The Satanic Temple [ demands a religious exception to laws restricting abortion. ]( http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/07/28/3464769/satanists-hobby-lobby-abortion/ )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28A_religious_exception_to_laws_restricting_abortion%29

US citizens: support the Marshall Islands in [ demanding an end to nuclear weapons ]( http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/support-the-marshall ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Demanding_an_end_to_nuclear_weapons%29

ALEC is recruiting states to try to [ block the EPA from regulating CO2 emissions from electric plants. ]( http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/08/12559/how-alec-fronts-fossil-fuels ) ALEC is funded by fossil fuel companies and the Koch brothers, and their agenda is to make us burn as much fossil fuel as possible and run at high speed into climate disaster.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28ALEC_recruiting_states_to_try_to_block_EPA%29

New figures from the Commerce Department show that [ US inequality growth is even more than was believed ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/05/inside-our-profoundly-unequal-new-normal ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28US_inequality%29

In the US, for-profit home health care agencies working for Medicare [ cost more and provide worse care ]( http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/08/05/profit-home-care-agencies-cost-medicare-billions-extra-yet-provide-worse-care ) . This is natural. Their profit has to come out of the patients and the public. Privatizing a public service is nearly always harmful unless it enables the public to buy directly from a competitive market.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28For-profit_home_health_care%29

Libraries around the US are [ starting to lend traditional seeds ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/04/agri-terrorism-towns-seed-library-shut-down ) as well as books, but Pennsylvania says it presents a danger of "terrorism".
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Seed_libraries%29

Fertilizer runoff has led to a [ toxic algae bloom in Lake Erie ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/04/ohio-city-lifts-drinking-water-ban-fears-remain-over-lake-erie-toxins ) . The waste of fertilizer will haunt us too, as supplies of some chemical fertilizers are running out.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Fertilizer_runoff_in_Lake_Erie%29

A [ class-action lawsuit ]( http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/05/sign-up-austrian-student-facebook-class-action-data-violations ) against Facebook for violating privacy adds up to 8 million euros. I agree with the plaintiffs in spirit, but the victory they aim for would take the form of limiting the use of giant data bases. That isn't enough to give us privacy where we really need it. We need to [ prevent the accumulation of giant data bases about people ]( http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html ) . In particular, don't be a used of [ Facebook ]( https://stallman.org/facebook.html ) at all.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Lawsuit_against_Facebook%29

Most of the chicken sold in the UK is [ contaminated with campylobacter ]( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/05/majority-supermarket-chicken-contaminated-campylobacter-fsa ) , which causes stomach illness that is sometimes fatal. Hygiene standards are evidently not good enough. Either it is the same in the US, or it would be the same if standards are lowered. This is part of the reason why the [ US proposal to reduce inspection standards ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_May_2014_(Plans_to_end_chicken_inspection) )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Chicken_sold_in_UK_contaminated%29

Abbott proposes a [ broad attack on human rights ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/tony-abbott-extension-terrorism-laws-amid-jihadi-fears ) in Australia in the name of "fighting terrorism".
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Abbott_fighting_terrorism%29

Unemployed Britons describe the [ impossible hoops of the "jobcenters" ]( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/05/even-the-sight-of-a-cv-would-give-me-an-anxiety-attack-guardian-readers-on-benefit-sanctions ) that were set up to create excuses to punish them. I think they would advance their rights more if they got together and held a sit-in in front of a jobcenter, demanding to be put in prison. Civil rights protesters showed their contempt for unjust law by filling the jails; why not the unemployed? But they have to refuse to do any work while in prison that the state would profit from.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Impossible_hoops_of_UK_jobcenters%29

Global heating is [ hitting Europe's forests hard ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/05/europes-forests-particularly-vulnerable-to-rapid-climate-change ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Europes_forests%29

Russia [ threatens to block the BBC web site ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/russia-bans-siberia-independence-march-extremism-law ) for an interview with Siberians who wanted to march for Siberian independence. I can understand why they don't want to be ruled by Putin, but why leave the rest of Russia behind?
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Russia_threatens_to_block_BBC%29

A news site indirectly owned by Comcast deleted an article about [ Comcast-funded astroturf organizing against network neutrality ]( https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140802/07022828089/minority-astroturf-group-gets-comcast-affiliated-news-site-to-remove-article-about-minority-astroturfing-net-neutrality.shtml ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Group_makes_news_site_delete_article%29

Why was a SWAT team sent to disarm a [ Texas grandmother with a shotgun ]( http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/08/swat-team-grandma.html ) ?
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28SWAT_sent_to_disarm_grandmother%29

[ Democracy is at stake ]( http://commondreams.org/views/2014/08/04/obamas-war-journalism-coming-head ) in Obama's threat to imprison reporter James Risen. You can still [ sign the petition ]( http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9775 ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Obamas_threat_to_imprison_Risen%29

