Everyone: sign [ this petition ]( https://www.aclum.org/stopandfrisk/petitions ) calling on Boston to put an end to racism in its thug department.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_racism_in_Boston_thug_dept.%29

US budget cuts aimed at poor people [ don't ultimately reduce spending ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/15/budget-cuts-dont-save-money ) . But they sure do help demonize the poor, which is what right-wing politicians need.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Cuts_aimed_at_poor_people%29

Why the US-constructed Iraqi army [ couldn't and wouldn't fight PISSI ]( http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/4-biggest-takeaways-americas-effort-build-iraqi-army ) . Basically, the idea of setting up a client state and training its army to fight for it (i.e., for the US) doesn't work.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Iraqi_army%29

The FBI presented cases to prove that [ it needs the power to encrypt people's data ]( https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6956 ) . All of the cases were bogus.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28The_power_to_encrypt_people%27s_data%29

[ How Whisper users can be identified ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/17/whisper-private-secret-sharing-app-anonymity ) based on the vague geolocation data Whisper keeps.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28How_Whisper_users_can_be_identified%29

China has [ banned logging in state forests ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/17/china-tests-outright-logging-ban-in-state-forests ) in its most heavily forested province. In the US, businesses control politicians. In China, the politicians own and control the businesses, or else the state owns them. While Chinese politicians can be quite corrupt, they can also take action to protect China's future from rogue businesses, in a way that US politicians no longer can do.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28China_banned_logging_in_state_forests%29

State colleges in the US today have been [ reshaped by plutocracy and budget cutting ]( http://www.thenation.com/blog/182153/should-you-go-college ) , along with hiring patterns, so that students from poor backgrounds are likely to end up with debts and no good job. There are some exceptions, of course. If you have talent in a professional field, and you study hard, you can still get a job. For a while.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Colleges_reshaped_by_plutocracy_and_budget_cutting%29

French documentary makers are being [ prosecuted for filming in West Papua ]( http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/16/indonesia-free-french-reporters-detained-papua ) , where foreign journalists are not allowed. Indonesia took over West Papua by force in the 1960s when the Dutch pulled out, and has sent large numbers of Javanese colonists. It's somewhat like China and Tibet.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Prosecuted_for_filming_in_West_Papua%29

Pacific Islanders [ blocked a coal ship leaving Australia ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/17/pacific-islanders-blockade-newcastle-coal-port-to-protest-rising-sea-levels ) . Combustion of fossil fuel is inundating their islands little by little. [ A few have already become uninhabitable ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_August_2014_%28Pacific_Islands_drowning%29 ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Coal_ship_leaving_Australia_blocked%29

The corruption charges against high officials in Turkey [ have been dropped ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/17/turkish-prosecutors-drop-corruption-case ) . Many of the officials involved in bringing the charges had [ faced official retribution ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_September_2014_%28Erdogan_has_continued_to_arrest_Turkish_thugs%29 ) . Either the charges were bogus and placed for political reasons, as Erdogan says, or they were valid and he has protected his party colleagues' abuse of power. I have no way of determining which it was.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Corruption_charges_in_Turkey%29

Matt Taibbi explains [ why no banksters go to jail in the US ]( http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/17/us-justice-divide-crime-punishment-wall-street-ferguson ) , while so many blacks and welfare recipients do: because thugs systematically harass those groups seeking (and inventing) excuses to arrest them. It's not policing, it's occupation.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Why_no_banksters_go_to_jail_in_the_US%29

Private charities are [ nowhere near capable of giving America's tens of millions of poor people the help they need ]( http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-13/why-private-donations-arent-helping-americas-poor#r=discussed ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Private_charities%29

A talk by feminist Anita Sarkesian was cancelled due to a mysogynist threat to shoot her, backed up by a [ state law that prohibited stopping people from bringing weapons into the auditorium ]( http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/15/anita-sarkeesian-feminist-games-critic-cancels-talk ) . That law says, in effect, that anyone people threaten to shoot cannot speak in public.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Gun_threat_against_feminist%29

The mass graves found in Mexico appear not to contain the [ 43 disappeared students ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/mexican-students-not-found-mass-graves ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%2843_disappeared_students%29

100 students were arrested in Egypt this week [ for protesting ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/cairo-bomb-blast-islamic-militants-death-sentence ) . Violent Islamist fanatics continue to fight the regime with terrorism, but all in all their violence is less than what the military regime directed at peaceful Islamist fanatic protesters.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28100_students_in_Egypt_arrested%29

