# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(extradite_julian_assange_wikileaks)
title: How repressive regimes will benefit from Julian Assange's extradition.
uri: How-repressive-regimes-will-benefit-from-Julian-Assange-s-extradition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(extradite_julian_assange_wikileaks)
content:
 
<p>
* Handing over the WikiLeaks founder [Julian Assange] to the US will
   benefit 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/20/extradite-julian-assange-investigative-journalism-wikileaks">repressive regimes around the world.</a>*
<p>
He has only done what any good journalist is supposed to do.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(global_heating_sleep_study)
title: Global heating is cutting sleep across the world, study finds
uri: Global-heating-is-cutting-sleep-across-the-world-study-finds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(global_heating_sleep_study)
content:
 
<p>
Global heating is making it harder for people 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/20/global-heating-cutting-sleep-study-health-impacts">around the world to sleep.</a>
<p>
Greenhouse gases affect nights even more than days.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(jamaican_mp_crime_opinion)
title: Jamaican MP's opinion on deportation, crime, and equal treatment
uri: Jamaican-MP-s-opinion-on-deportation-crime-and-equal-treatment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(jamaican_mp_crime_opinion)
content:
 
<p>
A Jamaican MP takes a thoughtful stand on the question of when it is
or isn't right to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/20/uk-deportation-flights-jamaica-little-respect-humanity">deport people who have committed a crime.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(climate_india_pakistan_heatwave)
title: Disastrous heat waves in India and Pakistan
uri: Disastrous-heat-waves-in-India-and-Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(climate_india_pakistan_heatwave)
content:
 
<p>
Global heating has made disastrous heat waves in India 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/asia/climate-india-pakistan-heatwave-intl/index.html">100 times more
probable.</a>
<p>
Formerly they were likely to happen once in 300 years.  Now it is
once in 3 years, which means they are now part of normal weather.
<p>
It's only a matter of time before they reach the 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/asia/india-pakistan-heatwave-climate-intl-hnk/index.html">level of fatal weather</a>
 and kill millions of people in a day.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(pentagon_syria_strike_review)
title: US investigated a deadly attack in Syria, concluded no specific person was to blame.
uri: US-investigated-a-deadly-attack-in-Syria-concluded-no-specific-person
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(pentagon_syria_strike_review)
content:
 
<p>
The US investigated an attack in Syria that killed and wounded
civilians, and concluded that no 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/politics/pentagon-syria-strike-review/index.html">specific person was to blame.</a>
That could be a falsehood to protect the guilty.  But not necessarily:
it could be true.  If so, there are two possibilities:
<ol>
<li>The system for making decisions was at fault.
If so, the US has an obligation to correct it.
<li>It's one of the deadly accidents that tend to happen in war
and can't always be prevented.
</ol>
No system can prevent all the unnecessary killings in war.  But
officials are often too quick to conclude that any given killing was
nobody's fault and impossible to prevent.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(japan_university_exam_discrimination)
title: Japanese university told to compensate after exam discrimination
uri: Japanese-university-told-to-compensate-after-exam-discrimination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(japan_university_exam_discrimination)
content:
 
<p>
A Japanese medical school has been found guilty of sex discrimination
after it reduced the grades of female applicants to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/19/japanese-university-told-to-compensate-13-women-after-exam-discrimination">compensate for
their superior skills.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(environmental_toxins_obesity_pandemic)
title: Environmental toxins are worsening obesity say several scientists.
uri: Environmental-toxins-are-worsening-obesity-say-several-scientists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(environmental_toxins_obesity_pandemic)
content:
 
<p>
Several scientists present reasons to conclude that various chemicals
in our environmental pollution are pushing millions of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/19/environmental-toxins-are-worsening-obesity-pandemic-say-scientists">people towards
obesity</a>
<p>
-- especially as children.
<p>
*More than 3,000 potentially 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/19/more-than-3000-potentially-harmful-chemicals-food-packaging-report-shows">harmful chemicals found in food packaging.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(foreign_funding_us_campaigns)
title: Trump's claims and foreign funding for US campaigns
uri: Trump-s-claims-and-foreign-funding-for-US-campaigns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(foreign_funding_us_campaigns)
content:
 
<p>
*Trump claims immigrants are voting illegally. The real problem is foreign fat 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/foreign-funding-us-campaigns">cats funding US campaigns.</a>*
<p>
That's in addition to the other real problem: American fat cats
funding US campaigns.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(afghan_surgeon_polish_border)
title: Afghan surgeon that fled Ukraine, says he was treated differently at Polish border
uri: Afghan-surgeon-that-fled-Ukraine-says-he-was-treated-differently-at-P
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(afghan_surgeon_polish_border)
content:
 
<p>
*Afghan surgeon who fled Ukraine says he was treated 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/19/afghan-surgeon-who-fled-ukraine-says-he-was-treated-differently-at-polish-border">differently at
Polish border.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(ending_roe_v_wade_conservatives)
title: Roe v Wade and the Right-wing extremists 1950's vision for the country
uri: Roe-v-Wade-and-the-Right-wing-extremists-1950-s-vision-for-the-country
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(ending_roe_v_wade_conservatives)
content:
 
<p>
*[Right-wing extremists] are animated by a vision of 1950s-style
   white Christian patriarchal dominance –- it is the only order 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/ending-roe-v-wade-beginning-conservatives-civil-rights-democracy">they will accept for America.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(abortion_el_salvador_roe_v_wade)
title: El Salvador has created a presumption of guilt for any woman who has a miscarriage
uri: El-Salvador-has-created-a-presumption-of-guilt-for-any-woman-who-has-a
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(abortion_el_salvador_roe_v_wade)
content:
 
<p>
Prohibition of abortion in El Salvador has created a presumption of guilt
for any woman who has a miscarriage 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/19/abortion-el-salvador-jailed-women-roe-v-wade">that might have been an abortion.</a>
<p>
182 women have been convicted and imprisoned there for having a grave
problem in pregnancy, over 24 years.  And they keep on imprisoning
more.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(tax_rich_myth_fleeing_millionaires)
title: Debunking the myth of rich fleeing millionaires
uri: Debunking-the-myth-of-rich-fleeing-millionaires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(tax_rich_myth_fleeing_millionaires)
content:
 
<p>
California raised taxes on the rich; rich people continue 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/20/tax-rich-we-need-debunk-myth-fleeing-millionaires">moving there
nonetheless.</a>
<p>
The right-wing "realist" claim that they would move away to reduce taxes
seems to be bogus.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(machin_child_tax_credit)
title: at the start of May, 15% of US households with children reported food insufficiency.
uri: at-the-start-of-May-15-of-US-households-with-children-reported-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_May_2022_(machin_child_tax_credit)
content:
 
<p>
At the start of May, 15% of US households with children 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/20/millions-more-kids-going-hungry-gop-manchin-killed-expanded-child-tax-credit">reported food
insufficiency.</a>
<p>
In August it was 9%. The increase is due to Senator Manchin.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(trump_cpac_hungary_platform)
title: *Trump shares CPAC Hungary platform with notorious racist and antisemitic.*
uri: Trump-shares-CPAC-Hungary-platform-with-notorious-racist-and-antisemi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(trump_cpac_hungary_platform)
content:
 
<p>
*Trump shares CPAC 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/21/trump-shares-cpac-hungary-platform-racist-antisemite">Hungary platform with notorious racist and antiesmites.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(mastriano_threat_democracy)
title: Mastriano determined to help Republicans win Pennsylvania
uri: Mastriano-determined-to-help-Republicans-win-Pennsylvania
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(mastriano_threat_democracy)
content:
 
<p>
Mastriano, the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, is
determined to make Republicans win Pennsylvania in the 2024
presidential election. If he can't get the voters to vote that way
for real, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/20/20-electoral-votes-well-mastriano-threat-democracy-goes-beyond-pennsylvania">he is ready to steal the election.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(bing_china_censorship)
title: Microsoft's Bing and Chinese political censorship
uri: Microsoft-s-Bing-and-Chinese-political-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(bing_china_censorship)
content:
 
<p>
Experimental proof that Microsoft's Bing 
<a href="https://citizenlab.ca/2022/05/bada-bing-bada-boom-microsoft-bings-chinese-political-censorship-autosuggestions-north-america/">search engine censors for China
in the US.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(drug_policy_alliance_plan)
title: The Drug Policy Alliance's strategic plan for "war on drugs".
uri: The-Drug-Policy-Alliance-s-strategic-plan-for-war-on-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(drug_policy_alliance_plan)
content:
 
<p>
The Drug Policy Alliance's strategic plan for 
<a href="https://drugpolicy.org/strategic-plan">ending the "war on drugs".</a>
<p>
When a war is on drugs, it is dangerous to everyone.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_((satire)_knife_wielding_tesla)
title: (Satire) *Knife-Wielding Tesla Kills Pedestrian.*
uri: (Satire)-Knife-Wielding-Tesla-Kills-Pedestrian
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_((satire)_knife_wielding_tesla)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Knife-Wielding 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/knife-wielding-tesla-kills-pedestrian-1848881478">Tesla Kills Pedestrian.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_((satire)_cigarette_break)
title: (satire) *Fetus Steps Outside Womb For Quick Cigarette Break.*
uri: (satire)-Fetus-Steps-Outside-Womb-For-Quick-Cigarette-Break
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_((satire)_cigarette_break)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Fetus Steps Outside Womb For 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/fetus-steps-outside-womb-for-quick-cigarette-break-1848637711">Quick Cigarette Break.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_((satire)_NYPD_turnstile)
title: (Satire) *NYPD Arrests Colombian Turnstile* Lord
uri: (Satire)-NYPD-Arrests-Colombian-Turnstile-Lord
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_((satire)_NYPD_turnstile)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *NYPD Arrests Colombian Turnstile
Lord 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/nypd-arrests-colombian-turnstile-lord-behind-massive-tu-1848950387">Behind Massive Turnstile-Jumping Ring.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(doe_carbon_capture_climate)
title: US government investing billions to direct air carbon removal projects
uri: US-government-investing-billions-to-direct-air-carbon-removal-projects
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(doe_carbon_capture_climate)
content:
 
<p>
The US government will spend about 4 billion dollars to build
4 million tons/year of 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/politics/doe-carbon-capture-investment-climate/index.html">direct CO2 removal capacity.</a>
<p>
That's about 1000 dollars per ton/year.
<p>
For method this to save civilization, it would need to remove a large
fraction of the 60 gigatons of CO2 emitted per year.  Capacity to
remove 30 gigatons/year would cost 30 trillion dollars.  Aren't other
solutions cheaper?
<p>
I have a feeling it will be difficult to scale up that far.
Especially difficult will be sequestering all the extracted CO2
underground.  The first plants will be built in places that are
especially propitious,  Will enough propitious places be found
for so much capacity?
<p>
Having this approach available will not directly do any harm.  What
worries me most is that the oil companies will cite this as "the
solution" and use it as an excuse to refuse to cut emissions.  They
will do anything to avoid actual reductions in their oil sales.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(big_money_trumpism)
title: Democrats need to confront the institutions that deny democracy.
uri: Democrats-need-to-confront-the-institutions-that-deny-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(big_money_trumpism)
content:
 
<p>
*To stave off authoritarianism, Democrats need to deliver on their 
promises and directly confront the institutions that deny democracy.
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/15/can-us-progressives-defeat-big-money-and-trumpism">The party is failing on both fronts.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(omar_baby_formula_monopolies)
title: Ilhan Omar calls for an investigation of dangerous concentration in production of baby formula.
uri: Ilhan-Omar-calls-for-an-investigation-of-dangerous-concentration-in-pr
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(omar_baby_formula_monopolies)
content:
 
<p>
Ilhan Omar calls for an investigation of dangerous concentration
in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/20/omar-leads-charge-against-baby-formula-monopolies-amid-us-shortage">production of baby formula.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(gop_kills_relief_bill)
title: Republicans killed a relief bill for small businesses.
uri: Republicans-killed-a-relief-bill-for-small-businesses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(gop_kills_relief_bill)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans killed a relief bill 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/20/thousands-small-businesses-expected-close-after-senate-gop-kills-relief-bill">for small businesses.</a>
More restaurants, bars and stores will close now.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(brazil_law_spending_limit)
title: Political Competition and Incumbency Advantage
uri: Political-Competition-and-Incumbency-Advantage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(brazil_law_spending_limit)
content:
 
<p>
A campaign spending limit law in Brazil provided an opportunity to
scientifically 
<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w23508">test the effects of such limits.</a>
<p>
The study found that a smaller limit led to more candidates,
and less advantage for the incumbent.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(russia_ukraine_war_ethnic_minorities)
title: Russia's Conquered Minorities Are Putin's Cannon Fodder in Ukraine War.
uri: Russia-s-Conquered-Minorities-Are-Putin-s-Cannon-Fodder-in-Ukraine-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(russia_ukraine_war_ethnic_minorities)
content:
 
<p>
*Russia's Conquered Minorities Are 
<a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/20/russia-ukraine-war-casualties-deaths-putin-ethnic-minorities-racism/">Putin's Cannon Fodder in Ukraine War.</a>*
<p>
This is partly true in the US -- the army recruits heavily among
disprivileged groups, because they have little other opportunity.
At least maybe they counterbalance the right-wing extremists
among the white soldiers.

 


title: Philosopher answers kids existential questions
uri: Philosopher-answers-kids-existential-questions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(philosophical_answers_kids_eixstential)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(philosophical_answers_kids_eixstential)

content:
 
<p>
Children pose deep philosophical questions. Here a philosopher tries
to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/may/21/what-are-our-lives-for-a-philosopher-answers-kids-existential-questions">give them serious, respectful answers.</a>
<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(florida_students_yearbook_gay_bill)
title: Florida students win yearbook flap over 'Don't Say Gay' bill
uri: Florida-students-win-yearbook-flap-over-Don-t-Say-Gay-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(florida_students_yearbook_gay_bill)
content:
 
<p>
Florida students protested against the "Don't talk about queerness"
bill, then overcame an attempt to cover up the photos 
<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/florida-students-win-yearbook-flap-dont-gay-bill-84643410">in the yearbook
which showed the protest.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(colorado_hospital_price)
title: A Colorado hospital's expensive operational cost
uri: A-Colorado-hospital-s-expensive-operational-cost
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(colorado_hospital_price)
content:
 
<p>
A Colorado hospital told a patient that an operation would cost per
$1,337, then afterward said, 
<a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2022/05/16/hospital-chargemasters-colorado-supreme-court/">"Oops, the real price is $300,000."</a>
<p>
With a universal medical system, this would not happen.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(alabama_roe_abortion_ban)
title: Alabama and reproductive medicine
uri: Alabama-and-reproductive-medicine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(alabama_roe_abortion_ban)
content:
 
<p>
In Alabama, many surgeons already refuse to operate on women who are
having miscarriages. 
<a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/roe-dobbs-abortion-ban-reproductive-medicine-alabama.html">They are afraid of prosecution.</a>
<p>
Most of the time, this causes only pain and suffering. Occasionally
women die from it.
<p>
Soon fanatical Christians will spread this threat to women's lives to
other states.
<p>
Take care of yourself: don't risk going through pregnancy in a
Republican-controlled state.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(philippine_election_macro)
title: Why most Filipinos voted for Marcos
uri: Why-most-Filipinos-voted-for-Marcos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(philippine_election_macro)
content:
 
<p>
A proposed explanation for why most Filipinos voted for Marcos, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/21/progressives-need-understand-why-son-hated-dictator-won-philippine-election">especially
young ones.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(anti_democracy_movement)
title: The anti-democracy movement
uri: The-anti-democracy-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(anti_democracy_movement)
content:
 
<p>
Right-wing US billionaires are leading an anti-democracy movement
to make the 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-anti-democracy-movement">world safe for unlimited plutocracy.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(tory_minister_people_steel_food)
title: Don’t let people off if they steal food in desperation, minister tells police
uri: Don-t-let-people-off-if-they-steal-food-in-desperation-minister-tel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(tory_minister_people_steel_food)
content:
 
<p>
The Tory minister of policing emphasized the importance of arresting 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/19/dont-let-people-off-if-they-steal-food-in-desperation-minister-tells-police-kit-malthouse">people who steal food to eat.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(ice_spying_on_you)
uri: Several-US-government-law-enforcement-agencies-are-keeping-records-o
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(ice_spying_on_you)
title:
 Several US government "law enforcement" agencies are keeping records on
everyone who lives in the US 

content:
 
<p>
Several US government "law enforcement" agencies are keeping records on
everyone who lives in the US -- or as 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/19/ice-spying-you">close to everyone as they can arrange.</a>

 


title: "Good faith" crackers won't be prosecuted
uri: Good-faith-crackers-won-t-be-prosecuted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_May_2022_(Good_faith_crackers_won't_be_prosecuted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_May_2022_(Good_faith_crackers_won't_be_prosecuted)

content:
 
<p>
  The Department of Justice said <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/19/justice-department-good-fatih-hackers-cfaa/">it would no longer prosecute crackers
    who break security for the sake of reporting or correcting flaws</a>.
<p>
  We still need to change the CFAA to narrow it to cases which are
  really attacks.
<p>
  Please don't use the term "<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hackers</a>" to refer specifically to breaking
  security.

 


title: Fighting against Medicare direct contracting and ACO REACH
uri: Fighting-against-Medicare-direct-contracting-and-ACO-REACH
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_May_2022_(Fighting_against_Medicare_direct_contracting_and_ACO_REACH)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_May_2022_(Fighting_against_Medicare_direct_contracting_and_ACO_REACH)

content:
 
<p>
  *Why Seniors Like Me Are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/19/why-seniors-me-are-fighting-against-medicare-direct-contracting-and-aco-reach">Fighting Against Medicare Direct Contracting
  and ACO REACH</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_May_2022_(Peace_circles)
title: Peace circles
uri: Peace-circles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_May_2022_(Peace_circles)
content:
 
<p>
  Could "peace circles", or other opporunities for students to speak and
  be listened to, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/19/heart-mightier-sword">help lead Americans away from plans to die in the
  process of killing</a>?

 


title: UK thugs and violent right-wing groups
uri: UK-thugs-and-violent-right-wing-groups
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_May_2022_(UK_thugs_and_violent_right-wing_groups)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_May_2022_(UK_thugs_and_violent_right-wing_groups)

content:
 
<p>
  The official UK thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/19/uk-police-took-high-level-decision-not-to-go-undercover-in-far-right-groups-in-1970s">decided in the 1970s not to try to infiltrate
  violent right-wing extremist groups because those were too violent</a>.
<p>
  It was safer to infiltrate groups that advocated peace, or the rights
  of the weak, because they were not a real threat.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_May_2022_((Satire)_Patient_lost_under_table)
title: (Satire) Patient lost under table
uri: (Satire)-Patient-lost-under-table
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_May_2022_((Satire)_Patient_lost_under_table)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Surgeon <a href="https://www.theonion.com/surgeon-loses-another-patient-under-operating-table-1848830887">Loses Another Patient Under Operating Table</a>.*

 


title: Supreme Count eliminates possibility of presenting exculpatory evidence to federal court
uri: Supreme-Count-eliminates-possibility-of-presenting-exculpatory-evidenc
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Supreme_Count_eliminates_possibility_of_presenting_exculpatory_evidence_to_federal_court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Supreme_Count_eliminates_possibility_of_presenting_exculpatory_evidence_to_federal_court)

content:
 
<p>
  The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/may/23/us-supreme-court-prisoners-ineffective-counsel-challenges">eliminated the possibility of presenting exculpatory
  evidence to a federal court</a> after an incompetent defense lawyer failed
  to present it in the initial trial &mdash; or failed to sign a form in time.
<p>
  This decision places respect for the court system above the rights of
  people to a fair trial.  Instead of making the system give justice,
  this decision closes its eyes to its failures and defines them away.
  That's called "finality."
<p>
  It would indeed be a good thing if we could count on trial defense
  lawyers to do their jobs properly and present all important evidence
  for the defense.  Instead of pretending they did so, our legal system
  should make damned sure they do so.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Russian_officer_resigned_out_of_shame)
title: Russian officer resigned out of shame
uri: Russian-officer-resigned-out-of-shame
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Russian_officer_resigned_out_of_shame)
content:
 
<p>
  A Russian officer explains why <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/22/europe/ukraine-russian-officer-resigns/index.html">he resigned from Putin forces out of shame</a>.
  It seems that many Russian soldiers are refusing to be part of the
  <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>, refusing to go to Ukraine.
<p>
  One thing that interests me is that apparently rule of law still
  applies inside the Russian army, for some things.  Putin's servitors
  make fabricated criminal accusations against dissidents, but the army
  lets people resign, or refuse to go outside Russia, because the law
  says they can.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Millionaires_join_Davos_protests)
title: Millionaires join Davos protests
uri: Millionaires-join-Davos-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Millionaires_join_Davos_protests)
content:
 
<p>
*Millionaires join Davos protests, demanding "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/22/millionaires-join-davos-protests-demanding-tax-us-now-taxation-wealthy-cost-of-living-crisis">tax us now</a>."*

 


title: Planet roaster companies building "carbon bombs"
uri: Planet-roaster-companies-building-carbon-bombs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Planet_roaster_companies_building_carbon_bombs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Planet_roaster_companies_building_carbon_bombs)

content:
 
<p>
  Planet roaster companies are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/11/analysis-exposes-big-oils-plot-unleash-climate-killing-carbon-bombs-worldwide">building 200 "carbon bombs" &mdash; defined as
  projects that will generate a billion tons of CO2 if fully utilized</a>.
<p>
  These companies, the world's main fossil fuel companies, are
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#1_July_2016_(Global_heating)">intentionally sabotaging any chance of avoiding global catastrophe</a>.
  If you are young today, these carbon bombs are likely to kill you.
  Don't delay fighting back against this planned mass murder until
  you're doomed to probable death from it.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Campaign_against_censorship)
title: Campaign against censorship
uri: Campaign-against-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Campaign_against_censorship)
content:
 
<p>
  The American Library Association, the American Federation of Teachers,
  the Authors' Guild, and some big publishing companies have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/11/librarians-teachers-form-coalition-fight-gops-book-banning-frenzy">set up a
  campaign against censorship in the US</a>.

 


title: Putin forces sending Ukrainian civilians to makeshift jails
uri: Putin-forces-sending-Ukrainian-civilians-to-makeshift-jails
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Putin_forces_sending_Ukrainian_civilians_to_makeshift_jails)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Putin_forces_sending_Ukrainian_civilians_to_makeshift_jails)

content:
 
<p>
  The Putin forces are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/23/europe/russia-ukraine-filtration-camps-intl-cmd/index.html">sending tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians
  to special makeshift jails and subjecting them to interrogation with
  beatings</a>.
<p>
  Some are them released after a few days.  Others have been held for
  weeks.  It's not clear what happens to those that the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>
  determine feel a loyalty to Ukraine, or have been soldiers.  They may
  be sent to Russia, they may be shot.

 


title: FCC opened doors to political spam texts
uri: FCC-opened-doors-to-political-spam-texts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(FCC_opened_doors_to_political_spam_texts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(FCC_opened_doors_to_political_spam_texts)

content:
 
<p>
  The FCC <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/23/how-fcc-can-protect-consumers-unwanted-political-text-message-spam">opened the doors to political spam text messages to cell phones</a>.
  It should shut the doors again.

 


title: Globalisation of food production left millions hungry
uri: Globalisation-of-food-production-left-millions-hungry
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Globalisation_of_food_production_left_millions_hungry)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Globalisation_of_food_production_left_millions_hungry)

content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/23/globalisation-of-food-production-has-left-millions-hungry">Globalisation of food production has left millions hungry</a>.*
<p>
  We must stop optimizing food production for efficiency and profit
  and bring robustness back into the system.
<p>
  We must also have fewer children so as to reduce the future
  population.

 


title: Sharp methane and other gasses needed urgently
uri: Sharp-methane-and-other-gasses-needed-urgently
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Sharp_methane_and_other_gasses_needed_urgently)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Sharp_methane_and_other_gasses_needed_urgently)

content:
 
<p>
  The world urgently needs to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/23/sharp-cut-methane-climate-crisis-carbon-dioxide-global-heating">cut emissions of methane and other short-term greenhouse gases</a>.
<p>
  *More than 120 civil society groups from around the world on Thursday
  warned that nations <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/global-climate-movement-warn-nations-have-just-6-months-end-fossil-fuel-finance">have only six months left to meet a collective
  commitment made at last year's United Nations Climate Conference to end
  public financing of fossil fuels</a>.*

 


title: Taliban forces female reporters to cover their faces on the air
uri: Taliban-forces-female-reporters-to-cover-their-faces-on-the-air
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Taliban_forces_female_reporters_to_cover_their_faces_on_the_air)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Taliban_forces_female_reporters_to_cover_their_faces_on_the_air)

content:
 
<p>
  The Taliban have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/22/taliban-enforce-face-coverings-afghanistan-female-tv-news-presenters">forced female TV reporters to cover their faces on the
  air</a>.
  This is on top of prohibiting women's education beyond secondary school.
<p>
  It is disgusting, but I don't see what we can do to weaken their grip
  on Afghanistan.

 


title: Abandoned fishing gear killing marine life
uri: Abandoned-fishing-gear-killing-marine-life
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Abandoned_fishing_gear_killing_marine_life)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Abandoned_fishing_gear_killing_marine_life)

content:
 
<p>
  *Abandoned fishing gear is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/22/abandoned-fishing-gear-is-killing-marine-life-and-poisoning-our-oceans">killing marine life and poisoning our oceans</a>.*

 


title: Australia's right-wing planet roaster government has fallen
uri: Australia-s-right-wing-planet-roaster-government-has-fallen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Australia's_right-wing_planet_roaster_government_has_fallen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Australia's_right-wing_planet_roaster_government_has_fallen)

content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/23/stoking-fear-and-hatred-held-the-coalition-in-power-finally-australia-had-enough">Australia's right-wing planet roaster government has fallen</a>.
  What kept it going for ten years was threats &mdash; and lies.

 


title: Podolyak on ceding territory and ceasefires
uri: Podolyak-on-ceding-territory-and-ceasefires
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Podolyak_on_ceding_territory_and_ceasefires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Podolyak_on_ceding_territory_and_ceasefires)

content:
 
<p>
  *[Ukraine chief negotiator] Podolyak made clear that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/22/ukraine-russia-ceasefire-deal-territory-donbas">Ukraine would
  not accept any deal with Russia that involved ceding territory, and
  that agreeing to a ceasefire now while making concessions to Russia
  would backfire on Ukraine because "Moscow would hit back harder
  after any break in fighting</a>."*
<p>
  That's what I said a month ago <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Weakening_the_Putin_forces)">about any agreement to end the war</a>.

