The US Supreme Court [ blocked the voter-ID law ]( http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/10/voter-id-law-blocked-us-supreme-court-wisconsin-texas ) in Wisconsin.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Wisconsin_voter-ID_law_blocked%29

Satellite data suggest that coal mines in the US southwest are [ leaking lots of methane ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/10/satellite-data-shows-surprising-methane-hotspot-in-us-southwest ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28US_coal_mine_methane_leaks%29

Airplane cleaners in New York went on strike [ demanding protection from diseases in vomit and shit that they have to clean up ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/airline-cabin-cleaners-strike-over-ebola-fears-at-laguardia-airport ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28NY_airplane_cleaners_on_strike%29

Hong Kong democracy protesters have [ resumed large protests ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/hong-kong-protesters-government-pulls-out-talks ) after the government reneged on talks.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28HK_democracy_protests_resume%29

There will be a last-ditch attempt to [ block two new nuclear power plants in the UK, on the grounds that the subsidy will be a burden for the country ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/12/ecotrcity-legal-challenge-eu-hinkley-point-c-subsidy-nuclear ) . The reason that it is a burden is that the same amount of money could buy a lot more in renewable energy and negawatts (improved efficiency).
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Attempt_to_block_block_nuclear_power_plants%29

California aquifers [ contaminated with billions of gallons of fracking wastewater ]( http://rt.com/usa/194620-california-aquifers-fracking-contamination/ ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28California_aquifers_contaminated%29

Centralized social networks [ can learn a lot about people that don't directly give them data ]( http://www.wired.com/2014/10/privacy-friendster/ ) , through what others say about them and even who knows them. In other words, you should insist that your friends not mention you by name or email address in anything they post on centralized social networks. I think this applies to gmail as well.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Centralized_social_networks%29

Putin has [ withdrawn a substantial fraction of troops from near the border with Ukraine ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/vladimir-putin-russian-troops-ukraine-border ) . This could still leave substantial numbers to sneak into Ukraine and attack.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Putin_has_withdrawn_a_sustantial_fraction_of_troops_from_near_border%29

The UK National Health Service is [ so underfunded that it is paying staff poverty wages ]( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/12/nhs-staff-why-we-are-striking ) . The NHS needs a lot more money, and it needs to come from the rich (including businesses). However, making housing cheaper would help the workers get by; that too depends on increasing taxes on the homes of the rich.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28UK_National_Health_Service_underfunded%29

Hong Kong protesters are [ being attacked with military-grade Chinese malware ]( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/business/protesters-are-targets-of-scrutiny-through-their-phones.html ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Hong_Kong_protesters_being_attacked%29

Reagan's order 12333 lets the US government collect all sorts of data about Americans by [ copying it from mirror servers located outside the US ]( http://elitedaily.com/life/interview-americas-newest-whistleblower-country-counting-millennials/716133/ ) . Meanwhile, Snowden says that [ snooping by the UK government on its cities has no practical limit ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/snowden-state-surveillance-britain-no-limits ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Reagan%27s_order_12333%29

Everyone: call on the Susan G. Komen Foundation to [ stop pinkwashing toxic and carcinogenic fracking ]( http://act.credoaction.com/sign/komen_fracking ) . [ More information. ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/09/pinkwashing-fracking-company-teams-susan-g-komen-end-breast-cancer-forever )
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_pinkwashing_toxic_and_carcinogenic_fracking%29

Identifying PISSI as [ a form of theocratic fascism ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/12/will-no-one-help-kurds-fight-fascism ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Theocratic_fascism%29

The European Commission proposes [ insane blanket deregulation (except for the biggest companies). ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/eu-business-deregulation-concern-worker-rights ) The rest would be allowed to pollute however they like.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28European_Commission_proposes_insane_blanket_deregulation%29

Thousands marched in St Louis on [ behalf of Michael Brown and against thug violence ]( http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/10/11/243114/thousands-march-in-st-louis-against.html?sp=/99/200/ ) . Fortunately, this time the thugs did not engage in more violence against the protesters.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Thousands_marched_in_St_Louis%29

