblower-traces-poison-stomach-plant-expert-says-alexander-perepilichnyy-inquest">
killed</a>
 with a rare poison.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Politics_is_about_distraction)
title: Politics is about distraction
uri: Politics-is-about-distraction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Politics_is_about_distraction%29
content:
<p>Politics in Britain 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/18/britain-political-elite-fooled-us-again">
is all about distraction</a>
.  For instance, shock and
alarm when a union openly makes demands on the party that is supposed to
represent working people, but it's normal for businesses to make demands
of the party they sneakily fund.
</p>
<p>In the US, it's basically the same except for details.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Intimidated_Media_in_Japan)
title: Intimidated Media in Japan
uri: Intimidated-Media-in-Japan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Intimidated_Media_in_Japan%29
content:
<p>Japanese Government Intimidating the Media, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/may/18/japanese-government-intimidating-the-media-says-the-economist">
Says The Economist</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Fossil_fuels_cost)
title: Fossil fuels cost
uri: Fossil-fuels-cost
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Fossil_fuels_cost%29
content:
<p>
Fossil fuels cost the world 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/fossil-fuel-companies-getting-10m-a-minute-in-subsidies-says-imf">5
trillion dollars a year beyond what users pay to burn them</a>.  Or
perhaps even more; about 1/4 of that figure is due to CO<sub>2</sub>
emissions, but the estimate of the cost per unit of CO<sub>2</sub> may
be too low.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Greece_should_drop_the_euro)
title: Greece should drop the euro
uri: Greece-should-drop-the-euro
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Greece_should_drop_the_euro%29
content:
<p>Greece 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/may/17/-real-question-greece-staying-euro-catastrophe-iceland">
should drop the euro</a>
 rather than surrender to euro-austerity;
in a few years it will be better off out.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Inadequate_rules_for_oil_tank_cars)
title: Inadequate rules for oil tank cars
uri: Inadequate-rules-for-oil-tank-cars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Inadequate_rules_for_oil_tank_cars%29

content:
<p>The Department of Transportation's new rules for oil tank cars 
<a href="http://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-may/7-hidden-dangers-buried-in-the-federal-tank-car-rule?utm_source=crm&utm_content=NewsPlainTextLink3&curation=ebrief">
are
weak and inadequate</a>
 to prevent fires.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Government's_claims_rejected)
title: Government's claims rejected
uri: Government-s-claims-rejected
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Government%27s_claims_rejected%29
content:
<p>The conviction of Megan Rice and other protesters against nuclear
weapons 
<a href="http://www.loweringthebar.net/2015/05/nun-security.html">
have been reversed</a>
 on appeal.
</p>
<p>The judges ruled that the protesters' symbolic acts, followed by
surrender,
could not be considered a serious attempt to harm US national
security.</p>
<p>They rejected the government's outrageous claims, such as that putting
up a banner, hammering on a concrete building, or embarrassing the
government for its incompetence, can count as damaging national
security.  However, the fact that officials made such claims is
damning in itself.  Those officials are trying to make the US a police
state.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Fact-Resistant_humans)
title: Fact-Resistant humans
uri: Fact-Resistant-humans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Fact-Resistant_humans%29
content:
<p>Scientists: 
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-earth-endangered-by-new-strain-of-fact-resistant-humans?intcid=mod-most-popular">
Earth Endangered</a>
 by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Torture_a_state_policy_in_Russia)
title: Torture a state policy in Russia
uri: Torture-a-state-policy-in-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Torture_a_state_policy_in_Russia%29
content:
<p>
One of Putin's judges has accused an anti-torture group of trying to
change <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/18/russia-putin-foreign-agent-ngo-contradictions">state
policy</a>.  This is an admission, in effect, that torture is state
policy in Russia.  But Putin does not want to admit that.
<p>
The US has at least admitted that torture was state policy, which is
the first step towards making sure it won't recur.  (The next step is
to punish the torturers.)
<p>
Of course, the idea that it is a crime to try to change state policy
is directly against democracy.  By making that an accusation, Putin
commits an even larger crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Urgent:_Break_up_big_banks)
title: Urgent: Break up big banks
uri: Urgent-Break-up-big-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Break_up_big_banks%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/break-up-banks">support</a>
Senator Sanders' proposal to break up big banks.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Sea_level_rise)
title: Sea level rise
uri: 2015-05-20-Sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Sea_level_rise%29
content:
<p>
Sea level rise has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/11/sea-level-rise-accelerated-over-the-past-two-decades-research-finds">accelerated
steadily</a> over the past two decades.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Bernie_Sanders)
title: Bernie Sanders
uri: Bernie-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Bernie_Sanders%29
content:
<p>
Bernie Sanders
<a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-welcomes-court-ruling-on-nsa">has
opposed the PAT RIOT act since it was first proposed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(UKs_planned_attack_on_human_rights)
title: UK's planned attack on human rights
uri: UK-s-planned-attack-on-human-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28UKs_planned_attack_on_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
The Open Rights Group
<a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2015/this-government-will-put-the-snoopers-charter-and-more-back-on-the-table">will
fight</a> to block the UK government's planned attack on human rights
on and off the internet.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(File-sharing_and_public_libraries)
title: File-sharing and public libraries
uri: File-sharing-and-public-libraries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28File-sharing_and_public_libraries%29
content:
<p>
Falkvinge:
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/you-cant-defend-public-libraries-and-oppose-file-sharing-150510/">You
Can't Defend Public Libraries and Oppose File-Sharing</a>.
<p>
Today's publishers, far from defending public libraries, are
corrupting them into retail outlets for DRM.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Employee_tracking)
title: Employee tracking
uri: Employee-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Employee_tracking%29
content:
<p>
Myrna Arias is suing her employer for firing her; the company had
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/worker-fired-for-disabling-gps-app-that-tracked-her-24-hours-a-day/">demanded
she let the company track her 24 hours a day through her phone</a>.
<p>
I don't think the phone company should be allowed to track people, and
neither should their employers.  Companies should not be allowed to
treat their employees badly merely because people are desperate for
jobs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Basis_to_prosecute_Assad)
title: Basis to prosecute Assad
uri: Basis-to-prosecute-Assad
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Basis_to_prosecute_Assad%29
content:
<p>
Official Syrian documents provide a basis to prosecute Bashar al-Assad
for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/12/smuggled-syrian-documents-indict-assad-investigators">imprisoning
and killing opposition</a> in 2011.
<p>
What makes the situation in Syria so difficult is that Assad and PISSI
both deserve prosecution for many grave crimes, yet hurting one helps
the other.  I don't see how a government that doesn't deserve
prosecution could emerge in Syria, let alone win.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Warrantless_laptop_seizures)
title: Warrantless laptop seizures
uri: Warrantless-laptop-seizures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Warrantless_laptop_seizures%29
content:
<p>
A judge
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/warrantless-airport-search-of-laptop-cannot-be-justified-judge-rules/">rejected
the idea that federal officials can seize a laptop without a
warrant</a> just because someone is leaving the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(The_Bakken_pipeline)
title: The Bakken pipeline
uri: The-Bakken-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28The_Bakken_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
An article about the Bakken pipeline which will
<a href="http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2014/07/10/oil-pipeline-across-iowa-proposed/12467915/">endanger
water supplies in Iowa</a>.
<p>
Since that article was published, they have made petitions to the Iowa
Utilities Board.  Here's a
<a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2015/01/20/iowa-pipeline-bakken-energy/22064649/">newer
article</a>.
<p>
Here is a statement of
<a href="http://www.nobakken.com/wp/the-pipeline-facts/">why the
pipeline should be blocked</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_May_2015_(Corporations_allowed_to_read_the_TPP)
title: Corporations allowed to read the TPP
uri: Corporations-allowed-to-read-the-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_May_2015_%28Corporations_allowed_to_read_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/12/cant-read-tpp-heres-huge-corporations-can/">You
Can't Read the TPP, But These Huge Corporations Can</a>.
<p>
After
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/16/why-president-obama-having-so-much-trouble-selling-tpp">so
many "trade" treaties have not fulfilled the politicians'
promises</a>, Americans are fools if they believe the TPP will benefit
America's trade.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Public_medical_system)
title: Public medical system
uri: Public-medical-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Public_medical_system%29
content:
<p>Crowdfunding of medical care 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/05/19/3660352/crowdfunding-medical-bills-ethics/">
is no substitute for a proper public
medical system</a>
.
</p>
<p>It even gives Christian fanatics power to block others from donating
for abortions.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Imprisoned_refugees)
title: Imprisoned refugees
uri: Imprisoned-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Imprisoned_refugees%29
content:
<p>Australia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/20/australias-duty-of-care-to-detainees-on-nauru-cant-be-outsourced">
remains directly responsible</a>
 for the wellbeing of imprisoned
refugees, even if it sends them to another country such as Nauru and
hires a company to guard them.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Damage_to_ecosystems)
title: Damage to ecosystems
uri: Damage-to-ecosystems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Damage_to_ecosystems%29
content:
<p>Damage to ecosystems 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/20/women-and-biodiversity-feed-world-not-corporations-and-gmos">
is tied</a>
 to global heating and GMOs.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Turkish_singer_shot)
title: Turkish singer shot
uri: Turkish-singer-shot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Turkish_singer_shot%29
content:
<p>A Turkish singer was shot by men who 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/05/19/3660767/woman-shot-head-singing-tv/">
didn't think singing on TV
was an acceptable activity for a woman</a>
.
</p>


title: Israel will ban Palestinians from buses
uri: Israel-will-ban-Palestinians-from-buses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Israel_will_ban_Palestinians_from_buses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Israel_will_ban_Palestinians_from_buses%29

content:
<p>Israel 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/20/israeli-scheme-to-ban-palestinians-from-buses-tantamount-to-apartheid">
will ban</a>
 Palestinians from Israeli buses to the West Bank;
they will be for Israeli citizens only.
</p>
<p>The Palestinians will have to go home through checkpoints, which will
take hours of extra time.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Seed_varieties)
title: Seed varieties
uri: Seed-varieties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Seed_varieties%29
content:
<p>Seeds in a seed bank are better than nothing, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/20/the-doomsday-vault-seeds-save-post-apocalyptic-world">
as long as we do not suppose
they substitute for diversity in agriculture</a>
.
</p>
<p>What is reducing diversity?  Partly globalization.  Partly it is
larger farms.  Partly it is seed companies.  And partly it is the laws
that seed companies impose: plant variety monopolies, patented genes
in plants, even laws against distributing seeds of unapproved
varieties.</p>
<p>In the European Union, for instance, it is forbidden to sell seed
varieties not specifically approved.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Hong_Kong_indipendent_newspaper)
title: Hong Kong independent newspaper
uri: Hong-Kong-indipendent-newspaper
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Hong_Kong_indipendent_newspaper%29
content:
<p>Hong Kong to Get 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/20/hong-kong-to-get-new-crowdfunded-independent-newspaper">
New Crowdfunded Independent Newspaper</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(USA_Freedom_Act)
title: "USA Freedom Act"
uri: USA-Freedom-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28USA_Freedom_Act%29
content:
<p>It looks like the Senate 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=23957">
will pass the tiny reforms</a>
 of the "USA Freedom Act".
But we should keep fighting to oppose that.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Death_penalty)
title: Death penalty
uri: 2015-05-21-Death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Death_penalty%29
content:
<p>The death penalty, seen by a "mitigation specialist" 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/19/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-and-end-innocence">
who finds reasons</a>