 


title: Call on Biden to take executive action to expand workers' power.
uri: Call-on-Biden-to-take-executive-action-to-expand-workers-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Call_on_Biden_to_take_executive_action_to_expand_workers'_power.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Call_on_Biden_to_take_executive_action_to_expand_workers'_power.)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-this-petition-to-president-biden-expand-worker-power?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-inequality-media-civic-action&source=group-inequality-media-civic-action">call on Biden to take executive action to expand workers' power</a>.</p>

 


uri: Urgent-Call-on-your-senators-to-sign-Senator-Merkley-s-letter-opposin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_your_senators_to_sign_Senator_Merkley's_letter_opposing_Israel's_plan_to_demolish_a_thousand_Palestinians'_homes.)

title:
 Urgent: Call on your senators to sign Senator Merkley's letter opposing Israel's plan to demolish a thousand Palestinians' homes. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_your_senators_to_sign_Senator_Merkley's_letter_opposing_Israel's_plan_to_demolish_a_thousand_Palestinians'_homes.)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.jstreet.org/sign/senate-action-masafer-yatta/?t=1006&akid=310339%2E538688%2EUJWIBa">call on your senators to sign Senator Merkley's letter opposing Israel's plan to demolish a thousand Palestinians' homes</a>.</p>

 


uri: Urgent-Ask-your-congresscritter-to-commit-to-voting-No-on-any-bills-t
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Urgent:_Ask_your_congresscritter_to_commit_to_voting_No_on_any_bills_that_fund_military_spending_at_over_90%25_of_the_current_level)

title:
 Urgent: Ask your congresscritter to commit to voting No on any bills that fund military spending at over 90% of the current level 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Urgent:_Ask_your_congresscritter_to_commit_to_voting_No_on_any_bills_that_fund_military_spending_at_over_90%25_of_the_current_level)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14190">ask your congresscritter to commit to voting No on any bills that fund military spending at over 90% of the current level</a>.</p>
<p>To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript</a> code from the web site, use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.</p>

 


uri: Urgent-Call-on-Secretary-of-State-Blinken-to-push-against-Israel-s-pl
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Secretary_of_State_Blinken_to_push_against_srael's_planned_eviction_of_2,000_Palestinians_from_their_long-term_homes_in_Masafer_Yatta)

title:
 Urgent: Call on Secretary of State Blinken to push against Israel's planned eviction of 2,000 Palestinians from their long-term homes in Masafer Yatta 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Secretary_of_State_Blinken_to_push_against_srael's_planned_eviction_of_2,000_Palestinians_from_their_long-term_homes_in_Masafer_Yatta)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/blinken_yatta?source=em20220518&t=1006&akid=7795%2E223515%2EBhhX-H">call on Secretary of State Blinken to push against Israel's planned eviction of 2,000 Palestinians from their long-term homes in Masafer Yatta</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Call on Comcast, Charter, and DirecTV to suspend the Faux News channel
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Comcast-Charter-and-DirecTV-to-suspend-the-Faux-News
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Comcast,_Charter,_and_DirecTV_to_suspend_the_Faux_News_channel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Comcast,_Charter,_and_DirecTV_to_suspend_the_Faux_News_channel)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/suspend-fox-news/?refcode=email&t=1006&akid=12875%2E183061%2EHaujgg">call on Comcast, Charter, and DirecTV to suspend the Faux News channel</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Call on Speaker Pelosi to take a stand against corporate dark-money misinformation ads
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Speaker-Pelosi-to-take-a-stand-against-corporate-dark
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Speaker_Pelosi_to_take_a_stand_against_corporate_dark-money_misinformation_ads)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Speaker_Pelosi_to_take_a_stand_against_corporate_dark-money_misinformation_ads)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petition_pelosi_take_a_stand/">call on Speaker Pelosi to take a stand against corporate dark-money misinformation ads</a>.</p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(supply_chain_delays_renewable_energy)
title: The renewable energy generation
uri: The-renewable-energy-generation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(supply_chain_delays_renewable_energy)
content:
 
<p>
Australia permitted supply problems to slow the installation of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/24/supply-chain-delays-and-steel-costs-are-part-of-perfect-storm-stalling-renewable-energy-growth">renewable generation.</a>
<p>
With a can-do attitude, these problems can be overcome,
Here are examples:
<li> Wind-turbine blades are expensive?  Pay extra -- survival is
worth it.  Create the money to pay this via deficit spending,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/03/18/paying-green-new-deal-modern-monetary-theory?cd-origin=rss"> Create the money to pay this via deficit spending,</a> or
tax some rich people and businesses to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/13/super-rich-spend-2m-on-whisky-wealth-tax-pandemic">cover the costs.</a>
<li>
There is a production backlog on them?  Set up a factory to make them
domesticly.
<li>
People worry about whether the local factory will stay in business and
pay for itself?  Keep ordering more wind turbines.
<p>
A wind-turbine factory whose production is no longer needed is a lot
less dangerous than an fossil fuel facility whose production is no
longer needed.  The latter would be used by planet roasters to lobby
for too much fossil 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/17/shut-down-fossil-fuel-production-sites-early-to-avoid-climate-chaos-says-study">fuel extraction and dangerous levels of emissions.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(airgas_delivery_driver)
title: A CO2 delivery driver's journey to expose Airgas
uri: A-CO2-delivery-driver-s-journey-to-expose-Airgas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(airgas_delivery_driver)
content:
 
<p>
The delivery company Airgas employed drivers to drive heavy trucks
full of gas (often CO2).  It compels them to follow unsafe practices,
and to lie to customers about how much gas is in the truck's cargo
tank. 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/05/23/airgas-carbon-dioxide-safety-truck-drivers/">A driver documented this and complained.</a>

 


title: Slavoj Žižek: *We must stop letting Russia define the terms of the Ukraine crisis.*
uri: Slavoj-Žižek-We-must-stop-letting-Russia-define-the-terms-of-the-U
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(stop_letting_russia_define_terms_ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(stop_letting_russia_define_terms_ukraine)

content:
 
<p>
Slavoj Žižek: *We must stop letting Russia define the terms of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/23/we-must-stop-letting-russia-define-the-terms-of-the-ukraine-crisis">the
Ukraine crisis.</a>*
<p>
*Yes, the liberal west is hypocritical, applying its high standards
very selectively. But hypocrisy means you violate the standards you
proclaim, and in this way you open yourself up to inherent criticism –
when we criticize the liberal west, we use its own standards. &hellip;
And the only way to defend what is worth saving in our liberal
tradition is to ruthlessly insist on its universality.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(biden_china_taiwan)
title: Biden, speaking in Japan, said that the US would defend Taiwan if it is attacked.
uri: Biden-speaking-in-Japan-said-that-the-US-would-defend-Taiwan-if-it-i
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(biden_china_taiwan)
content:
 
<p>
Biden, speaking in Japan, said that the US would defend Taiwan 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/23/us-would-defend-taiwan-if-attacked-by-china-says-joe-biden">if it
is attacked.</a>
<p>
Some people are going to find that shocking, but it should not be.
That the US will defend Taiwan if China attacks Taiwan is entirely
proper and normal.  What ought to be shocking is that China is willing
to consider attacking Taiwan.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(roe_v_wade_abortion_laurence_tribe)
title: Professor Tribe's Roe v Wade opinion
uri: Professor-Tribe-s-Roe-v-Wade-opinion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(roe_v_wade_abortion_laurence_tribe)
content:
 
<p> 
Professor Tribe: The revocation of Roe v Wade would be a legal
revolution based on an arbitrary partisan rejection of an area of
existing jurisprudence. The supposedly similar past 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/23/roe-v-wade-abortion-laurence-tribe">examples are not
actually similar.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(geneva_russian_diplomat_resignation)
title: Russian diplomat in Geneva resigns over Ukraine invasion
uri: Russian-diplomat-in-Geneva-resigns-over-Ukraine-invasion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(geneva_russian_diplomat_resignation)
content:
 
<p>
*"Warmongering, lies and hatred": Russian diplomat in Geneva resigns over 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/23/warmongering-lies-and-hatred-russian-diplomat-in-geneva-resigns-over-ukraine-invasion
">Ukraine invasion.*</a>
<p>
I am reminded of the diplomant (was he American? British?) who, early
in this century, resigned and said, "Has 'oderint dum metuant' become
our motto?"
<p>
"Oderint dum metuant", the emperor Caligula's favorite saying, is
Latin for, "Let them hate us, as long as they fear us."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(mexico_migrant_checks_supreme_court)
title: Mexico’s migrant checks on buses and highways ruled racist and illegal
uri: Mexico-s-migrant-checks-on-buses-and-highways-ruled-racist-and-illeg
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(mexico_migrant_checks_supreme_court)
content:
 
<p>
Mexico's Supreme Court banned the practice of searching people on buses 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/22/mexico-migrant-checks-racist-illegal-supreme-court">based on racial profiling.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(refugee_rescue_ship)
title: A crew of a rescue ship faces prosecution and possibly 20 years in prison
uri: A-crew-of-a-rescue-ship-faces-prosecution-and-possibly-20-years-in-pri
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(refugee_rescue_ship)
content:
 
<p>
The crew of a ship that was sent to rescue refugees drowning in the
Mediterranean faces prosecution in Italy and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/22/its-a-never-ending-nightmare-crew-of-refugee-rescue-ship-facing-jail">possibly 20 years in
prison.</a>
<p>
It appears that right-wing extremists constructed falsehoods for the
prosecution.

 


title: Kherson’s military administrators to call for Russian annexation
uri: Kherson-s-military-administrators-to-call-for-Russian-annexation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(kherson_military_russian_annexation_ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(kherson_military_russian_annexation_ukraine)

content:
 
<p>
Putin's puppets in Kherson are going to "request" 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/kherson-military-administrators-to-call-for-russian-annexation-ukraine">annexation of the city
by Russia.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(us_fracking_climate_fossil_fuel)
title: [Proposed] US fracking boom could tip world to edge of climate disaster.
uri: Proposed-US-fracking-boom-could-tip-world-to-edge-of-climate-disaste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(us_fracking_climate_fossil_fuel)
content:
 
<p>
*[Proposed] US fracking boom could tip 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/11/us-fracking-climate-fossil-fuel-gases">world to edge of climate disaster.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(criminalising_protest_bad_democracy)
title: The Tories continue to push to criminalize protesting
uri: The-Tories-continue-to-push-to-criminalize-protesting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(criminalising_protest_bad_democracy)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories continue to push to criminalize protesting, and even
appearing to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/24/the-guardian-view-on-public-order-criminalising-protest-is-bad-for-democracy">plan to help a protest.</a>
<p>
Why condemn Putin if you're going to imitate him?



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(strike_cost_living_britan_low_pay)
title: Could strikes solve the cost of living crisis for Britain’s workers?
uri: Could-strikes-solve-the-cost-of-living-crisis-for-Britain-s-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(strike_cost_living_britan_low_pay)
content:
 
<p>
Tories crushed the British unions in the 1980s, but not entirely. Now
that train drivers' real income has gone way down, and they are
planning a strike, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/24/strike-cost-living-crisis-britain-workers-low-pay">Tories are planning to criminalize the strike.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(global_crisis_violence_healthcare)
title: ‘Global crisis’ of violence: 161 healthcare workers were killed last year, study finds
uri: Global-crisis-of-violence-161-healthcare-workers-were-killed-la
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(global_crisis_violence_healthcare)
content:
 
<p>
*Male TV presenters in Afghanistan are wearing face masks on screen to
show solidarity after the Taliban issued an order that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/24/global-crisis-of-violence-161-healthcare-workers-were-killed-last-year-study-finds">all women on
news channels must cover their faces.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(baby_milk_crisis)
title: Republicans are trying to force women to have more babies, but refuse to help them
uri: Republicans-are-trying-to-force-women-to-have-more-babies-but-refuse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(baby_milk_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans are trying to force women to have more babies, but refuse
to help them feed their 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/24/whos-to-blame-for-the-us-baby-milk-crisis-not-mothers-who-cant-be-bothered-to-breastfeed">babies once those are born.</a>
<p>
They care, for political reasons, about fetuses, but whether a
post-born fetus lives or dies is nothing to them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(climate_wreckers_un_guterres)
title: UN Secretary General Guterres forcefully denouncing fossil fuel companies
uri: UN-Secretary-General-Guterres-forcefully-denouncing-fossil-fuel-compan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(climate_wreckers_un_guterres)
content:
 
<p>
UN Secretary General Guterres is forcefully denouncing fossil fuel
companies, calling them "climate wreckers" and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/24/do-not-work-for-climate-wreckers-un-head-tells-graduates-antonio-guterres">urging young people to
refuse to work for them.</a>
<p>
I prefer "planet roasters", but "climate wreckers" fits them too.
<p>
I read several years ago that US oil companies were finding it hard to
hire good staff -- graduates considered them bad.
<p>
Indeed,
young people are more aware of the harm and danger of fossil fuels.
I hope people my age learn this soon.

 


title: Upcoming talk: Les libertés du logiciel et du matériel
uri: Upcoming-talk-Les-libertés-du-logiciel-et-du-matériel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Upcoming_talk:_Les_libertés_du_logiciel_et_du_matériel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Upcoming_talk:_Les_libertés_du_logiciel_et_du_matériel)

content:
 
<p>
  Richard Stallman will give a talk <em>in French</em> on June 4,
  15h00 to 18h00, at Espace Vinci (25 Rue des Jeuneurs, 75002 Paris)
  near métro Grands Boulevards.
<p>
  Web
  page: <a href="https://www.a-lec.org/libre-en-conf-04062022-richard-stallman-libertes-du-logiciel-et-du-materiel.html">https://www.a-lec.org/libre-en-conf-04062022-richard-stallman-libertes-du-logiciel-et-du-materiel.html</a></p>
  <p>
    Recording and streaming on PeerTube
    site <a href="video.chalec.org">video.chalec.org</a>.

 


title: Companies invited to snoop on students
uri: Companies-invited-to-snoop-on-students
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Companies_invited_to_snoop_on_students)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Companies_invited_to_snoop_on_students)

content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/companies-snoop-on-students.html">Many governments invite schools to invite companies to snoop on students</a>

 


title: UK Parliament recognized contracting leads to lower standards of work when done for the military
uri: UK-Parliament-recognized-contracting-leads-to-lower-standards-of-work
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(UK_Parliament_recognized_contracting_leads_to_lower_standards_of_work_when_done_for_the_military)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(UK_Parliament_recognized_contracting_leads_to_lower_standards_of_work_when_done_for_the_military)

content:
 
<p>
  The UK Parliament has recognized that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/26/ministry-of-defence-contractors-drop-standards-to-boost-profits-mps-warn">contracting jobs out of a ministry leads to lower standards of work &mdash; when the work is done for the military</a>.
<p>
  Will it now recognize that this is equally true when the work is done
  for people?  It is always bad to contract out government work, except
  when it can become a competitive market for private clients.

 


title: Putin forces soldier describes life as a prisoner of war
uri: Putin-forces-soldier-describes-life-as-a-prisoner-of-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Putin_forces_soldier_describes_life_as_a_prisoner_of_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Putin_forces_soldier_describes_life_as_a_prisoner_of_war)

content:
 
<p>
  A <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> soldier, who was a prisoner of war in Ukraine and then
  was exchanged, said that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/russian-soldier-pow-ukraine">his captors occasionally insulted him, but in
  general treated him decently, and the main pain of being a prisoner
  was boredom</a>.

 


title: NRA system to sell powerful guns in bugger quantities
uri: NRA-system-to-sell-powerful-guns-in-bugger-quantities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(NRA_system_to_sell_powerful_guns_in_bugger_quantities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(NRA_system_to_sell_powerful_guns_in_bugger_quantities)

content:
 
<p>
  The NRA and the National Shooting Sports Foundation <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/25/shootings-arent-a-sign-america-is-broken-its-working-exactly-as-intended">have set up a
  system to sell powerful guns in bigger quantities, and it is not
  broken -- it is quite effective</a>.

 


title: Beto O'Rourke shouted the latest school killing is on governor Abbott
uri: Beto-O-Rourke-shouted-the-latest-school-killing-is-on-governor-Abbott
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Beto_O'Rourke_shouted_the_latest_school_killing_is_on_governor_Abbott)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Beto_O'Rourke_shouted_the_latest_school_killing_is_on_governor_Abbott)

content:
 
<p>
  Beto O'Rourke, who will run against Texas governor Abbott, shouted at
  the latter's news conference, "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/25/beto-orourke-press-conference-abbott-texas-shooting">This [the latest school killing] is on
  you</a>."
<p>
  We can debate which gun laws would be effective or reducing the number
  of gun murders, but it's clear that laws are required.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Global_tax_deal_on_multinationals)
title: Global tax deal on multinationals
uri: Global-tax-deal-on-multinationals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Global_tax_deal_on_multinationals)
content:
 
<p>
  *"Historic" global tax deal on multinationals <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/24/historic-global-tax-deal-on-multinationals-delayed-until-2024">delayed until 2024</a>.*
  And, some worry, perhaps delayed forever.

 


title: Protesters arrested at Shell annual meeting
uri: Protesters-arrested-at-Shell-annual-meeting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Protesters_arrested_at_Shell_annual_meeting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Protesters_arrested_at_Shell_annual_meeting)

content:
 
<p>
  Protesting shareholders <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/24/shell-pause-london-agm-protesters-oil-gas-green">interrupted the Shell annual meeting, demanding Shell stop exacerbating global heating</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Lower prescription drug prices and expand home care services to patients that need it
uri: Urgent-Lower-prescription-drug-prices-and-expand-home-care-services-t
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_Lower_prescription_drug_prices_and_expand_home_care_services_to_patients_that_need_it)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_Lower_prescription_drug_prices_and_expand_home_care_services_to_patients_that_need_it)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-fight-for-seniors-lower-prescription-drug-prices-and-expand-home-care-services?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-social-security-works&source=group-social-security-works">call on Congress to lower prescription drug prices and expand home care services to patients that need it</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Provide food to America's poor
uri: Urgent-Provide-food-to-America-s-poor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_Provide_food_to_America's_poor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_Provide_food_to_America's_poor)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://secure.feedingamerica.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=00000000.app20020b?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=616">call on Congress to provide food to America's poor</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Stop storing location data that tracks users
uri: Urgent-Stop-storing-location-data-that-tracks-users
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_storing_location_data_that_tracks_users)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_storing_location_data_that_tracks_users)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/google-endangers-abortion-seekers">call on Google to stop storing location data that tracks its users</a>.</p>
<p>
  To protect people who travel for an abortion, this step is essential but not enough.  There are many systems that track people's movements, and we need to make them all stop.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Fund research to protect right whales
uri: Urgent-Fund-research-to-protect-right-whales
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_Fund_research_to_protect_right_whales)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_Fund_research_to_protect_right_whales)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49422&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:107101&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:WILDLIFE-0222&utm_content=EM9:01C:0HH-DLE">call on Congress to fund research about how to protect right whales</a>.</p>
<p>
  To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a> from the web site, use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_Legalize_marijuana)
title: Urgent: Legalize marijuana
uri: 2022-06-02-Urgent-Legalize-marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_Legalize_marijuana)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-now-legalize-marijuana-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progress-america&source=group-progress-america">call for legalizing marijuana</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(sanders_shooting_manslaughter)
title: Thugs who killed Quadry Sanders have been charged with manslaughter.
uri: Thugs-who-killed-Quadry-Sanders-have-been-charged-with-manslaughter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(sanders_shooting_manslaughter)
content:
 
<p>
The thugs who killed Quadry Sanders have been 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220512125438/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/us/oklahoma-lpd-officers-shooting-manslaughter.html">charged with
manslaughter.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(gun_statistics)
title: Shootings are now the largest single cause of death for Americans under 20.
uri: Shootings-are-now-the-largest-single-cause-of-death-for-Americans-unde
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(gun_statistics)
content:
 
<p>
Shootings are now the largest single cause of death 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/26/we-continue-fail-protect-our-youngest-guns-leading-cause-death-kids">for Americans under 20.</a>
<p>
The article refers to that whole age range as "children", which is a
misleading practice.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(bp_sea_investments_windfall_tax)
title: Proposed windfall profits tax could stop some of the Billionaire Polluters
uri: Proposed-windfall-profits-tax-could-stop-some-of-the-Billionaire-Pollu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(bp_sea_investments_windfall_tax)
content:
 
<p>
A proposed windfall profits tax in the UK could stop some of Billionaire
Polluters' 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/26/bp-to-review-north-sea-investments-windfall-tax">proposed drilling projects!</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_protect_Shenandoah_mountain)
title: (Urgent) US citizens: call on your senators to protect Shenandoah Mountain.
uri: (Urgent)-US-citizens-call-on-your-senators-to-protect-Shenandoah-Moun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_protect_Shenandoah_mountain)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49913&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:107063&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:PARKSREC-0422&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-DLE">call on your senators to protect Shenandoah Mountain.</a>

 


uri: (Urgent)-US-citizens-call-on-your-congresscritter-to-sign-a-letter-to
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_congress_freedoms_israelis_palestinians)

title:
 (Urgent) US citizens: call on your congresscritter to sign a letter to support
human rights for Palestinians and Israelis. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_congress_freedoms_israelis_palestinians)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to sign a letter to support
human rights for 
<a href="https://act.jstreet.org/sign/tell-congress-rights-freedoms-israelis-palestinians/?t=1008&akid=310328%2E538688%2EVDTJjP">Palestinians and Israelis.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_protect_monarch_butterflies)
uri: (Urgent)-US-citizens-call-on-your-congresscritter-to-cosponsor-the-MO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_protect_monarch_butterflies)
title:
 (Urgent) US citizens: call on your congresscritter to cosponsor the MONARCH
Act, to protect monarch butterflies. 

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to cosponsor the MONARCH
Act, to 
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=47014&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:105146&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:WILDLIFE:MONARCH-1021&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-LPE">protect monarch butterflies.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_investigate_jared_kushner)
title: (Urgent) US citizens: call on the DOJ to investigate Jared Kushner.
uri: (Urgent)-US-citizens-call-on-the-DOJ-to-investigate-Jared-Kushner
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_investigate_jared_kushner)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the DOJ to 
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/doj-investigate-jared-kushner?source=em20220522&t=1006&akid=7809%2E223515%2EGfmJNu">investigate Jared Kushner.</a>

 


uri: (Urgent)-US-citizens-call-on-Biden-and-Congress-not-to-give-money-to
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_taxpayer_dollars_break_labor_laws)

title:
 (Urgent) US citizens: call on Biden and Congress not to give money to big
companies that violate workers' rights. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_taxpayer_dollars_break_labor_laws)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-president-biden-and-congress-taxpayer-dollars-should-not-go-to-multibillion-dollar-corporations-that-break-labor-laws?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg"> call on Biden and Congress not to give money to big
companies that violate workers' rights.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_usps_board_fire_dejoy)
title: (Urgent) US citizens: call on the USPS board of governors to fire DeJoy without delay.
uri: (Urgent)-US-citizens-call-on-the-USPS-board-of-governors-to-fire-DeJo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(Urgent:_usps_board_fire_dejoy)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the USPS 
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-the-new-usps-board-fire-louis-dejoy?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-petition-fire-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy-2">board of governors to fire DeJoy
without delay.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(IEA_oil_gas_mega_projects)
uri: head-of-the-IEA-(International-Energy-Agency)-has-affirmed-that-civili
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(IEA_oil_gas_mega_projects)
title:
 head of the IEA (International Energy Agency) has affirmed
that civilization must not explode any "carbon bombs". 

content:
 
<p>
The head of the IEA (International Energy Agency) has affirmed
that civilization 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/12/oil-gas-mega-projects-climate-iea-fatih-birol-carbon-bombs-global-energy-crisis-fossil-fuel">must not explode any "carbon bombs".</a>
<p>
He also pointed out that these investments in future suicide will do
nothing to ease the current high prices.  Putin's war will be long
over by the time they produce anything.
<p>
The IEA has in the past provided cover for fossil fuel expansion
plans, thus protecting them from pressure to cut back world emissions.
Its ceasing to do so means one layer of cover removed.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(monbiot_techno_polluters)
title: George Monbiot: *We need optimism but Disneyfied climate predictions are just dangerous.*
uri: George-Monbiot-We-need-optimism-but-Disneyfied-climate-predictions-a
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(monbiot_techno_polluters)
content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: *We need optimism -– 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/13/optimism-climate-predictions-techno-polluters">but Disneyfied climate predictions are just dangerous.</a>*

 


title: Grenoble proposal to eliminate strict rules regarding swimming pool
uri: Grenoble-proposal-to-eliminate-strict-rules-regarding-swimming-pool
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(grenoble_proposal_eliminate_absurd_rules)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(grenoble_proposal_eliminate_absurd_rules)

content:
 
<p>
Grenoble has proposed to eliminate absurd strict rules about what
people can wear in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/french-mayor-reignites-burkini-row-with-easing-of-swimming-pool-rules">public swimming pools.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(israeli_soldiers_shireen_abu_akleh)
title: Shireen Abu Kleh Jenin killing investigation
uri: Shireen-Abu-Kleh-Jenin-killing-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(israeli_soldiers_shireen_abu_akleh)
content:
 
<p>
Israeli soldiers shot famous Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh dead
as 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html">she was covering a protest.</a>
<p>
There was no fighting before the soldiers shot her, and others there
say it 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/shireen-abu-aqleh-thousands-attend-state-memorial-in-west-bank">looked like a targeted killing.</a>
<p>
Israel will not 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/19/israel-will-not-hold-criminal-inquiry-into-killing-of-journalist-shireen-abu-aqleh">investigate her killing.</a>
<p>
Palestinians gave journalist 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/business/abu-akleh-memorial-ramallah-intl/index.html">Shireen Abu Akleh a state funeral.</a>
<p>
Israeli thugs attacked the funeral; 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/shireen-abu-aqleh-funeral-israel-blinken">the US rebuked Israel for that attack.</a>
<p>
*‘Cold-blooded’ killing and funeral chaos 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/15/cold-blooded-killing-and-funeral-chaos-leave-west-bank-in-turmoil">leave West Bank in turmoil.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(sudan_forces_protestors_coup)
title: Sudan's military rulers are arresting and killing protesters demanding democracy.
uri: Sudan-s-military-rulers-are-arresting-and-killing-protesters-demanding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(sudan_forces_protestors_coup)
content:
 
<p>
Sudan's military rulers are arresting and killing protesters 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/24/sudan-security-forces-clash-with-protesters-against-military-coup">demanding democracy.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(mallory_mcmorrow_speech)
title: Mallory McMorrow's powerful speech
uri: Mallory-McMorrow-s-powerful-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(mallory_mcmorrow_speech)
content:
 
