A commercial carbon-capture coal-burning [ power plant has opened. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/01/canada-switches-on-worlds-first-carbon-capture-power-plant ) In principle this can be part of a solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. If other forms of fossil fuel are cheaper, a simple tax can make them more expensive. Subsidizing fossil fuel use is harmful, but subsidizing a decrease in the CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use makes sense.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Commercial%29

The UK has grown in GDP since the economic crisis, but workers' pay remains lower [ than it was before the crisis. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/30/fall-uk-living-standards-deeper-ons-tuc ) The average decrease is just a few percent, so the UK government plans [ to cut aid to the working poor. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/30/david-cameron-cut-benefits-working-poor ) The Tories won't be satisfied until they have millions of Britons living in closets.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28The_UK_Grown_in_GDP%29

Another danger from fracking: mining the fine-grain sand [ it uses can poison water and air. ]( http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/09/12611/frac-sand-mining-puts-upper-midwest-communities-risk-report-confirms )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Fracking%29

How concentration of wealth hampers efforts to [ make a sustainable civilization. ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/30/why-unequal-planet-can-never-be-green )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Wealth_Hampers%29

Some Hong Kong students are preparing for a [ theoretical Chinese invasion. ]( http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-30/hong-kongs-protesters-watch-and-wait )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Hong_Kong_Students%29

Israel agreed to allow Gazans to fish 6 miles from shore, but unilaterally went back on the agreement, <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-forces-gaza-fishermen-undress-attack-violating-ceasefire-deal/13888"> and has attacked fishermen just a mile from shore.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Israel%29

Single Mothers Are the Real Casualties in [ Cameron's Class War. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/01/single-mothers-david-cameron-class-war-conservatives-tory-party-conference )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Single_Mothers%29

Putin remains, in spirit, a Soviet secret policeman who watched watched the East German tyranny collapse. He is determined to attack any challenge to the regime pre-emptively, [ to prevent protesters from winning. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/01/putin-power-east-germany-russia-kgb-dresden ) Nothing will convince Putin let go, but sooner or later he will die or become incapacitated. Economic sanctions against Russia may convince Putin's successors not to continue his tyranny.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Putin%29

Facebook now allows people to use aliases, [ but only if they are generally known by those aliases. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/01/victory-drag-queens-facebook-apologises-real-name-policy ) This is not much better than the previous "real names" policy. You can't have one account to show your boss and your parents and another for your friends.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Facebook%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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_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#01_October_2014_%28Gaza%29

A commercial carbon-capture coal-burning [ power plant has opened. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/01/canada-switches-on-worlds-first-carbon-capture-power-plant ) In principle this can be part of a solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. If other forms of fossil fuel are cheaper, a simple tax can make them more expensive. Subsidizing fossil fuel use is harmful, but subsidizing a decrease in the CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use makes sense.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Commercial%29

The UK has grown in GDP since the economic crisis, but workers' pay remains lower [ than it was before the crisis. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/30/fall-uk-living-standards-deeper-ons-tuc ) The average decrease is just a few percent, so the UK government plans [ to cut aid to the working poor. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/30/david-cameron-cut-benefits-working-poor ) The Tories won't be satisfied until they have millions of Britons living in closets.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28The_UK_Grown_in_GDP%29

Another danger from fracking: mining the fine-grain sand [ it uses can poison water and air. ]( http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/09/12611/frac-sand-mining-puts-upper-midwest-communities-risk-report-confirms )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Fracking%29

How concentration of wealth hampers efforts to [ make a sustainable civilization. ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/30/why-unequal-planet-can-never-be-green )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Wealth_Hampers%29

Some Hong Kong students are preparing for a [ theoretical Chinese invasion. ]( http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-30/hong-kongs-protesters-watch-and-wait )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Hong_Kong_Students%29