for the jury to see a convict as a human rather than as a monster.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Welfare_fraud)
title: Welfare fraud
uri: Welfare-fraud
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Welfare_fraud%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/18/1385738/-We-re-Number-1-Arizona-reaches-another-milestone-of-hate?detail=email">
Arizona has limited welfare benefits</a>
 for families
to a maximum of one year.
</p>
<p>This is a consequence of Clinton's welfare "reform", which
progressives
called "welfare fraud".</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(How_Dubya_created_PISSI)
title: How Dubya created PISSI
uri: How-Dubya-created-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28How_Dubya_created_PISSI%29
content:
<p>How Dubya 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/17/1384913/-Sorry-Jeb-Your-brother-did-create-ISIS?detail=email">
created</a>
 PISSI.
</p>
<p>This should be a lesson about military interventions: they tend to
create secondary problems, and sometimes those are bigger than the one
the intervention was supposed to fix.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Loss_of_power_or_loss_of_Liberty?)
title: Loss of power or loss of Liberty?
uri: Loss-of-power-or-loss-of-Liberty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Loss_of_power_or_loss_of_Liberty%3F%29

content:
<p>How the Right 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/16/1385275/-THE-DUMBENING-How-the-Right-Deliberately-Confuses-the-Loss-of-Power-with-the-Loss-of-Liberty?detail=email">
Deliberately Confuses</a>
 the Loss of Power with the Loss of Liberty.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(FBI_acts_like_Keystone_Cops)
title: FBI acts like Keystone Cops
uri: FBI-acts-like-Keystone-Cops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28FBI_acts_like_Keystone_Cops%29
content:
<p>While the Pentagon says that global heating threatens US security, the
FBI calls protesters against the Keystone XL pipeline 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/19/fbi-invokes-national-security-justify-surveillance-tar-sands-protestors/">
as threats</a>
;
strangely, it considers that proposed pipeline "vital to security"
rather than as the threat to security that it really is.
</p>
<p>The FBI should stop acting like Keystone Cops.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Establishment_journalists)
title: Establishment journalists
uri: Establishment-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Establishment_journalists%29
content:
<p>Establishment Journalists 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/18/establishment-journalists-pride-themselves-staying-official-rails">
Pride Themselves</a>
 on Staying on the Official Rails.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Hainan_gibbon)
title: Hainan gibbon
uri: Hainan-gibbon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Hainan_gibbon%29
content:
<p>Intense measures 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/19/plan-to-build-treetop-bridges-to-save-critically-endangered-hainan-gibbons">
are being considered</a>
 to protect the Hainan gibbon, which
is nearly extinct.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Discrimination_of_black_americans)
title: Discrimination of black Americans
uri: Discrimination-of-black-americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Discrimination_of_black_americans%29
content:
<p>Black Americans 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/18/civil-war-rages-black-america">
still suffer</a>
 the effects of slavery and the legal
discrimination that followed it.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(WTO)
title: WTO
uri: WTO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28WTO%29
content:
<p>The WTO ruled that the US law 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/18/wto-ruling-meat-labels-exemplifies-corporate-profits-trumping-democracy">
requiring</a>
 labeling of meat by country of
origin is a forbidden "trade obstacle".
</p>
<p>The WTO is an undemocratic organization that exists to impose the
demands of businesses on the countries involved.</p>
<p>The Canadian government, a stooge of business,
 <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/18/obamas-trade-war-against-warren-wounds-his-party-and-his-legacy">
claims</a>
 that the "Volcker rule",
the US's weak replacement for the Glass-Steagall law that prohibited
banks
from making risky investments, violates NAFTA.
</p>
<p>We must abolish NAFTA and the WTO, and we certainly must not sign
other treaties that would extend the dominion of foreign companies
over the US and other countries.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Endangered_Species_Act)
title: Endangered Species Act
uri: Endangered-Species-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Endangered_Species_Act%29
content:
<p>The Obama regime 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/05/18/new-obama-administration-policy-will-make-it-harder-species-get-endangered">
proposes to reinterpret</a>
 the Endangered Species Act so
that citizens' petitions for protection of species become almost
prohibitively difficult.
</p>
<p>The process is already too slow: 40 species have gone extinct while
protection for them was being considered.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Radio_Shack_sells_people_data)
title: Radio Shack sells people data
uri: Radio-Shack-sells-people-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Radio_Shack_sells_people_data%29
content:
<p>Radio Shack collected lots of information about its customers (but not
me — I refused).  The store said it would keep this information
private, but now, in bankruptcy, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/18/bankrupt-radioshack-selling-customer-data-names-addresses">
it wants to sell some of that data</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Rohingya_crisis)
title: Rohingya crisis
uri: Rohingya-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Rohingya_crisis%29
content:
<p>The Rohingya crisis 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/19/rohingya-andaman-sea-refugees-migration">
is a foretaste of what will happen around the world</a>

as global heating ramps up the difficulty of the game of life.
Instead of
hundreds of thousands of people fleeing, we may have
hundreds of millions.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Palmyra)
title: Palmyra
uri: Palmyra
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Palmyra%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/may/19/palmyra-syria-islamic-state-architecture-protected">
Palmyra is part</a>
 of the memories of humanity; a part of human heritage that
we must defend for the sake of future generations of humanity.
</p>


title: Whistleblower and journalist prosecuted
uri: Whistleblower-and-journalist-prosecuted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Whistleblower_and_journalist_prosecuted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Whistleblower_and_journalist_prosecuted%29

content:
<p>A whistleblower and a journalist 
<a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/what-is-luxleaks-and-why-are-journalists-being-charged.html">
are being prosecuted for leaking
information</a>
 about how Luxembourg helps companies evade taxes in other
countries.
</p>
<p>These maneuvers are legal, but that doesn't make them acceptable;
rather, it inculpates various states that have failed to prohibit
them.  We must reject the idea that whistleblowing, to be legitimate,
must limit itself to revealing crimes.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Permanent_exile_for_dissidents)
title: Permanent exile for dissidents
uri: Permanent-exile-for-dissidents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Permanent_exile_for_dissidents%29
content:
<p>Burundi dissidents 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/may/19/burundi-refugees-rwanda-no-turning-back-fears-grow-reprisals">
are fleeing into permanent exile</a>
 after death
threats from organized supporters of the ruling party.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Pressure_on_University)
title: Pressure on University
uri: Pressure-on-University
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Pressure_on_University%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-15/oil-tycoon-harold-hamm-wanted-scientists-dismissed-dean-s-e-mail-says">
An oil magnate tried to pressure the University of Oklahoma</a>
 to fire
scientists that were demonstrating a relationship between fracking and
earthquakes.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Japanese_sued_their_government)
title: Japanese sued their government
uri: Japanese-sued-their-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Japanese_sued_their_government%29
content:
<p>1000 Japanese 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150515/07555231015/over-1000-japanese-citizens-band-together-to-sue-their-government-over-participation-tpp.shtml">
have sued their government</a>
 for planning to impose
Treacherous Plutocratic Poison on their country.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Healh_care)
title: Health care
uri: Healh-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Healh_care%29
content:
<p>Republicans in Florida demand federal funds for health care, but 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/15/1385052/-Rick-Scott-would-rather-shut-down-government-than-take-Obamacare-Medicaid-nbsp-funding?detail=email">
refuse</a>

to take them under the title of Medicaid since that's Obama's law.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Sexual_violence_for_repression)
title: Sexual violence for repression
uri: Sexual-violence-for-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Sexual_violence_for_repression%29
content:
<p>The Egyptian government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/18/sexual-violence-egypt-women-report-shereen-el-feki">
has made</a>
 sexual violence a part of its
strategy of repression.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Mass_murder_in_Zimbabwe)
title: Mass murder in Zimbabwe
uri: Mass-murder-in-Zimbabwe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Mass_murder_in_Zimbabwe%29
content:
<p>Documents 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/19/mugabe-zimbabwe-gukurahundi-massacre-matabeleland">
pin</a>
 mass murder in Zimbabwe on Mugabe.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Fossil_Fuel_Divestment_Movement)
title: Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
uri: Fossil-Fuel-Divestment-Movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Fossil_Fuel_Divestment_Movement%29
content:
<p>The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/19/the-rise-and-rise-of-the-fossil-fuel-divestment-movement">
Rise And Rise</a>
 of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Permanent_working_contracts)
title: Permanent working contracts
uri: Permanent-working-contracts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Permanent_working_contracts%29
content:
<p>Only 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/19/most-of-the-worlds-workers-have-insecure-jobs-ilo-report-reveals">
1/4 of the world's workers</a>
 now have permanent contracts.
</p>
<p>This measures the extent to which steady jobs and a stable life
have been replaced by precarity.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Deforestation)
title: Deforestation
uri: 2015-05-21-Deforestation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Deforestation%29
content:
<p>Various ways of 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/17/3659835/ecuador-reforestation-record/">
countering deforestation</a>
.
</p>
<p>In Canada and the US, massive deforestation is occurring because trees
have been killed by drought or insects, both brought by global
heating.  For instance, many trees in California have been killed by
the current drought, and the drought will also promote fires that
will burn them up and release their carbon as CO2.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(South_African_thugs)
title: South African thugs
uri: South-African-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28South_African_thugs%29
content:
<p>The South African government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/19/marikana-massacre-untold-story-strike-leader-died-workers-rights">
stands to be embarrassed</a>
 by publication of
an investigation into the massacre of striking miners by thugs.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(GMO)
title: GMO
uri: GMO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28GMO%29
content:
<p>Scientists 
<a href="http://nytimes.com/2015/05/19/health/a-way-to-brew-morphine-raises-concerns-over-regulation.html">
are on the verge of making GMO yeast</a>
 that produces morphine.
</p>
<p>Some day it will be possible to get bacteria that will live in your
gut and steadily produce whatever drug you like.  Using them might not
be wise.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Shell_and_Global_Heating)
title: Shell and Global Heating
uri: Shell-and-Global-Heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Shell_and_Global_Heating%29
content:
<p>Shell 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/17/shell-accused-of-strategy-risking-catastrophic-climate-change">
plans its business</a>
 on the assumption that global heating will
not be curbed, and will proceed to global disaster.
</p>
<p>Because these giant companies have so much influence, whatever they
assume about the future is as much a decision as a forecast.  If you
suppose that global efforts to avert disaster will fail, that is
pessimism; when Shell supposes this, that is sabotage.</p>
<p>
This shows that the fossil fuel companies 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/17/1385496/-Shell-Oil-Caught-Planning-for-Deadly-4-to-6-Degree-Rise-in-Global-Temperature?detail=email">recognize</a>
what CO<sub>2</sub> will do to the Earth, even as their pet
politicians deny it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Renewable_energy)
title: Renewable energy
uri: 2015-05-21-Renewable-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Renewable_energy%29
content:
<p>Koch henchmen 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/koch-brothers-claim-another-state-war-renewables">
are repealing</a>
 US state laws that support renewable energy.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Rand_Paul)
title: Rand Paul
uri: 2015-05-21-Rand-Paul
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Rand_Paul%29
content:
<p>Rand Paul 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/207089/rand-paul-fighting-your-privacy-unless-youre-woman?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=email_nation&utm_campaign=Email%20Nation%20%28NEW%29%20-%20Most%20Recent%20Content%20Feed%20-%20filter%20fix%2020150512&newsletter=email_nation">
says</a>
 the government should not meddle in your life — unless
you're a woman and you don't want to have a baby.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Chinese_censorship_in_Hong_Kong)
title: Chinese censorship in Hong Kong
uri: Chinese-censorship-in-Hong-Kong
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Chinese_censorship_in_Hong_Kong%29
content:
<p>Hong Kong ostensibly has no censorship, but China 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/19/censorship-in-hong-kong-how-china-controls-sale-of-sensitive-books">
has imposed de facto</a>

