# articles

feed_id: 6a17eebe9136b7f57022e5de0213a3e1
title: Manus Island prisoner
uri: Manus-Island-prisoner
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Manus_Island_prisoner_%29
content:
<p>Refugee Benham Satah is a prisoner on Manus Island.  He testified in
the trial over the murder of his fellow prisoner Reza Barati, and is
afraid the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jan/16/key-witness-in-reza-barati-trial-fears-he-will-be-killed-on-manus-island">
guards will kill him</a>
 for that.
</p>
<p>He testified seeing foreign guards as well as Manus islanders beat
Barati to death.  However, only the islanders have been charged with
the killing; foreign guards enjoy effective impunity — one of the
injustices of the way Australia set up its proxy prison in Manus.</p>
<p>I've read two books about Manus Island: Manus Religion, by Reo
Fortune, and New Lives for Old, by Margaret Meade.  They describe a
society that chose revolutionary change between the 1920s and the
1950s, inspired by the American soldiers that were stationed there
temporarily, who treated them as acquaintances rather than as colonial
subjects.</p>
<p>That society existed in one corner of the island, alongside other
societies that may have been quite different.  I suppose that they
have all been assimilated together, by now, and I wonder whether the
nature of things in Manus Island today relates in any way to the
culture of those people, 90 years ago.</p>


feed_id: 5474879229f0e922c5712841cb6e6c3d
title: UK school bans birthday cakes
uri: UK-school-bans-birthday-cakes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28UK_school_bans_birthday_cakes%29
content:
<p>A school in the UK has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jan/15/lancashire-school-bans-birthday-cakes">
refused to allow birthday cakes</a>
 in school,
for fear of being held responsible if some child has an allergic
reaction.
</p>


feed_id: 3d1f4c3756efd12585fd010a318f8b64
title: Urgent: tell Congress to repeal visa waiver discrimination
uri: Urgent-tell-Congress-to-repeal-visa-waiver-discrimination
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Congress_to_repeal_visa_waiver_discrimination%29

content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-repeal-discriminati?source=c.url&r_by=1135580">
call on Congress</a>
 to repeal the recently introduced discrimination
in the US visa waiver program.
</p>


feed_id: 4f588907f4458b982a3baf7c5ab4ac04
title: Bitcoin becoming unreliable
uri: Bitcoin-becoming-unreliable
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Bitcoin_becoming_unreliable%29
content:
<p>Bitcoin is becoming unreliable because of a 
<a href="https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7#.443qscsws">
refusal to change a protocol</a>
 to increase the capacity for transactions.
</p>


feed_id: a5e13c64b56bdedab30722312c841786
title: Contraception over the counter
uri: Contraception-over-the-counter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Contraception_over_the_counter%29

content:
<p>Some US states have made it possible to 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/01/14/tennessee-latest-state-to-consider-over">
buy birth control pills</a>
 without visiting a doctor.  This will make a big difference to women who
can't afford
to see a doctor for the prescription.
</p>
<p>If we had a civilized medical system, and a proper minimum wage, etc.,
no women would be in that situation.  But this change would still be
good,
even though not quite as urgently needed.</p>


feed_id: ca783607486e7f83c0cb57205021bbba
title: Exaggerating the danger of terrorism
uri: Exaggerating-the-danger-of-terrorism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Exaggerating_the_danger_of_terrorism%29

content:
<p>Americans exaggerate the danger of terrorism in the US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/14/heres-thing-about-terrorism-obama-wont-tell-you">
by roughly 1,000,000 times</a>,
 and this reaction creates a self-fulfilling prophecy,
without which terrorism would occur even less.
</p>


feed_id: c9b8458b78510a7c7b366f9e73cd97bc
title: Rare hurricanes in January
uri: Rare-hurricanes-in-January
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Rare_hurricanes_in_January%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/14/rare-and-remarkable-january-hurricanes-hit-atlantic-pacific-oceans">
Two hurricanes</a>
 have formed in January, one in the Atlantic Ocean and
one in the Central Pacific.
</p>
<p>To have a hurricane in January in either place is a rarity.  We are
seeing an effect of global heating.</p>


feed_id: f4c13a48c430a95dd583ff3ea03b2448
title: Dealing with student debt crisis
uri: Dealing-with-student-debt-crisis
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Dealing_with_student_debt_crisis%29

content:
<p>The way to deal with the crisis of student debt in the US is to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/14/heres-how-solve-student-debt-crisis-make-college-free">
make college gratis</a>.
The government should pay for it.</p>
<p>Going to college can increase a person's income (though this does not
happen in every case), and it is fair that those who gain in this way
should pay to support the system.  With a proper progressive income
tax, this would happen automatically.</p>


feed_id: ddba5fee6c131ef34ac3ee9dde954be2
title: Urgent: call on TransCanada to drop NAFTA lawsuit
uri: Urgent-call-on-TransCanada-to-drop-NAFTA-lawsuit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_call_on_TransCanada_to_drop_NAFTA_lawsuit%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on TransCanada to 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/NAFTA-TransCanada/">
drop its NAFTA lawsuit</a>,
 which demands billions of dollars in "compensation" for
the cancellation of the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline.
</p>


feed_id: 425825125aa755328bb442c3a8dd786b
title: Global heating is biggest threat to economy
uri: Global-heating-is-biggest-threat-to-economy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Global_heating_is_biggest_threat_to_economy%29

content:
<p>Economists consider that the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/14/climate-change-disaster-is-biggest-threat-to-global-economy-in-2016-say-experts">
biggest threat to the global economy</a>
 this year is a regional disaster caused by global heating.
</p>
<p>That's with 1C of global heating.  With 2C of heating, such disasters
would happen all the time, and the uncertainty would be in the precise
details.</p>


feed_id: 4625593d18dd4c429ff13f962b006520
title: Oregon anti-wildlife occupation
uri: Oregon-anti-wildlife-occupation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Oregon_anti-wildlife_occupation%29

content:
<p>One of the Oregon anti-wildlife occupation protesters drove a
government vehicle to a town, and was quite properly 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/15/oregon-militia-standoff-arrest-stolen-government-vehicle-burns-oregon-police-kenneth-medenbach">
arrested for car theft</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 9da634f781d6d22d5b07e96ae48998c1
title: Pointless pesticides on soybeans
uri: Pointless-pesticides-on-soybeans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Pointless_pesticides_on_soybeans%29

content:
<p>Neonicotinoid pesticides appear to be 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/01/widely-used-insecticide-may-kill-bees-better-it-does-actual-pests">
pointless</a>
 on soybeans.
</p>


feed_id: 12771256c4bb299013ee8456bc5932b0
title: Trial of oil train protesters
uri: Trial-of-oil-train-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Trial_of_oil_train_protesters%29
content:
<p>The judge 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/15/delta-5-seattle-washington-climate-change-court-defense">
yanked the necessity defense</a>
 of the five protesters on trial
for blocking an oil train.  He said they had not presented any evidence
that this particular protest was the only way to stop a bigger harm:
the risk of an explosion in that city.
</p>
<p>They were 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/15/no-jail-time-delta-5-historic-case-welcomes-jurors-climate-movement">
convicted on one charge</a>,
 but not jailed.
</p>
<p>I think that what's necessary to prevent global heating disaster is
far more than they could possibly do.</p>


feed_id: 06c8dd21d35fa2f0b865c8c0fd7ee20e
title: Jailed 6 months for photos of protest
uri: Jailed-6-months-for-photos-of-protest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Jailed_6_months_for_photos_of_protest%29

content:
<p>Mary Anne Grady Flores will be jailed for six months for violating a
"protection order".  Her violation consisted of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/01/15/grandma-drone-protester-remanded-jail-6-months">
taking photos of a protest</a>
 against the use of armed drones.
</p>
<p>This is an indirect excuse for trashing people's constitutional
rights.</p>


feed_id: cd26a2900cbba3a0edae361a400d1db5
title: Obama stops issuance of coal leases
uri: Obama-stops-issuance-of-coal-leases
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Obama_stops_issuance_of_coal_leases%29

content:
<p>Obama has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/15/obama-administration-halts-new-coal-mining-leases-on-public-land">
stopped the issuance</a>
 of new coal leases on US public land.
</p>
<p>This is a step in the right direction.</p>


feed_id: 1273980f1dc29750c3c40103c20feff2
title: CIA agent to face justice in Italy
uri: CIA-agent-to-face-justice-in-Italy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28CIA_agent_to_face_justice_in_Italy%29

content:
<p>A former CIA agent will face justice in Italy for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/15/ex-cia-agent-extradition-italy-egypt-cleric-sabrina-de-sousa-hassan-mustafa-osama-nasr">
kidnapping an Egyptian</a>
 there and sending him to Egypt to be tortured.
</p>


feed_id: fb256b605d61dc793a1505db241bf6ff
title: UK and US involved in Yemen
uri: UK-and-US-involved-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28UK_and_US_involved_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>US and UK officers are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/15/british-us-military-in-command-room-saudi-strikes-yemen">
closely involved</a>
 in directing the intervention in Yemen.
</p>


feed_id: 5b6c5903fd094ee9ea84cd43a89be3c1
title: Goldman Sachs gets slap on wrist
uri: Goldman-Sachs-gets-slap-on-wrist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Goldman_Sachs_gets_slap_on_wrist%29

content:
<p>Goldman Sachs got a 5 billion dollar 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/01/15/goldman-sachs-sees-silver-lining-5-billion-mortgage-settlement">
slap on the wrist</a>
 for its role in taking the houses of millions of Americans.  Part of it
is
tax-deductible.
</p>


feed_id: bba0b47442298d5b508f06ba6e2f4d7d
title: EPA scientists criticize EPA
uri: EPA-scientists-criticize-EPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28EPA_scientists_criticize_EPA%29
content:
<p>EPA scientists have 
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-07/the-u-s-epa-called-fracking-safe-now-its-scientists-disagree">
criticized</a>
 the EPA's determination that fracking is not
a big threat to water supplies.
</p>


feed_id: 9d40245167d632b613112d49f055d47f
title: US imposing on Haiti again
uri: US-imposing-on-Haiti-again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28US_imposing_on_Haiti_again%29
content:
<p>The US and other powers, which didn't help the Haitian people rebuild
after the earthquake, are once again 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/13/haiti-six-years-later">
imposing a president</a>
 through a rigged election.
</p>


feed_id: 07e7c3bb1361840ce44f84835c17b5e9
title: Clinton emails reveal lies
uri: Clinton-emails-reveal-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Clinton_emails_reveal_lies%29
content:
<p>Release of Clinton's emails show how the US government 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/13/what-hillary-knew-about-libya">
told lies about Gaddafi</a>
 as an excuse for intervention in Libya, and the pliant US
major media eagerly spread them without investigating them.
</p>
<p>Officials were also aware of al-Qa'ida's presence among the
rebels.</p>
<p>The article does not go into depth about "special ops trainers inside
Libya", so I cannot judge whether this ought to be a scandal or not.</p>


feed_id: ceb4223308a6f5b5595d92bc6126de9e
title: Flint water poisoning ignored by EPA
uri: Flint-water-poisoning-ignored-by-EPA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Flint_water_poisoning_ignored_by_EPA%29

content:
<p>The EPA 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/13/epas-hush-hush-response-flint-water-crisis542">
let months go by</a>
 after it found out that the water in Flint was poisoning children.
</p>


feed_id: 977c71fc7484d462d28a2fd3851f6096
title: Global heating and mass deaths
uri: Global-heating-and-mass-deaths
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Global_heating_and_mass_deaths%29

content:
<p>Global heating plays a role in a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/13/seabirds-starfish-climate-change-driving-unprecedented-die-offs">
rash of mass deaths</a>
 of many kinds of
wild animals around the globe.
</p>
<p>The die-offs include plants, too.  Millions of pine trees in the US
west have been killed as global heating 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2007-mar-jun.html#16%20June%202007%20(Global%20warming%20has%20enabled%20mountain%20pine%20beetles%20to%20spread)">
enabled a parasitic insect</a>
 to spread there.
</p>


feed_id: 2e3e4602e7b33ceff65a156e3c580962
title: Yosemite National Park trademarks
uri: Yosemite-National-Park-trademarks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Yosemite_National_Park_trademarks%29

content:
<p>The company that formerly managed Yosemite National Park applied for
trademarks on the names of the old hotels and restaurants it was
running, and is using those to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/14/yosemite-national-park-hotel-name-change">
force them to change their names</a>.
</p>
<p>This seems like extortion from the state.  If it isn't a crime, it
should be.</p>
<p>Confusion appears in the article where it uses the term "intellectual
property".  That term causes nothing but confusion.</p>
<p>Trademark law is nothing like copyright law or patent law.  If you
think you "understand" a statement about "intellectual property", it is
a false understanding that will lead you astray.</p>


feed_id: 0be45502e3d13a95dde6ef9aa4420067
title: Seizing property of refugees
uri: Seizing-property-of-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Seizing_property_of_refugees%29
content:
<p>Switzerland and Denmark require refugees to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/15/switzerland-joins-denmark-in-seizing-assets-from-refugees-to-cover-costs">
surrender their property</a>.
</p>
<p>This is a way to select the poorest refugees.</p>
<p>Switzerland's special tax on refugees who start to work
is not quite as bad, but I think it is better to tax people
based on wealth and income, not based on being refugees.</p>


feed_id: dc523cc13f6c5c8d66c4fbf7220e70f4
title: Crop insurance in India
uri: Crop-insurance-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Crop_insurance_in_India%29
content:
<p>India has set up a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/14/india-thousands-of-farmer-suicides-prompt-1bn-crop-insurance-scheme">
new system of crop insurance</a>
 to help save farmers
from being pushed into failure and suicide by the cost of commercially
produced seeds.
</p>
<p>I hope it works better than the previous systems.</p>


feed_id: 639cde154ce69e6ae1044bc9ae614708
title: Drones in your backyard
uri: Drones-in-your-backyard
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Drones_in_your_backyard%29
content:
<p>Do you have the right to stop a drone from 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/13/you-may-be-powerless-to-stop-a-drone-from-hovering-over-your-own-yard/">
hovering over your yard</a>?
</p>


feed_id: 7afeab66a205a439d33e9430f537d118
title: Research needs no moonshots
uri: Research-needs-no-moonshots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_%28Research_needs_no_moonshots%29
content:
<p>Research needs steadily increasing funding, 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/dear-mr-president-please-stop-with-these-science-moonshots/">
not flashy "moonshots"</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 41c7dfb56b2d2d75fa04d3fcc15b483b
title: Snooping on employees
uri: 2016-01-18-Snooping-on-employees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#15_January_2016_%28Snooping_on_employees%29
content:
<p>
In Europe, employers have been 
<a href="http://www.dw.com/en/boss-reading-your-private-messages-thats-ok-says-court/a-18976393">given
the right to read all messages sent by employees at work</a>.
<p>
I am not sure whether this applies only to use of the company's
systems, or also to the employee's own computers.
<p>
A 
<a href="http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/01/is-workplace-privacy-dead-comments-on.html">possible 
answer</a> to that and other related questions.
<p>
One worker says his messaging was 
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35311890">investigated for 
months due to misunderstandings.  He was eventually found "innocent", 
but the process made it intolerable to remain in that company.


feed_id: b7a1f27987a2682c2e11ca3c218eee11
title: Rich people messing with US school system
uri: Rich-people-messing-with-US-school-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#18_January_2016_%28Rich_people_messing_with_US_school_system%29

content:
<p>
Aaron Swartz: for rich people to mess with the US school system is
<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/127317/school">nothing
new</a>.
<p>
I think it is going too far to claim that the main or only purpose of
the school system is to make people obedient.  Parents around the
world make sacrifices so their children can study, and if this were
nothing but a way to keep them down, parents would have learned that
by now and stopped.


feed_id: 5eb454eb079dec503aa9a532d9ddb9ab
title: The motive for DRM
uri: The-motive-for-DRM
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#18_January_2016_%28The_motive_for_DRM%29
content:
<p>
Arguing that the motive for DRM is not about illegal copying, but
really about 
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-engineer-drm-has-nothing-to-do-with-piracy/">control
of legal markets</a>.


feed_id: fd92fdf08c7a76f7f5d31a529101be54
title: Billionaire philanthropy
uri: Billionaire-philanthropy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#18_January_2016_%28Billionaire_philanthropy%29
content:
<p>
Billionaire philanthropy can't make up for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/15/philanthropy-looking-gift-horse-mouth">bad
things they did to get the money in the first place</a>, so don't let
it buy your good opinion.


feed_id: 77f8e7a7e354488a22ad9c1750126a01
title: Flint, Michigan, cutting off water
uri: Flint-Michigan-cutting-off-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#18_January_2016_%28Flint%2C_Michigan%2C_cutting_off_water%29

content:
<p>
Flint, Michigan, is cutting off water to families that have not paid
for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/15/ludicrous-flint-tells-residents-pay-poisoned-water-or-well-cut-you">the
water that poisoned them</a>.
<p>
There are many levels of irony here.


feed_id: 20b7295f3341cf1b372ce388b4578ff1
title: 5 years in prison for prank
uri: 5-years-in-prison-for-prank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#18_January_2016_%285_years_in_prison_for_prank%29
content:
<p>
The CFAA puts a man under 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/keys-case-spotlights-flaws-computer-hacking-law">threat
of 5 years in prison</a> for a prank that lasted 40 minutes.


feed_id: 8705ecd0861d8c4d7c9603391cb23216
title: Prisoner trade
uri: Prisoner-trade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#18_January_2016_%28Prisoner_trade%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/16/iran-prisoner-swap-jason-rezaian-donald-trump-marco-rubio-ted-cruz">traded
Iranian prisoners</a> for Jason Rezaian and some other Americans who
were imprisoned in Iran.
<p>
Rubio and Christie has a valid point to some extent; the danger they
points to can really happen under some circumstances.  When President
Reagan traded arms for the release of Americans held hostage in
Lebanon, the hostage takers simply kidnaped more Americans to get more
ransom.
<p>
However, trading prisoners is different from demanding a ransom.
There is no sign that that exploitative pattern is happening here, or
that Iran imprisoned those people in order to trade them.  As long as
Iran does not start to practice that abuse, we should continue trading
prisoners.


feed_id: 3eae3595f0f62e71ffdbdf91a9559574
title: Exxon's charter
uri: Exxon-s-charter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#18_January_2016_%28Exxons_charter%29
content:
<p>
Exxon's charter 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34379-revoke-exxonmobil-s-corporate-charter-for-climate-destruction-and-cover-up">should
be revoked</a> for its global heating lies.


feed_id: 93c13fa2c0700c2e266cdb08a3fed9be
title: Clinton on single-payer medical care
uri: Clinton-on-single-payer-medical-care
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#18_January_2016_%28Clinton_on_single-payer_medical_care%29

content:
<p>
Clinton 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/16/in-1993-meeting-hillary-clinton-acknowledged-convincing-case-for-single-payer/">endorsed
single-payer medical care</a>, until Sanders started seriously
campaigning for it.


feed_id: 2349698d323a2b1e687aff8b85b24d90
title: Video proves thugs lied about shooting
uri: Video-proves-thugs-lied-about-shooting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#18_January_2016_%28Video_proves_thugs_lied_about_shooting%29

content:
<p>
The Baltimore thugs that shot Shaun Mouzon claimed he was trying to
run them over.  A video 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/16/baltimore-police-shooting-video-contradicts-department-version">proves
they lied</a>.
<p>
The also appear to have lied when they said he was carrying a gun.


feed_id: bb5fbd65fb0891e4c1a73258522b4eb2
title: Charter schools
uri: 2016-01-19-Charter-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#18_January_2016_%28Charter_schools%29
content:
<p>
Comparing charter schools with the 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/charter-schools-mortgage-crisis-bubble">subprime
mortgage bubble</a>.


feed_id: 454ee6928e7537d57705b929477e492e
title: Colombian thugs snoop on journalists
uri: Colombian-thugs-snoop-on-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Colombian_thugs_snoop_on_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Colombian thugs have a pattern of 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/17/police-in-colombia-accused-of-spying-on-journalist-investigating-prostitution-ring/">snooping
on and tracking journalists that investigate them</a>.
<p>
The specific corruption this article focuses on might have been
avoided if prostitution were legal and thus did not need to pay
protection to the thugs, but not all official corruption is so easy to
eliminate.
<p>
In general, too much surveillance 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">threatens
democracy</a>.


feed_id: 609a0279690a3ad88d8a4962d8c76b5a
title: Urgent: Information about poisoned water
uri: Urgent-Information-about-poisoned-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Information_about_poisoned_water%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/comcau/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1184">call
for release</a> of full information about Flint's poisoned water.


feed_id: 42ac7311f8f8d65f19959f398c1245b9
title: Urgent: Help Flint
uri: Urgent-Help-Flint
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Help_Flint%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://sierra.force.com/actions/SierraRise?actionId=AR0032611">call
on the Federal government</a> to give Flint the resources to cope with
poisoned water.


feed_id: 203c46d18d7b96fa3a64105ba9e38d27
title: Air pollution public health emergency
uri: Air-pollution-public-health-emergency
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Air_pollution_public_health_emergency%29

content:
<p>
The WHO says that air pollution is a public health emergency, causing
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/16/world-heslth-organisation-figures-deadly-pollution-levels-world-biggest-cities">over
3 million premature deaths each year</a>.
<p>
This is a lot more than terrorist kill.


feed_id: 19d751ffb416320f252f97f5d1eac809
title: Sanctions against Iran to be lifted
uri: Sanctions-against-Iran-to-be-lifted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Sanctions_against_Iran_to_be_lifted%29

content:
<p>
The IAEA says that Iran has carried out its part of the nuclear deal,
so 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/16/sanctions-against-iran-to-be-lifted-after-compliance-with-nuclear-deal">international
sanctions against Iran will be lifted</a>.
<p>
However, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/16/new-iran-sanctions-delay-trade-american-prisoners">the
US will impose some sanctions</a> related to the testing of a
long-range missile.


feed_id: 07230277fcd30f82a372d4f5e7a6ac86
title: Kurds need weapons and ammunition
uri: Kurds-need-weapons-and-ammunition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Kurds_need_weapons_and_ammunition%29

content:
<p>
The Kurds 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/16/west-must-back-kurds-independence-allies-against-isis">need
heavy weapons and ammunition</a> to keep fighting PISSI, and they
deserve our support.
<p>
Especially the fighting women.


feed_id: 9033612bab4e74a79024fa79b3aa37cf
title: Deconstructing religious extremism
uri: Deconstructing-religious-extremism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Deconstructing_religious_extremism%29

content:
<p>
An Oxford University official says that religious extremists 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jan/16/allow-extremists-to-speak-at-universities-says-oxford-head">must
be allowed to speak in public</a>, and that this helps students
develop arguments against them.
<p>
The UK will investigate where Muslim extremists get their funding, but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/17/inquiry-foreign-backers-uk-extremists">will
it dare to admit the answer?</a>


feed_id: 06b03511df6496474565aa137e1270e3
title: Studies of effects of various nutrients
uri: Studies-of-effects-of-various-nutrients
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Studies_of_effects_of_various_nutrients%29

content:
<p>
Studies of effects of various nutrients rest on evidence that is
<a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition/">inherently
unreliable</a>.


feed_id: 5897ff95e2fd4f1e05d37f03b3609b85
title: FBI's special rules for subpoenas
uri: FBI-s-special-rules-for-subpoenas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28FBIs_special_rules_for_subpoenas%29

content:
<p>
The FBI published special rules for subpoenas to journalists, but the
rules are 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/01/11/new-documents-shed-light-on-se.html">worthless
as protection for journalists</a> because they have a universal escape
clause: the FBI can use a PAT RIOT Act "national security letter"
instead of a subpoena.
<p>
The rules for that are secret.
<p>
We must repeal the PAT RIOT Act, 
<a href="media/c8cfb30a.brave-and-free.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/brave-and-free.jpg">for our
freedom's sake</a>.


feed_id: f20cb3059b99841d9b36d9cdf13eef7e
title: Discontinued 3D printer with DRM
uri: Discontinued-3D-printer-with-DRM
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Discontinued_3D_printer_with_DRM%29

content:
<p>
The "Cube" 3D printer was designed with DRM: it won't accept
third-party printing materials.  It is the Keurig of printers.  Now it
is being discontinued, which means that eventually 
<a href="http://michaelweinberg.org/post/137045828005/free-the-cube">authorized
materials won't be available and the printers may become unusable</a>.
<p>
With a printer that gets the 
<a href="https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/aleph-objects">Respects
Your Freedom</a>, this problem would not even be a remote possibility.
<p>
How pitiful that the author of that article says that there was
"nothing wrong" with designing the device to restrict users in the
first place.  This is like putting a "cheat me and mistreat me" sign
on your chest.  We should know better: we should condemn all companies
that take advantage of people like him.  Indeed, it is the acceptance
of their unjust practice that teaches people to be doormats.
<p>
The proper response to DRM is:
<ul>
<li>Step 1, "I don't buy anything designed
to mistreat me — take your nasty product and
flush it down the toilet."

<li>Step 2, 
<a href="https://defectivebydesign.org/">repeal the DMCA</a>.

<li>Step 3, <em>make DRM a crime</em>.
</ul>


feed_id: 90fe37fcdd027f25c7c31aa21351e705
title: Student punished for altruism
uri: Student-punished-for-altruism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Student_punished_for_altruism%29
content:
<p>
A 12-year-old girl in New Jersey saw offered the use of her asthma
inhaler to another girl who was choking.  She is being
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/01/15/12-year-old-girl-suspended-bec.html">punished
for this act of altruism</a>.


feed_id: 5a57aaaacaba6451171942683c65d74f
title: Nuclear power can't avoid global heating
uri: Nuclear-power-can-t-avoid-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Nuclear_power_cant_avoid_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/07/3736243/nuclear-power-climate-change/">Why
nuclear power can't avoid global heating</a> — though renewable
energy can.


feed_id: 540af8d703f543a7e863e69120a8609d
title: Reporting "sexual assault" to thugs
uri: Reporting-sexual-assault-to-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Reporting_sexual_assault_to_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Women's rights activists
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/12/bernie-sanders-college-sexual-assault-cases-police">disagree
with Sanders' position</a> that schools should report all "sexual
assault" cases to the thugs.
<p>
I don't know what "sexual assault" includes, so I won't use that term.
In regard to rape, I agree with the women's rights activists that the
victim should have a choice about how to pursue it.
<p>
We can't demand that our candidates be perfect and never mistaken.


feed_id: ab9620260d672b6033767a3bdaacb6c6
title: Oligarchy using our lizard brain
uri: Oligarchy-using-our-lizard-brain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Oligarchy_using_our_lizard_brain%29

content:
<p>
The Oligarchy is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/12/oligarchy-using-our-lizard-brain-enable-silent-coup">Using
Our Lizard Brain to Enable a Silent Coup</a>.


feed_id: b23de71efa52d5d87743a695cbb1ab82
title: Deficit of democracy in Uganda
uri: Deficit-of-democracy-in-Uganda
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Deficit_of_democracy_in_Uganda%29

content:
<p>
Uganda's President
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/12/uganda-president-yoweri-museveni-epitomises-africas-democratic-deficit">Epitomises
Africa's Perceived Democratic Deficit</a>.


feed_id: f858ca31f6516438ff7f4820605405b2
title: Imprisoning children causes mental damage
uri: Imprisoning-children-causes-mental-damage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Imprisoning_children_causes_mental_damage%29

content:
<p>
Imprisoning children that are seeking asylum causes them
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jan/18/child-detainee-mental-trauma-will-last-immigration-healthcare-provider-warns">progressively
increasing mental damage</a>.


feed_id: 7eafe120dbf8a95e86d32bcf0e86cddc
title: Forum-of-the-billionaires at Davos
uri: Forum-of-the-billionaires-at-Davos
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Forum-of-the-billionaires_at_Davos%29

content:
<p>
The forum-of-the-billionaires at Davos now
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/17/davos-and-its-threat-democracy">proposes
to replace diplomacy of states with "multi-stakeholder governance"</a>
in which businesses will lead the negotiations about how to rule us.
<p>
We have seen that in the negotiations for proposed business-supremacy
treaties such as TPP and TTIP (Treacherous Plutocratic Poison and
This Treaty Is Plutocratic).


feed_id: 3eadda7779dc8f5b5c040d6939b9388d
title: Imprisoned HK publisher
uri: Imprisoned-HK-publisher
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Imprisoned_HK_publisher%29
content:
<p>
Disappeared Hong Kong publisher Gui Minhai appeared on Chinese TV to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/17/missing-hong-kong-bookseller-gui-minhai-reappears-on-chinese-tv">confess
to a supposed crime that no one had heard of before</a>.
<p>
This eliminates any doubt that China has imprisoned him and several
of his coworkers.  It seems likely they have been kidnaped.


feed_id: 097427a77acdeea2aedab79c00270587
title: Dutch man arrested for fighting PISSI
uri: Dutch-man-arrested-for-fighting-PISSI
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Dutch_man_arrested_for_fighting_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
The Netherlands has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/15/dutch-man-suspect-killing-isis-fighter-arrest">arrested
a man for joining the Kurdish forces and killing a PISSI fighter</a>.
He may be charged with murder.
<p>
This is nuts.  Fighting on the battlefield is not murder, no matter
what side the person is fighting for.


feed_id: 7702349cb2d9f1321a6b70834e1fffcb
title: Schools propose finger-vein scans
uri: Schools-propose-finger-vein-scans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Schools_propose_finger-vein_scans%29

content:
<p>
Some schools propose to use finger-vein scanners to
<a href="https://theconversation.com/the-trouble-with-taking-biometric-technology-into-schools-52355">check
students' identities</a>.
<p>
I pose a deeper question: what justification exists for this?
Is there a real problem for which this is a legitimate solution?


feed_id: c3b625289e52eb05760b9a04eb806940
title: Plans to label dissent as "cybercrime"
uri: Plans-to-label-dissent-as-cybercrime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Plans_to_label_dissent_as_cybercrime%29

content:
<p>
Bangladesh's government plans to label dissent as "cybercrime", with
sentences of
<a href="http://www.dw.com/en/concerns-mount-as-bangladesh-plans-new-anti-cybercrime-law/a-18975791">up
to 14 years in prison</a>.


feed_id: 166c2fadd247aaa42a51a23b2cd6c273
title: UK cafe and library communication data
uri: UK-cafe-and-library-communication-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28UK_cafe_and_library_communication_data%29

content:
<p>
The UK
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/13/snoopers-charter-theresa-may-cafes-wifi-network-store-customers-data">threatens
to require cafes and libraries to record users' communication
data</a>.
<p>
I suppose this includes requiring them to identify themselves, which
is in itself an injustice of a sort that I always refuse.


feed_id: b42a51855150bec13100a70cf1bfd57d
title: Urgent: Investigate Sandra Bland's death
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Sandra-Bland-s-death
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_Sandra_Blands_death%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/sandra-bland/">call on
Attorney General Lynch</a> to investigate Sandra Bland's death and
press charges against those responsible.


feed_id: 2692dc641c71f81dd9060bff0d139aee
title: Urgent: Stop targeting families
uri: Urgent-Stop-targeting-families
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_targeting_families%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/stop-targeting-families">call
on Obama</a> to stop targeting Central American families for
deportation.


feed_id: e87e639e72bf10d83e5017a89bee1f44
title: Urgent: Repeal sale of Oak Flat
uri: Urgent-Repeal-sale-of-Oak-Flat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Repeal_sale_of_Oak_Flat%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/sanders_oak_flat">call on the
Senate</a> to repeal the sale (and destruction) of Oak Flat.


feed_id: afeefba543294156321d56da126603f8
title: Prosecutors protect Baltimore thugs
uri: Prosecutors-protect-Baltimore-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Prosecutors_protect_Baltimore_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Baltimore thugs shot Keith Davis, then accused him of various crimes.
Apparently the culprit was someone else.  Prosecutors are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/18/surviving-police-shooting-baltimore-freddie-gray">trying
to undermine his defense to vindicate the thugs</a>.


feed_id: 751841cf54d2e3fc9964a33f5e878023
title: 62 people own half the world
uri: 62-people-own-half-the-world
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%2862_people_own_half_the_world%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/01/18/62-people-own-same-half-world-reveals-oxfam-davos-report">62
People Own the Same as Half the World</a>, Reveals Oxfam Davos Report.


feed_id: 15b15dc3e73412138963aa04a686e6b1
title: Spread of ticks due to global heating
uri: Spread-of-ticks-due-to-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Spread_of_ticks_due_to_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Global heating has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/18/black-legged-ticks-lyme-disease-across-us">helped
spread the ticks that carry Lyme disease</a>.


feed_id: 35c4b41fcc54bee664e9b082fd5f2321
title: Australians' stored personal data
uri: Australians-stored-personal-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Australians_stored_personal_data%29

content:
<p>
Australia
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/18/dozens-of-agencies-want-warrantless-access-to-australians-metadata-again">told
many government agencies they must get a warrant</a> to access a
person's stored personal data.  The agencies don't like this.
<p>
The limit is a step in the right direction, but we need to
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">reduce
the amount of personal data that gets collected</a>.


feed_id: 27e7f028f906fdfd5632c17e8708909d
title: Arrested for posing nude in museum
uri: Arrested-for-posing-nude-in-museum
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Arrested_for_posing_nude_in_museum%29

content:
<p>
An artist/hacker was arrested for stripping nude in a Paris museum and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/18/naked-artist-deborah-de-robertis-arrested-for-posing-nude-next-to-manets-olympia">taking
the same pose as the nude in the famous painting on the wall behind
her</a>.


feed_id: b64c9c9d58f1e47a7c868f168e7fda99
title: Outline for single-payer medical care
uri: Outline-for-single-payer-medical-care
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Outline_for_single-payer_medical_care%29

content:
<p>
Sanders has published
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/bernie-sanders-releases-outline-universal-health-care-plan%E2%80%94and-its-pretty-good">the
outline</a> of his single-payer medical coverage for all.
<p>
It won't save as much money as an NHS would, but it would
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#4_June_2011_(Single-payer_Health_Care)">put
an end to the gouging</a> of the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_August_2014_(Gouging_uninsured_people)">noninsured</a>.


feed_id: 931d3fe2fefcc16bc28513e87f8ec782
title: EU proposes weak car emissions tests
uri: EU-proposes-weak-car-emissions-tests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28EU_proposes_weak_car_emissions_tests%29

content:
<p>
The new car emissions tests that the EU proposes in response to the Volkswagen cheating scandal are too weak,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/18/weak-eu-tests-for-diesel-emissions-are-illegal-say-lawyers">arguably
illegal</a>.


feed_id: 39ad5fbf08116c2a393257afde50482d
title: TB rate in corner of Alabama
uri: TB-rate-in-corner-of-Alabama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28TB_rate_in_corner_of_Alabama%29
content:
<p>
A corner of Alabama has the tuberculosis rate of a poor country,
because
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/18/us/in-rural-alabama-a-longtime-mistrust-of-medicine-fuels-a-tuberculosis-outbreak.html">people
don't trust medicine</a>.  Partly it is due to official wrongdoing.
But not entirely.


feed_id: f334e9dcfa4dc033f7c21b54fd457f72
title: Kidnaped by China
uri: Kidnaped-by-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#19_January_2016_%28Kidnaped_by_China%29
content:
<p>
Gui Minhai's daughter says his "confession" was bogus and that he
must have been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/18/daughter-of-hong-kong-bookseller-dismisses-china-state-tv-confession">kidnaped
by China</a>.


feed_id: 880d3c78c3362e9762d2701c44748012
title: UK's terrorism law
uri: UK-s-terrorism-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28UKs_terrorism_law%29
content:
<p>
An appeals court ruled that the UK's terrorism law, which was used as
an excuse to confiscate David Miranda's computer memories, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/terrorism-act-incompatible-with-human-rights-court-rules-in-david-miranda-case">violates
human rights</a>.  It has no protections against labeling journalist
as "terrorism".
<p>
The court does not appear to have addressed the worst aspect of that
evil law: that it punishes people with years of imprisonment for not
answering questions.  Which questions are they required to answer?
They can't ask a lawyer, so really they are not allowed to know.  This
means the thugs can bluff as they like.
<p>
Laws like this are a bigger threat to Britons than terrorists are, and
the same is true in all countries, except a few in North Africa and
the Middle East.


feed_id: 5300a5f44f8c53621456e73836e82876
title: Recognizing trafficking of girls
uri: Recognizing-trafficking-of-girls
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Recognizing_trafficking_of_girls%29

content:
<p>
How flight attendants 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/01/15/1470308/-Flight-attendant-tells-how-she-learned-to-recognize-human-trafficking-and-what-you-can-do">recognize
trafficking of girls</a>.


feed_id: b7ac28074e403fb5f1f87e0142fd4e3a
title: Marriage proposals from undercover thugs
uri: Marriage-proposals-from-undercover-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Marriage_proposals_from_undercover_thugs%29

content:
<p>
A British woman is suing the thug department, because an undercover
thug
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/18/police-spy-carlo-neri-woman-sues-psychological-torture">proposed
marriage to her in order to spy on her union activist friends</a>.
<p>
She wants the list of undercover spies published so other victims can
get an explanation (and perhaps compensation) for their mysterious
losses.


feed_id: 9a4cea98cedbf6a448b48c6f58fb1cf5
title: Google to perform special censorship
uri: Google-to-perform-special-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Google_to_perform_special_censorship%29

content:
<p>
Google has agreed to perform special censorship of Youtube for the
government of Pakistan, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/pakistans-youtube-ban-lifted-as-government-gets-say-over-content">deleting
views that the state opposes</a>.
<p>
This will help the illiberal Pakistani state 
<a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001146.html">suppress
dissent</a>.


feed_id: d1537dd137bc98c4d0928e26e9506f5e
title: Conned by rich predators of Davos
uri: Conned-by-rich-predators-of-Davos
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Conned_by_rich_predators_of_Davos%29

content:
<p>
We've been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/19/davos-super-rich-wealth-inequality">conned</a>
by the rich predators of Davos.


feed_id: 6f49c8414b7449a3f1fc4bc748846e5f
title: Candidates for Iran's parliament
uri: Candidates-for-Iran-s-parliament
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Candidates_for_Irans_parliament%29

content:
<p>
Of 3000 "moderate" would-be candidates for Iran's parliament, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2016/jan/19/iran-guardian-council-blocks-reformists-february-parliamentary-poll">only
30 have been permitted to run</a>.
<p>
Iran remains a theocratic tyranny, notwithstanding its limited layer
of democracy, but that would be no reason to continue sanctions
against Iran.  The sanctions were never going to make Iran respect
human rights.


feed_id: d3ce8cc010f4bbdd568a0d3a9bd52c7f
title: Urgent: Drop the Hyde amendment
uri: Urgent-Drop-the-Hyde-amendment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_the_Hyde_amendment%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Obama_Hyde">call on Obama</a>
to drop the Hyde amendment from his proposed budget.
<p>
The Hyde amendment forbids use of US government funds to pay for
"abortion as a method of family planning" — for instance, avoiding
having a baby because you know that would be a very bad idea.
<p>
SCROTUS may insist on putting it back, but Obama need not propose it.
<p>
(SCROTUS = Sleazy Congressional Republicans Of The United States.)


feed_id: e2ec969da5d01ef7c18d9977cab5c659
title: Urgent: Immigration policies
uri: Urgent-Immigration-policies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Immigration_policies%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/senate-reject-any-politics">call
on the Senate</a> to reject immigration policies that target people by
race or religion.


feed_id: 189f8e4ede3d4e555ddeb492450cb205
title: Urgent: Unbury research on neonics
uri: Urgent-Unbury-research-on-neonics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Unbury_research_on_neonics%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-bees/">call on the
USDA</a> to stop burying Jonathan Lundgren's research on dangers of
neonics.


feed_id: e4a85e947aa43e9b2b32a20b5464c38f
title: Acupuncture
uri: 2016-01-20-Acupuncture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Acupuncture%29
content:
<p>
Acupuncture is equivalent, for treating symptoms of menopause, to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/19/acupuncture-no-better-for-menopause-than-fake-method-says-researchers">fake
needles that only press the skin</a>.
<p>
This does not conclusively prove there is absolutely no validity in
acupuncture.  Conceivably mere pressure has some unknown effect.
Or it could be the well-known placebo effect.


feed_id: 62505ee6ffd07822aaa2bfad2c1fa86b
title: Australia's immigration prisons
uri: Australia-s-immigration-prisons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Australias_immigration_prisons%29

content:
<p>
Doctors in Australia's outsourced immigration prisons say they are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jan/19/australias-offshore-detention-damages-asylum-seekers-because-its-supposed-to">designed
to damage (even kill) the imprisoned refugees</a>, and to cover it up.


feed_id: 9f3be15d3624bfa957accfc74ae2df32
title: Putin's satrap in Chechnia
uri: Putin-s-satrap-in-Chechnia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Putins_satrap_in_Chechnia%29
content:
<p>
Putin's satrap in Chechnia, who makes Putin look kindly and liberal by
comparison,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/18/chechen-leaders-closest-allies-issue-online-threats-to-liberal-opponents">terrorizes
Russians that criticize him</a>.


