US citizens: sign [ this petition ]( http://unitedforferguson.com/ ) to demilitarize and reform US thugs.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Demilitarize_US_thugs%29

In the US: [ call on banks ]( http://other98.com/revoke-wall-streets-license-steal/ ) to drop their forced arbitration clauses.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_forced_arbitration_clauses%29

[ On doxing ]( https://stallman.org/doxing.html ) , and how to spell it.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28On_Doxing%29

New pun, [ Facebook's policies ]( https://stallman.org/puns.html ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28New_Facebook_Pun%29

The practice of privately hiring thugs with the legal power to arrest, or to look the other way, [ endangers the rights of those who aren't paying ]( http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=817916&qid=4027925 ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Privately_hired_thugs%29

[ Weekly "Moral Monday" protests ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/13/fight-back-protesters-stage-moral-monday-civil-disobedience-actions-ferguson ) have begun in Ferguson and in nearby St Louis.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Moral_Monday_protests%29

[ Various Republican forms of political sabotage ]( http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/10/12628/war-witches-reagan-judge-denounces-myth-voter-fraud ) worked together to support Wisconsin's voter ID law, leading to a split between modern "hold power no matter how" Republicans and older Republicans who have some loyalty to the ideals of a free political system.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Wisconsins_voter_ID_law%29

North Korea is keeping its people hungry to [ export rice to wealthier China ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/why-north-korea-exporting-food-china ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28North_Korea_keeping_people_hungry%29

The UK plans to deport Liaquat Ali Hazara to Pakistan [ where he faces death threats from religious fanatics ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/uk-deport-pakistani-activist-liaquat-ali-hazara ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28UK_to_deport_activist_to_Pakistan%29

[ Fighting has flared up ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/turkish-jets-bombard-kurdish-positions-pkk ) between Kurds in Turkey and the Turkish state. This fighting seems to have been provoked by Turkey's policy of passively helping PISSI to capture Kobani.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Kurds_in_Turkey_fighting_the_state%29

President Morales of Bolivia was reelected after his socialist policies [ reduced poverty and grew the economy ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/14/evo-morales-reelected-socialism-doesnt-damage-economies-bolivia ) . You can cause economic growth with right-wing policies too, as the US and UK have demonstrated, but doing it that way increases poverty.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Bolivia_reelects_Morales%29

Louisiana plans a megaproject to reclaim some of the [ 2000 square miles lost to the sea in the last century ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/14/lost-louisiana-the-race-to-reclaim-vanished-land-back-from-the-sea ) . In principle, it is a good idea, but it will be futile if we don't stop pumping out the greenhouse gases that melt icecaps and raise sea level even more.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Reclaiming_Louisiana_land_lost_to_sea%29

Ireland will close [ one of the tax loopholes ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/ireland-abolish-double-irish-tax-scheme-apple ) that multinational corporations use to avoid paying tax on their income cross Europe. However, Ireland's low corporation tax still constitutes beggar-thy-neighbor. The rest of Europe, if it were not corrupted by those same corporations, would make Ireland stop this.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Ireland_to_close_a_tax_loophole%29

Modern western society isolates the young and the old, leaving them with [ no idea of anything to want except wealth ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/14/age-of-loneliness-killing-us ) . The statistics cited are from the UK, but I expect it is true in the US as well. When hippies wished to live in communes, it had to be a rejection of the beginnings of this. The communes failed because just wishing isn't enough to make a new social system succeed. The loneliness of old people, many of whom had children, shows that [ having children is not a solution ]( https://stallman.org/articles/children.html ) . Being part of some other sort of community, such as a political activist community that defends people who are being exploited, can make your life a lot less lonely as well as helping others.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Isolation_of_young_and_old%29

"Sports drinks" are mostly used outside of the context of sports, and are [ bad for people's health ]( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/14/energy-drinks-significant-health-risk-who-study-finds ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Sports_drinks%29

Russia's principal human rights organization since Soviet times, founded by Andrei Sakharov, is [ going to be shut down by Putin ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/russian-human-rights-group-faces-threat-closure ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Putin_to_shut_down_human_rights_organization%29

US citizens: [ call on Obama ]( http://support.edf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=cut_pollution_from_oil_and_gas_industry ) to take action quickly to curb methane leaks from oil and gas extraction. It appears this [ needs to be done for coal mining ]( https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_(US_coal_mine_methane_leaks) ) too.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Curb_methane_leaks%29

One Administration's Terrorist Is Another's Freedom Fighter. Just Ask the [ PKK ]( https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6724 ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28The_PKK%29

Israel continues to keep [ 33 members of the Palestinian Parliament in prison, mostly without charges ]( http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=732223 ) . The kidnaping and murder of three teenagers is used as the pretext for this, although these elected officials had nothing to do with it. Imagine if Palestinians could put Israeli right-wing politicians in prison because [ Israeli fanatics murdered a Palestinian teenager ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_(Israeli_hate_for_Arabs) ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Imprisoned_Palestinian_Parliament_members%29

