Israeli tanks are firing <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israel-using-flechette-shells-in-gaza">flechette
shells</a> that hit everyone in a large area 300 meters by 90 meters,
and using them in towns where civilians are likely to be hit. Gazans say Israel is using some sort of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/18-4">poison
gas</a>. Doctors in Gaza suspect Israel is using experimental weapons that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/15-2">rip human
bodies to shreds</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Israel_firing_flechette_shells%29

"Counter-terrorist" tactics can be effective against a small
underground group, but <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/18-5">not against an
insurgency with popular support</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Counter-terrorist_tactics%29

Why so many children flee from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador can
be traced to <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/07/14/all-they-will-call-you-will-be-detainee/">what
the US did to those countries</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Children_fleeing_from_Central_America%29

<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1405694550/">Uri
Avnery comments</a> on the fighting in Gaza.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28The_fighting_in_Gaza%29

Russia has a paid internet propaganda and <a href="http://m.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/russias-online-comment-propaganda-army/280432/">troll
army</a>. <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-may-aug.html#25%20May%202007%20(Corporate%20propaganda)">The
US has one too</a>. The US is funding research on how to <a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/air-force-research-how-to-use-social-media-to-control-people-like-drones/">manipulate
people through social networks</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Russias_paid_internet_propaganda%29

Everyone: <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-nbcnews-deborahturness?source=c.url&r_by=1135580">Call
on NBC News</a> to let Ayman Mohyeldin go back to Gaza.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Let_Mohyeldin_go_back_to_Gaza%29

A Russian radio station reports that <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/17/mh17-black-box-sent-to-moscow-for-investigation.html">rebels
sent the Malaysian plane's black box to Russia</a>. The "investigation" by Russia cant be trusted, but this meddling
confirms it was the rebels or Russia that shot down the plane. The article also provides evidence that Russia is firing lots of
short-range missiles at Ukraine. Unlike the ineffective missiles that
Hamas fires at Israeli civilians, these are a real threat to Ukrainian
troops.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Malaysian_planes_black_box_in_Russia%29

<a href="http://www.tdpf.org.uk/blog/world-health-organization-calls-decriminalisation-drug-use">WHO
calls for an end</a> to treating drug users as criminals.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Decriminalization_of_drug_use%29

Israeli soldiers are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israel-gaza-ground-offensive-hamas-tunnels">in
streets</a> fighting in Gaza. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/gaza-thousands-flee-israeli-bombardment">Thousands
of civilians are trying to flee</a>, but no place is safe.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Israeli_soldiers_in_Gaza%29

A wildfire in the state of Washington has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/washington-wildfire-growing-rapidly">burned
340 square miles</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Wildfire_in_state_of_Washington%29

An arrogant plutocrat <a href="http://pando.com/2014/07/17/new-san-francisco-billboard-warns-workers-theyll-be-replaced-by-ipads-if-they-demand-a-fair-wage/">threatens
San Francisco workers with being replaced by an oppressive
computer</a> if they demand decent wages. In the short term, the workers should simply repeat the demand, to
show they are not scared. In the medium term, they face the threat of being replaced by
computers in any case, so they should organize to prohibit that. Why
should stores be allowed to replace human sales clerks with computers?
It should be banned by law. Until then, I make a point of refusing to
use those machines, to push back against them. In the long term, everyone should get a guaranteed income, obtained by
taxing the owners of the robots. This should perhaps be conditioned
on not having children; however, anyone who adopts a child should get
a big subsidy.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28San_Francisco_workers_threatened%29

The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/18/intelligence-services-email-database-internet-tribunal">UK
is saving emails of lots of people</a>, without warrants, in case it
might be interested in them in the future. The R.I.P. act (for Rip Internet Privacy) was
an <a href="https://stallman.org/knock.html">injustice even with its
previous interpretation.</a> The UK must repeal it.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28UK_is_saving_emails_of_lots_of_people%29

Journalist Andy
Hall <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/itf-thailand-government-drop-andy-hall-defamation-trial">faces
the threat of imprisonment for revealing slavery in Thailand.</a> Making it a crime to publish an accusation of abuses is prima facie
injustice and inexcusable.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Journalist_Andy_Hall_faces_the_threat_of_imprisonment%29

US journalist Cokie
Roberts <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/07/14/cokie-roberts-more-people-should-fear-the-united-states/">bemoans
the fact that everyone around the world does not obey the US
government</a>. I think most governments fear the US too much; they let the US
pressure them into unjust plutocratic treaties. In the 90s, when I used to listen to National Public Radio, I loathed
Roberts' right-wing criticisms of right-wing "Democrat" Bill Clinton.
They showed me that NPR is actually rather right-wing, contrary to the
reputation it gets by contrast with the extremely right-wing
commercial US media such as Faux News.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Obey_the_US_government%29

