US citizens: [ tell Subway to stop ]( http://lowpayisnotok.org/sick/ ) making staff work while sick and stop firing them for going to the
hospital.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Subway_staff_working_while_sick%29

The UK government demonstrated its contempt for the environment yet
again by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/22/environment-agency-chairman-fracking-links">appointing
a fracking flunky to head the Environmental Agency</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28UKs_contempt_for_the_environment%29

The US is stranding Yemeni-Americans in Yemen by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/22/yemeni-americans-us-embassy-sanaa-passports">confiscating
their passports while they are visiting there</a>. Then they have to wait as much as a year before they are allowed to
return to the US.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28US_stranding_Yemeni-Americans%29

The Koch brothers spend <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12541/koch-political-spending">hundreds
of millions</a> to influence politics, through a maze of twisty
channels all different.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Koch_brothers_political_spending%29

Iran has finished the promised <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/21-1">dilution
of its most enriched uranium</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Iran_delivers_on_promise%29

Protesters <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/21-3">blockaded
a tar sands mine</a> in Utah.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Protest_against_tar_sands_mine%29

How opponents of same-sex marriage distort the <a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/07/21/mawwiage.html">history of
marriage</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28History_of_marriage%29

The idea of a "type A personality", with health problems due to stress,
was <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/07/07/325946892/the-secret-history-behind-the-science-of-stress">constructed
by the tobacco industry</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Idea_of_type_A_personality%29

The US military is responsible for around <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/3181:the-military-assault-on-global-climate">5%
of world greenhouse gas emissions</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Emissions_from_US_military%29

Australia's government is cutting funds for public transit <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/australia-addicted-to-roads-says-leaked-infrastructure-report">to
build more roads instead</a>. It's a natural choice, for a government that intends to boost fossil
fuel use.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Australian_public_transit_cuts%29

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/india-seeks-access-tamil-asylum-seekers">India
wants to interview the Tamil boat people</a> who are imprisoned on an
Australian ship.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Tamil_boat_people_sought_for_interview%29

Japanese
officials <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/japan-war-memorial-korean-labourers">ordered
removal of a memorial to Korean forced laborers</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Removal_of_a_memorial_to_Korean_forced_laborers%29

A Hindu-nationalist MP in
India <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/india-hindu-nationalist-mp-force-feed-muslim-ramadan">tried
to force food down a fasting Muslim's throat</a>. Even if you believe the MP's claim that this was only a complaint
about the bad quality of the food served, shoving it into someone's
mouth is hardly justifiable. At least he did not try to do it via
a [ tube through the man's nose, as the US military does ]( https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_May_2014_%28Hunger_strikers_in_Guantanamo%29 ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28MP_tried_to_force_food_down_a_fasting_Muslim%27s_throat%29

The whole of the Great Barrier Reef
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/23/great-barrier-reef-contaminated-by-toxic-coal-dust-inquiry-told">contaminated
by toxic coal dust from Australian coal export.</a>
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Great_Barrier_Reef_is_contaminated_by_toxic_coal_dust%29

Hamas rockets rarely seriously injure a person, but they have acquired
economic clout
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/john-kerry-flies-israel-flight-ban-gaza-ceasefire-talks">causing
cancellation of many international flights to Tel Aviv</a>. Maybe now Netanyahu will agree
to <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Another_excuse_to_invade_Gaza%29">end
the war that he started</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Hamas_rockets%29

Anglophone countries
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/23/the-strange-relationship-between-global-warming-denial-and-speaking-english">the
world center of global heating denialism</a>, perhaps due to the
effect of the Murdoch media.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28The_world_center_of_global_heating_denialism%29

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose the resolution that
would endorse the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Israeli_bombardment_of_Gaza%29

Turkish thugs have been accused
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/22/turkish-police-accused-spying-prime-minister-arrested">illegally
spying on Prime Minister Erdo an and others</a>, using falsified
papers.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Spying_on_Prime_Minister_Erdo%29

An ID card
to <a href="http://humanpapers.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/papers-for-everyone-print-cut-fold/">identify
you as a human being.</a>
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28An_ID_card_to_identify_you_as_a_human_being%29

Everyone: call on Obama to pressure Israel
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-whitehouse-johnkerry?source=c.em&r_by=1135580">end
the siege of Gaza as part of a permanent nonagression agreement</a>. It is widely noted that the rockets launched from Gaza are an act of
war and a war crime. The siege is also an act of war and a war crime.
Let's end them both.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_the_siege_of_Gaza%29

[ How America Finances the Destruction in Gaza — and the Clean-Up ]( http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/israel-gaza-united-states-assistance-unrwa ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28US-subsidized_destruction_in_Gaza%29