censorship of books through influence on a few big
bookstore
companies.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_May_2015_(Cartoonists_face_repression)
title: Cartoonists face repression
uri: Cartoonists-face-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28Cartoonists_face_repression%29
content:
<p>Cartoonists 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/may/19/cartoonists-across-the-world-face-threats-to-their-liberty-and-their-lives">
face repression</a>
 around the world.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Urgent:_Better_treatment_of_workers)
title: Urgent: Better treatment of workers
uri: Urgent-Better-treatment-of-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Better_treatment_of_workers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Warren_Sanders_Letter">call
on Obama</a> to give a preference in federal contracts to companies
that treat workers better.
<p>
Please don't use "who" in reference to companies;
companies are not people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Urgent:_Obama-Warren_TPP_debate)
title: Urgent: Obama-Warren TPP debate
uri: Urgent-Obama-Warren-TPP-debate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Obama-Warren_TPP_debate%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/obama-warren-should-debate">call
on Obama</a> to hold a debate with Senator Warren about the TPP.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Urgent:_Climate_negotiations)
title: Urgent: Climate negotiations
uri: 2015-05-23-Urgent-Climate-negotiations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Climate_negotiations%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.kickbigpollutersout.com/?code=CAI">sign this
petition</a> to kick the big polluters out of the climate
negotiations.


title: Urgent: Public debate on military spending
uri: Urgent-Public-debate-on-military-spending
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Urgent:_Public_debate_on_military_spending)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Public_debate_on_military_spending%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11265">Call
on the Senate</a> to debate military spending publicly.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Urgent:_Bills_for_abortion_rights)
title: Urgent: Bills for abortion rights
uri: Urgent-Bills-for-abortion-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Bills_for_abortion_rights%29

content:
<p>
Massachusetts citizens: 
<a href="https://act1.myngp.com/Forms/8073546756991746048">urge your
state representative</a> to support bills for abortion rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Foods_that_depend_on_bees)
title: Foods that depend on bees
uri: Foods-that-depend-on-bees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Foods_that_depend_on_bees%29
content:
<p>
If all bees die, that won't wipe out humanity, but you will really
hate 
<a href="http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/honeybees-agriculture-humans">the
loss of so many foods</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Heating_tends_to_kill_tallest_trees)
title: Heating tends to kill tallest trees
uri: Heating-tends-to-kill-tallest-trees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Heating_tends_to_kill_tallest_trees%29

content:
<p>
Heating tends to kill the 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/20/3660666/climate-change-tree-death-study/">oldest,
tallest trees</a>.
<p>
Their replacement with shorter trees will tend to feed more
CO<sub>2</sub> into the air, in a positive feedback.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Dolphin_deaths_after_the_Big_Spill)
title: Dolphin deaths after the Big Spill
uri: Dolphin-deaths-after-the-Big-Spill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Dolphin_deaths_after_the_Big_Spill%29

content:
<p>
Many dolphins died in the Gulf of Mexico after the Big Spill.
Autopsies now 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/20/3661171/study-links-dolphin-deaths-to-deepwater-horizon/">tie
their deaths to the oil</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Republicans_on_government_regulation)
title: Republicans on government regulation
uri: Republicans-on-government-regulation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Republicans_on_government_regulation%29

content:
<p>
Republicans say that government regulation is always bad…except
as regards 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2015/05/19/how-the-pro-life-movement-is-endangering">abortion</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(UKs_nuclear_missile_submarines)
title: UK's nuclear missile submarines
uri: UK-s-nuclear-missile-submarines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28UKs_nuclear_missile_submarines%29
content:
<p>
William McNeilly published a list of dangerous and insecure practices
in the UK's 
<a href="https://wikileaks.org/trident-safety/">nuclear missile
submarines</a>.  He says that they threaten accidental nuclear war, as
well as other lesser 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/18/trident-submarine-whistleblower-william-mcneilly-to-turn-himself-in">accidents</a>.
<p>
It seems he will not be prosecuted, as an effort to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/19/mod-accused-avoiding-public-scrutiny-trident-whistleblower-claims">avoid
court investigation</a> of the problems he reported.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Indias_tiger_census)
title: India's tiger census
uri: India-s-tiger-census
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Indias_tiger_census%29
content:
<p>
India's tiger census uses a method that is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/20/why-indias-tiger-census-is-misleading">fundamentally
unreliable</a>, so we have no idea what's really happening to the
population.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Catering_to_Saudi_Arabia)
title: Catering to Saudi Arabia
uri: Catering-to-Saudi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Catering_to_Saudi_Arabia%29
content:
<p>
Republicans criticize Obama for not 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/20/saudi-arabia-republicans-obama/">catering</a>
enough to Saudi Arabia.
<p>
Saudi Arabia is the root of most of what is bad in Islam today; its
money has promoted fundamentalism around the Muslim world.  It is no
accident that most of the September 11 hijackers came from Saudi
Arabia.
<p>
Ironically, these same Republicans claim there is a war of cultures
between the west and Islam.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Wars_increasingly_deadly)
title: Wars increasingly deadly
uri: Wars-increasingly-deadly
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Wars_increasingly_deadly%29
content:
<p>
Wars nowadays are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/20/armed-conflict-deaths-increase-syria-iraq-afghanistan-yemen">increasingly
deadly</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Torture_standard_practice_in_Morocco)
title: Torture standard practice in Morocco
uri: Torture-standard-practice-in-Morocco
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Torture_standard_practice_in_Morocco%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty International says, torture of suspects and dissidents is
<a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2015/05/morocco-endemic-torture/">standard
practice in Morocco</a>.
<p>
Morocco 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/morocco-journalist-says-he-will-be-morocco-18-05-2015,47903.html">banned
a man from journalism</a> for ten years; now that the ban is over, it
is stopping him from starting a newspaper by denying him a national ID
card.
<p>
National ID cards are generally 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jan-apr.html#14%20February%202007%20(Real%20ID%20plan)">a
form of oppression</a>.