Some Israelis go to hills near Gaza
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israelis-cheer-gaza-bombing">cheer
at the deadly bombardment.</a> A journalist suspected of not
sympathizing with them was threatened with violence.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Some_Israelis_cheer_at_deadly_bombardment%29

US citizens: tell Congress
to <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12524">support
the Hide No Harm Act</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Hide_No_Harm_Act%29

US citizens: phone your senators and urge
them <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/5278?t=1001&akid=11201.1183552.d6q_89">not
to block diplomacy with Iran</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Diplomacy_with_Iran%29

<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140715/17495527884/all-big-broadband-players-support-fccs-proposed-rules-which-says-all-you-need-to-know.shtml">All
The Big Broadband Players Support FCC's Proposed Rules</a>... Which
Says All You Need To Know.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28All_The_Big_Broadband_Players_Support_FCC%27s_Proposed_Rules%29

State legislators that support voter-ID
laws <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-07-state-legislators-favor-voter-id.html">show
a strong statistical tendency to discriminate against Latinos</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28State_legislators_that_support_voter-ID_laws%29

Syria says it
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/uk-policy-supporting-anti-assad-syria-rebels-called-stupid">stupid
to support the rebels and calls for the UK to support Assad</a>. The sad thing is, that is true. When the main Syrian rebel
groups <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/world/middleeast/syria-crisis.html?ref=world&_r=0">joined
with the Islamists</a>, they became enemies of human rights just as
much as Assad is. Here's an article
that <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2013/09/26/syrian-rebels-embrace-al-qaeda/">argues
that Israel and Saudi Arabia have promoted the violent rebellion in
Syria</a>, even as far as directly supporting jihadis. I wonder if Israel supports ISIS too.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Syria_calls_for_UK_to_support_Assad%29

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/16-2">The Rising
Global Movement That Calls for #noTTIP.</a>
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28The_Rising_Global_Movement_That_Calls_for_%23noTTIP%29

US
citizens: <a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/sign-the-petition-allow-post-offices-to-offer-basic-banking-services-1">Support
postal banking</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_postal_banking%29

The US <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/ars-editor-learns-feds-have-his-old-ip-addresses-full-credit-card-numbers/">keeps
lots of information</a> about everyone's airline ticket purchases and
appears to keep it for at least 10 years.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Airline_ticket_purchases%29

<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/18/us-australia-gmo-idUSKBN0FN06920140718">Even
in Isolated, Pristine Tasmania, Pressure to Allow GMO Farming</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Pressure_to_allow_GMO_farming%29

RJ Reynolds has been hit with 23 billion dollars in punitive damages
for advertising <a href="http://www.dw.de/us-cigarette-maker-reynolds-hit-with-23-billion-dollar-damages-award/a-17796366">designed
to make minors smoke</a>. The article says "children", but adolescents are not children, so I
won't use that word. Advertising tobacco to adolescents is arguably
even worse than advertising it to children, since children are not
likely to start smoking whereas adolescents may well do so.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Tobacco_ads_targeted_at_minors%29

<a href="http://innovationinsights.wired.com/insights/2014/07/7-reasons-internet-things-doomed/">7
Reasons Why the Internet of Things Is Doomed</a>. Actually, some of them are reasons why we should kill it,
which do not necessarily imply it is doomed on its own. A "smart house" project Japan is a scheme to impose <a href="http://www.dw.de/energy-hungry-japan-puts-smart-towns-to-the-test/a-17790945">total
surveillance and tracking</a>. This demonstrates the danger inherent in such schemes.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28The_Internet_of_Things%29

Google has <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/google-reverses-real-names-policy-7000031642/">abolished
the "real name" requirement</a> for Google account. This might mean that Google+ is acceptable to use. But I am not
certain, because I don't know the answer to two follow-on questions: What other personal data must one supply to make an account, and
do they amount to identification of the user? Is it possible to make
a Google account named "Rumplestiltskin358", contacting the server
through Tor, and not enable Google to identify you? Does that require running <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree
Javascript code</a>. Later: Google+ is useless without nonfree Javascript code,
so it should not be used.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Google_abolishes_real_name_requirement%29

India's censorship law is <a href="http://thenetmonitor.org/blog/posts/clampdowns-on-online-dissent-in-modi-s-india">being
used to persecute a critic of Modi</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Indias_censorship_law%29

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/mh17-victims-crash-site-anger-russia-grows">Ukrainian
rebels have not protected the jetliner's crash site</a> from looting
or disturbance of evidence. I regard this as proof of guilt. Demonstrating the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/russians-blame-kiev-mh17-not-ukraine-rebels">effectiveness
of state manipulation of the media</a>, most Russians believe the
downing of the Malaysian jet was a plot against Russia. This is comparable to the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_March_2014_(Deceptive_arguments_from_global_heating_denialists)">global
heating denial campaign</a> which has convinced so many Americans to
support political fantasy.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Looting_at_jetliner_crash_site%29