Israel, backed by the West, responded to the Palestinian unity government with [ repression ]( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/opinion/gaza-and-israel-the-road-to-war-paved-by-the-west.html?&_r=0 ) , which helped get the current war started.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28The_road_to_war_in_Gaza%29

More about [ why HIV researchers call for decriminalization ]( http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/22/5924843/hiv-researchers-cope-loss-of-colleagues-aboard-mh17 ) of sex work.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Decriminalization_of_sex_work%29

Citizens of Illinois, Maryland and New York: [ oppose state bills that would attack the right ]( http://ccrjustice.org/protectrighttoboycott ) to boycott Israeli institutions.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_the_right_to_boycott%29

A government whistleblower warns that the NSA grabs massive amounts of Americans' data, including email contents, by [ breaking into servers and communication links outside the US ]( http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/meet-executive-order-12333-the-reagan-rule-that-lets-the-nsa-spy-on-americans/2014/07/18/93d2ac22-0b93-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Warning_from_govt_whistleblower%29

B'tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, explains why the homes of the families of Hamas members are not military targets, so bombing them is a [ war crime ]( http://www.imemc.org/article/68487 ) . [ The UN also criticizes ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/israel-may-have-committed-war-crimes-in-gaza-un ) Israel's war crimes in Gaza. Note the Israeli representative's bogus claim that those families are "human shields". That would only be true if the homes were legitimate military targets. In addition to bombing hospitals, Israel has systematically destroyed Gaza's civil infrastructure such as [ water and sewage facilities ]( https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_(Israel_attacking_wells_and_sewers) ) . In the village of Zanna, [ every house was damaged ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/israeli-air-strikes-hamas-battles-gaza-zanna-dead ) by Israeli attack. Shooting the water tanks had no possible motive except to make civilians' lives miserable. People in Gaza can't afford to replace the water tanks; replacements may be impossible to obtain. Perhaps Israel destroyed Zanna as preparation for declaring it a [ free-fire "buffer zone" ]( https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_(Gaza_free-fire_zones) ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Bombing_the_families_of_Hamas_members%29

[ Jonathan Schell: how the US chose war ]( http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/jonathan-schell-predict-war-september-11 ) , and declared its readiness to overthrow any government to impose plutocratic rule.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28How_the_US_chose_war_after_911%29

Во, сегодня хорошая разметка.

Moroccan women [ protested the prime minister ]( http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/06/26/moroccan-women-say-no-thanks-being-gods-sacred-stay-home-lanterns ) who told them to stay home and not work.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Moroccan_women_protest%29

Anti-abortion activists use [ bogus science ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/24/no-anti-abortion-activist-should-be-able-to-mislead-women-to-rescue-them ) to claim that medical abortions are dangerous, while pushing women into amateur abortions that really are dangerous. I don't use the term "pro-choice" because it fails to defend abortion rights firmly. I also refuse to accept the term "pro-life" that opponents of abortion chose as a way to insult us.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Anti-abortion_activists_use_bogus_science%29

New York City is moving firmly in response to the thugs' killing of Eric Garner, but not questioning the deeper policy of [ jailing people over any minor crime ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/23/scrutiny-over-nypd-tactics-after-chokehold-death-unarmed-man ) . When legitimate work is hard to get and pays too little to live on, poor people are compelled to break laws to survive. Plutocratic government uses that as an excuse to oppress them.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28NYC_responds_to_thugs_killing%29

File sharing sites that governments blocked the name of the world cup have [ remained blocked ]( https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-sites-stay-blocked-long-world-cup-ends-140722/ ) and will probably be blocked permanently. This is another incidental form of oppression dealt out by the world cup.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Web_sites_blocked_in_the_name_of_world_cup%29

San Diego has set up a [ network of state and private cameras ]( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/operation-secure-san-diego ) that any thug can watch at any time.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Surveillance_cameras_in_San_Diego%29

[ Oh, Great: Robots Are Set to Conduct National Security Clearance Interviews ]( http://motherboard.vice.com/read/oh-great-robots-are-set-to-conduct-national-security-clearance-interviews ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Security_clearance_interviews_by_robots%29

Citizens of Massachusetts: [ contact specific state legislators ]( https://ma--aclu.capwiz.com/aclu/ma//issues/alert/?alertID=63277186&ms=eml_140715_aff_MA_privacy_bills ) in favor of three privacy bills. If they don't pass by July 31 they will be dead for this year.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Privacy_bills%29

[ Obama offered to help negotiate a truce ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/israeli-air-strikes-gaza-continue-us-barack-obama-offers-broker-ceasefire ) between Israel and Hamas. Either this is a sick joke on Hamas, or Obama intends to pressure Israel to let the fighting stop.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Help_negotiate%29

