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<title><![CDATA[Economic growth and fossil fuels]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Economic_growth_and_fossil_fuels%29</link>
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George Monbiot: While Economic Growth Continues
We'll <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/26/economic-growth-fossil-fuels-habit-oil-industry">Never
Kick Our Fossil Fuels Habit</a>.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Spying on Privacy International]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Spying_on_Privacy_International%29</link>
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Privacy International: UK Intelligence
Agency <a href="https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/2283/press-release-uk-intelligence-agency-admits-unlawfully-spying-privacy">Admits
Unlawfully Spying</a> on Privacy International.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Biometric id in India]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Biometric_id_in_India%29</link>
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India's supreme court ruled that many important activities may not
require a biometric id number.  However, since paying taxes does
require it, in practice it
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/26/indian-court-upholds-legality-of-worlds-largest-biometric-database">impossible
for Indians to escape</a>.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Moving glaciers]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Moving_glaciers%29</link>
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Glaciers can move up to 80 feet per day.  <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">Global heating</a> has made many
glaciers move fast enough
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/sep/26/new-research-shows-the-worlds-ice-is-doing-something-not-seen-before">change
visibly from day to day</a>.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trade with Iran]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Trade_with_Iran%29</link>
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EU, China and Russia set up
a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/26/eu-china-and-russia-in-move-to-sidestep-us-sanctions-on-iran">special
financial institution</a> to help insulate their trade with Iran from
US sanctions.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Smith and Wesson]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Smith_and_Wesson%29</link>
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The stockholders of American Outdoor
Brands <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/25/smith-and-wesson-gun-safety-nuns-accountability">voted
to require the company</a> to record what its gun company subsidiary,
Smith and Wesson, is doing to monitor and reduce gun violence.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global heating vulnerability]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Global_heating_vulnerability%29</link>
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Of all the countries on Earth, the US is
the <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/u-s-is-second-biggest-loser-from-climate-change-economically-bombshell-study-finds-677ae19f3787/">second-most-vulnerable</a>
to damage from <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>.
<p>
China is building more coal capacity that would amount
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/26/satellite-images-show-runaway-expansion-of-coal-power-in-china">a
25% increase</a>.
<p>
Could it be that China wants to provoke disaster because the US will lose
more from it than China will?  That's the same as the bullshitter's attitude
towards a trade war.  No, I'm not seriously proposing that theory.
<p>
The most vulnerable country is India, which China is not particularly
friendly toward either.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[HIV coverups]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28HIV_coverups%29</link>
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Thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of patients getting blood
transfusions in the UK around 1980 were infected with HIV in the
process.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/25/contaminated-blood-scandal-many-medical-records-disappeared-inquiry-hears">An
investigation has found</a> that their medical record suffered
deletions and even fake additions as a cover-up.
<p>
Similar infections occurred in the US and France.
The medical systems were not designed to prevent this sort of thing.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reuniting immigrant minors]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Reuniting_immigrant_minors%29</link>
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The sadist's officials are dragging their feet in obeying the court
order to reunite immigrant minors that were taken away from their
families.  Almost 200
have <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1798540">not yet been
reunited</a>.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh's demeanor]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh%27s_demeanor%29</link>
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Kavanaugh's acquaintances and record present him
as <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/25/brett-kavanaugh-accusations-mark-judge/">frequently
violent and frequently drunk</a>, and motivated by hatreds.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Business funding for research]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Business_funding_for_research%29</link>
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In several fields, business funding for research serves to distract
research from issues the businesses don't want explored,
and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/26/corporate-sponsorship-diverts-research-and-distorts-public-policy-report-finds">distorts
public policy</a>.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bottom slapper]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Bottom_slapper%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Paris
Man <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/25/paris-man-jailed-for-slapping-womans-bottom">Jailed
for Three Months</a> for Slapping Woman's Bottom.
<p>
I agree with this decision.  He physically attacked her.
<p>
If it were just a matter of his verbal remarks, I would disapprove of
them (it is nasty to insult strangers for no good reason), but insults
should not be a crime.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Urgent: LYNE Act]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_LYNE_Act%29</link>
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US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/cosponsor-hold-the-lyne">ask
your congresscritter and senators</a> to cosponsor the LYNE act, which
would stop the development of "low-yield" nuclear weapons which are
more conducive to actually using them.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Urgent: Oppose fees for protesting]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fees_for_protesting%29</link>
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US citizens: tell <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> of the Interior Zinke to 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/protest-tax/">drop the plan
to charge high fees</a> for protesting in Washington DC.
<p>
If you sign, please spread the word!