[ Dozens of poor countries ]( http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/10/poor-nations-debt-crisis-developing-countries ) are in danger of sliding into a debt crisis. Many of these debts were more or less imposed by outside pressure and accepted by rulers that were tyrants or traitors. Those debts should be considered entirely invalid.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Danger_of_debt_crisis%29

A Japanese reporter in Korea [ faces 7 years imprisonment ]( http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001629863 ) for reporting the existence of a rumor about the president. Did you think it must be North Korea, which is of course a total tyranny? Sad to say, it is South Korea. If the report was false — if the rumor did not exist — it might be legitimate to sue the reporter for claiming it did. However, nothing can justify prosecution for an insult. Freedom of speech means having the right to insult everyone, even President Park, even me, even you.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Reporter_faces_imprisonment_in_Korea%29

The damage to coral reefs from CO2 could amount to [ a trillion dollars annually in losses to humanity ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/09/greenhouse-gas-emissions-could-trigger-trillion-dollar-coral-reef-problem ) , by the end of this century.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Damage_to_coral_reefs_from_CO2%29

Obama pretends that the [ US military budget ]( http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/09/critics-obama-draconian-cuts-have-been-us-public-services-not-war-budget ) has suffered intolerable cuts.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28US_military_budget%29

A young black male is [ 21 times more likely to be shot dead by US thugs than a young white male ]( http://www.propublica.org/article/deadly-force-in-black-and-white ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Deadly_shootings_by_thugs%29

[ Reflections on the Death of an Unpunished Dictator ]( http://www.bostonhaitian.com/columns/2014/reflections-death-unpunished-dictator ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Death_of_an_Unpunished_Dictator%29

A UK court [ stopped publication of an autobiography ]( http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/10/wife-injunction-abuse-book-son ) on the grounds that it might cause pain to the author's son. In the US, which respects freedom of speech much more than the UK, this decision would be called "prior restraint", which is more or less unconstitutional, though I would not trust today's US Supreme Court to stand by that principle or (any human right, when it's for actual humans rather than corporations).
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Publication_of_autobiography_stopped%29

There is a proposal in the UK to prohibit domestic "coercive control", but identifying that might require a [ difficult judgment call ]( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/10/domestic-abuse-criminalise-coercive-control-emotional-financial-sexual-physical ) . What strikes me is that the methods used for domestic coercive control have a lot in common with the methods used for enslavement of farm laborers and domestic workers. Criminalizing such enslavement has not been very effective at stopping it. Could it be more effective to change other systems so that these methods of control can't be used or don't work? For instance, if banks automatically gave one spouse access to a limited amount of money from the other spouse's account — not enough to substantially harm the other spouse, but enough for the one spouse to get by — one element of coercive control would not work. If spouses were required to jointly view the deed of their residence once in a while, another element used in this instance would not be possible. Other elements could also be blocked. Enough such concrete measures would often prevent coercive control, and otherwise would make it require a cut-and-dried violation that could be prosecuted easily without a difficult judgment call.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Domestic_coercive_control%29

Fossil fuel companies and their pet politicians made the University of Wyoming get rid of a sculpture that [ reminded people about the effects of global heating on forests in that region ]( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/us/controversy-lingers-over-wyoming-universitys-removal-of-carbon-sink.html ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Removal_of_Carbon_Sink_sculpture%29

When RSA installed key generation code that had been weakened by the NSA, it wasn't just ingenuous — it took [ money from the NSA ]( http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220 ) to do so.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28RSAs_secret_contract_with_NSA%29

[ Business is the "enemy within" ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/07/bullying-corporations-enemy-within-business-politicians ) countries with plutocratic governments.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Plutocratic_governments%29

US citizens: [ call on the EPA ]( https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=10586 ) to protect all waterways.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_all_waterways%29

The UK National Health Service is so underfunded that it is [ paying staff poverty wages ]( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/12/nhs-staff-why-we-are-striking ) . The NHS needs a lot more money, and it needs to come from the rich (including businesses). However, making housing cheaper would help the workers get by; that too depends on increasing taxes on the homes of the rich.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28UK_NHS_paying_poverty_wages%29