<p>
Mallory McMorrow, of the Michigan state senate, responded to a vicious
personal insult from a right-wing senator by giving a powerful speech
reproaching right-wing repression and supporting 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/24/mallory-mcmorrow-speech-democrats-michigan-midterms">progressive views in
the name of Christianity.</a>
<p>
Someone once told me that "to be a good Christian, you have to be a
liberal democrat."  That was before some people foolishly demonized
the term "liberal".
<p>
It meant more or less the same thing that
"progressive" means now.
<p>
That made perfect sense to me.  A good Christian should likewise
support the right to copy and share published works and software.  But
statements like that won't convince Christians coming from me, because
I'm not a Christian.  I'm glad to see Christians arguing powerfully for them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(documented_russia_use_of_weapons)
title: How The Guardian documented Russia use of weapons
uri: How-The-Guardian-documented-Russia-use-of-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(documented_russia_use_of_weapons)
content:
 
<p>
Investigations of the Putin forces' use of weapons that kill across a
substantial area: cluster bombs, powerful bombs, fléchettes and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/24/ukraine-destruction-how-the-guardian-documented-russia-use-of-weapons">unguided missiles.</a>
<p>
The treaty that entirely prohibits cluster bombs has not been signed
by the world's main military powers, or by Ukraine.  So I think
it is a mistake to suppose that use of cluster bombs is, ipso facto,
a war crime.
<p>
However, the more general treaty against using imprecise weapons in
residential areas must cover cluster bombs along with the other
weapons described in the article.  So the use of cluster bombs there
would be war crimes.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(nato_russia_china_davos_wef)
title: Jens Stoltenberg on "free trade" and protecting national security.
uri: Jens-Stoltenberg-on-free-trade-and-protecting-national-security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(nato_russia_china_davos_wef)
content:
 
<p>
The head of NATO addressed the Davos meeting and told the tycoons that
"free trade" had to be limited to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/24/nato-russia-china-jens-stoltenberg-davos-wef">protect national security.</a>
<p>
The examples he cited have to do with military security, and I agree
with him on those issues.  But there are other principles that
likewise ought to outweigh letting businesses do as they like.  For
instance, 
<p>
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/unvarnished-truth-inflation?s=r">making it too easy for businesses to merge leads to price
gouging</a> and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/10/critics-say-iron-grip-market-monopolies-behind-baby-formula-shortage">shortages.</a>
<p>
Letting businesses have as much political power as they now do
leads to starvation, homelessness, and untreated injury and illness
for those who can't work.
<p>
Making it too easy for businesses resist unions leads to those
same 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/05/15/pro-act-pathway-power-workers">problems for employed people.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(boa_warning_climate_related_losses)
title: Bank of England warns of climate-related losses
uri: Bank-of-England-warns-of-climate-related-losses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(boa_warning_climate_related_losses)
content:
 
<p>
The Bank of England warned that UK banks and insurers will face £340bn
worth of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/24/uk-finance-faces-340bn-in-losses-without-action-on-climate-change">climate-related losses by 2050.</a>
<p>
Will the planet roasters heed this warning?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(argument_no_billionaires)
title: Arguing that society has no reason to permit the existence of billionaires.
uri: Arguing-that-society-has-no-reason-to-permit-the-existence-of-billiona
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(argument_no_billionaires)
content:
 
<p>
Arguing that society has no reason to permit 
<a href="https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/05/the-impotence-of-the-long-dist.html">the existence of billionaires.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(osha_amys_kitchen)
title: Amy's Kitchen and OSHA safety violations
uri: Amy-s-Kitchen-and-OSHA-safety-violations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(osha_amys_kitchen)
content:
 
<p>
Accusations that Amy's Kitchen (which manufactures packaged foods)
treats 
<a href="https://prospect.org/labor/hell-in-amys-kitchen-osha-health-safety-violations/">workers like organic manure.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(medicare_secret_deals)
title: Medicare and the secret deals it makes
uri: Medicare-and-the-secret-deals-it-makes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(medicare_secret_deals)
content:
 
<p>
Wendell Potter: Medicare makes secret deals that it will cover the
expensive trademarked drugs, but 
<a href="https://wendellpotter.substack.com/p/inhaleandalongline">not cover their "cheaper" generic
equivalents.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(corbyn_nato_disband)
uri: Jeremy-Corbyn-hopes-that-all-military-alliances-will-be-eliminated-in
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(corbyn_nato_disband)
title:
 Jeremy Corbyn hopes that all military alliances will be eliminated
in the interests of world peace. 

content:
 
<p>
Jeremy Corbyn hopes that all military alliances will be eliminated
in the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/20/jeremy-corbyn-would-like-to-see-nato-ultimately-disband">interests of world peace.</a>
<p>
I disagree with that view -- I think that that would not be an
effective way to achieve peace.  In particular, I support the
existence of NATO.
<p>
But his view is not an absurd or outrageous one.  For instance, he
rejects the claim, which originates from Putin, that NATO is to blame
for Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
<p>
I am sure I have other specific disagreements with Corbyn.  Complete
agreement would be amazingly unlikely, and too much to hope for.
Therefore, I won't stop supporting Corbyn over inevitable specific
disagreements.  I continue to believe that he would be a far better
leader for the UK than any of the current Tory or Labour leaders.

 


title: Pro-democracy campaigners of West Virginia and Arizona put pressure on senators to end filibuster
uri: Pro-democracy-campaigners-of-West-Virginia-and-Arizona-put-pressure-on
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(arizona_west_virginia_risk_arrest_end_filibuster)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(arizona_west_virginia_risk_arrest_end_filibuster)

content:
 
<p>
*Pro-democracy campaigners in West Virginia and Arizona on Monday
risked arrest at sit-ins&hellip; demanding that Democratic
Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema [end the filibuster to] allow
the Senate to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/23/arizona-west-virginia-residents-risk-arrest-demand-end-filibuster">pass reproductive rights, climate action, and voting
rights measures.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(exxon_trial_climate_crimes)
title: A Massachusetts lawsuit against Exxon can continue forward
uri: A-Massachusetts-lawsuit-against-Exxon-can-continue-forward
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(exxon_trial_climate_crimes)
content:
 
<p>
A Massachusetts lawsuit against Exxon for misleading investors and the
public about climate risks from using its 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/24/exxon-trial-climate-crimes-fossil-fuels-global-heating">fossil fuel products can
proceed to trial.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(boris_johnson_sue_gray_report)
title: ‘Disgraceful’: voters in key by election seats respond to Sue Gray report
uri: Disgraceful-voters-in-key-by-election-seats-respond-to-Sue-Gray
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(boris_johnson_sue_gray_report)
content:
 
<p>
The photos of Bogus Johnson in an illegal party which he had denied
attending made it impossible for Britons to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/25/disgraceful-voters-in-key-byelection-seats-respond-to-the-sue-gray-report">close their eyes to his
readiness to deny the truth.</a>
<p>
"Party gate" is a rather small issue, in regard to its direct effects
on anyone. But the photos of their idiotic disregard for the danger
of Covid-19 demonstrated visibly the Tories' contempt for everyone who
isn't particularly powerful -- contempt that they have implemented in
many areas of policies, some causing great suffering to thousands or
millions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(remote_school_app_tracking_privacy)
title: Education apps are full of spyware, like other apps.
uri: Education-apps-are-full-of-spyware-like-other-apps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(remote_school_app_tracking_privacy)
content:
 
<p>
Education apps are full of spyware, 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220601172241/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/24/remote-school-app-tracking-privacy/">like other apps.</a>
<p>
The mere existence of an "advertising ID" in a computer is an example
of malware in the operating system.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(australia_rain_plague_leaches)
uri: Areas-of-Australia-that-have-been-subject-to-persistent-and-repeated-h
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(australia_rain_plague_leaches)
title:
 Areas of Australia that have been subject to persistent and repeated
heavy rain now face a plague of leaches. 

content:
 
<p>
Areas of Australia that have been subject to persistent and repeated
heavy rain 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/25/itchy-yucky-unpleasant-wet-weather-brings-leech-invasion-to-nsw-suburbs">now face a plague of leaches.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(us_roma_refugees_prague_train_station)
title: The Czech Republic discriminates against Ukrainian Roma when they arrive as refugees.
uri: The-Czech-Republic-discriminates-against-Ukrainian-Roma-when-they-arri
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(us_roma_refugees_prague_train_station)
content:
 
<p>
The Czech Republic discriminates against Ukrainian Roma when they
arrive as refugees.  Officials deny them the refugee certificate that
other Ukrainian refugees receive. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/25/they-wont-accept-us-roma-refugees-forced-to-camp-at-prague-train-station"> They face similar prejudice if they
go to Germany.</a>
<p>
Some of these refugees have papers saying they have Hungarian
citizenship too.  Orbán offered Ukrainian Roma such papers, but
if they go to Hungary now, it says their papers are forgeries.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(russia_grain_crimea)
title: Russia is exporting grain stolen from occupied parts of Ukraine.
uri: Russia-is-exporting-grain-stolen-from-occupied-parts-of-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(russia_grain_crimea)
content:
 
<p>
Russia is exporting grain stolen from 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/23/politics/satellite-images-grain-crimea/index.html">occupied parts of Ukraine.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(ivf_treatment_anti_abortion_laws)
title: Laws proposed by fanatical Christians to ban abortion would also ban in-vitro fertilization.
uri: Laws-proposed-by-fanatical-Christians-to-ban-abortion-would-also-ban-i
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(ivf_treatment_anti_abortion_laws)
content:
 
<p>
Some of the laws proposed by fanatical Christians to ban abortion
would also 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/12/ivf-treatment-us-anti-abortion-laws-bills">ban in-vitro fertilization.</a>
<p>
In my view, we should not do any in-vitro fertilization until Earth's
population is considerably smaller, and decreasing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(elon_musk_twitter_antitrust)
title: Elon Musk's Twitter takeover and the threat of Big Tech monopolies
uri: Elon-Musk-s-Twitter-takeover-and-the-threat-of-Big-Tech-monopolies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(elon_musk_twitter_antitrust)
content:
 
<p>
*Elon Musk's Twitter takeover exposes the real threat to 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/perspectives/elon-musk-twitter-antitrust/index.html">free speech:
Big Tech monopolies.</a>*
<p>
I would not say that is the one and only real threat, but it is an
important one.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(male_afghan_tv_mask_up)
title: Male TV presenters in Afghanistan are wearing face masks on screen to show solidarity
uri: Male-TV-presenters-in-Afghanistan-are-wearing-face-masks-on-screen-to
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#31_May_2022_(male_afghan_tv_mask_up)
content:
 
<p>
*Male TV presenters in Afghanistan are wearing face masks on screen to
show solidarity after the Taliban issued an order that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/24/male-afghan-tv-presenters-mask-up-to-support-female-colleagues-after-taliban-decree">all women on
news channels must cover their faces.</a>*

 


title: Interviews with people who quit planet roaster PR companies
uri: Interviews-with-people-who-quit-planet-roaster-PR-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Interviews_with_people_who_quit_planet_roaster_PR_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Interviews_with_people_who_quit_planet_roaster_PR_companies)

content:
 
<p>
  Interviews with people who have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/27/big-oil-public-relations-defectors-climate-crisis">quit the planet roaster PR companies</a>.

 


title: 18-year-olds should not be allowed to buy guns
uri: 18-year-olds-should-not-be-allowed-to-buy-guns
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(18-year-olds_should_not_be_allowed_to_buy_guns)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(18-year-olds_should_not_be_allowed_to_buy_guns)

content:
 
<p>
  Proposing that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/27/eighteen-year-old-americans-cant-vote-why-can-they-buy-assault-rifles">18-year-olds should not be allowed to buy guns</a>.
<p>
  How about increasing the minimum age for gun purchases to 150?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(No_more_onion_links)
title: No more onion links
uri: No-more-onion-links
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(No_more_onion_links)
content:
 
<p>
  <b>No more onion links.</b>
<p>
  I just learned that pages in theonion.com are totally invisible when
  viewed without running Javascript code &mdash; they show a blank window.  I
  get those pages as HTML by email, and render them non-graphically, and
  the text was plain to see that way.  However, in a graphical browser,
  that same text does not appear.
<p>
  It is against my principles to post links to pages that require
  JavaScript to view, so I must cease the practice of posting links to
  the onion pages that I like.
<p>
  If you can make contact with the editors of theonion.com, and ask them
  to please make the contents of their pages visible in browsers that
  have Javascript disabled or use LibreJS, I would appreciate that.
  They might listen.

 


title: Illegal in Tennessee to sleep on public property
uri: Illegal-in-Tennessee-to-sleep-on-public-property
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Illegal_in_Tennessee_to_sleep_on_public_property)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Illegal_in_Tennessee_to_sleep_on_public_property)

content:
 
<p>
Tennessee has <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/05/25/camping-on-public-land-to-become-a-felony-in-tennessee.html">made it a felony to sleep on public property</a>.  I think that includes sidewalks as well as city parks.

 


title: Officials targeted with the Pegasus spyware
uri: Officials-targeted-with-the-Pegasus-spyware
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Officials_targeted_with_the_Pegasus_spyware)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Officials_targeted_with_the_Pegasus_spyware)

content:
 
<p>
  Spain's prime minister and other high officials were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/02/spain-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez-phone-pegasus-spyware">targeted with Pegasus spyware</a>.

 


title: Prosecutions suspended under "sedition" law that grossly restricts freedom of speech
uri: Prosecutions-suspended-under-sedition-law-that-grossly-restricts-fre
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Prosecutions_suspended_under_sedition_law_that_grossly_restricts_freedom_of_speech)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Prosecutions_suspended_under_sedition_law_that_grossly_restricts_freedom_of_speech)

content:
 
<p>
  India's Supreme Court has suspended prosecutions under a "sedition"
  law that grossly restricts freedom of speech.
<p>
  Hatred and contempt are sometimes justified &mdash; for instance, toward
  extremists of any religion &mdash; so prohibiting speech which expresses
  those attitudes is an offense against human rights.  (If you wish to
  oppose the extremists effectively, you must not to let that hatred run
  away with you.)  Exciting disaffection towards the government is a
  crucial part of democracy.

 


title: Republicans protesting against Supreme Court
uri: Republicans-protesting-against-Supreme-Court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Republicans_protesting_against_Supreme_Court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Republicans_protesting_against_Supreme_Court)

content:
 
<p>
  Republicans are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/13/abortion-pro-choice-joseph-mccarthy-red-scare">using protests against the Supreme Court as an excuse
  for repression of protests</a>.

 


title: Supporters of Trump's big lie work as election officials in Georgia
uri: Supporters-of-Trump-s-big-lie-work-as-election-officials-in-Georgia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Supporters_of_Trump's_big_lie_work_as_election_officials_in_Georgia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Supporters_of_Trump's_big_lie_work_as_election_officials_in_Georgia)

content:
 
<p>
  *Revealed: supporters of Trump’s big lie <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/13/trump-big-lie-georgia-election-officials">work as election officials
  across Georgia</a>.*

 


title: Uvalde thugs took 40 minutes to shoot killer
uri: Uvalde-thugs-took-40-minutes-to-shoot-killer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Uvalde_thugs_took_40_minutes_to_shoot_killer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Uvalde_thugs_took_40_minutes_to_shoot_killer)

content:
 
<p>
  The uniformed thugs who arrived at the Reed school in Uvalde <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/26/first-thing-texas-gunman-was-inside-school-for-40-minutes">took 40 minutes
  to shoot the killer who was inside the school</a>.
<p>
  Some of the people waiting with them complained about how long they
  waited before going in.
<p>
  Were they individually at fault for taking so long?  I don't have a
  basis to reach that conclusion.  Perhaps they were somehow stymied by
  the situation and were waiting for a solution.
<p>
  What is clear is that the presence of a "good guy with a gun" does not
  prevent such shootings.
<p>
  Uniformed thugs stationed in a school <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/05/25/texas-uvalde-shooting-school-police/">can't stop a killer who has come
  prepared, but they spend their days threatening and arresting
  students</a>.

 


title: Australia's two previous ruling parties plan to come out totally in favor of roasting Earth
uri: Australia-s-two-previous-ruling-parties-plan-to-come-out-totally-in-fa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Australia's_two_previous_ruling_parties_plan_to_come_out_totally_in_favor_of_roasting_Earth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Australia's_two_previous_ruling_parties_plan_to_come_out_totally_in_favor_of_roasting_Earth)

content:
 
<p>
  The previous two Australian ruling parties, Liberal and National, pretended
  to support decarbonization but in practice opposed efforts in that direction.
  Now that they have lost an election, and partly because of that,
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/26/amid-the-rubble-of-election-defeat-where-to-now-for-coalitions-climate-policy">their leaders are planning to come out totally in favor of roasting Earth</a>.
<p>
  Perhaps we should refer to them as the Flood and Burn parties.

 


title: Urgent: Phone your congresscritter and ask per to pass the No Tax Breaks for Union Busting Act
uri: Urgent-Phone-your-congresscritter-and-ask-per-to-pass-the-No-Tax-Brea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Urgent:_Phone_your_congresscritter_and_ask_per_to_pass_the_No_Tax_Breaks_for_Union_Busting_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Urgent:_Phone_your_congresscritter_and_ask_per_to_pass_the_No_Tax_Breaks_for_Union_Busting_Act)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: phone your congresscritter and ask per to pass the No Tax Breaks for Union Busting Act.
<p>
  The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>.</p>

 


title: Texas "never-delete-anything" law temporarily blocked
uri: Texas-never-delete-anything-law-temporarily-blocked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Texas_never-delete-anything_law_temporarily_blocked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Texas_never-delete-anything_law_temporarily_blocked)

content:
 
<p>
The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/31/texas-social-media-law-supreme-court">temporarily blocked the Texas never-delete-anything
law for social media platforms</a>.

 


title: World cannot adapt its way out of the climate crisis
uri: World-cannot-adapt-its-way-out-of-the-climate-crisis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(World_cannot_adapt_its_way_out_of_the_climate_crisis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(World_cannot_adapt_its_way_out_of_the_climate_crisis)

content:
 
<p>
  Prof. Heyhoe: *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/01/we-cannot-adapt-our-way-out-of-climate-crisis-warns-leading-scientist">The world cannot adapt its way out of the climate
  crisis, and counting on adaptation to limit damage is no substitute
  for urgently cutting greenhouse gases</a>&hellip; If global heating is
  allowed to continue then the world will rapidly reach a point beyond
  what can be adapted to.*
<p>
  HSBC's head of greenwashing asked, "Does it matter if Miami is 6
  meters below sea level, a century from now?"  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#30_June_2021_(Sea_levels_buildings)">Yes, if you want to live
  there</a>.  The ground there is porous, so if its
  surface is below sea level, sea will rise out of it.

 


title: Law requiring companies to accept phone calls within 3 minutes
uri: Law-requiring-companies-to-accept-phone-calls-within-3-minutes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Law_requiring_companies_to_accept_phone_calls_within_3_minutes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Law_requiring_companies_to_accept_phone_calls_within_3_minutes)

content:
 
<p>
  A proposed law in Spain would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/31/ring-in-the-changes-spain-to-make-call-centres-pick-up-within-three-minutes">require companies to accept phone calls
  within 3 minutes and give the option of talking to a real person</a>.
  Companies that fail to do this would face heavy fines.

 


title: Smaller nuclear reactors produce greater amounts of nuclear waste
uri: Smaller-nuclear-reactors-produce-greater-amounts-of-nuclear-waste
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Smaller_nuclear_reactors_produce_greater_amounts_of_nuclear_waste)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Smaller_nuclear_reactors_produce_greater_amounts_of_nuclear_waste)

content:
 
<p>
  A more careful study of proposed small nuclear reactors concluded that
  <a href="https://news.stanford.edu/2022/05/30/small-modular-reactors-produce-high-levels-nuclear-waste/">they will produce much greater amounts of nuclear waste</a>,
  in proportion to the energy they generate, than today's larger reactors.

 


title: National Rifle Association is in deep trouble
uri: National-Rifle-Association-is-in-deep-trouble
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(National_Rifle_Association_is_in_deep_trouble)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(National_Rifle_Association_is_in_deep_trouble)

content:
 
<p>
  The National Rifle Association is in deep trouble, and may be doomed
  to disappear.  But that won't do much good, since <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/30/opinions/nra-victory-over-gun-reform-hemmer/index.html">it has converted the
  Republican Party into a right-wing extremist organization</a> that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/25/youll-learn-why-gop-lawmaker-threatens-biden-if-democrats-try-take-away-guns">encourages its followers to arm themselves to start a civil
  war</a>.
<p>
  The Onion reported, of the Texas school shooter: "We have reason to
  believe this wasn't a 'lone wolf' incident, but rather a coordinated
  attack carried out with the assistance of 535 individuals in the
  D.C. metropolitan area."  However, that is an exaggeration: around
  half of those 535 members of Congress voted recently for gun control.
<p>
  I support gun control, but we must keep in mind that other right-wing
  evils are far more deadly.  Mass shootings are killing a couple of
  thousand Americans per year.  Other killings with guns kill some tens
  of thousands, but half of them are suicides and that is not morally
  equivalent to murder.
<p>
  Prohibiting abortions could directly kill tens of thousands of
  Americans per year in underground abortions.  It will kill women who have
  miscarriages, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#26_May_2022_(alabama_roe_abortion_ban)">by causing them to be denied treatment</a>.  I expect it will cause, in a less
  direct way, hundreds of thousands of premature deaths due to poverty
  caused by being compelled to have a baby.
<p>
  Global heating will kill millions of Americans per year, later this
  century, as well as hundreds of millions in other countries.
  Between the food shortages, the floods, the fires, the pandemics,
  and the civil wars, few will escape unscathed.
<p>
  Plutocracy, combined with the right-wing tactic scapegoating and
  distraction, is a major cause of those evils, and the root cause of
  the increase of poverty which also kills.
<p>
  This is why I focus mainly on plutocracy, and gun control is not near
  the top of my list.

 


title: JavaScript libraries endanger website-operating businesses and clients
uri: JavaScript-libraries-endanger-website-operating-businesses-and-clients
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(JavaScript_libraries_endanger_website-operating_businesses_and_clients)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(JavaScript_libraries_endanger_website-operating_businesses_and_clients)

content:
 
<p>
  Using JavaScript libraries <a href="https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/study-warns-that-shadow-code-on-external-javascript-libraries-pose-a-serious-supply-chain-risk/">endangers the security of website-operating
  businesses as well as their clients</a>. Because these scripts can change without notice, the companies (like
  their clients) don't even have a chance to try to vet them for safety.
<p>
  Of course, the clients are equally vulnerable to the companies' own
  JavaScript code.

 


title: Plan for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
uri: Plan-for-Fossil-Fuel-Non-Proliferation-Treaty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Plan_for_Fossil_Fuel_Non-Proliferation_Treaty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Plan_for_Fossil_Fuel_Non-Proliferation_Treaty)

content:
 
<p>
  Here is the plan for <a href="media/24383e69.Briefing-Fossil-Fuel-Non-Proliferation-Treaty.pdf" data-original-source="https://fossilfueltreaty.org/s/Briefing-Fossil-Fuel-Non-Proliferation-Treaty.pdf">a proposed Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty</a>.

 


title: US government given up on prosecuting people who plan and commit corporate crimes
uri: US-government-given-up-on-prosecuting-people-who-plan-and-commit-corpo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(US_government_given_up_on_prosecuting_people_who_plan_and_commit_corporate_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(US_government_given_up_on_prosecuting_people_who_plan_and_commit_corporate_crimes)

content:
 
<p>
  Ralph Nader: the US government has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/29/corporate-criminal-law-heading-extinction">completely given up on prosecuting
  the people who plan and commit the biggest crimes, those implemented
  by corporations</a>.

 


title: Israel's strike against chemical storage plant akin to chemical weapons
uri: Israel-s-strike-against-chemical-storage-plant-akin-to-chemical-weapon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Israel's_strike_against_chemical_storage_plant_akin_to_chemical_weapons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Israel's_strike_against_chemical_storage_plant_akin_to_chemical_weapons)

content:
 
<p>
  Israeli bombardment of a chemical storage plant in Gaza was tantamount to
  using chemical weapons.

 


title: UK scientists say it can't contribute much to limiting global heating
uri: UK-scientists-say-it-can-t-contribute-much-to-limiting-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(UK_scientists_say_it_can't_contribute_much_to_limiting_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(UK_scientists_say_it_can't_contribute_much_to_limiting_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>
  Some UK scientists involved in developing carbon capture say it can't
  contribute much to limiting global heating to 1.5C &mdash; not soon enough
  to make a difference.
<p>
  Research on carbon capture is fine as long as it doesn't distract us
  from implementing the urgent measures needed.  Unfortunately, that's
  exactly what fossil fools will try to cite it for.

 


title: Tories push universities out of teacher training
uri: Tories-push-universities-out-of-teacher-training
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Tories_push_universities_out_of_teacher_training)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Tories_push_universities_out_of_teacher_training)

content:
 
<p>
  Tories are accused of pushing universities out of UK teacher training
  because <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/may/28/government-pushing-universities-out-of-teacher-training-over-leftwing-politics-say-leaders">they consider the universities hotbeds of leftist thinking</a>.

 


title: Stock market decline represents air escaping from bubble of financialization
uri: Stock-market-decline-represents-air-escaping-from-bubble-of-financiali
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Stock_market_decline_represents_air_escaping_from_bubble_of_financialization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Stock_market_decline_represents_air_escaping_from_bubble_of_financialization)

content:
 
<p>
  The declining stock market <a href="https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-cantillon-effect-and-stock-market">represents the air escaping from a bubble of financialization which was hurting the real economy of the US all along</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(US_baby_formula_market_structure)
title: US baby formula market structure
uri: US-baby-formula-market-structure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(US_baby_formula_market_structure)
content:
 
<p>
  The strange structure of the US baby formula market <a href="https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/big-bottle-the-baby-formula-nightmare">tends to cause
  local shortages even when the total supply is sufficient</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_($1_Million_in_Bid_to_Unseat_Tlaib)
title: $1 Million in Bid to Unseat Tlaib
uri: 1-Million-in-Bid-to-Unseat-Tlaib
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_($1_Million_in_Bid_to_Unseat_Tlaib)
content:
 
<p>
*Wall Street-Funded Democrat PAC to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/27/wall-street-funded-democrat-pac-spend-1-million-bid-unseat-tlaib-report">Spend $1 Million in Bid to Unseat Tlaib</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(The_Reaganite_ruination)
title: The Reaganite ruination
uri: The-Reaganite-ruination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(The_Reaganite_ruination)
content:
 
<p>
  The Reaganite ruination of the US gave us <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/27/gops-way-doing-things-was-given-chance-and-results-were-catastrophic">minority rule over a
  distracted, impoverished population that never learned how to think
  carefully or understand the system of government</a>.
<p>
  No wonder young people mostly despise the Republican Party.