title: South Korea mandates spyware on phones
uri: South-Korea-mandates-spyware-on-phones
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(South_Korea_mandates_spyware_on_phones)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28South_Korea_mandates_spyware_on_phones%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150516/14302631031/south-koreas-new-law-mandates-installation-government-approved-spyware-teens-smartphones.shtml">South
Korea's New Law Mandates Installation Of Government-Approved Spyware
On Teens' Smartphones</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(PAT_RIOT_Act)
title: PAT RIOT Act
uri: PAT-RIOT-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28PAT_RIOT_Act%29
content:
<p>The US Senate 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/clock-still-running-neither-nsa-reform-nor-reauthorization-advances-senate">
blocked extension</a>
 of the "collect all business records"
section 215 of the PAT RIOT Act.
However, the leadership is pro-surveillance and will try again to
push it through.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Jail_banksters)
title: Jail banksters
uri: Jail-banksters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Jail_banksters%29
content:
<p>The big US banks 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/22/big-banks-are-corrupt-and-getting-worse">
pled guilty</a>
 to tens of thousands of instances of perjury,
but the penalty is a fine they can afford.
</p>
<p>We need to jail these banksters.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Voice_recorders_in_New_York)
title: Voice recorders in New York
uri: Voice-recorders-in-New-York
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Voice_recorders_in_New_York%29
content:
<p>An unofficial group 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/fake-nsa-program-we-are-always-listening">
puts voice recorders</a>
 in cafes in New York,
listening to people in the name of the NSA.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Wire_snares)
title: Wire snares
uri: Wire-snares
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Wire_snares%29
content:
<p>Wire snares 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2015/may/22/chimps-losing-lives-and-limbs-to-the-landmines-of-the-forest">
set by human hunters</a>
 maim animals from chimps to elephants. 
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Killing_as_self-defense)
title: Killing as self-defense
uri: Killing-as-self-defense
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Killing_as_self-defense%29
content:
<p>Courts are slow to
 <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/22/stacey-hyde-young-abused-women-victim-murderer">
recognize</a>
 that women that kill the men that abuse
and enslave them are acting in self-defense.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Forfeiture)
title: Forfeiture
uri: 2015-05-24-Forfeiture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Forfeiture%29
content:
<p>Maryland's governer 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/22/maryland-gov-larry-hogan-vetoes-major-criminal-justice-reform-bills/">
vetoed a bill to limit forfeiture</a>
 (seizure of
people's property without convicting them of a crime).
</p>
<p>The governor said he was against "government over-reach".</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Tamar_Rice)
title: Tamar Rice
uri: Tamar-Rice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Tamar_Rice%29
content:
<p>A week after killing Tamar Rice, the 
<a href="http://www.loweringthebar.net/2015/05/abated-by-death.html">
thugs drew up a charge sheet
of bogus accusations</a>
 they would pretend to make against him.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Cuts_in_welfare)
title: Cuts in welfare
uri: Cuts-in-welfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Cuts_in_welfare%29
content:
<p>In the UK, more than 2 million children's families have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/22/more-than-2m-children-in-families-struggling-to-pay-for-essentials-report">
cut back on
food, clothing or heating</a>
 due to government cuts in welfare.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Internet_censorship)
title: Internet censorship
uri: Internet-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Internet_censorship%29
content:
<p>South Africa 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/africas-worst-new-internet-censorship-law-could-be-coming-south-africa">
is proposing</a>
 a law for arbitrary internet censorship orders.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Zero_tolerance_attitude)
title: "Zero tolerance" attitude
uri: Zero-tolerance-attitude
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Zero_tolerance_attitude%29
content:
<p>Obama's task force on education recommends starting 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/21/zero-tolerance-our-struggling-schools-makes-zero-sense">
to step away from
the "zero tolerance"</a>
 attitude.
</p>
<p>The article presents an instructive example of how zero tolerance
turns into oppression.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Decrease_in_crime)
title: Decrease in crime
uri: Decrease-in-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Decrease_in_crime%29
content:
<p>The Wall Street Journal 
<a href="http://fair.org/home/less-crimefighting-less-crime-wsj-avoids-the-evidence/">
continues</a>
 to promote the thoroughly discredited
claim that punishing lots of minor infractions was responsible for
the decrease in crime in NYC since the 90s.
</p>
<p>The decrease occurred just as much in cities which didn't adopt that
policy.  Recently, as the thugs reduced their arbitrary searches of
people on the street, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_June_2014_%28Rate_of_violence_in_US_schools_has_been_declining%29">
crime continued</a>
 to go down.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Taliban_and_Iran)
title: Taliban and Iran
uri: Taliban-and-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Taliban_and_Iran%29
content:
<p>The Taliban and Iran 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2015/may/22/taliban-delegation-official-visit-tehran-iran-isis">
are trying to reconcile</a>
 their differences.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Censorship_of_TV_broadcasts)
title: Censorship of TV broadcasts
uri: Censorship-of-TV-broadcasts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Censorship_of_TV_broadcasts%29
content:
<p>The UK government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/22/david-cameron-backs-plans-ofcom-block-extremist-messages-tv-censorship">
plans to impose</a>
 prior censorship of TV broadcasts.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Palmyra)
title: Palmyra
uri: 2015-05-24-Palmyra
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Palmyra%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/isis-seizes-syrian-military-base-palmyra-islamic-state-border-iraq-homs">
PISSI is using Palmyra</a>
 to consolidate its grip on the surrounding region.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Guantanamo)
title: Guantanamo
uri: Guantanamo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>A long-time Guantanamo prisoner, recently freed, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/22/guantanamo-detainee-asim-thabit-abdullah-al-khalaqi-dies-kazakhstan">
has died</a>
 of kidney
failure, apparently caused by his imprisonment.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Meditation)
title: Meditation
uri: Meditation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Meditation%29
content:
<p>Meditation 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/22/seven-myths-about-meditation">
has different effects</a>
 on different people. The effects
are not always good, and when good, they may not be very large.
We don't know enough to forecast the what the effects will be for
any particular person.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Fear-mongers)
title: Fear-mongers
uri: Fear-mongers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Fear-mongers%29
content:
<p>US fear-mongers and Hezbollah fear-mongers 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/22/chris-christie-rhetorical-strategy-fear/">
use</a>
 the same arguments.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Ban_hiding_faces)
title: Ban hiding faces
uri: Ban-hiding-faces
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Ban_hiding_faces%29
content:
<p>The Netherlands 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/netherlands-islamic-veil-niqab-ban-proposal-dutch-cabinet">
plans to ban face veils</a>
 on public transport.
</p>
<p>The details have not been written, but I fear they will ban hiding
your
face from face recognition software.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Marijuana's_Secrets)
title: Marijuana's Secrets
uri: Marijuana-s-Secrets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Marijuana%27s_Secrets%29
content:
<p>Science Seeks to 
<a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/marijuana/sides-text">
Unlock</a>
 Marijuana's Secrets.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(RFID-sending_trash_cans)
title: RFID-sending trash cans
uri: RFID-sending-trash-cans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28RFID-sending_trash_cans%29
content:
<p>RFID-sending trash cans 
<a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/05/the-evil-business-plan-of-evil.html">
could offer cities a new way to raise funds</a> 
from inhabitants, and business will just love to sell them the
technology.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Thugs'_equipment)
title: Thugs' equipment
uri: 2015-05-24-Thugs-equipment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Thugs%27_equipment%29
content:
<p>Obama's new limits on military equipment for thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/22/obama-ban-police-military-gear-falls-short">
turn out</a>
 to mean
nearly no change.
Out of the 7 items he removed from the list, 6 have not been distributed
recently anyway.</p>
<p>The military equipment that thugs use to regularly endanger citizens
is still authorized.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Navy_war_games)
title: Navy war games
uri: Navy-war-games
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Navy_war_games%29
content:
<p>Navy war games in the Arctic 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30910-dahr-jamail-the-navy-s-great-alaskan-war">
will harm</a>
 the sea with toxins and loud sonar
that damages whales' hearing.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Divest_from_fossil_fuels)
title: Divest from fossil fuels
uri: Divest-from-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Divest_from_fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>The University of Hawai'i 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/keep-it-in-the-ground-blog/2015/may/22/university-of-hawaii-system-votes-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels">
will divest</a>
 from fossil fuels.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(TTIP_and_pesticides)
title: TTIP and pesticides
uri: TTIP-and-pesticides
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28TTIP_and_pesticides%29
content:
<p>The EU was going to regulate or ban pesticides that contain endocrine
disruptors, which cause illnesses in humans, but the US used the
proposed TTIP deregulation treaty to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/22/eu-dropped-pesticide-laws-due-to-us-pressure-over-ttip-documents-reveal">
kill the project</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Microsoft's_R&D)
title: Microsoft's R&D
uri: Microsoft-s-R-D
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Microsoft%27s_R%26D%29
content:
<p>Microsoft 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/22/microsoft-faces-claims-it-threatened-mps-with-job-cuts-in-constituencies">
used its R&D facilities in England as weapons</a>
 to pressure
MPs against adopting ODF format.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Oil_pipeline_leak)
title: Oil pipeline leak
uri: Oil-pipeline-leak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Oil_pipeline_leak%29
content:
<p>The oil pipeline leak in California 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/22/3661684/the-santa-barbara-oil-spill-is-awful/">
is much bigger</a>
 that was thought.
Many kinds of sea animals are being killed.</p>
<p>The operator, Plains All American, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/21/notorious-repeat-offender-behind-oil-spill-nightmare-california">
has a history of leaks and safety
violations</a>.
</p>
<p>The spreading oil 
<a href="http://www.audubonaction.org/site/R?i=l8-A5VOxetkiOm6Hul31nw">
will soon reach</a>
 threatened birds nests.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Lies_about_war_in_Iraq)
title: Lies about war in Iraq
uri: Lies-about-war-in-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Lies_about_war_in_Iraq%29
content:
<p>Dubya's CIA Deputy Director Morell 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/20/1386107/-Bush-CIA-Deputy-Director-Admits-We-Were-Lied-Into-Iraq-War?detail=email">
said that Dubya misrepresented</a>
 the
CIA's intelligence briefing when he claimed that Saddam Hussein was
developing nuclear weapons.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/21/lies-damned-lies-and-invasion-iraq">
That wasn't the only intentional lie</a>
 used to justify conquering Iraq.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Defeating_Boko_Haram)
title: Defeating Boko Haram
uri: 2015-05-24-Defeating-Boko-Haram
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Defeating_Boko_Haram%29
content:
<p>
President Goodluck Jonathan, though he did not win reelection,
succeeded in reforming the Nigerian army enough to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/nigeria-boko-haram-buhari">start
defeating Boko Haram</a>.  What the army needed was discipline and
leadership.
<p>
However, it seems that Boko Haram is not defeated yet.
It still holds thousands of female captives.
<p>
What about abortions for the females that have been freed?
It is hardly a rescue if they are forced to give birth to
rapists' babies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Foreign_workers_still_abused_in_Qatar)
title: Foreign workers still abused in Qatar
uri: Foreign-workers-still-abused-in-Qatar
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Foreign_workers_still_abused_in_Qatar%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty says Qatar 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/qatar-failing-migrant-workers-amnesty-international">has
not improved much</a> for foreign workers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(BP-UK_government_ties)
title: BP-UK government ties
uri: BP-UK-government-ties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28BP-UK_government_ties%29
content:
<p>
Revealed: BP's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/20/revealed-bps-close-ties-with-the-uk-government">close
ties</a> with the UK government.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Sexual_repression_in_Uganda)
title: Sexual repression in Uganda
uri: Sexual-repression-in-Uganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Sexual_repression_in_Uganda%29
content:
<p>
Sexual repression in Uganda is increasing; a singer 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/ugandan-jemimah-kansiime-video-anti-pornography">faces
prosecution</a> for a music video clothed a la Lady Gaga.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Legalized_discrimination_in_Louisiana)
title: Legalized discrimination in Louisiana
uri: Legalized-discrimination-in-Louisiana
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Legalized_discrimination_in_Louisiana%29