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Urgent: Remove provisions from FAA bill]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_provisions_from_FAA_bill%29</link>
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US citizens: phone your senators and congresscritter, and call on them
to 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/remove-drone-shoot-down-and-biometric-surveillance-sections-faa-act">remove
the drone shoot-down provision and the biometric surveillance
provision</a> from from the FAA reauthorization bill.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Urgent: Medicare for All PAC]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Medicare_for_All_PAC%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
US citizens: contribute to the Medicare for All PAC.
<p>
All you need to do is send a check to
<p>
PO Box 21912<br />
Seattle, WA 98111


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global ban on nuclear weapons]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Global_ban_on_nuclear_weapons%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Arguments for a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/24/its-time-ban-nukes-good">global
ban on nuclear weapons</a>.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bully terrorizing immigrants]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Bully_terrorizing_immigrants%29</link>
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<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> is now terrorizing authorized immigrants, 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1798253">threatening to deny
them permanent residency if they get get federal benefits for the
health of their children</a>, who are entitled because they are US
citizens.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Houston could avoid flood damage]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Houston_could_avoid_flood_damage%29</link>
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Adapting Dutch technology and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/25/texas-coastal-barrier-could-prevent-hurricane-damage-if-oil-companies-will-help-fund-it">spending
$15 billion dollars</a> could enable Houston to avoid a much larger
sum in flood damage from future hurricanes.
<p>
The sad thing is, the US has become so downtrodden that it no longer
has the gumption to tax companies so it can do important jobs.  Thus,
this job can be done only if companies graciously bestow their
sponsorship.  Then they will ask us to be grateful for it.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Privatization of El Salvador's water]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Privatization_of_El_Salvadors_water%29</link>
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Campaigners Fear 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/sep/25/campaigners-fear-creeping-privatisation-el-salvador-water">Creeping
Privatisation of El Salvador's Water</a>.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate gentrification]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Climate_gentrification%29</link>
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Climate Gentrification: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/25/climate-gentrification-phoenix-flagstaff-miami-rich-poor">the
Rich Can Afford to Move</a> &mdash; What About the Poor?


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US healthcare system]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28US_healthcare_system%29</link>
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Ex-UN Chief Ban Ki-moon Says US Healthcare System Is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/25/ex-un-chief-ban-kioon-says-us-healthcare-system-is-morally-wrong">'Morally
Wrong'</a>.
<p>
He also acknowledged that businesses are blocking a national health
system for their profits' sake.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Arrest of Senator Trillanes]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Arrest_of_Senator_Trillanes%29</link>
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Philippine Senator Trillanes, who had been sheltering in the senate hall,
has been 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/25/duterte-critic-antonio-trillanes-iv-hits-out-at-darkness-and-evil-philippines">arrested</a>.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Joshua trees]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Joshua_trees%29</link>
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Joshua trees 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/25/us-national-parks-climate-change-impacts">may
disappear from Joshua Tree National Park</a> as a result of global
heating effects.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Republican Party to face wrath]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Republican_Party_to_face_wrath%29</link>
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The Republican Party Is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/25/republican-party-face-wrath-women">About
to Face the Wrath of Women</a>.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US-Mexico border walls]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28US-Mexico_border_walls%29</link>
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Existing US border walls along parts of the border with Mexico 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/25/border-wall-security-dangers-flooding">damage
infrastructure and the environment</a>.
<p>
They don't stop people from trying to enter the US illegally, but
do push them into more risky routes on which a greater fraction die.
<p>
I think that is the border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>' intention, judging from the way they
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_April_2018_(Water_for_crossers)">destroy
water supplies left by humanitarians</a>.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28China%29</link>
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China is gaining influence in the UN's defense of human rights, and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/china-starts-to-assert-its-world-view-at-un-as-influence-grows">won't
use that for good</a>.
<p>
Whether it will do more evil than the US directed by the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>
remains to be seen.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Glyphosate harms honeybees]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Glyphosate_harms_honeybees%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Glyphosate can harm honeybees by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds">damaging
their normal intestinal bacteria</a>.  This is in addition to other
indirect forms of harm.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Permanent arrangement for Idlib]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Permanent_arrangement_for_Idlib%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
France and the US are pressuring for a permanent arrangement for Idlib
and for the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/syria-war-unga-france-warning-russia-extend-ceasefire">removal
of Iranian forces from Syria</a>.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Discussion of political activity]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Discussion_of_political_activity%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
If you discuss political activity as a game between teams, in which
the sides can win or lose points, you're 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1797019">missing the
point</a>.


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<pubDate>28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Urgent: Hurricane Maria failures]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Hurricane_Maria_failures%29</link>
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US
citizens: <a href="https://act.freepress.net/act/internet_fcc_pr_investigate/">call
on the FCC</a> to investigate failures of Puerto Rico's communications
infrastructure after Hurricane Maria.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Urgent: SITSA]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_SITSA%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/stop-jeff-sessions%E2%80%99-drug-war-power-grab">call
on Congress</a> to oppose SITSA, which would give the attorney general
the power to ban any drug arbitrarily.
</p>
<p>If you send a message, please spread the word!</p>