Putin has withdrawn a [ substantial fraction of troops ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/vladimir-putin-russian-troops-ukraine-border ) from near the border with Ukraine. This could still leave substantial numbers to sneak into Ukraine and attack.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Putin_withdraws_some_troops_from_Ukraine_border%29

Thousands marched in St Louis [ on behalf of Michael Brown and against thug violence ]( http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/10/11/243114/thousands-march-in-st-louis-against.html?sp=/99/200/ ) . Fortunately, this time the thugs did not engage in more violence against the protesters.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Thousands_march_in_St_Louis%29

Dow Chemical [ covered up knowledge of the medical damage done by its toxic pesticide, chlorpyrifos ]( http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26759-the-ghost-in-the-gmo-machine ) ; now the question is whether the EPA has the guts to do its job to prevent more sickness.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Dow_Chemical_cover-up%29

Around [ 10 million people with HIV owe their lives to generic equivalent drugs ]( http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26721-big-pharma-lobbies-hard-to-end-india-s-distribution-of-affordable-generic-drugs ) . The Obama regime is pressuring India to stop making them, which would kill millions of those people within a few years. The Nazis murdered 7 million civilians. This could murder more than 7 million of those now in treatment, and more millions in the future. The US officials behind this are aiming to be literally worse than the Nazi leaders convicted at Nuremberg of crimes against humanity. The article uses the incoherent propaganda term [ "intellectual property" ]( http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html ) , which the pharma companies love because it interferes with critical thinking about their unjust demands. The pharma companies claim that only patents can enable them to do research into new lifesaving drugs, but the fact is they don't do much of that research. It is [ usually government funded ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#26%20May%202006%20(Break%20the%20grip%20of%20the%20big%20drug%20companies) ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Generic_equivalent_drugs%29

The Pirate Party had an electoral success in [ Czech local elections ]( http://piratetimes.net/pirates-to-enter-several-local-czech-parliaments/ ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Pirate_Party_electoral_success%29

The US now allows bankrupt cities to cancel [ 60% of retired workers' pensions ]( http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/04/1333828/-This-week-in-the-war-on-workers-Bankruptcy-judge-calls-for-impoverishing-retirees?detail=email ) . They can't live on what remains.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28US_allows_cancelling_60%2525_of_pensions%29

The evil of the Koch brothers includes [ racism, as well as voter-suppression, dooH niboR and frying Earth's ecosphere ]( http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/08/1335246/-Yes-the-Koch-brothers-really-are-that-nbsp-evil ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28The_evil_of_the_Koch_brothers%29

The Australian National University decided to divest from some fossil fuel companies, which occasioned [ absurd rebukes ]( http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/13/coalition-accused-of-bullying-anu-after-criticism-of-fossil-fuel-divestment ) from right-wing politicians that represent the fossil fuel companies. There is [ no limit to how far they will go ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/13/tony-abbott-says-coal-is-good-for-humanity-while-opening-mine ) to increase fossil fuel sales.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28University_divestment_from_fossil_fuel%29

A week ago I made a connection in Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, and was wearing my "Impeach God" button. A pilot said it takes courage to wear such a button there. It did not seem to me that I was being particularly courageous. However, a rather strange conversation ensued on the subsequent flight: a flight attendant said, "I feel offended by your button. Please take it off." I responded, "I don't see why you should feel offended, unless … you're not a god, are you?" She: "No, but I believe in god." I: "Well, I don't." She: "But you're putting your views all over me!" I: "Actually, I'm putting them all over me. I can't make you wear such a button, and I wouldn't try." At that point, she let the issue drop.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Wearing_my_Impeach_God_button%29

Peter van Buren [ reviews reports on al Qa'ida's magazine ]( http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/10/i-read-al-qaedas-inspire-mag-so-you-dont-get-arrested ) . In tyrannical states such as the UK, you could be imprisoned just for having a copy of the magazine.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Reports_on_al_Qa%27ida%27s_magazine%29