Israel [ destroyed the power grid ]( http://www.btselem.org/planning_and_building/20141002_destruction_of_power_grid_in_khirbet_a_twayel ) of a Palestinian village that Israel threatens to demolish entirely.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Israel_destroys_villages_power_grid%29

How a city can set up a [ public bank ]( http://www.nationofchange.org/2014/10/14/building-ark-protect-public-revenues-next-meltdown/ ) and make its funds secure against failure of the big bankster banks.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Public_banks%29

A US wireless ISP is reportedly [ sabotaging TLS security by acting as a man in the middle ]( Https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141012/06344928801/revealed-isps-already-violating-net-neutrality-to-block-encryption-make-everyone-less-safe-online.shtml ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Sabotage_of_TLS_security%29

New York City thugs keep on [ bashing and injuring unarmed people ]( http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/cop-knocks-out-teen-for-smoking-cigarette-video.html ) who are not even suspected of doing anything seriously wrong. If you want to watch the YouTube video, please download it using youtube-dl. If you view it from the site directly, that requires either [ Flash or nonfree Javascript code ]( http://gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html ) . Another New York City thug [ stole a thousand dollars from a man ]( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/nyregion/man-accuses-officer-of-taking-more-than-1000-video-prompts-investigation.html?_r=1 ) after harassing him because he objected to how the thug was treating his friend.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28NYC_thug_violence%29

A SWAT team shot and [ killed a homeowner who tried to protect himself from a repeat burglary ]( https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141004/15443628731/swat-team-raids-house-kills-homeowner-because-criminal-who-burglarized-house-told-them-to.shtml ) . He didn't know that the burglar claimed to have stolen drugs from him. I don't see anything saying where this took place, except that it is in the US. Can anyone tell me? Thieves do steal drugs and drug equipment. Perhaps it was reasonable to investigate the accusation against Hooks. The central problem is the repeating tendency of SWAT raids to kill innocent people.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28A_repeating_tendency_of_SWAT_raids%29

Whaling interests in Japan [ paid a PR company in the 1970s to fabricate a "national tradition" ]( http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/14/national/researcher-aims-to-bust-myth-of-japans-whale-eating-culture/ ) of eating whale meat.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Japans_national_tradition%29

Even being wealthy graduates of prestigious schools doesn't enable US blacks to protect their children from [ racist insults ]( http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2014/10/08/pages/7596/index.xml ) . What makes the most impression on me is how far blacks in the US have to bend over backwards to avoid being falsely accused or treated with prejudice. These precautions seem to have been mostly effective — being called a nasty name is not that bad on the scale of human injustice — but it's unfair for anyone to have to do that. Meanwhile, think of all the people (black or not) who aren't in the families of wealthy graduates of prestigious schools. They don't deserve to be harassed either.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Harassment%29

The UK plans to allow fracking companies to put [ "any substance" under people's homes, without informing them ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/14/uk-to-allow-fracking-companies-to-use-any-substance-under-homes ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28UK_fracking%29

Nurses accuse Dallas hospital of having [ inadequate equipment to protect them from Ebola, and lousy procedures too ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/dallas-nurses-accuse-hospital-sloppy-safety-ebola ) . Two of them have caught an Ebola infection.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Two_nurses_catch_Ebola_in_Dallas%29

US diabetics are [ three times as likely to get a leg amputated if they are black, than if they are white ]( http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-14/diabetes-what-explains-the-higher-rate-of-amputations-for-blacks ) . It is not clear why, but it has to be due to prejudice one way or another.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Rates_of_amputations_for_US_diabetics%29

US citizens: [ Call on Obama ]( https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3599 ) to cancel oil exploration on the Atlantic coast, which will make loud sounds that injure whales and dolphins. I put this as my message. To avoid global heating disaster, we need to leave 80% of fossil fuel reserves in the ground. Finding more reserves is at best a waste, and when it injures whales, it is worse than a waste.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_oil_exploration%29

[ Obama's persecution of reporters' sources ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/15/leak-prosecutions-obama-takes-it-11-or-should-we-say-526 ) , and how it dwarfs previous US history.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_October_2014_%28Persecution_of_reporters_sources%29

US state governors are [ privatizing state services for profit ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/15/outsourcing-public-services-governors-push-privatization-disastrous-results ) . In some cases, their own profit. It is not just states. Chicago [ privatized parking meters ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#14_June_2012_(New_York_parking_meter_privatization) ) and was greatly shafted.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_October_2014_%28Privatization_of_state_services%29

A TV personality has received [ rape threats ]( http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/16/richard-madeley-chloe-trolls-rape-threats-prosecution ) after speaking in favor of allowing a convict to resume his previous job after release from prison for rape. Her daughter received rape threats too. You may agree or disagree with her statement, but threats are not justified as a response. The US imposes so many kinds of exclusions on ex-cons that, unless they are geniuses, they are almost condemned to a life of crime. This is not in society's interest; it results from politicians' desire to look tough. I don't know whether it is the same in the UK. It seems to me that people who object to giving this particular ex-con this particular job back view sports stars as symbols of an ideal person. A rapist is a bad choice for an ideal person, but then, I don't consider professional sports as the site to find ideal persons in. I think it is just a well-paid job.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_October_2014_%28Rape_threats_against_TV_personality%29