The European Court of Human Rights convicted Poland of aiding CIA torture kidnapping flights, and [ ordered payment of compensation to the victims ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/poland-breach-human-rights-convention-al-qaida-suspects-cia ) . The court ruled that US "rendition" (kidnaping for torture) is fundamentally illegal. Unfortunately, this won't get them out of Guantanamo prison. These men are accused of serious crimes which merit prosecution, but they deserve a fair trial, not a [ Guantanamo kangaroo court ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_April_2014_(FBI_fiddling_in_Guantanamo_trials) ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28CIA_torture_kidnapping_flights%29

When ISIS forced Christians to leave Mosul, it [ stole their houses and even their portable property ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/iraqi-christians-mosul-isis-convert-islam-or-be-executed ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Christians_homes_stolen_by_ISIS%29

Texas invested $200 million in businesses [ to "create" 1600 jobs in Texas ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/texas-governor-rick-perry-startup-fund-review ) . It turns out that some of the companies don't really exist, aren't in Texas, don't pay their taxes, etc. As a way to boost employment, this is ineffective. As investment, it wasn't very good either; it made only a little money for the state. [ Raising the minimum wage would create a lot more jobs ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_(States_That_Raised_Their_Minimum_Wages) ) , but that would not please the [ employers that want workers to be desperate ]( https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_(Workers_safety_nets) ) . Paul Ryan [ says the US government should eliminate welfare requirements and give money to states ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/paul-ryan-poverty-plan-welfare ) to use to help the poor. Texas will give this money to companies to "create jobs", thus ensuring that the poor gain nothing from it.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Investing_in_businesses_to_create_jobs%29

One of Israel's motives for war in Gaza is so it can [ advertise weapons exports as "field-tested" ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/07/24/never-again-us ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Israel_testing_weapons_in_Gaza%29

Texas has started [ asking for fingerprints from everyone that renews a driver's license ]( https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140721/09452027954/texas-dept-public-safety-quietly-starts-demanding-full-set-prints-drivers-license-applicants.shtml ) . People are not required to give all the fingerprints, but the state tricks them into thinking so. Demanding even one fingerprint is an injustice.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Tricking_people_into_giving_fingerprints%29

Wild monkeys 40 miles from Fukushima [ >have blood disorders and some radioactive cesium ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/24/japanese-monkeys-abnormal-blood-linked-to-fukushima-disaster-study ) . The level of cesium they have might not be enough explain their blood disorders.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Study_of_monkeys_near_Fukushima%29

Israel [ shelled civilians sheltering in a UN compound ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/gaza-crisis-israeli-shells-kill-15-un-school-compound ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Civilians_in_UN_compound_shelled%29

A Yale professor reports that the dynamic of elite US universities, and the competition to gain admission to them, produces [ students who don't dare risk failure or stray from a narrow path ]( http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118747/ivy-league-schools-are-overrated-send-your-kids-elsewhere ) . He describes this as a bad education.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Students_from_elite_US_universities%29

UK thugs systematically [ spied on families campaigning for justice after relatives were killed or maimed ]( http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/24/undercover-police-spying-justice-campaigns-20-years ) — in many cases, by thugs. [ More information ]( http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/24/secret-met-police-unit-information-justice-campaigns ) . It has a certain logic. People whose relatives you've shot might be plausible nuclei for opposition and you might want to sabotage their campaigns.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Systematic_spying_by_UK_thugs%29

The American Council on Science and Health is a corporate front group that [ spreads spin about scientific issues that affect business interests ]( http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12538/koch-and-co-funding-pro-pesticide-pro-gmo-front-group ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Corporate_front_group%29

Glyn Moody: ISPs that want to sort traffic into fast and slow lanes [ might join with Big Brother to ban encryption ]( https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140721/06280227950/another-reason-defending-net-neutrality-nsa-surveillance.shtml ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Network_neutrality_and_encryption%29

France has proposed a law to [ attack many human rights at once ]( http://www.laquadrature.net/en/frances-new-anti-terror-bill-all-presumed-terrorist-until-proven-guilty ) in the name of "fighting terrorism". Reporters without Borders [ condemns it ]( http://en.rsf.org/freedom-of-information-under-23-07-2014,46688.html ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28French_law_to_fight_terrorism%29

The UK government is [ cutting subsidies for renewable energy ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/24/uk-renewable-energy-subsidies-capped-at-200m-a-year ) so can give more to nuclear power and fossil fuels.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28UK_cutting_renewable_energy_subsidies%29

George Monbiot: Putting a price on natural ecosystems is [ nonsense because the prices are fictitious ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/jul/24/price-nature-neoliberal-capital-road-ruin ) , but it serves as an excuse to destroy these systems in favor of a business "worth" more. More deeply, valuing everything in terms of money promotes the destructive values of plutocracy.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Valuing_everything_in_terms_of_money%29