feed_id: aee1eb5e61a69b8be4157525f3b8cd34
title: US democracy broken by oligarchy
uri: US-democracy-broken-by-oligarchy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28US_democracy_broken_by_oligarchy%29

content:
<p>
An Oligarchy Has Broken Our [US] Democracy.
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/18/oligarchy-has-brokenour-democracy-it-must-be-dislodged">It
Must Be Dislodged</a>.


feed_id: a4a364d4480ff4c94a008171b0ee1029
title: Business-supremacy treaties
uri: Business-supremacy-treaties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Business-supremacy_treaties%29
content:
<p>
On old-fashioned "national trade interests", the TTIP would be
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/18/crafted-and-big-business-ttip-under-fire-across-europe">bad
for Europe's small companies</a> and good for US multinationals.
<p>
Of course, national trade interests are a secondary issue compared to
the far-reaching
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_(Investor-state)">direct
injustices of business-supremacy treaties such as the TTIP (This
Treaty Is Plutocratic)</a>.
<p>
No wonder the think tanks that support the TTIP are
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/01/17/revealed-the-hidden-web-of-bi.html">funded
by plutocrats as a form of policy laundering</a>.


feed_id: 6c8409e0a6d5d13b5ae4e5a7b4d05e42
title: High doses of cocaine
uri: High-doses-of-cocaine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28High_doses_of_cocaine%29
content:
<p>
High doses of cocaine, in mice, cause brain cells to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/18/high-cocaine-doses-can-cause-brain-to-eat-itself">>digest
essential organelles and die</a>.
<p>
Whether this happens in humans has not yet been established.


feed_id: b9fabb165480f1a4a2a853cff01d8e5b
title: EU condemns Israeli colonies
uri: EU-condemns-Israeli-colonies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28EU_condemns_Israeli_colonies%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/18/eu-adopts-resolution-criticising-israeli-settlement-activity-occupied-palestinian-territories">EU
Adopts Resolution Criticising Israeli Settlement Activity</a>.
<p>
The word "criticising" seems like an understatement.  The resolution
roundly condemns the Israeli colonies in occupied territory, and some
other wrongs of the occupation.


feed_id: 0c13e52fd630c495e5bc8079c1b693b2
title: The nuclear deal with Iran
uri: The-nuclear-deal-with-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28The_nuclear_deal_with_Iran%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/18/iran-sanctions-lifting-celebrations-nuclear-deal">The
Era of Sanctions is Over in Iran</a>.  So Why No Celebrations?
<p>
The purpose of the nuclear deal was to establish that Iran won't
develop nuclear weapons, thus to eliminate the excuse being used to
pressure the US into war with Iran.  I think that is something to
celebrate, even though Iran remains an unjust theocratic regime.


feed_id: 2a124d07babb978372238fa2536f15bd
title: Electricity produced from wind in Denmark
uri: Electricity-produced-from-wind-in-Denmark
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Electricity_produced_from_wind_in_Denmark%29

content:
<p>
Denmark produced
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/18/denmark-broke-world-record-for-wind-power-in-2015">over
40% of its electricity</a> from wind in 2015.


feed_id: 209406874d2bcd0a01805ca64f6c0827
title: Oceans warming faster
uri: Oceans-warming-faster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Oceans_warming_faster%29
content:
<p>
World's Oceans Warming at
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/18/world-oceans-warming-faster-rate-new-study-fossil-fuels">Increasingly
Faster Rate</a>, New Study Finds.


feed_id: 3c420ad1cc2f4c58f6d5b96434caefae
title: Denialists grasping at straws
uri: Denialists-grasping-at-straws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Denialists_grasping_at_straws%29
content:
<p>
Denialists grasp at satellite straws to as an excuse to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jan/18/ted-cruz-fact-check-which-temperature-data-are-the-best">disregard
the best evidence about past temperatures on Earth</a>.


feed_id: 9ae67e232ee1774ac98e5588fba4baae
title: Ethical problem with big banks
uri: Ethical-problem-with-big-banks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Ethical_problem_with_big_banks%29

content:
<p>
The ethical problem with big banks is that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jan/18/big-banks-problem-ethics-morality-davos">banksters
are amoral</a>.  The only question they ask at work is, "How can we
profit through the loopholes that our lobbyists put in the law for
us?"


feed_id: 9faae96c5a9ab219bf9b3bada983d247
title: Six Responses to Bernie Skeptics
uri: Six-Responses-to-Bernie-Skeptics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Six_Responses_to_Bernie_Skeptics%29

content:
<p>
Robert Reich:
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/robert-reich-six-responses-bernie-skeptics">Six
Responses to Bernie Skeptics</a>.


feed_id: 57eb217ff8a1c7a955aebf528ad86c2c
title: Non-gay civil partnerships
uri: Non-gay-civil-partnerships
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Non-gay_civil_partnerships%29
content:
<p>
Non-gays should have the right to a civil partnership
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/19/straight-people-equal-rights-civil-partnership-steinfeld-keidan">instead
of marriage</a>.


feed_id: b0d01fcecbaccb6f3b36002dd6d15333
title: Requiring special visas for journalism
uri: Requiring-special-visas-for-journalism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Requiring_special_visas_for_journalism%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/star-of-anti-dolphin-killing-documentary-the-cove-ric-o-barry-held-by-japanese-immigration">Star
of Anti-Dolphin Killing Film, The Cove, Held by Japanese
Immigration</a>.
<p>
To require special visas for journalism is an attack on the truth, and
must occasion the strong suspicion that the government knows it is
doing something wrong.  This policy is wrong no matter which country
practices it, whether that be Japan,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#13_January_2014_(Nauru_requires_$7000_special_visas_for_journalists)">Nauru</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_February_2014_(China_kicks_out_foreign_journalists_in_retaliation_for_criticism)">China</a>,
or the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-may-aug.html#17%20June%202004%20(Elena%20Lappin)">United
States</a>.


feed_id: bddc04d5ef5211e71ef595035b4bf6bb
title: Peru official fired for doing good job
uri: Peru-official-fired-for-doing-good-job
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Peru_official_fired_for_doing_good_job%29

content:
<p>
Peru's chief official
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/19/peru-sacks-top-anti-logging-official-rolando-navarro">in
charge of ending illegal logging</a> has been fired, apparently for
doing a good job.


feed_id: c63f59781dbe0e3b51652d1dd4701567
title: Bombing hospitals and schools
uri: Bombing-hospitals-and-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Bombing_hospitals_and_schools%29
content:
<p>
Bombing hospitals and schools
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/19/yemen-msf-bombing-hospitals-schools-cannot-become-the-new-normal">must
not be tolerated</a>.
<p>
Are you listening, Obama?


feed_id: 84b5e2d21a46a0f693867319b30cc5ae
title: Invasion in Middle East useless
uri: Invasion-in-Middle-East-useless
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Invasion_in_Middle_East_useless%29

content:
<p>
US politicians must stop trying to repeat the useless approach of
invasion in the Middle East — it only
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/18/you-wont-it-heres-answer-isis">makes
things worse</a>.
<p>
I disagree partly with the article.  It is legitimate to provide close
air support to armies fighting PISSI, because that can be a big help
to them and civilians will usually have fled the immediate area.  But
nothing more than that.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/islamic-state-holding-estimated-3500-slaves-in-iraq-says-un">Islamic
State Holding Estimated 3,500 Slaves in Iraq, Says UN</a>.
<p>
These crimes are part of the reason why we should fight PISSI, but
only in ways that are likely to succeed, rather than aid its
recruiting.


feed_id: e2dffc45d0a6142713d1bca7611f007c
title: Urgent: Investigate Flint's governor
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Flint-s-governor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_Flints_governor%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Flint_Snyder">call on the
Justice Department</a> to investigate Governor Snyder's role in
subjecting Flint to lead poisoning.


feed_id: 05c7ef4ac558d8e800104f4e2af546b0
title: Useless "nation-building"
uri: Useless-nation-building
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_January_2016_%28Useless_nation-building%29
content:
<p>
More useless "nation-building": the US
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/49389">tried to
develop mining and fossil fuels in Afghanistan</a>, and achieved
nothing.
<p>
Of course, if it had managed to develop fossil fuels there,
we would all be worse off.


feed_id: 9567c452c374ccb60fafde020eb1b36a
title: The richest 1%
uri: The-richest-1
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_January_2016_%28The_richest_1-percent%29
content:
<p>
The richest 1% of humanity owns
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AEEn8arxhPQ/simon-kennedy">more
wealth than all the rest</a>.


feed_id: 5453472adb977fd3340fff76d4f70dae
title: Regulation of fracking
uri: Regulation-of-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_January_2016_%28Regulation_of_fracking%29
content:
<p>
The Florida legislature
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/19/florida-everglades-fracking-oil-drilling-proposed-law">may
bar cities and counties from regulating fracking</a>.  This would make
it harder to stop fracking.
<p>
Fracking should be entirely stopped, because it endangers health of
humans and wildlife.  Since we need to keep 80% of known fossil fuel
reserves in the ground, we should include in that 80% all the reserves
that would require fracking.
<p>
If we don't do that, the Everglades will become part of the Atlantic
Ocean and we will be worrying about whether coral can live there.


feed_id: bfa6f03e02fbfe5049df9da83f6b419f
title: Wearable computers
uri: Wearable-computers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_January_2016_%28Wearable_computers%29
content:
<p>
Wearable computers will oppress people if companies can get their
hands on the data.  And most of them are
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-happens-to-the-data-collected-on-us-while-we-sleep">designed
to give the data directly to companies</a>.
<p>
Officially telling people they have the right to say no is not enough
to prevent it, because some companies will charge a hefty penalty for
doing so.  We must make it illegal for companies to ask for this data
except in very special circumstances.


feed_id: 37ecceb6bb63317e19eeaa0ac2c89246
title: Thug tells drivers to run over protesters
uri: Thug-tells-drivers-to-run-over-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_January_2016_%28Thug_tells_drivers_to_run_over_protesters%29

content:
<p>
A thug
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/minnesota-cop-run-over-black-lives-matter-protesters">told
drivers to run over Black Lives Matter protesters</a>, thus
demonstrating why we need Black Lives Matter protests.


feed_id: c9b9cad831fb43b201dd51dc89d1b635
title: China's coal use
uri: China-s-coal-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_January_2016_%28Chinas_coal_use%29
content:
<p>
China's coal use
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/19/chinas-coal-burning-in-significant-decline-figures-show">dropped
2 to 4 percent in 2015</a>.
<p>
That's not bad enough news for the global coal industry.  We need to
knock it into the grave, as fast as we can!


feed_id: a8cf4d3357cad8d47e7b433164f9565d
title: World-wide fish catches falling
uri: World-wide-fish-catches-falling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_January_2016_%28World-wide_fish_catches_falling%29

content:
<p>
World-wide fish catches are falling fast due to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/19/overfishing-causing-global-catches-to-fall-three-times-faster-than-estimated">overfishing</a>.


feed_id: f8e755fca3ea1a195e1e085e6da2be25
title: Turkey demands exclusion of Syria's Kurds
uri: Turkey-demands-exclusion-of-Syria-s-Kurds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_January_2016_%28Turkey_demands_exclusion_of_Syrias_Kurds%29

content:
<p>
Turkey
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/refugee-intake-should-give-turkey-major-influence-over-syria-peace-talks">demands
to exclude Syria's Kurds from Syria's peace talks</a>.  This would be
a great boost for PISSI, as well as making success impossible.


feed_id: cec47d64d87e08b5113fbb9415de3598
title: The TTIP
uri: 2016-01-21-The-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_January_2016_%28The_TTIP%29
content:
<p>
The TTIP
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/12/how-americas-embrace-gmos-and-pesticides-could-trigger-downfall-eu-farmers">could
destroy Europe's small farms</a>, or force them to use use GMOs and
lower their quality standards.


feed_id: 8257f3d7a27fb0375ca3cafe8bb77f32
title: Democratic candidates on encryption
uri: Democratic-candidates-on-encryption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_January_2016_%28Democratic_candidates_on_encryption%29

content:
<p>
The Democratic candidates'
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/dem-candidate-omalley-regardless-of-backdoors-warrant-always-needed/">statements
on encryption</a>: O'Malley is bad, and Sanders is so-so, while
Clinton is like a Republican (yech).


feed_id: 6495a874d53eca61f5c1896572884cc2
title: Imprisoned Turkish editor rebukes EU
uri: Imprisoned-Turkish-editor-rebukes-EU
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#20_January_2016_%28Imprisoned_Turkish_editor_rebukes_EU%29

content:
<p>
Turkish editor Can Dündar, imprisoned for writing about Turkey's
arming Syrian jihadis,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/jailed-turkish-editor-can-dundar-slams-eu-deal-with-erdogans-fascist-government">rebukes
the EU for its deal with Erdo&gbreve;an</a>.
<p>
His lawyers are not allowed to see the charges against him, which
means his trial will be unfair.  That's because he didn't do anything
wrong.


feed_id: 98294112ef7d0557aa75d18d7877e368
title: The low price of oil
uri: 2016-01-23-The-low-price-of-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28The_low_price_of_oil%29
content:
<p>
The low price of oil may not slow
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/01/oil-prices-renewables-electric-vehicles">adoption
of renewable electric generation</a>.
<p>
However, to avoid disaster, we must decarbonize more than just
electric generation.  We need to reduce the emissions of cars, trucks,
trains, ships, and planes, too, as well as heating of homes and
buildings.  The low price of oil reduces one of the incentives.
<p>
The low price
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/20/slump-in-oil-prices-drives-green-energy-take-up-in-top-exporting-nations">encourages
some oil exporters to put in renewable energy</a>, but the fraction of
oil that they use is tiny.
<p>
We should make sure the use of oil keeps decreasing, by putting a
bigger tax on it.


feed_id: baaecc5006e73e63000957b45e0be20a
title: Anti-slavery activists face clampdown
uri: Anti-slavery-activists-face-clampdown
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28Anti-slavery_activists_face_clampdown%29

content:
<p>
Anti-Slavery Activists in Mauritania Face
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/20/anti-slavery-activists-in-mauritania-face-violent-clampdown-rights-groups-warn">Violent
Clampdown</a>, Rights Groups Warn.


feed_id: dd57b484dac30980fded886a30650a10
title: Outsourced production of tools
uri: Outsourced-production-of-tools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28Outsourced_production_of_tools%29

content:
<p>
Why outsourcing production of tools
<a href="http://hackaday.com/2016/01/18/whats-in-a-tool-a-case-for-made-in-usa/">tends
to produce inferior tools</a>.


feed_id: 2bc9fca04dd2138a905449112e1ea90d
title: Symphony surveillance software
uri: Symphony-surveillance-software
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28Symphony_surveillance_software%29

content:
<p>
Apps that include Symphony surveillance software
<a href="http://techaeris.com/2016/01/13/symphony-advanced-media-software-tracks-your-digital-life-through-your-smartphone-mic/">snoop
on what radio and TV programs are playing nearby</a>.  Also on what
users post on various sites such as Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.


feed_id: ac20921724aed1a21a126b35a62bf30d
title: Journalist blocked from visiting US
uri: Journalist-blocked-from-visiting-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28Journalist_blocked_from_visiting_US%29

content:
<p>
A BBC journalist, Iranian-British, was blocked from visiting her
brother in the US because of the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/19/bbc-journalist-stopped-from-flying-to-us-over-uk-iranian-nationality">new
discriminatory immigration rules</a>.
<p>
She also cannot go to Iran, because Iran does not like the BBC.


feed_id: 64c611b47612a102b03b8ba0176d7c6b
title: Irreproducible published results
uri: Irreproducible-published-results
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28Irreproducible_published_results%29

content:
<p>
Science faces a crisis of
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/01/19/broken-science">published
results that are not reproducible</a>.  Perhaps more than half of
published papers are mistaken.
<p>
It is nice to have one Journal of Irreproducible Results, but it's bad
to have thousands of them.


feed_id: 240588751e4da13579d5daa28b156c01
title: Plastic in the sea
uri: 2016-01-23-Plastic-in-the-sea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28Plastic_in_the_sea%29
content:
<p>
If we don't prevent it,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/19/more-plastic-than-fish-in-the-sea-by-2050-warns-ellen-macarthur">by
2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish</a>.


feed_id: d46af532405486e0750cd2825fbe8d53
title: Violent radical Judaist extremists
uri: Violent-radical-Judaist-extremists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28Violent_radical_Judaist_extremists%29

content:
<p>
On the
<a href="http://forward.com/news/328981/the-radical-new-face-of-the-jewish-settler-movement/">violent
radical Judaist extremists</a> that are trying to kick the Arabs out
of Palestine.


feed_id: b53faf62c7d2a356f2448ec7f57ccbd8
title: Right-wing extremists in charge of Israel
uri: Right-wing-extremists-in-charge-of-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28Right-wing_extremists_in_charge_of_Israel%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing extremists that
<a href="http://www.commdiginews.com/world-news/israels-religious-extremism-twenty-years-after-the-assassination-of-yitzhak-rabin-53133/">praised
the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin</a> are now
in charge of Israel.
<p>
They are
<a href="http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769789">restricting human
rights</a> for Arab citizens of Israel.


feed_id: a0ce4f8f79936df90484783a0f008bb6
title: UK's use of unjust questioning power
uri: UK-s-use-of-unjust-questioning-power
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28UKs_use_of_unjust_questioning_power%29

content:
<p>
The UK uses its unjust questioning power on tens of thousands of
travelers each year, each of whom is compelled to answer
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/19/david-miranda-ruling-throws-new-light-on-schedule-7-powers">questions
that would otherwise be forbidden to ask</a>.


feed_id: 6656b426e52bf1494bedd51e3aecdeca
title: Universities plan to track students
uri: Universities-plan-to-track-students
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28Universities_plan_to_track_students%29

content:
<p>
Universities plan to track
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jan/19/big-brother-universities-data-higher-education-students">everything
students do, and everywhere they go</a>.
<p>
If this is really for the student's benefit, they should leave all the
data on the student's own computer, to be collected and then used by
free software on that computer.  There is no need to be concerned with
possible "cheating", since the student would cheat only perself.(*)
<p>
* Since use of "they" in singular offends my sense of correct English,
I sometimes use Marge Piercy's nongendered third-person pronouns,
"person", "per" and "pers".  They work like "she", "her" and "hers"
but specify nothing about the referent's gender.  See the novel, Woman
on the Edge of Time.


feed_id: cac9d7ecb76fd329d0ca91ca3fd4e617
title: Plutocratist "Democrat" has challenger
uri: Plutocratist-Democrat-has-challenger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28Plutocratist_Democrat_has_challenger%29

content:
<p>
Rep. Wasserman Schultz, plutocratist and reactionary "Democrat", has a
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/19/meet-debbie-wasserman-schultzs-first-ever-primary-challenger-tim-canova/">progressive
primary challenger</a>.


feed_id: dfbcccb2b1a93f837930d9128f8895db
title: Honduras plans anti-corruption body
uri: Honduras-plans-anti-corruption-body
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28Honduras_plans_anti-corruption_body%29

content:
<p>
Honduras plans an international anti-corruption body, in imitation of
the one in neighboring Guatemala, but it has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/honduras-juan-orlando-hernandez-oas-international-corruption-maccih">designed
to lack the same authority</a>.  Perhaps designed to fail.


feed_id: 909ddef8febed20d97817796df193ea5
title: Ocean heating
uri: 2016-01-23-Ocean-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#22_January_2016_%28Ocean_heating%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ocean-depths-are-trapping-heat-19922">90%
of the heat that greenhouse gases have collected</a> has gone into the
oceans.


feed_id: febfe64e6c9dcb597eeaf61308d1c972
title: A year in jail for offending Erdo&gbreve;an
uri: A-year-in-jail-for-offending-Erdo-gbreve-an
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28A_year_in_jail_for_offending_Erdogan%29

content:
<p>
A Turkish teacher has been jailed for a year because Erdo&gbreve;an
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/20/turkish-teacher-jailed-rude-gesture-recep-erdogan">saw
her give him the finger (or something equivalent)</a>.
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an is the open enemy of freedom in Turkey, and the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#11_January_2016_(Turkey_and_PISSI)">secret
friend of PISSI</a>.


feed_id: df7e2488eeb5515d74cb5612a1d18c83
title: War between human tribes
uri: War-between-human-tribes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28War_between_human_tribes%29
content:
<p>
Skeletons of casualties demonstrate war between human tribes,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/20/stone-age-massacre-offers-earliest-evidence-human-warfare-kenya">10,000
years ago</a>.


feed_id: 22d4c69fe920f1c7c0dbd31895f7f5d9
title: US politicians' talk about back doors
uri: US-politicians-talk-about-back-doors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28US_politicians_talk_about_back_doors%29

content:
<p>
US politicians' talk about "cooperation to put in back doors"
<a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001147.html">may be
political preparation for a tyrannical law to require them</a>.
<p>
And
<a href="http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/266354-lawmakers-set-to-introduce-encryption-commission-bill">they
are proposing a commission</a> to "search for a way" to do this while
"protecting our privacy".
<p>
They hope to "find" a way which damages our privacy,
and pretend that it doesn't.


feed_id: 3292f42c46b0ddf395b6b992e2d04b78
title: Repression of protesters in Tasmania
uri: Repression-of-protesters-in-Tasmania
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28Repression_of_protesters_in_Tasmania%29

content:
<p>
Tasmania (part of Australia) is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jan/20/logging-protesters-first-to-be-charged-under-tasmanias-anti-protest-laws">heavily
repressing protesters against clear-cutting forests</a>.


feed_id: 207dadbccb6ab54051717b83d1865fe7
title: Trump's boastful promises
uri: Trump-s-boastful-promises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28Trumps_boastful_promises%29
content:
<p>
Trump got approval for a big casino/hotel by making
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/mistake-heart-trump-atlantic-city-fiasco">boastful
promises he was unable to keep</a>.  When the business went broke,
lots of investors lost money.


feed_id: 124d8f8a3ac41514060b3163edaa8985
title: Criminal prosecutions in the US
uri: Criminal-prosecutions-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28Criminal_prosecutions_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The US government is
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/20/obama-justice-department-likes-criminally-prosecuting-people-but-not-corporations/">much
more likely to prosecute an individual than a corporation</a>.


feed_id: 6f8a1a6e402da2695086e6fc351867b4
title: China presents Peter Dahlin's "confession"
uri: China-presents-Peter-Dahlin-s-confession
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28China_presents_Peter_Dahlins_confession%29

content:
<p>
China presented Peter Dahlin on TV
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/20/swedish-activist-peter-dahlin-paraded-on-china-state-tv-for-scripted-confession">making
an absurd "confession" and saying that he's having a lovely time in
jail</a>.
<p>
China is becoming a shameless tyranny again.


feed_id: 15fd631bade16852ce1f1b1392bfa31e
title: Purpose of CISA is snooping
uri: Purpose-of-CISA-is-snooping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28Purpose_of_CISA_is_snooping%29
content:
<p>
CISA, which
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/01/19/cisa-wouldnt-have-prevented-opm-hack">pretends
to serve the goal of better cybersecurity</a>, would not have
prevented the massive data breach about US government employees.  Its
purpose is snooping, and security is just the excuse.


feed_id: 0b4fbab7c4dc6744dafee8c13a7aaf32
title: Hottest year ever recorded: 2015
uri: Hottest-year-ever-recorded-2015
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28Hottest_year_ever_recorded%3A_2015%29

content:
<p>
2015 was the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/20/2015-smashes-record-for-hottest-year-final-figures-confirm">hottest
year ever recorded</a>.  The second hottest was 2014.
<p>
2016 is expected to set a new record.


feed_id: f4769fdf3d6f69b5be8fa236885d8f0b
title: EU migration crisis
uri: EU-migration-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28EU_migration_crisis%29
content:
<p>
Pressure to Resolve Migration Crisis
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/20/pressure-to-resolve-migration-crisis-could-tear-eu-apart">Could
Tear EU Apart</a>.
<p>
If that occurs, I think the flaw will be the weakness of central
democracy in the EU.  The parliament is weak, the commission is not
democratic at all, and the countries' governments consider only their
narrow interests.


feed_id: 91197bc22c97448a11c89cfdf1ef26f6
title: Security on "internet of things"
uri: Security-on-internet-of-things
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28Security_on_internet_of_things%29

content:
<p>
A
<a href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/feamster/who-will-secure-the-internet-of-things/">glaringly
inadequate recommendation</a> for security on the "internet of
things".
<p>
What it <em>says</em> is true enough, but it only considers security
against third parties, and totally ignores the issue of security
against the manufacturer.  That's a glaring omission, because the
software in these devices is nearly always proprietary.  Nowadays it
is not merely <em>conceivable</em> that a proprietary program is
malware; it is
<a href="http://gnu.org/proprietary/">standard industry practice</a>.


feed_id: 53d3e7bc670bb96477bd209c63d303d0
title: "Threat" to business
uri: Threat-to-business
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28Threat_to_business%29
content:
<p>
World business "leaders"
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jan/20/climate-change-threats-business-leaders-davos-survey">did
not recognize climate mayhem as the biggest "threat to business"</a>.
<p>
They are thinking short term, and their definition of "threat" means
"obstacle to their plans".  So they said the biggest threat was
"over-regulation" — which means, stopping them from screwing and
cheating us as they would wish.


feed_id: c68beec8fc769cc0599d786fb96a50e3
title: Crappy accommodations for UK's homeless
uri: Crappy-accommodations-for-UK-s-homeless
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28Crappy_accomodations_for_UKs_homeless%29

content:
<p>
The UK does not make homeless people sleep on the street, but its alternative
nowadays is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/jan/20/britain-hidden-homeless-temporary-accommodation-ippr">really
crappy</a>.


feed_id: 3760c738823f1ad7a90a0aeed03e4008
title: Egyptian officials meeting with Torture Brennan
uri: Egyptian-officials-meeting-with-Torture-Brennan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28Egyptian_officials_meeting_with_Torture_Brennan%29

content:
<p>
The US "assassination tsar", Torture Brennan, has been
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/20/cia-director-john-brennan-visits-egypt-amid-sisi-crackdown/">meeting
with Egyptian officials</a>.
<p>
I presume he encouraged them to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2005-mar-jun.html#12%20May%202005%20(Torture)">torture
suspected enemies of the regime, such as Islamists</a> and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#21_May_2012_(Egyptian_protesters_tortured)">supporters
of democracy</a>.


feed_id: 60693392d03168d58c4cc57f386b26ea
title: Verizon violating network neutrality
uri: Verizon-violating-network-neutrality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28Verizon_violating_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
Verizon is directly violating network neutrality
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/verizon-wireless-selling-data-cap-exemptions-to-content-providers/">in
the most flagrant way</a>, demonstrating why network neutrality is so
important.


feed_id: 69133b1bdc6650b1c41e1dc6ef8cf7d3
title: Hungary's surveillance law
uri: Hungary-s-surveillance-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28Hungarys_surveillance_law%29
content:
<p>
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Hungary's surveillance
law
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/20/human_rights_court_rules_mass_surveillance_illegal/">violated
human rights guidelines</a>.  It did not require an individual
decision about each person to be surveilled.


feed_id: b7ea8334e767f28f4025527b0a22f396
title: I voted for Bernie Sanders
uri: I-voted-for-Bernie-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28I_voted_for_Bernie_Sanders%29
content:
<p>
I was the first person to vote this year in Cambridge Massachusetts.
I voted for Bernie Sanders, of course.
<p>
Why vote for a Republican in Democrat's clothing?


feed_id: f769ecbf62b00459e5b999c5276db7ca
title: Algorithms designed to detect terrorism
uri: Algorithms-designed-to-detect-terrorism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#23_January_2016_%28Algorithms_designed_to_detect_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
Any algorithm designed to detect terrorist planning on social media
would raise so many false alarms that it would be
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/20/the-white-house-asked-social-media-companies-to-look-for-terrorists-heres-why-theyd-fail/">no
use for finding any real terrorists</a>.


feed_id: 513b78a645d1c8b6dac98dfc0a5d26fa
title: Urgent: FSF
uri: Urgent-FSF
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_FSF%29
content:
<p>
Please <a href="https://fsf.org/appeal"> donate to the
fsf.org</a> and help us work for your freedom.


feed_id: 0a4d7a8e5eea3d22525c4ffc11290347
title: Defeating the extension of copyright
uri: Defeating-the-extension-of-copyright
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Defeating_the_extension_of_copyright%29

content:
<p>
If we defeat the next attempt to extend copyright in the US, it's not
just the first Mickey Mouse cartoons that we will eventually have in
the public domain.  It's 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/well-probably-never-free-mickey-thats-beside-point">all
sorts of admired works</a>.


feed_id: da9138b2b1fdb9b2a5330559b50d5556
title: Daily security screenings at NYC schools
uri: Daily-security-screenings-at-NYC-schools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Daily_security_screenings_at_NYC_schools%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nyc-school-children-face-airport-style-security-screening-every-day">100,000
NYC School Children</a> Face Airport-Style Security Screening Every
Day.


feed_id: fa29c80171e35648b51ff41635585ed5
title: DEA greed for money
uri: DEA-greed-for-money
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28DEA_greed_for_money%29
content:
<p>
The DEA is so greedy for money it can steal (officially, confiscate)
that it 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160107/13213033272/dea-so-forfeiture-focused-it-hired-tsa-screener-to-check-travelers-baggage-guilty-cash.shtml">hired
a TSA agent to look for and report large amounts of cash</a> as it
could seize.


feed_id: dac35081d5aaf08795d336efa85fe141
title: Culture to blame for prison guard violence
uri: Culture-to-blame-for-prison-guard-violence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Culture_to_blame_for_prison_guard_violence%29

content:
<p>
When Prison Guards Are Violent, Blame Culture — 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/20/prison-guards-violence-culture">Not
"Bad Apples"</a>.


feed_id: f57efc1626029863fca972fbcbc6e6c2
title: Overfishing
uri: 2016-01-25-Overfishing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Overfishing%29
content:
<p>
The amount of fish humans have been taking from the sea is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/21/fish-stocks-low-worse-official-figures">50%
more than statistics reported</a>.  This explains why the total amount
caught annually has been going down for 20 years.
<p>
We will have to catch less, or lose all.
<p>
Then again, due to ocean acidification, the fish we want to catch
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#9%20December%202010%20(No%20more%20coral%20reefs%20by%202050)">may
be wiped out anyway in a few decades</a>.


feed_id: ca15ef3f3b93994ad1a683066a617945
title: Haiti trying again to rig "election"
uri: Haiti-trying-again-to-rig-election
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Haiti_trying_again_to_rig_election%29

content:
<p>
Haiti is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/haiti-presidential-election-carnival">trying
again to hold the rigged "election"</a> that was
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_January_2016_(Haiti)">blocked
by popular resistance before</a>.


feed_id: 629349f265b9b8643e54579f0cb542cd
title: Establishment backlash
uri: Establishment-backlash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Establishment_backlash%29
content:
<p>
The Seven Stages of Establishment Backlash:
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/21/the-seven-stages-of-establishment-backlash-corbynsanders-edition/">Corbyn/Sanders
Edition</a>.


feed_id: 107854db5515c977336afaf4ee54e6c4
title: Responsibility for Flint's poisoned water
uri: Responsibility-for-Flint-s-poisoned-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Responsibility_for_Flints_poisoned_water%29

content:
<p>
How Governor Snyder's general approach was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/21/michigan-governor-rick-snyder-flint-water-crisis">directly
responsible</a> for Flint's poisoned water.


feed_id: 3a0ea98a4dda56357db10110a4287abb
title: Salafi Arabia forbids chess
uri: Salafi-Arabia-forbids-chess
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Salafi_Arabia_forbids_chess%29
content:
<p>
In Salafi Arabia,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/chess-forbidden-in-islam-rules-saudi-arabia-grand-mufti">chess
is now forbidden</a>.


feed_id: 8f347ff9f658f0ebfc0697b025cb3319
title: US airport harassment
uri: US-airport-harassment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28US_airport_harassment%29
content:
<p>
Yaseen Kadura has got off the US no-fly list, but is
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/21/how-a-young-american-escaped-the-no-fly-list/">still
subject to an interrogation</a> at the airport.
<p>
US citizens should not have to answer questions about what they are
doing in order to travel around the US, when there is no probable
cause to suspect them of a crime.


feed_id: 3b2cc12f78baaf69fb29460a909e18d6
title: Privatization of bus service in the UK
uri: Privatization-of-bus-service-in-the-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Privatization_of_bus_service_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
Privatization of bus service in the UK is even more of a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/21/why-nobody-complaining-bus-services-deregulation">disaster</a>
than privatization of trains.


feed_id: 9f2cf408b99f1532879110dce4c89500
title: War on Hunger
uri: War-on-Hunger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28War_on_Hunger%29
content:
<p>
How about replacing the War on Drugs with a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/21/war-on-drugs-hunger-deforestation-pain-relief-poverty">War
on Hunger</a>?


feed_id: bb79d78d5f44b440bfb53fd049e7bb27
title: Damage from the TPP
uri: Damage-from-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Damage_from_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
A model estimates secondary damage from the TPP:
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160119/09463933377/more-realistic-modelling-tpps-effects-predicts-450000-us-jobs-lost-gdp-contraction.shtml">almost
half a million US jobs lost</a>.
<p>
The main harms the TPP will do are the intentional ones: elimination
of regulations to protect the environment, public health, human
rights, and standard of living; more strict copyright rules;
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_October_2013_(Companies_are_now_exercising_investor-state_provisions)">damage
to democracy</a>.


feed_id: c84bb8de16a7a2109f4cf61343ad4c12
title: Governor knew about poisonous water in Flint
uri: Governor-knew-about-poisonous-water-in-Flint
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Governor_knew_about_poisonous_water_in_Flint%29

content:
<p>
Michigan Governor Snyder knew about the poisonous water in Flint in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/21/flint-water-crisis-emails-reveal-governor-snyder-informed-of-problems-a-year-ago">February
2015</a>.


feed_id: 21cfcc339f26db9ef2bd565e7a3b6eb1
title: South Korea tramples freedom of speech
uri: South-Korea-tramples-freedom-of-speech
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28South_Korea_tramples_freedom_of_speech%29

content:
<p>
In South Korea, it is a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/following-north-korea-on-twitter-is-not-a-court-rules">crime
to speak positively about North Korea</a>.
<p>
North Korea is hell on Earth, but this law tramples freedom in South
Korea.


feed_id: 373567c1e3350ade71d49263b0de90ce
title: Mixed neighborhoods dwindling
uri: Mixed-neighborhoods-dwindling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Mixed_neighborhoods_dwindling%29
content:
<p>
US cities are increasingly segregated into
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/data-analysis-reveals-that-us-cities-are-segregating-the-wealthy/">rich
and poor neighborhoods</a>.  Mixed neighborhoods are dwindling.


feed_id: bc15343c0f40eacc6906c17ff169970c
title: Trump a failure as businessman
uri: Trump-a-failure-as-businessman
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#24_January_2016_%28Trump_a_failure_as_businessman%29

content:
<p>
Trump plays the part of a successful businessman, but actually
<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/donald-trump-was-a-stock-market-disaster-2015-07-22">he
was a failure</a>.


feed_id: 81af52c5f2fce1c5a8c4cb539646b510
title: France considers extending state of emergency
uri: France-considers-extending-state-of-emergency
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28France_considers_extending_state_of_emergency%29

content:
<p>
France 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/france-considers-extending-national-state-of-emergency">talks
about extending the state of emergency</a> as long as PISSI continues
to exist.
<p>
This means, in effect, forever.  If there is a repeat of the November
attacks, they will say, "See, it is still needed."  When there is no
attack, they will say, "See, it works!"


feed_id: 5b6982b1f37c793ba04b35e9191bdc8a
title: Sales of alcoholic drinks in the UK
uri: Sales-of-alcoholic-drinks-in-the-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Sales_of_alcoholic_drinks_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
60% of sales of alcoholic drinks in the UK are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/22/problem-drinkers-alcohol-industry-most-sales-figures-reveal">to
people with a drinking problem</a>.


feed_id: db76c53208137e9aec46184a018337d9
title: Clinton's endorsements
uri: Clinton-s-endorsements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Clintons_endorsements%29
content:
<p>
When Clinton gets an endorsement from a union or an activist organization,
it's always decided by the group's leaders -- and often the leaders are
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/22/bernie-sanders-gets-group-endorsements-when-members-decide-hillary-clinton-when-leaders-decide/">business
executives that prefer Clinton for selfish reasons</a>.


feed_id: 4e8f370148ed4f0df957061597678fa0
title: Poor people jailed permanently
uri: Poor-people-jailed-permanently
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Poor_people_jailed_permanently%29

content:
<p>
In New Orleans, when poor people are charged with crimes, public
defenders refuse to take their cases; so they remain 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/22/new-orleans-public-defenders-refuse-criminal-cases-aclu">permanently
in jail</a>.


feed_id: 996d0037dcf33f8029d4c77b2c83dfb7
title: Walmart's bullying
uri: Walmart-s-bullying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Walmarts_bullying%29
content:
<p>
Walmart bullied Washington DC into dropping a minimum wage bill by
threatening to cancel new stores in that city.  Now it has 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/19/1471862/-Walmart-got-what-it-wanted-from-Washington-D-C-now-breaking-promises-to-poor-neighborhoods">cancelled
some of them anyway</a>.
<p>
It was foolish to trust Walmart -- after all, it did not sign a
contract to build those stores and keep them open for at least 10
years.  But there was a bigger folly in giving Walmart what it wanted:
the very idea of trying to keep Walmart in DC was foolish.  Walmart
reduces jobs, compared with other stores.  Walmart pays workers so
badly that they need public assistance.
<p>
I recommend that DC raise the minimum wage high enough to drive
Walmart out completely.


feed_id: 3f683f6ab5130ee4df120743b9e48cb0
title: Overfishing of young bluefin tuna
uri: Overfishing-of-young-bluefin-tuna
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Overfishing_of_young_bluefin_tuna%29

content:
<p>
Overfishing of young bluefin tuna is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/22/japans-david-vs-goliath-battle-to-preserve-pacific-bluefin-tuna">driving
them to extinction</a>.


feed_id: e69ddbe10c2c4627bb00e86ce5a00d1c
title: Sanders on abortion rights
uri: Sanders-on-abortion-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Sanders_on_abortion_rights%29
content:
<p>
Sanders 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/22/bernie-sanders-abortion-policy-women-voters-reproductive-rights">should
take a clear and firm stand in favor of abortion rights and birth
control rights</a>.
<p>
I am not "pro-choice", I am 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">pro-abortion-rights
and pro-abortion</a>.


feed_id: b53c1cd821f66bc58093e029c48fdf54
title: Gates Foundation promotes plutocracy
uri: Gates-Foundation-promotes-plutocracy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Gates_Foundation_promotes_plutocracy%29

content:
<p>
The Gates Foundation 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/20/just-who-exactly-benefits-most-global-giving-billionaires-bill-gates">promotes
plutocracy around the world</a>, as well as privatizing education and
health care and seeds.
<p>
Simply by dominating the funding in a field, it corrupts the
organizations that are supposed to work for the public good.
<p>
The donations to the foundation are less than the taxes Microsoft
dodges.


feed_id: 65f2a5d041008edd4508bce84b9b462d
title: Fighting pollution along Atlantic coast
uri: Fighting-pollution-along-Atlantic-coast
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Fighting_pollution_along_Atlantic_coast%29

content:
<p>
People living along the Atlantic Coast are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/21/kure-beach-north-carolina-offshore-drilling">fighting
against the pollution that offshore oil drilling will cause</a>.
<p>
Given the falling price of oil, selling oil leases now would be a
foolish give-away, even if it weren't likely to cause global disaster.


feed_id: eaca35a9781db4e225d94f7ba31f99da
title: Mexican-Americans in Texas face prejudiced laws
uri: Mexican-Americans-in-Texas-face-prejudiced-laws
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Mexican-Americans_in_Texas_face_prejudiced_laws%29

content:
<p>
Mexican-Americans in Texas faced prejudiced laws and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/22/texas-rangers-killings-us-history-life-and-death-on-the-border-mexico">murder
by Texas Rangers</a>.


feed_id: 21cba966e6d72aad153000c5f8e7a9c8
title: Greek farmers and pensioners protest
uri: Greek-farmers-and-pensioners-protest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Greek_farmers_and_pensioners_protest%29

content:
<p>
Greek farmers and pensioners are protesting 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/we-will-come-to-athens-and-burn-them-political-protest-returns-to-greece">bankster-imposed
laws</a> that could spell destitution for them.


feed_id: 7846acd787313e01ecbae685c7be3ba9
title: Special exemption for religious colleges
uri: Special-exemption-for-religious-colleges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Special_exemption_for_religious_colleges%29

content:
<p>
Religious colleges in the US have a special exemption 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-schools-where-free-speech-goes-to-die/">allowing
them to impose strict censorship, and regulate the lives of students
and faculty</a>.
<p>
I don't believe they should be allowed to get any government funding.