 


title: GOP neofascist minority rule laying waste to United States
uri: GOP-neofascist-minority-rule-laying-waste-to-United-States
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(GOP_neofascist_minority_rule_laying_waste_to_United_States)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(GOP_neofascist_minority_rule_laying_waste_to_United_States)

content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/15/neofascist-minority-rule-gop-laying-waste-united-states">Neofascist Minority Rule by the GOP Is Laying Waste to the United States</a>.*
<p>
  Hamilton's idea of the Electoral College presumed that the choice of
  president was about personal integrity, not the choice of policies.
  The original intention was that Congress would decide policies and the
  president would be in charge of executing them.  It took only a few
  years for the United States to discover than things were not actually
  working that way.

 


title: Urgent: Call on the Senate to reject Andrew Biggs for Social Security Board
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-Senate-to-reject-Andrew-Biggs-for-Social-Security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_to_reject_Andrew_Biggs_for_Social_Security_Board)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_to_reject_Andrew_Biggs_for_Social_Security_Board)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/no-privatizers-on-the-social-security-board?">call on the Senate to reject Andrew Biggs for Social
  Security Board</a>.
<p>
  Here's <a href="https://www.epi.org/blog/andrew-biggs-social-security-pensions/">an example of his push for privatization</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on your state legislators to codify the right to an abortion
uri: Urgent-Call-on-your-state-legislators-to-codify-the-right-to-an-abort
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_your_state_legislators_to_codify_the_right_to_an_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_your_state_legislators_to_codify_the_right_to_an_abortion)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-state-legislators-blue-states-must-codify-the-right-to-abortion?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">call on your state legislators to codify the right to an
abortion</a>.

 


uri: Urgent-Call-on-Louis-DeJoy-the-USPS-Board-to-stop-slowing-down-mail
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Louis_DeJoy_%26_the_USPS_Board_to_stop_slowing_down_mail_and_raising_prices,_and_expand_products_and_services_instead)

title:
 Urgent: Call on Louis DeJoy & the USPS Board to stop slowing down mail and raising prices, and expand products and services instead 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Louis_DeJoy_%26_the_USPS_Board_to_stop_slowing_down_mail_and_raising_prices,_and_expand_products_and_services_instead)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-usps-board-demand-dejoy-stop-slowing-down-mail-and-raising-prices-require-dejoy-expand-products-and-services-to-bring-in-new-revenue-instead-2">call on Louis DeJoy & the USPS Board to stop slowing down
  mail and raising prices, and expand products and services instead</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on local governments to expose Amazon's stealth attempts to start new warehouses
uri: Urgent-Call-on-local-governments-to-expose-Amazon-s-stealth-attempts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_local_governments_to_expose_Amazon's_stealth_attempts_to_start_new_warehouses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_local_governments_to_expose_Amazon's_stealth_attempts_to_start_new_warehouses)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-amazon-from-hijacking-our-neighborhoods?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-weve-got-the-playbook-on-how-to-stop-amazon-from-hijacking-your-neighborhood">call on local governments to expose Amazon's stealth attempts to
  start new warehouses</a>.

 


title: Stricter ethics rules on federal judges
uri: Stricter-ethics-rules-on-federal-judges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Stricter_ethics_rules_on_federal_judges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Stricter_ethics_rules_on_federal_judges)

content:
 
<p>
  A bill in Congress would <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/10/new-warren-jayapal-bill-takes-aim-supreme-court-corruption">impose stricter ethics rules on federal judges,
  including (for the first time) those on the Supreme Court</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Millions_at_risk_of_losing_healthcare)
title: Millions at risk of losing healthcare
uri: Millions-at-risk-of-losing-healthcare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Millions_at_risk_of_losing_healthcare)
content:
 
<p>
  *Millions <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/26/millions-risk-losing-us-healthcare-when-pandemic-emergency-declaration-expires">risk losing US healthcare when Covid emergency declaration expires</a>.*

 


title: Report from two people captured by the Putin forces
uri: Report-from-two-people-captured-by-the-Putin-forces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Report_from_two_people_captured_by_the_Putin_forces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Report_from_two_people_captured_by_the_Putin_forces)

content:
 
<p>
  A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/filtration-and-forced-deportation-mariupol-survivors-on-the-lasting-terrors-of-russias-assault">report from two people</a> who lived in Mariupol and were captured by the
  Putin forces.
<p>
  It seems that they did not exactly force Ukrainian captives to go to
  isolated Russian cities and take jobs they were not allowed to leave,
  but they made it fairly challenging to avoid that fate.

 


title: Previous Australian government tried to fund unprofitable coal mines
uri: Previous-Australian-government-tried-to-fund-unprofitable-coal-mines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Previous_Australian_government_tried_to_fund_unprofitable_coal_mines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Previous_Australian_government_tried_to_fund_unprofitable_coal_mines)

content:
 
<p>
  An economic study finds that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/27/highly-implausible-that-new-galilee-basin-coalmines-would-be-profitable-study-finds">the new coal mines that the previous
  Australian government tried so hard to authorize are unlikely to be
  profitable</a>.
<p>
  Their owners are hoping that they can push the government into
  subsidizing the mines.  I have a hunch that some of that money would
  find its way to right-wing politicians or their campaigns.
  The argument the mine owners use is that they are too important
  to be allowed to fail.
<p>
  It's just the opposite: they are too dangerous to be allowed to
  succeed.

 


title: Broken risk perception reversing global progress
uri: Broken-risk-perception-reversing-global-progress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Broken_risk_perception_reversing_global_progress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Broken_risk_perception_reversing_global_progress)

content:
 
<p>
*World could <a href="https://www.undrr.org/news/humanitys-broken-risk-perception-reversing-global-progress-spiral-self-destruction-finds-new">undo social and economic advances and face 1.5 disasters a
day by 2030</a>, according to UN's flagship Global Assessment Report.*

 


title: Pfizer doing too little, too late, for selling vaccines to extremely poor countries
uri: Pfizer-doing-too-little-too-late-for-selling-vaccines-to-extremely-p
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Pfizer_doing_too_little,_too_late,_for_selling_vaccines_to_extremely_poor_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Pfizer_doing_too_little,_too_late,_for_selling_vaccines_to_extremely_poor_countries)

content:
 
<p>
  Pfizer has started selling some vaccines at a non-exploitative price
  to a list of extremely poor countries.  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/25/too-little-too-late-campaigners-say-pfizer-pledges-lower-vaccine-costs-poor-nations">This is "too little, too late</a>."
<p>
  Please <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Protection">don't use "protect" to describe what patents do</a>.

 


uri: Progressive-Congress-members-insisted-Google-must-cease-collecting-and
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Progressive_Congress_members_insisted_Google_must_cease_collecting_and_keeping_location_tracking_data)

title:
 Progressive Congress members insisted Google must cease collecting and keeping location tracking data 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Progressive_Congress_members_insisted_Google_must_cease_collecting_and_keeping_location_tracking_data)

content:
 
<p>
  Progressive members of Congress have insisted that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/25/progressives-congress-push-google-stop-collecting-abortion-patients-location-data">Google must cease
  to collect and keep location tracking data from its customers' phones</a>.
<p>
  I think this is the first acknowledgment by members of Congress that
  tracking location data about people directly endangers them.  That is
  an important step forward.  However, this specific demand is too
  narrow to do the job, because the problem is bigger than Google.
<p>
  Many companies track location data through apps, and sell them to
  other companies that we have never heard of.  Rabid antiabortion
  officials in states such as Texas could send subpoenas to any of those
  companies.  Google (and likewise Apple) must ensure that _no_ location
  data is ever sent to an app unless the user manually authorizes
  sending it at that very moment.
<p>
  Users should be able to send false locations too, whenever they wish.
<p>
  People have not yet realized that this is another reason why we must
  make sure paying by cash remains widespread and easy.  You must not
  ever identify yourself during a trip to another state for an abortion.
  Nor even before you leave, if it is in connection with the trip.
<ul>
  <li> You must get cash to pay for the abortion before you depart.
  <li> You must not use Uber or Lyft (they require digital payment
    which identifies the customer).
  <li> You must not pay for a bus by credit card, or give your real name or
    phone number for the ticket.
  <li> You must not pay for an Amtrak train by credit card, or give your
    real name for the ticket.  Unfortunately, that means you can't ride
    some Amtrak trains at all, since they require reservations and a
    reservation requires giving your name and ID to prove it.
</ul>

 


uri: Right-wing-extremist-makes-up-false-claims-about-the-Uvalde-school-mur
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Right-wing_extremist_makes_up_false_claims_about_the_Uvalde_school_murderer_based_on_no_information)

title:
 Right-wing extremist makes up false claims about the Uvalde school murderer based on no information 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Right-wing_extremist_makes_up_false_claims_about_the_Uvalde_school_murderer_based_on_no_information)

content:
 
<p>
  Right-wing extremist congresscritter Gosar demonstrated especially
  clearly that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-shooting-uvalde-paul-gosar-touts-false-claim-transgender-woman-2022-5">he makes up false claims based on no information</a>.  He
  said that the Uvalde school murderer was a "transsexual leftist
  illegal alien."  That was entirely his imagination.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Climate_tipping_points)
title: Climate "tipping points"
uri: 2022-06-04-Climate-tipping-points
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Climate_tipping_points)
content:
 
<p>
  *Climate "tipping points" <a href="https://www.livescience.com/climate-domino-effects-close.html">could push us past the point-of-no-return after less
  than 2 degrees of warming</a>.*
<p>
  Indeed, we may have already crossed some of these tipping points.  For
  instance, <a href="media/fd2cedc5.d41586-019-03595-0.pdf" data-original-source="https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-019-03595-0/d41586-019-03595-0.pdf">we may have already unlocked 10 meters (33 feet) of future
  sea-level rise</a>.
  However, how fast that happens will depend on how hot Earth gets.

 


title: Putin forces reportedly took 8,000 as prisoners
uri: Putin-forces-reportedly-took-8-000-as-prisoners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Putin_forces_reportedly_took_8,000_as_prisoners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(Putin_forces_reportedly_took_8,000_as_prisoners)

content:
 
<p>
  The Putin forces have reportedly <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/ukraine-burying-civilians-mass-graves-russia-advances">taken 8,000 Ukrainian soldiers prisoner
  in recent weeks</a>.
<p>
  That is very bad news.

 


title: The "people in charge" are not trying to save us
uri: The-people-in-charge-are-not-trying-to-save-us
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(The_people_in_charge_are_not_trying_to_save_us)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#3_June_2022_(The_people_in_charge_are_not_trying_to_save_us)

content:
 
<p>
  An interview with NASA scientist Peter Kalmus about why he chained
  himself to the entrance of JP Morgan bank: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/21/peter-kalmus-nasa-scientist-climate-protest-interview">the public must realize
  that the "people in charge" are not trying to save us</a>.

 


title: NRA system to sell powerful guns in bigger quantities
uri: NRA-system-to-sell-powerful-guns-in-bigger-quantities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(NRA_system_to_sell_powerful_guns_in_bigger_quantities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_June_2022_(NRA_system_to_sell_powerful_guns_in_bigger_quantities)

content:
 
<p>
  The NRA and the National Shooting Sports Foundation <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/25/shootings-arent-a-sign-america-is-broken-its-working-exactly-as-intended">have set up a
  system to sell powerful guns in bigger quantities, and it is not
  broken -- it is quite effective</a>.

 


title: Republican congresscritter show off the guns which endanger his family
uri: Republican-congresscritter-show-off-the-guns-which-endanger-his-family
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Republican_congresscritter_show_off_the_guns_which_endanger_his_family)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Republican_congresscritter_show_off_the_guns_which_endanger_his_family)

content:
 
<p>
  A Republican congresscritter who supports overthrowing the US
  government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/02/republican-greg-steube-guns-house-hearing">showed off his gun collection by video to a congressional
  hearing, focusing on how some of his guns would be "banned" by
  proposed laws</a>.
<p>
  He repeated the right-wing false claim that these guns "protect"
  his family.  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Gun_violence_records_from_California)">Actually they endanger his family more than protect it</a>.
<p>
  As I understand it, those proposed laws would ban sale of those guns,
  not possession of them.  Thus, his criticism misrepresented them.
<p>
  However, I am in favor of taking away his guns, for two reasons:
</p>
<ul>
  <li>Because he supports overthrowing the government and imposing
    minority rule.
  <li>To protect his family from the danger of guns in the house.
</ul>

 


title: Deutsche Bank subunit raided to investigate fraud charges
uri: Deutsche-Bank-subunit-raided-to-investigate-fraud-charges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Deutsche_Bank_subunit_raided_to_investigate_fraud_charges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Deutsche_Bank_subunit_raided_to_investigate_fraud_charges)

content:
 
<p>
  A subunit of Deutsche Bank was <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/31/deutsche-bank-dws-raided-german-police-greenwashing-probe">raided to investigate charges of
  fraud &mdash; greenwashing its investment funds</a>.

 


title: Massacres ended through gun control measures
uri: Massacres-ended-through-gun-control-measures
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Massacres_ended_through_gun_control_measures)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Massacres_ended_through_gun_control_measures)

content:
 
<p>
  Australia, New Zealand and the UK experienced large massacres, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/opinions/australia-uk-new-zealand-mass-shootings-gun-laws-alpers/index.html">and
  put an end to the problem by through gun control measures</a>.
<p>
  The measures they used were not identical, but they were all sufficient
  to do the job.

 


title: Florida Republicans passed a "red flag" law where courts can order for guns to be taken away
uri: Florida-Republicans-passed-a-red-flag-law-where-courts-can-order-for
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Florida_Republicans_passed_a_red_flag_law_where_courts_can_order_for_guns_to_be_taken_away)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Florida_Republicans_passed_a_red_flag_law_where_courts_can_order_for_guns_to_be_taken_away)

content:
 
<p>
  Some years ago, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/politics/florida-red-flag-law/index.html">Florida Republicans passed a "red flag" law by which a
  court can order someone's guns to be taken away, for a range of
  possible causes</a>.  The order lasts only a year or two, but the practice
  seems to have some good effect.
<p>
  However, Republicans have become more fanatical since then.
  Governor DeMantis wants to get rid of the law.

 


title: Republicans winning support from groups that stand to lose from Republican policies
uri: Republicans-winning-support-from-groups-that-stand-to-lose-from-Republ
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Republicans_winning_support_from_groups_that_stand_to_lose_from_Republican_policies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Republicans_winning_support_from_groups_that_stand_to_lose_from_Republican_policies)

content:
 
<p>
  The Republican Party is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/01/progressives-call-greater-outreach-dnc-gop-invests-community-centers">winning support from various sorts of groups
  who stand to lose from Republican policies, through party-operated
  "community centers"</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(last_salem_witch_pardoned)
title: Last Salem "witch" pardoned 329 years after wrongful conviction
uri: Last-Salem-witch-pardoned-329-years-after-wrongful-conviction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(last_salem_witch_pardoned)
content:
 
<p>
*Last Salem "witch" pardoned 329 years after 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/27/last-salem-witch-pardoned-elizabeth-johnson-jr-massachusetts">she was wrongly convicted.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(russian_forces_ukraine_donbas)
title: The Putin forces are advancing slowly but unceasingly around Sievierodonetsk.
uri: The-Putin-forces-are-advancing-slowly-but-unceasingly-around-Sievierod
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(russian_forces_ukraine_donbas)
content:
 
<p>
The Putin forces are advancing slowly but unceasingly 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/27/russian-forces-sievierodonetsk-eastern-ukraine-donbas">around
Sievierodonetsk.</a>
<p>
I hope the Ukrainian army can get its troops out and avoid losing them.
<p>
More 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/28/ukraine-pleads-for-weapons-as-russian-onslaught-threatens-to-turn-the-tide">info.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(boris_johnson_ministerial_code)
title: Bogus Johnson has changed the ministerial code so that it doesn't say he is obliged to resign.
uri: Bogus-Johnson-has-changed-the-ministerial-code-so-that-it-doesn-t-say
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(boris_johnson_ministerial_code)
content:
 
<p>
Bogus Johnson has changed the ministerial code
so that it doesn't 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/27/boris-johnson-changes-ministerial-code-to-remove-need-to-resign-over-breaches">say he is obliged to resign.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(international_court_shireen_abu_aqleh)
title: Killing of reporter referred to International Criminal Court
uri: Killing-of-reporter-referred-to-International-Criminal-Court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(international_court_shireen_abu_aqleh)
content:
 
<p>
Lawyers asking the International Criminal Court to investigate
Israel's killing of Palestinian journalists have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/27/shireen-abu-aqleh-killing-of-reporter-referred-to-international-criminal-court">added Shireen Abu
Aqleh to the case.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(hunger_strike_alaa_abd_el_fattah)
title: Alaa Abd El Fattah has been on hunger strike for two months and is close to death
uri: Alaa-Abd-El-Fattah-has-been-on-hunger-strike-for-two-months-and-is-clo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(hunger_strike_alaa_abd_el_fattah)
content:
 
<p>
Egyptian freedom fighter Alaa Abd El Fattah has been on hunger strike
for two months and is getting close to death.  His supporters hope the 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/05/27/alaa-abd-el-fattah-egypt-hunger-strike/">UK will try to have him released.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(aus_electoral_system)
title: The Australian election demonstrates the virtue of ranked choice voting.
uri: The-Australian-election-demonstrates-the-virtue-of-ranked-choice-votin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(aus_electoral_system)
content:
 
<p>
The Australian election demonstrates the virtue of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/28/how-australias-electoral-system-allowed-voters-to-finally-impose-a-ceasefire-in-the-climate-wars">ranked choice voting.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(afghan_journalist_british_media)
title: Group who worked with UK media to sue government over failure to relocate them to Britain
uri: Group-who-worked-with-UK-media-to-sue-government-over-failure-to-reloc
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(afghan_journalist_british_media)
content:
 
<p>
The UK promised asylum to several Afghan journalists who now face
violence for their relationship with British media. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/28/afghan-journalists-death-threats-uk-relocation-media-britain">They have applied
formally for asylum but the UK government has given them no response.</a>
<p>
Could it be that the promises came from Tories?


 


title: British empire nostalgia played part in Brexit vote, says Nobel laureate
uri: British-empire-nostalgia-played-part-in-Brexit-vote-says-Nobel-laurea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(british_brexit_nobel_laureate_abdulrazak_gurnah)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(british_brexit_nobel_laureate_abdulrazak_gurnah)

content:
 
<p>
*British empire nostalgia played part in Brexit vote, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/28/british-empire-brexit-vote-nobel-laureate-abdulrazak-gurnah">says Nobel laureate.</a>*
<p>
The idea is that the cover-ups of repression in colonies enabled the
British empire to look good until it fell, and after.
<p>
Another pertinent point is why the UK was able to prosper and build
such an empire, despite being so small.  The reason was, because it
was the first country to go through the industrial revolution, in the
1700s.  It has no such advantage now.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(victorias_secret_thai_garment)
title: Victoria’s Secret pays sacked Thai workers $8.3m in ‘wage theft’ settlement
uri: Victoria-s-Secret-pays-sacked-Thai-workers-8-3m-in-wage-theft
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(victorias_secret_thai_garment)
content:
 
<p>
Victoria's Secret has been compelled to pay 8 million dollars as
mandatory severance pay to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/28/victorias-secret-thai-garment-workers-wage-settlement">Thai workers whom it had dismissed.</a>
<p>
Some places require poor people to pay money in advance for things
like electricity and heat.  To treat human beings that way is harsh
but businesses are not human beings, and that just gave me an idea.
<p>
If a business ever fails to pay some workers the wages they have
earned, it should be put on a scheme requiring it to deposit wages in
advance.  The company should hand over the next week or month's wages
to an agency that will distribute them to the company's workers.  If
ever the company fails to pay in advance this way, its work will shut
down.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(elon_musk_global_recession)
title: Elon Musk welcomes global recession: ‘it’s been raining money on fools for too long’
uri: Elon-Musk-welcomes-global-recession-it-s-been-raining-money-on-f
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(elon_musk_global_recession)
content:
 
<p>
*[Elon Musk] has received loans and tax breaks to help keep Tesla
afloat, now he says other companies should 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/28/elon-musk-welcomes-global-recession-its-been-raining-money-on-fools-for-too-long">go bankrupt for the good of
the economy.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(greenwash_land_schemes)
title: Businesses are buying large tracts of land in the UK to "rewild" the land
uri: Businesses-are-buying-large-tracts-of-land-in-the-UK-to-rewild-the-l
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(greenwash_land_schemes)
content:
 
<p>
Businesses are buying large tracts of land in the UK to "rewild" the land,
but often this 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/28/rewilding-greenwash-land-schemes">makes residents homeless.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(victorian_tasmanian_governments)
title: Several Australian states imposing punishments against effective environmental defense protests
uri: Several-Australian-states-imposing-punishments-against-effective-envir
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(victorian_tasmanian_governments)
content:
 
<p>
Several Australian states have imposed or are imposing heavy punishments
for some effective kinds of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/29/victorian-and-tasmanian-governments-under-fire-for-laws-that-target-environmental-protesters">environmental defense protests.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(tesla_catches_fire_vancouver)
title: *Canada investigates after Tesla catches fire*
uri: Canada-investigates-after-Tesla-catches-fire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(tesla_catches_fire_vancouver)
content:
 
<p> 
*Canada investigates after Tesla catches fire, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/27/tesla-catches-fire-vancouver-canada-investigation">forcing driver to "smash the
window".</a>*
<p>
I don't think the maker of autonomous car would intentionally design
the capability to ignite so as to kill the passengers.  Someone might
insert malware to do that.
<p>
However, I expect that they will be designed with the capacity to
forcibly take passengers to an externally-chosen destination under
command.  Don't trust an autonomous car in China or Russia!  Whether
you could trust one in the US, I am unable to forecast.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(putin_invasion_ukraine)
title: Human rights investigators say that Putin's invasion is indeed carrying out genocide in Ukraine.
uri: Human-rights-investigators-say-that-Putin-s-invasion-is-indeed-carryin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(putin_invasion_ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
Human rights investigators say that Putin's invasion is indeed 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/27/europe/russia-ukraine-genocide-warning-intl/index.html">carrying out
genocide in Ukraine.</a>
<p>
Putin is talking about calling the Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol
"Mazis" and putting them on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/28/kremlin-mulls-nuremberg-style-trials-based-on-second-world-war-tribunals">trial for "war crimes".</a>
<p>
They could not have committed much in the way of war crimes while
defending Mariupol, so I expect these accusations would be fabricated
and the Putin forces would torture them into false confessions.
<p>
Putin's forces are systematically stealing art from Ukrainian museums
to present 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/may/27/ukraine-russia-looting-museums">Ukrainian artists as "Russian".</a>
<p>
They are also stealing ancient Scythian art.  That was neither
Ukrainian nor Russian -- it was made by a basically people with a very
different culture.  The Scythians lived in a region nowadays split
between Ukraine, Russia, and some neighboring countries.  Both Ukraine
and Russia can validly say that the Scythians were part of their
prehistory.  However, that's no justification for Putin to steal
Scythian relics from museums.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(invasive_worms_amynthas_agrestis_ca)
title: Intrusive Asian jumping worms spread easily and can destroy US forests.
uri: Intrusive-Asian-jumping-worms-spread-easily-and-can-destroy-US-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(invasive_worms_amynthas_agrestis_ca)
content:
 
<p>
Intrusive Asian jumping worms spread easily and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/21/invasive-jumping-worms-amynthas-agrestis-california">can destroy US forests.</a>

 


title: New documents reveal emergency powers of US Governement.
uri: New-documents-reveal-emergency-powers-of-US-Governement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(new_documents_reveal_us_gov_emergency_powers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(new_documents_reveal_us_gov_emergency_powers)

content:
 
<p>
Since the Cold War, US presidents have given themselves broad power in
"emergencies".  Neither the public nor Congress know where it stops,
but it probably includes jailing anyone, shutting down phones and the
internet, and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/28/new-documents-reveal-just-how-much-emergency-power-us-government-thinks-it-might">stopping anyone from leaving the US.</a>
<p>
And that doesn't include secret powers for the miitary.
<p>
The "emergency" declared in September 2001 is still continuing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(trump_doj_shadow_biden_admin)
title: DOJ, and other agencies continue to defend and advance positions held by previous administration
uri: DOJ-and-other-agencies-continue-to-defend-and-advance-positions-held
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(trump_doj_shadow_biden_admin)
content:
 
<p>
*The Department of Justice and other agencies continue to defend and
advance legal positions held by the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/16/trump-doj-casting-long-shadow-over-biden-admin-analysis">corrupter's administration.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(cheating_student_malware)
title: Proprietary malware accused a student of cheating in an exam
uri: Proprietary-malware-accused-a-student-of-cheating-in-an-exam
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(cheating_student_malware)
content:
 
<p>
Proprietary malware accused a student of cheating in an exam, based on
the fact that it saw 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/technology/college-students-cheating-software-honorlock.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesbusiness">her look down at her lap.</a>
<p>
Merely installing that malware on your computer sabotages it.  You
can't trust it at all after that, though since it has to be running
Windows, <a>you couldn't 
<a href="https://gnu.org/malware/malware-microsoft.html">trust it before that point either.</a>
<p>
If a school wanted me to take a test this way with my computer, I
would reply that that is both practically impossible (since my
computer does not run Windows) and immoral (since no one should run
malware).
<p>
I would agree to take the test on a computer run ny the school itself
(if the school runs nonfree software on its computers, that hurts the
school but not me) in a room set up by the school.  That way the
school could make sure I brought nothing to cheat with, and would know
I'm not looking at other people or posters in the room.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(teachers_dont_discuss_racism_laws)
title: Some teachers feel silenced on racist mass shooting in Buffalo
uri: Some-teachers-feel-silenced-on-racist-mass-shooting-in-Buffalo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(teachers_dont_discuss_racism_laws)
content:
 
<p>
Teachers in states with don't-discuss-racism laws were afraid to talk
with students about the 
<a href="https://19thnews.org/2022/05/buffalo-shooting-educators-race-discussions/?utm_source=Communications&utm_campaign=29b7be18d6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_PP_05_27_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c67d07604c-29b7be18d6-248197541&mc_cid=29b7be18d6&mc_eid=UNIQID">Buffalo race massacres.</a>
<p>
Some states have laws against teaching anything that is likely to
"disturb" students.  What about lockdown drills?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(g7_countries_climate_defense_pledges)
title: The G7 countries published new, stronger climate defense pledges.
uri: The-G7-countries-published-new-stronger-climate-defense-pledges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(g7_countries_climate_defense_pledges)
content:
 
<p>
The G7 countries published new, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/27/g7-fossil-fuel-funding-pledge-massive-win-say-climate-groups">stronger climate defense pledges.</a>

 


title: Texas cops explain waiting for SWAT team to attack the Uvalde shooter
uri: Texas-cops-explain-waiting-for-SWAT-team-to-attack-the-Uvalde-shooter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Texas_cops_explain_waiting_for_SWAT_team_to_attack_the_Uvalde_shooter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Texas_cops_explain_waiting_for_SWAT_team_to_attack_the_Uvalde_shooter)

content:
 
<p>
  Texas cops <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/27/texas-school-shooting-police-classroom-wrong-decision">explained their decision to wait for a SWAT team to attack
  the Uvalde shooter, rather than intervene sooner</a>: they assumed he was
  no longer a threat to anyone.
<p>
  That seems to be a failure of thinking, since they knew some children
  in the room with him were alive.