India blocked a proposed trade treaty because it [ threatens food security for poor countries ]( http://commondreams.org/views/2014/08/04/ten-reasons-saying-no-north-over-trade ) . The argument that a "free trade" treaty would good because it "adds to the world's wealth" is fallacious even if it really does add to total wealth: these treaties, in today's plutocratic system, assure that all the increment goes to the plutocrats. It's another form of the "trickle-down" swindle.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28India_blocks_proposed_trade_treaty%29

5 infectious diseases that are [ more dangerous in the US than Ebola ]( http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/08/5-diseases-are-scarier-ebola ) , in terms of how likely it is that you will get one and die of it.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Infectious_diseases_in_the_US%29

Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson [ call for the UN to order an end to the siege of Gaza ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/05/gaza-blockade-must-end-un-first-step-settlement ) . There is a 72-hour cease fire at present, but converting that into peace will be [ difficult ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/gaza-ceasefire-first-step-intractable-problems ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Call_for_end_to_siege_of_Gaza%29

Right-wing militias now helping Ukraine's army fight rebels [ might become dangerous ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/ukraine-revolution-dream-stalling-war-east ) once that is over</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Right-wing_militias_in_Ukraine%29

If you are [ sick of a market-driven world ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/05/neoliberalism-mental-health-rich-poverty-economy ) , maybe you still have some values that aren't aligned with plutocracy.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Market-driven_world%29

Abu Wa'el Dhiab, a prisoner in Guantanamo, has been approved for release to Uruguay, but since that might not happen for years, he is [ hunger striking basically to death and suing to end force-feeding ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/guantanamo-bay-prisoner-hunger-strike-force-feeding ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Guantanamo_prisoner_approved_for_release%29

US citizens: [ tell the EPA ]( https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=13859 ) that Americans are ready for strong action to reduce CO2 emissions.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Action_to_reduce_CO2_emissions%29

US citizens: [ call for continued protection ]( https://secure.wilderness.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2719 ) of wild bighorn sheep from the danger of disease transmitted by domestic sheep.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_wild_bighorn_sheep%29

US citizens: [ tell the EPA ]( https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3553 ) you support its decision to block Pebble Mine.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Pebble_Mine%29

Illustrating the evil of making it a crime to possess pornography, a man in the UK was [ convicted of the crime of not knowing how to delete all copies of a disgusting video sent to him by a stranger ]( http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/two-men-convicted-keeping-truly-3949241 ) . I don't understand the pretext for banning pornography involving animals. If extreme animal rights activists demanded that, at least there would be some sense in it. [ "Child pornography" should not be illegal either ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#15_September_2012_(Censorship_of_child_pornography) ) . I wonder how long it will take for thugs to start carrying around kids they can fondle as they arrest people and beat them up. Then any photos of the brutality would be "child pornography", and the photographer would be sent to prison.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Criminalising_possession_of_porn%29

US citizens: [ call on the US ]( https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1671 ) to stop giving out coal leases that are effectively give-aways to mining companies.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_coal_lease_give-aways%29

US citizens: [ oppose Obama's plan to allow oil drilling in Arctic waters ]( https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=888EF825E5FB12C5A17402BD4D4A2453.app304b?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1607&utm_source=crm&autologin=true#start ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_oil_drilling_in_Arctic_waters%29

Everyone: call on Coca Cola Company to [ stop opposing laws to label GMOs ]( http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/coca-cola-stop-funding?source=mo&id=99445-2794606-FiAgrRx&=&= ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_opposing_laws_to_label_GMOs%29

The US owes reparations to Guatemala's poor for the [ repression that it financed for decades ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/06/then-and-now-us-policy-towards-central-american-fuels-crisis ) . I don't think that these reparations must obligatorily take the form of allowing Guatemalans to move to the US in large quantities. It would be fine to give them the means for a decent life at home.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28US_owes_reparations_to_Guatemala%27s_poor%29

Australia [ orders dismissal of Save the Children staff ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/nauru-staff-suspended-for-watching-peaceful-asylum-seeker-protests ) teaching children Australia for expressing sympathy with protesters.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Australia_orders_dismissal_of_Save_the_Children_staff%29

40,000 Iraqis of a [ minority sect are stranded without water ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/40000-iraqis-stranded-mountain-isis-death-threat ) , but face mass murder by Isis if they leave their mountain. Mohammed said it is legitimate to lie if someone forces you to convert to some other religion. I agree: lying is less bad than killing, so when killing in self defense is justified, as in a case like this, so is lying. By this standard, the trapped Yazidis could agree to "convert", flee the area, then say they lied under coersion. They would have to stay out of Isis's hands, however. Muslim fanatics do not apply the Golden Rule to their own fanaticism.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%2840%2C000_Iraqis_are_stranded_without_water%29

US citizens: tell the Fish and Wildlife service [ not to reduce protection of manatees ]( https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2771 ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Do_not_reduce_protection_of_manatees%29

The US Army Corps of Engineers has [ agreed to obey pollution laws with its dams ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/06/win-for-clean-water-as-polluting-dams-forced ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28US_Army_Corps_of_Engineers_agree_to_obey_pollution_laws%29

Even Wall Street Thinks [ Income Inequality Could "Capsize" the Economy ]( http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/08/income-inequality-damaging-economy-says-new-report ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Income_Inequality_Could_Capsize_the_Economy%29