content:
<p>
Louisiana Governor Jindal made an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/20/bobby-jindal-rfra-lgbt-religious-freedom-executive-action">executive
order</a> legalizing discrimination against same-sex marriage.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Book_censorship_in_China)
title: Book censorship in China
uri: Book-censorship-in-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Book_censorship_in_China%29
content:
<p>
Books translated for publication in China may be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/foreign-authors-warned-about-book-censorship-in-china">quietly
censored, without informing the authors</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(LA_minimum_wage)
title: LA minimum wage
uri: LA-minimum-wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28LA_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
Los Angeles has adopted a minimum wage of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/19/la-minimum-wage-rise-vote">$15
an hour</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Rafael_Marques)
title: Rafael Marques
uri: Rafael-Marques
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Rafael_Marques%29
content:
<p>
Charges against Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/angolan-journalist-settles-defamation-case-blood-diamonds">have been dropped</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(PAT_RIOT_Act)
title: PAT RIOT Act
uri: 2015-05-24-PAT-RIOT-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28PAT_RIOT_Act%29
content:
<p>
The FBI <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/21/fbi-patriot-act-doj-report">used</a> the PAT RIOT Act to get "large collections" of data about
Americans.
<p>
In the period 2007-2009 this was done 51 times.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Robot_arm)
title: Robot arm
uri: Robot-arm
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Robot_arm%29
content:
<p>
A paralyzed man <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/21/brain-implant-controls-robotic-arm-with-the-power-of-thought">can control</a> a robot arm usefully via a chip in his brain.
<p>
I wonder if this could work for people who are "locked in" and unable to
communicate.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Antarctic_ice)
title: Antarctic ice
uri: Antarctic-ice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Antarctic_ice%29
content:
<p>
The Southern Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet started melting in 2009
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/21/stable-antarctic-ice-sheet-may-have-started-collapsing-scientists-say">is now raising</a> sea level by .16mm per year.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(PISSI)
title: PISSI
uri: 2015-05-24-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28PISSI%29
content:
<p>
Obama <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/21/us-hawks-criticise-obama-iraq-strategy">recognizes</a> that only Iraqis can liberate Iraq from PISSI.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Peter_Greste)
title: Peter Greste
uri: Peter-Greste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Peter_Greste%29
content:
<p>
Peter Greste is likely to be convicted of "terrorism" in absentia in
Egypt; so he <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/21/egypt-al-jazeera-journalists-travesty-justice">wants</a> to testify by video in the hope of getting a just
result.
<p>
To hope for justice in an Egyptian trial is silly, I must say.
It is better for the rest of the world to spit whenever Egyptian trials
are mentioned.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Bangladesh)
title: Bangladesh
uri: Bangladesh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Bangladesh%29
content:
<p>
Writers call on Bangladesh <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/bangladesh-stop-brutal-attacks-on-bloggers-ananta-bijoy-das">to prosecute</a> the murderers of writers and
provide security to others.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Ukraine_bans_communism)
title: Ukraine bans communism
uri: Ukraine-bans-communism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Ukraine_bans_communism%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine has banned advocating communism, and officially <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/ukraine-bans-soviet-symbols-criminalises-sympathy-for-communism">supported</a> the
pro-Nazi militias of World War II.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Surveillance_over_Ukraine)
title: Surveillance over Ukraine
uri: Surveillance-over-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Surveillance_over_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Russia is operating <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/ukraine-drones-shot-down-russian">surveillance</a> over Ukraine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Stop_deforestation)
title: Stop deforestation
uri: Stop-deforestation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Stop_deforestation%29
content:
<p>
We must end deforestation before it pushes global heating to the point
that it <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/21/save-rainforests-or-they-will-worsen-climate-change-warns-ex-wwf-chief">kills the remaining forests</a>.
<p>
Gradual heating, at a time before humans filled the world's surface,
would have caused forests to move.  But no forest can move into a place
occupied by agribusiness.  Those forest species will instead go extinct.
</p>


title: Politicians distort science about heating
uri: Politicians-distort-science-about-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Politicians_distort_science_about_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Politicians_distort_science_about_heating%29

content:
<p>
Fossil politicians distort science about global heating, and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/may/21/congress-manufactures-doubt-and-denial-in-climate-change-hearing">compare</a>
the denialists with Galileo.
<p>
The comparison is interesting, because Galileo represented science,
and the powers of the time were trying to suppress it.  Today, nearly
all climate scientists are Galileos and the powers, the fossil fuel
companies and their pet politicians, are trying to suppress it.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Bullying)
title: Bullying
uri: 2015-05-24-Bullying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Bullying%29
content:
<p>
Children who are bullied are more likely to be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/may/20/bullied-children-more-likely-to-suffer-from-adult-obesity-and-heart-attacks">obese in middle age</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Executive_stock_options)
title: Executive stock options
uri: Executive-stock-options
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Executive_stock_options%29
content:
<p>
Executive stock options encourage executives to take foolish gambles
with the company, since they gain if the gamble succeeds, but <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/21/why-are-canadians-subsidizing-executive-stock-options">don't
lose if the gamble fails</a>.
<p>
It would be wise for Canada to abolish its tax exemption for executive
stock options, but why not prohibit them entirely?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(US_death_penalty)
title: US death penalty
uri: US-death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28US_death_penalty%29
content:
<p>
The US federal death penalty <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/207609/whats-wrong-federal-death-penalty">was largely</a> a recent political creation,
to enable Clinton to look tough. The result, recently, was to impose the death penalty on Massachusetts.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Minimum_Wage_Campaigners)
title: Minimum Wage Campaigners
uri: Minimum-Wage-Campaigners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Minimum_Wage_Campaigners%29
content:
<p>
LA Minimum Wage Campaigners <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/21/los-angeles-minimum-wage-workers">Target</a> Nearby Cities After Winning $15 Fight.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Abortion_harassment_law)
title: Abortion harassment law
uri: Abortion-harassment-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Abortion_harassment_law%29
content:
<p>
An abortion harassment law in Tennessee <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/19/tennessees-new-abortion-law-criticized-tool-shame-and-disgrace-women">requires</a> doctors to give false
information to women, then keep them waiting 48 hours.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Net_neutrality_in_Europe)
title: Net neutrality in Europe
uri: 2015-05-24-Net-neutrality-in-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Net_neutrality_in_Europe%29
content:
<p>
The EU's latest plans <a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eus-ongoing-attempt-to-kill-net-neutrality-forever">endanger net neutrality in Europe.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Scientists_against_government)
title: Scientists against government
uri: Scientists-against-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Scientists_against_government%29
content:
<p>
Canadian scientists <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/19/muzzled-canadian-scientists-call-protections-federal-contracts">have publicly called</a> on the government to stop
gagging them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Lawsuit_defeated)
title: Lawsuit defeated
uri: Lawsuit-defeated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Lawsuit_defeated%29
content:
<p>
A lawsuit intended to force backpage.com to stop carrying escort ads
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/20/backpage-wins-sex-trafficking-lawsuit">was defeated</a>.
<p>
This is good, because the aim of the lawsuit was to hold the company
responsible for the fact that some escorts were trafficked.  If the suit
had succeeded, no one would be able to publish ads for escorts that
are not trafficked.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Activist_brutalized_in_prison)
title: Activist brutalized in prison
uri: Activist-brutalized-in-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Activist_brutalized_in_prison%29
content:
<p>
An Iranian women's rights activist who criticized plans to restrict
birth control <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/20/iranian-painter-and-womens-rights-activist-on-trial-for-insulting-mps">has been brutalized in prison</a> and will probably be
sentenced to a long prison term.
<p>
Making it a crime to insult someone, whether the supreme leader, the
president of the republic, or you or me, shows contempt for freedom of
speech.  Few countries properly respect freedom of speech.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Thug_threatened_witnesses)
title: Thug threatened witnesses
uri: Thug-threatened-witnesses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Thug_threatened_witnesses%29
content:
<p>
The thug accused of killing Freddie Gray <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/20/baltimore-officer-threatened-taser-freddie-gray-witness">threatened witnesses with
violence</a>, to stop them from taking note.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(Poor_families)
title: Poor families
uri: Poor-families
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28Poor_families%29
content:
<p>
A program that gives a poor family some assets and some coaching
seems to make a <a href="http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/anti-poverty-program-boosts-income-0514
">long-term improvement</a> in the family's life.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 23_May_2015_(NSA_and_Google_Play_Store)
title: NSA and Google Play Store
uri: NSA-and-Google-Play-Store
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_%28NSA_and_Google_Play_Store%29
content:
<p>
The NSA <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/21/nsa-five-eyes-google-samsung-app-stores-spyware/">planned</a> to use Google's app store to inject malware into
Android phones, and send dishonest messages to them to cause havoc.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Boycott_Nestle_water_and_tea)
title: Boycott Nestle water and tea
uri: Boycott-Nestle-water-and-tea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Boycott_Nestle_water_and_tea%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1248">pledge</a> to
boycott Nestle water and tea until it stops bottling water in
California.
<p>
Nestle water is sold under many other brands including Acqua Panna,
Perrier, Poland Spring, San Pellegrino and several more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Six_Baltimore_thugs_face_charges)
title: Six Baltimore thugs face charges
uri: Six-Baltimore-thugs-face-charges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Six_Baltimore_thugs_face_charges%29
content:
<p>
All six of the thugs involved in the killing of Freddie Gray
now face 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/21/six-baltimore-police-officers-freddie-gray-indicted">charges</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(US_needs_national_health_service)
title: US needs national health service
uri: US-needs-national-health-service
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28US_needs_national_health_service%29
content:
<p>
Being 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/19/1386052/-WELL-I-LL-BE-DAMNED-Luis-Lang-quits-GOP-calls-for-Single-Payer">bankrupted
by medical costs</a> taught one Republican to support a national
health service, and to stop being a Republican.
<p>
A woman in California could be cured of hepatitis C, but insurance
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/19/1385963/-Sadistic-Anthem-Blue-Cross-refuses-to-allow-California-hepatitis-C-patient-to-be-cured-of-disease">won't
pay for the superexpensive cure</a> because she isn't sick enough yet.
<p>
To put an end to this, the US need a national health service.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Monsanto)
title: Monsanto
uri: 2015-05-24-Monsanto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Monsanto%29
content:
<p>
The US pressures other countries to bow down to Monsanto, while
Monsanto seeks an opportunity to stop 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/21/monsanto-wants-move-switzerland-why-obama-doing-it-favors">pretending
to be an American company</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Russian_public_opinion)
title: Russian "public opinion"
uri: Russian-public-opinion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Russian_public_opinion%29
content:
<p>
Russian "public opinion" consists of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/21/russia-vladimir-putin-propaganda">lies
that Putin's millions of supporters repeat</a>, because they are happy
to lie for Putin.
<p>
By contrast, US right-wingers 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_June_2014_(Dubya%27s_lies_that_were_excuses_for_attacking_Iraq)">really
believe</a> Dubya's lies about Iraq.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Droits_de_lHumain)
title: Droits de l'Humain
uri: Droits-de-l-Humain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Droits_de_lHumain%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/french-feminists-rights-of-man-declaration-petition">French
Feminists Demand Rewording of 1789 'Rights Of Man' Declaration</a>.
<p>
I've been bothered by this too, so speaking recently in France I
decided to say "Droits de l'Humain" instead.
<p>
However, even more important than the sexist wording is the French
state's failure to respect fundamental human rights, by making it a
crime to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/hrant-dink.html">insult some
state officials or express certain opinions</a>.  Now a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_(French_Citizens_Oppose)">law
to permit total surveillance</a> is being pushed through.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Obamas_secrecy_about_the_TPP)
title: Obama's secrecy about the TPP
uri: Obama-s-secrecy-about-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Obamas_secrecy_about_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
One of the special advisors permitted to read the text of the TPP says
that Obama is being 
<a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/tpp-elizabeth-warren-labor-118068.html">more
secretive about it than Clinton was about NAFTA</a>.  Even these
advisors are not allowed to see the changes that are being made.
<p>
Their specific criticisms are private; in public, they are only
allowed to say very vague things, so Obama dishonestly rebukes them
for being vague.
<p>
This is where Obama shows he is an enemy of the American people.
<p>
NAFTA was a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-may-aug.html#27%20June%202004%20(NAFTA)">disaster</a>. 
If the TPP is no worse than NAFTA, only bigger, it will be a
bigger disaster.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Teaching_about_encryption_algorithms)
title: Teaching about encryption algorithms
uri: Teaching-about-encryption-algorithms
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Teaching_about_encryption_algorithms%29