Thugs [ attacked Hong Kong protesters ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/hong-kong-police-clear-tunnel-by-force-in-crackdown-on-protesters ) and closed some of their barricades.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Thugs_attack_HK_protesters%29

The UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism says that massive surveillance [ violates human rights as defined by the UN ]( https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6746 ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Massive_surveillance%29

The US Supreme Court [ allowed some Texas abortion providers to reopen ]( http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/oct/14/supreme-court-blocks-texas-abortion-law ) … until the case is finally decided.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Texas_abortion_providers%29

Farm pesticides have been [ linked to an increase in depression and suicide ]( http://truth-out.org/news/item/26793-pesticide-use-by-farmers-linked-to-high-rates-of-depression-suicides ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Farm_pesticides_and_suicide%29

Colombian farmers are [ suing BP in Britain ]( http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/15/colombian-farmers-sue-bp-british-court ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Colombian_farmers_suing_BP%29

[ From Chicago to Geneva, a Call for Police Accountability for Violence and Torture ]( http://truth-out.org/news/item/26822-from-chicago-to-geneva-a-call-for-police-accountability-for-violence-and-torture ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Call_for_thug_accountability%29

[ Iraqi Doctors Call Depleted Uranium Use "Genocide" ]( http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26703-iraqi-doctors-call-depleted-uranium-use-genocide ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Depleted_uranium_use%29

Offshore oil wells are great [ habitats for fish ]( http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/10/californias-most-productive-fisheries-the-offshore-oil-rigs/ ) . Burning oil generates CO2 which [ makes some fish dangerously uncautious ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_April_2014_(Emboldened_by_chemistry) ) and [ will kill (at a sufficient concentration) many shelled animals ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#30_May_2011_(Acidification) ) . But we could plant suitable structures without using them to extract oil.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Fish_in_offshore_oil_wells%29

Private "police foundations" [ buy controversial massive surveillance equipment ]( http://www.propublica.org/article/private-donors-supply-spy-gear-to-cops ) and donate it to thug departments across the US, bypassing democratic decisionmaking about what these systems should do.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Private_police_foundations%29

[ Europe Needs to Fix Or Ditch Its Emissions-Trading Scheme ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/15/europe-needs-to-fix-or-ditch-its-emissions-trading-scheme ) . A carbon tax would be better. One of the problems with the European emissions-trading scheme is that it is too easily gamed: companies can get credit for industries that have simply failed, for instance, and emissions credits are so cheap that nobody really needs to conserve.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28CO2_emissions-trading_scheme%29

A Tory minister called for [ paying the disabled less than minimum wage ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/15/tory-message-disabled-lord-freud-minimum-wage ) , stating explicitly the right-wing goal of reducing the weak to desperation. The same goal is at work in [ making prisoners work for companies that pay them a pittance ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_May_2013_(Free_US_workers_losing_jobs_to_prisoners) ) . This reduces jobs and wages for people outside prison, and more of them will end up in prison, making a vicious cycle.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Reducing_the_weak_to_desperation%29

If a lot of natural gas is obtained by fracking, it will squeeze out renewable energy and likely result in [ more greenhouse gas emissions ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/15/gas-boom-from-unrestrained-fracking-linked-to-emissions-rise ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Fracking%29

Australia's government [ proposes massive biometrics capture ]( http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/opposition-grows-to-storage-of-photo-and-biometric-data-20141015-116lur.html ) , but may not succeed in imposing it.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Massive_biometrics_capture%29

Ray Cole describes how in Morocco he was [ accused based on irrelevant evidence, jailed incommunicado, and bullied into signing a statement he could not read ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/ray-cole-interview-jailed-morocco-homosexual ) . The prison guards also lied to the British consul, saying Cole did not want to see him. It seems clear they treat Moroccans just as badly.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Morocco%29

Privacy International calls for prosecution of the British company that made the Finfisher intrusion/spying program, [ used by the cruel Bahraini regime to attack activists in England ]( https://www.privacyinternational.org/news/press-releases/privacy-international-files-criminal-complaint-on-behalf-of-bahraini-activists ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Finfisher%29

An [ education campaign ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/16/rhino-horn-demand-in-vietnam-drops-by-more-than-33-in-one-year ) in Vietnam has cut the demand for rhino horn by 33%, by correcting the superstitious idea that it is beneficial. Can anyone make plausible imitation rhino horn? It would work just as well as the real thing.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Campaign_reduces_rhino_horn_demand%29

Thugs in New York State [ say that they can collect information on everyone's driving because that's public ]( https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6829 ) ; but when a reporter asked to see their records about him, they claimed it was secret.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28NY_thugs_driving_records_private%29