[ Civil war in South Sudan continues and aid workers are being killed ]( http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/aug/06/un-murder-south-sudan-humanitarian-workers ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Civil_war_in_South_Sudan_continues%29

Workers and customers have joined to fight [ against the change in management of Market Basket supermarkets ]( http://commondreams.org/news/2014/08/05/market-basket-workers-customers-join-unprecedented-uprising-against-corporate-greed ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28The_change_in_management_of_Market_Basket_supermarkets%29

Mercury pollution from industry and burning coal [ accumulates in the oceans ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/06/pollution-triples-mercury-levels-oceans ) near the surface and gradually poisons marine life.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Mercury_pollution%29

Israeli dissident Gideon Levy, who criticized the Israeli air force for callously bombing civilians, is [ receiving death threats from powerful right-wing politicians ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/gaza-israel-movement-that-dare-not-speak-its-name ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Death_threats_against_Israeli_dissident%29

Mothers of murdered Argentine dissidents are [ finding some of their kidnaped grandchildren ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/argentine-grandmothers-plaza-mayo-kercher-grandson-guido-disappeared ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Kidnaped_children_of_Argentine_dissidents%29

The Obama regime crossed out so much text in the Senate's CIA torture report that it becomes [ unreadable ]( http://commondreams.org/news/2014/08/05/obama-administration-redactions-torture-report-render-it-impossible-understand ) . Senator Feinstein threatens to punish the CIA by [ not publishing the report ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/top-senator-rejects-cia-torture-report-redactions-ahead-of-release ) ?!? Isn't that exactly what the CIA would prefer? If the senate is serious, it should stick an amendment into some must-pass legislation giving the senate full control over what it publishes in this report.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28CIA_torture_report_unreadable%29

Dozens of major US corporations are [ planning to move overseas to dodge taxes ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/06/huge-number-tax-dodging-corporations-preparing-expatriate ) . Any politician who refuses to change laws to undo the effects of this is working for those corporations — which is treason.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28US_corporations_planning_to_dodge_taxes%29

Almost half the people in the US list of terrorist suspects have [ no connection to any known terrorist group ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/05/classified-documents-show-us-governments-flawed-secret-terrorist-tracking-system ) . Since that the US designates groups as "terrorist" arbitrarily, [ without a trial ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_November_2013_(Sheik_declared_terrorist_without_trial) ) , some "known terrorist" groups may not really be terrorist groups.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28US_list_of_terrorist_suspects%29

Walgreens gave way to the pressure campaign and [ decided to keep its headquarters in Chicago ]( http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/aug/06/walgreens-buys-alliance-boots-9bn-pounds ) . One factor that may tend to encourage US companies to move their headquarters elsewhere is to take advantage of [ "investor-state" lawsuit provisions ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_October_2013_(Companies_are_now_exercising_investor-state_provisions) ) in existing and [ proposed ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_May_2014_(Obama_compares_opponents_of_the_TPP_to_conspiracy_theorists) ) [ free exploitation treaties ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#01%20February%202011%20(Free%20exploitation%20treaties) ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Walgreens_to_stay_in_the_US%29

The UK government edited Wikipedia to [ downplay cases where UK thugs shot people dead ]( http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/07/wikipedia-edits-government-high-profile-killings ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Wikipedia_edits_made_by_UK_gov%27t%29

A giant coal mine in China is illegally [ eating up a nature reserve ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/07/illegal-coal-mine-nature-reserve-china ) . To make sure Chinese people can't complain about this, China is imposing [ tight control on all Internet communications ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/china-intensifies-social-media-crackdown-curbs-instanrt-messaging ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Illegal_coal_mines_in_China%29

Edward Snowden will be allowed to stay in Russia [ three more years ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/edward-snowden-permission-stay-in-russia-three-years ) . I am sure he would rather be in Bolivia, but the US wants him to be in Russia.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Snowden_allowed_three_more_years_in_Russia%29

Obama could save Argentina from the vultures with a simple order, but [ he has already capitulated to them ]( http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2014/aug/07/argentina-debt-crisis-barack-obama-paul-singer-vulture-funds ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_August_2014_%28Obama_could_save_Argentina_from_the_vultures%29

[ Demand in China for shark's fin has crashed ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/chinas-choice/2014/aug/08/sales-of-shark-fin-china-drop-70 ) , as many Chinese refuse to eat it out of concern for the danger of driving sharks to extinction. Maybe similar education campaigns could end the demand for tiger bone and rhino horn.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_August_2014_%28Demand_in_China_for_shark%27s_fin_has_crashed%29

Israeli troops [ left shit and words of hatred in Ahmed Owedat's home ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/palestinians-return-home-israeli-troops-faeces-graffiti ) after destroying the appliances and stealing his life savings. They did similar things in a girl's school while occupying it as a base to destroy houses all around. These acts fit the [ general hatred of Arabs expressed by Israelis today ]( https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Israeli_peace_movement%29 ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_August_2014_%28Israeli_troops%29