content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://theconversation.com/paranoid-defence-controls-could-criminalise-teaching-encryption-41238">Australian
law</a>, to come into force in 2016, appears to ban teaching about
encryption algorithms.
<p>
This could well prohibit hosting a mirror of any real GNU/Linux distro
in Australia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(UN_proposes_deadline_for_peace)
title: UN proposes deadline for peace
uri: UN-proposes-deadline-for-peace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28UN_proposes_deadline_for_peace%29
content:
<p>
A proposed UN resolution would 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/un-resolution-to-impose-18-month-deadline-on-palestinian-state-talks">demand
that Israel and Palestine agree on peace in 18 months</a>.
<p>
It is not clear what the resolution would have the UN do if peace is
not achieved in that time.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Zero_tolerance_for_pressure_on_Israel)
title: "Zero tolerance" for pressure on Israel
uri: Zero-tolerance-for-pressure-on-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Zero_tolerance_for_pressure_on_Israel%29

content:
<p>
As Israel explicitly rejects peace, and tolerates advocacy of genocide
against Palestinians, Canada says it will have 
<a href="http://rabble.ca/columnists/2015/05/conservatives-have-zero-tolerance-protest-israeli-apartheid-protest-must-be-power">"zero
tolerance" for pressure on Israel</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Heat_waves_in_temperate_zones)
title: Heat waves in temperate zones
uri: Heat-waves-in-temperate-zones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Heat_waves_in_temperate_zones%29
content:
<p>
Global heating's heat waves 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/21/moderately-cold-weather-more-deadly-than-heatwaves-or-extreme-cold">won't
kill a lot of people directly</a> in temperate zones.
<p>
That doesn't mean you should feel safe.  Poverty kills a lot more
people than heat waves.


title: Israel contemplates attacking Hezbollah
uri: Israel-contemplates-attacking-Hezbollah
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Israel_contemplates_attacking_Hezbollah)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Israel_contemplates_attacking_Hezbollah%29

content:
<p>
Israel is contemplating attacking Hezbollah again, and 
<a href="http://972mag.com/israel-sells-its-story-on-a-new-lebanon-war-and-the-times-bites/106694/">has
prepared its excuse</a> to for killing and wounding lots of civilians.
<p>
The proffered grounds for the war are that Hezbollah has got more
arms.  Would it be legitimate for Hezbollah to attack Israel because
Israel has more arms now?  I don't think this excuse is valid
in either direction.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Israeli_Arabs_ordered_to_move_out)
title: Israeli Arabs ordered to move out
uri: Israeli-Arabs-ordered-to-move-out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Israeli_Arabs_ordered_to_move_out%29
content:
<p>
Israel has 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/world/middleeast/village-of-bedouins-faces-eviction-as-israel-envisions-a-village-of-jews.html">ordered
a whole village of Israeli Arabs to move</a> so that it can settle
Jews there.
<p>
Another Bedouin village in Israel has been demolished 83 times; each
time, the inhabitants rebuild.  Now they have been 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=68853">ordered to
pay for the demolitions</a>, which they can't possibly do.
<p>
This is like the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_March_2014_(Jailed_for_inability_to_pay_fine_and_fined_for_being_in_jail)">fines
for being jailed</a> that keep poor people in Ferguson (and cities
across the US) down.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Israel_and_Palestine)
title: Israel and Palestine
uri: Israel-and-Palestine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Israel_and_Palestine%29
content:
<p>
The diplomatic and conceptual support of Israel's occupation of
Palestine is 
<a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/766-parodies-of-parity-israel-palestine">the
pretense</a> that Israel and Palestine have a symmetric relationship.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Refugees_in_Australia_afraid_to_speak)
title: Refugees in Australia afraid to speak
uri: Refugees-in-Australia-afraid-to-speak
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Refugees_in_Australia_afraid_to_speak%29

content:
<p>
Refugees permitted into Australia are afraid to speak publicly about
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/former-refugee-now-medical-pioneer-warns-against-detaining-asylum-seekers">how
Australia treats refugees</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Half_of_Syria_controlled_by_PISSI)
title: Half of Syria controlled by PISSI
uri: Half-of-Syria-controlled-by-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Half_of_Syria_controlled_by_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
PISSI has captured Palmyra and 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/isis-palmyra-syria-world-heritage">will
probably soon destroy it</a>.
<p>
This means PISSI now controls 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/isis-palmyra-syria-islamic-state">half
of Syria</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Urgent:_Special_prosecutor_in_Pasco)
title: Urgent: Special prosecutor in Pasco
uri: Urgent-Special-prosecutor-in-Pasco
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Special_prosecutor_in_Pasco%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/pascogov/">call for a special
prosecutor in Pasco</a> to investigate the killing of Antonio
Zambrano-Montes.


title: Oil companies and Colombia's paramilitaries
uri: Oil-companies-and-Colombia-s-paramilitares
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Oil_companies_and_Colombias_paramilitares)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Oil_companies_and_Colombias_paramilitares%29

content:
<p>
Union leader Gilberto Torres, who was kidnaped by Colombia's
paramilitaries, is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/gilberto-torres-survived-colombias-death-squads-now-he-wants-justice">suing
oil companies related to the Colombian company that arranged it</a>.
<p>
The paramilitaries, which have support of the army and parts of the
civilian government, are the worst terrorists in Colombia, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#07_November_2011_(Colombia_Guerrilla_Killed)">much
worse than the FARC</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Extinction_of_large_animals)
title: Extinction of large animals
uri: Extinction-of-large-animals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Extinction_of_large_animals%29
content:
<p>
The extinction of large animals in the Americas, Australia and Europe
has been an ecological disaster.  Humans helped kill them off.  Now we
are doing the same thing to Africa and Asia.  The absence of large
animals has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2015/may/22/attacks-on-the-last-elephants-and-rhinos-threaten-entire-ecosystems">drastic
effects on the growth of forests</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Israels_foreign_minister)
title: Israel's foreign minister
uri: Israel-s-foreign-minister
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Israels_foreign_minister%29
content:
<p>
Israel's foreign minister 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/israels-new-deputy-foreign-minister-this-land-is-ours-all-of-it-is-ours">says
the Palestinians' land belongs to Israel</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Unsold_food)
title: Unsold food
uri: Unsold-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Unsold_food%29
content:
<p>
France will require large supermarket chains to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/france-to-force-big-supermarkets-to-give-away-unsold-food-to-charity">give
to charity whatever food they do not sell</a>.


title: Web sites pressured to censor and surveil
uri: Web-sites-pressured-to-censor-and-surveil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Web_sites_pressured_to_censor_and_surveil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Web_sites_pressured_to_censor_and_surveil%29

content:
<p>
Google, Twitter and Facebook face 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/russia-will-block-google-twitter-and-facebook-if-they-withhold-blogger-data">pressure
to impose censorship and surveillance for Russia</a>, or else be
totally blocked there.
<p>
Will they have the courage to refuse?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Opposition_organizing_against_TPP)
title: Opposition organizing against TPP
uri: Opposition-organizing-against-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Opposition_organizing_against_TPP%29
content:
<p>
Opposition parties in Australia are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/may/22/labor-greens-and-crossbenchers-concerned-at-trans-pacific-partnership">organizing
against the TPP</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(NSA_meddling_makes_servers_vulnerable)
title: NSA meddling makes servers vulnerable
uri: NSA-meddling-makes-servers-vulnerable
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28NSA_meddling_makes_servers_vulnerable%29

content:
<p>
A vulnerability in HTTPS servers was due to 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/https-crippling-attack-threatens-tens-of-thousands-of-web-and-mail-servers/">NSA
meddling</a> that weakened some of the software.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Urgent:_No_judicial_fundraising)
title: Urgent: No judicial fundraising
uri: Urgent-No-judicial-fundraising
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_judicial_fundraising%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call for
<a href="http://act.endcitizensunited.org/Ban-Judicial-Fundraising">banning
elected judges from personally asking for campaign funds</a>.
<p>
I think judges should not be elected at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Urgent:_Truth_about_torture)
title: Urgent: Truth about torture
uri: Urgent-Truth-about-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Truth_about_torture%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/admit-that-torture-does-not-work">call
on TV producers</a> whose shows laud torture to say they recognize
torture doesn't "work" to get the truth.
<p>
Torture would be wrong even if it did "work".