 


title: Thugs shoot man in vicinity of some schools
uri: Thugs-shoot-man-in-vicinity-of-some-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Thugs_shoot_man_in_vicinity_of_some_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Thugs_shoot_man_in_vicinity_of_some_schools)

content:
 
<p>
  Toronto thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/27/toronto-police-pellet-gun-school-shoot-dead-man-canada">shot and killed a man for "carrying a rifle" in the
  vicinity of some schools</a>.
<p>
  It turns out to have been a pellet gun,  Those can occasionally cause serious
  injuries, but are not very effective for killing a lot of people.
<p>
  His presence there called for quick action, but not <em>that</em> quick.
  They had time to shout, "Police!  Drop the gun!"

 


title: Canada supreme court rules life without parole is cruel and illegal
uri: Canada-supreme-court-rules-life-without-parole-is-cruel-and-illegal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Canada_supreme_court_rules_life_without_parole_is_cruel_and_illegal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Canada_supreme_court_rules_life_without_parole_is_cruel_and_illegal)

content:
 
<p>
  Canada's Supreme Court ruled that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/27/canada-supreme-court-life-without-parole-cruel-unconstitutional">every convict must have a chance
  to apply for parole after at most 25 years</a>.

 


title: Georgians want federal election monitors to protect black voters
uri: Georgians-want-federal-election-monitors-to-protect-black-voters
content: <p> Georgians ask for federal election monitors to ensure blacks are allowed to vote.
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Georgians_want_federal_election_monitors_to_protect_black_voters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Georgians_want_federal_election_monitors_to_protect_black_voters)


title: Awards to activists for local victories
uri: Awards-to-activists-for-local-victories
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Awards_to_activists_for_local_victories)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Awards_to_activists_for_local_victories)

content:
 
<p>
  Awards to activists who won <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/25/goldman-prize-awarded-activists-who-showed-natures-amazing-capability-regenerate">significant local victories against
  destruction of nature</a>.

 


title: Gun lobby pays off Republicans to block gun control
uri: Gun-lobby-pays-off-Republicans-to-block-gun-control
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Gun_lobby_pays_off_Republicans_to_block_gun_control)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Gun_lobby_pays_off_Republicans_to_block_gun_control)

content:
 
<p>
  The gun lobby <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/25/inaction-bought-here-are-receipts-nras-purchase-gop">blocks gun control by paying off Republicans in Congress</a>.
<p>
  Across the board, plutocracy is the general obstacle to every change
  that the US needs.

 


title: US spends 2/3 of a trillion dollars on fossil fool suicide
uri: US-spends-2-3-of-a-trillion-dollars-on-fossil-fool-suicide
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(US_spends_2%2F3_of_a_trillion_dollars_on_fossil_fool_suicide)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(US_spends_2%2F3_of_a_trillion_dollars_on_fossil_fool_suicide)

content:
 
<p>
  The US spends $2000 per person each year on <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/13/why-are-americans-subsidizing-our-own-extinction">subsidizing fossil fool
  suicide</a>.  That is 2/3 of a trillion dollars.
<p>
  This has to stop.

 


title: Teachers unions reject Republican plans to hand guns out to teachers
uri: Teachers-unions-reject-Republican-plans-to-hand-guns-out-to-teachers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Teachers_unions_reject_Republican_plans_to_hand_guns_out_to_teachers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Teachers_unions_reject_Republican_plans_to_hand_guns_out_to_teachers)

content:
 
<p>
  The two main US teachers unions have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/26/we-need-fewer-guns-schools-not-more-teachers-reject-gop-call-armed-educators">rejected Republican plans
  to deal with school shootings by handing out guns to teachers</a>.
<p>
  The presence of a gun in a home goes with <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#23_August_2015_(Gun_in_your_home)">increased danger someone
  living there will be shot</a>,
  so teachers have reason to think that the official presence of guns
  in the school will have the same effect for the same reasons.
  Meanwhile, we have seen just now in Uvalde, and many times before,
  that armed thugs in a school don't prevent school shootings.

 


title: How the UK dealt with a school shooting
uri: How-the-UK-dealt-with-a-school-shooting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(How_the_UK_dealt_with_a_school_shooting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(How_the_UK_dealt_with_a_school_shooting)

content:
 
<p>
  The UK reacted to a school shooting by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/26/british-laws-dunblane-gun-control-texas-school-massacre">strengthening gun control, including
  prohibiting owning handguns</a>.  There was never another school shooting there.
<p>
  The US can do this too, if it has the courage to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#26_December_2021_(Gerrymandering)">take control of the
  Supreme Court away from the right wing</a>, and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_March_2018_(Voting_rights)">restore free and fair
  elections</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Women_tricked_by_seducer-cops)
title: Women tricked by seducer-cops
uri: Women-tricked-by-seducer-cops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_June_2022_(Women_tricked_by_seducer-cops)
content:
 
<p>
  Women tricked by British undercover seducer-cops who pretended to love
  them have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/11/it-was-as-if-he-set-out-to-destroy-my-sanity-how-the-spy-cops-lied-their-way-into-womens-hearts-and-beds">written a book about their experience, and the cops' tactics
  of lies</a>.
<p>
  The most shocking thing I learned from the article was not _how_ the
  cops went about this, but what purposes they did it for &mdash; such as,
  helping McDonalds sue environmentalists for leaflets that criticized
  it.  (Most of the criticisms were ultimately found to be true.)  Those
  environmentalists were not coming even close to a breach of the peace.
  The police have no business getting involved in such a case, not even
  if they limited themselves to _methods_ that are totally legitimate.
<p>
  In effect, the thug/trickery department was serving as a tool to boost
  the power of big business.  Meanwhile, it disregarded the
  sometimes <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Right-wing_extremists_are_training_thugs)">violent</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#14_January_2021_(No_need_for_new_laws)">right-wing</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#14_November_2019_(Violent_Hate_Crimes_in_US)">extremists</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Ban transfer of military weapons to thug departments
uri: Urgent-Ban-transfer-of-military-weapons-to-thug-departments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_transfer_of_military_weapons_to_thug_departments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_transfer_of_military_weapons_to_thug_departments)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14112">call on Congress to ban the transfer of military weapons to thug departments</a>.
<p>
  To sign without
  running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree
  JavaScript</a> code from the web site,
  use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on the senate to stop delaying on climate defense.
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-senate-to-stop-delaying-on-climate-defense
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_senate_to_stop_delaying_on_climate_defense.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_senate_to_stop_delaying_on_climate_defense.)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://act.greennewdealnetwork.org/signup/stop-delaying-on-climate-petition">call on the senate to stop delaying on climate defense</a>.

 


title: Elon Musk profiting from public falsehoods
uri: Elon-Musk-profiting-from-public-falsehoods
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Elon_Musk_profiting_from_public_falsehoods)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Elon_Musk_profiting_from_public_falsehoods)

content:
 
<p>
  Several examples of Elon Musk's history of <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2022/05/elon-musk-tesla-twitter-fables.html">profiting from public falsehoods</a>,
  including in Tesla.
<p>
  What disgusts me more than anything about the Tesla car is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jan-apr.html#31_March_2019_(Teslas_auto-drive)">its level
  of surveillance</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Lawsuit_against_Exxon)
title: Lawsuit against Exxon
uri: Lawsuit-against-Exxon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Lawsuit_against_Exxon)
content:
 
<p>
  The Massachusetts supreme court <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/25/resounding-victory-court-rules-exxon-must-face-trial-over-climate-lies">authorized the state's lawsuit against
  Exxon for lying about the climate danger of its actions</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Climate_defense_measures)
title: Climate defense measures
uri: Climate-defense-measures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Climate_defense_measures)
content:
 
<p>
  It is time for Senate Democrats, including Manchin, to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/27/climate-movement-must-wake-senate-democrats-last-chance-gone">pass at least some
  climate defense measures</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(UK_laws_written_with_racist_purpose)
title: UK laws written with racist purpose
uri: UK-laws-written-with-racist-purpose
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(UK_laws_written_with_racist_purpose)
content:
 
<p>
  A secret UK government historical study, leaked to the press, says
  that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/29/windrush-scandal-caused-by-30-years-of-racist-immigration-laws-report">various UK immigration laws were written (across 3 decades) with
  the specific racist purpose of excluding as many non-whites as
  possible</a>.
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/29/racist-legislation-led-windrush-home-office">Specifics</a> about these individual laws.
<p>
  Strict enforcement of these laws is nowadays directing deportation of
  people to countries which they have not been to since childhood,
  decades ago, and where they don't know anyone.

 


title: What needs done to prepare for pandemics
uri: What-needs-done-to-prepare-for-pandemics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(What_needs_done_to_prepare_for_pandemics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(What_needs_done_to_prepare_for_pandemics)

content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/29/how-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic-by-bill-gates-review-a-germ-of-an-idea">What the world must do to prepare in advance</a> to deal with future pandemics.

 


title: Supreme Court preparing another blow to Americans
uri: Supreme-Court-preparing-another-blow-to-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Supreme_Court_preparing_another_blow_to_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Supreme_Court_preparing_another_blow_to_Americans)

content:
 
<p>
  The Supreme Court is likely preparing another deadly blow to Americans:
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/may/28/us-supreme-court-gun-rights-second-amendment">eliminating some kinds of gun control</a>.
<p>
  This is the product of systematic rigging of elections for many years
  by Republicans in the states they control.  A government imposed by a
  minority is not a legitimate government.  What we have in the US now
  is an illegitimate government.

 


title: Deals with China means accepting repression
uri: Deals-with-China-means-accepting-repression
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Deals_with_China_means_accepting_repression)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Deals_with_China_means_accepting_repression)

content:
 
<p>
  As China's foreign minister tours Pacific island countries to sign
  deals, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/31/outcry-as-china-stops-pacific-journalists-questioning-wang-yi">he shows the world that making a deal with China means
  accepting repression</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Canada_gun_laws)
title: Canada gun laws
uri: Canada-gun-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Canada_gun_laws)
content:
 
<p>
  Canada plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/31/handgun-freeze-in-canada-and-five-round-limit-on-magazines">make it illegal to buy a handgun,
  or a large capacity magazine for a long gun</a>.
<p>
  We need such laws in the US, but given that the rate of gun killings
  is so small in Canada, I'm not sure this is needed there.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Demands_for_special_government_role)
title: Demands for special government role
uri: Demands-for-special-government-role
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Demands_for_special_government_role)
content:
 
<p>
  Will New Zealand accept demands from the Maori Party for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/31/nz-maori-party-rules-out-right-wing-coalition-after-next-election">a special role in government for New Zealanders of Maori descent</a>?
<p>
  I read <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#4_October_2020_(Some_Maori_activists)">previously</a> that the Maori Party wants a separate parliament to represent Maori.
<p>
  I see a crucial difference between affirmative action designed to
  compensate for past discrimination, on the one hand, and innate
  privilege to a certain ethnic group on the other.
<p>
  The British colonists took much of the Maori's land, and (ISTR) their
  government treated the Maori unfairly afterwards.  That can justify
  reparations to the descendants of those who were victimized.
<p>
  However, giving their descendants (or any ethnic group whatsoever)
  innate privilege is incompatible with equal rights and democracy.
<p>
  According to the article linked to above, the Act Party opposes both
  affirmative action &mdash; intended to help Maori get what the state ought
  to provide to everyone &mdash; and innate privilege.  I think that is wrong.
  But I also think the Maori Party is wrong.

 


title: Order to federal agents to change policies for using force against the public
uri: Order-to-federal-agents-to-change-policies-for-using-force-against-the
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Order_to_federal_agents_to_change_policies_for_using_force_against_the_public)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Order_to_federal_agents_to_change_policies_for_using_force_against_the_public)

content:
 
<p>
  Biden will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/25/biden-police-reform-executive-order-george-floyd">order federal agencies to change their policies for using
  force against the public</a> &mdash; for instance, not to use chokeholds.
  The order will limit mo-knock raids also.
<p>
  This is not enough &mdash; mostly state and local thugs are the ones that
  kill members of the public.  But this is what the president the
  authority to do on his own.  To do more requires replacing some
  of the right-wing senators.

 


title: Planet roasters pressuring climate destruction
uri: Planet-roasters-pressuring-climate-destruction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Planet_roasters_pressuring_climate_destruction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Planet_roasters_pressuring_climate_destruction)

content:
 
<p>
  Planet roasters are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/21/big-oil-dangerously-going-after-fossil-fuel-extraction-africa">pressuring African countries to invest heavily in
  destroying global climate</a>.
<p>
  Replacing gas with wood for cooking is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2005-jul-oct.html#15%20September%202005%20(Increased%20price%20of%20hydrocarbons)">not the only way to stop burning gas</a>.
  There are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cooker">solar cookers</a> that do the job renewably.
<p>
  Some of them are cheap by first-world standards but still require
  funds to provide them to Africans.

 


title: US Rep assisted by Hindu-bigotry BJP party supporters
uri: US-Rep-assisted-by-Hindu-bigotry-BJP-party-supporters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(US_Rep_assisted_by_Hindu-bigotry_BJP_party_supporters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(US_Rep_assisted_by_Hindu-bigotry_BJP_party_supporters)

content:
 
<p>
  US Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi is <a href="http://twocircles.net/2022may30/445954.html">assisted at his US events by US
  supporters of the Hindu-bigotry BJP party</a>,
  which rules India with <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_(Party_of_political_Hinduism)">repression</a>.
<p>
  They protect him from questions about his association with the BJP.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(900_troops_at_Deir_ez-Zor)
title: 900 troops at Deir ez-Zor
uri: 900-troops-at-Deir-ez-Zor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(900_troops_at_Deir_ez-Zor)
content:
 
<p>
  What should the US do with its <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/30/900-us-troops-syria-should-not-be-there">900 troops at Deir ez-Zor in Syria</a>?
<p>
  I trust Juan Cole to describe the situation accurately, but I don't
entirely agree with his conclusions.  The 900 US troops in Deir ez-Zor
may have no sensible mission, but the YPG are the only secular and
democratic force in Syria, and face the threat of massacre by either
Assad or Erdo&#287;an.  The bully did wrong to take US support away from
them, and we can right that wrong.

 


title: G7 countries to stop funding fossil fuel development overseas
uri: G7-countries-to-stop-funding-fossil-fuel-development-overseas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(G7_countries_to_stop_funding_fossil_fuel_development_overseas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(G7_countries_to_stop_funding_fossil_fuel_development_overseas)

content:
 
<p>
  *G7 countries to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/30/g7-countries-to-stop-funding-fossil-fuel-development-overseas">stop funding fossil fuel development overseas* by the
  end of this year</a>.  They said they would move that money to renewable
  energy!
<p>
  This seems like a substantial change.  However, if it fails to stop
  projects that are already started, they can still doom civilization.

 


title: Black churches and reproductive rights
uri: Black-churches-and-reproductive-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Black_churches_and_reproductive_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Black_churches_and_reproductive_rights)

content:
 
<p>
  *Will Black churches throw their weight behind reproductive rights?*
<p>
  If you are reading this, please do not have children.
<p>
  I wish for humanity to survive; I wish for technological civilization
  to survive.  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jan-apr.html#10_April_2019_(Human_Rights)">I wish for human rights and democracy to recover</a>.
  I hope you wish for these things, too.
<p>
  The biggest threat to that goal is the climate disaster we are still
  heading for.  The more children we can avoid, the more we will reduce
  the intensity of the disaster and increase the chances of survival.

 


title: Lawmakers in thrall to NRA stifle gun safety laws
uri: Lawmakers-in-thrall-to-NRA-stifle-gun-safety-laws
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Lawmakers_in_thrall_to_NRA_stifle_gun_safety_laws)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Lawmakers_in_thrall_to_NRA_stifle_gun_safety_laws)

content:
 
<p>
  *How <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/27/texas-shooting-nra-stifles-gun-regulations">lawmakers in thrall to the NRA stifle gun safety laws</a>.*
<p>
  This is what plutocracy consists of.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Global_minimum_wage_treaty)
title: Global minimum wage treaty
uri: Global-minimum-wage-treaty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Global_minimum_wage_treaty)
content:
 
<p>
  Proposing a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/may/13/global-minimum-wage-ask-an-expert">global minimum wage treaty</a>.
<p>
  Each country's minimum wage would be set according to the country's
  median wage.  Or perhaps it could be adjusted based on the cost of
  living there.

 


title: Fewer guns per person means fewer gun killings per person
uri: Fewer-guns-per-person-means-fewer-gun-killings-per-person
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Fewer_guns_per_person_means_fewer_gun_killings_per_person)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Fewer_guns_per_person_means_fewer_gun_killings_per_person)

content:
 
<p>
  In the US, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/gun-violence-data-what-matters/index.html">states with fewer guns per person have fewer gun killings
  per person</a>.
<p>
  I've read elsewhere that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#23_August_2015_(Gun_in_your_home)">houses with guns have more residents killed
  on the average than houses without guns</a>.
  You can make yourself safer by not having a gun.

 


uri: Republicans-that-rejected-the-corrupter-s-Big-Lie-but-still-attempted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Republicans_that_rejected_the_corrupter's_Big_Lie_but_still_attempted_election_rigging_presented_as_heroes_of_democracy)

title:
 Republicans that rejected the corrupter's Big Lie but still attempted election rigging presented as heroes of democracy 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Republicans_that_rejected_the_corrupter's_Big_Lie_but_still_attempted_election_rigging_presented_as_heroes_of_democracy)

content:
 
<p>
  Republican candidates that rejected the corrupter's Big Lie, but did
  everything else to rig the election, are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/27/corporate-media-obsess-about-trump-ignore-broad-gop-attack-democracy">being presented as heroes of
  democracy</a>.

 


title: Ohio Republicans bring back same unfair redistricting plans
uri: Ohio-Republicans-bring-back-same-unfair-redistricting-plans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Ohio_Republicans_bring_back_same_unfair_redistricting_plans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Ohio_Republicans_bring_back_same_unfair_redistricting_plans)

content:
 
<p>
  Ohio Republicans <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/27/wildly-lawless-ohio-set-use-map-deemed-unconstitutional-state-supreme-court">keep bringing back the same unfair redistricting
  plans that the state supreme court has five times ruled
  unconstitutional</a>, and a federal court decided to validate that rigging
  rather than have inconveniences running the election.
<p>
  In other words, Republicans can win by defying the court.

 


title: Urgent: Call on state legislatures to ban elected officials from signing NDAs with corporations
uri: Urgent-Call-on-state-legislatures-to-ban-elected-officials-from-signi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_state_legislatures_to_ban_elected_officials_from_signing_NDAs_with_corporations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_state_legislatures_to_ban_elected_officials_from_signing_NDAs_with_corporations)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-state-legislatures-must-ban-ndas-for-public-officials?nowrapper=true">call on state legislatures to ban elected officials from signing NDAs with corporations</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to end US intervention in Yemen
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-end-US-intervention-in-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_end_US_intervention_in_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_end_US_intervention_in_Yemen)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/congress-pass-yemen-wpr?source=em20220531_2&t=1006&akid=7833%2E223515%2EjauLbg">call on Congress to end US intervention in Yemen</a>.

 


title: Battle in Sievierodonetsk turned around
uri: Battle-in-Sievierodonetsk-turned-around
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(Battle_in_Sievierodonetsk_turned_around)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(Battle_in_Sievierodonetsk_turned_around)

content:
 
<p>
Ukraine has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/04/ukraine-fighting-back-in-sievierodonetsk-claims-luhansk-governor">turned around the battle in Sievierodonetsk</a>.

 


title: Russian-speaking Ukrainians learning Ukrainian to reject Putin and Russia
uri: Russian-speaking-Ukrainians-learning-Ukrainian-to-reject-Putin-and-Rus
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(Russian-speaking_Ukrainians_learning_Ukrainian_to_reject_Putin_and_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(Russian-speaking_Ukrainians_learning_Ukrainian_to_reject_Putin_and_Russia)

content:
 
<p>
  Many Russian-speaking Ukrainians are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/04/enemy-tongue-eastern-ukrainians-reject-their-russian-birth-language">learning to speak Ukrainian
  instead, in rejection of Putin and Russia</a>.
<p>
  I think it will be tragic if Ukrainians come out of this war hating
  Russia.  I urge them to target their hatred narrowly at Putin.
<p>
  A part of the population of Odessa wants to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/04/ukraine-campaign-de-russify-odesa">eliminate Russia-derived
  names from the city</a>.
  For the same reason stated above, I think that is a misguided idea.

 


title: Emmanuel Macron: "Russia must not be humiliated in Ukraine"
uri: Emmanuel-Macron-Russia-must-not-be-humiliated-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(Emmanuel_Macron:_Russia_must_not_be_humiliated_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(Emmanuel_Macron:_Russia_must_not_be_humiliated_in_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/04/russia-must-not-be-humiliated-ukraine-emmanuel-macron">Russia must not be humiliated in Ukraine</a>, says Emmanuel Macron.*
<p>
  I agree that humiliating Putin would be counterproductive.
  At the same time, giving him a victory would be disastrous.
<p>
  Can we find a way to deny him victory but give him
  a way to save face?  It seems that Macron has not.

 


title: Remote kill switch and right to repair
uri: Remote-kill-switch-and-right-to-repair
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(Remote_kill_switch_and_right_to_repair)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(Remote_kill_switch_and_right_to_repair)

content:
 
<p>
  Guardian columnist John Naughton draws the connection between <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/04/why-your-ability-to-repair-a-tractor-could-also-be-a-matter-of-life-and-death">the
  remote kill switch in John Deere tractors and the Right to Repair
  movement</a>.
<p>
  The next connection from there is from the Right to Repair movement
  and <a href="https://gnu.org/">the free software movement</a>.
  Right to Repair is the first step, but it does not go far enough.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(Air_pollution_and_Covid-19_symptoms)
title: Air pollution and Covid-19 symptoms
uri: Air-pollution-and-Covid-19-symptoms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(Air_pollution_and_Covid-19_symptoms)
content:
 
<p>
  High levels of air pollution (specifically, nitrogen dioxide)
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/04/severe-covid-cases-more-likely-in-highly-polluted-areas">correlate with more severe symptoms from Covid-19</a>.
<p>
  This has surely made poor people more likely to die than wealthier people
  who can afford to live in areas less polluted.

 


title: 40% of Earth's land surface must be conserved
uri: 40-of-Earth-s-land-surface-must-be-conserved
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(40%25_of_Earth's_land_surface_must_be_conserved)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(40%25_of_Earth's_land_surface_must_be_conserved)

content:
 
<p>
  *More than 40% of Earth's land surface <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/world/earth-conservation-report-intl-hnk-scn/index.html">must be conserved to stop the
  biodiversity crisis, report warns</a>.*
<p>
  This will require rules about land use, and soon &mdash; by 2030, a
  lot of that land will be taken for agriculture if it isn't stopped.

 


title: James Risen meeting with whistleblower turned to a trap
uri: James-Risen-meeting-with-whistleblower-turned-to-a-trap
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(James_Risen_meeting_with_whistleblower_turned_to_a_trap)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(James_Risen_meeting_with_whistleblower_turned_to_a_trap)

content:
 
<p>
  James Risen says that he was going to meet with a whistleblower who
  offered information about NSA snooping, but an informant spilled the
  beans to the FBI.  <a href="https://theintercept.com/?p=398744">The FBI tried to turn it into a trap to arrest the
  whistleblower</a>.
<p>
  Ultimately the meeting didn't occur and nobody was arrested, but Risen
  never heard from him again.  So the FBI won a partial victory.

 


title: Bipartisan deal for US internet data protection law
uri: Bipartisan-deal-for-US-internet-data-protection-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Bipartisan_deal_for_US_internet_data_protection_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Bipartisan_deal_for_US_internet_data_protection_law)

content:
 
<p>
  There is a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/03/bipartisan-draft-bill-breaks-stalemate-on-federal-privacy-bill-negotiations-00037092">tentative bipartisan deal for a US internet data protection law</a>.
<p>
  It is encouraging that the proposed deal <a href="https://www.stallman.org/articles/real-privacy-laws.html">requires companies to
  minimize the data they collect</a>, but I expect that "reasonably
  necessary" will be a weak criterion, as it is in Europe.  Will this
  prohibit parking lots from collecting the license plate number of each
  car parked there &mdash; or photographing them all and storing the photos?
  If not, it is inadequate.
<p>
  I fear that companies will continue demanding that customers identify
  themselves.  In the absence of an anonymous payment system, they can
  argue that this is "necessary".  But that means that the system is not
  safe &mdash; not for whistleblowers, and not for people traveling for an
  abortion.
<p>
  If that is what happens, I will continue to reject these dis-services
  absolutely, as I have done for many years.
<p>
  Meanwhile, no company whatsoever should be allowed to require a
  customer to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jan-apr.html#4_February_2019_(Mandatory_arbitration)">use arbitration rather than the courts</a>.
  All customers, regardless of age, must be free to join class-action lawsuits
  against abusive practices that arguably violate whatever privacy laws apply.
<p>
  Despite those grave flaws, this bill would be a significant step
  forward.  However, since this will pre-empt many kinds state laws, it
  will block all further progress on privacy rules in the US.  Given
  that, I conclude we should oppose it.

 


title: Florida made Special Olympics drop vaccination requirement through 27 million dollar fine
uri: Florida-made-Special-Olympics-drop-vaccination-requirement-through-27
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Florida_made_Special_Olymoics_drop_vaccination_requirement_through_27_million_dollar_fine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Florida_made_Special_Olymoics_drop_vaccination_requirement_through_27_million_dollar_fine)

content:
 
<p>
  Florida made the Special Olympics <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/06/03/the-state-of-florida-bullies-the-special-olympics-over-its-vaccine-requirement.html">drop its vaccination requirement by threatening to fine it 27 million dollars</a>.
<p>
  If the organization fails to rail against Florida, and announce
  that it will never hold an event again in a state that won't
  permit its health requirements, that will constitute its permanent
  submission to the Disease Party.

 


title: Putin allows YouTube to remain in Russia
uri: Putin-allows-YouTube-to-remain-in-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Putin_allows_YouTube_to_remain_in_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Putin_allows_YouTube_to_remain_in_Russia)

content:
 
<p>
  Putin allows YouTube to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/tech/google-russia-youtube/index.html">remain accessible in Russia despite its
  carrying Western news</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Asphault_plazas_to_green_parks)
title: Asphault plazas to green parks
uri: Asphault-plazas-to-green-parks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Asphault_plazas_to_green_parks)
content:
 
<p>
  Some US cities are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/02/asphalt-schoolyards-remade-green-oases-pictures">converting schoolyards from asphault plazas to green parks</a>.  The change improves students' well-being. makes the neighborhood less hot, and absorbs water too.