feed_id: 88a3203376b363840a936ae4d3937bae
title: Fires in Tasmania
uri: Fires-in-Tasmania
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Fires_in_Tasmania%29
content:
<p>
Fires in Tasmania are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jan/22/tasmanian-bushfires-worst-crisis-in-decades-for-world-heritage-forests">destroying
thousand-year-old slow-growing trees</a>.


feed_id: eb697f61242bdedf6f8266e240a12aa2
title: Fuel efficiency standard for planes
uri: Fuel-efficiency-standard-for-planes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Fuel_efficiency_standard_for_planes%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/22/europe-falls-behind-us-new-plans-tackle-co2-emissions-planes">Europe
wants to be less ambitious</a> in a new fuel efficiency standard for
planes.
<p>
A few years ago, the EU put a tax on airline flights based on distance
flown.  The US 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_September_2013_(US_stopping_EU_from_taxing_airlines_for_CO2_emissions)">helped
the airlines pressure the EU to drop it</a>.
<p>
I hope President Sanders will invite the EU to bring it back.


feed_id: 4ec710706089bd2cd503b59416ca1e5c
title: Copyright industry wants new law
uri: Copyright-industry-wants-new-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Copyright_industry_wants_new_law%29

content:
<p>
The copyright industry wants a new law to increase its power to 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/notice-and-stay-down-really-filter-everything">force
digital platforms to delete postings</a>.
<p>
DMCA takedown notices are 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_September_2013_(Using_the_DMCA_to_shut_down_web_sites)">already
too powerful</a>, because it is easy to use a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#20%20March%202009%20(DMCA%20harassment)">bogus
complaint</a> to get someone's material removed.


feed_id: e9e88cc204a06999192eeca7635db86a
title: Bolivia's second-largest lake dry
uri: Bolivia-s-second-largest-lake-dry
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Bolivias_second-largest_lake_dry%29

content:
<p>
The second-largest lake in Bolivia has dried up due to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/bolivias-second-largest-lake-dries-up-and-may-be-gone-forever-lost-to-climate-change">global
heating and use of water for mining</a>.
<p>
Lake Poopó formerly covered 1000 square kilometers.


feed_id: b0db43e90b0cbbf3d43981afd44248b8
title: Why white working class abandoned Democratic Party
uri: Why-white-working-class-abandoned-Democratic-Party
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Why_white_working_class_abandoned_Democratic_Party%29

content:
<p>
Robert Reich: 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/robert-reich-why-white-working-class-abandoned-democratic-party">Why
the White Working Class Abandoned the Democratic Party</a>.


feed_id: 4f4cc65fd58d5cec1d16e1aa57942e03
title: Urgent: Overturn Corporations United
uri: 2016-01-26-Urgent-Overturn-Corporations-United
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Overturn_Corporations_United%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Dem_Awakening">call on
Congress</a> to adopt a constitutional amendment to overturn the
Corporations United decision.
<p>
Those corporations called themselves "Citizens United", but I call
them what they were rather than what they pretended to be.
Why propagate their misrepresentation?


feed_id: 5b58940a556203651d3afbe85e90302e
title: Solar cells economical in Australia
uri: Solar-cells-economical-in-Australia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Solar_cells_economical_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Electric companies in Australia gouge so much that it is now
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/22/is-going-off-the-grid-selfish-for-many-its-the-only-option-that-makes-sense">economical
to install solar cells and a battery</a> and disconnect entirely from
the power grid.
<p>
This is great for reducing fossil fuel use.


feed_id: a4208a772d4fcf337707e9b8aede24e9
title: Michigan governor's emails
uri: Michigan-governor-s-emails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Michigan_governors_emails%29
content:
<p>
Michigan Governor Snyder "released is emails", but with omissions, and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/21/flint-water-crisis-michigan-governor-rick-snyder-emails-redacted">not
covering the time when the decision to use lead-contaminated water was
made</a>.  And not those of the staff with whom he discussed the
question.
<p>
It's more of a distraction than an answer.


feed_id: 172c4cff5dc900789c24e38762fd4f79
title: World economy
uri: World-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28World_economy%29
content:
<p>
Instead of recovering, the world economy has blown
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/21/dont-blame-china-global-west-economic-recovery-asset-bubbles">bubbles</a>.


feed_id: 4c7834bbbe8e396119bedf85bcea1e5c
title: American Museum of Natural History
uri: American-Museum-of-Natural-History
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28American_Museum_of_Natural_History%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/21/david-koch-american-museum-of-natural-history-climate-change-fossil-fuel-money">David
Koch is gone</a> from the board of directors of the American Museum of
Natural History.
<p>
I wish we could place confidence in the Smithsonian's claim that its
donors do not influence its exhibits.


feed_id: 4f3147458f9627271e38ac8f501c6b6c
title: Linux Foundation drops community representation
uri: Linux-Foundation-drops-community-representation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Linux_Foundation_drops_community_representation%29

content:
<p>
The Linux Foundation
<a href="https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/39546.html">eliminated
community-elected directors from its board</a>, apparently because
free software activist Karen Sandler was going to run.
<p>
Karen Sandler works for the Software Freedom Conservancy, which does
various noble things including enforcing the GNU GPL on Linux.
One of the violators is a donor to the Linux Consortium.


feed_id: 4fb6c642eb725ff62162a2358b1452ce
title: Bill to ban real encryption
uri: Bill-to-ban-real-encryption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Bill_to_ban_real_encryption%29
content:
<p>
Feinstein and other senators are working on a bill to
<a href="http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/266517-senate-intel-leaders-worry-encryption-commission-too-slow">ban
digital products with real encryption</a>.  How far this will go, we
don't know.  Will it ban GnuPG?


feed_id: 03b0daa5553e08f6aa0520d93aee7040
title: Doing business in Israeli colonies
uri: Doing-business-in-Israeli-colonies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Doing_business_in_Isareli_colonies%29

content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch asserts that firms which do business with companies
operating in Israeli colonies in Palestine are
<a href="https://www.hrw.org/node/285045/">violating international
law</a>.


feed_id: 4b5f185be073a94dd47aa829f0af0def
title: Investigation of Exxon's climate lies
uri: Investigation-of-Exxon-s-climate-lies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Investigation_of_Exxons_climate_lies%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/20/big-california-taking-exxonmobils-climate-cover">California
has joined New York</a> in investigating Exxon's climate lies.


feed_id: a4fb2ca5dd0598154808caf3f7d5b74f
title: Hotter than any year in the 20th century
uri: Hotter-than-any-year-in-the-20th-century
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Hotter_than_any_year_in_the_20th_century%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/20/2015-officially-hottest-year-record">2015
was 1.6F hotter</a> than any year in the 20th century.
<p>
The last time Earth was this hot was
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/20/last-time-earth-was-hot-hippos-lived-britain-thats-130000-years-ago">130,000
years ago</a>, and sea level was 6 meters higher (20 feet).


feed_id: a2270567ae4ba85c70da6ffff79f003e
title: Rate of killing rhinos in South Africa
uri: Rate-of-killing-rhinos-in-South-Africa
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Rate_of_killing_rhinos_in_South_Africa%29

content:
<p>
Although the rate of killing rhinos in South Africa has stopped
increasing, it is already
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/21/no-south-africa-hasnt-turned-the-tide-on-its-rhino-poaching-crisis">high
enough to wipe them out</a>.


feed_id: 87ee28d6f1aa56f8e4aa4f38562df94e
title: Egypt launching repression
uri: Egypt-launching-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Egypt_launching_repression%29
content:
<p>
Egypt's military government is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/egyptian-police-raid-cairo-homes-2011-uprising">launching
the repression in advance</a> as the anniversary of the freedom
movement approaches.


feed_id: 781f4f417b5476b4f14b7abd07945332
title: Stores use phones' WiFi to track people
uri: Stores-use-phones-WiFi-to-track-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Stores_use_phones_WiFi_to_track_people%29

content:
<p>
Stores are using portable phones' WiFi devices to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/21/shops-track-smartphone-uk-privacy-watchdog-warns">track
people in the store</a>>.


feed_id: 0c3ea9179899ed6fc70bb5ceddbfbde8
title: Call for sanctions against China's CCTV
uri: Call-for-sanctions-against-China-s-CCTV
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Call_for_sanctions_against_Chinas_CCTV%29

content:
<p>
Reporters Without Borders
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/jan/21/press-freedom-body-calls-for-eu-sanctions-against-chinese-media">calls
for legal sanctions against Chinese broadcaster CCTV</a>, which
presented Peter Dahlin's forced confession.
<p>
Let us not forget that the US has been
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#14_November_2015_(Forced_confession_of_Timothy_Johnson)">active
in the forced confession field</a>, and that its system of plea
bargaining tends to pressure accused people into false confessions.


feed_id: ee95a0e1edeab062e136b704af7308e2
title: Investigation concludes Litvinenko was murdered
uri: Investigation-concludes-Litvinenko-was-murdered
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Investigation_concludes_Litvinenko_was_murdered%29

content:
<p>
An investigation in the UK
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/putin-implicated-in-fatal-poisoning-of-former-kgb-spy-at-posh-london-hotel/2016/01/21/2c0c5052-bf92-11e5-98c8-7fab78677d51_story.html">concluded
that Alexander Litvinenko was murdered by Russian agents, and that
Putin must have personally approved the murder</a>.
<p>
However, the UK government is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/21/theresa-may-pulls-all-punches-with-putin-over-litvinenko-killing">unable
to retaliate</a>.


feed_id: 0bdf12644448a400bc310cebd9ec3446
title: Today's atomizing society
uri: Today-s-atomizing-society
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Todays_atomizing_society%29
content:
<p>
Today's atomizing society has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/21/society-needs-shared-values">left
many people short of values</a>.  It's not just that they don't share
my values — it's that they can't name any values.


feed_id: 01b4f0df397a77bc90ba0ef1b3e9984b
title: Tory bureaucracy kills disabled man
uri: Tory-bureaucracy-kills-disabled-man
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Tory_bureaucracy_kills_disabled_man%29

content:
<p>
The hard wheels of Tory bureaucracy killed a mentally disabled man by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/21/schizophrenic-brother-benefits-dwp-sanctions-vulnerable">requiring
him to do things he could not cope with</a>, such as work.
<p>
They have killed
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_(Disability_benefits)">thousands</a>
How many have a life of nothing but suffering due to these cuts and
punishments?  Surely tens of thousands, if not hundreds.
<p>
And all to enrich banksters.


feed_id: bd8734a26625da8746ed605c64f873b6
title: Very urgent: new nuclear cruise missile
uri: Very-urgent-new-nuclear-cruise-missile
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_January_2016_%28Very_urgent%3A_new_nuclear_cruise_missile%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://www.globalzero.org/take-action/budget/lrso-call-day">phone the White House</a> at (202) 456-1111 and call on Obama to cancel the new nuclear cruise missile.


feed_id: fc09591208f499a6ac84ba9ed0148b0d
title: Urgent: sales of fossil fuels
uri: Urgent-sales-of-fossil-fuels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_sales_of_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/federal_lands?t=1001&akid=16603.1183552.CKbOQI">call on Obama</a> to end sales of all fossil fuels on federal lands.


feed_id: 35b4827d2b80b76315fae28bb4139d37
title: Urgent: false accusations against Sanders
uri: Urgent-false-accusations-against-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_false_accusations_against_Sanders%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on the New York Times to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/nytimes-fact-check-jake?source=c.url&r_by=1135580
">check the facts</a> of Jake Sullivan's false accusations against Sanders.


feed_id: aea70efb2c3c080332645408f9ae7951
title: Urgent: trademark extortion against Yosemite
uri: Urgent-trademark-extortion-against-Yosemite
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_trademark_extortion_against_Yosemite%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://sierra.force.com/actions/SierraRise?actionId=AR0032697&id=70131000001LznWAAS">Delaware North,</a> desist from trademark extortion against Yosemite.


feed_id: 5986520ba3fca3d3701fe7f5f796bcfa
title: Crime to read web sites
uri: Crime-to-read-web-sites
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Crime_to_read_web_sites%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1867">
law professor wants to make it a crime to read</a> web sites posted by
PISSI.
<p>
He
<a href="http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/go-to-jail-for-visiting-a-web-site-or-maybe-reading-an-e-book-u-of-chicago-professors-anti-isis-proposal/">
cites as a precedent the prohibition of even looking</a> at pornography
that includes minors (or adults that look like minors).
<p>
I think the argument goes the other way: this demonstrates that it is
an intolerable injustice to punish people for looking at (or having a
copy of) <em>any</em> published work whatsoever.


feed_id: 0d32a3856a7e927b6a3ff88b3f2e4ab5
title: "Donor class"
uri: Donor-class
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Donor_class%29
content:
<p>A voice from the Republican establishment wants the "donor class" <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/23/money-men-say-voters-move-over-its-not-your-election">(i.e., billionaires)</a> to make someone other than Trump win the Republican nomination.
<p>If they can do that, it would only prove that our elections are worthless and our government has no legitimacy.


feed_id: 30e9fc7e984d182021448aac493e0176
title: Clinton's speeches for Goldman Sachs
uri: Clinton-s-speeches-for-Goldman-Sachs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Clinton%27s_speeches_for_Goldman_Sachs%29

content:
<p>Clinton <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/23/clinton-goldman-sachs-laugh/">laughs off</a> questions about her speeches for Goldman Sachs.
<p>She is a toady for the banksters, like most politicians, and equally unworthy of public office.


feed_id: 3f86c2b5a8a080c3db2fd4dd832ab49a
title: Attending Davos
uri: Attending-Davos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Attending_Davos%29
content:
<p>Let's Make Attending Davos as Shameful as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/23/davos-plutocracts-politicians-deserve-contempt">Running a Sweatshop.</a>


feed_id: 213fddf7c21be810d76162ed2d7a641f
title: UK public housing
uri: 2016-01-27-UK-public-housing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28UK_public_housing%29
content:
<p>The former head of the UK civil service says that the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/23/ministers-want-to-get-rid-of-social-housing-former-civil-service-chief-to-say">Tories</a> intend to eliminate public housing.  They will replace it with "starter homes" that poor people can't afford at all.


feed_id: 987b9ea712bd315fcf4ac4606a1d7e18
title: Terrorist attack on university in Pakistan
uri: Terrorist-attack-on-university-in-Pakistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Terrorist_attack_on_university_in_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>Pakistan has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/23/pakistan-arrests-five-over-deadly-attack-on-bacha-khan-university">arrested</a> people who aided a terrorist attack on a university.


feed_id: f053060af92d08f6b2625635e3db1d6d
title: Trump and Sanders
uri: Trump-and-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Trump_and_Sanders%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/23/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-lead-two-headed-insurgency-against-establishment">A superficially clever writer</a> tries to equate Trump and Sanders.
<p>They are similar in being "outsiders", but different in what matters:
what they stand for.  Trump will say anything to provoke TV and the
masses, while Sanders sticks to what he has fought for since 1980.
<p>Trump stands for directing Americans' justified anger at weak scapegoats,
whereas Sanders wants to end the plutocratic system that is really
responsible for the injustice.


feed_id: 4c9df097437f46394fcdece4375d9d50
title: US plans to deport Angel Rosa
uri: US-plans-to-deport-Angel-Rosa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28US_plans_to_deport_Angel_Rosa%29
content:
<p>The US plans to deport Angel Rosa to certain death from a gangrene infection that he contracted while in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/23/guatemalan-man-racked-by-gangrene-fears-deportation-will-be-death-sentence">immigration prison.</a>  His children, who are US citizens, won't be able to take care of him in Guatemala.


feed_id: 25f4a4bb67548e0ebb3b8e6673f31d2b
title: Meeting with Faheem Qureshi
uri: Meeting-with-Faheem-Qureshi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Meeting_with_Faheem_Qureshi%29
content:
<p>A meeting with Faheem Qureshi, who was maimed by Obama's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/23/drone-strike-victim-barack-obama">first drone attack.</a>  He was 14 at the time.


feed_id: d4a96f8a6c85b86dc6025d1abf93926e
title: 11 years of dodged taxes
uri: 11-years-of-dodged-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%2811_years_of_dodged_taxes%29
content:
<p>Google has agreed to pay the UK about <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/23/mps-attack-deal-to-let-google-pay-relatively-trivial-130m-in-back-taxes">19 million dollars per year</a> for the past 11 years of dodged taxes.
<p>Compared with the income Google has siphoned out of the UK, that is a trifle.
<p>Google extracts billions of dollars per year from the UK without tax, so $20 million in taxes or even $50 million is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/23/google-paying-back-tax-only-a-beginning">insignificant as compensation.</a>


feed_id: 9929e4b83b6d1cd6798bf870b88238df
title: Morocco is cruel to women
uri: Morocco-is-cruel-to-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Morocco_is_cruel_to_women%29
content:
<p>Morocco is cruel to women — <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/23/dos-de-femme-dos-de-mulet-hicham-houdaifa-review-beer-sex-abuse-morocco">here is how.</a>
<p>The women who get pregnant and work in bars get a raw deal, but the
origin of this wrong is not in the bars.  It comes from their own
families and the state.  If they were decent, the would help their
daughter get an abortion (because a baby would be a big burden) and
would see nothing wrong in it.


feed_id: 1fff190c86254d5cfff1781d8f51077f
title: UK courts dangerous for judges
uri: UK-courts-dangerous-for-judges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28UK_courts_dangerous_for_judges%29

content:
<p>A UK judge is suing the UK Ministry of Justice, saying that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/jan/23/whistleblower-judge-austerity-policies-have-made-courts-dangerous">cuts in legal aid</a> have made courts dangerous even for judges.
<p>Of course, the biggest danger is for defendants that get little or no chance for a defense.


feed_id: 124e688059e373a40b14a9bd57042f2c
title: Haitian presidential election
uri: Haitian-presidential-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Haitian_presidential_election%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/23/haiti-cancels-presidential-election-as-violence-erupts">Massive resistance</a> by Haitians has blocked the Haitian presidential election.
<p>The last president, Martelly, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#11_June_2011_(Haiti_Cable_Faudulent_Election)">was imposed by the US,</a> which brushed aside real elections.
<p>Haitians probably expect the US to impose him again.


feed_id: c2cd07422553658db9e2ad6ccab4a1ec
title: Fifth anniversary of the Arab spring
uri: Fifth-anniversary-of-the-Arab-spring
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Fifth_anniversary_of_the_Arab_spring%29

content:
<p>Arab intellectuals <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/23/arab-spring-five-years-on-writers-look-back">comment</a> on the fifth anniversary of the Arab spring.


feed_id: df19aeec412ae47777783cc42b68460c
title: Dealing with disputed election
uri: Dealing-with-disputed-election
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Dealing_with_disputed_election%29

content:
<p>The US still has <a href="http://www.alternet.org/books/america-woefully-unprepared-another-disputed-election">no legal procedure</a> for dealing with a disputed election.


feed_id: 624675cc54e1ce8b798d90e8a7928a10
title: Exiled dissident Andargachew Tsege
uri: Exiled-dissident-Andargachew-Tsege
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Exiled_dissident_Andargachew_Tsege%29

content:
<p>Ethiopia had exiled dissident Andargachew Tsege kidnapped and put him on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/23/death-row-briton-ethiopia">death row.</a>  He has been denied access to a lawyer or his family.


feed_id: cef54fce357b2f51a2d28fda4bb8e406
title: Home-grown US terrorism
uri: Home-grown-US-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Home-grown_US_terrorism%29
content:
<p>Stopping home-grown US terrorism depends on convincing American Muslims <a href="http://www.futurity.org/community-policing-violent-extremism-1091572-2/">to trust the thugs.</a>
<p>It won't be easy to convince thugs to start acting like police officers.


feed_id: 9f94e7481c833fa8f069ede57d7a284e
title: Bitcoin's scaling problem
uri: Bitcoin-s-scaling-problem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Bitcoin%27s_scaling_problem%29
content:
<p>Deciding how to fix Bitcoin's scaling problem involves a <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/fear-and-loathing-in-the-bitcoin-world">political question:</a> which of its goals are most important.


feed_id: f92b25ccd414acd71706ff01da8505fc
title: Downloading illegal images
uri: Downloading-illegal-images
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Downloading_illegal_images%29
content:
<p>When the US government modifies web sites <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-the-government-is-using-malware-to-ensnare-child-porn-users/2016/01/21/fb8ab5f8-bec0-11e5-83d4-42e3bceea902_story.html">to identify the people that access them,</a> it can identify 1000 bystanders to find 100 people who are sought.
<p>It is no coincidence that this arose in the search for people
downloading illegal images.  The making of those images, if it
involved real sexual abuse of real children, deserves to be
prosecuted, but prosecuting people for downloading something leads to
tyranny.
<p>Perhaps these images were really images of children's being abused.
However, in practice "child pornography" includes 17-year-olds having
sex, or 20-year-olds that look younger and are getting paid.


feed_id: f234e7e3a9099f43a5d0449ad931ee41
title: Companies that sue debtors
uri: Companies-that-sue-debtors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Companies_that_sue_debtors%29
content:
<p>Courts and legislatures in the US have stacked the rules in favor of companies that sue debtors.  In some places, debtors face <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/01/21/courts-rubber-stamp-corporate-suits-against-poor">great obstacles</a> to have a chance to present their cases.


feed_id: 0e7f28946cc0759d6f0d0b28fd46fea1
title: Immigrants in Europe
uri: Immigrants-in-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Immigrants_in_Europe%29
content:
<p>The IMF sees immigrants in Europe as an opportunity to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/21/imfs-prescription-europe-exploit-refugees-low-wages">knock wages down.</a>
<p>As natives are replaced with lower-paid immigrants, it will give them a good
reason to be angry.  Unforunately, they will probably blame the immigrants
rather than the politicians that heeded the IMF's advice.


feed_id: 1a34d80a63fd651665c35d8de403ee96
title: 2008 Crash
uri: 2008-Crash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%282008_Crash%29
content:
<p>The Big Short Explains the Role of Top Bankers in the 2008 Crash, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/22/bankers-triumph-complete-the-big-short">But Nothing Much Has Changed.</a>
<p>Due to deregulation of banks, the chief officers are no longer liable
for losses, so it is in their interest to close their eyes to the risks
subordinates are taking.
<p>This is one of the bad changes we must reverse.


feed_id: ef9740c503c388b7c0296fa1ef7d6b5e
title: College education for girls
uri: College-education-for-girls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28College_education_for_girls%29
content:
<p>A town in South Africa is offering to pay for college education for girls if they <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/south-african-district-offers-student-grants-to-girls-who-remain-virgins">"prove their virginity"</a> repeatedly.
<p>Of course, this sort of test for virginity is unreliable, but even if it were reliable, and even if it could be done for males as well, it would be unjust.


feed_id: 446f10b272dbd702295e445924f164ed
title: MSF bombed again
uri: MSF-bombed-again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28MSF_bombed_again%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/airstrikes-on-yemen-kill-dozens-and-destroy-msf-ambulance
">Salafi Arabia bombed MSF again.</a>


feed_id: d214031d35c70a402d6b7741cf1a1b3f
title: Extreme, Extremer, Extremest
uri: Extreme-Extremer-Extremest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Extreme%2C_Extremer%2C_Extremest%29

content:
<p>Uri Averny's <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1453474723/">column:</a> Extreme, Extremer, Extremest.


feed_id: b5216e1cdd72cf769681408de7f6d4b2
title: Fired striking workers
uri: Fired-striking-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Fired_striking_workers%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/22/huge-victory-walmart-illegally-fired-striking-workers-judge-rules
">'Huge Victory':</a> Walmart Illegally Fired Striking Workers, Judge Rules.


feed_id: 5ff08ea53678d22914fcb52367083225
title: Low reservoir levels in California
uri: Low-reservoir-levels-in-California
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Low_reservoir_levels_in_California%29

content:
<p>El Nino Rains Only <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/22/el-nino-rain-california-drought-reservoir-levels-low
">Slightly Increased</a> Historic Low Reservoir Levels in California.


feed_id: caae95ce2f62bf1c5e95e5cf4a7dd476
title: Tests for lead pollution
uri: Tests-for-lead-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Tests_for_lead_pollution%29
content:
<p>Water utilities in the US <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/22/water-lead-content-tests-us-authorities-distorting-flint-crisis">fudge tests for lead pollution</a> so as to underestimate the actual level.


feed_id: 97f3a459632b3d7ce86c2572bd0f88ba
title: Thug that shot Anthony Hill
uri: Thug-that-shot-Anthony-Hill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Thug_that_shot_Anthony_Hill%29
content:
<p>The thug that shot Anthony Hill has been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/22/anthony-hill-shooting-atlanta-georgia-police-felony-murder-charge-robert-olsen">charged with murder.</a>
<p>Hill was not threatening anyone, he was only naked.


feed_id: c38278a90978e8450db20ce12819be30
title: Slavery and racism
uri: Slavery-and-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Slavery_and_racism%29
content:
<p>The defenders of slavery and racism carry out violence against those trying to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/22/confederate-monument-flag-removals-new-orleans-david-mahler">remove monuments to the Confederacy.</a>
<p>How sad America, in which loyalty to bigotry inspires people to fight
those hired to do the work, more than the sight of the rich evicting
the poor does.


feed_id: 23030260fcea16f396ccc9236408e2fa
title: Chicago public school system
uri: Chicago-public-school-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Chicago_public_school_system%29
content:
<p>The governor of Illinois plans to take over the Chicago public school system <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/21/fueled-austerity-agenda-gov-plans-state-takeover-chicago-public-schools">so as to break the teacher's union.</a>


feed_id: faf83f2df7e90350be2cb9d89109ef26
title: Oklahoma thug
uri: 2016-01-27-Oklahoma-thug
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Oklahoma_thug%29
content:
<p>An Oklahoma thug was sentenced to effectively <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/01/21/justice-finally-served-rapist-cop-gets-263-years-yes-these-here-united-states">life in prison</a> for raping 8 different poor black women.
<p>He thought he could get away with it because witnesses would believe a thug rather than a poor black woman.
<p>I don't consider a thug a very credible witness about anything. 
I would trust a police officer's word, but how do you tell the few <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#9_August_2015_(Thugs_caught_lying)">police officers</a> from the many thugs?


feed_id: 78a54498c7158ada96cc7eeecefd48c0
title: Bankster to regulate Wall Street
uri: Bankster-to-regulate-Wall-Street
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Bankster_to_regulate_Wall_Street%29

content:
<p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/22/n-y-governor-hands-top-wall-street-regulatory-job-to-a-defender-of-wall-street/
">New York State's governor</a> appointed a bankster to regulate Wall Street.


feed_id: e60713a36734406d73efdefbebe3303f
title: Urgent: sales of fossil fuels
uri: 2016-01-28-Urgent-sales-of-fossil-fuels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_sales_of_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/federal_lands">call on Obama</a> to end sales of all fossil fuels on federal lands.


feed_id: 8cd014e956a6977b4508ae77bd739836
title: Urgent: false accusations against Sanders
uri: 2016-01-28-Urgent-false-accusations-against-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_false_accusations_against_Sanders%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on the New York Times to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/nytimes-fact-check-jake">check the facts</a> of Jake Sullivan's false accusations against Sanders.


feed_id: ddd675b31d19c45e382d7dc7ee86db3d
title: Urgent: trademark extortion against Yosemite
uri: 2016-01-28-Urgent-trademark-extortion-against-Yosemite
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#27_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_trademark_extortion_against_Yosemite%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://sierra.force.com/actions/SierraRise?actionId=AR0032697">Delaware North,</a> desist from trademark extortion against Yosemite.


feed_id: b4674f9e4c79f03163ed7619998d3387
title: Immigrants in Europe
uri: 2016-01-28-Immigrants-in-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#26_January_2016_%28Immigrants_in_Europe%29
content:
<p>The IMF sees immigrants in Europe as an opportunity to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/21/imfs-prescription-europe-exploit-refugees-low-wages">knock wages down.</a>
<p>As natives are replaced with lower-paid immigrants, it will give them a good
reason to be angry.  Unfortunately, they will probably blame the immigrants
rather than the politicians that heeded the IMF's advice.


feed_id: 00262fd595ed3228e63c47d1f2bd7a93
title: Bill Gates' charter-school power play
uri: Bill-Gates-charter-school-power-play
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Bill_Gates_charter-school_power_play%29

content:
<p>
"Bill Gates should be ashamed: His back-room, charter-school power
play 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/01/22/bill_gates_should_be_ashamed_his_back_room_charter_school_power_play_hurts_kids_public_education/">hurts
kids, public education</a>."


feed_id: c7f9f5300405425367429113db0206a8
title: Cameron vs Putin
uri: Cameron-vs-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Cameron_vs_Putin%29
content:
<p>
David Cameron Denounces Putin's Contempt for the Law -- Yet He
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/23/british-soldiers-should-not-be-above-law">Proposes
to Exempt British Troops from Legal Accountability</a>.


feed_id: 7628df08d7c2449793fa4c4117e1fdcf
title: NY Times dishonest attack on Sanders
uri: NY-Times-dishonest-attack-on-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28NY_Times_dishonest_attack_on_Sanders%29

content:
<p>
The New York Times 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/23/when-tom-friedman-red-baited-bernie-sanders">called
Sanders a communist</a>.
<p>
You have to expect dishonest attacks from the establishment.


feed_id: 9f60063f1d26f359f282b3dfec0d8fff
title: Consensus against Citizens United
uri: Consensus-against-Citizens-United
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Consensus_against_Citizens_United%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/23/overwhelming-consensus-against-citizens-united">Overwhelming
Consensus</a> Against Citizens United.


feed_id: 6a34fa3688471d569cdbf86d1c2926ad
title: Clinton's endorsements
uri: 2016-01-28-Clinton-s-endorsements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Clintons_endorsements%29
content:
<p>
When Clinton gets an endorsement from a union or an activist organization,
it's always decided by the group's leaders — and often the leaders are
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/22/bernie-sanders-gets-group-endorsements-when-members-decide-hillary-clinton-when-leaders-decide/">business
executives that prefer Clinton for selfish reasons</a>.


feed_id: 84b4255c09d44984b770bb951b48506a
title: Walmart's bullying
uri: 2016-01-28-Walmart-s-bullying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#25_January_2016_%28Walmarts_bullying%29
content:
<p>
Walmart bullied Washington DC into dropping a minimum wage bill by
threatening to cancel new stores in that city.  Now it has 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/19/1471862/-Walmart-got-what-it-wanted-from-Washington-D-C-now-breaking-promises-to-poor-neighborhoods">cancelled
some of them anyway</a>.
<p>
It was foolish to trust Walmart — after all, it did not sign a
contract to build those stores and keep them open for at least 10
years.  But there was a bigger folly in giving Walmart what it wanted:
the very idea of trying to keep Walmart in DC was foolish.  Walmart
reduces jobs, compared with other stores.  Walmart pays workers so
badly that they need public assistance.
<p>
I recommend that DC raise the minimum wage high enough to drive
Walmart out completely.


feed_id: 7f567005029ee814ec1b60f67ce1f332
title: 62 billionaires own half the world
uri: 62-billionaires-own-half-the-world
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%2862_billionaires_own_half_the_world%29

content:
<p>
If you want to defend nearly everyone against the depredations of the
62 billionaires that own half the world,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/21/by-every-meaningful-measure-todays-elites-are-gods-this-should-make-us-angry">throw
away the cynicism that is an excuse for giving up</a>.


feed_id: 86b9cd67659cc8637f849682969e8089
title: Poles protest antidemocratic laws
uri: Poles-protest-antidemocratic-laws
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Poles_protest_antidemocratic_laws%29

content:
<p>
Poles are protesting against Kaczynski's antidemocratic laws
and
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/23/against-growing-authoritarian-threat-far-right-massive-marches-poland">proposed
surveillance law</a>.


feed_id: 996958dc948cf2c5c0a4a63669c397b2
title: Absurd "safe spaces"
uri: Absurd-safe-spaces
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Absurd_safe_spaces%29
content:
<p>
The demand for "safe spaces" in UK universities has reached the point
of absurdity where fundamentalist Islamists
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/24/safe-spaces-universities-no-platform-free-speech-rhodes">can
physically prevent an Atheist from giving a talk criticizing Islam</a>,
and claim that her criticisms constitute "intimidation" of them.
<p>
Insanely, the school's Feminist Society supported those religious
fanatics, who would deny women many human rights if they had the
chance.
<p>
Islamists are enemies of human rights,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_(Nigerian_Atheist_receives_death_threats)">especially
for women and also for men</a>.  While respecting their right to state
their views, we should never forget how repugnant those views are.


feed_id: 4a44d2c084b1afedb9e2e50889982d83
title: Google proposal for tracking users
uri: Google-proposal-for-tracking-users
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Google_proposal_for_tracking_users%29

content:
<p>
Google has a proposal for security based on
<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/15/googles-creepy-plan-to-kill-the-password/">tracking
user behavior</a> so completely that no one can pretend to be anyone
else.


feed_id: 8c14f5d25e3217211e0319aa00e1d7d0
title: US thug department policies
uri: US-thug-department-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28US_thug_department_policies%29
content:
<p>
A survey of the policies of many US thug departments found that many
have policies that
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/01/23/the-police-use-of-force-projec.html">encourage
use of deadly force</a>.


feed_id: 16cd7e7f568c560c9bf029b9288bd17b
title: Egyptian repression
uri: Egyptian-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Egyptian_repression%29
content:
<p>
<p>
State Repression in Egypt Is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/24/state-repression-egypt-worst-weve-ever-seen-activist-hossam-bahgat">Worst
We've Ever Seen</a>, Says Activist.
<p>
It is worse than Mubarak, worse than Nasser.


feed_id: 60fca67d7e3f6637cecb73578638fa3a
title: UK's weak deal with Google
uri: UK-s-weak-deal-with-Google
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28UKs_weak_deal_with_Google%29
content:
<p>
The UK's weak deal with Google threatens to set a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/24/cheap-google-deal-sets-bad-precedent-says-tax-expert-richard-murphy">bad
precedent</a>.


feed_id: 3f883980b4bf35bc7de760738b391d81
title: Syrian Kurds making progress
uri: Syrian-Kurds-making-progress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Syrian_Kurds_making_progress%29
content:
<p>
Syrian Kurds, with air support from the US and Russia, are making
progress on
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/24/syrian-civil-war-why-endless-conflict-decisive-point">cutting
off PISSI's trade route to Turkey</a>.


feed_id: b76890c26a86e9c11afec05a554688f3
title: Chinese repression
uri: Chinese-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Chinese_repression%29
content:
<p>
Nanfu Wang made a film about a Chinese human rights defender and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/22/i-want-you-to-understand-the-sense-of-fear-that-chinese-people-feel-every-day">experienced
repression directly</a>.


feed_id: 6b7c794f1cfe5ca27551132bd24d6ee1
title: Copyright law reform
uri: Copyright-law-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Copyright_law_reform%29
content:
<p>
The European Parliament
<a href="https://juliareda.eu/2016/01/digital-single-not-just-market/">proposed
some reforms to copyright law</a> but they fail to touch the great
injustices such as DRM, the war on sharing, and the insanely long
duration of copyright.
<p>
I can't feel much gratification from the support for "open source"
since it avoids raising the question as an ethical issue.


feed_id: 47f444300b04147d0fab378854860dab
title: Study corrupted by UK government
uri: Study-corrupted-by-UK-government
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Study_corrupted_by_UK_government%29

content:
<p>
It appears the UK government
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/23/doubts-raised-over-uk-government-refusal-to-allow-islanders-to-return-to-chagos">corrupted
a supposedly objective study</a> about the feasibility of allowing
Chagossians to return to the Chagos Islands.


feed_id: 29fe435ee53cf99096ae8345050ca9e0
title: Punishment without conviction
uri: Punishment-without-conviction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Punishment_without_conviction%29
content:
<p>
The UK
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/23/court-man-must-tell-police-if-he-is-going-to-have-sex">allows
severe punishment without conviction</a>: a man has been ordered to
notify the thugs 24 hours before having sex with a woman, and must
give her full identification.
<p>
If a woman is attracted to him, those demands would surely put her
off.  If he pays a prostitute, the prostitute won't want to give that
information.  In effect, the man has been forbidden to have sex
(except underground).


feed_id: 693598d714baac72fcf2ec39d49b5cd4
title: Suspended for helping a sick classmate
uri: Suspended-for-helping-a-sick-classmate
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Suspended_for_helping_a_sick_classmate%29

content:
<p>
Anthony Ruelas was suspended from school for
<a href="http://www.kcentv.com/story/31018377/kisd-suspends-student-for-leaving-class-to-carry-asthmatic-student-to-nurses-office">carrying
a sick student to the nurse's office</a>.  The other student was
having a severe asthma attack.
<p>
The management of that school needs to be replaced with someone
who realizes that obedience is not the highest priority in life.


feed_id: e9fe1e4d97d61d7a146305c48a3380b8
title: Haiti election cancelled
uri: Haiti-election-cancelled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Haiti_election_cancelled%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-haiti-election-postponed-idUSKCN0V02HF">Massive
opposition</a> made Haiti's imposed president cancel the presidential
election, which the people believed would be rigged (again).
<p>
Haiti's opposition presidential candidate describes the
<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article55927660.html">history
of rigged elections</a> which convinced him to boycott the
just-cancelled vote.


feed_id: bea7741fa246d32da2ababb05a5296fe
title: Israeli repression
uri: Israeli-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Israeli_repression%29
content:
<p>
Israeli repression of anti-land-grab activists is spreading.  Two Jews
and a Palestinian are now
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1453487814">in
prison for no crime</a>.


feed_id: 03e803c555689f3ab1f4fa61f3f1f5cf
title: Four-year-old anxious about math test
uri: Four-year-old-anxious-about-math-test
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Four-year-old_anxious_about_math_test%29

content:
<p>
A four-year-old US child was so anxious about a math test that he
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/22/my-young-son-should-dream-not-have-testing-nightmares">could
not sleep</a>.


feed_id: a5303e32180dca2bde627422f3cf2138
title: Clinton operative tries to smear Sanders
uri: Clinton-operative-tries-to-smear-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Clinton_operative_tries_to_smear_Sanders%29

content:
<p>
A Clinton operative who tried to smear Anita Hill is now
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/22/sanders-campaign-strikes-back-clinton-mudslinger-attack-new-ad">trying
to smear Bernie Sanders</a>.


feed_id: 200bcc4037cea2b3a56842b89ee7a9f6
title: Koch brothers try to smear reporter
uri: Koch-brothers-try-to-smear-reporter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Koch_brothers_try_to_smear_reporter%29

content:
<p>
After a reporter wrote about the Koch brothers' web of influence, they
decided to attack her by
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/21/1472953/-How-the-Kochs-tried-to-destroy-a-journalist-reporting-on-their-political-machine">paying
people to try to smear her</a> with false accusations of plagiarism.


feed_id: 4ab594c76d8171dcca7ee7f9cedb8279
title: Iraqi victims suing UK soldiers
uri: Iraqi-victims-suing-UK-soldiers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28Iraqi_victims_suing_UK_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
Since the UK declines to prosecute soldiers for war crimes in Iraq,
some Iraqi victims are suing.  So Cameron is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/22/uk-government-considers-plans-stop-claims-against-soldiers-iraq-war-allegations-abuse">looking
for ways to make that impossible</a>.
<p>
He's already done
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#10_December_2014_(Suing_to_challenge_legislation)">basically
the same thing</a> to non-wealthy Britons.


feed_id: da3d6b840d52a56e4c67a611c9e1e379
title: UK sells service of training soldiers
uri: UK-sells-service-of-training-soldiers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#28_January_2016_%28UK_sells_service_of_training_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
The UK sells the service of training soldiers for other countries,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/22/sandhurst-sheikhs-calls-to-stop-training-cadets-from-gulf-states-with-bad-rights-records">including
some where the military carry out repression</a>.
<p>
Compare with the US
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_November_2014_(The_old_School_of_the_Americas)">School
of the Americas</a> (or whatever name they call it now).


feed_id: 2a82aa6f88c747c94032b526a498448d
title: Beijing crushes legal assistants
uri: Beijing-crushes-legal-assistants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Beijing_crushes_legal_assistants%29

content:
<p>
Beijing's renewed tyranny 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/25/zhao-wei-mothers-search-for-daughter-caught-china-human-rights">crushes
not only leading human rights lawyers but their legal assistants</a>.


feed_id: 3550c626fb6dbfa44cf31f239c4ebb36
title: Arrested for protesting in Australia
uri: Arrested-for-protesting-in-Australia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Arrested_for_protesting_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
The former leader of Australia's Green Party has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/25/bob-brown-arrested-while-protesting-against-logging-in-tasmania">arrested
for protesting logging of a wildlife area in Tasmania</a>, his home.
<p>
Protesters face extremely harsh punishment.