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tracking teenagers]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Tracking_teenagers%29</link>
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US parents are now invited
to <a href="https://letgrow.org/track-your-child-like-a-parolee/">track
their teenage offspring</a> like convicts on parole.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ill refugees in Australia]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Ill_refugees_in_Australia%29</link>
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Australia has permitted Nauru to block badly ill refugees from being
brought to Australia under a court order.  The Australian judge ruled
that Australia
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/25/nauru-blocking-refugee-evacuations-a-problem-of-australias-creation-judge">responsible
for that difficulty</a>.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Victoire Ingabire]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Victoire_Ingabire%29</link>
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Victoire Ingabire, a Rwandan opposition leader, has
been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/freed-rwandan-opposition-leader-victoire-ingabire-vows-to-continue-struggle">released
from prison</a> and vows to continue the struggle despite the danger
she will be imprisoned again.
<p>
President
Kagame <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#13_October_2012_(Kagame_imprisons_and_kills_opposition_and_journalists)">represses
human rights</a> harshly.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rescuing drowning migrants]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Rescuing_drowning_migrants%29</link>
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Italy pressured Panama
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/italy-blamed-after-aquarius-migrant-rescue-ships-flag-revoked">cancel
the operating permission</a> for Médecins Sans Frontières' ship that
rescues drowning migrants.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Microtask work]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Microtask_work%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Low Pay, Poor Prospects, And Psychological Toll:
The <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/in-most-cases-online-microtask-work-can-be-a-raw-deal-un-study-finds/">Perils
of Microtask Work</a>.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Endangered Species Act]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Endangered_Species_Act%29</link>
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The Endangered Species Act functions very
effectively.  <a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-we-must-save-the-endangered-species-act-from-the-trump-administration-babbitt">99%
of the species</a> that have been protected are still living.
<p>
Perhaps that's why Republican saboteurs are trying to destroy it.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Grand Staircase-Escalante]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Grand_Staircase-Escalante%29</link>
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Shrinking the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Is
a <a href="https://theconversation.com/shrinking-the-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monument-is-a-disaster-for-paleontology-103414">Disaster
for Paleontology</a>.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hidden voice commands]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Hidden_voice_commands%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Researchers have
discovered <a href="http://news.rub.de/english/press-releases/2018-09-24-it-security-secret-messages-alexa-and-co">how
to hide voice commands</a> in other audio, so that people cannot hear
them, but Alexa and Siri can.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Heating national parks]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Heating_national_parks%29</link>
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US national parks are heating
up <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/national-parks-are-uniquely-vulnerable-to-extreme-climate-impacts-new-study-finds-a74ffdad7ff5/">faster
than most of the US</a>.  Some are forecast to suffer 9C of heating
(16F) in this century.  Today's local species will go extinct if they
can't move elsewhere.
<p>
What is Glacier National Park if it doesn’t have glaciers anymore?  To
an environmentalist, it's a tragedy.  To an extractivist, it's an
opportunity for mining.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fleeing global heating]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Fleeing_global_heating%29</link>
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Thousands of Americans
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/americas-era-of-climate-mass-migration-is-here">moving
to higher ground</a>, fleeing from global heating.
<p>
In 30 years it will be hundreds of thousands.
<p>
Some decades later, it will be millions.  We can't predict how many
millions; the climate models don't allow for the methane that will be
released by melting permafrost, since we don't know how much that will
be.
<p>
Currently <a href="https://grist.org/article/your-future-home-could-be-in-a-flood-zone-and-no-ones-required-to-tell-you/">30,000
households</a> are being squeezed out.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hong Kong independence party]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Hong_Kong_independence_party%29</link>
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China
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/hong-kong-has-banned-a-political-party-but-it-will-never-crush-desire-for-independence">banned
the Hong Kong independence party</a> entirely.
<p>
China is stepping up its control and repression in Hong Kong by steps.
Just a few years ago
it <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#9_November_2016_(Hong_Kong_MPs_banned)">banned
individual candidates</a> from the election for advocating
independence.
<p>
As long as it faces no penalty for this, China can keep pushing.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Medical care in India]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Medical_care_in_India%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
India's government
offers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/modicare-indias-pm-promises-free-health-care-for-half-a-billion-people">gratis
medical care</a> for all the poor.
<p>
I hope it includes the most effective forms of birth control.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh accuser Ramirez]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh_accuser_Ramirez%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Deborah
Ramirez <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1798107">accuses
Kavanaugh</a> of attacking her sexually while he was at Yale.
<p>
Two other women make accusations against Kavanaugh, not yet publicly.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pharma profit routing]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Pharma_profit_routing%29</link>
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Big Pharma
companies <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/ireland-s-corporate-tax-rate-hurting-emerging-economies-oxfam-1.3632501">route
their profits through Ireland</a> so as to avoid taxes in various poor
countries.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">My
tax proposal</a> would prevent that.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh and the constitution]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh_and_the_constitution%29</link>
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Kavanaugh claims to be a strict constructionist, following the text of
the Constitution literally &mdash; but that's only when he can use
that to justify deregulation.  Sometimes he rules for deregulation by
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/23/seaworld-and-kavanaughs-missing-empathy-gene">inventing
a fanciful interpretation</a> of the Constitution.
<p>
Apparently his approach to the Constitution is better described as,
"Deregulation by hook or by crook."