Israel agreed to allow Gazans to fish 6 miles from shore, but unilaterally went back on the agreement, <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-forces-gaza-fishermen-undress-attack-violating-ceasefire-deal/13888"> and has attacked fishermen just a mile from shore.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Israel%29

Single Mothers Are the Real Casualties in [ Cameron's Class War. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/01/single-mothers-david-cameron-class-war-conservatives-tory-party-conference )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Single_Mothers%29

Putin remains, in spirit, a Soviet secret policeman who watched watched the East German tyranny collapse. He is determined to attack any challenge to the regime pre-emptively, [ to prevent protesters from winning. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/01/putin-power-east-germany-russia-kgb-dresden ) Nothing will convince Putin let go, but sooner or later he will die or become incapacitated. Economic sanctions against Russia may convince Putin's successors not to continue his tyranny.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Putin%29

Facebook now allows people to use aliases, [ but only if they are generally known by those aliases. ]( http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/01/victory-drag-queens-facebook-apologises-real-name-policy ) This is not much better than the previous "real names" policy. You can't have one account to show your boss and your parents and another for your friends.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Facebook%29

Israeli fanatics, aided by soldiers, [ forced a Palestinian family out of its apartment ]( http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=730914 ) in Jerusalem. The army [ regularly helps them establish outposts that the government says it has not authorized ]( http://972mag.com/how-the-army-helps-settlers-establish-illegal-outposts/96997/ ) . (It is misleading to call only these colonies "illegal", since they are [ all illegal under international law ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jul-oct.html#23%20July%202009%20(Israel%20may%20remove%20outposts) ) .) The army demolished an apartment building in Abu Dis, a Palestinian town just across the annexation wall from Jerusalem, [ not giving the inhabitants time to remove their belongings ]( http://www.imemc.org/article/69257 ) . The Palestinian Authority had given permission to build additional three floors, but Israel treats those permits as invalid as an excuse to practice systematic harassment of Palestinians.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Israeli_soldiers_aid_fanatics%29

Small satellites, "cubesats", are being placed in long-lived orbits thus [ increasing the danger of collisions that generate space debris ]( http://phys.org/news/2014-09-space-debris-expert-cubesat-collision.html ) . The disaster shown in the movie Gravity is in fact happening, though [ far more slowly than in the movie ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#06%20July%202010%20(Global%20Warming%20and%20space%20junk) ) . The question is whether we can find a way to stop it. In the mean time, we should not do stupid things that are likely to speed it up.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_October_2014_%28Space_debris%29

Stiglitz: The euro-zone austerity has caused [ tremendous harm ]( http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/01/austerity-eurozone-disaster-joseph-stiglitz ) , all of which could have been avoided. If you judge these budget cuts in terms of the supposed goals of nations' policies, they are failure. But they are very effective as an intentional [ shock (as Naomi Klein puts it) ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_June_2013_(Anti-shock_doctrines) ) to transfer wealth to the plutocrats.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Euro-zone_austerity%29

US thugs and prosecutors are distributing software to "protect children", which is really [ spyware ]( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/computercop-dangerous-internet-safety-software-hundreds-police-agencies ) . Americans are so [ insanely obsessed with overprotecting children ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_(Overprotection_of_children) ) that you can get them to swallow almost any form of abuse in the name of doing that.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Spyware_to_protect_children%29

Corruption has been discovered at the center of the UK's cabinet, [ in someone who is not a minister ]( http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/02/jeremy-heywood-civil-service-hospitality-centrica-goldman-sachs ) . The ministers are [ overtly corrupt ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_September_2014_(Price_of_meeting_UK_ministers) ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Corruption_in_UKs_cabinet%29

In Sudan, women get [ flogged for not covering their hair ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/02/sudan-morality-laws-women-report ) . Jailing is common, for women who aren't totally submissive.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Sudan_flogs_women%29

US media supported democracy in Egypt for 6 weeks, but is now firmly (with the US government) [ on the side of military repression ]( https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=5925 ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28US_media_supports_tyranny_in_Egypt%29