feed_id: edab354f50ac727f967a728b94d9fa31
title: Oklahoma science classes
uri: Oklahoma-science-classes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Oklahoma_science_classes%29
content:
<p>
Oklahoma legislators are 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/this-years-first-batch-of-anti-science-education-bills-surface-in-oklahoma/">still
looking for ways to have dogma replace biology</a> in science classes.


feed_id: 299d44db48e6bc770548f004d04f3fc9
title: The recent hot years
uri: The-recent-hot-years
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28The_recent_hot_years%29
content:
<p>
The recent very hot years could have happened by chance without global
heating, but the chance would be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/25/record-hot-years-near-impossible-without-manmade-climate-change-study">1
in 10,000</a>.
<p>
Want to bet the survival of civilization on that long shot?
<p>
2016 is expected to be hotter than 2015, because of El Niño.
<p>
If this El Niño ends, subsequent years will be a little cooler
for a while; however, 15 years from now, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jan/25/record-hot-2015-gave-us-a-glimpse-at-the-future-of-global-warming">the
current level of heat will be normal</a> even without El Niño.


feed_id: 313c87033c25494f4408ada059b090b1
title: Punishment for ignoring "child" porn
uri: Punishment-for-ignoring-child-porn
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Punishment_for_ignoring_child_porn%29

content:
<p>
Some US states 
<a href="https://www.ksl.com/?sid=38235604">punish technicians that
notice "child" pornography on a client's computer and don't report
it</a>.
<p>
Keep in mind that "child" includes teenagers of age 16 or 17, who in
Massachusetts can legally have sex.  It even includes women of 18 or
older, if they look younger or have 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-nov-feb.html#4%20February%202010%20(Strange%20policies%20from%20Australian%20porn%20Classification%20Review%20Board%20)">small
breasts</a>.
<p>
It 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#12_November_2015_(Jail_for_sexting)">includes
photos that teenagers take of themselves having sex</a> (but "only"
10% of them get prosecuted).
<p>
A law against possessing a copy of some sort of publication, no matter
what kind that is, is tyranny and leads to more tyranny.  It must be
repealed.


feed_id: 4aca59f86f6ea33346615b378a35a300
title: Women advised to avoid pregnancy
uri: Women-advised-to-avoid-pregnancy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Women_advised_to_avoid_pregnancy%29

content:
<p>
Some countries in Latin America are 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/as-zika-virus-spreads-el-salvador-asks-women-not-to-get-pregnant-until-2018/2016/01/22/1dc2dadc-c11f-11e5-98c8-7fab78677d51_story.html">advising
women to avoid pregnancy for the next year</a>.
<p>
These governments must pay for reliable birth control for women that
can't afford it.  And women should demand an extension of abortion
rights, which are very limited in most countries in Latin America.


feed_id: 9c4977c98b68fc1f829f7b32d3722a65
title: Defeat of Syriza by banksters
uri: Defeat-of-Syriza-by-banksters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Defeat_of_Syriza_by_banksters%29
content:
<p>
Syriza was defeated by the banksters because it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/25/one-year-on-syriza-radicalism-power-euro-alexis-tsipras">never
seriously prepared to reject the Euro</a>.  Now it has surrendered
totally and become the banksters' local satrap.


feed_id: 0d04a17d2c5acd79355fa35f001b2b10
title: Authoritarian rule of Hungary
uri: Authoritarian-rule-of-Hungary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Authoritarian_rule_of_Hungary%29
content:
<p>
Hungary's authoritarian rulers want to establish a "terror threat"
excuse for eliminating many basic human rights — 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/25/hungarians-rally-against-government-push-for-sweeping-anti-terror-powers">whenever
they wish</a>.  Perhaps all the time.


feed_id: 0af0e8ca824051bcea380c05c88b160f
title: Callous public bigotry in Britain
uri: Callous-public-bigotry-in-Britain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Callous_public_bigotry_in_Britain%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/24/syrian-refugees-asylum-seekers-racism-uk">Overt
callous public bigotry</a> has become normal in Britain again.


feed_id: 20dca38cbd99cec52151946f07b6dec8
title: London's poor face new expense
uri: London-s-poor-face-new-expense
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Londons_poor_face_new_expense%29
content:
<p>
For those in London who can barely pay the rent and food, a new
expense will be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/davehillblog/2016/jan/24/londons-launderettes-are-closing-but-their-value-and-appeal-remains">laundry
service</a>, since most of the laundromats have closed.
<p>
This is a small example of how changes in society make it hard to
survive on a low income.  In the past, people could live in boarding
houses that cooked efficiently.  Now they have no cooking facilities,
and the food stores they can reach are not set up to sell food to be
cooked, so they are 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_(Poor_people_logistically_compelled_to_eat_expensively)">stuck
with the expensive prepared foods</a>.


feed_id: bc0696c7a03b1421b7460285d9186d0c
title: Thug tactic for "restraining" someone
uri: Thug-tactic-for-restraining-someone
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Thug_tactic_for_restraining_someone%29

content:
<p>
A common thug tactic for "restraining" someone is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/24/denver-jail-death-homeless-man-police-restraint-tactic">fatal
from time to time to people with medical problems</a>.  As they choke
and die, the thugs think they are fighting and won't release them.


feed_id: 851124aef4b61abf150e68baff86aff0
title: Flint residents fear toxic municipal water
uri: Flint-residents-fear-toxic-municipal-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Flint_residents_fear_toxic_municipal_water%29

content:
<p>
Residents of Flint are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/24/flint-michigan-water-crisis-lead-poisoning-families-children">afraid
to shower with the toxic municipal water</a>.
<p>
Does anyone know whether bathing in that water is actually dangerous?
<p>
The lead has affected adults as well as children.  It doesn't sabotage
their brain development, since that has already finished, but it harms
their bones.


feed_id: db41b5fe04786a0caedb49bc0f01ea66
title: Sanders aims for what US actually needs
uri: Sanders-aims-for-what-US-actually-needs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Sanders_aims_for_what_US_actually_needs%29

content:
<p>
The latest attack on Sanders is for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/24/bernies-movement-and-why-krugman-co-dont-get-it">daring
to aim for what the US actually needs</a>.  The only way to get even
"half a loaf" in politics is to inspire lots of people to demand a
big, whole loaf.
<p>
This is what the free software movement does, in the field of software
freedom.  We demand what our freedom requires, 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html">not less</a>
Others, such as some supporters of the open source non-movement,
follow the ineffective "ask for only what you might possibly get
immediately" approach, which means 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">they
don't say anything that might inspire people to aim for more</a>.
<p>
In the Free Software Foundation's approach to 
<a href="https://defectivebydesign.org/">eliminating DRM</a>, to 
<a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/library-of-congress-issues-limited-exemptions-to-dmca-anti-circumvention-provisions-but-leaves-users-without-full-control-over-their-own-computing">reforming
the DMCA</a>, or 
<a href="or software patents (trolls are just part of the
problem),">software patents</a> (trolls are just part of the problem),
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">rejecting
substitution of someone else's service for a program you run</a>, and
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">opposing
digital surveillance</a>, you will see this difference over and over:
We demand the whole loaf where others ask only for half.


feed_id: 54945ae344104cfc7d2e177316a82262
title: Very urgent: Protest in France
uri: Very-urgent-Protest-in-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Protest_in_France%29
content:
<p>
Citizens and residents of France:
<a href="https://etatdurgence.fr/">protest on Jan 30</a> against the
tyrannical proposal for permanent "emergency", and phone or write your
deputies.
<p>
Information in
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/immediate-end-to-the-state-of-emergency">English</a>.


feed_id: 4175de83b8647149ee23fe7f22b00c5c
title: Stingrays used without warrants
uri: Stingrays-used-without-warrants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Stingrays_used_without_warrants%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160116/09085933354/prosecutors-say-cops-dont-need-warrants-stingrays-because-everyone-knows-cell-phones-generate-location-data.shtml">Prosecutors
Say [thugs] Don't Need Warrants</a> For Stingrays Because 'Everyone
Knows' Cell Phones Generate Location Data.
<p>
First they got people hooked on these devices, then they use them to
track people, then they argue people have no rights.
<p>
What it adds up to is that portable phones are malicious technology.


feed_id: 254c19d36345194195b962ee00a97fd6
title: Anti-abortion activists indicted
uri: Anti-abortion-activists-indicted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Anti-abortion_activists_indicted%29

content:
<p>
A grand jury was asked to charge Planned Parenthood based on the lies
in the fraudulent smear video.  Instead it
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/25/planned-parenthood-grand-jury-indicts-anti-abortion-activists">indicted
people who made the video</a>.


feed_id: cffa00bb1c1865af431adf8bfda7bb29
title: Conviction of Canadian thug
uri: Conviction-of-Canadian-thug
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Conviction_of_Canadian_thug%29
content:
<p>
A thug in Canada has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/25/toronto-police-officer-guilty-murder-sammy-yatim-shooting-death">convicted
of attempted murder, though not of murder</a> (although the victim was
killed).


feed_id: 55e8b7144e9a978175cb5ce9d04797ce
title: Peter Dahlin free
uri: Peter-Dahlin-free
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Peter_Dahlin_free%29
content:
<p>
Swedish human rights activist
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/25/china-releases-swedish-human-rights-activist-peter-dahlin">Peter
Dahlin and his girlfriend have been freed</a> by China.


feed_id: 09c2ffaab6c87eab04f218525b388339
title: Salafi Arabia committing war crimes
uri: Salafi-Arabia-committing-war-crimes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Salafi_Arabia_committing_war_crimes%29

content:
<p>
Salafi Arabia is committing war crimes in Yemen with US support by
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/25/saudi-arabia-killing-civilians-us-bombs">indiscriminately
killing civilians</a>, and
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/01/25/yemen-health-facilities-under-attack">repeatedly
bombing hospitals and medical facilities</a>.


feed_id: 809cc3e8e2a7be05de2e693721f0ddc9
title: NJ governor vetoes gun bill
uri: NJ-governor-vetoes-gun-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28NJ_governor_vetoes_gun_bill%29
content:
<p>
Chris Christie vetoed a New Jersey bill that
<a href="http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/01/christie_nixes_bill_barring_gang_members_from_owni.html">would
have prohibited convicted gang members from buying guns</a>.
<p>
That is because he is seeking the Gun-Nut Party's nomination for
president.


feed_id: 8e1af8276fe9df565e810b472aa8b8fb
title: Protocols for encryption of phone calls
uri: Protocols-for-encryption-of-phone-calls
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Protocols_for_encryption_of_phone_calls%29

content:
<p>
Protocols for encryption of phone calls are
<a href="https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/01/19/insecure-by-design-protocols-for-encrypted-phone-calls/">insecure
by design</a>.


feed_id: e8dc2bfedd7516651d5d2b4d3e1b43f5
title: Products "for women" cost more
uri: Products-for-women-cost-more
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Products_for_women_cost_more%29
content:
<p>
Products "for women" typically
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/25/women-over-charged-everyday-imagine-if-happened-to-men">cost
more than the same product "for men"</a>.
<p>
The root of this problem is that women are too easily manipulated by
the fashion industry; they are made to feel they must buy products
that are "feminine".  But business is already working on trying to do
the same thing to men.


feed_id: 2574e8e836bd2d1e9093f5df995e8505
title: "Crime" invented to jail protesters
uri: Crime-invented-to-jail-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28Crime_invented_to_jail_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Heathrow Climate Protesters Found Guilty of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/25/heathrow-climate-protesters-found-guilty-of-aggravated-trespass">"Aggravated
Trespass"</a>.
<p>
That "crime" was invented as a way to jail protesters.


feed_id: 403ed134517ecbdd800b7927080e7f35
title: UK gov't quashing cases against soldiers
uri: UK-gov-t-quashing-cases-against-soldiers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_%28UK_govt_quashing_cases_against_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
The UK government is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/24/officials-drop-58-inquiries-into-alleged-unlawful-killings-by-iraq-veterans">quashing
cases accusing soldiers of abuse of prisoners</a>, arbitrarily
claiming that some of them are phony.


feed_id: 5b330b6163a759e241dcdaf0ad4c866f
title: Ben & Jerry's endorses Bernie Sanders
uri: Ben-Jerry-s-endorses-Bernie-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Ben_and_Jerrys_endorses_Bernie_Sanders%29

content:
<p>
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream has endorsed Bernie Sanders with a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/01/25/bernies-yearning-because-nothing-so-unstoppable-flavor-whose-time-has-finally">symbolic
dessert</a>.


feed_id: 4cd6ab6a313041f9e149fb76a224ea23
title: Urgent: Investigate bogus WMD claims
uri: Urgent-Investigate-bogus-WMD-claims
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_bogus_WMD_claims%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/iraq-wmd-claims-what">Call
on the New York Times</a> to examine who knew Iraq WMD justifications
for war were bogus, when they knew it, and who should have known it.


feed_id: aa5886ebf73df87f91f17de9664aad31
title: Urgent: Focus on right-wing terrorism
uri: Urgent-Focus-on-right-wing-terrorism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Focus_on_right-wing_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/DHS_Domestic_Terror">call on
the DHS</a> to focus on right-wing domestic terrorism.
<p>
Right-wing terrorists 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_June_2015_(Terrorism_is_right-wing)">kill
more Americans than Islamist terrorists do</a>.


feed_id: 5a43b52c975a98adf32fab6df5a23ca6
title: Sanders the realist
uri: Sanders-the-realist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Sanders_the_realist%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/26/bernie-sanders-realist-we-should-elect">Sanders</a>,
not Clinton, is the realist.


feed_id: 5f5cd7fcfc9e2ca6e89c26097ea4ff63
title: More bankster money for Clinton
uri: More-bankster-money-for-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28More_bankster_money_for_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
Clinton is going to raise more money this week from her 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/26/hillary-clinton-doing-back-to-back-finance-industry-fundraisers-just-before-iowa/">bankster
supporters</a>.


feed_id: d615ae79ea3459b062ba6e458f9bd9e4
title: New UK budget cuts
uri: New-UK-budget-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28New_UK_budget_cuts%29
content:
<p>
New UK budget cuts 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/26/benefit-cap-on-social-housing-will-leave-thousands-homeless-landlords-warn
">will make 50,000 vulnerable people homeless</a>.


feed_id: 026be3366f9eaf6ec270d47c43a4c249
title: GMOs
uri: 2016-01-30-GMOs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28GMOs%29
content:
<p>
"Gene-Editing" Produces GMOs That 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34532-gene-editing-produces-gmos-that-must-be-regulated-as-gmos">Must
Be Regulated</a>.


feed_id: 013b4d2988371311f71baabf05c8d779
title: Digital publishing formats
uri: Digital-publishing-formats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Digital_publishing_formats%29
content:
<p>
Publishers use digital formats as an opportunity to 
<a href="https://cdt.org/blog/ownership-and-copyright-law-legal-fences-between-you-and-your-purchases/">take
away the rights that we enjoy when we buy copies of a work</a>.  This
makes most commercial downloads (of books, music or video)
systematically unjust.
<p>
The CDT's characteristic weak recommendation is for slight regulatory
relaxation to eliminate just a few of the unjust consequences of that
shift.  That is not enough.  We must <em>stop</em> the injustice; we
must <em>put an end</em> to these unjust licenses.
<p>
Instead of the "authorized" copy that would oppress you, choose an
unauthorized copy that treats you ethically.


feed_id: a1b8d8a9dd1002305d3dd6dfc41e15b5
title: Denmark to take refugees' valuables
uri: Denmark-to-take-refugees-valuables
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Denmark_to_take_refugees_valuables%29

content:
<p>
Denmark will deter refugees by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/26/danish-parliament-approves-plan-to-seize-assets-from-refugees">taking
most of their valuables</a>.


feed_id: 0c7902d24662f8fbc42470b2ee1d85ee
title: Family planning
uri: Family-planning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Family_planning%29
content:
<p>
Family Planning Is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/26/family-planning-critical-link-eradicating-poverty-modern-contraceptives-population-bulge">'Critical
Link' in Eradicating Poverty</a>.


feed_id: 5e1c1f9bcad0f17edb5bf2500dbf8f52
title: Florida thugs burn prisoner to death
uri: Florida-thugs-burn-prisoner-to-death
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Florida_thugs_burn_prisoner_to_death%29

content:
<p>
Florida thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/26/miami-dade-prisoner-shower-death-ruled-accident-darren-rainey">burned
Darren Rainey to death with very hot water</a>.  The state ruled this
was an accident.


feed_id: 0e53da1f757a8706da20155d833b14a9
title: Repression increasing in Israel
uri: Repression-increasing-in-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Repression_increasing_in_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Peace activists in Israel face 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/26/netanyahu-shapiro-israel-crackdown-dissent">increasing
repression</a>.
<p>
I expect that in 10 years Israel will have become so repressive that
all but right-wing extremists will flee.


feed_id: 265ef8981a7888c32cd32de6ad13a33d
title: UK could punish Putin's regime
uri: UK-could-punish-Putin-s-regime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28UK_could_punish_Putins_regime%29
content:
<p>
The UK could effectively punish Putin's regime for the murder of
Alexander Litvinenko, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/26/litvinenko-report-punish-russia-cameron-bill-browder">without
breaking diplomatic relations</a>.
<p>
I don't think the Tories care all that much; they are not so different
from Putin, after all.


feed_id: b424be3fa3ca936b7cb1460a23ff3fa8
title: Suppressed US intel report on WMDs
uri: Suppressed-US-intel-report-on-WMDs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Suppressed_US_intel_report_on_WMDs%29

content:
<p>
A secret US intelligence report expressing ignorance on the subject of
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was 
<a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/iraq-war-wmds-donald-rumsfeld-new-report-213530">suppressed
in 2002</a>, and apparently not shown to Colin Powell before he argued
for invading Iraq to destroy those unverified (and in fact
nonexistent) weapons.


feed_id: b5bc53ae7c30ea6f4f6f1754bfd92f87
title: License plate recognition cameras
uri: 2016-01-30-License-plate-recognition-cameras
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28License_plate_recognition_cameras%29

content:
<p>
A US-wide system of recording license plate recognition cameras,
called "Vigilant", 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mariko-hirose-/documents-uncover-nypds-v_b_9070270.html">records
a million car spottings every day</a>.  Every car that drives past a
camera is recorded.  These records could be kept for years.
<p>
Such a system should be outright illegal.  License plate recognition
cameras 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">should
be required to record only invalid license plates or cars sought by
court order</a>.


feed_id: 797deb6d94a1dcc899d2f9aedfd2d56f
title: Ted Cruz puts church above country
uri: Ted-Cruz-puts-church-above-country
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Ted_Cruz_puts_church_above_country%29

content:
<p>
Ted Cruz says he puts 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/01/22/1473694/-Ted-Cruz-I-m-a-Christian-first-American-second-Imagine-if-Muslim-or-Jewish-politician-said-that">his
church above the United States</a>.  That makes him totally
unqualified to be president (or any sort of official).
<p>
When John F. Kennedy ran for president, some Protestant Americans
claimed that he would put his church above the United States and take
orders from the Pope.  He promised that the US and its Constitution
would be his first loyalty, and people accepted this.


feed_id: 7a34036a7b8639bc7acf6c6c82c6379f
title: Rent strike for dorm rooms
uri: Rent-strike-for-dorm-rooms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Rent_strike_for_dorm_rooms%29
content:
<p>
Some students in London have started a rent strike for their dorm
rooms, which have become 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jan/25/london-students-refuse-to-pay-rent-and-demand-40-cut">intolerably
expensive</a>.


feed_id: e79b8d2e1757e7ffa0cd1b21412ea1ab
title: Psychologists' torture ban
uri: Psychologists-torture-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Psychologists_torture_ban%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/25/pentagon-asks-psychologists-reconsider-torture-ban-argues-you-never-know">Pentagon
Asks Psychologists to Reconsider Torture Ban</a>, Argues 'You Never
Know …'
<p>
Yes, we know.  Just because enemies are vicious and cruel is no reason
we should imitate them.  Torture is never justified.


feed_id: 9d2d29ba8fd58962b4ceb4795d542753
title: Solitary confinement
uri: 2016-01-30-Solitary-confinement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Solitary_confinement%29
content:
<p>
Obama has 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/01/obama-ends-solitary-confinement-juveniles">limited
who can be put in solitary confinement</a> in federal prisons.
<p>
This is a change for the better but probably not enough.  More than a
short period of solitary confinement is dangerous to mental health.


feed_id: f841727c0e712928323fe088e6167d76
title: Pharmaceutical patents
uri: Pharmaceutical-patents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Pharmaceutical_patents%29
content:
<p>
Jamie Love fights to save people's lives from 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/26/big-pharmas-worst-nightmare">pharmaceutical
patents</a>.
<p>
Medicine is one of the areas where patents do a special kind of harm,
but we would be 
<a href="media/2a61f33e.45_1_stallman.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/law/students/publications/llj/pdfs/45_1_stallman.pdf">better
off eliminating patents entirely</a>.
<p>
I am disappointed that the first article uses the term "protection" to
describe what patents do, because that is spin in favor of the
patentholders.  Using that term gives them an endorsement that they
will use when lobbying for more strict patent laws.  Please join me in
refusing ever to use that term in regard to patents.
<p>
The term "intellectual property rights" is worse than spin: it spreads
confusion.  Patents and copyrights are totally different in practice.
If you lump them together, you will misunderstand what they do.
<p>
See <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html</a>.


feed_id: c55a578129bcf88655aa8ce28f6215f1
title: Milwaukee thugs hide stingray usage
uri: Milwaukee-thugs-hide-stingray-usage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Milwaukee_thugs_hide_stingray_usage%29

content:
<p>
New Evidence Shows Milwaukee Police 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/new-evidence-shows-milwaukee-police-hide-stingray-usage-courts-and-defense">Hide
Stingray Usage From Courts and Defense</a>.


feed_id: 312b19e55ec234008cb23dacc9239de1
title: Copyrighted laws in the US
uri: Copyrighted-laws-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Copyrighted_laws_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/no-one-owns-law-everyone-owns-law">Fighting</a>
against copyrighted laws in the US.


feed_id: daa4d58fac7e315c21b608a5957ecaec
title: Half-billion-dollar "gift"
uri: Half-billion-dollar-gift
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Half-billion-dollar_gift%29
content:
<p>
A half-billion-dollar "gift" to the premier of Malaysia was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/26/malaysian-pm-najib-razak-cleared-corruption-gift-saudi-royals">"not
a bribe", says a court</a>.
<p>
What a strange definition of corruption.


feed_id: ee3c9c7b11724c957515215911700a01
title: Hillary's warmth and her wars
uri: Hillary-s-warmth-and-her-wars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Hillary%27s_warmth_and_her_wars%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/28/who-cares-if-hillary-warm-i-care-about-her-wars">
Who Cares if Hillary is Warm?  I Care About Her Wars.</a>
</p>
<p>I care even more about her plutocracy, since the military-industrial
complex
promotes the wars and does many other bad thing.</p>


feed_id: 09ad4a01bf00da12d8200db6fdc22951
title: California defeats utility companies over home solar
uri: California-defeats-utility-companies-over-home-solar
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28California_defeats_utility_companies_over_home_solar%29

content:
<p>California 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/01/28/california-big-win-rooftop-solar">
defeated the utility companies</p>
<p> that wanted to put the brakes on home solar power.
</p>


feed_id: f3f2c15ba965ef771c7bce9e0362ff7a
title: Britain at war with Yemen
uri: Britain-at-war-with-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Britain_at_war_with_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/28/britain-war-yemen-saudi-arabia-military-advisers">
Britain Is At War With Yemen.  So Why Does Nobody Know About It?</a>
</p>
<p>The same goes for the US.</p>


feed_id: 14bddf0c2f74d48ab2f0d182f4c80b18
title: Swiss email company fights surveillance laws
uri: Swiss-email-company-fights-surveillance-laws
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Swiss_email_company_fights_surveillance_laws%29

content:
<p>An email company in Switzerland has 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/25/how-a-small-company-in-switzerland-is-fighting-a-surveillance-law-and-winning/">
led a campaign</a>
 against massive surveillance laws.
</p>


feed_id: 51aa5b3ce7a1940894f50296cfa27346
title: Texas police license plate readers
uri: Texas-police-license-plate-readers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Texas_police_license_plate_readers%29

content:
<p>Thugs in Texas don't pay money for their license plate readers.
Instead they 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/no-cost-license-plate-readers-are-turning-texas-police-mobile-debt-collectors-and">
moonlight for the company "Vigilant"</a>
 that accumulates license plate sightings.
</p>


feed_id: 9192cbd1ea921c6c6e6041749ea973df
title: Gas not as good as solar
uri: Gas-not-as-good-as-solar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Gas_not_as_good_as_solar%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jan/27/natural-gas-not-as-good-as-solar-despite-the-gas-industrys-best-efforts">
'Natural' Gas Not as Good as Solar — Despite the Gas Industry's
Best Efforts.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 876cfe01c11331bef2eae1ce5a81406b
title: Profits over rights
uri: Profits-over-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Profits_over_rights%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/27/profits-over-rights-uk-sells-spy-gear-repressive-regimes">
Profits Over Rights as UK Sells Spy Gear to Repressive Regimes.</a>
</p>


feed_id: c00750ca2d57497d51c743991fadb947
title: US thugs tase blacks and Hispanics more
uri: US-thugs-tase-blacks-and-Hispanics-more
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28US_thugs_tase_blacks_and_Hispanics_more%29

content:
<p>US thugs tend to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/27/police-stun-gun-black-hispanic-connecticut-data">
use tasers more often</a>
 against blacks and Hispanics,
whereas with whites they tend to warn instead.
</p>


feed_id: c786c9d98a0a8816690c95129e1c0206
title: Bedbugs resistant to neonicotinoids
uri: Bedbugs-resistant-to-neonicotinoids
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Bedbugs_resistant_to_neonicotinoids%29

content:
<p>Neonicotinoids kill bees just fine, but bedbugs are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/27/bed-bugs-develop-resistance-to-insecticide-neonicotinoid">
becoming resistant</a>
 to them.
</p>


feed_id: 6fc82edc4e4071d3ccab3beb36893874
title: Salafi Arabia drops US bombs on Yemeni civilians
uri: Salafi-Arabia-drops-US-bombs-on-Yemeni-civilians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Salafi_Arabia_drops_US_bombs_on_Yemeni_civilians%29

content:
<p>There is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/27/yemen-airstrikes-no-sirens-boom-civilians-sanaa">
no shelter for civilians</a>
 when Salafi Arabia drops US-provided bombs in Yemen.
</p>


feed_id: fd5220ca91499562f69b8c1ec62a27cc
title: Yemeni-American's passport revoked over false statement
uri: Yemeni-American-s-passport-revoked-over-false-statement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Yemeni-American%27s_passport_revoked_over_false_statement%29

content:
<p>Yemeni-American Qarwash Mohsn Awad's passport was revoked because
of a 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/27/yemeni-american-tells-how-the-u-s-separated-him-from-his-wife-and-three-children/">
false statement</a>
 that his sister was bullied by US agents into signing.
</p>
<p>It's part of a pattern of 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/27/harrowing-treatment-of-yemeni-americans-demands-government-probe-groups-say/">
self-contradictory injustice</a>
 against Yemeni-Americans.
</p>


feed_id: 8b2162d8d66ae1d07c8b39ce31759f92
title: France adopts sedated dying law
uri: France-adopts-sedated-dying-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28France_adopts_sedated_dying_law%29

content:
<p>France legalizes 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/28/france-adopts-sedated-dying-law-as-compromise-on-euthanasia">
keeping dying patients deeply sedated</a>
 (at their request) so that they feel no pain.
</p>
<p>This is good for people who have a painful condition that will kill
them soon, but offers no escape to those who can't communicate and
experience years of boredom.</p>


feed_id: a486d9bb714a46a54eccd185b830a1d8
title: Tories selling UK assets cheap
uri: Tories-selling-UK-assets-cheap
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Tories_selling_UK_assets_cheap%29

content:
<p>The Tories are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/27/tories-accused-shortchanging-public-record-26bn-privatisation-state-assets-press-association-data">
selling off UK state assets cheap</a>.
Bad for the country, but good for their cronies.</p>


feed_id: 7d93127052631d856659e2417f6db428
title: Racial profiling on highways
uri: Racial-profiling-on-highways
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Racial_profiling_on_highways%29
content:
<p>More proof of racial profiling: blacks are more likely than whites
in Florida to be 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/new-evidence-racial-profiling-florida-roadways">
ticketed for not wearing seatbelts</a>.
</p>


feed_id: c16ce00fcdfb4b08acdc25acf5c5dc6e
title: Anaheim's cellular surveillance arsenal
uri: Anaheim-s-cellular-surveillance-arsenal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Anaheim%27s_cellular_surveillance_arsenal%29

content:
<p>Anaheim, a small city in California, bought a wide range of phone
surveillance
devices and 
<a href="https://www.aclunc.org/blog/dirtbox-over-disneyland-new-docs-reveal-anaheim-s-cellular-surveillance-arsenal">
secretly let many neighboring cities use them</a>.
</p>


feed_id: ec99254f75eee311dc8b973972d6f557
title: Florida mayors tell Rubio to take global heating seriously
uri: Florida-mayors-tell-Rubio-to-take-global-heating-seriously
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Florida_mayors_tell_Rubio_to_take_global_heating_seriously%29

content:
<p>Mayors from Florida have told Florida senator Mario Rubio: 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/florida-mayors-to-rubio-were-going-under-take-climate-change-seriously/">
take global heating seriously before we get inundated</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 0284a0ab2991e206abba19429a48857d
title: Coal is a risky investment
uri: Coal-is-a-risky-investment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Coal_is_a_risky_investment%29
content:
<p>Investors in coal mines are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/28/australian-coalmines-are-one-of-riskiest-investments-in-the-world-report">
likely to lose lots of money</a>.
</p>
<p>I am glad, but humanity (and the earth's wildlife) deserves a system
of government which can protect us from man-made disasters even if
investors can profit from them.</p>


feed_id: 3a9e35a2007e0f075779d41edd3f832e
title: Chemicals that promote breast cancer
uri: Chemicals-that-promote-breast-cancer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Chemicals_that_promote_breast_cancer%29

content:
<p>Women can 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/27/what-our-breasts-are-telling-us">
measure their exposure</a>
 to some of the chemicals that promote breast cancer.
</p>


feed_id: ee0f32595af131c682579f4a4eac4944
title: Join us in a revolt
uri: Join-us-in-a-revolt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Join_us_in_a_revolt%29
content:
<p>Michael Moore: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/27/do-not-send-us-bottles-water-instead-join-us-revolt">
Do Not Send Us Bottles of Water [in Flint].  Instead,
Join Us in a Revolt.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 35ecff16203bd692f4f6a11c5fd084fc
title: Protonmail
uri: Protonmail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Protonmail%29
content:
<p>The staff of Protonmail are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/25/how-a-small-company-in-switzerland-is-fighting-a-surveillance-law-and-winning/">
campaigning effectively</a>
 against new surveillance laws in Switzerland.
</p>


feed_id: 141e31bb5e05179cf4debeebda4e9ed1
title: Urgent: urge Delaware to repeal death penalty
uri: Urgent-urge-Delaware-to-repeal-death-penalty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_urge_Delaware_to_repeal_death_penalty%29

content:
<p>Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/repeal-the-death-penalty-5?akid=161395.2794606.9VZjII&rd=1&source=mo&t=1003">
urge Delaware</a>
 to repeal the death penalty.
</p>


feed_id: 3da872bcaeb9a2f33df7f0a9b55dec80
title: Northern right whales
uri: Northern-right-whales
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Northern_right_whales%29
content:
<p>Northern right whales now have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/01/26/feds-protect-nearly-40000-square-miles-endangered-whales-along-east-coast">
more protected areas</a>
 on the US Atlantic coast. 
Whether it is enough to save them is not clear.</p>


feed_id: 70f9e4eee07873236a90bf5d80b6e854
title: Attacks on Sanders
uri: Attacks-on-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Attacks_on_Sanders%29
content:
<p>The plutocratist Democratic establishment is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/26/confederacy-dunces-democratic-establishments-assault-sanders-begins">
attacking Sanders</a>
 more and more.
</p>
<p>Gandhi famously said: first they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.  Sanders is moving from stage 2 to
stage 3.</p>


feed_id: b67eb187e5f865c5cca573df22ad4cb4
title: Threat of biometric data collection
uri: Threat-of-biometric-data-collection
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Threat_of_biometric_data_collection%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://cdt.org/blog/collection-of-biometric-data-poses-serious-privacy-and-personal-security/">
Collection of Biometric Data Poses Serious Privacy and Personal
Security 
Risks.</a>
</p>
<p>Not to mention that so much surveillance 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">
threatens democracy</a>
 for everyone.
</p>


feed_id: f59c3df61e9c69bf415b963728ee6f29
title: Urgent: Investigate why FBI helped Walmart
uri: Urgent-Investigate-why-FBI-helped-Walmart
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_why_FBI_helped_Walmart%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/FBI_walmart">call for an
investigation</a> of why the FBI helped Walmart silence its employees.


feed_id: ef58a931713e9c0b35608cfe5c10b2ba
title: PBS Newshour spreads falsehoods
uri: PBS-Newshour-spreads-falsehoods
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28PBS_Newshour_spreads_falsehoods%29

content:
<p>
PBS Newshour spreads
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/25/pbs-newshour-lies-about-single-payer-health-care">falsehoods
about single-payer health care</a>.


feed_id: b76150d141adc9f1a6110d87e1e99229
title: How al-Sisi represses protests
uri: How-al-Sisi-represses-protests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28How_al-Sisi_represses_protests%29

content:
<p>
How Egypt's tyrant al-Sisi
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/25/another-arab-spring-coming-egypt">represses
protests</a>.


feed_id: bb7a86803151ef5c97e629ab8a3a0273
title: America's poor have great work ethic
uri: America-s-poor-have-great-work-ethic
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Americas_poor_have_great_work_ethic%29

content:
<p>
Americans who are poor have a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/25/great-potential-poor-americans-and-how-plutocrats-just-want-them-go-away">great
work ethic</a>.  If only SCROTUS would allow making jobs for them.  As
for the children, disabled and old, SCROTUS calls them "moochers".


feed_id: fe20b76376675d1cfe05ba784f31e6c1
title: What we need to keep in the ground
uri: What-we-need-to-keep-in-the-ground
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28What_we_need_to_keep_in_the_ground%29

content:
<p>
Here's
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/25/new-report-issues-dire-carbon-warning-keep-it-ground-or-else">what
we need to keep in the ground</a>, to limit global heating to 1.5C.


feed_id: 7a689960e700c3198b604ad453ef98b9
title: DOJ whistleblower faces punishment
uri: DOJ-whistleblower-faces-punishment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28DOJ_whistleblower_faces_punishment%29

content:
<p>
The hero who
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/26/almost-12-years-after-calling-a-reporter-doj-whistleblower-slapped-with-ethics-charges/">informed
the press about Dubya's warrantless wiretapping</a> now faces
punishment.


feed_id: 63548ccbfe8da46e5a993e05380be905
title: Ban Ki-moon condemns Israeli colonization
uri: Ban-Ki-moon-condemns-Israeli-colonization
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Ban_Ki-moon_condemns_Israeli_colonization%29

content:
<p>
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/26/ban-ki-moon-calls-israeli-settlement-expansion-affront-to-world">condemned</a>
Israeli colonization of occupied Palestine.
<p>
He said that this calls into question Israel's commitment to a
two-state resolution of the dispute.  That's an understatement;
according to Uri Avnery, Netanyahu
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#23_February_2013_(Oxford_debate_on_occupation_of_Palestine)">never
seriously entertained the possibility of such an agreement</a>, and
engaged in sham peace talks only to forestall international cognizance
of that fact.
<p>
Those peace talks collapsed a couple of years ago, and international
cognizance is taking hold.


feed_id: 5e4983b531017b6dc9f086191038b83c
title: MI5, MI6, and US torture
uri: MI5-MI6-and-US-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28MI5%2C_MI6%2C_and_US_torture%29
content:
<p>
MI5 and MI6: what was their
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/defence-and-security-blog/2016/jan/25/mi5-and-mi6-time-to-come-clean">relationship
with US torture</a>?


feed_id: 2f1a0a8dc78ec532b36cb2885fbba477
title: Schengen "free travel" zone
uri: Schengen-free-travel-zone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Schengen_free_travel_zone%29
content:
<p>
The stress of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/25/refugee-crisis-schengen-area-scheme-brink-amsterdam-talks">a
million refugees</a> is making the Schengen "free travel" zone
crumble.
<p>
In 20 or 30 years we will probably see tens of millions of people
fleeing for their lives from global heating disaster.  In 50 years,
there may be hundreds of millions — but maybe we can avoid
reaching that point, if we cut back carbon emissions as hard as we
can.


feed_id: ea19f586e4cd0039279b2fbc349956b8
title: Hold placed on Obama's FDA nominee
uri: Hold-placed-on-Obama-s-FDA-nominee
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Hold_placed_on_Obamas_FDA_nominee%29

content:
<p>
Senators Markey and Sanders placed a hold on Obama's nomination of a
commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration, because he has been
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/01/26/sanders-places-hold-fda-nominee">tied
too much to Big Pharma</a>.


feed_id: c6b526d4435330086dea537930e9584b
title: Urgent: Attend LibrePlanet
uri: Urgent-Attend-LibrePlanet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Attend_LibrePlanet%29
content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/edward-snowden-will-kick-off-libreplanet-2016-will-you-be-there">attend
the Free Software Foundation's LibrePlanet event</a> on March 19 and
20.  The lead speaker will be Edward Snowden.


feed_id: 6a6e8fe52d8fb365ad7691fd2b69ecde
title: Urgent: Reject the TPP
uri: 2016-02-01-Urgent-Reject-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
Citizens of TPP countries:
<ul>
<li>Australia</li>
<li>Brunei</li>
<li>Canada</li>
<li>Chile</li>
<li>Japan</li>
<li>Malaysia</li>
<li>Mexico</li>
<li>New Zealand</li>
<li>Peru</li>
<li>Singapore</li>
<li>United States</li>
<li>Vietnam</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://dontsignthetpp.net/">Call on your trade minister</a>
not to sign the TPP.


feed_id: f5246ec231d699e024ac505d967d3f5c
title: Urgent: Reject airline passenger data collection
uri: Urgent-Reject-airline-passenger-data-collection
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_airline_passenger_data_collection%29

content:
<p>
European Union citizens:
<a href="https://act.accessnow.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1921&ea.campaign.id=46765">strengthen
the Parliament's resolve</a> to reject data collection about airline
passengers.


feed_id: 133eef2bf1277a35d0a287a9856996bb
title: Turkish journalists face life in prison
uri: Turkish-journalists-face-life-in-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28Turkish_journalists_face_life_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
Turkish journalists are
<a href="http://cpj.org/2016/01/jailed-turkish-journalists-face-multiple-life-sent.php">facing
life in prison</a> for reporting on the government's practice of
arming Syrian jihadis.


feed_id: 9662fe1e0e78e2d251f23afd474c2f76
title: How to fight spread of Zika
uri: How-to-fight-spread-of-Zika
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28How_to_fight_spread_of_Zika%29
content:
<p>
Zika spreads where people are poor and don't have the time and money
needed to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/27/zika-virus-ebola-security-policies-poverty">limit
mosquito reproduction</a>.  That shows how to fight it.


feed_id: ccba761258bc5df6d0bd9c06db864504
title: Hydroelectric dams may be left without water
uri: Hydroelectric-dams-may-be-left-without-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28Hydroelectric_dams_may_be_left_without_water%29

content:
<p>
Thousand of hydroelectric dams
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/jan/27/from-the-nile-to-the-amazon-climate-change-threatens-hydropower">may
be left without water due to global heating</a>.
<p>
This reduces the attractiveness of building new dams, which could
in many cases destroy unique species.


feed_id: 48dcd1a7f59cee7d584ed55fb00d8b1f
title: Kenya repressing press criticism
uri: Kenya-repressing-press-criticism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28Kenya_repressing_press_criticism%29

content:
<p>
Kenya's government is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/27/blow-to-kenyas-media-after-editor-sacked-for-criticising-president">repressing
press criticism</a>.


feed_id: 14cd1d78ad37351cff659fcdf6a6edf4
title: Gang violence in Latin America
uri: Gang-violence-in-Latin-America
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28Gang_violence_in_Latin_America%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2016/jan/27/risk-life-qualification-education-latin-america">Too
Afraid for School</a>: Latin America is Losing New Generation to Gang
Violence.


feed_id: 55b9ce5959d35539b4c35bd594d0eb07
title: Loss of libraries
uri: Loss-of-libraries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28Loss_of_libraries%29
content:
<p>
The Loss of Libraries Is Another
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2016/jan/27/loss-libraries-entrench-inequality-poor-family">Surefire
Way to Entrench Inequality</a>.