Israeli attacks <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/gaza-bloodiest-day-assault-kills-palestinians-israelis-hospitals">killed
100 Palestinians in one day</a>, many of them civilians. This included <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/gaza-crisis-obama-ceasefire-fighting-goes-on">shelling
a hospital</a>. Israel's tactics guarantee lots of civilian casualties. One must
question whether defense against attacks that might kill a few
civilians justifies a response that kills hundreds of civilians.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Israeli_attacks_kill_100_in_one_day%29

Coral cover in the Great Barrier
Reef <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/great-barrier-reef-in-worst-state-since-records-began">has
fallen by half since the 1980s</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Coral_cover_in_the_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

US
citizens: <a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6405/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=10116">support
the Paycheck Fairness Act</a>. More [ information ]( https://www.aclu.org/womens-rights/equal-pay-equal-work-pass-paycheck-fairness-act ) about it.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Paycheck_Fairness_Act%29

How the
Internet <a href="https://medium.com/message/how-to-always-be-right-on-the-internet-delete-your-mistakes-519a595da2f5">makes
it easy to create antedated "predictions" for fraud</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Antedated_predictions%29

US citizens: call on the Senate
to <a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/kill-the-monument-bill-hr-1459">reject
Republican plans to block new US National Monuments.</a>
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_US_National_Monuments%29

Human Rights Watch finds that most of the high-profile terrorist plots
that the US prosecutes
were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/government-agents-directly-involved-us-terror-plots-report">stimulated
by the US government, and the "perpetrators" were often reluctant</a>. The effect is systematic injustice, but it suits those that hate our
freedoms and are in a position to take them away by changing our laws.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28High-Profile_terrorist_plots%29

The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/jul/21/infrastructure-bill-stopping-reintroduction-wildlife-uk">UK
plans another attack on the natural world</a>, both wildlife and the
Earth's climate, proposing a legal requirement to extract the maximum
amount of fossil fuel.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28UK_plans_another_attack_on_the_natural_world%29

Some right-wing global heating deniers are driven to their delusion by
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2014/jul/21/paterson-green-blog-right-climate-change">ideological
opposition to using collective action to solve any problem.</a> Collective action through the state is also the way
to <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28San_Francisco_workers_threatened%29">stop
plutocrats from pushing most people into poverty</a>, which is another
reason those plutocratist politicians hate collective action.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Right-Wing_global_heating_deniers%29

If you stand for freedom or resist the rich, you have something to
fear from
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/21/activists-assata-shakur-state-surveillance-innocent">omniscient
state that supports the rich</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Omniscient_state_that_supports_the_rich%29

It turns out that climate
models <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jul/21/realistic-climate-models-accurately-predicted-global-warming">accurately
model the rate of Earth's surface heating, when not fooled by El
Niño/La Niña</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Climate_models%29

Gush Shalom <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1405609371">calls
for an end to the bombardment</a> of Gaza.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Call_for_end_to_bombardment_of_Gaza%29

Violent pogroms against Arabs are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/gaza-crisis-hamas-killed-friend-need-kill">spreading
in Israel</a> as many say they want to exterminate the inhabitants of
Gaza.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Violent_pogroms_against_Arabs%29

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/21-2">President
Obama Signs Executive Order Protecting LGBT People from Workplace
Discrimination</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Executive_order_to_protect_LGBT_people%29

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-up-beef-reduce-carbon-footprint-more-than-cars">Giving
Up Beef Will Reduce Carbon Footprint More Than Cars, Says Expert</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Beef_and_the_carbon_footprint%29

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/world-breaks-temperature-record-june-hottest-may">June
2014 was the hottest June on record</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Hottest_June_on_record%29

China is using fake Twitter accounts, masquerading as famous people,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/22/free-tibet-fake-twitter-accounts-china-propagandists">to
promote its occupation of Tibet</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28China_using_fake_Twitter_accounts%29

Time Magazine says the US economy is doing great, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/22-0">judging based
on the rich and the fossil fuel companies</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Time_Magazine_on_the_US_economy%29

Two UK MPs will ask a court to reject the UK's <a href="http://gigaom.com/2014/07/22/british-mps-to-sue-government-over-fast-tracked-drip-surveillance-law/">"emergency"
surveillance law</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28UKs_emergency_surveillance_law%29

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jul/22/terrorism-law-targets-words-guns-bombs">How
UK's Terrorism Law Targets Words, Not Just Guns And Bombs</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28UKs_terrorism_law_targets_words%29

Al Jazeera says <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/22/al-jazeera-gaza-offices-hit-israeli-fire">Israeli
troops fired at its building in Gaza</a>.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Al_Jazeera_building_hit%29

US citizens: <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14489">Tell
Secretary Vilsack</a> to publish the proposed rule for poultry
inspection, and hold hearings on it. The very idea of a secret rule proposal is offensive.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Poultry_inspection_rules%29