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Salafi Arabia-funded terrorist attack]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Salafi_Arabia-funded_terrorist_attack%29</link>
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A terrorist attack in Iran may have been funded by <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> with
the purpose of pushing Iran to retaliate and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/23/ahvaz-terror-attack-iran-may-drag-us-larger-war">give
the bully an excuse for war</a>.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Coal and oil usage]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Coal_and_oil_usage%29</link>
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OPEC predicts that coal and oil usage will increase for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/23/opec-predicts-massive-rise-in-oil-production-over-next-five-years">decades</a>.
<p>
If that happens, it won't continue for the rest of the century.
The poverty, hunger and wars will stop it.  However, that is not a
second-best solution; that is failure.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Defeat of Yameed]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Defeat_of_Yameed%29</link>
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President Yameen of the Maldives was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/23/maldives-voters-throw-out-china-backed-strongman-president">defeated</a>.
Apparently he was unable to rig the election.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stopping plutocratist governments]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Stopping_plutocratist_governments%29</link>
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Plutocratist governments in Central America are forcing peasants off
their land and converting it to plantations or mines.  
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/23/central-american-women-are-fighting-extractive-industries-their-land-and-winning">Sometimes
women organize and stop them</a>.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australian ex-Ministers' careers]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Australian_ex-Ministers_careers%29</link>
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Since 1990, 1/4 of Australian [ex-]Ministers Go on to Work for
Lobbyists or Special Interests, according to a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/23/one-in-four-australian-ministers-go-on-to-work-for-lobbyists-or-special-interests-study-finds">study
that tracked each one's career</a>.
<p>
The author of the report said that this is not necessarily bad,
Perhaps I'd agree, if each one had been surprised to receive a cushy
job after leaving government office.
<p>
Let's not be naive.  Government officials know they will be offered
such work, and their decisions while in office are likely to be
influenced by the prospect.  Accepting a job that is unofficially
contingent on their policies is morally equivalent to taking a bribe.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[To stop the world from changing me]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28To_stop_the_world_from_changing_me%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
I've always found this quotation inspiring: "I'm not trying to change
the world.  I'm trying to stop the world from changing me."
<p>
I used to attribute the quote to Thoreau, but it seems that was
mistaken: it is actually from 
<a href="https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1213614">Ammon Hennacy</a>.
<p>
I have succeeded in changing the world to some extent, and I am still
trying to achieve more.  At the same time, I see how the use of
nonfree software, and digital dis-services, has changed others for the
worse.  Millions surrender their freedom and privacy without moving a
muscle to protect it.  They run 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html
">freedom-denying software</a> that 
<a href="https://gnu.org/malware/proprietary-surveillance.html">snoops
on them constantly</a>.  They 
<a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html">let Facebook use them</a>.  They 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.html">play nonfree
video games for hours</a>, killing time which they could have used for
something meaningful, and learning nothing except how to retreat from
society.
<p>
Even if they would find it hard work to resist these evils 100%, there
are surely parts they could easily resist.  It sure looks like
malicious technology has changed them for the worse.
<p>
Please don't let it change you!


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lists of supposed non-citizens]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Lists_of_supposed_non-citizens%29</link>
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Right-wingers are posting long lists of supposed non-citizens who are
voting, presented as proof there is a big problem of invalid voters.
<p>
They are being 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/23/voters-purges-elections-rolls-americans-pilf">sued
by US citizens whose names they falsely posted</a>.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Land-based birds at risk of extinction]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Land-based_birds_at_risk_of_extinction%29</link>
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"Land-based bird populations are becoming confined to nature reserves
in some parts of the world&mdash;raising the risk of global
extinction&mdash;due to the 
<a href='https://phys.org/news/2018-09-extirpation-species-areas.html'>loss
of suitable habitat</a>."


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Prosecution for photographing a rally]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Prosecution_for_photographing_a_rally%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Cambodia has pardoned Australia documentalist Ricketson on the
recommendation of the tyrant that had him prosecuted, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/23/pardoned-film-maker-james-ricketson-lands-back-in-australia">calling
making photos of a rally "spying"</a>.
<p>
This is a common ploy for governments enforcing unjust laws: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#28_October_2017_(Anti-terror_laws)">prosecute
someone</a>, who is of course convicted, then
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-jan-apr.html#20%20March%202006%20(New%20Zealand%20released%20Ahmed%20Zaoui)">pardon
the victim</a>.  It serves to scare people into obeying the unjust
law, while avoiding the odium that would follow from
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#2_April_2018_(Canada_press_freedom)">keeping
journalists in prison</a>.


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Prof. Blasey Ford to testify]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Prof._Blasey_Ford_to_testify%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Prof. Blasey Ford agreed to testify to the Senate on Thursday, but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/23/brett-kavanaugh-accuser-set-to-testify-before-congress">other
details have not been agreed on</a>.
<p>
This includes such as 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1798005">whether they will
call in some lawyer to talk with her</a> (being too cowardly to do so
themselves).


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<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cuts to Head Start and cancer research]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Cuts_to_Head_Start_and_cancer_research%29</link>
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<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>'s saboteurs are going to cut Head Start and cancer research 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1797264">to fund their
prisons for immigrant minors</a>.
<p>
The article says "children", but I am pretty sure the prisoners range
up through age 17.  Some are children, and some are teenagers.


]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Urgent: Fight against voter-purging]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Fight_against_voter-purging%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Citizens of North Carolina: 
<a href="https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/stop-voter-suppression-in-north-carolina-2">fight
against Republican voter-purging</a>.
<p>
I can't test this, since I am not from North Carolina and should not
sign.  If you find that this petition can't be signed with Javascript
disabled entirely, and can't be signed with LibreJS active, please
email me (rms at the GNU project site) so I can delete it.
<p>
If you sign, please spread the word!