feed_id: 3bd002e37864fada6f1db5fe3b70af3d
title: Global heating wiping out trees in Tasmania
uri: Global-heating-wiping-out-trees-in-Tasmania
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28Global_heating_wiping_out_trees_in_Tasmania%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/27/world-heritage-forests-burn-as-global-tragedy-unfolds-in-tasmania">likely
to wipe out the slow-growing trees</a> of Tasmanian highlands.
<p>
Fires started by lightning are no longer natural, because the
lightning has a human cause.
<p>
At lower altitudes, partial logging has made other Tasmanian forests
more vulnerable to fires.


feed_id: 5f2c7ac4d8a0759192e0cb0583f52c45
title: One armed occupier killed, some arrested
uri: One-armed-occupier-killed-some-arrested
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28One_armed_occupier_killed%2C_some_arrested%29

content:
<p>
The FBI arrested some of the armed occupiers of the Malheur wildlife
refuge.  There was a fight and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/26/oregon-militia-standoff-ammon-bundy-arrested-and-one-confirmed-dead-after-shootout">one
of the occupiers was killed</a>.
<p>
I can't criticize thugs for shooting someone in a group that was known
to be armed and which had talked about shooting them.


feed_id: 7511b0e9ce1f9c929b92b1d0e9ce6a5a
title: "Probiotics"
uri: Probiotics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28Probiotics%29
content:
<p>
"Probiotics" might be able to help human health, but
<a href="http://www.statnews.com/2016/01/21/probiotics-shaky-science/">nobody
really knows which ones do</a>.


feed_id: 0e29174c1ce9912975f910d13f079768
title: Second boycott of Coca Cola Company
uri: Second-boycott-of-Coca-Cola-Company
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28Second_boycott_of_Coca_Cola_Company%29

content:
<p>
There is now a second boycott of Coca Cola Company — this one to
<a href="http://cokeboycott.com/">demand that it label GMOs</a>.
<p>
I guess they don't know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola
Company for
<a href="http://killercoke.org">murdering union organizers</a>.
<p>
I don't like Coca Cola itself, but that is not the company's only
product.  It also sells fruit juices and bottled water.  I almost
never use bottled water except in places such as India and Flint,
Michigan, where the tap water is unsafe -- but when I am in those
places, I make sure that the water is not from Coca Cola Company.


feed_id: 9b15f10d4ebdf3fbc3b1cc2285270267
title: The switch to lead-poisoned Flint river
uri: The-switch-to-lead-poisoned-Flint-river
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28The_switch_to_lead-poisoned_Flint_river%29

content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/25/1474755/-Was-the-Flint-water-switch-really-about-saving-money">motive
for switching Flint's water to the lead-poisoned Flint river</a> was
not saving money.  Another deal was available which would have saved
more money, with the same safe water.


feed_id: 451b8032c6586384077213c6426dd1d2
title: Urgent: urge Delaware to repeal death penalty
uri: 2016-02-01-Urgent-urge-Delaware-to-repeal-death-penalty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_%28Urgent%3A_urge_Delaware_to_repeal_death_penalty%29

content:
<p>Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/repeal-the-death-penalty-5">
urge Delaware</a>
 to repeal the death penalty.
</p>


feed_id: f1dbdd26c0a321a13e895b611d88898e
title: Chicago thugs allowed to cover up misdeeds
uri: Chicago-thugs-allowed-to-cover-up-misdeeds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#02_February_2016_%28Chicago_thugs_allowed_to_cover_up_misdeeds%29

content:
<p>
The management of the Chicago thug department allowed thugs to cover
up their misdeeds by
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/01/28/chicago_polices_stunning_dashcam_scandal_new_study_reveals_how_police_evade_accountability/">turning
off cameras and microphones in their cars</a>.


feed_id: b96da723c8490869eeaa2aaae079fef2
title: Contracting out support activities
uri: Contracting-out-support-activities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#02_February_2016_%28Contracting_out_support_activities%29

content:
<p>
Contracting out support activities, famous Silicon Valley companies
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/silicon-valley-service-workers-poor-intel-tech-facebook">pay
many of their workers too little to live on</a>, and exclude them from
the benefits of employees.
<p>
Such contracting out is an obstacle to unionization, and that alone
is a reason to adopt policies to discourage it.


feed_id: 7c748cf43d8d8575e9804825b19927bf
title: Increased inequality
uri: Increased-inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#02_February_2016_%28Increased_inequality%29
content:
<p>
Oxfam's report on increased inequality gives
<a href="media/ebceed5e.bp210-economy-one-percent-tax-havens-180116-summ-en_0.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/bp210-economy-one-percent-tax-havens-180116-summ-en_0.pdf">recommendations
for how to fix it</a>.
<p>
The report shows that it's not just that the rich are getting richer.
They are making the poor poorer, too.  The poorest half of humanity
have lost around 40% of their wealth since 2010.


feed_id: c617c05989e0d2198373b589d055063d
title: UK government privatizing the state
uri: UK-government-privatizing-the-state
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#02_February_2016_%28UK_government_privatizing_the_state%29

content:
<p>
The UK government is privatizing the state,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/28/selling-family-silver-cameron-osborne-thatcher">selling
off large state activities cheap as well as the land on which they are
run</a>.
<p>
The politicians that sell off the state cheap, and the cronies to whom
they sell it, are conspiring together to cheat the country.  The
proper remedy, when the British people recognize the need, will be to
confiscate what was sold off, with no compensation.
<p>
That loss, for the "investors", will be right and proper.  It will
teach future rich cronies not to be so eager to participate in such
conspiracies.


feed_id: ed1cbd83460d1d0b25e8bd08978048ad
title: Businesses that should shut down
uri: Businesses-that-should-shut-down
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#02_February_2016_%28Businesses_that_should_shut_down%29

content:
<p>
Some executives know that the best thing their business can do for the
environment, and the world, is to shut down.  But they consider that
impossible, so they find ways to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jan/28/climate-change-capitalism-business-emotions-heathrow-protest-short-term-profits">reconcile
themselves to doing harm</a>.
<p>
We can save them from this.  We should shut those businesses down.


feed_id: dbdd67924b7e07c868a5f923b727583b
title: Solitary confinement in Louisiana
uri: Solitary-confinement-in-Louisiana
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#02_February_2016_%28Solitary_confinement_in_Louisiana%29

content:
<p>
Louisiana
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/28/solitary-confinement-prisons-barack-obama-albert-woodfox">refuses
to disclose how many prisoners it keeps in solitary confinement</a>,
or for how long.


feed_id: 2a4c239c3fd24aeebde911cb23e958e1
title: Torture by Chicago thugs
uri: Torture-by-Chicago-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#02_February_2016_%28Torture_by_Chicago_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Chicago thugs
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/28/chicago-police-department-false-confessions-torture">extracted
false confessions using torture</a>.  Instead of punishment, they
received promotions.


feed_id: df8654e0656c6836b9f4ec0b7ae59d6f
title: The right-wing in Israel
uri: The-right-wing-in-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#02_February_2016_%28The_right-wing_in_Israel%29
content:
<p>
The right-wing in Israel is now
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/28/israel-im-tirtzu-accused-mccarthyism-anti-artist-campaign">calling
prominent writers and artists "leftwing moles"</a> (i.e., traitors).


feed_id: 6cb93d6361dd04eda131ee25da5c9d8b
title: Urgent: Support Ezra Nawi
uri: Urgent-Support-Ezra-Nawi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#01_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Ezra_Nawi%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-ezra/">Support
Israeli human rights defender Ezra Nawi</a>, arrested in Israel for no
stated reason.


feed_id: 9d16efb35e6546b8fe7a3ff0e5b3e91a
title: Wealthy-white "Black Americans" organization
uri: Wealthy-white-Black-Americans-organization
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#01_February_2016_%28Wealthy-white_Black_Americans_organization%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing organization "Black Americans for a Better Future" is 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/28/black-americans-for-a-better-future-super-pac-100-funded-by-rich-white-guys/">funded
entirely by wealthy whites</a>.


feed_id: a5446f336d8461ad8d7a923a232d6fe2
title: Sale of coal mines to small operators
uri: Sale-of-coal-mines-to-small-operators
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#01_February_2016_%28Sale_of_coal_mines_to_small_operators%29

content:
<p>
Big coal companies are selling coal mines to small operators that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/29/coal-giants-abandon-unprofitable-mines-leaving-rehabilitation-under-threat">won't
be able to afford to clean up the environmental damage</a>.
<p>
This is fraud; the executives involved should be prosecuted and
jailed.


feed_id: f5105c25c449c0eab4533a16a3a516b4
title: Republicans in Michigan
uri: Republicans-in-Michigan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#01_February_2016_%28Republicans_in_Michigan%29
content:
<p>
Republicans in Michigan 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/01/26/1474838/-Emergency-managers-and-gerrymandering-How-Republican-attacks-on-democracy-led-to-Flint-water-crisis">systematically
override democracy to maintain control of the state and its
people</a>, even though most voters don't vote for them.
<p>
This led directly to 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/emergency-managers-michigan-flint-detroit">lead
poisoning in Flint</a>.
<p>
What will it take to restore democracy in Michigan?  How can Michigan
voters overthrow this tyranny?


feed_id: 3cb0e31fe5ea3261e5ccbaa127879447
title: Disney sued by former workers
uri: Disney-sued-by-former-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#01_February_2016_%28Disney_sued_by_former_workers%29

content:
<p>
Former Disney workers are suing Disney for 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/25/1474921/-Disney-faces-lawsuits-for-using-H-1B-visas-to-replace-American-workers">abusing
a special visa system</a> to make them train visiting foreign workers
to replace them.
<p>
Workers, if your employer tries to do this to you, don't train your
replacement!  Quit immediately!  That way, the cheating employer
will suffer a loss from mistreating you.


feed_id: fbc6a7c41caac89f253be1f3dbd19b46
title: State-level solar energy incentives
uri: State-level-solar-energy-incentives
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#01_February_2016_%28State-level_solar_energy_incentives%29

content:
<p>
US Republicans, led by the Koch brothers and ALEC, are 
<a href="http://americablog.com/2016/01/how-republican-led-states-are-rigging-energy-markets.html">eliminating
state-level solar energy incentives</a> where they can.


feed_id: 25175e62e8bb93ab7e7d057cb38ee0c9
title: Bangladesh factory safety conditions
uri: Bangladesh-factory-safety-conditions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#01_February_2016_%28Bangladesh_factory_safety_conditions%29

content:
<p>
Safety conditions in some factories in Bangladesh are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/28/bangladesh-factory-safety-scheme-stalls">just
like before the Rana Plaza factory fire.
<p>
In general, supposed commitments to reform the abuses of these front
companies' supply chains are 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#16_January_2016_(Auditing_by_global_front_companies)">undermined
by corruption</a>.


feed_id: 93d5bddf17bb4b9f0cdba817f918f135
title: Ferguson thugs
uri: Ferguson-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#01_February_2016_%28Ferguson_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Ferguson thugs will be required to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/27/ferguson-police-justice-department-deal-proposal">record
all their actions with body cameras</a>.  They are also required not
to adopt policies for the sake of collecting more money as fines --
but I fear that thugs will negate that requirement by misrepresenting
their motives.  Thugs are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/30/samuel-dubose-video-police-killing-cincinnati">trained
liars</a> and feel entitled to lie to anyone,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#07_February_2013_(Testilying_thugs)">even
in court</a>.


feed_id: fc5a066ebd4b29496efbb56023823870
title: Urgent: Candidates' positions on GMO labeling
uri: Urgent-Candidates-positions-on-GMO-labeling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#2_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Candidates_positions_on_GMO_labeling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.grassrootsforchange.com/GMO-labeling">call on
candidates</a> to state their positions on GMO labeling.


feed_id: 177b715b424ff5d6f244d7bf9020796e
title: Imprisoned for planning civil disobedience
uri: Imprisoned-for-planning-civil-disobedience
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#2_February_2016_%28Imprisoned_for_planning_civil_disobedience%29

content:
<p>
China imprisoned people for planning a civil disobedience movement,
calling this 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/29/china-jails-three-activists-for-trying-to-start-civil-disobedience-movement">"inciting
subversion of state power"</a>.
<p>
In the UK they might call the protests 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#29_January_2016_(Crime_invented_to_jail_protesters)">"aggravated
trespass"</a>.
<p>
In the US they have 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2005-nov-feb.html#12%20January%202006%20(Labeling%20civil%20disobedience%20as%20terrorism)">other
charges</a> to press against those who commit civil disobedience.
<p>
This sort of repression is wrong no matter who does
it and no matter what the excuse.


feed_id: 49be11cfb8e1b29dbf097b6c89be6b6c
title: Urgent: Anti-lead-poisoning programs
uri: Urgent-Anti-lead-poisoning-programs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#2_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Anti-lead-poisoning_programs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/lead-poisoning/">call on
Congress</a> to restore anti-lead-poisoning programs.


feed_id: a4441ab188dda8ca34323fbc845a7786
title: Georgia rep defends Confederacy and KKK
uri: Georgia-rep-defends-Confederacy-and-KKK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#2_February_2016_%28Georgia_rep_defends_Confederacy_and_KKK%29

content:
<p>
A Georgia state representative 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/01/tommy-benton-kkk-georgia-confederate">defends
the Confederacy and the Ku Klux Klan</a>.


feed_id: 14c194f1ae164d5e1772ffe7535fd42a
title: Missing people in Sri Lanka
uri: Missing-people-in-Sri-Lanka
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#2_February_2016_%28Missing_people_in_Sri_Lanka%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/29/sri-lankas-missing-thousands-one-womans-six-year-fight-to-find-her-husband">Sri
Lanka's Missing Thousands</a>: One Woman's Six-Year Fight to Find Her
Husband.
<p>
The thousands may have been killed under direction of former tyrant
Rajapaksa.


feed_id: e520b301496b08c3c85034bc1662fb8a
title: Morocco and Algeria labeled "safe"
uri: Morocco-and-Algeria-labeled-safe
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#2_February_2016_%28Morocco_and_Algeria_labeled_safe%29

content:
<p>
Some European countries are labeling Morocco and Algeria as "safe"
countries, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/29/germany-tightens-borders-as-finland-joins-sweden-in-deporting-refugees">rejecting
asylum applications</a> from people from those countries.
<p>
For most people in Morocco and Algeria, those countries are safe, but
some minorities and some dissidents are persecuted.


feed_id: af8e2db9b2bb5effbe983140ba9185c7
title: Chicago thugs sabotage car microphones
uri: Chicago-thugs-sabotage-car-microphones
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#2_February_2016_%28Chicago_thugs_sabotage_car_microphones%29

content:
<p>
Chicago thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/28/laquan-mcdonald-shooting-jason-van-dyke-dashcam-mic-destroyed-chicago-police">sabotage
their car microphones</a>; the car used by the thug that killed Laquan
McDonald had had its microphone destroyed.


feed_id: 1bcc29adabe491f92677b5812a61e3c2
title: Policies that discourage breastfeeding
uri: Policies-that-discourage-breastfeeding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#2_February_2016_%28Policies_that_discourage_breastfeeding%29

content:
<p>
Changing bad government and business policies that discourage
breastfeeding could avoid up to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/28/breastfeeding-could-prevent-800000-child-deaths-lancet-says">800,000
child deaths each year</a>.


feed_id: 165aafd5c0cc63de091489b9dc801a3d
title: Canada's personal data sent to US
uri: Canada-s-personal-data-sent-to-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#2_February_2016_%28Canadas_personal_data_sent_to_US%29

content:
<p>
Canada's snooping agency 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/canadian-spies-may-have-unintentionally-exposed-canadians-to-foreign-spying-csec-metadata">sent
Canada's personal data to the US</A>.


feed_id: 9e121fd1e994ee70dde4a25f986e75ed
title: Ferguson thugs
uri: 2016-02-03-Ferguson-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#01_February_2016_%28Ferguson_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Ferguson thugs will be required to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/27/ferguson-police-justice-department-deal-proposal">record
all their actions with body cameras</a>.  They are also required not
to adopt policies for the sake of collecting more money as fines —
but I fear that thugs will negate that requirement by misrepresenting
their motives.  Thugs are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/30/samuel-dubose-video-police-killing-cincinnati">trained
liars</a> and feel entitled to lie to anyone,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#07_February_2013_(Testilying_thugs)">even
in court</a>.


feed_id: c037e09025288cde5e1719de334c33a6
title: Second boycott of Coca Cola Company
uri: 2016-02-03-Second-boycott-of-Coca-Cola-Company
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#31_January_2016_%28Second_boycott_of_Coca_Cola_Company%29

content:
<p>
There is now a second boycott of Coca Cola Company — this one to
<a href="http://cokeboycott.com/">demand that it label GMOs</a>.
<p>
I guess they don't know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola
Company for
<a href="http://killercoke.org">murdering union organizers</a>.
<p>
I don't like Coca Cola itself, but that is not the company's only
product.  It also sells fruit juices and bottled water.  I almost
never use bottled water except in places such as India and Flint,
Michigan, where the tap water is unsafe — but when I am in those
places, I make sure that the water is not from Coca Cola Company.


feed_id: 0727c94ccb423e12295f1c0ce138741d
title: TPP negotiator resigns over corruption
uri: TPP-negotiator-resigns-over-corruption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#03_February_2016_%28TPP_negotiator_resigns_over_corruption%29

content:
<p>
Japan's head negotiator for the TPP has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/01/29/top-tpp-negotiator-resigns-over-bribery-allegations-10000-people-demand">resigned
over his corruption</a>.
<p>
Any politician who supports the TPP is corrupt at a deep level,
whether or not he took a bribe.


feed_id: 9179ecb3d94a84dac804288f282fdbc1
title: Sanders gaining strength
uri: Sanders-gaining-strength
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#03_February_2016_%28Sanders_gaining_strength%29
content:
<p>
Plutocratist Democrats are panicking about Sanders' 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/29/sanders-surge-panics-washington-establishment">gaining
strength</a>.
<p>
Sanders pointed out the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/28/sanders-calls-out-wapo-geniuses-epic-failures-iraq-economic-meltdown">falsehoods
in the Washington Post's attack</a>.


feed_id: 19d306536aaff9cbbca5564de7dd8eb0
title: Ending Israel's occupation of Palestine
uri: Ending-Israel-s-occupation-of-Palestine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#03_February_2016_%28Ending_Israels_occupation_of_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: the campaign to end Israel's occupation of Palestine 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1454081725/">needs
the support of people inside and outside Israel</a>, working together.
The government knows this and plans to ban their cooperation.


feed_id: e175d1f8dc060c1139cfbb60cb9381a3
title: Insect species wiped out daily
uri: Insect-species-wiped-out-daily
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#03_February_2016_%28Insect_species_wiped_out_daily%29

content:
<p>
We are wiping out 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/29/planet-of-the-bug-evolution-and-the-rise-of-insects-scott-richard-shaw-review-paperback">dozens
of species of insect every day</a>.


feed_id: 29d004bbde2a6a5db21320b26feb9e25
title: Abortion rights in Brazil
uri: Abortion-rights-in-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#03_February_2016_%28Abortion_rights_in_Brazil%29
content:
<p>
Zika has made the issue of abortion rights 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2016/jan/29/rubella-zika-pregnancy-disability-abortion-epidemic">urgent
in Brazil</a>.


feed_id: 21d93d471e210ee78620af310013426d
title: Kurds not invited to Syria peace talks
uri: Kurds-not-invited-to-Syria-peace-talks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#03_February_2016_%28Kurds_not_invited_to_Syria_peace_talks%29

content:
<p>
Peace talks for Syria are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/29/syria-hopes-for-peace-look-slim-ahead-un-brokered-talks">unlikely
to have good results</a>.  The Kurds are not even invited.


feed_id: 70766e2acc2cc106c70a9c33a1019c28
title: Urgent: investigation of Planned Parenthood
uri: Urgent-investigation-of-Planned-Parenthood
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_investigation_of_Planned_Parenthood%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call for an <a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/disband-the-special-committe?source=mo&fb_test=0&akid=3D161544.2794606.g7jVYX">end to the investigation</a> of Planned Parenthood.
We already know there is nothing to find.


feed_id: 06bcf96ac389f2ca4fd64df8b9dc73b9
title: Urgent: transparency on the Volcker rule
uri: Urgent-transparency-on-the-Volcker-rule
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_transparency_on_the_Volcker_rule%29

content:
<p>US citizens: Call for transparency on how the <a href="http://action.civilrights.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=5365&s_src=20160128email&s_subsrc=AFRVolckerEmail">Volcker rule</a> is working.


feed_id: af0237b34588f8ed846a9522e45c9310
title: Urgent: reduce Diesel emissions
uri: Urgent-reduce-Diesel-emissions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_reduce_Diesel_emissions%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on the EPA to reduce Diesel emissions from <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=2107769BB491368C6770A216646ED736.app30101a?pagename=homepage&page=UserActio
n&id=5074">cargo shipping.</a>


feed_id: 63057030070a857925e0eea74b97bad6
title: Urgent: federal sale of coal leases
uri: Urgent-federal-sale-of-coal-leases
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_federal_sale_of_coal_leases%29

content:
<p>US citizens: phone your senators and say to oppose <a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=19022&First_Name=Richard&Last_Name=Stallman&Email=rms@gnu.org&Zip=02142">Orrin Hatch's amendment</a> which would resume federal sale of coal leases.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: 5e74370701b9f5d41220de10488d00f4
title: Urgent: gun control executive orders
uri: Urgent-gun-control-executive-orders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_gun_control_executive_orders%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="http://act.everytown.org/letter/executive-action-defense/">respect</a> Obama's gun control executive orders.


feed_id: d210f6c09cc8eba7d8e33fa333a6c45c
title: Urgent: Flint water supply
uri: Urgent-Flint-water-supply
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Flint_water_supply%29
content:
<p>Everyone: call on Governor Snyder to fix the Flint water supply, and meanwhile <a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=d-OXuOZbxHHrm43UlkdsUw">stop charging for the toxic water.</a>


feed_id: dd15b8497438f26883d491ea4e4d9f01
title: Urgent: deporting aliens in Flint
uri: Urgent-deporting-aliens-in-Flint
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_deporting_aliens_in_Flint%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/flint?t=1001&akid=1408.439815.ptOeHW">Call on the state</a> to stop deporting aliens in Flint for trying to buy water, and stop making them show government papers to get water.


feed_id: 43dbcb984add729aaec57a2c07e504af
title: Urgent: merger of Time Warner Cable with Charter
uri: Urgent-merger-of-Time-Warner-Cable-with-Charter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_merger_of_Time_Warner_Cable_with_Charter%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/charter?t=1003&akid=1407.439815.jwZRfI">call on the FCC</a> to block the merger of Time Warner Cable with Charter.


feed_id: d1eeeca555f0cb0e30a9d539d5e6d964
title: Urgent: ban neonicoinoid pesticides
uri: Urgent-ban-neonicoinoid-pesticides
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_ban_neonicoinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/epa_neonics_bees?t=1002&akid=16660.1183552.yZHWvH">call on the EPA</a> to ban neonicoinoid pesticides
<p>The EPA has just recognized that neonicoinoids contribute to the death of bees.
<p>It is possible that other causes contribute as well, such as the varroa mite.  But we can't get rid of them, or prevent them from doing damage — and we need the bees.


feed_id: 6fd6244da699f5a9d7a19c419b2f03ec
title: Urgent: close the gender pay gap
uri: Urgent-close-the-gender-pay-gap
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_close_the_gender_pay_gap%29

content:
<p>Everyone: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Equal_Pay?t=1004&akid=16648.1183552.D76cER">call on Congress and states</a> to close the gender pay gap.


feed_id: b79b57ae1230b5de239f9003ca288660
title: Urgent: disclosure of shell companies
uri: Urgent-disclosure-of-shell-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_disclosure_of_shell_companies%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Senator Schumer to support a law requiring shell
companies to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/shell-corporations-housing-fraud/?akid=16823.881131.NI14sz&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=1002">disclose who they are hiding.</a>


feed_id: b836e07c78722e9fedd2867131e9e55f
title: Claimed to have been raped by immigrants
uri: Claimed-to-have-been-raped-by-immigrants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Claimed_to_have_been_raped_by_immigrants%29

content:
<p>A German girl claimed to have been raped by immigrants.  But then she said she had <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/31/teenage-girl-made-up-migrant-claim-that-caused-uproar-in-germany">made it up.</a>
<p>The effects of her claim will probably not vanish away, alas.


feed_id: 4617373e081359080f902ff162747cef
title: Israeli civics textbook
uri: Israeli-civics-textbook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Israeli_civics_textbook%29
content:
<p>Right-wing changes in an Israeli civics textbook have provoked <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4759515,00.html
">protests</a> from teachers, and from one of the authors of the book.


feed_id: 9ae7a3343ba1bacc3350642c805a9374
title: General forecast
uri: General-forecast
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28General_forecast%29
content:
<p>General forecast for the next five years: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/31/weather-forecast-next-five-years-even-hotter">even hotter than 2015.</a>


feed_id: 6be322d0d5a1c19e215b7c6a7ae73cc5
title: Child refugees are missing
uri: Child-refugees-are-missing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Child_refugees_are_missing%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/30/fears-for-missing-child-refugees">10,000 child refugees in Europe</a> are missing, and maybe a large fraction have been enslaved.


feed_id: 93facdc2142ca5d667775e455332d980
title: Google's island tax haven
uri: Google-s-island-tax-haven
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Google%27s_island_tax_haven%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/30/google-tory-battle-protect-30bn-tax-haven-bermuda">Tories</a> Lobbying to Protect Google's £30bn Island Tax Haven. 


feed_id: b777be06a4e1bd15b60355a077f32977
title: Uber is selling low
uri: Uber-is-selling-low
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Uber_is_selling_low%29
content:
<p>Uber is selling low and losing money <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/31/cheap-cab-ride-uber-true-cost-google-wealth-taxation">to destroy its competitors.</a>
<p>If you are a short-term thinker, you will be delighted to take
advantage of this — until it controls the market and squeezes you
forever.
<p>The article mentions a service called Kutsuplus as an alternative to
Guber's model.  It might have been better in some ways, but could
people use it anonymously?  Could they use it without running nonfree
software?  If not, it shared Uber's basic injustice.


feed_id: fafcbb739c6501eec73f8f8f9034bfe2
title: UK's plutocratic rulers
uri: UK-s-plutocratic-rulers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28UK%27s_plutocratic_rulers%29
content:
<p>A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/31/google-tax-osborne-cameron-spaghetti-westerns">comedian</a> finds a way to do justice to the UK's plutocratic rulers.


feed_id: 1a45f8fac09c5a7236a4dc4adb10ab68
title: Recognize Palestine as a state
uri: Recognize-Palestine-as-a-state
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Recognize_Palestine_as_a_state%29

content:
<p>France says it will sponsor <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/30/france-recognise-palestinian-state-if-peace-effort-fails-ultimatum">one last effort</a> for a diplomatic settlement between Israel and Palestine; if that fails, it will recognize Palestine as a state.
<p>France might as well proceed directly to the second step; it will take more than this to get the Israeli right wing to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#30_January_2016_(Ban_Ki-moon_condemns_Israeli_colonization)">seriously consider peace.</a>


feed_id: bfadf2c9338d74ed8099f9442b3683cc
title: Tests for lead paint
uri: Tests-for-lead-paint
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Tests_for_lead_paint%29
content:
<p>Many US black children suffer from lead poisoning which reduces their IQ.
Sometimes greedy landlords manage to skip tests for lead paint, and thus
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/30/baltimore-children-lead-poisoning-paint">continue poisoning them.</a>
<p>Mothers will tell their children not to eat the paint, unless they
have to work so many hours that they can't see what their kids are doing.
<p>Lead and Race In Flint — <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/lead-and-race-flint%E2%80%94and-everywhere-else">And Everywhere Else.</a>


feed_id: bf52cd4f204559ccf43fcccb8425cb11
title: Super Bowl in San Francisco
uri: Super-Bowl-in-San-Francisco
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Super_Bowl_in_San_Francisco%29
content:
<p>Holding the Super Bowl in San Francisco is <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/01/fuck-the-super-bowl/">hurting the city:</a> new surveillance, cruelty to the homeless, and burdens on citizens and workers.


feed_id: 7981b5c25a12f3756e94a65ff4c75ec5
title: Abandon the "war on drugs"
uri: Abandon-the-war-on-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Abandon_the_war_on_drugs%29
content:
<p>A UN summit will provide an opportunity for the world to abandon <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/31/new-deal-on-drugs-vital-as-climate-change-deal">the idiotic and destructive "war on drugs".</a>


feed_id: 2aef0ca51c982b446f31d5bb0708a1de
title: Europe's immigration bind
uri: Europe-s-immigration-bind
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Europe%27s_immigration_bind%29
content:
<p>Europe's Immigration Bind: How to Act Morally While <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/31/europe-bind-act-morally-on-immigrants-heed-its-citizens">Heeding the Will of Its People.</a>


feed_id: 7912e3f13b61487658ef7c6bde9ff4de
title: Sharing classified files
uri: Sharing-classified-files
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Sharing_classified_files%29
content:
<p>David Petraeus to Receive <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/31/general-cia-david-petraeus-no-further-punishment-classified-information">No Further Punishment</a> for Sharing Classified Files.
<p>Harsh punishment is reserved for heroes like Snowden that tell the public
about government wrongdoing.


feed_id: 33baa06ec0040d249c5613417401906d
title: Control of government agencies
uri: Control-of-government-agencies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Control_of_government_agencies%29

content:
<p>US businesses say the FDA is out of control — <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/267070-businesses-are-invading-your-privacy">protecting people's privacy,</a> at least to a minimal extent.
<p>They expect to have control of government agencies, you see.


feed_id: fd51efcb018c611060bb6e136499010a
title: Doxing of thugs
uri: Doxing-of-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Doxing_of_thugs%29
content:
<p>A cracker obtained and posted <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/28/fraternal-order-of-police-hacked-fbi-investigation-data-servers">internal communications</a> of a US thugs' union, some of which show right-wing extremism.
<p>In general I do not approve of doxing, even of thugs, merely for being
thugs.  There may be some specific cases where it is justified, such
as thugs that are infiltrating dissident organizations, but that does
not seem to be the case here.


feed_id: 603123418443fdaeb61e7116bb8afa8a
title: Reducing Puerto Rico's debt
uri: Reducing-Puerto-Rico-s-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Reducing_Puerto_Rico%27s_debt%29
content:
<p>Puerto Rico has proposed a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/01/29/puerto-rico-proposes-debt-plan">plan</a> for reducing its debt.


feed_id: 1dc0b9f3bebb7d9fa029aac151c0fa10
title: Erroneous way of making decisions
uri: Erroneous-way-of-making-decisions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Erroneous_way_of_making_decisions%29

content:
<p>Flint <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/29/we-failed-flint-heres-how-avoid-making-same-mistakes-climate-policy
">demonstrates</a> the erroneous way of making decisions that we must not repeat in regard to global heating.


feed_id: d8a1d7d8097acc57f3c451d0a398cada
title: Corrupted by lobbyist money
uri: Corrupted-by-lobbyist-money
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Corrupted_by_lobbyist_money%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/29/both-parties-agree-selling-out-worth-it">Republicans and Democrats in Congress</a> are corrupted by lobbyist money.


feed_id: 175939c9e069044e65a3e91b095a2219
title: US planned to kidnap Snowden
uri: US-planned-to-kidnap-Snowden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28US_planned_to_kidnap_Snowden%29
content:
<p>The US apparently planned to kidnap Snowden with the help of some subservient government, since it had a plane waiting in Denmark <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/29/docs-reveal-us-used-demark-rendition-flight-waiting-kidnap-snowden">to take him away as he was travelling.</a>
<p>If the US had hoped a government would arrest him and then respect his
rights with an extradition hearing, there would have been no need for
that plane.


feed_id: fc078b890e3d44cb9e9051e1a566c0bf
title: Racial discrimination in US
uri: Racial-discrimination-in-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Racial_discrimination_in_US%29
content:
<p>UN Experts Catalog Seemingly <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/29/un-experts-catalog-seemingly-endless-list-racial-discrimination-us">Endless List</a> of Racial Discrimination in US.
<p>I believe that the US owes reparations to the descendents of those who
suffered denial of equal rights, including both <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_(Reparations_owed_to_US_blacks)">slavery and the racist laws</a> from 1880 to the 1960s.


feed_id: db4e832c2afa6b66243c8baa157e7560
title: Tests of food
uri: Tests-of-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Tests_of_food%29
content:
<p>Just 3 years after horsemeat was passed off as "beef", the UK has cut the amount of tests of food, making cheating <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/31/food-checks-health-concerns">easier than ever.</a>
<p>We depend on the state to keep businesses honest, and <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">for many other things.</a>


feed_id: d61a67b6f889a00a9f6b3786e39ec7fe
title: Ecological disruption
uri: Ecological-disruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Ecological_disruption%29
content:
<p>In England, flowers that normally bloom in May are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/31/spring-flowers-bloom-in-mild-winter-temperatures">blooming in January,</a> due to El Nino on top of global heating.
<p>Since different species base their calendars on different cues, this
will cause ecological disruption, which will wipe out some species.
<p>A cold snap in February could kill some organisms that have become active
early.


feed_id: 0ce93fcff32d4451de4cdf70eab12f46
title: Urgent: Congress' positions on TPP
uri: Urgent-Congress-positions-on-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Congress_positions_on_TPP%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/tpp-no-to-post-election">call
on members of Congress</a> to take a stand on the TPP now and pledge
to stick with it after the election.


feed_id: 088cbb3481eaf5f75db452aee6197889
title: Selective arrests for deportation
uri: Selective-arrests-for-deportation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Selective_arrests_for_deportation%29

content:
<p>
Southern Poverty Law Center accuses the US of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/30/ice-raids-women-children-legality-southern-states">selectively
arresting women and children for deportation</a>, for corrupt reasons.


feed_id: 79fbcb76c107577bc0011a54bacd79f3
title: Going beyond Sanders' proposals
uri: Going-beyond-Sanders-proposals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Going_beyond_Sanders_proposals%29

content:
<p>
Proposing
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/bernies-wall-street-plan-is-actually-not-enough/">financial
reform measures</a> going beyond Sanders' proposals.


feed_id: 82d680625cbdced47171c008407a1418
title: AIG sells subsidiary
uri: AIG-sells-subsidiary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28AIG_sells_subsidiary%29
content:
<p>
AIG sold off a subsidiary because it is
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/27/1475833/-AIG-says-if-the-government-won-t-let-them-screw-over-retirees-they-won-t-play">no
longer allowed to mislead customers</a>.


feed_id: 2f6a888f0a48463354acf407d274e9c6
title: Sanders donates speaking fees to charity
uri: Sanders-donates-speaking-fees-to-charity
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Sanders_donates_speaking_fees_to_charity%29

content:
<p>
Sanders got paid speaking fees: almost $2000.  He
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/27/1475811/-Bernie-Sanders-comes-clean-about-his-paid-speaking-fees">donated
the money to charity</a>.


feed_id: 3d44044d158952d152581a478b4c9793
title: Congressional hearing about FISA court
uri: Congressional-hearing-about-FISA-court
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Congressional_hearing_about_FISA_court%29

content:
<p>
Congress
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/28/sorry-public-youre-entirely-blocked-hearing-surveillance-program">should
show the public</a> more of what it learns in its hearing about the
FISA court.


feed_id: 15241744591253a05c50306c4c2fea31
title: Music in Mali
uri: Music-in-Mali
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Music_in_Mali%29
content:
<p>
Mali's Irrepressible Musical Spirit Resounds after
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/29/mali-music-festivals-songhoy-blues-bamako">Jihadi-Imposed
Silence</a>.
<p>
Some Muslim fanatics have banned music since a thousand years ago.


feed_id: 55af8b58d0ae96c05b8b5630824ed4b7
title: NY Times covers campaign spending misleadingly
uri: NY-Times-covers-campaign-spending-misleadingly
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28NY_Times_covers_campaign_spending_misleadingly%29

content:
<p>
The New York Times found one small category of campaign spending in
which Sanders gets more support than Clinton, and
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/29/nyt-outside-spending/">covered
it misleadingly</a>.


feed_id: 3f8f85cf6a6a694731d4a143ab31c8ee
title: Surveillance of students
uri: Surveillance-of-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Surveillance_of_students%29
content:
<p>
An extreme example of surveillance of students: asking them to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/29/oral-roberts-university-fitibit-students-physical-fitness-freshman-15">wear
a fitbit all the time</a>.
<p>
Just because most schools' surveillance does not go this far does not
make it acceptable!


feed_id: 10dbe6ebfeec28fd9030162ab442f15d
title: EPA ordered to make polluters pay
uri: EPA-ordered-to-make-polluters-pay
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28EPA_ordered_to_make_polluters_pay%29

content:
<p>
A US court once again has ordered the EPA to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/01/29/court-orders-environmental-protection-agency-finalize-rules-so-polluters-pay">make
rules to make mines and factories pay for their pollution</a>.


feed_id: 65e9cf1f3e9763a075ebfdffe1d77e3f
title: While Flint Was Being Poisoned
uri: While-Flint-Was-Being-Poisoned
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28While_Flint_Was_Being_Poisoned%29

content:
<p>
While Flint Was Being Poisoned,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/28/while-flint-was-being-poisoned-state-workers-quietly-provided-water-coolers">State
Workers "Quietly" Provided Water Coolers</a>.


feed_id: a96c4e626087152c1e0dad1314031aec
title: Twitter gives special treatment to Trump
uri: Twitter-gives-special-treatment-to-Trump
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Twitter_gives_special_treatment_to_Trump%29

content:
<p>
Twitter
<a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001150.html">doesn't apply
its rules to Donald Trump</a> as it does to others.


feed_id: 000693b844ee52c8fd60dccec1fb7dcb
title: Marshall Island sues Britain, India and Pakistan
uri: Marshall-Island-sues-Britain-India-and-Pakistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Marshall_Island_sues_Britain%2C_India_and_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
The Marshall Islands, a small country in the Pacific with painful
experience with nuclear weapons, has sued Britain, India and Pakistan
for not complying with treaty obligations to move towards
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/30/marshall-islands-sue-britain-india-and-pakistan-over-nuclear-weapons">nuclear
disarmament</a>.


feed_id: 5f6d06fd4a965fb341e7980c5d2f4e6d
title: Basic income for all
uri: Basic-income-for-all
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Basic_income_for_all%29
content:
<p>
A basic income for all raises
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Suntzu20160129">many
questions about details</a>.
<p>
Will companies that sell to consumers really have the power to make
governments keep most people's incomes from falling?  They haven't
done this in the US in the last decade.  The tendency is to shift to
selling luxury products for those who still have money to spend.


feed_id: 8bc0885269ecef15e9e11f50e1b21e0c
title: Google deal
uri: Google-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Google_deal%29
content:
<p>
Google Deal Highlights
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/29/google-tax-reform-institute-fiscal-studies">Need
for 'Radical Change' to International Tax Rules</a>.
<p>
Here is
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-big-to-fail/">my
proposal</a>.


feed_id: 9ef1fc1d5cb692f9308e5db9aba469d6
title: Running states like corporations
uri: Running-states-like-corporations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Running_states_like_corporations%29

content:
<p>
Running states like corporations: a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/29/poisonous-approach-governing">poisonous
approach</a>.


feed_id: 0e99ec863d21a543c2b9f6c666bd42dc
title: Tories' cuts reduce hospital staff
uri: Tories-cuts-reduce-hospital-staff
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Tories_cuts_reduce_hospital_staff%29

content:
<p>
The Tories' spending cuts are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/29/hospitals-told-cut-staff-nhs-cash-crisis">making
hospitals reduce staff</a>.


feed_id: 14b50d5613d26b28aab3c5c9370e2fc1
title: Why Bernie can deliver
uri: Why-Bernie-can-deliver
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Why_Bernie_can_deliver%29
content:
<p>
Why
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/29/its-movement-stupid-why-bernie-can-deliver-promises-change-while-sensible-centrists">Bernie
Can Deliver on Promises of Change</a>, While the Sensible Centrists
Can't.
<p>
"Sensible" middle-of-the-road Democrats such as Clinton won't even try
to change the things that are deeply wrong with the US, such as
plutocracy.


feed_id: 2d0259c158363dc29ca7f18c198d5b1a
title: French journalists arrested in Burundi
uri: French-journalists-arrested-in-Burundi
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28French_journalists_arrested_in_Burundi%29

content:
<p>
Burundi's dictatorship
<a href="http://cpj.org/2016/01/burundi-arrests-two-foreign-correspondents-in-wide.php">arrested
two French journalists</a>.  Under pressure from France, it freed
them, but still keeps their recording equipment.


feed_id: 08a83cd102fd1a4e6544e9dd2eb14938
title: EU criticized for attacking tax-dodging
uri: EU-criticized-for-attacking-tax-dodging
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28EU_criticized_for_attacking_tax-dodging%29

content:
<p>
A US official
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/29/european-commission-unfairly-targeting-us-companies-starbucks-mcdonalds-amazon-apple-taxes-treasury">criticized
the EU</a> for attacking tax-dodging by US companies.
<p>
That official is evidently on the side of the plutocrats.  Vote for
Sanders and get him replaced with someone who will work for the people
(of the US and other countries).