 


title: Michael Vidler harassed out of Hong Kong
uri: Michael-Vidler-harassed-out-of-Hong-Kong
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Michael_Vidler_harassed_out_of_Hong_Kong)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Michael_Vidler_harassed_out_of_Hong_Kong)

content:
 
<p>
  A state-organized mob of bullies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/after-years-fighting-for-the-little-guy-hong-kong-crackdown-forces-uk-lawyer-to-flee">harassed defense lawyer Michael Vidler
  out of Hong Kong</a>.

 


uri: Scientists-working-on-fusion-power-say-not-to-expect-it-to-be-ready-so
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Scientists_working_on_fusion_power_say_not_to_expect_it_to_be_ready_soon_enough_to_help_prevent_disaster)

title:
 Scientists working on fusion power say not to expect it to be ready soon enough to help prevent disaster 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Scientists_working_on_fusion_power_say_not_to_expect_it_to_be_ready_soon_enough_to_help_prevent_disaster)

content:
 
<p>
  Scientists that work on fusion power say <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/31/fusion_no_answer_to_climate/">not to expect it to be ready soon enough to help prevent global heating disaster</a>.
<p>
  They claim it will enable humanity to increase its total available
  power after 2050.  Maybe it will, but why won't solar and wind power
  suffice for that?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(China_and_8_Pacific_island_nations)
title: China and 8 Pacific island nations
uri: China-and-8-Pacific-island-nations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(China_and_8_Pacific_island_nations)
content:
 
<p>
  China tried to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/the-rejection-of-chinas-deal-shows-the-pacific-will-not-be-a-geopolitical-pawn">convert 8 Pacific island nations into military
  stepping-stones</a>, but they rejected the deal.

 


title: Ethics advisor obligated to rebuke whole government
uri: Ethics-advisor-obligated-to-rebuke-whole-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Ethics_advisor_obligated_to_rebuke_whole_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Ethics_advisor_obligated_to_rebuke_whole_government)

content:
 
<p>
  Bogus Johnson's official ethics advisor has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/01/the-guardian-view-on-being-boris-johnsons-ethics-adviser-the-impossible-job">obligated to rebuke the whole government for a culture of disregarding its supposed rules</a>.

 


title: Decisive people not more likely to be right than people who have doubts
uri: Decisive-people-not-more-likely-to-be-right-than-people-who-have-doubt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Decisive_people_not_more_likely_to_be_right_than_people_who_have_doubts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Decisive_people_not_more_likely_to_be_right_than_people_who_have_doubts)

content:
 
<p>
  Research finds that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/01/its-decided-decisive-people-no-more-accurate-than-self-doubters">decisive people are not more likely to be right
  in their decisions than people who have doubts</a>.
<p>
  Armies state the maxim that an officer who is decisive is better than
  one who hesitates, even if the former doesn't make better decisions
  than the latter.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Food_crisis_due_to_blockade)
title: Food crisis due to blockade
uri: Food-crisis-due-to-blockade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Food_crisis_due_to_blockade)
content:
 
<p>
  *Africa warns of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/31/africa-warns-of-food-crisis-due-to-russian-blockade-of-ukraines-ports">food crisis due to Russian blockade of Ukraine's ports</a>.*
<p>
  I don't think Putin will cooperate with export of food from Ukraine
  except under unacceptable, contemptuous conditions.  But he might if
  the alternative were a form of attack.  If Ukraine uses anti-ship missiles
  to blockade some Russian port, such as Novorossiysk, perhaps Putin would
  make a deal to end trade blockades.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Dishonest_leader_response)
title: Dishonest leader response
uri: Dishonest-leader-response
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Dishonest_leader_response)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/31/boris-johnson-dishonesty-keir-starmer-labour-abandoned-pledges">A natural response to a dishonest leader</a> (such as the bullshitter,
  Putin, or Bogus Johnson) is to tolerate some dishonesty in those that
  oppose per.  But that makes the moral damage pervasive and permanent.
<p>
  <a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">I support Corbyn, not the Labour Party</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Lawyers_planning_to_sue_Russia)
title: Lawyers planning to sue Russia
uri: Lawyers-planning-to-sue-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Lawyers_planning_to_sue_Russia)
content:
 
<p>
  A team of lawyers is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/31/mass-civil-legal-action-to-seek-compensation-for-ukrainian-war-victims">planning to sue Russia in other countries for the
  damage it has done to Ukrainians</a>.
  They will also sue military businesses and associated rich people.
  The aim is to collect from the value of Russia's assets in those
  and other countries.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Two_Putin_forces_soldiers_convicted)
title: Two Putin forces soldiers convicted
uri: Two-Putin-forces-soldiers-convicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Two_Putin_forces_soldiers_convicted)
content:
 
<p>
  Two Putin forces soldiers, prisoners in Ukraine, have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/31/ukraine-jails-two-russian-soldiers-shelling-villages">convicted
  of shelling civilian areas and sentenced to 11 years in prison</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Birds_and_environmental_threats)
title: Birds and environmental threats
uri: Birds-and-environmental-threats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Birds_and_environmental_threats)
content:
 
<p>
  Birds are particularly <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/29/six-decades-rachel-carsons-silent-spring-birds-facing-inexorable-decline">threatened by environmental threats</a>, and most
  species are moving towards extinction.  This article describes the
  main threats &mdash; above all, deforestation.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Revolt_against_neoliberalism)
title: Revolt against neoliberalism
uri: Revolt-against-neoliberalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Revolt_against_neoliberalism)
content:
 
<p>
  Why has there been <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/29/are-we-headed-mass-revolts-upturn-global-economic-model">so little global revolt against neoliberalism</a>?
  And will revolts start now?
<p>
  Neoliberalism is when plutocracy proudly proclaims that the non-rich
  don't matter.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Quebec's_forced-French_laws)
title: Quebec's forced-French laws
uri: Quebec-s-forced-French-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_June_2022_(Quebec's_forced-French_laws)
content:
 
<p>
  Quebec's latest attempt to <a href="https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2022/05/28/is-quebec-about-to-push-canada-into-another-language-war-five-things-you-need-to-know.html">force habitants to speak French reaches a
  repressive level</a>.  People who can't speak French will be cut off,
  after 6 months, from medical care, from government services, and from
  their legal rights.
<p>
  Those who manage to speak French, but not well, will suffer the forms
  of mistreatment that were the reason for the policy of offering them
  interpreters.
<p>
  As for the "notwithstanding" loophole, that should be eliminated
  from the Constitution of Canada.

 


title: Republicans terminating extended school breakfast and lunch programs
uri: Republicans-terminating-extended-school-breakfast-and-lunch-programs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Republicans_terminating_extended_school_breakfast_and_lunch_programs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Republicans_terminating_extended_school_breakfast_and_lunch_programs)

content:
 
<p>
  Republicans plan to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/02/disaster-millions-kids-looms-gop-obstruction-threatens-school-meal-programs">terminate the extended school breakfast and lunch
  program that is feeding ten million American children</a>.
<p>
  Their parents could apply to be covered anyway, but only some would
  be accepted.  Meanwhile, the cost of food has increased greatly
  and even more would have to go hungry now.

 


title: Republican plan to increase fossil fuel emissions
uri: Republican-plan-to-increase-fossil-fuel-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Republican_plan_to_increase_fossil_fuel_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Republican_plan_to_increase_fossil_fuel_emissions)

content:
 
<p>
  Republicans have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/02/critics-warn-gop-climate-plan-farce-recipe-planetary-disaster">developed a six-point plan for increasing fossil
  fuel emissions</a>.
<p>
  Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/02/atrocious-green-groups-blast-uk-approval-jackdaw-gas-field">their UK equivalents approved development of a new oil field
  in the North Sea</a>, disregarding the fact that there is no room in the carbon
  budget for any more.

 


title: Supreme Court blocks lawsuits from torture victims
uri: Supreme-Court-blocks-lawsuits-from-torture-victims
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Supreme_Court_blocks_lawsuits_from_torture_victims)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Supreme_Court_blocks_lawsuits_from_torture_victims)

content:
 
<p>
  The Supreme Court decided in favor of government secrecy to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/02/supreme-court-sides-government-secrecy-powers-torture-related-case">block lawsuits by victim of US government torture</a>.

 


title: UK threatening Rwandan asylum seekers with sooner deportation
uri: UK-threatening-Rwandan-asylum-seekers-with-sooner-deportation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(UK_threatening_Rwandan_asylum_seekers_with_sooner_deportation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(UK_threatening_Rwandan_asylum_seekers_with_sooner_deportation)

content:
 
<p>
  The UK plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, so some of those
  threatened started a hunger strike.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/02/home-office-threatens-hunger-strikers-with-faster-deportation-to-rwanda">The government retaliated
  by threatening to punish them by deporting them even sooner</a>.
<p>
  This would supposedly be for their own good.  What contempt.

 


title: Tories subsidise oil instead of efficient energy
uri: Tories-subsidise-oil-instead-of-efficient-energy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Tories_subsidise_oil_instead_of_efficient_energy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Tories_subsidise_oil_instead_of_efficient_energy)

content:
 
<p>
  The Tories have given a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/31/sunak-uk-oil-subsidy-could-have-insulated-2m-homes-says-thinktank">large subsidy to oil extraction, instead
  of funding increases in energy efficiency</a>.

 


title: President Bukele attacked drug gangs but also some innocent people
uri: President-Bukele-attacked-drug-gangs-but-also-some-innocent-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(President_Bukele_attacked_drug_gangs_but_also_some_innocent_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(President_Bukele_attacked_drug_gangs_but_also_some_innocent_people)

content:
 
<p>
  President Bukele of El Salvador <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/el-salvador-human-rights-violations-bukele-amnesty">has attacked the powerful drug gangs
  that ruled the streets, and most of the people applaud this.  However
  some innocent people are being arrested along with the gang members</a>.
  And it seems that some people are tortured to death in jail.
<p>
  More information from Amnesty International about <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/americas/el-salvador-human-rights-violations-amnesty-report-intl-latam/index.html">innocent people arrested
  and simply presumed guilty</a>.

 


title: Tobacco companies working to addict young Africans
uri: Tobacco-companies-working-to-addict-young-Africans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Tobacco_companies_working_to_addict_young_Africans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Tobacco_companies_working_to_addict_young_Africans)

content:
 
<p>
  Tobacco companies are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/commentisfree/2022/jun/02/tobacco-smoking-africa-worlds-ashtray-acc">working to addict young Africans</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Agreement_to_export_Ukrainian_grain)
title: Agreement to export Ukrainian grain
uri: Agreement-to-export-Ukrainian-grain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Agreement_to_export_Ukrainian_grain)
content:
 
<p>
  Exploring <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/russia-and-the-west-compete-to-secure-safe-passage-for-ukraines-grain">plans for an agreement to export Ukraine's grain</a>.

 


title: Climate policies will lead to "catastrophic" climate breakdown
uri: Climate-policies-will-lead-to-catastrophic-climate-breakdown
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Climate_policies_will_lead_to_catastrophic_climate_breakdown)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Climate_policies_will_lead_to_catastrophic_climate_breakdown)

content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/02/current-policies-will-bring-catastrophic-climate-breakdown-warn-former-un-leaders">The policies currently in place to tackle the climate crisis around the
  world will lead to "catastrophic" climate breakdown</a>, as governments
  have failed to take the actions needed to fulfill their promises, three
  former UN climate leaders have warned.*

 


title: Russia succeeding in holding out against sanctions
uri: Russia-succeeding-in-holding-out-against-sanctions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Russia_succeeding_in_holding_out_against_sanctions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Russia_succeeding_in_holding_out_against_sanctions)

content:
 
<p>
  Russia is succeeding in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/02/russia-economic-war-ukraine-food-fuel-price-vladimir-putin">holding out against the west's sanctions</a>.  Defeating the Putin forces is not going to be easy.
<p>
  However, allowing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/03/ukraine-peace-bogus-russian-deal-surrendering-territory-russia-terrible">Putin to keep any Ukrainian territory would be a terrible defeat</a>.

 


title: Hong Kong will arrest for hints of the Tiananmen Square massacre
uri: Hong-Kong-will-arrest-for-hints-of-the-Tiananmen-Square-massacre
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Hong_Kong_will_arrest_for_hints_of_the_Tiananmen_Square_massacre)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Hong_Kong_will_arrest_for_hints_of_the_Tiananmen_Square_massacre)

content:
 
<p>
  Hong Kong says it will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/03/hong-kong-police-warn-tiananmen-anniversary-gatherings-will-break-the-law">arrest people for any hint of commemorating the
  anniversary of the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square in Beijing</a>.


 


title: Perverse Supreme Court ruling to disregard evidence that someone was falsely convicted
uri: Perverse-Supreme-Court-ruling-to-disregard-evidence-that-someone-was-f
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Perverse_Supreme_Court_ruling_to_disregard_evidence_that_someone_was_falsely_convicted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Perverse_Supreme_Court_ruling_to_disregard_evidence_that_someone_was_falsely_convicted)

content:
 
<p>
  Explaining the perverse Supreme Court ruling that said to
  <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/01/arizona-death-row-supreme-court-shinn-innocence/">disregard evidence that someone was falsely convicted</a>.

 


title: Wells Fargo workers trying to unionize all at one go
uri: Wells-Fargo-workers-trying-to-unionize-all-at-one-go
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Wells_Fargo_workers_trying_to_unionize_all_at_one_go)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Wells_Fargo_workers_trying_to_unionize_all_at_one_go)

content:
 
<p>
  Wells Fargo workers are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/02/wells-fargo-workers-union">trying to unionize the bank's entire work
  force at one go</a>.

 


title: Businesses should not collect so much personal data
uri: Businesses-should-not-collect-so-much-personal-data
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Businesses_should_not_collect_so_much_personal_data)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Businesses_should_not_collect_so_much_personal_data)

content:
 
<p>
  The idea that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220608210655/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/31/abolish-privacy-policies/">we need to stop businesses from collecting so much personal data</a> is starting to have traction.
<p>
  I've advocated this idea since around 2013, so I consider this a sign
  of success.

 


title: Students swindled at the "Corinthian Colleges" had their remaining student debt cancelled
uri: Students-swindled-at-the-Corinthian-Colleges-had-their-remaining-stu
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Students_swindled_at_the_Corinthian_Colleges_had_their_remaining_student_debt_cancelled)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Students_swindled_at_the_Corinthian_Colleges_had_their_remaining_student_debt_cancelled)

content:
 
<p>
  The "Corinthian Colleges" were a chain of for-profit "colleges";
  in 2015, a court ruled they were swindling students, and shut them down.
  Now <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/politics/student-loan-cancellation-corinthian-for-profit/index.html">Biden has canceled the remaining student debt of the students who
  were swindled</a>.
<p>
  These students <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/02/were-fighting-everybody-say-former-corinthian-students-biden-cancels-their-debt">have been campaigning and striking since 2015 to
  achieve this goal</a>.

 


title: Glyphosate weedkiller damages wild bee colonies
uri: Glyphosate-weedkiller-damages-wild-bee-colonies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Glyphosate_weedkiller_damages_wild_bee_colonies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Glyphosate_weedkiller_damages_wild_bee_colonies)

content:
 
<p>
  Glyphosate weedkiller <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/02/glyphosate-weedkiller-damages-wild-bumblebee-colonies">damages wild bee colonies &mdash; it harms the ability of
  bumblebee to regulate nest temperature</a>.

 


title: 44% of world's land surface needs increased protection
uri: 44-of-world-s-land-surface-needs-increased-protection
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(44%25_of_world's_land_surface_needs_increased_protection)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(44%25_of_world's_land_surface_needs_increased_protection)

content:
 
<p>
  *New study finds <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/nearly-half-of-planets-land-in-need-of-conservation-attention-to-halt-biodiversity-crisis">44% of world's land surface needs increased protection,
  with 1m wildlife species at risk of extinction</a>.*

 


title: The collective lunacy of the people who firmly deny the danger of Covid-19
uri: The-collective-lunacy-of-the-people-who-firmly-deny-the-danger-of-Covi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(The_collective_lunacy_of_the_people_who_firmly_deny_the_danger_of_Covid-19)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(The_collective_lunacy_of_the_people_who_firmly_deny_the_danger_of_Covid-19)

content:
 
<p>
  An article sheds light on the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/03/why-did-covid-disappear-from-our-collective-consciousness-so-quickly">collective lunacy of the majority of
  people the US and most European countries, who nowadays firmly deny
  the danger of Covid-19</a>.
<p>
  I read today in a couple of places that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/long-covid-patients-alternative-medicine-coronavirus-cures">23 million Americans say they
  are suffering from long Covid disabilities</a>.  That is a self-report,
  and some may be mistaken about what their problem is.  But it is good
  enough for a rough estimate.  But it gives a rough idea.  ISTR seeing
  the estimate that around 200 million Americans have had Covid-19,
  including asymptomatic infections.  That means the chance that an
  infection leaves a lasting disability in its wake is roughly 10%.
<p>
  That is a very high risk.  High enough to justify going to great lengths
  to avoid getting a Covid infection.
<p>
  I have no particular vulnerabilities to Covid-19 other than being 69
  years old and somewhat overweight.  I am at risk for long Covid that
  could ruin my life for good and all, and so are you.

 


title: Elon Musk threatens to fire employees who don't return to office without notice
uri: Elon-Musk-threatens-to-fire-employees-who-don-t-return-to-office-witho
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Elon_Musk_threatens_to_fire_employees_who_don't_return_to_office_without_notice)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Elon_Musk_threatens_to_fire_employees_who_don't_return_to_office_without_notice)

content:
 
<p>
  Elon Musk derisively <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/01/elon-musk-return-to-office-pretend-to-work-somewhere-else">ordered all Tesla employees to resume coming to
  the office to work, threatening to fire them without notice if they do not</a>.
<p>
  The level of Covid-19 infections has increased greatly in the US since March,
  and making more people meet in offices will surely increase it further.

 


title: UK barely started protecting sea bottom from trawling
uri: UK-barely-started-protecting-sea-bottom-from-trawling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(UK_barely_started_protecting_sea_bottom_from_trawling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(UK_barely_started_protecting_sea_bottom_from_trawling)

content:
 
<p>
  The UK cited, as a reason to leave the EU, that it would have the
  authority to protect the sea bottom from destructive trawling.  Two
  years later, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/31/fishing-industry-still-bulldozing-seabed-in-90-of-uk-marine-protected-areas">it has barely started prohibiting the practice</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Rwanda)
title: Rwanda
uri: 2022-06-09-Rwanda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Rwanda)
content:
 
<p>
  The threat of sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda did not discourage people
  from going to the UK in small boats, so <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/31/first-rwanda-deportation-flight-leave-uk-14-june-priti-patel">the government has chosen a small
  batch to test the policy</a>.
<p>
  *Rwanda accused of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/rwanda-exiles-stalking-harassing-threatening-us-freedom-house-report-edited-">stalking, harassing and threatening exiles in US</a>.*

 


title: Austin, Texas, and Texas's abortion prosecution
uri: Austin-Texas-and-Texas-s-abortion-prosecution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Austin,_Texas,_and_Texas's_abortion_prosecution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Austin,_Texas,_and_Texas's_abortion_prosecution)

content:
 
<p>
  Austin, Texas, plans to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/31/austin-will-not-be-complicit-texas-city-has-plan-defend-abortion-rights">pass a law to refuse cooperation with state prosecution of abortions</a>.
<p>
  This will be is a good way to denounce the state's prohibition, but I
  don't think it will provide enough safety to convince abortion
  providers to risk performing abortions in Austin.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Marsh McLennan to drop the EACOP oil pipeline project
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Marsh-McLennan-to-drop-the-EACOP-oil-pipeline-project
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Marsh_McLennan_to_drop_the_EACOP_oil_pipeline_project)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Marsh_McLennan_to_drop_the_EACOP_oil_pipeline_project)

content:
 
<p>
  Everyone: <a href="https://act.350.org/sign/tell-marsh-mclennan-drop-eacop/?source=em20220602-1-30-us&akid=207805%2E1151744%2EejhRjp">call on Marsh McLennan to drop the EACOP oil pipeline project</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Activists_deflate_tires)
title: Activists deflate tires
uri: Activists-deflate-tires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Activists_deflate_tires)
content:
 
<p>
  Activists in Glasgow and London <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/01/deflationists-tyre-extinguishers-climate-groups-deflate-suv-tyres-glasgow-edinburgh">deflate the tires of SUVs, saying
  that due to their high local pollution and high carbon emissions,
  the state ought to strongly discourage their use</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(US_has_gun_attachment)
title: US has gun attachment
uri: US-has-gun-attachment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(US_has_gun_attachment)
content:
 
<p>
  Arguing that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/01/american-violence-guns-racism-genocide">the US has an attachment to guns and violence that is ingrained
  since colonial times</a>.
<p>
  It might be true, but I am not sure we can tell for certain.
<p>
  Nearly half of Republicans say that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/06/us-mass-shootings-republicans-poll">mass shootings are something that Americans
  just have to get used to &mdash; forget about trying to prevent them</a>.
<p>
  I think this means that understand that the way to prevent mass shootings
  is to take away their guns.  And I think Democrats should start saying, 
  "Defeat the Republicans and take away their guns!"

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Information_emerging_about_Mariupol)
title: Information emerging about Mariupol
uri: Information-emerging-about-Mariupol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Information_emerging_about_Mariupol)
content:
 
<p>
  Information is emerging about the whereabouts of the civilian dead of
  Mariupol.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/01/makeshift-graves-and-notes-on-doors-the-struggle-to-find-and-bury-mariupol-dead-ukraine">The total number is perhaps 20,000, perhaps 50,000, but some
  bodies are impossible to identify, or even to find</a>.
<p>
  Let us not forget that that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Not_evacuating_civilians_from_Mariupol)">Putin intentionally prevented evacuating
  the civilians from Mariupol to safety in Ukraine</a>
  until the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> were in a position to forcibly take thousands
  to Russia.
<p>
  I understand the worry of not knowing whether someone you love is
  alive or dead.  I am perplexed by the idea that your late husband
  might be "a missing person" if you saw him dead before you fled.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Greenpeace)
title: Greenpeace
uri: 2022-06-09-Greenpeace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Greenpeace)
content:
 
<p>
  Greenpeace will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/02/jackdaw-uk-new-gas-field-shell-north-sea-climate">fight to block the development of a new oilfield in the UK</a>.
<p>
  Horribly, the US continues to sell oil leases to oil companies.
  Meanwhile, China and India are still building coal-fired generators.
  This prepares death for people who will be alive in a few decades.
<p>
  Does that mean it is a waste of time to fight to stop one large oil field
  in the UK?  Not at all.  Every megaton of oil left in the ground is an
  important step.

 


title: Wars can't be won because of terrorism
uri: Wars-can-t-be-won-because-of-terrorism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Wars_can't_be_won_because_of_terrorism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Wars_can't_be_won_because_of_terrorism)

content:
 
<p>
  The US wars of the 21st century can't be won because <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/31/endless-war-forever-terrorism">these interventions' main effect is to terrorize the civilian population</a>.  The US government tries actively to hush this up.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Global_heating_making_dust_storms)
title: Global heating making dust storms
uri: Global-heating-making-dust-storms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Global_heating_making_dust_storms)
content:
 
<p>
  Global heating effects are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/apocalyptic-skies-dust-storms-wreaking-havoc-iraq-syria">making dust storms occur much more often in the Middle East</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_((Satire)_24-hour_wait_period)
title: (Satire) 24-hour wait period
uri: (Satire)-24-hour-wait-period
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_((Satire)_24-hour_wait_period)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Texas Passes <a href="https://www.theonion.com/texas-passes-mandatory-24-hour-waiting-period-before-po-1849009081">Mandatory 24-Hour Waiting Period Before Police Can Engage Active Shooters</a>.*
<p>
  If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling Javascript entirely,
  telling LibreJS to blacklist the scripts that it accepted by
  default, or using a browser such as lynx that that doesn't implement
  Javascript.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Top_Gun_movie)
title: Top Gun movie
uri: Top-Gun-movie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Top_Gun_movie)
content:
 
<p>
  The new Top Gun movie, like the first, is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/03/war-inc-steps-take-its-bows-top-gun">an ad for increased military spending</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Who_should_be_your_real_heroes)
title: Who should be your real heroes
uri: Who-should-be-your-real-heroes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Who_should_be_your_real_heroes)
content:
 
<p>
  A morality-oriented graduation speech to the US Air Force Academy:
  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/03/graduation-speech-air-force-cadets">who should be your real heroes</a>.
<p>
  The talk refers to the corruption of the South Vietnamese army.
  According to A Bright Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan, its main
  organizing principle was graft, and the corrupt officers made sure
  they could never win a real battle.  The US, in supporting them,
  was imagining that they actually wanted to win. rather than
  keep collecting the graft.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Flight_intercepted_by_fighter_plane)
title: Flight intercepted by fighter plane
uri: Flight-intercepted-by-fighter-plane
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Flight_intercepted_by_fighter_plane)
content:
 
<p>
  A Chinese fighter plane <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/05/chinese-fighter-jets-actions-near-australian-aircraft-very-dangerous-deputy-pm-says">intercepted an Australian surveillance plane</a>
  over the South China Sea, and did dangerous things that damaged its
  engines and threatened a collision.

 


title: (Satire) How unions affected companies
uri: (Satire)-How-unions-affected-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_((Satire)_How_unions_affected_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_((Satire)_How_unions_affected_companies)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *CEOs Discuss <a href="https://www.theonion.com/ceos-discuss-how-unions-have-affected-their-companies-1848983815">How Unions Have Affected Their Companies</a>.*
<p>
  If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling Javascript entirely,
  telling LibreJS to blacklist the scripts that it accepted by
  default, or using a browser such as lynx that that doesn't implement
  Javascript.

 


title: The age of the showman leader has damaged politics
uri: The-age-of-the-showman-leader-has-damaged-politics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(The_age_of_the_showman_leader_has_damaged_politics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(The_age_of_the_showman_leader_has_damaged_politics)

content:
 
<p>
  *Hillary Clinton is right: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/05/hillary-clinton-is-right-the-age-of-the-showman-leader-has-damaged-politics">the age of the showman leader has damaged politics</a>.*
<p>
  This started with Reagan, but in recent years right-wing demagogues
  such as Trump, Putin, Modi, Do-Dirty and Bolsonaro have enjoyed success
  around the world.