US citizens: call for [ an end to trials of GMO wheat ]( https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1665 ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_An_end_to_trials_of_GMO_wheat%29

Yemeni Man [ Sues Germany for Role in US Drone Killings of Civilians ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/15/yemeni-man-sues-germany-role-us-drone-killings-civilians ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Man_Sues_Germany_for_Drone_Killings_of_Civilians%29

The people who clean the UK foreign ministry protested that their minimum-wage pay is [ too little to live in London and do the job. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/17/whitehall-cleaner-hmrc-campaign-living-wage ) The article demonstrates the harm done by subcontracting, which gives the state and other companies a way to hire people for low wages and say "we're not responsible, since we don't employ them." A company or agency that gets workers through a subcontractor should be directly responsible for how they are treated and how much they are paid.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Minimum-Wage_pay_is_too_little%29

Navalny, after a relaxation in the terms of his house arrest, accuses Putin of [ using war to stay in power ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/17/putin-is-destroying-russia-why-base-his-regime-on-corruption-asks-navalny ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Using_war_to_stay_in_power%29

Right wing judges and officials don't want "stand your ground" laws to apply to women [ defending themselves from violent domestic partners ]( http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/10/15/stand-your-ground-unless-youre-abused-usually-black-woman ) . Indeed, those laws are [ meant to allow white men (who dare carry guns in public) to kill black men ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Stand_your_ground_laws_have_shielded_over_130_killers%29 ) (who know thugs would fabricate an excuse to beat them and arrest them if they carried guns in public). Helping women was never the intention.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Stand_your_ground%29

New pun: [ geometer ]( https://stallman.org/puns.html ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28New_Pun%29

[ Thugs repeatedly clear away protest areas ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/17/hong-kong-police-dismantle-mong-kok-protest-sites ) in Hong Kong. If the 400,000 who supported the protests were to keep protesting, the antidemocratic government might have to yield.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Hong_Kong_protest%29

The New York Times once again defines "democracy" in Latin America as "<a href='https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6964'>submitting to the USA</a>".
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28NY_Times_definition_of_democracy%29

The effects of global heating are nonuniform. The average October temperature in Pt Barrow [ has risen 7C (12F) since 34 years ago ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/17/ice-loss-sends-alaskan-temperatures-soaring-by-7c ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Global_heating_effects_nonuniform%29

The aim of divestment from fossil fuel companies is to [ show that these investments are odious, and force them to pay for all the future damage they have caused ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/17/climate-change-make-big-polluters-pay-fossil-fuel-industries ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Divestment_from_fossil_fuel_companies%29

4000 African children who got into Italy appear to have been [ kidnaped and enslaved ]( http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/17/african-child-migrants-italian-traffickers-forced-labour-sexual-exploitation ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Children_enslaved_in_Italy%29

Inadequate staffing is causing an [ increase in suicides in UK prisons ]( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/17/-sp-inmate-suicide-figures-reveal-human-toll-prison-crisis ) . In some cases, the suicide seems to be a reaction to mistreatment. How can it make sense to put a suicidal person, not accused of doing anything wrong to others, in prison "for his safety"? Even a well-staffed prison is not a safe or secure place.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Increase_in_suicides_in_UK_prisons%29

[ Ten Facts about Being Homeless in USA ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/14/ten-facts-about-being-homeless-usa ) . Basically, governments don't help the homeless as much and persecute them more.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Being_Homeless_in_USA%29

Is it possible for the US to bring Kurdish peshmerga from Iraq to Kobani by helicopter? That might save the Kurds of Kobani. Is it possible for the US to airdrop food and ammunition to them? Even if half of it fell into the hands of the jihadis, that half would make no material difference (they already have plenty of both), and the other half might save the Kurds of Kobani.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Transport_of_Kurdish_peshmerga%29

Jean Davis, 86 years old, fasted to death because her children were forbidden to help her [ get a less difficult death. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/19/right-to-die-campaigner-starved-herself-jean-davies )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Jean_Davis%29

Has the Christian Doctrine of Hell Become an [ Awkward Liability? ]( http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20141006 )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Hell%29

Thugs have repeatedly attacked the massed protesters in Hong Kong. The protesters resist the sticks and pepper spray [ without attacking. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/19/hong-kong-protesters-police-clash-second-night )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Hong_Kong%29

Human pharmaceuticals could be to blame for part of the massive destruction of wildlife now occurring.</a>
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Massive_Destruction%29