feed_id: ccb63d3c61bf5d784830ca4a3cb57110
title: US funding for Afghanistan's "reconstruction"
uri: US-funding-for-Afghanistan-s-reconstruction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28US_funding_for_Afghanistans_reconstruction%29

content:
<p>
The US is still funding "reconstruction" in Afghanistan, but due to
the Taliban's increasing activity, in many cases there is
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/ghost-schools-afghan-waste-corruption-fraud-war-sexual-assault">no
way to check what work is really being done</a>.
<p>
Could inspectors use little drones?
<p>
That's not a serious question, since we know this "reconstruction"
often just feeds corruption.  Maybe it would be more effective to give
the equivalent of 10 dollars to every person in Afghanistan.


feed_id: 47784edb1c2f323a0da6be7905e55cc6
title: How corporations escape punishment
uri: How-corporations-escape-punishment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28How_corporations_escape_punishment%29

content:
<p>
Senator Warren reports how the US government
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/29/elizabeth-warren-challenges-clinton-sanders-to-prosecute-corporate-crime-better-than-obama/">lets
corporations escape punishment</a> for giant crimes.


feed_id: 95dad4f887b11f900c5f8bdb5281f253
title: Support Sanders!
uri: Support-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#04_February_2016_%28Support_Sanders%21%29
content:
<p>
Do you support Clinton but agree more with Sanders?  If so,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/29/all-clinton-supporters-left-please-come-home">give
your support Sanders</a>!
<p>
Obama showed that a black plutocratist president will not stop
plutocrats from forcing blacks into poverty.  Clinton, if elected,
would show that a woman plutocratist president will not stop them from
pushing women into poverty.


feed_id: 9a3d15a6d8031fac0c41dbb93ab114d5
title: Urgent: investigation of Planned Parenthood
uri: 2016-02-05-Urgent-investigation-of-Planned-Parenthood
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_investigation_of_Planned_Parenthood%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call for an <a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/disband-the-special-committe">end to the investigation</a> of Planned Parenthood.
We already know there is nothing to find.


feed_id: a57906ae08a4f0a89d594d021eedf1f0
title: Urgent: transparency on the Volcker rule
uri: 2016-02-05-Urgent-transparency-on-the-Volcker-rule
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_transparency_on_the_Volcker_rule%29

content:
<p>US citizens: Call for transparency on how the <a href="http://action.civilrights.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=5365">Volcker rule</a> is working.


feed_id: 6b33b5a8b2805011cba3c2e77f72b79f
title: Urgent: reduce Diesel emissions
uri: 2016-02-05-Urgent-reduce-Diesel-emissions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_reduce_Diesel_emissions%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on the EPA to reduce Diesel emissions from <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5074">cargo shipping.</a>


feed_id: d8021d93955f774c2124ac328ec73cbd
title: Urgent: federal sale of coal leases
uri: 2016-02-05-Urgent-federal-sale-of-coal-leases
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_federal_sale_of_coal_leases%29

content:
<p>US citizens: phone your senators and say to oppose <a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=19022">Orrin Hatch's amendment</a> which would resume federal sale of coal leases.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: 24914ee9c2df1270602cea57f2897561
title: Urgent: deporting aliens in Flint
uri: 2016-02-05-Urgent-deporting-aliens-in-Flint
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_deporting_aliens_in_Flint%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/flint">Call on the state</a> to stop deporting aliens in Flint for trying to buy water, and stop making them show government papers to get water.


feed_id: 286c810a9e7a662cdd92d1fb91af5756
title: Urgent: merger of Time Warner Cable with Charter
uri: 2016-02-05-Urgent-merger-of-Time-Warner-Cable-with-Charter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_merger_of_Time_Warner_Cable_with_Charter%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/charter">call on the FCC</a> to block the merger of Time Warner Cable with Charter.


feed_id: d57da1b37d9a22c09e23a02bf96c4c83
title: Urgent: ban neonicoinoid pesticides
uri: 2016-02-05-Urgent-ban-neonicoinoid-pesticides
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_ban_neonicoinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/epa_neonics_bees">call on the EPA</a> to ban neonicoinoid pesticides
<p>The EPA has just recognized that neonicoinoids contribute to the death of bees.
<p>It is possible that other causes contribute as well, such as the varroa mite.  But we can't get rid of them, or prevent them from doing damage — and we need the bees.


feed_id: d00217d75b01de111dded1f2a046bd9e
title: Urgent: close the gender pay gap
uri: 2016-02-05-Urgent-close-the-gender-pay-gap
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_close_the_gender_pay_gap%29

content:
<p>Everyone: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Equal_Pay">call on Congress and states</a> to close the gender pay gap.


feed_id: 98415dc57b7b89008f9a7adbdbd3f921
title: Urgent: disclosure of shell companies
uri: 2016-02-05-Urgent-disclosure-of-shell-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_disclosure_of_shell_companies%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Senator Schumer to support a law requiring shell
companies to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/shell-corporations-housing-fraud/">disclose who they are hiding.</a>


feed_id: 02deefa3f71aa5292d35de123c7c97b1
title: Demolishing homes of Palestinians
uri: Demolishing-homes-of-Palestinians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Demolishing_homes_of_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>Israel is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/02/palestinian-families-homeless-as-israeli-military-demolishes-west-bank-houses">back</a> to demolishing the homes of Palestinians.


feed_id: 909fce7d475d3e7983675b7dfec806c2
title: Hindu nationalists
uri: Hindu-nationalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Hindu_nationalists%29
content:
<p>India's Hindu nationalists are systematically persecuting dissidents, drumming teachers out of schools, and prosecuting writer <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/02/pankaj-mishra-arundhati-roy-hindu-nationalists-silence-writers-india">Arundhati Roy</a> for criticizing them.


feed_id: 44cb962452c2e96361da05b9a2283df8
title: Delivery of poisoned water to Flint
uri: Delivery-of-poisoned-water-to-Flint
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Delivery_of_poisoned_water_to_Flint%29

content:
<p>The FBI is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/02/fbi-epa-flint-water-crisis-lead-contamination-criminal-violations">investigating</a> possible crimes to prosecute in the delivery of poisoned water to Flint.


feed_id: fd5d61989a284c253cf4464a0e87db84
title: Facebook's natalist pressure.
uri: Facebook-s-natalist-pressure
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Facebook%27s_natalist_pressure.%29

content:
<p>Facebook's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/02/facebook-motherhood-challenge">natalist pressure.</a>
<p>How about pointing out some great non-mothers and great non-fathers?
People who took advantage of not having children to dedicate effort
to something more constructive than increasing the number of humans?


feed_id: 058148804dfac8eb92eae08e95d29692
title: When ravens hide food
uri: When-ravens-hide-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28When_ravens_hide_food%29
content:
<p>When ravens hide food, they can understand whether the surrounding make it possible that another raven <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/02/ravens-can-imagine-being-spied-on-study-finds">could be watching.</a>


feed_id: 3622834fdd05dd2c44f17cd1e94e70ee
title: Iowa caucuses
uri: Iowa-caucuses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Iowa_caucuses%29
content:
<p>Sanders and Clinton got roughtly <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/02/iowa-winnow-and-why-bernie-sanders-real
">equal numbers</a> of delegates out of the Iowa caucuses.
<p>Clinton has backed off attacking Sanders' push for <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/02/13033/photo-finish-iowa-victory-sanders">universal health care,</a> and has returned to supporting the idea.  I guess that attack was backfiring.
<p>Several important primaries will be held this month and on March 1.
If you would like Sanders to win, please volunteer to help his
campaign — don't put it off.


feed_id: bf1d6868cbd37cbcc09d33dd63a813ac
title: Noise from ships
uri: Noise-from-ships
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Noise_from_ships%29
content:
<p>Noise from ships <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/02/ships-noise-is-serious-problem-for-killer-whales-and-dolphins-report-finds">seems to harm whales.</a>
<p>Our overfishing of their prey, which in some cases we are driving to extinction, hurts them too.


feed_id: 01ab768ba255c4de6142886eb5a89a64
title: Articles condemning labeling of GMOs
uri: Articles-condemning-labeling-of-GMOs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Articles_condemning_labeling_of_GMOs%29

content:
<p>Monsanto <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/01/new-documents-uncover-monsantos-secret-role-illinois-professor-bruce-chassys">paid a university</a> for a professor to write articles condemning labeling of GMOs.


feed_id: 613c3500e2216b8b7e0bf636c39e6cff
title: Surveilling in the Super Bowl
uri: Surveilling-in-the-Super-Bowl
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Surveilling_in_the_Super_Bowl%29
content:
<p>The US is heavily surveilling everyone in the vicinity of the Super Bowl, which might mean <a href="http://www.wired.com/2016/01/govs-plan-keep-super-bowl-safe-massive-surveillance/">everyone in San Francisco and the peninsula.</a>
<p>Past experience suggests that augmentations of surveillance for a sports event remain permanently afterward.


feed_id: 93237d8765a46cbacb562804928edff6
title: Pressure on Greece
uri: Pressure-on-Greece
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Pressure_on_Greece%29
content:
<p>There is a lot of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/01/europes-refugee-story-has-hardly-begun-greece
">political pressure in the EU</a> to demand that Greece force migrants back to Turkey.


feed_id: cb12c1722f61f4a10b58d38f007cda1a
title: 99,000 families evicted in the UK
uri: 99-000-families-evicted-in-the-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%2899%2C000_families_evicted_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>99,000 families were evicted last year in the UK, as rents keep rising and the Tories keep <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/02/day-in-court-britain-housing-policy-bedroom-tax-government-cuts-evictions-poor-vulnerable">cutting welfare.</a>
<p>The Tories are lower than <a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">vermin.</a>


feed_id: e3c58ecc31433db01ed1eee8b9047424
title: Putin's bombing in Syria
uri: Putin-s-bombing-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Putin%27s_bombing_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>Putin's bombing campaign in Syria, aimed mainly at groups opposed to both Assad and PISSI, has the main effect of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/02/putin-strengthening-isis-syria-uk-foreign-secretary-philip-hammond-russia">strengthening PISSI.</a>


feed_id: 2b5046066b83eedf0cdb37b2f32579d0
title: "Fragrance" chemicals
uri: Fragrance-chemicals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Fragrance_chemicals%29
content:
<p>Thousands of chemicals are put in products as "fragrance", and some can be <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/01/toxic-chemicals-fragrance-cosmetics-safety">toxic or cause allergic reactions.</a>  It's hard to find out which "fragrance" chemicals are found in products.
<p>We have no obligation to cater to companies' wish to keep secrets when
any public interest is at stake.  I think we should require
publication of the full list of possibly volatile substances in every
product.


feed_id: c9a3852e794ca01733c3129f48f430b2
title: California vinyards' harvest
uri: California-vinyards-harvest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28California_vinyards%27_harvest%29

content:
<p>Fires in California ruined a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/01/california-wildfires-wine-prices-vineyards-napa-sonoma">large part</a> of the vinyards' harvest.


feed_id: ba66f46f5dc3c644260fa30ae6fe9878
title: DNA test agreements
uri: DNA-test-agreements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28DNA_test_agreements%29
content:
<p>Study: DNA Test Agreements <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/ethics/study-dna-test-agreements-disregard-consumer-privacy">Disregard Consumer Privacy.</a>
<p>Like many articles about new abusive practices, this article legitizes
the known, current abuses.  I think that is a mistake.  We should not
limit ourselves to opposing further changes for the worse.  We must
campaign to get rid of the existing evils too.


feed_id: 4d162c022de6d87505b0a2d144ef3d61
title: Australian boy faces being questioned in secret
uri: Australian-boy-faces-being-questioned-in-secret
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Australian_boy_faces_being_questioned_in_secret%29

content:
<p>An Australian boy faces being questioned in secret about his mother
and his brother, and faces <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/02/boy-could-be-forced-to-incriminate-brother-in-terrorism-inquiry-court-told">imprisonment</a> if he ever discusses it with them.
<p>Trying to obey those strictures would ruin his life anyway, so it
makes sense for him to respond courageously: "You're going to imprison
me sooner or later, so I won't serve you now merely to postpone it.  I
refuse to answer."
<p>I don't know what they are suspected of, but it can't be as dangerous
as what the government is doing here.


feed_id: 27adfbde721f99851666e5ba818c3685
title: E-waste scrapping facilities
uri: E-waste-scrapping-facilities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28E-waste_scrapping_facilities%29
content:
<p>The employees at e-waste scrapping facilities pick up lead on their skin and hands, and it's enough to give their children <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lead-poisoning-recycled-electronics_us_56abb437e4b077d4fe8dee5b
">lead poisoning.</a>
<p>An ordinary shower does not wash it off.


feed_id: 52d153df75acb905a9426aabcb484039
title: Denmark's old people
uri: Denmark-s-old-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Denmark%27s_old_people%29
content:
<p>How Denmark <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/02/for-pensioners-something-is-spot-on-in-the-state-of-denmark
">cares for old people.</a>
<p>Other arrangements might also work well, but it puts most other countries to shame.


feed_id: 74cf1976d6e1279871949e3233ded620
title: Veteran's children
uri: Veteran-s-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Veteran%27s_children%29
content:
<p>Kansas took away a veteran's children as he was preparing to move to Colorado, because <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/01/medical-marijuana-use-colorado-kansas-veteran-custody-battle">he lawfully used medical marijuana in Colorado.</a>


feed_id: 491397be7cd84b15fcc0251cf3d4da11
title: "Internet assistants"
uri: Internet-assistants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Internet_assistants%29
content:
<p>"Internet assistants" have a <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/28/10858728/internet-bundle-siri-alexa-google-now-cortana-bots
">secondary danger,</a>  beyond just snooping on their users and being SaaSS <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">(Service as a Software Substitute).</a>
<p>It is amusing how someone can be blind to the dangers of these things
and worry only about a secondary danger.  The secondary danger
is real, and the article makes a valid point — but don't forget
the primary dangers.


feed_id: 4b3d271b409845d25aaa15a950a9d39a
title: Genetically modified human embryos
uri: Genetically-modified-human-embryos
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Genetically_modified_human_embryos%29

content:
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/01/human-embryo-genetic-modify-regulator-green-light-research">The UK has given permission</a> to make genetically modified human embryos and experiment on each one for two weeks.
<p>The two-week limit seems hypercautious to me; there would be nothing
wrong with keeping them for 5 months.  However, implanting them into a
woman would require advance consent to a mandatory abortion.  While
abortion is safer and less traumatic than giving birth, it is not
something to ask lightly.


feed_id: bb46673fd98747579d09970d8667bd84
title: ISIS Encrypted Messaging App
uri: ISIS-Encrypted-Messaging-App
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28ISIS_Encrypted_Messaging_App%29
content:
<p>The <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/politics/isis-alrawi-encryption-messaging-app/">Myth</a> of the ISIS Encrypted Messaging App.


feed_id: 209d323e609b5dad1142b0a397a9aa11
title: Free to refuse to spread messages
uri: Free-to-refuse-to-spread-messages
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Free_to_refuse_to_spread_messages%29

content:
<p>Was it right to fine a bakery for refusing to make a cake with the message, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/01/gay-cake-row-i-changed-my-mind-ashers-bakery-freedom-of-conscience-religion">"support gay marriage"?</a>
<p>I think individuals should be free to refuse to spread messages they
disagree with, and most other organizations too, but not publication
companies.  Publication companies should be considered common
carriers, required to publish whatever customers will pay for, unless
there is so much competition that there is no difficulty finding one
to publish whatever you want to publish.


feed_id: dea3a2d49c3544f86bc5246f6483f21d
title: Cambodian women trafficked to China
uri: Cambodian-women-trafficked-to-China
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Cambodian_women_trafficked_to_China%29

content:
<p>Cambodian women are trafficked to China as wives/slaves; when they
escape and get home, they are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/01/weddings-from-hell-cambodian-brides-trafficked-china">rejected</a> by their communities, even parts of their families.
<p>The root of this crime is treating women as things, as property.


feed_id: c90691899e824f30b64340d0e0603d8e
title: Resorts for rich foreigners
uri: Resorts-for-rich-foreigners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Resorts_for_rich_foreigners%29
content:
<p>The foxes and vultures are waiting to buy <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/01/cuba-for-sale-havana-is-now-the-big-cake-and-everyone-is-trying-to-get-a-slice">parts of Havana</a> as resorts for rich foreigners.
<p>I expect that politicians will profit from this wealth, and a few random Cubans, but I think most Cubans will not even get trickle-down.


feed_id: f71fc5c9dff1e9410fe63d42584429a7
title: Inequality in South Korea
uri: Inequality-in-South-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Inequality_in_South_Korea%29
content:
<p>Inequality is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/young-south-koreans-call-their-country-hell-and-look-for-ways-out/2016/01/30/34737c06-b967-11e5-85cd-5ad59bc19432_story.html">growing</a> in South Korea.  Those not privileged must work 14-hour days for low pay, and can barely get by.
<p>It's what's happening in the US, only more so.


feed_id: a47818ab7ae1b6649283c46c5afa824f
title: Enslaving women as prostitutes
uri: Enslaving-women-as-prostitutes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Enslaving_women_as_prostitutes%29

content:
<p>After a <a href="http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2016/01/31/0302000000AEN20160131001100315.html">hypocritical "apology",</a> Japan once again denies enslaving women as prostitutes during World War II.


feed_id: 52d21cae2889458996462600fac1de4b
title: Films in which characters smoke
uri: Films-in-which-characters-smoke
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Films_in_which_characters_smoke%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/01/films-portraying-smoking-should-get-adult-rating-says-who">WHO says,</a> don't let children watch films in which characters smoke.


feed_id: 937a1b444786f15e27ffad10941f0335
title: Climate studies
uri: Climate-studies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Climate_studies%29
content:
<p>Most climate studies don't look at what will happen after 2100.
However, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jan/29/if-the-world-ends-in-2100-were-probably-ok">global heating won't stop then.</a>
<p>If high-tech civilization survives till 2100, it may be able to bring down
the levels of CO2 in the air.


feed_id: 2efa8d2985903d658fdbc2a90cd26421
title: Unpoison Flint's water
uri: Unpoison-Flint-s-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Unpoison_Flint%27s_water%29
content:
<p>Here's <a href="http://www.wired.com/2016/01/heres-how-hard-it-will-be-to-unpoison-flints-water/">How Hard It Will Be</a> to Unpoison Flint's Water.
<p>It's not that the Flint river water itself contains lots of lead.
Rather, using that water involves so much chlorine that it corrodes
the lead pipes.
<p>The Lead Pipes in Flint, Michigan, Are a Tiny Part of a <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2016/01/the_lead_pipes_in_flint_are_a_tiny_part_of_a_huge_problem.html">Huge Problem</a> (of lead poisoning in the US).


feed_id: d41b763eac817dc627105b6aa45e1e4c
title: Adventure of the Extraordinary Rendition
uri: Adventure-of-the-Extraordinary-Rendition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Adventure_of_the_Extraordinary_Rendition%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/02/02/doxxing-sherlock-3.html">background</a>
for "Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Extraordinary
Rendition."


feed_id: 757f8e304c1df8ee3d1befca62decf3c
title: Microcephaly
uri: Microcephaly
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Microcephaly%29
content:
<p>
Microcephaly results in babies 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/02/kansas-family-daughters-microcephaly-gwen-hartley-claire-lola-zika">so
mentally crippled that they are hardly human</a>.
<p>
I think they call for euthanasia, like a badly crippled dog.


feed_id: 6a47a3b157b3fb1e008889fe5c91adf4
title: China repressing labor movement
uri: China-repressing-labor-movement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28China_repressing_labor_movement%29

content:
<p>
China is now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/02/he-xiaobo-the-latest-victim-of-chinas-crackdown-on-labour-activists">repressing
the labor movement</a>.


feed_id: ca297b42263544968d19b5b45ef5e548
title: Social movements against Monsanto's GMOs
uri: Social-movements-against-Monsanto-s-GMOs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Social_movements_against_Monsantos_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/51890">Social
movements in Argentina</a> are reacting strongly against Monsanto's
GMOs.


feed_id: a786080d311d6aeb5ffcf211be058618
title: Oil subsidies
uri: Oil-subsidies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Oil_subsidies%29
content:
<p>
The world is awash in oil and that the price has collapsed, but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/02/cheap-oil-taxpayers-crisis-bailouts-fossil-fuels">plutocratic
states keep subsidizing the oil companies</a>.


feed_id: caff9694b545f4d2e86c2e5a48506dc3
title: US public schools
uri: US-public-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28US_public_schools%29
content:
<p>
When It Comes to Public Schooling, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/02/when-it-comes-public-schooling-us-gets-failing-grade">US
Gets a Failing Grade</a>.


feed_id: a5bbb5965c2234c22c00674ee54fc99b
title: Leader of anti-narco organization imprisoned
uri: Leader-of-anti-narco-organization-imprisoned
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Leader_of_anti-narco_organization_imprisoned%29

content:
<p>
Mexico imprisoned Nestora Salgado for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/02/mexico-arrest-detention-nestora-salgado-illegal-united-nations">running
a citizens' anti-narco organization that operated lawfully</a>.


feed_id: 7d285b7d4f2cd8a471d5f27061ffc797
title: Professor faces prison for exam question
uri: Professor-faces-prison-for-exam-question
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Professor_faces_prison_for_exam_question%29

content:
<p>
An Ankara University professor faces 7 years in prison
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/03/turkish-lecturer-to-be-put-on-trial-for-posing-exam-question-on-pkk-leader">for
asking students to compare two articles written by Abdullah
Öcalan</a>.


feed_id: 9f0a13d0c7105f308f9334cfa6b1798f
title: Australia's refugee prisons
uri: Australia-s-refugee-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Australias_refugee_prisons%29
content:
<p>
Australia's Supreme Court 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/03/nauru-manus-ruling-no-blank-cheque-as-court-signals-limits-to-detention">ruled
that the government cannot keep refugees in foreign prisons
forever</a> while making up its mind very slowly about their cases.


feed_id: 768e7707fed3ed6d27ed7ab8985d65a2
title: Urgent: Don't push fossil fuel subsidies on Flint
uri: Urgent-Don-t-push-fossil-fuel-subsidies-on-Flint
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Dont_push_fossil_fuel_subsidies_on_Flint%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and say, 
<a href="http://environmental-action.org/action/call-to-de-flint-the-senates-bad-energy-bill/">don't
use Flint to pass subsidies for fossil fuels</a>.
<p>
Their "call tool" probably requires nonfree software, so skip that and
call your senators directly.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: 889f9fa6d6d91b74add1e8564d8d4bad
title: Urgent: Investigate Clayton Homes
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Clayton-Homes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_Clayton_Homes%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/clayton-homes-selling-lie/">call
for an investigation</a> of Clayton Homes for racial bias in lending.


feed_id: c71f00ee5dcd87151d90c0df3fdaa927
title: US government snooping
uri: US-government-snooping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28US_government_snooping%29
content:
<p>
The FBI Says It Can't Disclose Its Records Because 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/fbi-says-it-cant-disclose-its-records-because-then-public-would-know-how-bureau">Then
the Public Would Know How the Bureau Works</a>.
<p>
It is spreading further.  The former head of the Department of
Homeland Security has applied that organization's approach in
monitoring faculty and students at the University of California.
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/technology/at-uc-berkeley-a-new-digital-privacy-protest.html">Professors
condemn this snooping</a>.
<p>
She refuses even to discuss what kinds of monitoring are being done.
Supposedly our own safety forbids giving us any say in how much we are
monitored.  That's a recipe for tyranny — in DHS or in UC.
<p>
Professors should set up their own local networks, and relay data in
and out of UC encrypted, to protect themselves and the students.
<p>
The article refers to security breakers as "hackers".  To 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html ">avoid giving
us hackers a bad name</a>, please use the term "crackers" for that.


feed_id: 08c9376e1822f3862e73ab3295a46032
title: Sending European data to the US
uri: Sending-European-data-to-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Sending_European_data_to_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The US and EU have 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/technology/us-europe-safe-harbor-data-deal.html">agreed
on a deal for sending European data to the US</a>.  The US will very
seriously promise not to have the NSA look at it.
<p>
If you believe that promise …


feed_id: 3b4209e49764bb2905022a93227019a3
title: Thugs' body cameras
uri: Thugs-body-cameras
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Thugs_body_cameras%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/body-cameras-should-not-be-live-streamed">Do
not live-stream</a> thugs' body cameras!
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/539631/controlling-when-the-cameras-record/">my
proposal</a> for controlling them.


feed_id: 489480e3f1de13eb1be6bfe89ac7fd17
title: World's Biggest Robot
uri: World-s-Biggest-Robot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Worlds_Biggest_Robot%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/02/the_internet_of_thin_2.html">Internet
Of Things</a> Will Be The World's Biggest Robot.
<p>
The article suffers from a confusion when it says "It will collect
data and do things in our interests; that's why we're building it."
Who is this "we"?  The most he could validly claim is that each part
serves someone's interest.
<p>
In a just and democratic world, perhaps you could expect these devices
to be benign towards you.  In fact, parts are already designed and
used to monitor and control people.  
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/courts-and-insurance-companies-need-to-realize-fitness-data-can-be-spoofed">For
instance</a>, since it is possible to spoof fitness data that
insurance companies use to monitor people, the article advocates
designing the devices to communicate with a company in a way that
totally bypasses the subject being monitored.  This demonstrates that
they are a system of control imposed on a subject, not a product
offered to a user.
<p>
The use of such devices for any sort of monitoring should be
prohibited by law.  All data they produce should be made available
directly to the user, and only in that way.
<p>
These devices can probably tell whether someone is having sex (though
Oral Roberts University says it isn't checking that 
<em><a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/christian-university-requiring-students-to-use-fitbits-says-it-wont-track-sex">at
present</a></em>).
<p>
I suppose that university permits only Oral sex.


feed_id: d86d57157c0e74b2031abf2ea92c4a4e
title: Refugees traveling to Europe by boat
uri: Refugees-traveling-to-Europe-by-boat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Refugees_traveling_to_Europe_by_boat%29

content:
<p>
Most of the refugees traveling to Europe by boat now are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/03/un-one-third-refugees-sailing-europe-children">women
and children</a>.


feed_id: 6546e54b0d04df063674c974326cb160
title: David Koch's baneful influence on NOVA
uri: David-Koch-s-baneful-influence-on-NOVA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28David_Kochs_baneful_influence_on_NOVA%29

content:
<p>
Although David Koch is no longer on the WGBH-TV board, he 
<a href="http://act.climatetruth.org/sign/wewonsharegraphic/">continues
to exert his baneful influence</a> on the science program NOVA.


feed_id: 1d318825422db312da8c912017f8c094
title: Investigation of killing of journalists
uri: Investigation-of-killing-of-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Investigation_of_killing_of_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Committee to Protect Journalists 
<a href="http://cpj.org/2016/02/cpj-urges-full-independent-investigation-into-kill.php">calls
for an independent investigation</a> of the killing of journalists in
Yemen.


feed_id: b1a65f541d89a9826a5b1f4dd789c57b
title: Very urgent: Volunteer for Sanders campaign
uri: Very-urgent-Volunteer-for-Sanders-campaign
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Volunteer_for_Sanders_campaign%29

content:
<p>
Go to New Hampshire this weekend to 
<a href="http://act.moveon.org/go/1154">volunteer for the Sanders
campaign</a>.  The New Hampshire primary is next Tuesday, and it is
important that he get an astonishing victory to influence other
states.


feed_id: cd651c58ec6bcaded2aeab2f8663745e
title: Removal of racist conqueror's statue
uri: Removal-of-racist-conqueror-s-statue
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Removal_of_racist_conquerer%27s_statue%29

content:
<p>
Demanding to remove the statue of an racist conqueror such as Cecil
Rhodes is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/feb/02/students-cecil-rhodes-statue-campaign-oxford-oriel-college">substitute 
for eliminating institutional racism and class bias.
<p>
Where a symbol of racism is actively adored by some political groups,
as for instance the confederate flag, it makes a real difference to
demand that institutions (especially governments) visibly reject that
symbol.  However, nobody admires Rhodes today as a symbol of anything.


feed_id: 1c4c38713cc07b2bb769ffcdd681fbef
title: Protected forest in Canada
uri: Protected-forest-in-Canada
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Protected_forest_in_Canada%29
content:
<p>
Canada has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/01/landmark-deal-protect-canadian-rainforest-called-gift-world">set 
up a large area of protected forest</a>.


feed_id: 7672a0e389265beb8fc699bfadc063ba
title: Russia bars former US officials
uri: Russia-bars-former-US-officials
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Russia_bars_former_US_officials%29

content:
<p>
In retaliation for the US' barring of some Russian officials for the
killing of Sergey Magnitsky, Russia has barred some former US
officials, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/02/russia-blacklist-americans-rights-abuses-alberto-gonzalez">accusing
them of involvement in torture</a>.
<p>
I don't know whether these people were in fact associated with torture
by the US, but if they were, that is plenty of reason for any country
to refuse to let them in.  Or to let them in and then prosecute them.
<p>
But it changes nothing about the killing of Magnitsky.


feed_id: b13c8942b463f6c71e86afb404091198
title: Urgent: oppose the TPP
uri: 2016-02-06-Urgent-oppose-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/congress-oppose-tpp/">call on Congress</a> to oppose the TPP.


feed_id: a245dd302c4f35faff69515ae41d5b33
title: Urgent: regulations of business
uri: Urgent-regulations-of-business
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_regulations_of_business%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Senate Democrats to resist <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/sabotaging_regulators">plans</a> to help business lobbyists block regulations of business.


feed_id: b7a813fc1775715099d7ba8da4c5eeae
title: Urgent: new nuclear cruise missile
uri: Urgent-new-nuclear-cruise-missile
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_new_nuclear_cruise_missile%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://www.globalzero.org/take-action/lrso/email-non-rsvp">Phone the White House</a> at 855-239-1424 to call on Obama to cancel the new nuclear cruise missile.


feed_id: 03aee6625a2af3f7be81500a6bd57888
title: Iowa caucuses
uri: 2016-02-06-Iowa-caucuses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Iowa_caucuses%29
content:
<p>Sanders and Clinton got roughly <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/02/iowa-winnow-and-why-bernie-sanders-real
">equal numbers</a> of delegates out of the Iowa caucuses.
<p>Clinton has backed off attacking Sanders' push for <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/02/13033/photo-finish-iowa-victory-sanders">universal health care,</a> and has returned to supporting the idea.  I guess that attack was backfiring.
<p>Several important primaries will be held this month and on March 1.
If you would like Sanders to win, please volunteer to help his
campaign — don't put it off.


feed_id: 4871584fa06921f02c91f0e1f3e969c2
title: California vineyards' harvest
uri: California-vineyards-harvest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28California_vinyards%27_harvest%29

content:
<p>Fires in California ruined a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/01/california-wildfires-wine-prices-vineyards-napa-sonoma">large part</a> of the vineyards' harvest.


feed_id: 490727463e25bb279a7068114d4ad931
title: DNA test agreements
uri: 2016-02-06-DNA-test-agreements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28DNA_test_agreements%29
content:
<p>Study: DNA Test Agreements <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/ethics/study-dna-test-agreements-disregard-consumer-privacy">Disregard Consumer Privacy.</a>
<p>Like many articles about new abusive practices, this article legitimizes
the known, current abuses.  I think that is a mistake.  We should not
limit ourselves to opposing further changes for the worse.  We must
campaign to get rid of the existing evils too.


feed_id: 1b76d95402a0205435c2d9bd98ff9650
title: Urgent: ban neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Urgent-ban-neonicotinoid-pesticides
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_ban_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/epa_neonics_bees">call on the EPA</a> to ban neonicotinoid pesticides
<p>The EPA has just recognized that neonicotinoids contribute to the death of bees.
<p>It is possible that other causes contribute as well, such as the varroa mite.  But we can't get rid of them, or prevent them from doing damage — and we need the bees.


feed_id: 32c9e670ab4c41c18d2265021312a861
title: Racial discrimination in US
uri: 2016-02-06-Racial-discrimination-in-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Racial_discrimination_in_US%29
content:
<p>UN Experts Catalog Seemingly <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/29/un-experts-catalog-seemingly-endless-list-racial-discrimination-us">Endless List</a> of Racial Discrimination in US.
<p>I believe that the US owes reparations to the descendants of those who
suffered denial of equal rights, including both <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_(Reparations_owed_to_US_blacks)">slavery and the racist laws</a> from 1880 to the 1960s.


feed_id: 5bb77b6b0d49aa72a753a225b64d30a5
title: Urgent: Gynnya McMillen
uri: Urgent-Gynnya-McMillen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Gynnya_McMillen%29
content:
<p>Everyone: ask how Gynnya McMillen <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/Gynnya/?t=1009&akid=5345.1242918.z0djJa">died in jail.</a>


feed_id: 2a3cd07681743858582a933df67a9b1b
title: Urgent: fight pharma mergers
uri: Urgent-fight-pharma-mergers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_fight_pharma_mergers%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/FTC_pharma_monopolies?t=1005&akid=16704.1183552.nKhtz7">tell the FTC</a> to fight pharma mergers.


feed_id: 4c1bad9f194765fdb29ae223b1a8c50e
title: Urgent: reject the DARK Act
uri: Urgent-reject-the-DARK-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_reject_the_DARK_Act%29
content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=EFE089C43AD106E1870F6EDDEB7CA444.app357a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2484">call on the Senate</a> to reject the DARK Act.


feed_id: d747ab54ab5f2762e32f864dacaad107
title: Urgent: Social Security benefits
uri: Urgent-Social-Security-benefits
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Social_Security_benefits%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="http://www.expandsocialsecuritynow.com/ssw/">expand</a> Social Security benefits.


feed_id: 83ae3e5076d9798423ea5a28dd355b05
title: Urgent: Governor Snyder
uri: Urgent-Governor-Snyder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Governor_Snyder%29
content:
<p>Everyone: tell Governor Snyder <a href="http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/flint_water/?t=1001&akid=2699.1105163.KS2n89">to resign.</a>


feed_id: 0c444c0e155f9b8689be2c3c23438f72
title: Urgent: fighting in Libya again
uri: Urgent-fighting-in-Libya-again
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_fighting_in_Libya_again%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/congress-debate-vote-before-new-libya-war">debate</a> whether to fight in Libya again.


feed_id: 3fbe66ffbce29f7edd36e6c53548712d
title: Urgent: "Energy Policy Modernization Act"
uri: Urgent-Energy-Policy-Modernization-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Energy_Policy_Modernization_Act%29

content:
<p>US citizens: tell Senate Democrats to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/senate_energy_bill">stop</a> the "Energy Policy Modernization Act".


feed_id: ee3149111a03812427225a96c5f3a763
title: Public interest science
uri: Public-interest-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Public_interest_science%29
content:
<p>Professor Marc Edwards, who helped expose the poisoned water in Flint, says that funding pressures on academics and government agencies have <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/03/professor-who-exposed-flint-crisis-says-greed-has-killed-public-science
">destroyed</a> public interest science in the US.


feed_id: 7d8612631cc90d2153d31917e0954001
title: Google censored Samsung's ad-blocker
uri: Google-censored-Samsung-s-ad-blocker
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Google_censored_Samsung%27s_ad-blocker%29

content:
<p>Google censored installation of Samsung's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/03/google-pulls-ad-blocking-app-for-samsung-phones">ad-blocker,</a> saying that blocking ads is "interference" with the sites that
advertise (and surveil users through ads).
<p>The ad-blocker is proprietary software, just like the program (Google
Play) that Google used to deny access to install it.  <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">Using a nonfree program</a> gives the owner power over you, and Google has exercised that power.


feed_id: 6d2a6c672d5eb697707cfd64c43a1a0d
title: French Catholic pressure group
uri: French-Catholic-pressure-group
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28French_Catholic_pressure_group%29

content:
<p>A French Catholic pressure group is pressuring France to restrict some <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/03/lars-von-trier-antichrist-banned-france-promouvoir">well-known, controversial movies.</a>


feed_id: 854513fca69dda0cac29302fa1b2c4d9
title: Information about ballot questions
uri: Information-about-ballot-questions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Information_about_ballot_questions%29

content:
<p>Michigan Republicans <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/1/1478261/-School-officials-suing-to-block-new-Gov-Snyder-law-that-restricts-them-from-informing-voters?detail=email">banned local governments and schools</a> from giving information about ballot questions.


feed_id: 155c257097553e83e07798ae4d2e492d
title: Professor Resat Baris Unlu acquitted
uri: Professor-Resat-Baris-Unlu-acquitted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Professor_Resat_Baris_Unlu_acquitted%29

content:
<p>Professor Resat Baris Unlu was acquitted of charges based on the exam question in which he asked about comparing writings by the leader of a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/turkish-lecturer-found-not-guilty-over-exam-question-on-kurdish-leader
">Kurdish rebel group.</a>
<p>I fear students might have been charged with crimes because of their answers, too.


feed_id: f5bfae9b4325949ca86f6dbde1f6fb66
title: Fires in world heritage forests
uri: Fires-in-world-heritage-forests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Fires_in_world_heritage_forests%29

content:
<p>Unprecedented fires in world heritage forests in Tasmania may now be the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/04/call-for-urgent-inquiry-into-world-heritage-forest-fires-in-tasmania">"new normal".</a>
<p>No one was prepared or equipped to fight the fires that are destroying
thousand-year-old trees.  The whole ecosystem may be destroyed by them.
<p>When I visited Lebanon, I saw some of the last remaining cedars.  Those
trees can live a thousand years, too; but most of them were destroyed
in the civil war.


feed_id: 976bfdf517ae1ccde6c097e831af8d84
title: Pakistan blocks foreign journalists from Balochistan
uri: Pakistan-blocks-foreign-journalists-from-Balochistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Pakistan_blocks_foreign_journalists_from_Balochistan%29

content:
<p>Pakistan blocks nearly all foreign journalists from Balochistan, and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/balochistan-pakistan-information-black-hole">tells newspapers there what to publish.</a>


feed_id: e51109394d71bdd362e2de1226d6fa6b
title: Refugee children in Australia
uri: Refugee-children-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Refugee_children_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>Refugee children in Australia, who are now at risk to be sent to Nauru, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/04/children-who-fear-return-to-nauru-have-attempted-suicide-say-paediatricians">have tried to kill themselves.</a>


feed_id: a8d828f9515d9b08c009d1879be990e0
title: US coal use
uri: US-coal-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28US_coal_use%29
content:
<p>US coal use is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/04/us-electricity-industrys-use-of-coal-fell-to-historic-low-in-2015-as-plants-closed">declining a noticeable amount.</a>
<p>This is good because it reduces toxic pollution.  Burning natural gas doesn't make much of that.  However, natural gas implies <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#17_January_2016_(False_claims_about_natural_gas)">methane leaks,</a> so replacing coal with gas doesn't reduce global heating the way companies claim.


feed_id: 93f46e2a281bf7627a5a6e9708241f35
title: Coal mine in Australia
uri: Coal-mine-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Coal_mine_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>A proposed giant coal mine in Australia has been suspended because <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/04/adani-freezes-investment-in-carmichael-mine-until-world-coal-price-recovers">the export coal market has shrunk.</a>
<p>That is good for the Great Barrier Reef, but burning Indian coal in India will pump almost as much CO2 as burning Australian coal in India.


feed_id: 69c6b0ff1883dc52f03da2cb5d4ddeb4
title: Australia cutting jobs in climate research
uri: Australia-cutting-jobs-in-climate-research
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Australia_cutting_jobs_in_climate_research%29

content:
<p>Australia is cutting hundreds of jobs in climate research in order to make its research organization <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/04/csiro-confirms-300-job-cuts-with-climate-research-bearing-the-brunt">"collaborate better with industry".</a>
<p>Apparently this refers to the global heating industry.
<p>"Mitigation and adaptation" is the last ditch excuse of the planet roasters: the pretense that cleverness can prevent global heating from causing disasters, so we don't need to work expeditiously to curb it.


feed_id: bba94c3f5bc6b687f3f336e8837491fe
title: Undocumented immigrants in UK
uri: Undocumented-immigrants-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Undocumented_immigrants_in_UK%29
content:
<p>Undocumented immigrants in the UK skip prenatal care and give birth at home, because they can't afford to pay almost <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/migrant-women-face-6000-birth-bill-under-health-tourism-laws">$10,000 in medical fees.</a>


feed_id: f633aee30ddad6e67a6cd036fe46f2c3
title: Zika transmitted sexually
uri: Zika-transmitted-sexually
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Zika_transmitted_sexually%29
content:
<p>Zika can be transmitted <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/03/zika-virus-transmission-sex-us-case-mosquito
">sexually.</a>


feed_id: 64b9e8a07f62e612ea3ffe5e4f2020bd
title: Walmart to pay 31 million dollars
uri: Walmart-to-pay-31-million-dollars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Walmart_to_pay_31_million_dollars%29

content:
<p>Walmart was <a href="http://consumerist.com/2016/01/29/walmart-ordered-to-pay-31-million-for-retaliating-against-pharmacist-whistleblower/">sentenced</a> to pay 31 million dollars for operating its pharmacy incompetently and firing a whistleblower.


