Iran executed a religious innovator for " [ heresy ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/iran-executes-man-heresy-mohsen-amir-aslani ) ". For cover, other charges were listed with no evidence presented.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Iran_executes_religious_innovator%29

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to put an end to the [ quota system for keeping unauthorized immigrants in prison ]( http://dwn-production.herokuapp.com/bedtimestories ) . The quota system means that they always keep the prison full, and if there aren't enough unauthorized immigrants that there's a reason to imprison, they have to fill the bed with someone else that there is no reason to imprison. It's as wrong as giving thugs a daily quota for traffic tickets. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_prison_quota_system%29

WWF estimates that Earth has [ lost half its wild animals since 40 years ago ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/earth-lost-50-wildlife-in-40-years-wwf ) . They have been wiped out by human activity and its consequences. I think the count refers to vertebrates only.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Earth_has_lost_half_its_wild_animals_since_40_years_ago%29

A nurse in Kenya has been [ sentenced to death for an underground abortion which went wrong ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/30/kenya-nurse-death-sentence-abortion-debate ) , but Kenya's restrictive abortion law is the real killer.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Sentenced_to_death_for_an_underground_abortion%29

Comparing the video of the killing of John Crawford with what the thugs said had happened [ shows their story was false ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/30/police-officer-shot-john-crawford-walmart-lied-victims-mother-says ) . The thugs call that "testilying".
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Killing_of_John_Crawford%29

Australia's hottest ever recorded spring and summer, a year ago, were [ 2000 times more likely due to the global heating that has occurred in recent decades ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/30/greenhouse-gases-made-hottest-year-on-record-2000-times-more-likely ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Hottest_ever_recorded_spring_and_summer%29

Press Release by [ Occupy Central with Love & Peace (Hong Kong). ]( http://oclp.hk/index.php?route=occupy/eng_detail&eng_id=30 ) Mass protests have [ succeeded in Hong Kong before ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/30/hong-kong-activists-protesters-democracy-china ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Occupy_Central_with_Love_%2526_Peace_%28Hong_Kong%29%29

Nicaragua's planned canal would [ destroy and pollute forests where endangered species live ]( http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/30/nicaragua-canal-forest-displace-people ) . I have to wonder whether a railroad might do a better job. Now that containers make it quick and easy to load and unload ships, the time it takes to move cargo from ship to train is only a matter of how long a ship must wait to be unloaded. Building more port facilities can reduce that to any level. A train line could carry the containers from one shore to the other faster than a ship could go through the canal. If one train line isn't enough, even ten parallel tracks would hurt the forest and the surrounding inhabitants less than a canal. Animals can run across the tracks, but it would be easy to make bridges across the train lines since trains are much less tall than ships.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Nicaragua%27s_planned_canal%29

The misogyny of ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel [ spills over constantly to seating on airlines ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/30/israeli-airline-ultra-orthodox-men-bullying-women ) . When it happens on airlines, it is funny, but in Israel it makes secular Jews think of emigrating. I don't think Arabs will destroy Israel (most of the governments no longer even say they want to). Orthodox theocracy will do it.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28The_misogyny_of_ultra-orthodox_Jews_in_Israel%29

Apple may have to return tens of millions of euros in [ illegal state funds to the Irish state ]( http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/30/apple-repay-millions-irish-government-tax-deal ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Apple_may_have_to_return_tens_of_millions_of_euros%29

Gitmo Hunger Strikes Are a Cry for Help. [ Why Is the US Fighting Back with Secret Torture? ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/30/gitmo-hunger-strikes-secret-force-feeding )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Gitmo_Hunger_Strikes%29

A former LA Times reporter, covering the CIA, [ showed his stories to the CIA to get approval of them ]( https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-cleared-stories-cia-publication/ ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28News_coverage_with_CIA_approval%29

US hospitals in HMOs hire doctors in the emergency room who are not in the HMO — so that the doctors can [ gouge patients ]( http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/09/heres-yet-another-rage-inducing-scam-american-health-care-system ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28US_hospitals_in_HMOs_outsource_ER_doctors%29

The Obama regime [ wants to spend lots of money making more plutonium cores for nuclear weapons ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/congress-nuclear-weapons-new-mexico-radioactivity ) . Never mind that the US has lots of extra ones in storage.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Obama_regime_wants_more_nuclear_weapons%29

Detroit's water shutoffs for the poor have been [ approved by a plutocratic court ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/detroit-water-shutoffs-legal-judge-bankruptcy-revenue ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Detroits_water_shutoffs%29