A world-wide survey found that around [ half of all girls expect to have no control over their lives ]( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/12/girls-worldwide-fear-future-with-no-control-over-lives ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Girls_expect_to_have_no_control_over_their_lives%29

Germany's government is [ practicing economic harshness for harshness' sake, and pushing Europe into depression ]( http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/09/germany-is-killing-its-economy-and-europes-too/ ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Pushing_Europe_into_depression%29

The level of [ sexual harassment female students face in UK universities ]( http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/oct/11/campus-nightmare-female-students-rise-sexual-harassment ) today is amazing. I think it is largely the same in US universities, but I never saw anything like this when I was studying at Harvard in 1970-74. I think the social pressure to get drunk is the worst part of it.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Sexual_harassment_female_students_face_in_UK%29

[ Remotely supervised use of prescribed abortion pills ]( http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/the-safer-more-affordable-abortion-only-available-in-two-states/381321/?single_page=true ) can make abortions safer and more accessible.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Safer%2C_more_accessible_abortions%29

Taking account of externalities, wind power is the [ cheapest form of generation in Europe ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/13/wind-power-is-cheapest-energy-unpublished-eu-analysis-finds ) . Coal costs more than double.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Wind_power_in_Europe%29

Computerized recognition of people's voices is being [ employed on a large scale ]( http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/13/millions-of-voiceprints-quietly-being-harvested-as-latest-identification-tool ) . I don't mind if bank customers can use this authenticate themselves to the bank. What worries me is that it can also be used to track people.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Computerized_recognition_of_voices%29

In Japan, right-wing extremists with support of officials in the ruling party [ call for persecution of Korean residents ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/13/japan-ruling-party-far-right-extremists-liberal-democratic ) , and have launched a campaign of threats against journalists that cover Japan's war crimes. The Korean residents of Japan are descendants of Koreans forcibly taken to work in Japan when Korea was under Japanese rule. Those alive today were born in Japan, but in Japan that does not give them citizenship. Naturalization in Japan is not like naturalization in the US; it requires denying one's previous identity and trying to act totally Japanese. These people of Korean descent might be willing to get Japanese citizenship, but they don't want to deny their identity.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Persecution_of_Koreans_in_Japan%29

The sea level rise of the past century is a [ record for 6000 years ]( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/14/sea-level-rise-unmatched-6000-years-global-warming ) . (That is when the melting of the ice age ice sheets finished.) Even if we stop pumping out greenhouse gas, the Earth will continue getting hotter for quite some time due to the greenhouse gas we have already pumped out. That's ignoring the possibility that [ positive feedback effects will release more ]( https://stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#30%20March%202009%20(Methane%20hydrate) ) . And it will take centuries for the effect of that heat to finish melting all the ice it is going to melt. We will have to lower the greenhouse gas level substantially below the present level to get the ice to stop melting.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Sea_level_rise%29

New antiplutocratic parties have had [ success in several European countries ]( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/13/europe-new-politics-grassroots-resistance-podemos-syriza ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28New_antiplutocratic_parties%29

Next year, most children in the UK will be living in poverty. The UK hasn't got the billions needed to help them, because [ nuclear missile submarines have higher priority ]( http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/12/cant-fix-child-poverty-but-spend-billions-replacing-trident-lauren-laverne ) .
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28UK_values_submarines_above_children%29

The UK has adopted the US model for university education, [ requiring students to take out huge loans ]( http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/oct/12/have-universities-been-privatised-by-stealth ) . Nonetheless, many are desperate to go to a university because wages for non-graduates have been knocked down. Indeed, many graduates won't get good jobs because there are too many. The only aspect which is not quite as bad as the US is that graduates with low incomes won't have to pay as much.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28UK_university_education_cost%29

UK MPs [ voted to recognize Palestine ]( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/13/mps-vote-to-recognise-palestinian-state ) . Unfortunately it was a non-binding vote.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28UK_MPs_vote_to_recognize_Palestine%29