feed_id: a88a2ecf080e4e1d1cd331b429e9b321
title: Deregulation of business
uri: Deregulation-of-business
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Deregulation_of_business%29
content:
<p>Right-wing politicians in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/03/britains-part-in-making-the-eu-a-plaything-of-corporate-interests">various EU countries</a> are planning sweeping deregulation of business.


feed_id: 560baa91ed66c79330844ecdfebcf10d
title: Iran imprisoned former BBC journalist
uri: Iran-imprisoned-former-BBC-journalist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Iran_imprisoned_former_BBC_journalist%29

content:
<p>Iran has imprisoned a former BBC journalist, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/03/iran-former-bbc-journalist-arrested-foreign-minister-zarif-uk-visit">evidently about his writing.</a>


feed_id: 67a7ee8fc860f71711e9e756be29e1f6
title: Anthropomophic toys
uri: Anthropomophic-toys
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Anthropomophic_toys%29
content:
<p>People are being raised to see <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/03/animals-photobomb-horse-selfie-thomson-holidays">domesticated and wild animals</a> as anthropomophic toys.  It's as if they were considered imperfect approximations of
a funny animal cartoon.


feed_id: dee3dfb39777b0a0eb42dc94dbbea166
title: Local democracy
uri: Local-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Local_democracy%29
content:
<p>US businesses, <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/02/13029/2016-ALEC-local-control">operating through ALEC,</a> are taking aim at local democracy.


feed_id: 6888ee3ce713be75ac48b28b2e5a2483
title: Prisoners in solitary
uri: Prisoners-in-solitary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Prisoners_in_solitary%29
content:
<p>US prisons create excuses to keep prisoners in solitary for years, and do this over the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/03/lets-end-torture-us-prisons">tiniest excuses.</a>


feed_id: 657328da34fc821d2a140bfea9e81617
title: EPA warnings about Flint's water
uri: EPA-warnings-about-Flint-s-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28EPA_warnings_about_Flint%27s_water%29

content:
<p>Michigan officials <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/03/flint-water-crisis-congress-michigan-officials-ignored-epa-warnings-lead">ignored</a> EPA warnings about Flint's water.  But the EPA did not treat the matter with sufficient urgency.


feed_id: aff48b4a881f46cd53ca0b21665d77b0
title: Legal bribery
uri: Legal-bribery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Legal_bribery%29
content:
<p>Jimmy Carter: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/03/jimmy-carter-citizens-united-gives-legal-bribery-chance-prevail
">Citizens United</a> 'Gives Legal Bribery a Chance to Prevail'.


feed_id: 94fb269ebf4305dc746628ac1e9a5128
title: Safe harbor data "deal"
uri: Safe-harbor-data-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Safe_harbor_data_deal%29
content:
<p>New Safe Harbor Data "Deal" <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/03/new-safe-harbor-data-deal-may-be-more-politicking-than-surveillance-reform/">May Be More Politicking Than Surveillance Reform.</a>
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/02/joke-snowden-others-slam-new-eu-us-data-sharing-deal">'This is a Joke':</a> Snowden, Others Slam New EU-US Data Sharing Deal.


feed_id: ecfba98e3cae7cfdf2fecbeed3616ec0
title: North Carolina's voting law
uri: North-Carolina-s-voting-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28North_Carolina%27s_voting_law%29
content:
<p>North Carolina's voting law was <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/02/nc-voter-id-law-intentionally-discriminates-against-minority-voters-attorneys-charge">intentionally designed</a> to block various minorities from voting.


feed_id: b39f80e3bd58e884752a2a94dc7acdf9
title: McMindfulness
uri: McMindfulness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28McMindfulness%29
content:
<p>McMindfulness: the commercialization of Buddhist techniques

<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pellissier20160206">
perverts</a>
 their purpose.
</p>


feed_id: 9e91f6b5e6e9a277801e3591091c1ff9
title: Nader
uri: Nader
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Nader%29
content:
<p>Nader 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/what-did-hillary-clinton_b_9172030.html">
challenges Clinton</a>
 to revel the text of the speeches she gave to
banksters Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley?
</p>
<p>Progressive 3.0: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/05/progressive-30-beware-latest-version-hillary-clinton">
Beware the Latest Version</a>
 of Hillary Clinton.
</p>


feed_id: c265013a81c91e1f94199cbcf678ebdb
title: Polluters
uri: Polluters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Polluters%29
content:
<p>The Worst Polluters 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/worst-polluters-target-vulnerable-neighborhoods_us_56b0e66de4b0a1b96203d09d">
Are In The Most Vulnerable Neighborhoods</a>
, Study 
Finds.
</p>


feed_id: 0c25d12ba0254c28542b2073c7e7d946
title: Shopping
uri: Shopping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Shopping%29
content:
<p>Americans generally 
<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/cleaning-organizing/10-crazy-facts-about-stuff-make-you-stop-mindless-shopping.html">
buy far far more things than they need</a>
.
</p>
<p>Those large houses are not found in the cities where most of my
acquaintances live, because rent is high.</p>


feed_id: 8ee23238987ab574d0c1211d4238da6f
title: Taser
uri: Taser
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Taser%29
content:
<p>A taser shock 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/study-suspects-shocked-by-taser-more-likely-to-waive-miranda-rights/">
can leave a person mentally disorganized</a>
 and with gaps
or errors in memory.  People in this state may make false statements
that appear to incriminate them.
</p>


feed_id: 253d9d5a08f2dcfdec1aa1898b364c55
title: Brainwashing prison
uri: Brainwashing-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Brainwashing_prison%29
content:
<p>The US has a prison in New York City 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/05/mahdi-hashi-metropolitan-correctional-center-manhattan-guantanamo-pretrial-solitary-confinement/">
which brainwashes</a>
 prisoners
into pleading guilty.
</p>
<p>The brainwashing conditions are officially a secret, but we know they
include isolation and sleep deprivation, as well as painful hot and cold.
</p>


feed_id: bef6ee0cb137a72aa6197cb1eafb9e0b
title: War Machine
uri: War-Machine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28War_Machine%29
content:
<p>Hillary 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/05/hillary-candidate-war-machine">
Is the Candidate</a>
 of the War Machine.
</p>


feed_id: 26c814e07d8411754dd3c621fadf9d32
title: Sex workers
uri: 2016-02-07-Sex-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Sex_workers%29
content:
<p>A sex worker from Ulster 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/05/sex-worker-activist-laura-lee-northern-ireland-law-challenge-interview">
explains</a>
 how criminalizing her customers has
made her work more dangerous.
</p>


feed_id: e2542f5f62eba88df9c1da94eb2ce038
title: Ted Cruz's policy
uri: Ted-Cruz-s-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Ted_Cruz%27s_policy%29
content:
<p>Ted Cruz's policy: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/05/terrifying-ted-and-his-ultra-conservative-vision-america">
impose theocracy and mass poverty at home</a>
 while invading
other countries.
</p>


feed_id: 03f186c07de8231be570c694cd5cb3d7
title: Error 53
uri: Error-53
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Error_53%29
content:
<p>Apple's latest system upgrade for iThings 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair">
sabotages</a>
 them irreparably
if they were repaired by someone other than Apple.
</p>


feed_id: 339ce8946de40ae8ea2867d726115f24
title: Discourage oil's use
uri: Discourage-oil-s-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Discourage_oil%27s_use%29
content:
<p>The low price of oil 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/04/carbon-tax-low-oil-price-opportunity">
provides</a>
 a great opportunity to increase the tax on oil
and thus discourage its use.
</p>
<p>Obama now 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2016/02/obama-oil-tax">
advocates</a>
 doing a little of that.
</p>


feed_id: 0eba72211979344d9073cfc7388b406d
title: Sanders and Clinton debates
uri: Sanders-and-Clinton-debates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Sanders_and_Clinton_debates%29
content:
<p>Sanders and Clinton 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/3/1479362/-Democrats-agree-to-expanded-schedule-of-head-to-head-Clinton-Sanders-debates?detail=email">
have agreed</a>
 to more debates.
</p>


feed_id: 1a231ea350b04545d4fbeb22bb16ede7
title: Iowa
uri: Iowa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Iowa%29
content:
<p>Coverage 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/3/1479200/-Attention-media-You-do-know-you-made-up-the-whole-won-on-a-coin-toss-story-right?detail=email">
of coin-tosses</a>
 in the Iowa caucuses was misleading.
</p>


feed_id: 973bd78418f969078cfe42bbfafff072
title: Salvadoran officer
uri: Salvadoran-officer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Salvadoran_officer%29
content:
<p>The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/05/el-salvador-war-crime-extradition-inocente-orlando-montano-morales-spain">
will send</a>
 a Salvadoran officer to Spain for trial for killing
dissident priests.
</p>


feed_id: bd2a01d66270dfca964d36c7d874a93a
title: Big Oil
uri: Big-Oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Big_Oil%29
content:
<p>How Big Oil 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/05/how-big-oil-spent-millions-to-defeat-california-climate-change-legislation-sb-350">
Spent $10m to Defeat</a>
 California [climate protection] Legislation.
</p>


feed_id: 4978be4960087291e41e0a14b6c7f8cf
title: Mistreatment of prisoners
uri: Mistreatment-of-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Mistreatment_of_prisoners%29
content:
<p>The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/05/us-military-bush-era-detainee-abuse-photos-released-pentagon-iraq-afghanistan-guantanamo-bay">
released around 200 photos</a>
 of mistreatment of prisoners, out of
2000.  The ACLU believes they are the mildest and that the other 1800
are worse.
</p>


feed_id: 7f0572f017e0e731882997ea1182f081
title: Empathy
uri: Empathy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Empathy%29
content:
<p>In modern society 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/05/women-empathy-people-more-self-centred-research">
people are increasingly too busy</a>
 to help a stranger
in distress.
</p>


feed_id: 6fa0500236bcfd6d578aadffc1206b45
title: Ban Ki-moon
uri: Ban-Ki-moon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Ban_Ki-moon%29
content:
<p>Ban Ki-moon 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/05/ban-ki-moon-yemen-war-uk-arms-sales-saudi-arabia">
said that the UK has a duty to stop supplying arms</a>
 to
Salafi Arabia.
</p>
<p>Morally, the US does, too.</p>


feed_id: 6b20d72bc0cf6d5be5c21a990d3aa0e4
title: PISSI
uri: 2016-02-07-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28PISSI%29
content:
<p>Isn't it foolish to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/05/muddled-messages-of-tareena-shakils-case">
jail people who joined PISSI and learned how
foolish that was</a>
?
</p>


feed_id: 2650054611b32047c270788484409c7a
title: Ted Cruz
uri: Ted-Cruz
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Ted_Cruz%29
content:
<p>"Taken at face value, Republican presidential candidate 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/05/ted-cruzs-promise-that-big-donors-will-match-campaign-donations-could-break-rules/">
Ted Cruz's latest
fund-raising pitch to supporters is either impossible</a>
, illegal, or a scam."
</p>


feed_id: 936dab3522d949bad5298b4b0e28a6f4
title: Uri Avnery
uri: 2016-02-07-Uri-Avnery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Uri_Avnery%29
content:
<p>Uri Avnery's long campaign for Israel to recognize a Palestinian state

<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1454684581/">
has won</a>
 the support of just about every government on Earth,
except
Israel.
</p>


feed_id: 780e461e61a119787023a1141b5b11df
title: Democrats
uri: Democrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Democrats%29
content:
<p>Many Democrats 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/05/thousands-ask-clinton-stop-lying-about-iraq-vote">
are saying</a>
 they won't vote for Clinton for president
if she wins the nomination.
</p>


feed_id: c6844d7e1e793bc810ab183792876034
title: Sanders Campaign
uri: Sanders-Campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Sanders_Campaign%29
content:
<p>Sanders Campaign 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/05/sanders-campaign-genuine-progressive-social-movement-democracy">
Is a Genuine Progressive Social Movement</a>
 for Democracy.
</p>


feed_id: f7c4c161749b5889f45320b9715f5f26
title: Mohammed al-Qiq
uri: Mohammed-al-Qiq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Mohammed_al-Qiq%29
content:
<p>Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq, on hunger strike against
his imprisonment without trial, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/feb/05/israels-supreme-court-suspends-detention-of-palestinian-journalist">
is close to death</a>
.
</p>
<p>The Israeli Supreme Court says it has "suspended" his imprisonment,
but it is not clear what that means, since he is still not allowed to
leave the hospital.</p>


feed_id: e3395bca638c75d0a24cc9cb5ab0e1b7
title: Guber
uri: 2016-02-07-Guber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Guber%29
content:
<p>Guber now 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/uber-strike-united-app-super-bowl-50">
pays drivers</a>
 even fewer peanuts, and some former drivers are
planning to slow traffic during the Superbowl as a protest.
</p>
<p>Since Guber 
<a href="https://stallman.org/uber.html">
attacks the freedom and privacy</a>
 of its users as well,
we should close it down.</p>


feed_id: 3981e93ddedb94710c33a5d06b0a9c17
title: Gmail Scanning
uri: Gmail-Scanning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Gmail_Scanning%29
content:
<p>Former, Current Students 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/former-current-students-sue-google-over-university-issued-gmail-scanning/">
Sue Google</a>
 over University-Issued Gmail 
Scanning.
</p>


feed_id: c55a8e0706ffbf20147f83b2eec581a2
title: Women's Rights
uri: Women-s-Rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Women%27s_Rights%29
content:
<p>Women's Rights Crackdown 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/05/china-womens-rights-crackdown-exposes-deepening-crisis-in-chinese-society">
Exposes Deepening Crisis</a>
 in Chinese Society.
</p>


feed_id: 97cf9e91f768c598ce563900f8f627a0
title: Salafi Arabia
uri: 2016-02-07-Salafi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Salafi_Arabia%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/saudi-arabia-ground-troops-syria-fight-isis">
Salafi Arabia wants to send troops</a>
 to fight against PISSI in Syria.
</p>
<p>However, they might actually fight against Assad, which would put
Salafi Arabia directly into war with Russia.</p>
<p>I fear they would also fight the revolutionary Kurds.</p>


feed_id: 84bc8c815a05f6632bfa1fc4fe740da0
title: Angel Rosa
uri: Angel-Rosa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Angel_Rosa%29
content:
<p>The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/04/guatemalan-man-deported-gangrene-immigration">
deported</a>
 Angel Rosa to Guatemala, where he has no family.  He
is ill from gangrene that he contracted in a US immigration prison,
and his children (US citizens who live in the US) cannot take care of
them there.
</p>
<p>The US says it will investigate how he got gangrene, but will they go
to Guatemala to do it?</p>
<p>Sometimes I wonder if the immigration police are trying to demonstrate
how coldly and callously they can implements the rules.
</p>


feed_id: c4d7298a11f3402407d1867ebfca9be8
title: Ukraine corruption
uri: Ukraine-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Ukraine_corruption%29
content:
<p>Ukraine's economics minister and his whole team 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/economic-minister-resignation-ukraine-crisis-aivaras-abromavicius">
resigned and denounced</a>

ingrained corruption.
</p>


feed_id: 0106372fac400af5d0fd7c6a69164b33
title: Naomi Klein
uri: Naomi-Klein
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Naomi_Klein%29
content:
<p>Naomi Klein: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/04/leap-year-fossil-fuel-leap-maifesto-naomi-klein">
Let's make this</a>
 a real 'leap' year, and go fossil fuel-free.
</p>
<p>A 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/03/naomi-klein-climate-change-not-just-about-things-getting-hotter-its-about-things">
long interview</a>
 with Naomi Klein.
</p>


feed_id: fc07b953a2b93e45982a957521d57e40
title: Asylum seekers turned back
uri: Asylum-seekers-turned-back
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Asylum_seekers_turned_back%29
content:
<p>It appears Australia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/05/asylum-seekers-23-vessels-turned-back-but-coalition-stays-silent-on-payments">
pays smugglers</a>
 to carry boat people back to
Indonesia, since the government refuses to deny this.
</p>
<p>Now that the government tells the senate "just trust us", it is
totally out of democratic control.  If I were a Senator I'd vote to
deny that department funding, just to make it accept accountability.</p>


feed_id: 7bc165b35f5bff1101f92e05aaa53fa6
title: Australian climate research
uri: Australian-climate-research
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Australian_climate_research%29
content:
<p>Australian climate research cuts 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/05/senior-csiro-scientist-derides-chief-executives-claim-climate-change-is-answered">
would wipe out programs</a>
 necessary
to measure how much and how global heating is changing the climate.
</p>


feed_id: 530a7b7a8acee0c25fbefdcf854b46bf
title: Australia
uri: 2016-02-07-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Australia%29
content:
<p>7-Eleven franchise owners in Australia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/05/7-eleven-workers-beaten-and-forced-to-pay-back-wages-senate-inquiry-hears">
systematically beat up workers</a>

to steal their pay.
</p>


feed_id: 429181b643c2b89b28022ba32aec9491
title: Timbuktu
uri: Timbuktu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Timbuktu%29
content:
<p>Timbuktu 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/timbuktu-marks-recovery-of-mausoleums-after-destruction-in-islamist-takeover">
Marks Rebuilding</a>
 of Mausoleums Destroyed by Islamists.
</p>


feed_id: 114923fec2a6536d3c7ac231b8d4612c
title: Big Oil Giveaway
uri: Big-Oil-Giveaway
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#07_February_2016_%28Big_Oil_Giveaway%29
content:
<p>
350.org:
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/04/350org-energy-bill-big-oil-giveaway">Energy
Bill Is A Big Oil Giveaway</a>.


feed_id: c4461aee349494aeb7059deda7e246f7
title: Sanders Vows To Kill TPP
uri: Sanders-Vows-To-Kill-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#07_February_2016_%28Sanders_Vows_To_Kill_TPP%29
content:
<p>
Sanders
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/04/sanders-vows-kill-tpp-if-elected-will-clinton">Vows
To Kill TPP</a> If Elected.  Will Clinton?


feed_id: de868f0056fbe05963cbc86ac6c639f1
title: Urgent: Regulate handling of methane
uri: Urgent-Regulate-handling-of-methane
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#07_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Regulate_handling_of_methane%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://sierra.force.com/actions/National?actionId=AR0034933">>Support
the Bureau of Land Management</a> in regulating handling of methane.


feed_id: a1ef07a25d80d22547bf3660bec4b0d4
title: Urgent: Debate about TPP
uri: Urgent-Debate-about-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#07_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Debate_about_TPP%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/wasserman-schultz-debate">call
on Rep. Wasserman Schultz</a> to debate primary opponent Canova about
the TPP.


feed_id: d3f9902938c71a9b5f663d30b6d690d2
title: US anti-war movement 15 years ago
uri: US-anti-war-movement-15-years-ago
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#07_February_2016_%28US_anti-war_movement_15_years_ago%29

content:
<p>
The US had a massive anti-war movement just
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/03/how-post-911-antiwar-movement-was-erased-history">15
years ago</a>.  You'd never know that, looking at the US today.


feed_id: 883b7af8565eb616ddcba4d5940f3ceb
title: Harassment of dissidents against TPP
uri: Harassment-of-dissidents-against-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#07_February_2016_%28Harassment_of_dissidents_against_TPP%29

content:
<p>
The New Zealand government
<a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11581217
">preemptively harassed dissidents that might protest</a> the TPP.


feed_id: 3242f972bd345a033a3f11fceb33b5cd
title: Failure to close Ukrainian air space
uri: Failure-to-close-Ukrainian-air-space
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#07_February_2016_%28Failure_to_close_Ukrainian_air_space%29

content:
<p>
The European Court of Human Rights has reportedly forgotten about a
case accusing Ukraine of negligence in
<a href="http://johnhelmer.net/?p=14997">failing to close the air
space over the battle in eastern Ukraine</a>, in which MH17 was shot
down.


feed_id: c84999b28c9faa1abdbceca19f28a6c0
title: Urgent: Overtime pay
uri: 2016-02-07-Urgent-Overtime-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#07_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Overtime_pay%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/overtime_GOP_delay">call on
Obama</a> not to let Republicans block a raise in the limit salary for
mandatory overtime pay.


feed_id: d6c7c2e381de08e4eebe520381b131ee
title: Holder making commercials for Clinton
uri: Holder-making-commercials-for-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#07_February_2016_%28Holder_making_commercials_for_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
Former Attorney General Holder, known for letting corporations get
away with fraud, is now
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/04/eric-holder-makes-ads-for-clinton-while-making-deals-for-corporate-clients/">making
commercials for Clinton</a>.


feed_id: a721585e194e3e01ed3b559bb955ea03
title: Israelis sentenced to prison for kidnap and murder
uri: Israelis-sentenced-to-prison-for-kidnap-and-murder
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Israelis_sentenced_to_prison_for_kidnap_and_murder%29

content:
<p>
Israelis who kidnaped and murdered a Palestinian have been given
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/two-israelis-given-lengthy-sentences-for-of-palestinian-teenager">long
prison sentences</a>.
<p>
Israel barely holds on to fragments of justice, but
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_(Human_rights_defenders_in_Israel)">an
increasing right-wing current says to massacre Palestinians</a>.


feed_id: 044b7e63a60f849666b3f29cc9097044
title: "Data-driven policing"
uri: Data-driven-policing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Data-driven_policing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/04/us-police-data-analytics-smart-cities-crime-likelihood-fresno-chicago-heat-list">"Data-driven
policing"</a> means watching everything everyone does, making
suppositions about who is a criminal, and putting them on lists of
suspects.
<p>
If you believe that the thugs can be trusted, and you value safety but
not freedom, you would rationally want this — provided you will
never be a protester, a dissident, a journalist, a source, or a member
of a low-privilege minority.
<p>
We ought to prohibit it.


feed_id: cff55fe376844fd9daa1811cc572255c
title: Bridge closure scandal
uri: Bridge-closure-scandal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Bridge_closure_scandal%29
content:
<p>
Chris Christie is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/04/chris-christies-office-refusing-to-release-bridgegate-emails">suppressing
crucial emails</a> about the bridge closure scandal.


feed_id: 500785d1e131c4fe47abcfd6c4529c9b
title: Who poisoned our water?
uri: Who-poisoned-our-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Who_poisoned_our_water%29
content:
<p>
Americans were supposed to fear that terrorists would poison our
water, but we see once again that
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/04/terror-flints-poisoned-water">corrupt
and unjust government</a> is a bigger threat than foreign terrorists.
<p>
This is why we must not give up our freedom or privacy for
security, even on the rare occasions when the security is real.


feed_id: 5d2cfa20c67fdfedf35f304013f1fa9e
title: Taxing sugary drinks
uri: Taxing-sugary-drinks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Taxing_sugary_drinks%29
content:
<p>
Taxing sugary drinks
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/feb/04/tax-fizzy-drinks-sugar-help-uk-nhs-diabetes-obesity-epidemic">would
reduce the problem of obesity</a>, which leads to diabetes.  There is
no excuse for failing to do this.


feed_id: 4985603eadf87d30aa1143eb4861c6d1
title: Funding cuts for Planned Parenthood
uri: Funding-cuts-for-Planned-Parenthood
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Funding_cuts_for_Planned_Parenthood%29

content:
<p>
Funding cuts in Texas for Planned Parenthood
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/04/planned-parenthood-texas-limited-access-hurts-poor-women-study">hit
poor women hardest</a>, and women who used to get birth control from
Planned Parenthood had a substantial increase in pregnancy rate.
<p>
The Christian fanatics that attack abortion rights
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_December_2015_(US_extremists_trying_to_cut_off_women_from_contraception)">really
want to attack contraception also</a>.  They consider pregnancy a
punishment for having sex.


feed_id: 2e3ac4c96ca0b5726ce03fe1b60d407c
title: Homeless kicked out for Superbowl
uri: Homeless-kicked-out-for-Superbowl
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Homeless_kicked_out_for_Superbowl%29

content:
<p>
People in San Francisco are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/04/super-bowl-san-francisco-homeless-residents">protesting
the ouster of homeless people</a> for sponsors of the Superbowl.


feed_id: 8bf77943dab311722619e220c14fe729
title: Aleppo
uri: 2016-02-07-Aleppo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Aleppo%29
content:
<p>
Russian bombardment is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/syrian-rebels-losing-grip-on-aleppo">forcing
Syrian rebels out</a> of Aleppo.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/russian-bombs-trigger-mass-aleppo-exodus-syria-conference-told">300,000
inhabitants may flee</a> from Aleppo.


feed_id: d866bc6a7ebb40381f11aa6930d6b7f1
title: Supermarket food waste
uri: Supermarket-food-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Supermarket_food_waste%29
content:
<p>
French supermarkets are now legally required to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/french-law-forbids-food-waste-by-supermarkets">donate
food when it isn't fit to to sell but is still good to eat</a>.


feed_id: a9590fe226c758cdd3154ee0f892993b
title: How to make banks smaller
uri: How-to-make-banks-smaller
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28How_to_make_banks_smaller%29
content:
<p>
Big banks would get a lot smaller if the US starts prosecuting their frauds.
A group of
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/04/an-idiots-guide-to-prosecuting-corporate-fraud/">bank
whistleblowers</a> recommend how.
<p>
I am confident Sanders will do this if we elect him.  It doesn't
require new laws, just serious efforts to carry out the existing ones.


feed_id: 4e41543c2b43287900c6e0b3c85d9540
title: Sanders questioning Clinton's integrity
uri: Sanders-questioning-Clinton-s-integrity
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Sanders_questioning_Clintons_integrity%29

content:
<p>
Yes, Bernie Sanders Is
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/yes-bernie-sanders-questioning-hillary-clintons-integrity">Questioning
Hillary Clinton's Integrity</a>.
<p>
She deserves that.
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2005-nov-feb.html#30%20December%202005%20(Cindy%20Sheehan%20is%20targeting%20closet%20Republicans)">I've
questioned it for a long time</a>.
<p>
I don't believe Clinton adopted her positions because plutocrats
approached her and said, "We will give you money if you adopt these
positions."  She would never do anything so crass.  Rather, she knew
what plutocrats wanted (just as we all do).  She could take a stand
for their side without ever having a discussion with them about it.


feed_id: 3b635054b3960615aeb7c4b872231767
title: Ban on books for Palestinian prisoners
uri: Ban-on-books-for-Palestinian-prisoners
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Ban_on_books_for_Palestinian_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Israel has
<a href="http://972mag.com/israel-bans-palestinian-prisoners-from-bringing-in-books/116350/">banned
Palestinian prisoners from receiving books</a>.
<p>
A few years ago,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_July_2015_(UK_ban_on_sending_books_to_prisoners)">the
UK banned prisoners from receiving books</a>.


feed_id: 376fc793a80857abdadb2209cccbfac9
title: Human rights defenders in Israel
uri: Human-rights-defenders-in-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Human_rights_defenders_in_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Human rights defenders in Israel
<a href="http://www.ha-makom.co.il/project/mesumanim-gaby-lasky-english">face
intimidation</a>; Breaking the Silence meetings are cancelled, and
people are afraid to criticize the right-wing dominance.
<p>
One fanatic
<a href="http://english.pnn.ps/2016/01/23/rabbi-shmuel-eliyahu-calls-for-execution-of-palestinians/">wants
thugs to systematically kill Palestinians</a> rather than arrest them.
<p>
The accusations made by a right-winger against a human rights defender
in the Tel Aviv City Council demonstrate the contempt for the truth
typical of the right-wing that now dominates Israel.  Look at his
claim that Breaking the Silence is "silencing people" by publishing
what Israeli soldiers say about what they saw and did in the
occupation.  The only adequate term is Orwell's term, "blackwhiting".


feed_id: 8dbf5bdec5048fe037b32006067423f8
title: Rejection of Israel's colonization
uri: Rejection-of-Israel-s-colonization
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Rejection_of_Israels_colonization%29

content:
<p>
States and businesses are
<a href="
http://972mag.com/the-end-of-normalcy-for-israeli-settlements/116422/">increasingly
rejecting Israel's colonization of Palestinian territory</a>.  Even
the US is criticizing it more than before.
<p>
A lot more is needed, but it is good to see progress.


feed_id: a211977a8081fdc5c4a41f257dcb8141
title: Ramallah under siege
uri: Ramallah-under-siege
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Ramallah_under_siege%29
content:
<p>
Israel has put Ramallah under siege, as a form of
<a href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770074">collective
punishment</a>.


feed_id: 6746d4c4f0df7d9edd26d0d2eedb765d
title: Misleading car pollution tests
uri: Misleading-car-pollution-tests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Misleading_car_pollution_tests%29

content:
<p>
Car companies
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/03/eu-parliament-gives-green-light-for-loopholes-in-car-emissions-tests">lobbied
the European Parliament</a> into accepting misleading pollution tests.


feed_id: 735efd55b19cd28903630e4618353f5e
title: Obama about to sign TPP
uri: Obama-about-to-sign-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Obama_about_to_sign_TPP%29
content:
<p>
Obama is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/03/toxic-trans-pacific-partnership-climate-disaster-0">just
about to sign the TPP</a>, which would be a climate disaster.
<p>
If he does not sign, he won't get his multimillion-dollar payoff.


feed_id: d5ac0ac74f0856c90783af5c910fce40
title: "Golden rice"
uri: Golden-rice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Golden_rice%29
content:
<p>
"Golden rice" is held back by
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/02/golden-rice-still-showing-promise-still-not-field-ready">practical
drawbacks</a>, such as poor yield in real farms, and it's not clear
how much it would help those who are nutritionally deprived.


feed_id: 81a038ac95e0410f3c85b35c4695f193
title: False convictions in the US
uri: False-convictions-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28False_convictions_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
In the US, convicts are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/03/record-number-people-exonerated-of-crimes-last-year">proved
innocent at the rate of three a week</a>.
<p>
Some of the false convictions were caused by dishonest thugs and
prosecutors.


feed_id: dd0fb42e12c891f96844c9118fc5225f
title: HK publisher kidnaped
uri: HK-publisher-kidnaped
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28HK_publisher_kidnaped%29
content:
<p>
Hong Kong publisher Li Xin was apparently
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/03/activist-li-xin-vanished-in-thailand--held-in-china-says-wife">kidnaped
in Thailand and taken to China</a>.


feed_id: 1ed7868ada6cdb12457249a587af84b2
title: Middle-wage jobs disappearing
uri: Middle-wage-jobs-disappearing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Middle-wage_jobs_disappearing%29

content:
<p>
In the US, middle-wage jobs are disappearing:
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/01/our-jobs-are-disappearing">new
technology creates only poverty-level jobs</a>.


feed_id: 444b5c7d1e6652b8885a99a59f9a0244
title: Flint Water Tragedy
uri: Flint-Water-Tragedy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28Flint_Water_Tragedy%29
content:
<p>
Michael Moore:
<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/30/michael-moore-flint/">10
Things They Won't Tell You</a> About the Flint Water Tragedy, But I
Will.


feed_id: 8e331510362ac0e204d3d315d028349d
title: FCC moves a step towards free software
uri: FCC-moves-a-step-towards-free-software
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#06_February_2016_%28FCC_moves_a_step_towards_free_software%29

content:
<p>
One of the FCC commissioners
<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/3026517/consumer-electronics/let-us-look-at-the-code-running-our-devices-says-federal-trade-commissioner.html">proposes
that net-connected devices should permit the users to study the source
code</a>.
<p>
This is not enough to make them
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>, or even
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">"open
source"</a>, but it would be a step towards that.
<p>
Unfortunately,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_December_2015_(TPP)">the
TPP would prohibit this</a>.


feed_id: db62a797ff9f73b09a6c673d641eedc0
title: Urgent: Gynnya McMillen
uri: 2016-02-07-Urgent-Gynnya-McMillen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Gynnya_McMillen%29
content:
<p>Everyone: ask how Gynnya McMillen <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/Gynnya/">died in jail.</a>


feed_id: 316a92ae2db4a1f63af7d8dcc23b9f9b
title: Urgent: fight pharma mergers
uri: 2016-02-07-Urgent-fight-pharma-mergers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_fight_pharma_mergers%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/FTC_pharma_monopolies">tell the FTC</a> to fight pharma mergers.


feed_id: 611f58bd13b7e43799b5d67dcd9c51bb
title: Urgent: reject the DARK Act
uri: 2016-02-07-Urgent-reject-the-DARK-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_reject_the_DARK_Act%29
content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2484">call on the Senate</a> to reject the DARK Act.


feed_id: bf1e05f4eb6783bd54bf4ae7ecb302c1
title: Urgent: Governor Snyder
uri: 2016-02-07-Urgent-Governor-Snyder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#6_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Governor_Snyder%29
content:
<p>Everyone: tell Governor Snyder <a href="http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/flint_water/">to resign.</a>


feed_id: 5f38fa6b9367df9e29e23db36242425d
title: US government snooping
uri: 2016-02-07-US-government-snooping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28US_government_snooping%29
content:
<p>
The FBI Says It Can't Disclose Its Records Because 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/fbi-says-it-cant-disclose-its-records-because-then-public-would-know-how-bureau">Then
the Public Would Know How the Bureau Works</a>.
<p>
It is spreading further.  The former head of the Department of
Homeland Security has applied that organization's approach in
monitoring faculty and students at the University of California.
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/technology/at-uc-berkeley-a-new-digital-privacy-protest.html">Professors
condemn this snooping</a>.
<p>
She refuses even to discuss what kinds of monitoring are being done.
Supposedly our own safety forbids giving us any say in how much we are
monitored.  That's a recipe for tyranny — in DHS or in UC.
<p>
Professors should set up their own local networks, and relay data in
and out of UC encrypted, to protect themselves and the students.
<p>
The article refers to security breakers as "hackers".  To 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">avoid giving
us hackers a bad name</a>, please use the term "crackers" for that.


feed_id: 8f9524954ba77e364070676b5755dea6
title: "Internet assistants"
uri: 2016-02-07-Internet-assistants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#5_February_2016_%28Internet_assistants%29
content:
<p>"Internet assistants" have a <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/28/10858728/internet-bundle-siri-alexa-google-now-cortana-bots">secondary danger,</a>  beyond just snooping on their users and being SaaSS <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">(Service as a Software Substitute).</a>
<p>It is amusing how someone can be blind to the dangers of these things
and worry only about a secondary danger.  The secondary danger
is real, and the article makes a valid point — but don't forget
the primary dangers.


feed_id: 2c33406424bcaa1bd0d0cb949c2b60e7
title: Israeli civics textbook
uri: 2016-02-07-Israeli-civics-textbook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Israeli_civics_textbook%29
content:
<p>Right-wing changes in an Israeli civics textbook have provoked <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4759515,00.html">protests</a> from teachers, and from one of the authors of the book.


feed_id: 14a553d13b811f1496672a42ec9acf57
title: Erroneous way of making decisions
uri: 2016-02-07-Erroneous-way-of-making-decisions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#4_February_2016_%28Erroneous_way_of_making_decisions%29

content:
<p>Flint <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/29/we-failed-flint-heres-how-avoid-making-same-mistakes-climate-policy">demonstrates</a> the erroneous way of making decisions that we must not repeat in regard to global heating.


feed_id: c4776cdecdc20e4dc7d5557916913b1e
title: Kurdish journalist trapped in Turkey
uri: Kurdish-journalist-trapped-in-Turkey
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Kurdish_journalist_trapped_in_Turkey%29

content:
<p>
A wounded Kurdish journalist is 
<a href="https://cpj.org/2016/02/cpj-concerned-for-safety-of-injured-journalist-tra.php">trapped
in Cizre by the Turkish curfew</a>, and can't get out, since the
Turkish army shoots people almost at random.


feed_id: f7a7a5ac13f887fe357a434b2c2a3b94
title: TPP
uri: 2016-02-07-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28TPP%29
content:
<p>
The Treacherous Plutocratic Poison 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/04/trans-pacific-partnership-threatens-our-liberty">threatens
our liberty</a>.


feed_id: 5c88fdac0902e865d1cd259ea8082750
title: Legionnaires' disease in Flint concealed
uri: Legionnaires-disease-in-Flint-concealed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Legionnaires_disease_in_Flint_concealed%29

content:
<p>
Snyder concealed knowledge of legionnaires' disease in Flint for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/04/governor-rick-snyder-urged-to-quit-flint-water-crisis-emails-legionnaires-outbreak">nearly
a year</a>, then lied about that.


feed_id: fb0b0cdaf73b2077e6aa097176be4686
title: "Millenials" organization
uri: Millenials-organization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Millenials_organization%29
content:
<p>
Yet another dishonest conservative political organization:
"Millennials Rising" is 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/04/millennials-rising-super-pac-is-95-funded-by-old-men/">funded
almost entirely by old men</a>.
<p>
Plutocrats feel no shame in lying to the masses.


feed_id: f1f4e2a2d30c4e57739a2092334a1c2d
title: Zika
uri: Zika
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Zika%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/zika-virus-blood-donations-who-advisory-brazil">Blood
transfusions can transmit Zika</a>, not surprisingly.


feed_id: 50cab108ee6d097f8a5bbd202abb788b
title: China admits holding HK publishers captive
uri: China-admits-holding-HK-publishers-captive
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28China_admits_holding_HK_publishers_captive%29

content:
<p>
China admits holding some 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/hong-kong-booksellers-china-police-causeway-bay-books">disappeared
Hong Kong book publishers</a> captive.


feed_id: 854994d408b9e2df34bf3bbb955718d9
title: UK's "everything is for sale" attitude
uri: UK-s-everything-is-for-sale-attitude
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28UKs_everything_is_for_sale_attitude%29

content:
<p>
The UK's "everything is for sale" attitude 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2016/feb/04/wentworth-row-eurosceptics-golf-club-uk-sovereignty">occasionally
bites even the wealthy</a>.


feed_id: 10d5d5f27d4ecaa4516ffa6af695d34a
title: Cruel bans on abortion
uri: Cruel-bans-on-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Cruel_bans_on_abortion%29
content:
<p>
The Catholic Church continues unbendingly to impose 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/concern-grows-over-catholic-churchs-silence-over-zika-virus-crisis-abortion-contraception">cruel
bans on abortion</a> where it can.
<p>
From articles I've seen, it seems that microcephaly may only appear
late in pregnancy.  Usually abortions are not done at that late stage,
but I think we should regard microcephalic fetuses as subhuman and
encourage abortion of them.


feed_id: 02ae8d8ae2b4548fd06e47f6100d8283
title: Low-paid workers that deliver newspapers
uri: Low-paid-workers-that-deliver-newspapers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Low-paid_workers_that_deliver_newspapers%29

content:
<p>
The US media opened an eye to the low-paid workers that deliver
newspapers when the Boston Globe switched to a distributor that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/04/how-media-hide-undocumented-workers">tried
to pay so little that it couldn't find workers</a>, and papers went
undelivered.


feed_id: ee0227ee6bd43308a7747932da439a3b
title: Urgent: Drop plans to prosecute Assange
uri: Urgent-Drop-plans-to-prosecute-Assange
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#8_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_plans_to_prosecute_Assange%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/respect-un-drop-us-espionage">call
on the US</a> to drop its plans to prosecute Julian Assange.


feed_id: e10b0f10502e187f8cc7cbd9b163ae29
title: Israeli bloggers ordered to submit
uri: Israeli-bloggers-ordered-to-submit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#8_February_2016_%28Israeli_bloggers_ordered_to_submit%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli army is ordering Israeli bloggers to get
<a href="http://www.dw.com/en/idf-censor-requires-bloggers-to-submit-posts-for-review/a-19031041">clearance
in advance for what they post</a>.  Yossi Gurvitz says he refuses.


feed_id: b429da384f84592145089286e3434c2d
title: Urgent: Reject colonies in Palestine
uri: Urgent-Reject-colonies-in-Palestine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#8_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_colonies_in_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-dont-interfere">tell
Congress</a> to reject the bill that would endorse Israel's colonies
in Palestine.


feed_id: 0fd29fe50ff977e6bf7e56d8028d3d4d
title: Urgent: Reject violation of Roe v Wade
uri: Urgent-Reject-violation-of-Roe-v-Wade
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#8_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_violation_of_Roe_v_Wade%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/fl_abortion_ban/">call
on Florida</a> to reject the law to imprison doctors for doing
abortions.
<p>
This law would violate Roe v Wade, and would presumably be rejected
by courts; but it is hard to have confidence in this nowadays.


feed_id: c8f10ede809d666c86f22cad35e80416
title: Urgent: Social Security
uri: 2016-02-08-Urgent-Social-Security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#8_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Social_Security%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-cutss/">call on
Democratic politicians</a> to reject the "Third Way"'s campaign to cut
Social Security.