Saudi Arabia sentenced a Shi'ite religious leader to death, [ for "crimes" amounting to dissent ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/saudi-arabia-death-sentence-shia-nimr-baqir-human-rights ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_October_2014_%28Death_sentence_for_dissent%29

New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager revealed evidence of the ruling party's dirty political tricks; then thugs [ raided his house and seized his computers ]( https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6870 ) . Evidently the politicians that control New Zealand prefer to keep crime secret rather than behave honestly.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Thugs_raid_journalists_house%29

The crass remarks of a Tory minister reveal an already-existing abuse, where people are pushed into self-employment so as to pay them [ less than a minimum wage ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/16/lord-freud-crass-self-employment-wages ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Pushing_people_into_self-employment%29

[ All the MPs ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/greece-golden-dawn-mps-tried-criminal-offences ) of the Golden Dawn party face charges of murder and other acts of violence. This worries me. The party is neo-Nazi, and some of its members commit violence, but are all of them directly implicated in the violence — or are they going to be tried for their political views? This resembles [ the way Israel arrested hundreds of Hamas supporters and even MPs ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#02_September_2011_(Israel_Attacks_Hamas) ) using a real crime as a pretext.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28All_MPs_of_Golden_Dawn_face_charges%29

Whisper, which promises its users anonymity, [ records their location at each post ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/-sp-whispers-secret-safest-place-internet-tracks-users ) . The pattern of a single user's movements can more or less identify who that user is. [ More dirt on whisper ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/-sp-whisper-privacy-policy-terms-of-service ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Whisper_records_user_locations%29

ACLU: [ the dangers ]( https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/creation-giant-voiceprint-databases ) posed by collecting millions of people's voiceprints.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Peoples_voiceprints%29

Annie Machon: [ GCHQ prostituting itself to the NSA ]( http://rt.com/op-edge/195716-nsa-gchq-selling-privacy-surveillance/ ) over the last few years.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28GCHQ_and_NSA%29

The latest TPP draft [ proposes to make coffeehouses liable when their patrons use the internet for sharing ]( http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-tpp-draft-reveals-tough-anti-piracy-measures-141016/ ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28TPP%29

[ Egypt's US-Backed Military Regime is Brutalizing Student Protestors ]( https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6905 ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Student_protesters_in_Egypt%29

The UK NHS is so underfunded that its staff shortages [ endanger patients ]( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/17/nhs-staff-shortages-risk-patients-cqc-report ) . The reason the NHS is underfunded is plutocratic refusal to tax businesses and the rich; they demand to be subsidized instead.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28UK_NHS_staff_shortages%29

[ Seven potential disasters ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/16/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-seven-worst-case-scenarios-battle-islamic-state ) that could result from fighting PISSI. It appears to me that we must accept sectarian partition of Iraq. It has, de facto, already happened, and accepting it is the only way to convince Iraqi Sunnis they can protect themselves without PISSI. PISSI is the [ Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_(PISSI) ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Fighting_PISSI%29

Raising the minimum wage to match what it was in the 1960s would [ save 1.7 million Americans from needing public assistance ]( http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/16/raising-minimum-wage-would-take-least-17-million-workers-public-assistance-and ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Minimum_wage_of_the_1960s%29

A new leak of the part of the draft [ Trans-Pacific Partnership ]( https://stallman.org/images/trance-pacific-partnership.en.jpg ) shows that the US is pushing mass murder in the form of [ tightened patent power on medicines ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/16/leaked-tpp-chapter-exposes-sweet-deals-big-pharma-and-us-bully-tactics ) . This treaty does harm already, although it is still a draft, simply by using the [ propaganda term "intellectual property" ]( http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html ) to lump together various unrelated laws. To repeat that term is to boost the confusion — and we don't have to repeat it. Since I identified the term as a confusion-spreader, ten years ago, I have not used it once. I will say that the TPP negotiators put the bogus label "intellectual property" on this chapter but I will not use the term myself.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28New_TPP_leak%29

In Australia, government policy makes millenials poor and the rest of society blames them for it. Many of them, not realizing the fault isn't theirs, are [ going crazy ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/17/generation-y-didnt-go-crazy-in-a-vacuum-how-can-we-enjoy-life-when-our-future-is-so-uncertain ) . The first step in not going crazy is to realize that the injustice is imposed by the state. The second step is to unite to kick out plutocracy. If the rich were not getting richer, there would be enough for the aged and the young.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Australias_millenials%29

Microsoft [ uses US courts to shut down companies by seizing their domain names so clients cannot contact them ]( http://www.wired.com/2014/10/microsoft-pinkerton/ ) . The court cases go on without informing the targeted companies.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28How_Microsoft_shuts_down_companies%29

Everyone: sign [ this petition ]( http://act.credoaction.com/sign/hong_kong_protesters?t=1002 ) of solidarity with Hong Kong democracy protesters.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Solidarity_with_HK_protesters%29