Obama is trying to cover up torture by [ holding Guantanamo torture hearings in secret ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/obama-guantanamo-bay-force-feeding-hearing-secret ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Obama_trying_to_cover_up_torture%29

The UK Conservatives are so embarrassed by the growth of renewable energy that they have [ decided not to report statistics on it ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2014/sep/29/george-osborne-burying-the-good-news-of-the-green-economy ) . They are in cahoots with fossil fuel and nuclear power companies, for which this growth is an inconvenient embarrassment.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Growth_of_renewable_energy%29

A World Bank carbon offset plan involved [ kicking people off their lands ]( http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/29/world-bank-kenya-forest-dwellers ) so that a forest could grow. This is a fundamental conflict, and human population growth makes it worse.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28World_Bank_carbon_offset_plan%29

US citizens: [ support ]( http://act.credoaction.com/sign/nfl_tax_exempt ) taking away tax exemption from professional sports leagues.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_sports_tax_exemption%29

Ireland will have a referendum on [ abolishing the crime of "blasphemy" ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/30/ireland-referendum-blasphemy-law ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Referendum_on_blasphemy_in_Ireland%29

The Australian spy agency can get [ permission to snoop on the entire internet by getting just one warrant ]( http://www.zdnet.com/au/asio-powers-to-spy-over-the-entire-internet-pass-the-senate-7000034073/ ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Snooping_on_the_entire_internet%29

"Open-plan" offices appear to [ harm workers' health and productivity ]( http://www.theguardian.com/money/work-blog/2014/sep/29/open-plan-office-health-productivity ) . I wonder why businesses use them. The savings in rent can hardly be enough to be the reason.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Open-plan_offices%29

Brazil's government has successfully given a larger fraction of GNP to the non-rich, [ lifting millions out of poverty ]( http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/09/29/report-examines-economy-and-social-indicators-during-past-decade-brazil ) , by adopting non-plutocratic policies.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Non-plutocratic_policies_in_Brazil%29

US citizens: [ call on the USDA ]( https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1635 ) to abandon its plan to let poultry companies do their own inspections. Only a government working for the foxes would put them in charge of the hen house.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Poultry_inspections%29

US citizens: [ tell HUD ]( http://act.credoaction.com/sign/julian_castro_wallstreet ) to stop selling mortgages to wall street.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Mortgages%29

Many US thug departments want to return military equipment that the Pentagon says is "on loan" to them, but the Pentagon [ won't take the equipment back. ]( http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/police-departments-struggle-return-pentagon-military-surplus-gear )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Military_Equipment%29

The former Aral Sea dried up completely [ this summer. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/satellite-images-show-aral-sea-basin-completely-dried )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Aral_Sea%29

Outgoing [ Attorney General Holder ]( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/01/eric-holder-raises-concerns-over-privacy-advances-by-technology-companies ) has joined the US government campaign against online privacy.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Privacy%29

[ In Mexico (aside from one state) ]( http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/01/mexican-women-high-price-abortion-laws ) , women are imprisoned for years for having abortions.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Abortions%29

A gang of Mexican thugs killed and kidnaped around 60 students, perhaps because the thugs are [ connected with a drug gang. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/30/scores-students-missing-after-ambush-gunmen-mexican-police )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%2860_Students%29

Polio is resurging in Pakistan as a result of religious extremists [ that fight against vaccination. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/01/pakistan-struggling-cope-surge-polio-cases )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Pakistan%29

A US court declined to stop Detroit from continuing to shut off [ poor residents' water supply. ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/30/detroiters-vow-resistance-after-judge-rules-there-no-human-right-water ) Citizens plan to continue their resistance.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Water_Supply%29

A zero-waste (or else recycled materials) [ restaurant in the UK. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/30/simple-sustainable-not-superchef-silo-uk-first-zero-waste-restaurant )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Zero-Waste_Restaurant%29

Modi's government plans a big increase in coal burning, and hopes that a parallel investment in renewable energy will distract from the fact that this pushes [ human civilization closer to the invisible edge of the cliff. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/01/india-will-be-renewables-superpower-says-energy-minister )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Coal_Burning%29

A hoax about a show of "invisible art" [ satirizes the art world. ]( http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/988267-invisible-art-satire-new-york-artist-lana-newstrom-creates-art-worth-millions-is-humor/ ) The most bizarre part is that there really <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/sep/30/invisible-art-hoax-lana-newstrom-cbc"> is invisible "art".
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Invisible_Art%29