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Bully-appointed federal judge]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Bully-appointed_federal_judge%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
One of the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>'s appointed federal judge 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1797624">disregarded the
facts</a> to make a partisan decision in favor of right-wing
counterprotestors.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Bully's arrest policy]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Bullys_arrest_policy%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>'s policy of arresting unauthorized immigrants if they go to
court succeeds in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/22/fearing-courthouse-arrests-under-trumps-crackdown-undocumented-immigrants-refuse">scaring
many of them away from seeking protection against domestic
violence</a>.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Keystone_XL_planet-roaster_pipeline%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
It took the US State Department 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/21/trump-administration-releases-sham-review-keystone-xl">just
one week to publish a sham environmental review</a> of the Keystone XL
planet-roaster pipeline.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Protests planned at Salesforce event]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Protests_planned_at_Salesforce_event%29</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">71d63ec670c369c346ad618428d70abe</guid>
<description><![CDATA[<p>
Protests are planned at the Salesforce annual event, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/21/protests-planned-dreamforce-conference">demanding
that the company stop serving the US border thugs</a>.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Bully's hush money]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Bullys_hush_money%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
(satire) Trump Asks Why Kavanaugh Accuser Didn’t Just 
<a href="https://politics.theonion.com/trump-asks-why-kavanaugh-accuser-didn-t-just-immediatel-1829228716">Immediately
Request Hush Money</a>.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Palestinian home life]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Palestinian_home_life%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Israelis Experience Palestinian Home Life 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/20/israelis-experience-slice-of-virtual-reality-of-palestinian-home-life">in
Virtual Reality</a>.
<p>
They see the home of a specific Palestinian family that volunteered
for this.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Immigration judges ordered to be cruel]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Immigration_judges_ordered_to_be_cruel%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Sessions has ordered immigration judges to be 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1797252">cruel, strict,
callous and merciless</a>.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh's Republican votes]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Kavanaughs_Republican_votes%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The reason Republicans intend to vote for Kavanaugh no matter what is
that he is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/21/stop-kavanaugh-coup-any-means-necessary">part
of the same plutocratist group as four other right-wing justices</a>.
They will turn the US into hell for all except the favored classes.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Uighurs in brainwashing camps]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Uighurs_in_brainwashing_camps%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Pompeo condemned China for putting 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/22/awful-abuses-mike-pompeo-denounces-chinas-treatment-of-uighurs">around
a million Uighurs in brainwashing camps</a>.
<p>
Someone else called this "The pot calling the kettle black", but that
is not correct.  What Chine has done is comparable to putting a
million people in Guantanamo.  The US put only a thousand people,
total, in Guantanamo.  Even today it is possible to be worse than the
US.
<p>
When Pompeo talks about "stealing intellectual property", he spreads
confusion.  That term invariably has that effect because it 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">doesn't fit
reality</a>.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Mainstream media coverage of hurricane]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Mainstream_media_coverage_of_hurricane%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
US mainstream media covered Hurricane Florence, but 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/21/climate-change-made-florence-monster-media-failed-tell-story">very
rarely connected it to its human cause</a>.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Judge frees migrant-rescuing fishermen]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Judge_frees_migrant-rescuing_fishermen%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
An Italian judge 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/22/italy-releases-tunisian-fishermen-arrested-on-suspicion-of-smuggling-migrants">freed
the Tunisian fishermen</a>, victims of the right-wing attempt to
criminalize the act of rescuing migrants from drowning.
<p>
This won't end the threat.  Right-wingers trying to pervert justice
never give up.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[SCROTUS delay last Kavanaugh hearing]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28SCROTUS_delay_last_Kavanaugh_hearing%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/22/kavanaugh-accuser-given-more-time-to-decide-if-she-will-testify">delayed
the last Kavanaugh hearing</a> rather than tell Ford "Too late!"


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[NASA satellite tracks ice melt]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28NASA_satellite_tracks_ice_melt%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
NASA Launches Satellite to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/21/nasa-new-satellite-ice-melt-ice-sat-2-launches">Precisely
Track How Earth's Ice Is Melting</a>.
<p>
I wonder if the denialist will order the satellite deorbited in
December.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Projecting images onto capitol building]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Projecting_images_onto_capitol_building%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Maine is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/21/maine-lawmakers-vote-curb-free-speech-banning-projection-political-messages-state">moving
to prohibit protesting by projecting images onto the state capitol
building</a>.
<p>
The practice does not hurt anyone, but there is a general tendency to
repress effective protest in the US.  If it can attract the attention
of substantial numbers of people, politicians that don't represent the
public will find some excuse to stop you.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Urgent: Shareholder resolution against NRA]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Shareholder_resolution_against_NRA%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Call on mutual fund companies to support the shareholder resolution to
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/nra_shareholders?">make
American Outdoor Brands stop supporting the NRA</a>, and be clear
about what it is (and what it isn't) doing in claimed efforts to
reduce gun violence.
<p>
The company is a conglomerate, but its main business is guns.
<p>
If you sign, please spread the word!