 


title: Muslim terrorists now murdering Hindu functionaries
uri: Muslim-terrorists-now-murdering-Hindu-functionaries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Muslim_terrorists_now_murdering_Hindu_functionaries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Muslim_terrorists_now_murdering_Hindu_functionaries)

content:
 
<p>
  In Kashmir, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/05/fear-is-increasing-hindus-flee-kashmir-amid-spate-of-targeted-killings">Muslim terrorists are now murdering Hindu functionaries
  one by one, and most of the rest want to flee</a>.  The government is blocking
  them from fleeing.
<p>
  The terrorists are taking revenge for the martial law and repression
  that Modi has applied to Muslims for several years.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Tory_rule_tied_up_government)
title: Tory rule tied up government
uri: Tory-rule-tied-up-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Tory_rule_tied_up_government)
content:
 
<p>
  Tory rule has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/05/brexit-covid-britain-public-services-chaos-privatisations">tied up the British government in confusion and privatization
  to the point where agencies cannot do even the simplest things right</a>.
<p>
  To make it worse, Bogus Johnson <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/05/civil-service-cuts-will-leave-whitehall-unable-to-cope-with-brexit-workload">plans to cut the number of government staff
  even as they can't keep up with the workload</a>.

 


title: DeMantis rejected subsidy for gun control post
uri: DeMantis-rejected-subsidy-for-gun-control-post
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(DeMantis_rejected_subsidy_for_gun_control_post)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(DeMantis_rejected_subsidy_for_gun_control_post)

content:
 
<p>
  Governor DeMentis <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/ron-desantis-tampa-bay-rays-gun-violence/index.html">rejected a subsidy to a sports facility partly
  intended to help the Tampa Bay Rays after the team posted something
  about gun control</a>.
<p>
  Governments should never subsidize professional sports teams in any
  fashion whatsoever -- but making the subsidy effectively contingent on
  the team's political stance veers into the territory of political
  repression.


 


title: Wrecker invited by supporters to seive voting machines to "prove" victory
uri: Wrecker-invited-by-supporters-to-seive-voting-machines-to-prove-vict
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Wrecker_invited_by_supporters_to_seive_voting_machines_to_prove_victory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Wrecker_invited_by_supporters_to_seive_voting_machines_to_prove_victory)

content:
 
<p>
  Some of the wrecker's supporters invited him to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/04/chilling-trump-allies-sought-send-armed-private-contractors-seize-voting-machines">order seizure of
  voting machines so as to "prove" he had really won the 2020 election</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Social_media_disservices)
title: Social media disservices
uri: Social-media-disservices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Social_media_disservices)
content:
 
<p>
  Schools use "social media monitoring" disservices claiming that this
  is a way to detect and stop shootings before they happen.  But <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2022/06/social-media-monitoring-software-schools-safety.html?via=rss">the
  disservices don't seem to work very well, because their
  "understanding" is fragmentary and confused</a>.  The few real danger cases
  are hidden in an ocean of irony, humor and unrelated conversations.
<p>
  Even worse, schools use the disservices to monitor protests, too.

 


title: Supreme Court may demand clerks hand over phone records
uri: Supreme-Court-may-demand-clerks-hand-over-phone-records
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Supreme_Court_may_demand_clerks_hand_over_phone_records)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Supreme_Court_may_demand_clerks_hand_over_phone_records)

content:
 
<p>
  The Supreme Court is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/may/31/us-supreme-court-leak-clerks-phone-records-roe-v-wade">considering demanding that its clerks hand over
  their phone records</a>.  Those clerks &mdash; who are lawyers in training &mdash;
  may be hiring lawyers to resist this.

 


title: Some Medicare Advantage Plans Are Endangering Their Enrollees' Lives
uri: Some-Medicare-Advantage-Plans-Are-Endangering-Their-Enrollees-Lives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Some_Medicare_Advantage_Plans_Are_Endangering_Their_Enrollees'_Lives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Some_Medicare_Advantage_Plans_Are_Endangering_Their_Enrollees'_Lives)

content:
 
<p>
*Inspector General, AMA and AHA Agree: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/02/inspector-general-ama-and-aha-agree-some-medicare-advantage-plans-are-endangering">Some Medicare Advantage Plans Are Endangering Their Enrollees' Lives</a>*.  They deny needed medical care, to reduce expenses.

 


title: UK government plans to authorize officials for torture and murder in other countries
uri: UK-government-plans-to-authorize-officials-for-torture-and-murder-in-o
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(UK_government_plans_to_authorize_officials_for_torture_and_murder_in_other_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(UK_government_plans_to_authorize_officials_for_torture_and_murder_in_other_countries)

content:
 
<p>
  The UK government is planning to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/04/uk-officials-spies-ministers-impunity-assisting-crimes-overseas-draft-security-bill">authorize officials to collaborate
  with torture and murder carried out in other countries</a>.
<p>
  The US is justly condemned for handing prisoners over to torturers in
  countries such as Syria.  The UK must not follow the same path.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Hong_Kong_dissent_silenced)
title: Hong Kong dissent silenced
uri: Hong-Kong-dissent-silenced
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Hong_Kong_dissent_silenced)
content:
 
<p>
  *China has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/03/the-guardian-view-on-hong-kongs-freedoms-gone-but-not-forgotten">silenced dissent in [Hong Kong]</a>, but exiles are finding ways to keep its spirit alive.*

 


title: Supreme Court trying to wipe out gun control
uri: Supreme-Court-trying-to-wipe-out-gun-control
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Supreme_Court_trying_to_wipe_out_gun_control)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Supreme_Court_trying_to_wipe_out_gun_control)

content:
 
<p>
  The Supreme Court's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/02/us-supreme-court-also-has-blood-its-hands">crooked path of reinterpreting the Second Amendment
  to wipe out gun control</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(uk_long_covid_studies)
title: n the UK, two million people are suffering from long Covid
uri: n-the-UK-two-million-people-are-suffering-from-long-Covid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(uk_long_covid_studies)
content:
 
<p>
In the UK, two million people are suffering from long Covid -- 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/01/two-million-people-in-uk-living-with-long-covid-say-studies">3% of the
population.</a>
<p>
In the US, the fraction is 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/long-covid-patients-alternative-medicine-coronavirus-cures">around 6% of the population.</a>
<p>
It is not clear whether these two measurements are comparable,
or what the difference might mean.
<p>
What is clear is that governments that yield to public pressure
to "stop protecting us and let us ignore the danger" are making
a terrible mistake.

 


title: Canada's Big Banks Are Secretly Supporting Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion.
uri: Canada-s-Big-Banks-Are-Secretly-Supporting-Trans-Mountain-Pipeline-Exp
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(canada_big_bank_trans_mountain_pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(canada_big_bank_trans_mountain_pipeline)

content:
 
<p>
*Canada's Big Banks Are Secretly Supporting 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/31/canadas-big-banks-are-secretly-supporting-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion">Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion.*</a>
<p>
The banks are TD Securities, RBC Capital Markets, Canadian Imperial
Bank of Commerce, BMO Capital Markets, Scotiabank, and National Bank
of Canada.  All these banks say they are committed to climate defense,
but it seems to be lip service only.
<p>
If you have money in any of these banks (even if in a different part
of it), I urge you to move it out, and tell the bank why.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(canada_right_wing_unraveling)
uri: Canada-is-planning-to-establish-a-new-intelligence-agency-to-study-the
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(canada_right_wing_unraveling)
title:
 Canada is planning to establish a new intelligence agency to study the
threat from right-wing extremists in the US 

content:
 
<p>
Canada is planning to establish a new intelligence agency to study the
threat from right-wing extremists in the US -- especially in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/31/canada-right-be-worried-about-right-wing-unraveling-united-states">case they get
political power again.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(la_nina_global_heating)
title: Global heating is slowing down the Atlantic's north-south currents
uri: Global-heating-is-slowing-down-the-Atlantic-s-north-south-currents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(la_nina_global_heating)
content:
 
<p>
Global heating is slowing down the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/07/why-the-collapse-of-an-atlantic-ocean-current-could-mean-la-nina-becomes-the-norm">Atlantic's north-south currents,</a>
<p>
This will tend to make northern Europe
cooler and the Caribbean even hotter.  It will also mean even more floods in
Eastern Australia, and increasing drought in the US southwest.

 


title: (Satire) *Enlightened Judge Sentences Murderer To Ego Death By Means Of Ayahuasca.*
uri: (Satire)-Enlightened-Judge-Sentences-Murderer-To-Ego-Death-By-Means-O
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_((Satire)_judge_sentences_murderer_ayahuasca)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_((Satire)_judge_sentences_murderer_ayahuasca)

content:
 
<p>
(Satire) *Enlightened Judge Sentences Murderer To 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/enlightened-judge-sentences-murderer-to-ego-death-by-me-1848923426">Ego Death By Means
Of Ayahuasca.</a>*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling Javascript entirely,
telling LibreJS to blacklist the scripts that it accepted by
default, or using a browser such as lynx that that doesn't implement
Javascript.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(ronald_regan_economy_shitstorm)
title: Reportedly the Federal Reserve is pulling money out of the US economy
uri: Reportedly-the-Federal-Reserve-is-pulling-money-out-of-the-US-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(ronald_regan_economy_shitstorm)
content:
 
<p>
Reportedly the Federal Reserve is pulling money out of the US economy, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/03/you-can-thank-ronald-regan-economic-shitstorm-come">which could cause a global depression.</a>
<p>
I don't have a basis to judge, myself, whether this is true now,
but what it says about the past fits with what I know.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(uk_us_financial_hit_fossil_fuels)
title: Study shows some people in US and UK face huge financial hit if fossil fuels lose value
uri: Study-shows-some-people-in-US-and-UK-face-huge-financial-hit-if-fossil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(uk_us_financial_hit_fossil_fuels)
content:
 
<p>
*[Some] people in US and UK face huge financial hit if 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/26/people-in-us-and-uk-face-huge-financial-hit-if-fossil-fuels-lose-value-study-shows?CMP=share_btn_tw&link_id=1&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-vanguards-latest-climate-goals&email_referrer=email_1564403&email_subject=the-climate-crisis-is-expected-to-cause-the-next-great-financial-crisis">fossil fuels
lose value, study shows.</a>*
<p>
The businesses that own fossil fuel facilities would lose stock value,
and the owners of the stock would lose the wealth of owning that stock.
<p>
If we stop the development of fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction
facilities, the <Em>undeveloped reserves</Em> will lose their value.  But that
is likely to happen gradually as measures are taken and made firm.
<p>
Investors and pension funds can avoid being hit by this by divesting
from fossil fuels.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(global_plastic_pollution_OECD)
title: Without 'Radical Action,' Warns OECD, Global Plastic Triple by 2060.
uri: Without-Radical-Action-Warns-OECD-Global-Plastic-Triple-by-2060
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(global_plastic_pollution_OECD)
content:
 
<p>
*Without 'Radical Action,' Warns OECD, Global Plastic 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/03/without-radical-action-warns-oecd-global-plastic-pollution-likely-triple-2060">Pollution Likely to
Triple by 2060.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_((Satire)_school_practices_drill)
title: (satire) *School Practices Drill For When There's Not An Active Shooter.
uri: (satire)-School-Practices-Drill-For-When-There-s-Not-An-Active-Shoote
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_((Satire)_school_practices_drill)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *School Practices Drill For When 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/school-practices-drill-for-when-there-s-not-an-active-s-1848987747">There's Not An Active
Shooter.</a>*

 


title: Colorado legislature passes bill to reduce plastic packaging, boost recycling.
uri: Colorado-legislature-passes-bill-to-reduce-plastic-packaging-boost-re
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(colorado_bill_reduce_plastic_boost_recycling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(colorado_bill_reduce_plastic_boost_recycling)

content:
 
<p>
*Colorado legislature passes bill to reduce 
<a href="https://environmentcolorado.org/news/coe/colorado-legislature-passes-bill-reduce-plastic-packaging-boost-recycling">plastic packaging, boost
recycling.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(lgtq_pride_events_police)
uri: Various-organizations-that-run-Gay-Pride-parades-are-deciding-that-uni
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(lgtq_pride_events_police)
title:
 Various organizations that run Gay Pride parades are deciding that uniformed thugs are not welcome. 

content:
 
<p>
Various organizations that run Gay Pride parades are 
<a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/06/01/lgbtq-pride-events-police">deciding
that uniformed thugs are not welcome.</a>
<p>
One strategy is to remember the historic hostility and cruelty of
thugs towards gays.  Another strategy is to try to replace that with a
friendly relationship so as to avoid that hostility in the future.  I,
as an outsider, don't have an opinion about which to choose, but I can
see the sense in each one.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(russia_climate_arshak_makichyant)
title: Russia punishes people by cancelling their citizenship.
uri: Russia-punishes-people-by-cancelling-their-citizenship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(russia_climate_arshak_makichyant)
content:
 
<p>
Russia punishes people by cancelling 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/06/russian-climate-activist-arshak-makichyant-putins-war">their citizenship.</a>
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/18/deportation-of-a-minor-how-a-corrosive-policy-sank-cosy-relations-between-australia-and-new-zealand">Australia</a>
<p>
and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/17/new-bill-quietly-gives-powers-to-remove-british-citizenship-without-notice">the UK</a>
<p>
do this too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_((Satire)_weapons_must_stay_legal)
title: (satire) *Americans Explain Why Assault Weapons Must Stay Legal.*
uri: (satire)-Americans-Explain-Why-Assault-Weapons-Must-Stay-Legal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_((Satire)_weapons_must_stay_legal)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Americans Explain Why 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/americans-explain-why-assault-weapons-must-stay-legal-1849003677">Assault Weapons Must Stay Legal.*</a>
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript's entirely,
telling LibreJS to blacklist the scripts that it accepted by
default, or using a browser such as lynx that doesn't implement Javascript.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(beyer_proposes_filibuster_ar15)
title: Almost as good as banning military-style rifles would be to put a very large tax on them
uri: Almost-as-good-as-banning-military-style-rifles-would-be-to-put-a-very
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(beyer_proposes_filibuster_ar15)
content:
 
<p>
Almost as good as banning military-style rifles would be to put a
very large tax on them, such as 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/06/beyer-proposes-filibuster-proof-1000-tax-ar-15s">10 times the sales price.</a>
<p>
This could be passed via budget reconciliation, avoiding the filibuster.
<p>
One weakness is that right-wing extremist billionaires, or states such
as Texas, could defeat the purpose of the measure by paying the excise
tax on behalf of the individual gun purchasers. Better make the tax 100 times
the sales price.
<p>
The state government of Texas protects gun companies from pressure 
by boycotting companies (such as banks) 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/06/how-texas-punishes-companies-who-discriminate-against-gun-manufacturers">that boycott them.</a>
<p>
I like the solution of having California boycott the banks that fail
to boycott gun companies, because it uses for the cause of life the
same instrument that Texas uses for the cause of death.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(sunak_tax_sea_energy)
title: The Tories' tax contains a self-sabotaging tax break for new fossil fuel infrastructure.
uri: The-Tories-tax-contains-a-self-sabotaging-tax-break-for-new-fossil-fu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(sunak_tax_sea_energy)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories' proposed windfall tax contains a self-sabotaging tax break
for building new 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/06/sunak-tax-breaks-could-lead-to-more-than-8bn-of-north-sea-energy-projects">fossil fuel infrastructure.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(biden_dpa_renewable_energy)
title: Biden will use the Defense Production Act to boost US production of renewable energy systems
uri: Biden-will-use-the-Defense-Production-Act-to-boost-US-production-of-re
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(biden_dpa_renewable_energy)
content:
 
<p>
Biden will use the Defense production Act to boost US production of
solar panels and other 
<a href="https://www.commondream.org/news/2022/06/06/pushed-progressive-biden-invokes-defense-production-act-boost-renewable-energy">renewable energy systems.</a>
<p>
This is an important thing to do, but when the means for getting
businesses to do what the country needs includes tax breaks, it has
the long term tendency to reduce tax revenue.
<p>
So we should rather <Em>increase</Em> taxes on business that goes in the wrong direction. That is what a carbon tax would do.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(proud_boys_leader_charged_jan6)
title: Proud Boys leaders charged with seditious conspiracy in 6 January riot.
uri: Proud-Boys-leaders-charged-with-seditious-conspiracy-in-6-January-riot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(proud_boys_leader_charged_jan6)
content:
 
<p>
*Proud Boys leaders charged with seditious 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/06/proud-boys-leaders-charged-seditious-conspiracy-jan-6-riot">conspiracy in 6 January riot.</a>*

 


title: Authors weigh the meaning of authenticity at the hay festival
uri: Authors-weigh-the-meaning-of-authenticity-at-the-hay-festival
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(authors_meaning_authenticity_hay_festival)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(authors_meaning_authenticity_hay_festival)

content:
 
<p>
A thoughtful discussion among writers advances beyond the idea
that only people in some demographic group should be allowed
to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/06/authors-weigh-the-meaning-of-authenticity-at-the-hay-festival">write about people in that group.</a>
<p>
I think "Do you know this well enough to write it well?" is a good
way to look at that issue.
<p>
However, we need to be careful about demanding diversity in the
characters of any particular book.  If an author who is white and
straight doesn't know other groups well enough to write such
characters well, per writings will perforce be limited to straight,
white characters.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(global_heating_study_co2)
title: Study reveals carbon dioxide levels are 50% higher than during pre-industrial era
uri: Study-reveals-carbon-dioxide-levels-are-50-higher-than-during-pre-ind
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(global_heating_study_co2)
content:
 
<p>
*Carbon dioxide levels are now 50% higher than 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/06/carbon-dioxide-levels-increase-global-heating-study">during the pre-industrial era.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(french_state_police_fatal_acts)
title: French politicians, the police, and fatal acts of violence
uri: French-politicians-the-police-and-fatal-acts-of-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(french_state_police_fatal_acts)
content:
 
<p>
The highest officials of the French state defend 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/06/french-police-politicians-lied-and-smeared-uk-football-fans-champions-league-final">French thugs for
fatal acts of violence.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(carbon_bombs_coalition)
title: Organizing a broad campaign against large fossil fuel extraction projects
uri: Organizing-a-broad-campaign-against-large-fossil-fuel-extraction-proje
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_June_2022_(carbon_bombs_coalition)
content:
 
<p>
Organizing a broad campaign to defuse "carbon bombs" -- large fossil fuel
extraction projects 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/06/environmentalists-carbon-bomb-fossil-fuel-projects-coalition">that are enough to ensure global disaster.</a>
<p>
Many of them are in China and India.  What can we do about those?

 


title: The wrecker tied closely to the Jan 6 coup plot
uri: The-wrecker-tied-closely-to-the-Jan-6-coup-plot
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(The_wrecker_tied_closely_to_the_Jan_6_coup_plot)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(The_wrecker_tied_closely_to_the_Jan_6_coup_plot)

content:
 
<p>
The congressional investigating committee stated conclusions that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/09/january-6-hearing-five-key-takeaways-us-capitol-attack">tie the
wrecker closely to the Jan 6 coup plot</a>.
<p>
The evidence for those conclusions is to be presented in the remaining
sessions.
<p>
Will the Americans that need to see this evidence <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/for-me-the-2-biggest-questions-about">turn their heads
away instead, following the leadership of Faux News</a>?

 


title: Google searches lead 10% to "crisis pregnancy centers"
uri: Google-searches-lead-10-to-crisis-pregnancy-centers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Google_searches_lead_10%25_to_crisis_pregnancy_centers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Google_searches_lead_10%25_to_crisis_pregnancy_centers)

content:
 
<p>
10% of Google searches for abortion information <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/09/google-searches-abortion-clinics-pregnancy-crisis-centers">lead people
to the phony abortion advice of "crisis pregnancy centers."</a>

 


title: Military bases contaminated water with PFAs
uri: Military-bases-contaminated-water-with-PFAs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Military_bases_contaminated_water_with_PFAs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Military_bases_contaminated_water_with_PFAs)

content:
 
<p>
Some US military bases <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/06/military-bases-contaminating-water-supply-pfas">cause local water contamination with PFAs with material used to extinguish fires</a>.  These are used for real fires, and for training.
<p>
I wonder if it might be possible to use an imitation substance
(without PFAs) in the training exercises.  That would not eliminate
the problem but would reduce the amount, and it could be easy to do.

 


title: Book comparing and contrasting the wrecker with Nixon
uri: Book-comparing-and-contrasting-the-wrecker-with-Nixon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Book_comparing_and_contrasting_the_wrecker_with_Nixon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Book_comparing_and_contrasting_the_wrecker_with_Nixon)

content:
 
<p>
Woodward and Bernstein have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/06/trump-nixon-woodward-bernstein-sedition-deception">published a book that compares and
contrasts the corrupter with Nixon</a>.
Nixon was prepared to do all sorts of dirty tricks against his
opponents, but trying to undermine the electoral system was "beyond
Nixon's imagination."
<p>
Another crucial difference was that the Republicans of 1974 were loyal
enough that they could vote to impeach and to remove a Republican when
confronted with irrefutable evidence of his criminality.  The
Republicans of 2021 were already too slavish and disloyal for that:
the corrupter had been bullying them for years.

 


title: Bogus Johnson barely hanging on to power
uri: Bogus-Johnson-barely-hanging-on-to-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_barely_hanging_on_to_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_barely_hanging_on_to_power)

content:
 
<p>
The Tory Party <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/06/boris-johnson-won-confidence-vote-big-loser-damaged">held a vote about whether to keep Bogus Johnson as its
leader</a>.  He won 58% of the votes.  This means he is barely hanging on
to power.
<p>
If they kick him out, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/06/result-tory-no-confidence-vote-lurch-right-more-austerity-boris-johnson">his likely replacements are Tories that advocate
budget cuts that will put a lot more poor people on the street</a>.

 


title: Starbucks closing store where employees voted to unionize
uri: Starbucks-closing-store-where-employees-voted-to-unionize
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Starbucks_closing_store_where_employees_voted_to_unionize)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Starbucks_closing_store_where_employees_voted_to_unionize)

content:
 
<p>
  Starbucks has decided to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/business/starbucks-ithaca-store-closure/index.html">close a store where employees voted to unionize, citing a reason that is not credible</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Faux News to stop promoting "white replacement theory"
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Faux-News-to-stop-promoting-white-replacement-theory
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Faux_News_to_stop_promoting_white_replacement_theory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Faux_News_to_stop_promoting_white_replacement_theory)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone: call on Faux News to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-demand-that-fox-news-stop-promoting-white-replacement-theory?nowrapper=true">stop promoting 'white replacement theory'</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Indict_Trump_promptly)
title: Urgent: Indict Trump promptly
uri: Urgent-Indict-Trump-promptly
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Indict_Trump_promptly)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-merrick-garland-indict-trump-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">Attorney General Merrick Garland to indict Trump
promptly</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Poor People's Campaign rally on the 18th in Washington DC
uri: Urgent-Poor-People-s-Campaign-rally-on-the-18th-in-Washington-DC
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Poor_People's_Campaign_rally_on_the_18th_in_Washington_DC)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Poor_People's_Campaign_rally_on_the_18th_in_Washington_DC)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://popdemoc.org/ppcjuneteenth">In Washington DC on June 18?
Join the Poor People's Campaign for a rally</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Don't legitimize Crown Prince Bone Saw
uri: Urgent-Don-t-legitimize-Crown-Prince-Bone-Saw
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Don't_legitimize_Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Don't_legitimize_Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/biden-do-not-meet-mbs?akid=7852.223515.TBo8z2&c0=biden-do-not-meet-mbs.MTt2SE&rd=1&source=em20220606&t=1006">call on Biden not to legitimize Crown Prince Bone Saw by
meeting with him</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Condemn dark-money disinformation ads
uri: Urgent-Condemn-dark-money-disinformation-ads
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Condemn_dark-money_disinformation_ads)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Condemn_dark-money_disinformation_ads)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-speaker-pelosi-take-a-stand-on-corporate-dark-money-misinformation-ads?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-social-security-works&source=direct_link">call on Pelosi to condemn dark-money disinformation ads</a>.
These are being used to support <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> Democrats against progressive
Democrats in primaries.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_predatory_lending)
title: Urgent: Stop predatory lending
uri: Urgent-Stop-predatory-lending
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_predatory_lending)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-fdic-stop-the-growing-threat-of-rent-a-bank-schemes-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-sign-the-petition-tell-the-fdic-to-stop-predatory-lending-2">call on the FDIC to stop triple-digit-interest loans for
furniture, auto repairs, puppies, etc</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Smog_pollution_limit)
title: Urgent: Smog pollution limit
uri: Urgent-Smog-pollution-limit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_June_2022_(Urgent:_Smog_pollution_limit)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=50168&">call on the EPA to readopt the stricter limit on smog
pollution</a>.

 


title: Starbucks CEO not going to negotiate in good faith with union
uri: Starbucks-CEO-not-going-to-negotiate-in-good-faith-with-union
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Starbucks_CEO_not_going_to_negotiate_in_good_faith_with_union)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Starbucks_CEO_not_going_to_negotiate_in_good_faith_with_union)

content:
 
<p>
  The CEO of Starbucks said <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/10/critics-say-starbucks-ceo-just-declared-permanent-war-against-union">he will never negotiate in good faith with
  the union that now represents workers at hundreds of its cafes</a>.

 


title: WTO prioritizes business-supremacy over Covid-19 medicine access
uri: WTO-prioritizes-business-supremacy-over-Covid-19-medicine-access
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(WTO_prioritizes_business-supremacy_over_Covid-19_medicine_access)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(WTO_prioritizes_business-supremacy_over_Covid-19_medicine_access)

content:
 
<p>
*WTO Negotiations <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/10/wto-negotiations-prioritize-institutions-reputation-over-covid-medicines-access">Prioritize Institution's Reputation Over COVID Medicines
Access</a>.*  They seem dead set on cntinuing the patent and secrecy obstacles
that prevent vaccinating everyone against Covid-19.
<p>
The WTO is fundamentally bad because <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">it is a business-supremacy treaty</a>, designed to suppress democracy and give businesses power over
over people and their democratic institutions.
<p>
What gives rise to the WTO's repuitation?  It is a battle between the
plutocratists, driven by the profits of the companies that the WTO
primarily serves, and the defenders of democracy who attack the WTO.
I'm proud to be on democracy's side.
<p>
The article falls into the trap of using the term "intellectual
property," which was promoted by businesses to create a presumption of
legitimacy for ten or more different laws that the WTO pressures
governments to submit to.  These laws all tend to be more or less
plutocratist, but they are so different in their manner of operating
that generalizing about them all makes it hard to criticize any one of
them.
<p>
Please join me in <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">never using that term</a>.

 


title: Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity
uri: Americas-Partnership-for-Economic-Prosperity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Americas_Partnership_for_Economic_Prosperity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Americas_Partnership_for_Economic_Prosperity)

content:
 
<p>
*How will the White House <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/09/bidens-proposed-pan-american-partnership-must-not-repeat-past-free-trade-failures">ensure that powerful interests do not turn
the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity "into another
corporate-dominated, wildly unpopular trade exercise</a>?".*
<p>
The goal of "mobilizing private investment" sounds like an excuse for
more neoliberalism and trickle-down Reaganomics.  If that's what it
is, we should kill the whole thing rather than allow that.
<p>
The other goals seem good, more or less, but "building on the
foundation established by our [so-called] free trade agreements" has
to be bad.  We must weaken or eliminate those <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy
treaties</a>.