The US public health defenses that prevent an outbreak <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/30/ebola-dallas-spreading-across-america"> of Ebola in the US.</A> The scandal is that extractivism and short-sightedness won't let Sierra Leone and Liberia have the medical systems necessary to prevent Ebola outbreaks there.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Ebola%29

China's efforts to keep the public ignorant of protests in Hong Kong [ show occasional slips. ]( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/world/asia/chinese-web-censors-struggle-with-hong-kong-protest.html ) Nonetheless, we have found no way to defeat the tyranny of internet censorship, which has spread to many supposedly "free" countries including France and the UK.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Hong_Kong%29

The lack of sea ice has forced 35,000 walruses to go ashore in Alaska, rather than resting on sea ice to [ take quick trips to feed. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/walrus-mass-vast-numbers-alaska-beach-sea-ice-retreats ) This surely makes it hard for them to eat, and will therefore interfere with reproduction.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Walruses%29

The US spends almost 70 billion dollars a year on "intelligence agencies", but they hardly ever predict the major events [ that the US might rationally want them to predict. ]( http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/america-intelligence-off-guard-isis-arab-spring ) They probably do a good job of suppressing many journalists and protesters.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Intelligence_Agencies%29

A food aid worker in Syria tweeted the coordinates of a bunker being used by PISSI. PISSI says it [ will kill him for this. ]( http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/swiss-aid-worker-isis-tweet ) This shows why humanitarian aid workers should remain neutral — so that they can get the support of all sides in a conflict.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Syria%29

MEPs are concerned that the European Commission wants to cancel [ conservation policies and deregulate instead. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/30/meps-demand-reassurances-eu-green-policies-are-not-being-downgraded ) Deregulation of business means that plutocrats have less in their way as they build businesses that make profit for them while poisoning you.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28European_Commission%29

How US corporate media promote [ US wars. ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/30/tv-generals-and-precision-bombs-corporate-media-go-war )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Media%29

Florida thugs tased and arrested a woman as she was walking away after [ asking about arrests of other people. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/florida-police-shoot-woman-stun-gun ) I wonder whether she was concerned on general principles or because she saw something that looked wrong.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Florida%29

The loss of ice in Antarctica is big enough to affect the Earth's gravity [ as measured by satellites. ]( http://www.wired.com/2014/09/melting-antarctic-ice-shifting-gravity/ ) Melting is unlikely to continue at 500 cubic kilometers per year. The greenhouse gases we have already emitted will make the atmosphere hotter, and melting will speed up.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Antarctica%29

Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo prisoner and now human rights investigator, was imprisoned in the UK and accused of terrorism after he went to Syria to investigate evidence of UK torture. [ He has now been freed. ]( https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=5806 ) The UK government will violate any rights to prevent the facts about its torture from being brought out in court.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28UK_Torture%29

In Israel, people who disagree with prevailing hatred of Palestinians [ are fired, attacked, and get death threats. ]( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/opinion/how-israel-silences-dissent.html )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Israel%29

California has implemented "gun restraining orders": if you feel a relative is likely to shoot people, you can ask a [ judge to order his guns taken away. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/california-gun-restraining-order-law-signed )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28California%29

Neocons hope to pressure Obama into attacking [ Assad as well as PISSI. ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/30/neocons-noses-syrian-tenta ) (PISSI is the Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.)
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Neocons%29

It's Time to Shout Stop on This War [ on the Living World. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/oct/01/george-monbiot-war-on-the-living-world-wildlife ) The world needs economic growth for the benefit of the poor, which can be done together with less waste for the rich; but that is not what plutocratic governments are likely to do.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Economic_Growth%29

Uri Avnery: Palestinian President Abbas offers Israel a partner for negotiations, provided the [ negotiations are sincere. ]( http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1411916560 ) Avnery says it is an exaggeration to call the attack on Gaza "genocide", but according to the official definition, [ the accusation may be valid. ]( http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/09/gaza-crime-crimes-201492664043551756.html ) This case, imposing destructive conditions of life on a part of the targeted people that are likely to kill some fraction of the victims, but nowhere near all of the victims, seems to be an edge case. I tend to think it should not be considered genocide. The official definition may be a little too broad, depending on how it is interpreted. However, I think that is a side issue. Provoking a war as an opportunity to kill and wound 10,000 people is a great crime regardless of whether it qualifies as "genocide".
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Gaza%29