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Capital gains taxes]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Capital_gains_taxes%29</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2d69783277cf36f23e597279ed17529f</guid>
<description><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> wants to reduce capital gains taxes, to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/21/another-tax-scam-rich">offer
the rich yet another handout</a>.  Rather than change income tax law,
he wants to disregard it.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[UK immigration]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28UK_immigration%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The UK 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/21/children-as-young-as-10-denied-uk-citizenship-for-failing-good-character-test">denies
citizenship to teenagers for petty crimes</a>, and seeks to deport
them to countries they would hardly remember and where they may not
know anyone.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Urgent: New Jersey cash law]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_New_Jersey_cash_law%29</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2e1ce6f684b21aed143731bc2f44bc98</guid>
<description><![CDATA[<p>
Citizens of New Jersey: call your state legislators
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/21/cashless-retail-stores-new-jersey-law">support
the law</a> that stores must accept cash.
</p>
<p>
You can support cash (and your privacy) more by actually insisting on
cash when you buy things in stores, and refusing to give your name.
I do this, and so can you.
</p>
<p>If you phone, please spread the word!</p>


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Urgent: Prisons for immigrant families]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Prisons_for_immigrant_families%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/stop_family_detention">call
on Congress</a> to reject building more prisons for immigrant
families.
</p>
<p>
The problem is not space to imprison them, the problem is imprisoning them.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Urgent: Impeach Kavanaugh]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Impeach_Kavanaugh%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/impeach-kavanaugh/">call
    on Congress</a> to impeach Kavanaugh (as an appeals court judge).
</p>
<p>
If <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> put him on the Supreme Court, we will want to impeach him
from there.  Convenient that there are several valid grounds already, including attempted rape and lying to the senate at least twice.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[25th amendment obstacle]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%2825th_amendment_obstacle%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Removing the bullshitter from office using the 25th amendment would
run into the same obstacle as
impeachment: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/25th-amendment-trump/">requiring
a 2/3 majority</a> in Congress.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Infiltrator Mark Kennedy]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Infiltrator_Mark_Kennedy%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The UK <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> chiefs said they never approved of letting infiltrator
Mark Kennedy pretend to love Kate Wilson, hoping she would forgive
them.  Now
we <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/21/i-was-abused-undercover-policeman-mark-kennedy">know
that they were lying</a>.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Optional ballot inspection]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Optional_ballot_inspection%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The new "expressvote" voting machine offers to print a paper ballot
for the user to check &mdash; but invites the user to speed up the
process
<a href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/09/14/serious-design-flaw-in-ess-expressvote-touchscreen-permission-to-cheat/">by
saying "skip the check."</a>


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Threatened salmon]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Threatened_salmon%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Alaska's salmon
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/21/alaska-stand-for-salmon-habitat-campaign">threatened
once again</a>, by several kinds of human activity.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Fabrication for Kavanaugh]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Fabrication_for_Kavanaugh%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Kavanaugh's defenders decided
to <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1797471">fabricate an
accusation</a> that a specific man, other than Kavanaugh, was the one
who tried to rape Professor Blasey Ford.
<p>
That's libel, isn't it?


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Duke Energy]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Duke_Energy%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Duke Energy, in North Carolina,
is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/20/duke-energy-leaders-carry-blame-hurricane-florence-devastation">directly
partially responsible</a> for the hurricane's flooding in that state.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Cuts to pay for imprisonment]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Cuts_to_pay_for_imprisonment%29</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">173e54956373c5405d94df828c5292f8</guid>
<description><![CDATA[<p>
Cuts to Cancer Research, Head Start, and Women's
Shelters <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/20/how-does-trump-even-sleep-night-cuts-cancer-research-head-start-and-womens-shelters">Among
$226 Million Diverted</a> to Pay for [imprisonment of immigrant
minors].


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Confirm Kavanaugh 'no matter what']]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Confirm_Kavanaugh_%27no_matter_what%27%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Senator Grassley's staffer admitted that Republicans plan
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/20/top-grassley-staffer-gives-away-game-unfazed-and-determined-confirm-kavanaugh">confirm
Kavanaugh "no matter what."</a>


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Minimum wage in DC]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Minimum_wage_in_DC%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The citizens of Washington, DC, voted for an initiative to increase
the minimum wage.  The city
council <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/chocolate-city-is-now-money-city-the-high-price-dc-is-paying-to-overturn-the-publics-will/2018/09/19/5841108a-bb71-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html">decided
to cancel it</a>, showing it represents the businesses, not the
voters.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Sheds for homeless people]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Sheds_for_homeless_people%29</link>
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Oakland
is <a href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/05/08/homeless-greet-new-tuff-sheds-with-hesitation-hope/">setting
up sheds</a> for homeless people to move to.
<p>
It seems like a positive step for me, but we shouldn't accept as a permanent
solution that poor people have to live in sheds.  The US is not so poor that
it can't afford housing for everyone at the usual standards.


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<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Passport refusals]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Passport_refusals%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The US government
is <a href="https://www.kctv5.com/news/kansas-woman-told-birth-certificate-wasn-t-enough-to-prove/article_144c19aa-b50f-11e8-94f5-6b921312a97a.html">refusing
passports</a> to natural born US citizens, saying that their birth
certificates are not good enough.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Access to judicial records]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Access_to_judicial_records%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
A Republican Member of Congress Wants
[gratis] <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/new-bill-would-finally-tear-down-federal-judiciarys-ridiculous-paywall/">Public
Access to Judicial Records</a>.
<p>
It is a good idea, and I won't criticize it because of who supports it.


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<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon blockage]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Verizon_blockage%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Verizon <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9glj90/big_shout_out_to_verizon_for_throttling_data_for/">blocked
people in North Carolina</a> from getting their email and storm
updates, saying "Pay for higher priority if you want any service."