title: Urgent: Ban plastic microbeads in cosmetics
uri: Urgent-Ban-plastic-microbeads-in-cosmetics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Urgent:_Ban_plastic_microbeads_in_cosmetics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_plastic_microbeads_in_cosmetics%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1818">call
on Congress</a> to ban use of plastic microbeads in cosmetics and
products for people's skin.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_Arctic_oil_drilling)
title: Urgent: Oppose Arctic oil drilling
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Arctic-oil-drilling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Arctic_oil_drilling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_dont_drill_arctic">tell
Obama</a> not to approve oil drilling in Arctic waters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_discrimination)
title: Urgent: Oppose discrimination
uri: Urgent-Oppose-discrimination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_discrimination%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/keep-DC-fair">call on
Congress</a> not to permit discrimination against employees for things
such as having abortion, using birth control, or doing in-vitro
fertilization.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 24_May_2015_(Urgent:_Disapprove_engineered_salmon)
title: Urgent: Disapprove engineered salmon
uri: Urgent-Disapprove-engineered-salmon
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Disapprove_engineered_salmon%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2075">call
on the EPA</a> to disapprove genetically engineered salmon.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Jail_banksters)
title: Jail banksters
uri: 2015-05-25-Jail-banksters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Jail_banksters%29
content:
<p>Jailing banksters for their crimes is difficult, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/23/putting-bankers-in-jail-nigh-on-impossible">
Iceland proves</a>
 it
can be done.
</p>
<p>If the system makes it too hard to assign responsibility for bankster
crimes
to individuals, we should change it to make that easy.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Amtrak)
title: Amtrak
uri: Amtrak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Amtrak%29
content:
<p>Republicans 
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/20/derailing-amtrak/">
are starving Amtrak</a>
 to force privatization.
</p>
<p>I will not campaign for Amtrak because I condemn its surveillance.
In fact, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/amtrak.html">
I refuse to use Amtrak</a>
 until it sells tickets anonymously
and I hope you will do the same.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Illegal_to_criticize)
title: Illegal to criticize
uri: Illegal-to-criticize
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Illegal_to_criticize%29
content:
<p>Ukraine 
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Putin-says-Ukraine-being-overrun-by-fascists-and-he-may-be-right-403205">
has made</a>
 it illegal to criticize past national liberation
groups which fought against the Soviet Union, and fought sometimes for
the Nazis.  These groups helped kill tens of thousands of Ukrainian
Jews.
</p>
<p>Of course, any law making it illegal to criticize some group, person,
belief or practice is incompatible with human rights.  Making it illegal
to criticize communism, or capitalism, are equally wrong.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(New_home_rental_companies)
title: New home rental companies
uri: New-home-rental-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28New_home_rental_companies%29
content:
<p>New home rental companies 
<a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/blackstone-rental-homes-bundled-derivatives">
package</a>
 houses as a kind of stock shares.
They act like bullies whenever a tenant is even a day late in paying
rent.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Earthquakes)
title: Earthquakes
uri: Earthquakes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Earthquakes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-05-earthquake-expert-federal.html">
Large parts of the US</a>
 are badly prepared to cope with the
severe earthquakes that they are likely to experience
once in a rare while.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(End_of_Medea)
title: End of "Medea"
uri: End-of-Medea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28End_of_Medea%29
content:
<p>The CIA 
<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/cia-to-close-a-secretive-climate-change-science-program/">
will end</a>
 the "Medea" program that allows climate scientists to
use secret US data from submarines and spy satellites for scientific
purposes.
</p>
<p>They should have called it "Cassandra", since the fossils that control
our government ensure that the warnings climate scientists generate
will be ignored.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(UK_donates_money_to_megacorporations)
title: UK donates money to megacorporations
uri: UK-donates-money-to-megacorporations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28UK_donates_money_to_megacorporations%29

content:
<p>The UK government, in the name of reducing poverty in other countries,

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/may/22/does-the-government-really-believe-multinationals-are-the-answer-to-global-poverty">
donates</a>
 money to help megacorporations take control of their
economies.
</p>
<p>One more indication of who that government really works for.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Digital_house_arrest)
title: Digital house arrest
uri: Digital-house-arrest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Digital_house_arrest%29
content:
<p>Court-imposed radio tracking of people 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30913-something-better-than-detention-for-immigrants">
is a sort of digital house arrest</a>
,
and the tracking device causes injuries.
</p>
<p>The article ends by changing the subject, suggesting that no one
should ever be deported.  This appears to claim that anyone who wishes
to live in the US (or country C, whichever it is) must be allowed to
do so.  I don't agree with that position at all.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Small_government_in_UK)
title: "Small government" in UK
uri: Small-government-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Small_government_in_UK%29
content:
<p>The UK right-wing 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/22/theresa-may-micromanaging-small-government">
is planning</a>
 a new kind of "small government":
it is small in spirit.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(PAT_RIOT_Act)
title: PAT RIOT Act
uri: 2015-05-25-PAT-RIOT-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28PAT_RIOT_Act%29
content:
<p>Edward Snowden 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/22/edward-snowden-nsa-reform">
says</a>
 that eliminating section 215 of the PAT RIOT Act
is only the beginning of what we need to do.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">
Here's</a>
 my view of what we need to do.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Vietnamese_children)
title: Vietnamese children
uri: Vietnamese-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Vietnamese_children%29
content:
<p>Vietnamese children 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/may/23/vietnam-children-trafficking-nail-bar-cannabis">
are smuggled into the UK as slaves</a>.  Probably
into other countries as well.
</p>
<p>I wonder why Vietnamese parents do not learn will really happen to
their children if they accept this temptation.  Who spreads the
misinformation, and why isn't it countered?</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(TPP_and_Clean_energy)
title: TPP and Clean energy
uri: TPP-and-Clean-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28TPP_and_Clean_energy%29
content:
<p>The Treacherous Plutocratic Poison would give fossil fuel companies
more power to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/22/tpp-grave-threat-climate-action">
block</a>
 clean energy measures.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(UK_economy)
title: UK economy
uri: UK-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28UK_economy%29
content:
<p>Joseph Stiglitz 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/24/joseph-stiglitz-interview-uk-economy-lost-decade-zero-growth">
tears austerity</a>
 to shreds.
</p>
<p>It is interesting that, even in brute terms, the UK's economy is still
doing worse than it was in 2007.  But we should not make the mistake
of thinking that per capita GDP is a good measure.  When inequality is
increasing, as nowadays, it overestimates the picture.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(War_against_PISSI)
title: War against PISSI
uri: War-against-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28War_against_PISSI%29
content:
<p>The US Secretary of Defense 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/24/ramadi-iraqi-forces-lack-will-fight-isis-us-defense-secretary">
says</a>
 that the Iraqi army abandoned Ramadi
the same way it abandoned Mosul — it lost the will to fight.
</p>
<p>I am glad to see frankness from the Obama regime for a change.  Obama
is resisting pressure from hawks that want the US to send an army to
fight 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#06_March_2015_%28FBIs_manufactured_terrorism_plots%29">
PISSI</a>
.  That would be as futile as it was in 2005.</p>
<p>The only way to defeat PISSI
is to give Sunnis in that region
another alternative.</p>
<p>Senator McCain 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/24/john-mccain-obama-climate-change-isis-threat">
mocked</a>
 Obama for calling [global heating] a worse threat.
</p>
<p>Obama is right.  What McCain ignores is that the civil war in Syria

<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#17_March_2015_%28Life_expectancy_in_Syria%29">
was caused</a>
 by the effects of global heating.
That gave the
PISSI
a place to move to, when it could not succeed in Iraq.</p>
<p>PISSI is an example of the wars that global heating 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Water_supplies_in_Iraq_and_Syria%29">
will create</a>
,
around the world, if we don't take the danger seriously.
</p>
<p>Too bad Obama isn't taking the danger seriously in his
<em>policies</em>.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Palmyra)
title: Palmyra
uri: 2015-05-25-Palmyra
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Palmyra%29
content:
<p>Assad's TV 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/24/killed-isis-palmyra-syria-tv-reports-tadmur-islamic-state">
says</a>
 that PISSI has massacred 400 people in Palmyra.
</p>
<p>That is not a reliable source, but I'd expect some massacres.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Assad_used_chlorin_bombs)
title: Assad used chlorine bombs
uri: Assad-used-chlorin-bombs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Assad_used_chlorin_bombs%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Assad 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/24/syria-regime-accused-of-using-chlorine-bombs-on-civilians">
has used</a>
 chlorine bombs 35 times.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Banks_and_punishments)
title: Banks and punishments
uri: Banks-and-punishments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Banks_and_punishments%29
content:
<p>Unfortunately, "three strikes" laws 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/23/banks-and-punishments">
apply only to people</a>
, not to
banks.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Opposition_harassed_in_Etiopia)
title: Opposition harassed in Ethiopia
uri: Opposition-harassed-in-Etiopia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Opposition_harassed_in_Etiopia%29
content:
<p>Ethiopia held an "election" but the opposition 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/24/ethiopian-election-marred-by-harassment-claims">
is getting harassed</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Protests_against_Monsanto)
title: Protests against Monsanto
uri: Protests-against-Monsanto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Protests_against_Monsanto%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/24/tens-of-thousands-march-worldwide-against-monsanto-and-gm-crops">
There were large protests around the world</a>
 against Monsanto and
genetically modified crops.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Birth_control)
title: Birth control
uri: 2015-05-25-Birth-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Birth_control%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/24/burmese-women-could-be-forced-to-have-fewer-children-under-new-law">
Burma will put a limit</a>
 on how often a woman can have children, in
areas of high population growth.
</p>
<p>It is wrong for people to have too many children, and it is
irresponsible
for poor people to do so.  Thus, this law is basically justified.
However, perhaps it is wrong to discriminate among people based on
which region they live in.</p>
<p>If the state plans to enforce this, it had better provide women with
modern, reliable birth control, and gratis abortion when necessary as
a backup.  It is wrong to punish people for something they are not in
a position to avoid.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Dengue)
title: Dengue
uri: Dengue
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Dengue%29
content:
<p>Many avenues 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/24/sterile-mosquitoes-released-in-china-to-fight-dengue-fever">
are being pursued</a>
 to reduce, eliminate or cure dengue fever.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Artificial_rhino_horn)
title: Artificial rhino horn
uri: Artificial-rhino-horn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Artificial_rhino_horn%29
content:
<p>One idea for stopping poaching of rhinos 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/24/artificial-3d-printed-fake-rhino-horn-poaching">
is to flood</a>
 the market with artificial
imitation rhino horn.
</p>
<p>If the imitation is good enough to fool people, sellers will all
switch to it.  Since they are willing to wipe out a species illegally,
they won't mind lying about the origin of their product.  However, making
the imitation that good may be difficult.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Qatar_Nepalese_workers)
title: Qatar Nepalese workers
uri: Qatar-Nepalese-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Qatar_Nepalese_workers%29
content:
<p>Qatar 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/24/qatar-denies-nepalese-world-cup-workers-leave-after-earthquakes">
forbids</a>
 Nepalese workers from going to Nepal for the funerals of
their relatives.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Weapons_to_al_Qa'ida)
title: Weapons to al Qa'ida
uri: Weapons-to-al-Qa-ida
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Weapons_to_al_Qa%27ida%29
content:
<p>Saudi Arabia and some other Middle East countries 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/24/syria-iran-isis-battle-arab-world">
are sending</a>
 lots
of weapons to the non-PISSI enemies of Assad's Syrian government,
which include al Qa'ida.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Opposition_leader_dead)
title: Opposition leader dead
uri: Opposition-leader-dead
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Opposition_leader_dead%29
content:
<p>The head of an opposition party in Burundi 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/23/burundi-opposition-leader-shot-dead-amid-ongoing-unrest">
was assassinated</a>
 during a
protest.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Fine_homeless)
title: Fine homeless
uri: Fine-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Fine_homeless%29
content:
<p>Some cities in the UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/may/22/homeless-charities-warn-against-using-antisocial-behaviour-powers">
want to fine</a>
 people for sleeping on the street.
</p>
<p>Most of these people don't have money to pay the fines, so what will
the cities do?  Jail these people for a while, then demand they pay
fees for being jailed, I suppose.  Then they can jail these people
again for not paying the fees.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(NPR)
title: NPR
uri: NPR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28NPR%29
content:
<p>Ira Glass, a major star on National Public Radio, 
<a href="http://fair.org/home/ira-glass-clarifies-that-public-radio-is-ready-for-the-good-kind-of-capitalism/">
wants</a>
 stations to
stop asking listeners to donate, and become "capitalist" instead.
</p>
<p>This would formalize and complete the conversion of NPR into merely
another business-controlled network.  The change has already happened
to a large extent; I noticed 20 years ago that NPR was playing
commercials, and stopped donating.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Censorship_of_opinions)
title: Censorship of opinions
uri: Censorship-of-opinions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Censorship_of_opinions%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-censorship-tropes-in-the-medias-coverage-of-free-speech-controversies/">
Identifying and refuting common ways</a>
 that US media sneakily advocate
censorship of opinions.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Uber)
title: Uber
uri: 2015-05-25-Uber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Uber%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/23/uber-under-fire-fbi-probe">
Customers of Uber are being charged for nonexistent rides</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Israeli_democracy_pushed)
title: Israeli democracy pushed
uri: Israeli-democracy-pushed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Israeli_democracy_pushed%29
content:
<p>Uri Avnery: The Israeli right wing 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1432296815/">
is pushing</a>
 Israeli democracy to the
wall: intimidating the Supreme Court, breaking the media and
converting schools into right-wing propaganda outlets.
</p>
<p>Jews who want to live in a democracy need to find a new homeland.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Jail_for_minors)
title: Jail for minors
uri: Jail-for-minors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Jail_for_minors%29
content:
<p>Maryland's governor 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/18/1385712/-Baltimore-governor-says-no-to-11-6-mil-for-education-and-yes-to-30-mil-for-children-s-prison?detail=email">
spent 30 million dollars</a>
 on a jail for minors
instead of schools.
</p>
<p>With better schools, they might not need this jail for minors.  But
Republicans don't want to reduce crime — they want to be cruel
to criminals.  If there were no teenage criminals, they'd be unable
to demonstrate toughness against them.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Trade_treaties)
title: "Trade" treaties
uri: 2015-05-25-Trade-treaties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Trade_treaties%29
content:
<p>Existing "trade treaties" 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2015/may/22/law-big-tobacco-taxpayers-corporations">
allow</a>
 countries to sue against good laws,
such as limiting tobacco to plain packaging
and labeling meat by the country of origin.
</p>
<p>New "trade" treaties 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_May_2015_%28WTO%29">
will empower</a>
 foreign companies to sue directly,
if we don't defeat them.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Ireland_legalize_same-sex_marriage)
title: Ireland legalize same-sex marriage
uri: Ireland-legalize-same-sex-marriage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Ireland_legalize_same-sex_marriage%29