feed_id: 35746155d5e3961a7f07f92faf22db15
title: Thugs
uri: 2016-02-08-Thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#8_February_2016_%28Thugs%29
content:
<p>US cities 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/07/leaked-police-files-contain-guarantees-disciplinary-records-will-be-kept-secret">made 
agreements with thug unions</a>
 promising to destroy records
on complaints against thugs and investigations of thugs.
They also impede investigations of complaints against thugs.</p>


feed_id: c5bbaf26dd3d07a6ac7bd1b08409867c
title: Nazis' final solution
uri: Nazis-final-solution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#8_February_2016_%28Nazis_final_solution%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/07/final-solution-fate-jews-david-cesarani-review">How
and why</a> did the Nazis murder 6 million Jews?  And what did the
German people know about it?  A new book studies this in depth.
</p>


feed_id: 23dc37e948f708e1b120368660748b4c
title: Big Data
uri: Big-Data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#8_February_2016_%28Big_Data%29
content:
<p>German Competition Watchdog 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-data-competition-idUSKCN0VF0KV">Wants</a>
'Big Data' Hoards Considered in Merger Probes.
</p>
<p>This can help limit the power companies get from their data hoards,
but we need to do more.  We should make sure no company can accumulate
so much.</p>


feed_id: 36844c3e346cc786cb2fed039b713620
title: Amazon "independent contractors"
uri: Amazon-independent-contractors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Amazon_independent_contractors%29

content:
<p>
Amazon pays Mechanical Turk workers 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-unknown-poorly-paid-labor-force-powering-academic-research">as
little as 2 dollars an hour</a>, making the excuse that they are
"independent contractors".


feed_id: f198b275d0cd49173ae8c50abe297aa3
title: Clinton says she's a progressive
uri: Clinton-says-she-s-a-progressive
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Clinton_says_shes_a_progressive%29

content:
<p>
Hillary Clinton Turns Stand-Up Comic: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/04/hillary-clinton-turns-stand-comic-im-progressive-who-gets-things-done">"I'm
a Progressive Who Gets Things Done"</a>.
<p>
Sure she gets things done, but are they progressive?


feed_id: fd55c10ab800f1d51476d8dd8c3a54e4
title: Conservative 'Dark Money'
uri: Conservative-Dark-Money
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Conservative_Dark_Money%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/04/conservative-playbook-keeping-dark-money-dark">The
Conservative Playbook for Keeping 'Dark Money' Dark</a>.


feed_id: bb191302018d85bdc83a65c88eab573a
title: Organic farming yields
uri: Organic-farming-yields
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Organic_farming_yields%29
content:
<p>
Studies show that organic farming's yields are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/04/feed-world-tap-organics-potential-study">enough
to feed the world</a>.
<p>
We would save a tremendous amount on pesticides.


feed_id: 8e8336c127c315e623cdc465a29007a5
title: PISSI's manpower
uri: PISSI-s-manpower
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28PISSIs_manpower%29
content:
<p>
PISSI's manpower in Syria and Iraq is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/05/islamic-state-losing-recruits-to-casualties-and-desertions-says-washington">said
to be decreasing significantly</a>, but maybe its supporters are going
to Libya instead.


feed_id: a9e843a97829b3c1e61394680c8ed2b6
title: Private accounts used for classified emails
uri: Private-accounts-used-for-classified-emails
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Private_accounts_used_for_classified_emails%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/04/colin-powell-condoleezza-rice-private-email-accounts-classified-hillary-clinton">Colin
Powell And Condoleezza Rice Used Private Accounts for Classified
Emails</a> (as did Clinton afterward).
<p>
I think it was a bad practice, but the reason why I won't vote
for Clinton is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_November_2013_(Right-wing_Democrats)">her 
support for plutocracy</a>.  It took her until a few months ago to
oppose the TPP, and I am
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#8_October_2015_(Clinton_doubts_the_TPP)">not
confident she really means it</a>.


feed_id: b01cf7fcf5a50cab407098e90d5bd9ba
title: Thai thugs raid bridge club
uri: Thai-thugs-raid-bridge-club
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Thai_thugs_raid_bridge_club%29
content:
<p>
Thai thugs raided a bridge club in Pattaya, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/05/how-trumped-up-charges-led-thai-police-to-raid-expat-bridge-club">based
on false information</a>.


feed_id: f4f38078603179fe98aba41ab3ad57b6
title: Linking to copyrighted pages
uri: Linking-to-copyrighted-pages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Linking_to_copyrighted_pages%29
content:
<p>
The European Union's Court of Justice is 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/europes-top-court-mulls-legality-of-hyperlinks-shockwaves-could-be-huge-for-web-users/">considering
a case about whether you have a right to make a link to a copyrighted
page</a>.
<p>
Please don't refer to pages as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#22%20April%202009%20(Pirate%20Bay)">"content"</a>.
That term disparages the works that are posted on the web.


feed_id: 6a6864d117d3323de8f7f16109b0b117
title: Arrested for refusing to remove crosses
uri: Arrested-for-refusing-to-remove-crosses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Arrested_for_refusing_to_remove_crosses%29

content:
<p>China arrested the leader of a Christian church because he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/07/china-arrests-protestant-church-leader-who-opposed-removal-of-crosses">
opposed commands to remove crosses</a>.
</p>
<p>I don't object to laws about how loudly churches can advertise
publicly, but enforcing those laws doesn't require or excuse
arresting someone for opposing the laws.</p>


feed_id: 1eb30e74fedafb4cc7a4b4dcb1225513
title: Trump promises to reinstitute torture
uri: Trump-promises-to-reinstitute-torture
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Trump_promises_to_reinstitute_torture%29

content:
<p>Trump promised to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/06/donald-trump-waterboarding-republican-debate-torture">
reinstitute torture</a>
 if he is elected president —
waterboarding and worse.
</p>
<p>After World War II, the US executed Japanese officers responsible for
using waterboarding American prisoners of war.  Torture is wrong no
matter who does it.</p>
<p>Even a subhuman monster like Trump does not deserve to be tortured.
Imprisoned, yes, if he does what he promises.  The same for Cruz.</p>


feed_id: b90f9a8f247c21eb3991b5cae6957e96
title: Shaming of women who don't hide breasts
uri: Shaming-of-women-who-don-t-hide-breasts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Shaming_of_women_who_don%27t_hide_breasts%29

content:
<p>People continue to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/07/bid-to-shame-susan-sarandon-victorian-twitter-storm">
publicly harass women</a>
 who don't hide their breasts well enough.
</p>
<p>We would all be better off if women — all women, not just
attractive
women — felt no compulsion to cover their breasts.  The taboo on
them
provokes exaggerated desire for them, this keeps men and women at
a
distance, and they understand each other less.</p>
<p>To see the bad effects of such taboos, look at an example that has
more of them: Arab culture.</p>


feed_id: 0c5852b3ed4af113bb29cd42dcdbbdb8
title: Tories to kick people out of state housing
uri: Tories-to-kick-people-out-of-state-housing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Tories_to_kick_people_out_of_state_housing%29

content:
<p>The Tories will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/06/pay-stay-rules-families-council-homes-private-sector-rent">
kick tens of thousands of working British families out</a>
 of state housing to make room for the poorest and disabled.
</p>
<p>This responds to the shortage of housing which was created by Tory
policies such as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2013-jan-apr.html#17_April_2013_(Thatcher%27s_mean_legacy)">
selling state apartments</a>
 to their occupants,
together with failing to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2015-jul-oct.html#24_October_2015_(Housing_for_the_poor_and_homeless_in_UK)">
properly tax expensive properties</a>
 that nobody lives in.
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2014-sep-dec.html#30_December_2014_(Feeding_the_homeless_in_London)">
Banning squatting</a>
 contributed too.</p>
<p>Many of these families will end up on the street, or in a remote
place from which they reach their jobs any more.</p>


feed_id: 5ff7ff35a271bda416c10e4ba406e131
title: Provisional president in Haiti
uri: Provisional-president-in-Haiti
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Provisional_president_in_Haiti%29

content:
<p>Someone has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/06/haiti-leaders-move-to-install-provisional-government">
decided to elect a provisional president</a>
 in Haiti to run a new election.
</p>
<p>It is not clear from this article whether the opposition agrees to
this plan.</p>


feed_id: 85ea2473738af49123e095db878aac19
title: Clinton will not rule out social security cuts
uri: Clinton-will-not-rule-out-social-security-cuts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Clinton_will_not_rule_out_social_security_cuts%29

content:
<p>Clinton has "no plan" to cut Social Security but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/05/huff-post-hillary-clinton-refuses-rule-out-any-and-all-benefit-cuts-social">
refuses to rule it out</a>.
</p>


feed_id: a112c18133538fd5253443d4bc990f94
title: Rubio pretends he was never a lobbyist
uri: Rubio-pretends-he-was-never-a-lobbyist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Rubio_pretends_he_was_never_a_lobbyist%29

content:
<p>Marco Rubio is 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/4/1479913/-Marco-Rubio-s-campaign-is-mystified-by-the-paper-trail-saying-he-was-a-lobbyist?detail=email">
trying to pretend</a>
 he was never a lobbyist.
</p>


feed_id: c23844cc94bc4f9096f2f391418cf951
title: Public health impact of domestic violence
uri: Public-health-impact-of-domestic-violence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Public_health_impact_of_domestic_violence%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/06/public-health-impact-domestic-violence">
The Public Health Impact of Domestic Violence.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 98f5199ae0dba4360468cc2f18d97d5b
title: WiFi for homeless shut in war on sharing
uri: WiFi-for-homeless-shut-in-war-on-sharing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28WiFi_for_homeless_shut_in_war_on_sharing%29

content:
<p>A homeless people's charity had to 
<a href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/02/05/homeless-stripped-of-free-wi-fi-due-to-illegal-downloaders/">
shut its WiFi network</a>
 because its ISP was going to fine it for forbidden file-sharing.
</p>
<p>More casualties of the war on sharing.</p>


feed_id: b3e4bf15c8f3528d7cc2b3b81942f3f3
title: 9-year-old rape victim denied treatment
uri: 9-year-old-rape-victim-denied-treatment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%289-year-old_rape_victim_denied_treatment%29

content:
<p>A 9-year-old Dalit child was raped, and the surgeon at the local
hospital 
<a href="http://www.nyoooz.com/agra/346144/doc-turns-away-bleeding-minor-dalit-rape-victim">
refused to allow her to be admitted</a>
 and treated.
</p>
<p>In the US, patients are denied treatment for money.
In India, it's for caste.</p>


feed_id: e07bb726c101fd9cc839a12edd9d05ba
title: Privatization of Terrorism Blacklists
uri: Privatization-of-Terrorism-Blacklists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Privatization_of_Terrorism_Blacklists%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/privatization-terrorism-blacklists-will-damage-innocent-lives">
The Privatization of Terrorism Blacklists Will Damage Innocent
Lives.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 98f55affa647808cb6cda809bc74bd22
title: Tory planned smear campaign against charities
uri: Tory-planned-smear-campaign-against-charities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Tory_planned_smear_campaign_against_charities%29

content:
<p>A Tory official 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/05/local-campaigners-tory-councillor-plot-smear-portsmouth">
planned a smear campaign</a>
 against organizations that help
women and victims of domestic violence.  By accident he sent the plans
to his targets.  
</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the government has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/05/the-uks-only-lgbt-domestic-violence-charity-to-close">
eliminated the funds</a>
 for the main organization that helps LGBT victims of domestic violence.
</p>
<p>The Tories are 
<a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">
lower than vermin</a>.
</p>


feed_id: ac3121af99d7c89b68e660e1dc77d286
title: UN: Assange's rights violated by UK and Sweden
uri: UN-Assange-s-rights-violated-by-UK-and-Sweden
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28UN%3A_Assange%27s_rights_violated_by_UK_and_Sweden%29

content:
<p>A UN Human Rights panel has ruled that the UK and Sweden have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/05/julian-assange-un-panel-uk-sweden-deprivation-of-liberty">
violated Julian Assange's human rights</a>
 by keeping him bottled up in the Ecuadorian embassy.
</p>
<p>The UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/05/julian-assange-sweet-victory-soured-by-british-and-swedish-rejection">
does not care</a>,
 though.
</p>


feed_id: 956dbdc13d58c6b4336dc31301ae9cc5
title: GPS tracking bad for children's development
uri: GPS-tracking-bad-for-children-s-development
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28GPS_tracking_bad_for_children%27s_development%29

content:
<p>Tracking children with GPS is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/feb/05/big-mother-gps-tracking-technology-threat-privacy-childhood">
bad for their mental development</a>
 (as well as their privacy).
It "protects" them against a danger of kidnaping by strangers
which is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2015-jan-apr.html#07_March_2015_(Kidnaping_by_strangers_extremely_rare)">
so rare</a>
 it's not even worth thinking about.
</p>9


feed_id: d405bbdce844649a2b66fe8f241d013c
title: EU no longer serves the people
uri: EU-no-longer-serves-the-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28EU_no_longer_serves_the_people%29

content:
<p>Varoufakis: The EU 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/05/eu-no-longer-serves-people-europe-diem25">
no longer serves the people</a>
 — democracy demands a new beginning.
</p>
<p>I've said the same thing for 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/notes/2005-jan-apr.html#05%20April%202005%20(The%20new%20EU%20Constitution%20is%20undemocratic)">
ten years</a>.
</p>


feed_id: e2ff62a6a2e2daae6d4c621ee563c344
title: Urgent: tell Congress to reject bill to protect bankers
uri: Urgent-tell-Congress-to-reject-bill-to-protect-bankers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#7_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Congress_to_reject_bill_to_protect_bankers%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to 
<a href="http://my.elizabethwarren.com/page/s/donthelpthebandits">
reject the Republican bill</a>
 to make it harder to prosecute bank fraud.
</p>
<p>Republicans feel emboldened to act more and more blatantly
to allow the rich to trample everyone else.</p>


feed_id: ed9d2c2530d4dac6a7854807d801f54e
title: Very urgent: Phone your congresscritter
uri: Very-urgent-Phone-your-congresscritter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#8_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Phone_your_congresscritter%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 877-852-4710
and say to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#07_November_2015_(Text_of_the_TPP)">oppose 
the TPP</a>.


feed_id: add7fef9a655bda5f8a00ffbc9dc29d9
title: Motor boat noise makes fish vulnerable
uri: Motor-boat-noise-makes-fish-vulnerable
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Motor_boat_noise_makes_fish_vulnerable%29

content:
<p>
Noise from motor boats makes 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/05/motor-boat-noise-making-small-fish-easier-to-prey-on-reef-study-finds">small
fish more vulnerable to predators</a>.


feed_id: c34902132c1df6b7febc482885e36fec
title: Speech violently shut down in London
uri: Speech-violently-shut-down-in-London
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Speech_violently_shut_down_in_London%29

content:
<p>
An Israeli who supports two-state peace spoke in London; Palestinians
calling for the elimination of Israel 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/05/protesters-silencing-speakers-israeli-palestinian-problem-extremists-kings-college-london">violently
shut down his speech</a>.
<p>
I am disappointed that he endorses the idea that speech can be banned
because it is "hate speech".


feed_id: 0e816889695c1a939ebcd4751cb05f3f
title: "Economic benefits" of Super Bowl overestimated
uri: Economic-benefits-of-Super-Bowl-overestimated
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Economic_benefits_of_Super_Bowl_overestimated%29

content:
<p>
The Super Bowl (football championship game) pretends to offer the host city
a lot of "economic benefits", but the are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/02/super-bowl-cost-benefits-economics">systematically
overestimated</a>.  (And they go mainly to some businesses, not to the
people in general.)


feed_id: 56cabf4931ca747bc7dad241beb06ca2
title: Churches in Australia to offer refugees sanctuary
uri: Churches-in-Australia-to-offer-refugees-sanctuary
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Churches_in_Australia_to_offer_refugees_sanctuary%29

content:
<p>
Churches in Australia will offer sanctuary to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/04/churches-offer-sanctuary-to-asylum-seekers-facing-deportation-to-nauru">refugees
threatened with being sent to Nauru</a>.


feed_id: 0e2a620e1c298a20fb2ad271e0767bfb
title: Young Sanders supporters
uri: Young-Sanders-supporters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Young_Sanders_supporters%29
content:
<p>
Younger women that support Sanders 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/07/young-women-sanders-not-be-underestimated">take
offense at Gloria Steinem's claim that they are doing it to get
attention from men</a>.
<p>
She should know better than to belittle women generally like that.


feed_id: 074ae26e03e0e93e170bf7fa652a27fb
title: Fees for Clintons' speeches
uri: Fees-for-Clintons-speeches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#08_February_2016_%28Fees_for_Clintons_speeches%29
content:
<p>
The Clintons were paid
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/06/no-artful-smear-clintons-paid-153-million-big-banks-analysis-shows">over
$150 million dollars</a> for their speeches, but Clinton said that
that Sanders was "smearing" her by talking about this.


feed_id: 5c34c080d2c620f5208ae7a2c2a7512d
title: India's gov't opposing science
uri: India-s-gov-t-opposing-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#08_February_2016_%28Indias_govt_opposing_science%29
content:
<p>
India's government is opposing science and rationality, and
<a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/india-s-government-is-becoming-increasingly-antiscience/">meddling
in university governance</a>.


feed_id: cfa7ec7980078b2e3dd418d32f4923a2
title: Campaign contributions via lobbyists
uri: Campaign-contributions-via-lobbyists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#08_February_2016_%28Campaign_contributions_via_lobbyists%29

content:
<p>
Clinton calls for
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/hillary-calls-for-lobbyist-shaming-new-hampshire">shaming
lobbyists</a>.  How about shaming candidates that accept campaign
contributions via lobbyists?


feed_id: dde2bc99f977f653596380db07791240
title: Sanders and Clinton tied
uri: Sanders-and-Clinton-tied
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#08_February_2016_%28Sanders_and_Clinton_tied%29
content:
<p>
A poll finds Sanders and Clinton
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/05/poll-shows-clinton-sanders-virtual-tie-dems-nationwide-feel-bern">tied
nationally</a>.


feed_id: ea1be731a8f195f2d8c5b915ff45e6e8
title: Risking World War III in Syria
uri: Risking-World-War-III-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#08_February_2016_%28Risking_World_War_III_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/07/risking-world-war-iii-syria">Risking
World War III in Syria</a>.  The article says that Turkey is preparing
to invade Syria to fight the Kurds there.


feed_id: 47b81975b6314e5ca0f2c4e2aec6a243
title: Bernie Sanders
uri: 2016-02-09-Bernie-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#08_February_2016_%28Bernie_Sanders%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/06/bernie-sanders-lacks-foreign-policy-experience-also-his-rivals-errors">Bernie
Sanders Lacks Foreign Policy Experience, But Also His Rivals'
Errors</a>.
<p>
Voting for the Iraq war was not a mere error.  It demonstrated either
grossly bad judgment or a lack of courage to resist the political
pressure.
<p>
Progressive elected leaders, who have no experience in military
policy, sometimes feel they don't dare say no to militarists.  But
those militarists are part of the corporate machine that Sanders has
stood against for decades, and I think he can and will face down the
military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about.


feed_id: 236a44225abe5c3340e8065f795a6a33
title: Consumers' free speech
uri: Consumers-free-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Consumers_free_speech%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/maryland-bill-would-protect-consumers-free-speech-bad-contracts-hb-131">Maryland
Bill Would Protect Consumers' Free Speech from Bad Contracts</a>.
<p>
It is too bad that the article uses the incoherent term "intellectual
property".  As usual, 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">that term is a
gratuitous overgeneralization</a>, since in fact the law they try to
do this with is copyright law.  Writing "intellectual property"
instead of "copyright" drags in several irrelevant legal issues
including trademarks, patents, design patents, IC mask monopolies,
trade secrets and publicity rights.


feed_id: ccb638a0b7c40a89445a341aae1a580c
title: Children in immigration prison
uri: Children-in-immigration-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Children_in_immigration_prison%29

content:
<p>
Children should not be sent to immigration prison.  It 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/08/immigration-detention-not-the-right-place-for-children-border-forces-chief-doctor">can
damage them permanently</a>.


feed_id: 316b27aae40fdab334d497a706186565
title: Allowing UK to order searches and wiretaps in US
uri: Allowing-UK-to-order-searches-and-wiretaps-in-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Allowing_UK_to_order_searches_and_wiretaps_in_US%29

content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-british-want-to-come-to-america--with-wiretap-orders-and-search-warrants/2016/02/04/b351ce9e-ca86-11e5-a7b2-5a2f824b02c9_story.html">wants
to allow UK officials to order searches and wiretaps in the US</a>.
<p>
This is too dangerous.  A search in the US should always require
approval of a US court, and likewise for every other country.
<p>
It must be possible to speed up international assistance
without removing crucial safeguards.


feed_id: 5b780e9ce906b38b2f402259ed4d2f5a
title: Turkey blocks Syrians fleeing Aleppo
uri: Turkey-blocks-Syrians-fleeing-Aleppo
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Turkey_blocks_Syrians_fleeing_Aleppo%29

content:
<p>
Syrians fleeing Aleppo are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/07/tens-of-thousands-of-syrians-remain-stranded-at-the-turkish-border">blocked
at the border of Turkey</a>.  They are getting some supplies there.


feed_id: 650eb5cc9318abc138657960da76c8ff
title: Urgent: Planned Parenthood
uri: 2016-02-09-Urgent-Planned-Parenthood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Planned_Parenthood%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/160204_kasich/">call
on Ohio Governor Kasich</a> to veto the bill to defund Planned
Parenthood.


feed_id: 43550d7b11b40626ef404aeab02a2744
title: Urgent: Social Security
uri: 2016-02-09-Urgent-Social-Security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Social_Security%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Clinton to 
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/NoSocialSecurityCuts2016/">promise
not to cut Social Security</a>.


feed_id: 58368a6eb5ba3c80342e392a1ff2651a
title: Urgent: Call on Governor Snyder to testify
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Governor-Snyder-to-testify
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Governor_Snyder_to_testify%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/snyder_flint_congress/">Call
on Governor Snyder</a> to testify to Congress about Flint's water.


feed_id: e5c6959de5ed116a73b37c2901183c21
title: Collapse of the world's forests
uri: Collapse-of-the-world-s-forests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28Collapse_of_the_worlds_forests%29

content:
<p>
The World's Forests Will Collapse 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/07/worlds-forests-will-collapse-if-we-dont-learn-say-no">if
we Don't Learn to Say 'No'</a>.


feed_id: b9d3a75e2ee5fd40ccf2da216f856ea2
title: UK's tax collection office
uri: UK-s-tax-collection-office
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28UKs_tax_collection_office%29
content:
<p>
The UK's tax collection office goes after 1000 alleged tax evaders per
year, a handful, and they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/07/hmrc-tax-avoidance-dispatches-greg-wise-channel-4">typically
choose working people rather than the rich</a>.


feed_id: 1594eb14b2af8b5f9aee1e764e9e50c8
title: HSBC fined for fraudulent foreclosures
uri: HSBC-fined-for-fraudulent-foreclosures
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#09_February_2016_%28HSBC_fined_for_fraudulent_foreclosures%29

content:
<p>
HSBC was fined half a billion dollars for fraudulent foreclosures, but
that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/05/hsbc-fined-morgage-practices-financial-crisis">does
not include sufficient compensation for all the victims</a>.  And
nobody was jailed for this.


feed_id: 0496720dda74612287c46aa6081f48d0
title: UN condemns Assad, PISSI and al-Nusra
uri: UN-condemns-Assad-PISSI-and-al-Nusra
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28UN_condemns_Assad%2C_PISSI_and_al-Nusra%29

content:
<p>
A UN panel accuses Assad of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/un-report-syrian-government-actions-amount-to-extermination-crime-humanity">massive
killing of civilians in Syria</a>.  It also condemns PISSI and
al-Nusra for war crimes.


feed_id: 141c730998e084d401a172e7eb0ea8ff
title: India rejects Facebook proposal
uri: India-rejects-Facebook-proposal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28India_rejects_Facebook_proposal%29

content:
<p>
India has rejected Facebook's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/08/india-facebook-free-basics-net-neutrality-row">proposal
to trash network neutrality</a>.


feed_id: a91b2469a078b2f9c08fba776dcaeeac
title: EU wants to criminalize helpers
uri: EU-wants-to-criminalize-helpers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28EU_wants_to_criminalize_helpers%29

content:
<p>
The European Union 
<a href="http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jan/eu-med-crisis-criminalising-civil-society.htm">wants
to criminalize all those who help refugees</a>, falsely calling the
helpers "traffickers" or "people smugglers".


feed_id: 535880525a16639e9039637a6124df40
title: Phone tracking
uri: Phone-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Phone_tracking%29
content:
<p>
Maryland Attorney General: If You Don't Want To Be Tracked, 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/maryland-attorney-general-if-you-dont-want-to-be-tracked-turn-off-your-phone">Turn
Off Your Phone</a>.
<p>
Of course, we can do so.  We can even refuse to have a mobile phone,
and that is what I do.  But that is only a last recourse, and it
shouldn't be necessary.


feed_id: c6e709646d6ed8f001d4f73ca03493cc
title: Starting council meetings with prayer
uri: Starting-council-meetings-with-prayer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Starting_council_meetings_with_prayer%29

content:
<p>
Phoenix used to start its council meetings with a prayer; then the
Satanic Temple said it wanted a turn to lead the prayer.  The council
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/02/05/how-the-satanic-temple-forced-phoenix-lawmakers-to-ban-public-prayer/">voted
to cease starting meetings with prayers</a>.
<p>
Bravo for the Satanic Temple.  It is a clever 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hack</a>.


feed_id: 3177b951508134530a55d1334978d6ee
title: Trauma of living in detention as a child
uri: Trauma-of-living-in-detention-as-a-child
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Trauma_of_living_in_detention_as_a_child%29

content:
<p>
"Children are not little adults.  The 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/08/children-are-not-little-adults-the-trauma-of-living-in-detention-could-last-forever'>trauma
of living in detention</a> could last forever."


feed_id: 2faa53b485aaa844801142568bb764c0
title: NOAA temperature measuring stations
uri: NOAA-temperature-measuring-stations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28NOAA_temperature_measuring_stations%29

content:
<p>
The NOAA set up temperature measuring stations in places in the US
with little human activity, to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/feb/08/no-climate-conspiracy-noaa-temperature-adjustments-bring-data-closer-to-pristine">calibrate
the temperature measurements from cities</a>.  It turns out that
adjustments to the latter, which compensate for changes in local
conditions, do a good job of it.


feed_id: ca0721a3b494d1ae975e13993c89da0c
title: Georgia considers making insults a crime
uri: Georgia-considers-making-insults-a-crime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Georgia_considers_making_insults_a_crime%29

content:
<p>
Georgia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/georgia-blasphemy-bill-outlaw-religious-insults">considering
a bill to make insulting religion a crime</a>.
<p>
This is part of a worldwide push for more censorship.  People are
entitled to the right to insult any person, any group, any practice,
any institution, and any belief.


feed_id: 703bb3ec99ec4c88ea6f56f08f2962be
title: Proposed law against "swatting"
uri: Proposed-law-against-swatting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Proposed_law_against_swatting%29
content:
<p>
US Representative Clark 
<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/02/01/cops-swarm-rep-katherine-clark-melrose-home-after-apparent-hoax/yqEpcpWmKtN6bOOAj8FZXJ/story.html">proposed
a law against "swatting", a false report designed to send a SWAT team
to someone's home, and someone responded by swatting her.
<p>
I support this goal, but I have doubts about the proposed bill.  First
of all, prosecuting false reports will only be possible when the
author of the report can be identified.  Aren't most of these reports
anonymous?
<p>
Second, the bill is much broader, and makes any false emergency report
a crime.


feed_id: 2f9356ae68106e0db0d3559c4228c053
title: Google to promote views opposed to extremism
uri: Google-to-promote-views-opposed-to-extremism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Google_to_promote_views_opposed_to_extremism%29

content:
<p>
Google plans to promote views opposed to Islamist extremism, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/02/google-pilot-extremist-anti-radicalisation-information">without
censoring the extremism itself</a>.


feed_id: cb67613c53e409f39799f819ed410d54
title: Facial recognition software used by Super Bowl
uri: Facial-recognition-software-used-by-Super-Bowl
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Facial_recognition_software_used_by_Super_Bowl%29

content:
<p>
That Time the Super Bowl 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/that-time-the-super-bowl-secretly-used-facial-recognition-software-on-fans">Secretly
Used Facial Recognition Software on Fans</a>.


feed_id: 158846e4504f919525a75c54bae73162
title: "Gay Cures"
uri: Gay-Cures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Gay_Cures%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/feb/09/electrocution-and-submersion-gay-cures-and-the-fight-to-end-them">Electrocution,
Rape And Submersion</a>: 'Gay Cures' And the Fight to End Them.


feed_id: 3b211128e90c5504249b8ea8370a4828
title: Sodomy now a felony in Michigan
uri: Sodomy-now-a-felony-in-Michigan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Sodomy_now_a_felony_in_Michigan%29

content:
<p>
Just to show their bigotry, Republicans in the Michigan senate 
<a href="http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/johnwright/michigan_senate_passes_bill_saying_sodomy_is_a_felony">passed
an unconstitutional bill to make sodomy a felony</a>.


feed_id: bc73b9eb9511094da16bf3b731b724d9
title: Record year for US wildfires
uri: Record-year-for-US-wildfires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Record_year_for_US_wildfires%29
content:
<p>
2015 set a record for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/us-forest-service-stretched-after-wildfires-record-year-climate-change">wildfires
in the US</a>.  This year will be worse.


feed_id: 8571aae845c4a7468518f3876ea28dd8
title: Humanity not prepared for global pandemic
uri: Humanity-not-prepared-for-global-pandemic
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Humanity_not_prepared_for_global_pandemic%29

content:
<p>
The UN says humanity has made 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/08/millions-could-die-as-world-unprepared-for-pandemics-says-un">insufficient
preparations</a> to deal with a global pandemic.
<p>
This does not surprise me, because governments allocate to public
health the least they can get away with under normal circumstances.
By the time they see a need for more, it takes too long to ramp up.


feed_id: 36a7c8a1a8f3658b370b8ae73b41c0e4
title: Sea-level rise
uri: 2016-02-10-Sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Sea-level_rise%29
content:
<p>
Sea-level rise caused by global heating will continue for thousands of
years and ultimately go up 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/08/sea-level-rise-could-last-twice-as-long-as-human-history">25
meters</a>.  New York, London, Cairo and Shanghai will all be
submerged.


feed_id: 9565467888547ac1af5c5bf5cc8712f6
title: Lobbyists close to Clinton
uri: Lobbyists-close-to-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Lobbyists_close_to_Clinton%29
content:
<p>
Clinton is close to lobbyists who 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/08/hrc-inner-circle-lobbyists/">worked
against Obama's medical care law and against reform of banking</a>.


feed_id: 32c49f4153edcc7b9adbb782dbcaebb5
title: Public libraries in danger
uri: Public-libraries-in-danger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Public_libraries_in_danger%29
content:
<p>
Public libraries offered poor children a calm place to study and a
place to learn to love reading.  Now they are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/feb/08/libraries-saved-me-now-they-need-rescuing">in
danger</a>.
<p>
The idea that talented people make the world a better place has no
traction among plutocrats.  They care only about their own children's
future; most of the population is of no use to them any more and might
as well die young.


feed_id: e4b5e48110bfa62441c606a19d10db5a
title: Banning discussion of Plato
uri: Banning-discussion-of-Plato
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Banning_discussion_of_Plato%29
content:
<p>
The UK's 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/feb/07/anti-terror-laws-academic-debate-oxford-college-ken-macdonald-prevent-strategy-university">campaign
to prevent radicalization in universities</a> would ban discussion of
Plato.


feed_id: 16ae5c3b2ad1687f60b229fb6ce29a9a
title: "Debate" about TPP did not occur
uri: Debate-about-TPP-did-not-occur
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Debate_about_TPP_did_not_occur%29

content:
<p>
There was a 90-day delay in signing the TPP, supposedly to permit
"debate" which 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160203/15151133510/countries-sign-tpp-whatever-happened-to-debate-we-were-promised-before-signing.shtml">did
not occur at all</a>.


feed_id: a319efed3911af2e341ad0b34ecd4d54
title: Proposal to limit use of cash in Germany
uri: Proposal-to-limit-use-of-cash-in-Germany
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Proposal_to_limit_use_of_cash_in_Germany%29

content:
<p>
Germans are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/german-plan-prohibit-large-5000-cash-transactions-fierce-resistance">fiercely
resisting</a> a proposal to limit the use of cash.


feed_id: 9333152032d467eae5bed0b62fe12488
title: Feel the Bern in Bern
uri: Feel-the-Bern-in-Bern
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Feel_the_Bern_in_Bern%29
content:
<p>
<a
href="https://stallman.org/photos/switzerland/bern/feel-the-bern/index.html">Feel
the Bern in Bern</a>


feed_id: 1b4954af6f9fe536ea87bc2fae602097
title: Proposed law against "swatting"
uri: 2016-02-10-Proposed-law-against-swatting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#9_February_2016_%28Proposed_law_against_swatting%29
content:
<p>
US Representative Clark 
<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/02/01/cops-swarm-rep-katherine-clark-melrose-home-after-apparent-hoax/yqEpcpWmKtN6bOOAj8FZXJ/story.html">proposed
a law against "swatting"</a>, a false report designed to send a SWAT team
to someone's home, and someone responded by swatting her.
<p>
I support this goal, but I have doubts about the proposed bill.  First
of all, prosecuting false reports will only be possible when the
author of the report can be identified.  Aren't most of these reports
anonymous?
<p>
Second, the bill is much broader, and makes any false emergency report
a crime.


feed_id: e0fd36aec7ba7c63b0fdad56b8f432e8
title: Urgent: End US support for Salafi Arabia
uri: Urgent-End-US-support-for-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_End_US_support_for_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stand-with-chrismurphyct">call
for an end to US support</a> for Salafi Arabia's war in Yemen.


feed_id: 180d37fe9bbc41fea13d92dabbba3803
title: Urgent: Investigate death in jail
uri: Urgent-Investigate-death-in-jail
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_death_in_jail%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://actnow.io/eEicpaR">call on Attorney General Lynch</a>
to investigate the death in jail of Ahjah Dixon.


feed_id: 7acf65a43e13ff8ca881017acd886581
title: Urgent: Tell Clinton to stop lying
uri: Urgent-Tell-Clinton-to-stop-lying
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Clinton_to_stop_lying%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-hillary/">Tell
Clinton</a>, stop lying about your vote for the war in Iraq.


feed_id: 7964af9ba2c45a65078c85f6e13aaf1b
title: Snooping with internet-connected "things"
uri: Snooping-with-internet-connected-things
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Snooping_with_internet-connected_things%29

content:
<p>
Clapper acknowledged that it might use internet-connected "things" in
your home 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/09/internet-of-things-smart-home-devices-government-surveillance-james-clapper">to
snoop on you</a>.


feed_id: 884b8f941912e3a0c8da67c963ac562f
title: Privatization of water in NJ
uri: Privatization-of-water-in-NJ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Privatization_of_water_in_NJ%29
content:
<p>
Chris Christie and the New Jersey legislature just 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/05/1480426/-Chris-Christie-just-privatized-New-Jersey-s-water-Good-luck-with-that-New-Jersey">authorized
privatization of people's water without their approval</a>.


feed_id: 12dcbc4a1c3944c3aba05fb4ec7a9745
title: Treating drug overdoses like murder
uri: Treating-drug-overdoses-like-murder
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Treating_drug_overdoses_like_murder%29

content:
<p>
New Hampshire 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/09/new-hampshire-heroin-fentanyl-drug-dealers-murder-charges">plans
to charge drug dealers with murder</a> when someone dies from an
overdose or contamination.
<p>
This won't deter anyone from selling drugs, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/09/guns-car-crashes-drugs-us-male-life-expectancy">won't
avoid overdoses</a>.  It is just a way to look tough.
<p>
Dangerous drugs are used all around the world.  Perhaps the laws and
medical systems of some other countries make overdoses less likely, or
less likely to be fatal.
<p>
Giving addicts a legal way to get a fix, with assured strength and no
toxic additives, could really prevent these problems from happening.
A better medical system might avoid deaths in some cases.  Deaths from
guns, cars and drugs are significant causes of death for US males,
reducing life expectancy by a whole year, compared with some other
countries.


feed_id: 65e6dc9023462e438485d3f6076b1fac
title: US wars since 2001
uri: US-wars-since-2001
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28US_wars_since_2001%29
content:
<p>
Ever since 2001, the US army has kept on fighting wars, and despite
its military power, it 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/08/exceptional-failure-us-military-bombs-twenty-first-century">has
never really won any of these wars</a>.
<p>
I'd say this is because politicians have directed it into fights that
are unjustified and foolish.


feed_id: 57ba763a5621c188047030aa9e55a595
title: Enacting Sanders Agenda
uri: Enacting-Sanders-Agenda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Enacting_Sanders_Agenda%29
content:
<p>
Enacting Sanders Agenda Would 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/08/enacting-sanders-agenda-would-catapult-us-economy-new-levels-prosperity">Catapult
Economy, Shatter Inequality</a>.


feed_id: b90165b1a77cf75f1ad1e1290ed1c0e8
title: Changes achieved by passionate movements
uri: Changes-achieved-by-passionate-movements
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Changes_achieved_by_passionate_movements%29

content:
<p>
The "wise", "realistic" people who say passionate movements can't
achieve 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/08/getting-change-wrong">big
changes for the good</a> have it 100% backwards.
<p>
Making things worse can be done working behind the scenes.  That's the
way lobbyists work.  But if you want to make things better, you can't
do it with their methods.  You must rouse people.  You must
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/08/why-we-must-try">demand
justice, and full solutions</a> to big problems.
<p>
That doesn't mean it is easy to win.  But at least that way you can
make it a real fight.
<p>
I think Clinton realizes this.  She is not interested in changing very
much, so she can denigrate the methods by which that could be done.
<p>
Here are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/08/who-election-should-be-7-most-beaten-down-americans">7
groups of Americans who have been beaten down</a>.  Government policy
should be designed to help them.


feed_id: d911f05f3f824f0bf85de80abf54c896
title: Syrian Kurds invited to Moscow
uri: Syrian-Kurds-invited-to-Moscow
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Syrian_Kurds_invited_to_Moscow%29

content:
<p>
Putin 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/09/ever-heightening-tension-putin-puts-turkey-in-a-corner">invited
the Syrian Kurds to open an office in Moscow</a>.  I regard this as
good news.  I hope this means Russian planes will not bomb them.


feed_id: 89f416f06f07baa1bce2ffdbee4f5f2d
title: Our Collapsing Democracy
uri: Our-Collapsing-Democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Our_Collapsing_Democracy%29
content:
<p>
It's Not Just Water That's Poisoning Our Kids; It's Also Our
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/09/its-not-just-water-thats-poisoning-our-kids-its-also-our-collapsing-democracy">Collapsing
Democracy</a>.


feed_id: 8577688b3dcaa2321c095fa55bf4e2e1
title: Dissident kidnaped and sentenced to death
uri: Dissident-kidnaped-and-sentenced-to-death
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Dissident_kidnaped_and_sentenced_to_death%29

content:
<p>
Ethiopian dissident expatriate Andy Tsege was 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/02/09/british-father-marks-600-days-illegal-ethiopian-detention">kidnaped
and taken to Ethiopia, and sentenced to death there</a>.  In the mean
time, he has been denied contact with his lawyer and his family.


feed_id: 09f5fe941f009e5066182562f66f1dba
title: The best feminist for president
uri: The-best-feminist-for-president
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28The_best_feminist_for_president%29

content:
<p>
RoseAnn DeMoro: I Will Vote for the Best Feminist for President:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/09/i-am-a-woman-voting-for-best-feminist-bernie-sanders-president-hillary-clinton">Bernie
Sanders</a>.


feed_id: 4337cf96fd0d9a8e6ee0b92fca3a28a2
title: Erdo&gbreve;an to rebuild city and keep Kurds out
uri: Erdo-gbreve-an-to-rebuild-city-and-keep-Kurds-out
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Erdogan_to_rebuild_city_and_keep_Kurds_out%29

content:
<p>
After chasing the Kurds out of their historic part of Diyarbakir, and
destroying archaeological sites there, Erdo&gbreve;an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/09/destruction-sur-turkey-historic-district-gentrification-kurdish">plans
to rebuild it as a boring modern city</a> so they won't come back.


feed_id: db2188d8083f72c6cf03da51f270234c
title: Mississippi thugs
uri: Mississippi-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Mississippi_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Mississippi thugs shot Ricky Ball dead, but they are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/09/mississippi-fatal-police-shooting-ricky-ball">covering
up the circumstances and posting contradictory reports</a>.


feed_id: 552e42f39e4c93237dcf8b06309684ec
title: Obama sending troops back to Afghanistan
uri: Obama-sending-troops-back-to-Afghanistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#10_February_2016_%28Obama_sending_troops_back_to_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
Obama is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/08/hundreds-us-troops-deployed-afghanistan-taliban-helmand">sending
US troops back to Afghanistan</a>.  The Afghan Army can't hold out
alone.
<p>
I'm worried this indicates a US decision to prop up the Afghan
government ad infinitem.