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Money for Seattle Mariners]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Money_for_Seattle_Mariners%29</link>
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The Seattle Mariners
squeezed <a href="https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/09/17/32479271/king-county-council-will-give-the-mariners-135-dollars">another
135 million dollars</a> out of the city of Seattle.  The city council
came close to rejecting the demand, but did not quite get there.
<p>
I think there should be a federal law that prohibits cities and states
from subsidizing sports teams either directly or indirectly.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Refillable bottles]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Refillable_bottles%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Oregon's bottle recycling program now
handles <a href="https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/130463/oregon-launches-first-statewide-refillable-bottle-system-in-u-s">refillable
bottles for breweries</a>.  They don't need to be ground up and melted
and made into new bottles.
<p>
It is good to see such beginning steps, but if we don't scale it far
up we are still screwed.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[University tuition]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28University_tuition%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Rice University will 
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/09/18/649160232/rice-university-says-middle-class-students-wont-have-to-pay-tuition">spare
low-income and middle-income students the need to borrow money</a>.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[FCC rewards giant wireless companies]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28FCC_rewards_giant_wireless_companies%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The FCC has rewarded the giant wireless companies 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/fcc-angers-cities-and-towns-with-2-billion-giveaway-to-wireless-carriers/">at
the expense of US cities</a>.
<p>
Just reminds us of who the FCC now tries to serve.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Investigating accusations of rape]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Investigating_accusations_of_rape%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Normally anyone investigating an accusation of rape is fortunate to
have another witness, a chance to find the truth.  The fact that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/21/mark-judge-testify-brett-kavanaugh-witness-subpoena">SCROTUS
did not call him to testify</a> is yet more proof that their goal is
to cover up the truth.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Weakness of truth in contending with lies]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Weakness_of_truth_in_contending_with_lies%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The weakness of truth in contending with lies is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/20/learning-power-lies-facts-vs-falsehoods-age-trump">like
a deficiency in society's immune system</a>.
<p>
The report about how the bullshitter will not accept corrections even
on insignificant details suggests that he considers himself
infallible, and that he is out of touch with reality.  Is that enough
to judge him mentally incompetent and institutionalize him?


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Children used as deportation bait]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Children_used_as_deportation_bait%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The US deportation <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> imprison children as 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/20/evil-worst-fears-realized-ice-arrests-dozens-family-or-guardians-attempting-retrieve">bait
to deport relatives that offer to receive them</a>.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Ending the war in Yemen]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Ending_the_war_in_Yemen%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/20/how-congress-can-end-war-yemen">How
Congress Can End the War in Yemen</a>.  It looks like Congress's will
is moving slowly in that direction.
<p>
There is no legitimate reason for the US to involve itself in Yemen's
civil war.  No reason for the US to maintain special hostility to
Iran, either.  That country is dominated by a repressive theocracy,
but it is not as repressive, nor as harsh in its theocracy, as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#9_October_2016_(Victims_of_American_terrorism)">Salafi
Arabia</a>, which the US is supporting.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh's lies]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Kavanaughs_lies%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
"Dr. Blasey Ford has zero to gain from lying and everything to lose.
Brett Kavanaugh on the other hand has a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/20/brett-kavanaugh-has-already-lied-senate-judiciary-committee-multiple-occasions">repeated
and well documented history of lying to and misleading the Senate
Judiciary Committee</a>."


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Maldives election]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Maldives_election%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The coup-running "president" of the Maldives seems to be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/21/maldives-election-fears-china-backed-president-could-return-country-to-dark-days">trying
to rig the coming election</a>.
<p>
I suspect that "president" Yameen's coup was organized by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#04_December_2015_(President_of_the_Maldives)">fossil
fuel interests</a>.
<p>
In recent years he has put the country in China's pocket by accepting
loans for unnecessary projects, such as a bridge that in a few decades
will connect one patch of ocean to another patch of ocean.
<p>
We need an international system for countries that have emerged from
dictatorship to repudiate the debts imposed by tyrants and corrupt
rulers.  That will teach plutocrats to stop trying to enslave
countries through lending to those rulers.
<p>
When the islands are awash and no one lives there any more,
China will foreclose on them and build a naval base there.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Genetics of developmental disorders]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Genetics_of_developmental_disorders%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
For some children that never reach the mental level of a toddler,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/21/solving-the-genome-puzzle">identifying
a genetic cause</a> is interesting, but does not alter the futility of
spending your life taking care of them.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Bullshitter removing bird protections]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Bullshitter_removing_bird_protections%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The bullshitter is systematically 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/21/trump-administration-poses-new-threat-to-birds-in-allowing-incidental-killings">removing
regulations that protect birds</a>.  He has even allowed shooting
birds with lead, which tends to poison carrion eaters and introduce
lead into the whole ecosystem.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Japan's "commercial" whaling]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Japans_commercial_whaling%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Australia has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/21/australia-could-launch-legal-challenge-to-japans-scientific-whaling-hunts">refused
to resume sending ships to oppose Japan's "commercial" whaling</a>,
but holds out as consolation that it just perhaps might launch a legal
challenge of some kind.
<p>
I would be glad if Australia really did that, but I think this is just
a way of letting people down gently step by step.