content:
<p>Ireland 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/23/gay-marriage-ireland-yes-vote">
voted to legalize same-sex marriage</a>
, with a majority of 60%.
</p>
<p>Next step: freedom of abortion.  Irish women are not incubators,
any more than the rest of the world's women.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Taliban_and_PISSI)
title: Taliban and PISSI
uri: Taliban-and-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Taliban_and_PISSI%29
content:
<p>The US says PISSI is recruiting supporters in Afghanistan, and the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/23/isis-actively-recruiting-afghanistan-us-genera">
Taliban
does not like that</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Poor_families_swindled)
title: Poor families swindled
uri: Poor-families-swindled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Poor_families_swindled%29
content:
<p>In Michigan, fraudulent phony insurance agents 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/23/insurance-scam-fleeces-poor/">
swindle poor families</a>
, then
the thugs complete the process by seizing their cars.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Protection_for_thugs)
title: Protection for thugs
uri: Protection-for-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Protection_for_thugs%29
content:
<p>A thug charged with shooting dead two passengers trapped in a car that
couldn't move 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/23/cleveland-officer-not-guilty-shot-137-times-police">
has been acquitted</a>
 of the ridiculously weak charge of
involuntary manslaughter.
</p>
<p>The legal system gives thugs so many levels of protection that it is
hard to hold them responsible for even murder.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 25_May_2015_(Israeli_army_can_expel_Palestinians)
title: Israeli army can expel Palestinians
uri: Israeli-army-can-expel-Palestinians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#25_May_2015_%28Israeli_army_can_expel_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://972mag.com/the-palestinians-judge-jury-and-house-demolisher/106844/">
An Israeli judge ruled</a>
 the army is allowed to expel the whole
population of a Palestinian village.
He lives in a nearby Israeli colony
that grows by dispossession of Palestinians.
</p>


title: Urgent: call on senators to stop "fast track"
uri: Urgent-call-on-senators-to-stop-fast-track
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Urgent:_call_on_senators_to_stop_fast_track)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_call_on_senators_to_stop_fast_track%29

content:
<p>US citizens: if your senator voted for the "fast track" bill,
<a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00193">
phone and rebuke the senator</a>.
</p>
<p>Then phone your representative and say to vote against "fast track"
and against all so-called "trade treaties".</p>


title: Urgent: reverse Corporations United decision
uri: 2015-05-26-Urgent-reverse-Corporations-United-decision
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Urgent:_reverse_Corporations_United_decision)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_reverse_Corporations_United_decision%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/lcv/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2423&autologin=true">
reverse the Corporations United decision</a>.
</p>
<p>Officially it's called "Citizens United", but we should not repeat
the falsehoods of the plutocrats.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Urgent:_End_US-German_drone_relay)
title: Urgent: End US-German drone relay
uri: Urgent-End-US-German-drone-relay
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_End_US-German_drone_relay%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/support-german-campaign-to-remove-ramstein-drone-relay">support
the German campaign</a> to end the US-German drone relay.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Urgent:_Restrict_for-profit_colleges)
title: Urgent: Restrict for-profit colleges
uri: Urgent-Restrict-for-profit-colleges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Restrict_for-profit_colleges%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/PROStudentAct/">call
for restricting</a> for-profit colleges.


title: Urgent: Meat country-of-origin labeling
uri: Urgent-Meat-country-of-origin-labeling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Urgent:_Meat_country-of-origin_labeling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Meat_country-of-origin_labeling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16819">call
on the US government</a> to defy the WTO and maintain the requirement
for country-of-origin labeling for meat.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_Shelby_bill)
title: Urgent: Oppose Shelby bill
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Shelby-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Shelby_bill%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/shelbybill">call on
Congress</a> to oppose the Shelby bill that gives Wall Street whatever
it wants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Urgent:_Strict_mining_requirements)
title: Urgent: Strict mining requirements
uri: Urgent-Strict-mining-requirements
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Strict_mining_requirements%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-uranium/">call for
strict requirements</a> for in-situ leach mining for uranium.
<p>
The process spreads toxic minerals and chemicals as well as uranium in
the ground.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Mass_protest_over_Uber)
title: Mass protest over Uber
uri: Mass-protest-over-Uber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Mass_protest_over_Uber%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/25/mexico-city-taxi-drivers-protest-uber">Mexico
City Taxi Drivers Stage Mass Protest over Uber</a>.
<p>
There are 
<a href="https://stallman.org/uber.html">many reasons to boycott
Uber</a>, but even if Uber stopped mistreating everyone else, I will
refuse to use Uber as long as it mistreats the customers by tracking
them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Bonuses_for_oil_executives)
title: Bonuses for oil executives
uri: Bonuses-for-oil-executives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Bonuses_for_oil_executives%29
content:
<p>
Bonuses for oil executives are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/25/oil-company-bosses-bonuses-1tr-spending-fossil-fuels">directly
tied</a> to spending a trillion dollars on projects to extract
difficult fossil fuels that ought not to be extracted at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Medical_research_on_animals)
title: Medical research on animals
uri: Medical-research-on-animals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Medical_research_on_animals%29
content:
<p>
Medical research on animals, including monkeys, is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/25/guardian-view-on-vital-medical-research-on-primates">crucial
for advances in human health care</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Small-scale_farmers)
title: Small-scale farmers
uri: Small-scale-farmers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Small-scale_farmers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/25/save-worlds-small-scale-farmers">Save
the World's Small-Scale Farmers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Obama_claims_US_not_in_major_war)
title: Obama claims US not in major war
uri: Obama-claims-US-not-in-major-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Obama_claims_US_not_in_major_war%29
content:
<p>
Obama celebrated Memorial Day by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/25/president-obama-memorial-day-14-years-major-us-war">claiming
that the US is not currently in a major war</a>.
<p>
That seems to disregard the US bombing campaign in Syria and
Iraq, and the drone assassination campaign around the world.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/25/2015-memorial-day-praying-peace-while-waging-permanent-war">2015
Memorial Day: Praying for Peace While Waging Permanent War?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Why_I_Am_Pro-Abortion)
title: Why I Am Pro-Abortion
uri: Why-I-Am-Pro-Abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Why_I_Am_Pro-Abortion%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20150521">Valerie
Tarico: Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice</a>.
<p>
I am even more pro-abortion than that.  Having a baby is dangerous for
the mother, and it contributes tp the population growth that
exacerbates many global problems.  I encourage women to choose an
abortion rather than a baby.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Peril_of_self-driving_trucks)
title: Peril of self-driving trucks
uri: Peril-of-self-driving-trucks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Peril_of_self-driving_trucks%29
content:
<p>Self-driving trucks could 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/santens20150524">
push 10 million Americans into unemployment</a>
 in a few years.
</p>
<p>Truck driving is the last form of work that provides a good income
to people without college or professional degrees.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Watch out for self-driving cars; they may be a surveillance
system. Any car made by Google, Apple or Uber will tell a company
where you go. We must not _allow_ vehicles that track us to become
the usual mode of travel.</p>
<p>Uber is already a surveillance system, which is one of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/uber.html">
many reasons why we should refuse</a>
 to use it.
</p>
<p>See 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">
surveillance vs. democracy</a>
 for more about this point.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(If_we_kill_the_TPP)
title: If we kill the TPP
uri: If-we-kill-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28If_we_kill_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>Killing the TPP might lead to 
<a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/5/24/8647103/tpp-free-trade-cronyism">
less corporate-power items</a>
 in future trade treaties.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Chinese_nuclear_plans)
title: Chinese nuclear plans
uri: Chinese-nuclear-plans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Chinese_nuclear_plans%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/25/china-nuclear-power-plants-expansion-he-zuoxiu">
China Warned Over 'Insane' Plans for New Nuclear Power Plants.</a>
</p>