]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Dangers of Kavanaugh]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Dangers_of_Kavanaugh%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Yet another danger of Kavanaugh: he 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/21/privatizing-the-coast-are-wealthy-californians-seizing-public-beaches">could
eliminate California's law that requires public access to all
beaches</a>.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Killer thug protected from justice]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Killer_thug_protected_from_justice%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> that killed Botham Shem Jean while he was minding his own
business has been
<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/amber-guyger-botham-jean-shooting-police-must-face-impartial-justice/">protected
from normal investigation of suspects</a> through the schemes that
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> have set up to protect themselves from justice, as well as
unofficial privilege.


]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[US thugs' cruelty towards migrants]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28US_thugs_cruelty_towards_migrants%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
A former US border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> is reporting on the cruelty towards migrants
that he found to be
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/20/border-patrol-agent-immigrant-abuse/">standard
practice in the thug agency</a>.
<p>
It must be worse under the influence of the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>.  His views will
have empowered all the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> commanders that are looking for someone to
be cruel to.


]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh's attempted rape accusations]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Kavanaughs_attempted_rape_accusations%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
A former official says that, by usual standards, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/20/judicial-nominee-background-investigations-fact-vs-fiction">the
FBI should investigate</a> the attempted rape accusations against
Kavanaugh.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Chinese government "journalism"]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Chinese_government_journalism%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
The US ordered two Chinese government "journalism" organizations
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/20/beijing-complains-as-us-orders-chinese-media-to-register-as-foreign-agents">register
as foreign agents</a>.
<p>
That seems legitimate to me.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Blasphemy law]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Blasphemy_law%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Calling on Spain to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/20/spains-blasphemy-laws-stifle-freedom">repeal
its law against blasphemy</a>.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Wrongful conviction of murder]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Wrongful_conviction_of_murder%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Valentino Dixon was wrongly convicted of murder in a trial that hardly
bothers to respect the rights of the accused.  He had a lucky break
and received national attention, after which it was discovered that
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/19/1797064/-Man-set-free-from-wrongful-murder-conviction-due-initially-to-Golf-Digest">his
conviction was based on insufficient evidence</a>, and he was freed.
<p>
We ought to give every murder case this sort of attention the first
time.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[MDMA makes octopuses sociable]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28MDMA_makes_octopuses_sociable%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
MDMA 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/20/mdma-makes-octopuses-more-sociable">makes
octopuses sociable</a>.
<p>
This indicates similarity between brains whose evolution has been
separate for 500 million years.  Perhaps with all animal's brains.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Private firefighting companies]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Private_firefighting_companies%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/20/private-firefighters-wildfire-insurance-climate-change-capitalism">Private
firefighting companies</a> remind us of how the Roman Republic turned
into an empire.
<p>
Marcus Aurelius Crassus became the richest man in Rome with his
private firefighting company.  When a house caught fire, he offered to
buy it immediately for a low price.  If the owner sold him the house,
Crassus put out the fire.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Weakened environmental regulations]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Weakened_environmental_regulations%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
[Weakened] environmental regulations 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/relaxed-environmental-regulations-heighten-risk-during-natural-disasters-103411">heighten
risk</a> during natural disasters.


]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Hurricane Florence flood]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Hurricane_Florence_flood%29</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>
Hurricane Florence caused the 
<a href="https://grist.org/article/florence-is-the-worst-flood-in-east-coast-history-heres-how-locals-describe-it/">worst
flood in the history of the American east coast</a>.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Imprisoned immigrant minors in the US]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Imprisoned_immigrant_minors_in_the_US%29</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">ac8801caab1a792a80301863341e6dff</guid>
<description><![CDATA[<p>
The US has imprisoned 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/drugging-detained-children-is-like-using-a-chemical-straitjacket-102394">almost
13000 immigrants that are minors</a>.  (Some hundreds were taken away
from families; most arrived alone.)  Many of them are being forcibly
drugged with sedatives.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[USB-C charging vulnerability]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28USB-C_charging_vulnerability%29</link>
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Don't get a laptop that charges through USB-C.  It is 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/with-usb-c-even-plugging-in-can-set-you-up-to-be-hacked-102296">inherently
vulnerable</a>.
<p>
It is a shame that the article uses "hacker" to mean
"security-breaker".  Please distinguish the two by calling the latter
a
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">"cracker"</a>.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Migrant passengers forced to drive boats]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Migrant_passengers_forced_to_drive_boats%29</link>
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In a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy, the traffickers
generally force one passenger, at gunpoint, to drive the boat.  If
that one is not up to the task, another passenger may take the
controls so that they don't all drown.
<p>
Whichever migrant drives the boat to Italy is likely to be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/sep/20/free-army-how-human-traffickers-are-making-scapegoats-of-migrants">jailed
and charged with "aiding illegal immigration"</a>.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Undersea glaciers]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Undersea_glaciers%29</link>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/20/build-walls-on-seafloor-to-stop-glaciers-melting-scientists-say">Barriers
at the edges</a> of undersea glaciers could retard them from sliding
into the sea and raising sea level.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US plans to treat protesters as terrorists]]></title>
<link>https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28US_plans_to_treat_protesters_as_terrorists%29</link>
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The US is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/20/keystone-pipeline-protest-activism-crackdown-standing-rock">planning</a>
to treat pipeline protesters as terrorists.


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<pubDate>24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
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