 


title: Former Bolivian president Áñez convicted
uri: Former-Bolivian-president-Áñez-convicted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Former_Bolivian_president_Áñez_convicted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Former_Bolivian_president_Áñez_convicted)

content:
 
<p>
  Former Bolivian president Áñez has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/11/bolivian-ex-president-jeanine-anez-jailed-as-leader-of-coup">convicted of leading the coup
  that removed president Evo Morales and sent him into exile</a>.
<p>
  The US is accused of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#23_November_2019_(Army_kills_citizen_in_Bolivia)">supporting the coup</a>.

 


title: Iran removing International Atomic Energy Agency cameras
uri: Iran-removing-International-Atomic-Energy-Agency-cameras
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Iran_removing_International_Atomic_Energy_Agency_cameras)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Iran_removing_International_Atomic_Energy_Agency_cameras)

content:
 
<p>
  Iran is removing cameras installed for the International Atomic Energy
  Agency to monitor nuclear processing sites.  This means that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/09/removal-of-cameras-at-iran-nuclear-sites-may-be-fatal-blow-warns-un-watchdog">the
  non-nuclear deal with Iran is on the verge of death</a>.
<p>
Iran is dealing it the final blow, but Biden's timidity shares
responsibiliy for the failure.  If he had cancelled the sanctions
that the wrecker added, maybe the deal could have been made.
Biden avoided a bogus criticism and instead brought on himself
a real and important failure.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(You_can't_sue_border_thugs)
title: You can't sue border thugs
uri: You-can-t-sue-border-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(You_can't_sue_border_thugs)
content:
 
<p>
The Supreme Court ruled that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/08/politics/supreme-court-border-patrol-agents/index.html">you can't sue a US border thug for
injuring you, or for retaliating deviosly against you for filing a
complaint</a>.

 


title: "Planet-Wrecking Fossil Fuel 'Gold Rush'"
uri: Planet-Wrecking-Fossil-Fuel-Gold-Rush
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Planet-Wrecking_Fossil_Fuel_'Gold_Rush')

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Planet-Wrecking_Fossil_Fuel_'Gold_Rush')

content:
 
<p>
*Response to Global Energy Crisis So Far? A <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/08/response-global-energy-crisis-so-far-planet-wrecking-fossil-fuel-gold-rush-analysis">Planet-Wrecking Fossil Fuel 'Gold
Rush'* that could make global heating disaster inescapable</a>.
<p>
*Oil and gas companies likely <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/08/politics/oil-gas-methane-emissions-climate/index.html">underreporting methane emissions leaks</a>, new
investigation shows.*

 


title: Republican lies aims to drown out hearings
uri: Republican-lies-aims-to-drown-out-hearings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Republican_lies_aims_to_drown_out_hearings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Republican_lies_aims_to_drown_out_hearings)

content:
 
<p>
A loud cacophony of Republican lies aims to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/08/house-capitol-attack-hearings-republicans-trump">drown out the hearings
about the corrupter's attempt to steal the 2020 election</a>.

 


title: Russia demolished high-rise builds without removing dead bodies
uri: Russia-demolished-high-rise-builds-without-removing-dead-bodies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Russia_demolished_high-rise_builds_without_removing_dead_bodies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Russia_demolished_high-rise_builds_without_removing_dead_bodies)

content:
 
<p>
*Mariupol mayor: Russia demolished 1,300 high-rise buildings in city <a href="https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-06-10-22/h_04a90487aade4b7d7b6dbc10c26d6edc">without
removing dead bodies of residents</a>.*
<p>
The mayor said that "Initially, the occupiers involved Mariupol
residents in dismantling the rubble carefully."  But when they saw
that there were 50 - 100 corpses in each building, they took the
residents away, demolished the buildings quickly, and carried
the rubble off with the corpses.
<p>
No one will ever be sure who died, or even how many.  The most
we can say is that it was probably between 60,000 to 120,000.

 


title: US southwest having record-breaking heat wave
uri: US-southwest-having-record-breaking-heat-wave
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(US_southwest_having_record-breaking_heat_wave)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(US_southwest_having_record-breaking_heat_wave)

content:
 
<p>
The US southwest is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/10/us-weather-latest-temperature-weekend-south-west">having a record-breaking heat wave, but by 2050 it
could have 25 like this per year</a>.

 


title: Donetsk sentences 3 prisoners of war to death for foreign origins
uri: Donetsk-sentences-3-prisoners-of-war-to-death-for-foreign-origins
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Donetsk_sentences_3_prisoners_of_war_to_death_for_foreign_origins)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Donetsk_sentences_3_prisoners_of_war_to_death_for_foreign_origins)

content:
 
<p>
Putin's puppet regime running Donetsk has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/europe/foreigners-death-penalty-dpr-ukraine-russia-intl/index.html">sentenced three prisoners
of war to death, not for committing any particular war crime, but
simply for having foreign origins</a>.
<p>
It is nothing unusual, nor criminal, for a country to enroll foreign
citizens as soldiers.  The US has done this in recent decades, and
France's foreign legion is well known.
<p>
It appears that Putin has decided to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/10/trial-donetsk-precedent-conflict-21st-century">destroy the idea of the laws of
war (as well as the idea of truth), just as the wrecker seeks to
destroy US democracy and (as well as the idea of truth)</a>.
<p>
I don't see how his attempt could be thwarted except by capturing him
and putting him on trial &mdash; but that seems awfully unlikely.
<p>
One idea for retaliation is that the UK could announce an undeclared
war with the supposedly independent Donetsk regime &mdash; not with Russia!
&mdash; and start bombarding its supposed "territory" with conventional
weapons.  If that hits some of Putin's soldiers from Russia, he can
hardly complain.

 


title: Ginni Thomas emailed Arizona legislators to try and overturn 2020 presidential election
uri: Ginni-Thomas-emailed-Arizona-legislators-to-try-and-overturn-2020-pres
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Ginni_Thomas_emailed_Arizona_legislators_to_try_and_overturn_2020_presidential_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Ginni_Thomas_emailed_Arizona_legislators_to_try_and_overturn_2020_presidential_election)

content:
 
<p>
Ginni Thomas <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/11/ginni-thomas-wife-supreme-court-justice-clarence-arizona-republicans-undermining-democracy">emailed 29 Arizona legislators to press them to help
overturn the 2020 election of Biden as president</a>.

 


title: Refugee conscripted into digging mass graves says more are still being dug
uri: Refugee-conscripted-into-digging-mass-graves-says-more-are-still-being
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Refugee_conscripted_into_digging_mass_graves_says_more_are_still_being_dug)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Refugee_conscripted_into_digging_mass_graves_says_more_are_still_being_dug)

content:
 
<p>
A Syrian refugee who was conscripted into digging mass graves for the
people killed in Assad's prisons says that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/08/politics/syria-mass-graves-whistleblower/index.html">more mass graves for
victims are still being dug in Syria</a>.

 


title: CEO rebukes tired pilots for refusing to fly
uri: CEO-rebukes-tired-pilots-for-refusing-to-fly
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(CEO_rebukes_tired_pilots_for_refusing_to_fly)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(CEO_rebukes_tired_pilots_for_refusing_to_fly)

content:
 
<p>
  Pilots are supposed to refuse to fly when they are too tired to fly
  safety.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/09/fury-as-wizz-air-boss-suggests-too-many-pilots-refusing-to-fly-when-tired">The CEO of Wizz Air rebuked the company's pilots for doing
  this "too often</a>."
<p>
  Airline regulations should be changed so that that CEO is forbidden to be
  an executive in any airline.

 


title: Film censored by extremists' bullying
uri: Film-censored-by-extremists-bullying
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Film_censored_by_extremists'_bullying)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Film_censored_by_extremists'_bullying)

content:
 
<p>
  The film, The Lady of Heaven, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/12/self-appointed-gatekeepers-of-islam-no-right-not-to-be-offended">that was censored by bullying in the UK
  was made by Shi'ite Muslims.  The bullies that censored it were led by an
  extremist Sunni Muslim.</a>
<p>
  The bullies used the film the way Republicans use abortion, masks,
  or discussion of queer gender roles, and the way some progressives
  use cancellation of people who don't toe the line -- as opportunities
  to show their power and make others afraid.

 


title: Wrecker invited by supporters to seize voting machines to "prove" victory
uri: Wrecker-invited-by-supporters-to-seize-voting-machines-to-prove-vict
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Wrecker_invited_by_supporters_to_seize_voting_machines_to_prove_victory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Wrecker_invited_by_supporters_to_seize_voting_machines_to_prove_victory)

content:
 
<p>
  Some of the wrecker's supporters invited him to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/04/chilling-trump-allies-sought-send-armed-private-contractors-seize-voting-machines">order seizure of
  voting machines so as to "prove" he had really won the 2020 election</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(big_idea_world_without_conflict)
title: Peace is the ability to deal with discord by non-violent means.
uri: Peace-is-the-ability-to-deal-with-discord-by-non-violent-means
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(big_idea_world_without_conflict)
content:
 
<p>
On reconciliation after war has created hatred. *Peace is the ability to deal 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/06/the-big-idea-is-a-world-without-violent-conflict-really-possible">with discord by non-violent means.</a>*
<p>
*The effort we are rightly making to support Ukraine in defending itself
against aggression needs to be matched by efforts towards negotiation,
dialogue, reconciliation and peace.*
<p>
I disagree with the Christian premise of the article, of course, but
setting that aside I find the conclusions valid. My suggestion <a>not to
refer to the Putin forces as "Russian" or "Russia"

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(summer_danger_season)
title: Summer is now the danger season in the US
uri: Summer-is-now-the-danger-season-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(summer_danger_season)
content:
 
<p>
Summer is now the danger 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/06/summer-us-now-danger-season">season in the US --</a>
<p>
Danger from hurricanes,
wildfires, and heat itself.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(physical_capacity_shortage_inflation)
title: The limitations on physical production capacity are contributing to present inflation.
uri: The-limitations-on-physical-production-capacity-are-contributing-to-pr
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(physical_capacity_shortage_inflation)
content:
 
<p>
Explaining how limits on physical production capacity are 
<a href="https://www.employamerica.org/researchreports/the-physical-capacity-shortage-view-of-inflation/">contributing
to the present inflation.</a>
<p>
Overall, this seems valid, but I see two errors in the article.
<li> It assumes that inflation is all due to "inflationary pressure,"
but as Robert Reich has pointed out.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(farmer_dealer_ftc_complaint)
uri: Farmer-Wilson-claims-a-John-Deere-dealer-refused-to-repair-his-tractor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(farmer_dealer_ftc_complaint)
title:
 Farmer Wilson claims a John Deere dealer refused to repair his tractor, until he filed ftc complaint 

content:
 
<p>
Farmer Jared Wilson found that John Deere's official dealer refused to
repair his tractor until he complained to the 
<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vaqm/farmer-says-dealer-wouldnt-repair-his-tractor-until-he-filed-ftc-complaint">Federal Trade Commission</a>
<p>
John Deere considered him a troublemaker because he agitated for the
right to repair -- which is the campaign against one specific kind of 
malicious functionality.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_((Satire)_nsa_honored_for_diversity)
title: (satire) NSA honored for diversity in surveillance footage
uri: (satire)-NSA-honored-for-diversity-in-surveillance-footage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_((Satire)_nsa_honored_for_diversity)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) NSA honored for 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/nsa-honored-for-diversity-in-surveillance-footage-1848955446">diversity in surveillance footage</a>

 


uri: Democrats-should-stop-agreeing-that-the-Second-Amendment-guarantees-in
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(democrats_second_amendment_stop_agreeing)

title:
 Democrats should stop agreeing that the Second Amendment guarantees individuals the right to own a gun 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(democrats_second_amendment_stop_agreeing)

content:
 
<p>
Democrats should stop agreeing that the Second Amendment guarantees 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/06/its-time-democrats-stop-agreeing-second-amendment-protects-individuals-right-bear">individuals the right to own a gun</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(tiananmen_food_influencer_censorship)
title: A food influencer in China presented an ice cream dessert which looked somewhat like a tank
uri: A-food-influencer-in-China-presented-an-ice-cream-dessert-which-looked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(tiananmen_food_influencer_censorship)
content:
 
<p>
A food influencer in China presented an ice cream dessert which 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/china/china-tiananmen-li-jiaqi-censorship-intl-hnk/index.html">looked somewhat like a tank,</a>
<p>
just before the anniversary of the Tien An Men square massacre.
<p>
His stream was cut off immediately and he has not been heard from since.
<p>
Sad to say, if most young Chinese don't know what happened on June 4th, the Chinese state is winning it's battle against history. Is there anything we can do to defeat it?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(georgia_trump_investigation_email)
title: A document shows the existence of a secret Republican plan to steal the 2020 election in Georgia
uri: A-document-shows-the-existence-of-a-secret-Republican-plan-to-steal-th
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(georgia_trump_investigation_email)
content:
 
<p>
A document demonstrates the existence of a secret Republican plan to steal the 2020 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/politics/georgia-trump-investigation-fake-electrons-email/index.html">election in Georgia.</a>
<p>
Republicans now plot to install partisan poll workers who will invent
reasons to challenge minority voters from 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/01/tapes-expose-gop-plot-install-poll-workers-massive-election-subversion-program"> groups that are likely to be Democrats</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(end_unauthorized_us_war_yemen)
title: Congress will try again to end US support for Salafi Arabia's intervention in Yemen.
uri: Congress-will-try-again-to-end-US-support-for-Salafi-Arabia-s-interven
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(end_unauthorized_us_war_yemen)
content:
 
<p>
Congress will try again to end US support for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/01/48-lawmakers-unveil-measure-end-unauthorized-us-involvement-war-yemen">Salafi Arabia's intervention in Yemen.</a>
<p>
Congress passed such a resolution once before,
<p>
But the corrupter vetoed it.

 


title: US students talking about a student strike next fall to demand gun control
uri: US-students-talking-about-a-student-strike-next-fall-to-demand-gun-con
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(prolonged_student_walkout_refusal_act_guns)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(prolonged_student_walkout_refusal_act_guns)

content:
 
<p>
US students are talking about a student strike next fall to demand
gun control to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/01/call-embraced-prolonged-student-walkout-over-nations-refusal-act-guns">make schools safe for students.</a>

 


title: Urgent: Stop supporting fracking in Argentina
uri: Urgent-Stop-supporting-fracking-in-Argentina
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_supporting_fracking_in_Argentina)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_supporting_fracking_in_Argentina)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on CEO’s of Citi Bank, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, ING, and Morgan Stanley to <a href="https://act.350.org/sign/us-banks-stop-funding-destruction-argentina/?source=em20220607-1-30&akid=208321%2E1151744%2EY5XJuF">stop supporting fracking in Argentina</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Methane_from_Australian_coal_mines)
title: Methane from Australian coal mines
uri: Methane-from-Australian-coal-mines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Methane_from_Australian_coal_mines)
content:
 
<p>

Coal mines in Australia <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/08/greenhouse-emissions-from-australias-coalmines-could-be-twice-as-high-as-official-figures-say">emit far more methane</a> than people believed.
These emissions are a big part of Australia's damage to the climate.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Right-wing_fund,_DonorTrust)
title: Right-wing fund, DonorTrust
uri: Right-wing-fund-DonorTrust
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Right-wing_fund,_DonorTrust)
content:
 
<p>

*[A right-wing fund, DonorsTrust] <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/06/07/buffalo-murderers-manifesto-cites-white-nationalist-groups-bankrolled-by-donorstrust/">favored by Republican megadonors</a>
 such as Charles Koch, Robert Mercer, and the family of Betsy Devos is
 by far the biggest known backer of two white nationalist hate groups
 that helped inspire a teen to "kill as many blacks as possible" in
 Buffalo, New York on May 14.*

 


title: Escorting ships through Black Sea blockade
uri: Escorting-ships-through-Black-Sea-blockade
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Escorting_ships_through_Black_Sea_blockade)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Escorting_ships_through_Black_Sea_blockade)

content:
 
<p>

*   Turkish offer to escort ships through Black Sea blockade would face
   <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/07/plan-to-ship-grain-out-of-ukraine-dealt-blow-by-russian-sea-mines">six-month wait for mine clearance</a>, says Ukraine.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Letting_your_child_run_errands_alone)
title: Letting your child run errands alone
uri: Letting-your-child-run-errands-alone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Letting_your_child_run_errands_alone)
content:
 
<p>

Is it safe <em>not</em> to let your child <a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/a-reporter-asks-is-it-safe-to-let-kids-run-errands/">run errands alone</a>?

 


title: Consequences of liar clinging to power
uri: Consequences-of-liar-clinging-to-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Consequences_of_liar_clinging_to_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Consequences_of_liar_clinging_to_power)

content:
 
<p>

On the consequences of having a liar <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/07/boris-johnson-survived-no-confidence-vote-cling-on-to-power-panel-verdict">cling to power</a>
(in the UK).

 


title: Women who led campaigns against dictators
uri: Women-who-led-campaigns-against-dictators
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Women_who_led_campaigns_against_dictators)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Women_who_led_campaigns_against_dictators)

content:
 
<p>

Interviews with two women who led <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/07/dictator-uprising-sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya-tawakkol-karman">campaigns against dictators</a>.

 


title: Funds needed for local climate disasters
uri: Funds-needed-for-local-climate-disasters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Funds_needed_for_local_climate_disasters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Funds_needed_for_local_climate_disasters)

content:
 
<p>

The funds needed for local climate disasters in poor countries
have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/07/funding-needed-for-climate-disasters-has-risen-more-than-800-in-20-years">quintupled since 2002</a>.
<p>
Measuring changes in percentages is meaningful for small changes.  For
large changes, it is silly and misleading.  I did not repeat the
"800%" figure used in the article because that is a silly and
misleading way of saying "an increase of a factor of 5".
<p>
Likewise, an "80% decrease" is a distorting way to report a decrease
by a factor of 5.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Directing_water_into_the_ground)
title: Directing water into the ground
uri: Directing-water-into-the-ground
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Directing_water_into_the_ground)
content:
 
<p>

China is pioneering the art of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/07/slow-water-urban-floods-drought-china-sponge-cities">directing water into the ground</a>, to
nourish plants and animals, rather than rushing it away to the ocean.

 


title: Political decisions affecting fundamental rights
uri: Political-decisions-affecting-fundamental-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Political_decisions_affecting_fundamental_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Political_decisions_affecting_fundamental_rights)

content:
 
<p>

The US Supreme Court's <a href="https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/183297">history of political decisions</a> affecting
people's fundamental rights.

 


title: Marie Rose Ayala charged with crime of killing husband
uri: Marie-Rose-Ayala-charged-with-crime-of-killing-husband
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Marie_Rose_Ayala_charged_with_crime_of_killing_husband)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Marie_Rose_Ayala_charged_with_crime_of_killing_husband)

content:
 
<p>

Marie Rose Ayala left a gun where her two-year-old child could get it,
and he shot his father, who died.  Now she is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/07/us/florida-mother-son-shoots-father/index.html">charged with the crime
of killing him</a>.
<p>
I think that is wrong; she has suffered enough.  It is proper to
prosecute her for the crime of leaving a gun easily accessible, since
she did that, but not for the killing, which she did not do.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_((satire)_Spelling_bee_champion)
title: (satire) Spelling bee champion
uri: (satire)-Spelling-bee-champion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_((satire)_Spelling_bee_champion)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) * <a href="https://www.theonion.com/teen-spelling-bee-champion-commits-to-spell-for-ucla-1849015366">Teen Spelling Bee Champion Commits To Spell For UCLA</a>.*

 


title: Cinema chain bullied into cancelling film
uri: Cinema-chain-bullied-into-cancelling-film
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Cinema_chain_bullied_into_cancelling_film)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Cinema_chain_bullied_into_cancelling_film)

content:
 
<p>

British Muslims bullied a cinema chain into <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/07/uk-cinema-chain-cancels-screenings-of-film-the-lady-of-heaven-after-protests">cancelling all showings of
a film</a> that they claim is "blasphemous."  They accuse the film of
violating Islamic prohibitions, as interpreted by them.
<p>
If you choose to be Muslim, and decide to refrain from violating
Islamic prohibitions, that's up to you.  But you have no right to
force them on everyone else.
<p>
One of the rights of any human being is the right to practice per own
religion; but that religion, whichever one it is, is not entitled to
any particular respect from the rest of us.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Database_of_pregnant_women)
title: Database of pregnant women
uri: Database-of-pregnant-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Database_of_pregnant_women)
content:
 
<p>

Poland has told clinics to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/07/poland-establishes-terrifying-pregnancy-register-after-banning-almost-all-abortions">register which women are pregnant</a>, in a
Central database. Women expect that this will be used for repression, and I expect that too,
<p>
If you want to have a baby, that doesn't make you safe from this.
If something goes wrong with the pregnancy, you may need an abortion
to protect you from injury or death.  Even if the law permits an
abortion in _all_ of those cases, it is unsafe to be in a place which
restricts abortion until your pregnancy is over.

 


title: Big tech pressure to kill antitrust bill
uri: Big-tech-pressure-to-kill-antitrust-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Big_tech_pressure_to_kill_antitrust_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Big_tech_pressure_to_kill_antitrust_bill)

content:
 
<p>

Big Tech is spending a lot of money to pressure a few Democratic senators
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/07/big-tech-mounting-big-money-fight-defeat-corporate-antitrust-bill">kill the new antitrust bill</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_((satire)_Proper_end-of-life_rituals)
title: (satire) Proper end-of-life rituals
uri: (satire)-Proper-end-of-life-rituals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_((satire)_Proper_end-of-life_rituals)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *<a href="https://www.theonion.com/cultural-sensitivity-course-trains-police-officers-in-p-1848917944">Cultural Sensitivity Course Trains Police Officers In Proper
End-Of-Life Rituals For People They Kill.</a>*

 


title: Suspicion of participation in terrorism
uri: Suspicion-of-participation-in-terrorism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Suspicion_of_participation_in_terrorism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Suspicion_of_participation_in_terrorism)

content:
 
<p>

Australia's supreme court ruled that the government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jun/08/court-rules-minister-cant-strip-dual-nationals-of-australian-citizenship-for-suspected-terrorism">cannot arbitrarily exile a citizen</a> on suspicion of participation in terrorism.
<p>
I think it is wrong to take away a person's citizenship as a punishment
for crimes in general, even serious ones, except perhaps fraud in the
process of becoming a citizen, if that wasn't many years ago.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Gradual_ban_of_tobacco_in_the_UK)
title: Gradual ban of tobacco in the UK
uri: Gradual-ban-of-tobacco-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Gradual_ban_of_tobacco_in_the_UK)
content:
 
<p>

There is a proposal to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/09/smoking-age-england-should-rise-year-each-year-government-review-says">ban the sale of tobacco in the UK</a>, gradually
over a period of around 80 years.
<p>
Smoking tobacco is dangerous, and I wish everyone would quit.
But prohibiting a dangerous drug tends to do great social harm,
so I cannot support it.

 


title: Demands for Pompeo to testify on plot to kill or kidnap Assange
uri: Demands-for-Pompeo-to-testify-on-plot-to-kill-or-kidnap-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Demands_for_Pompeo_to_testify_on_plot_to_kill_or_kidnap_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Demands_for_Pompeo_to_testify_on_plot_to_kill_or_kidnap_Assange)

content:
 
<p>

*Spain's High Court <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/06/spains-high-court-demands-pompeo-testify-alleged-plot-kidnap-or-kill-assange">Demands Pompeo Testify</a> on
 Alleged Plot to Kidnap or Kill Assange.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Latest_climate_denial_mechanism)
title: Latest climate denial mechanism
uri: Latest-climate-denial-mechanism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Latest_climate_denial_mechanism)
content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/09/climate-policy-dragged-into-culture-wars-as-a-delay-tactic-finds-study">latest climate denial mechanism</a> is based on distraction and change
the subject.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Thugs_attack_people_holding_vigil)
title: Thugs attack people holding vigil
uri: Thugs-attack-people-holding-vigil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Thugs_attack_people_holding_vigil)
content:
 
<p>

A UK <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> murdered a woman, and when people held a vigil for her,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/09/lone-woman-police-fear-met-sarah-everard">thugs attacked them</a>, then the London thug department tried to
prosecute them. Despite rebukes by the courts, the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department continues to try
to put the blame on them.
<p>
The thugs say they thought the vigil had became an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/07/met-officers-feared-sarah-everard-vigil-had-become-anti-police-protest">"anti-police protest"</a>,
but what of that?  People have the right to protest against <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> in
general, too, not only a specific <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Natural_gas_as_a_bridging_fuel)
title: Natural gas as a "bridging fuel"
uri: Natural-gas-as-a-bridging-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Natural_gas_as_a_bridging_fuel)
content:
 
<p>

Greenpeace: The EU must <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/07/climate-killer-how-get-out-fossil-fuel-trap">wake up from its fantasy</a> of natural gas as a
"bridging fuel" from coal to renewables.  It's nothing but a detour.

 


title: Power to crack down on executive excess
uri: Power-to-crack-down-on-executive-excess
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Power_to_crack_down_on_executive_excess)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Power_to_crack_down_on_executive_excess)

content:
 
<p>

*   President Biden has the power to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/07/low-wage-american-taxpayers-spent-billions-inflating-ceo-pay-through-stock-buybacks">crack down on executive excess</a> by imposing new CEO pay and buyback restrictions on federal contractors.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Ukrainian_soldiers_of_British_origin)
title: Ukrainian soldiers of British origin
uri: Ukrainian-soldiers-of-British-origin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Ukrainian_soldiers_of_British_origin)
content:
 
<p>

The <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> captured some Ukrainian soldiers of British origin,
and have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/08/ukraine-captured-britons-face-20-years-in-jail">accused them of terrorism</a>, apparently arbitrarily.
<p>
It is standard practice for Putin to "convict" his political opponents
of trumped-up crimes.  He did the same thing to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_(Alex_Navalny_will_likely_be_imprisoned_on_bogus_charges_for_opposing_Putin)">Alexei Navalny</a>, for instance.

 


title: Assange rally at Harvard's graduation
uri: Assange-rally-at-Harvard-s-graduation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Assange_rally_at_Harvard's_graduation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Assange_rally_at_Harvard's_graduation)

content:
 
<p>

Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke at Harvard's graduation, so
supporters of Julian Assange <a href="https://assangedefense.org/press-release/harvard-students-local-activists-protest-merrick-garlands-commencement-speech-over-assange-prosecution/">rallied there</a> calling on him to free
Assange.

 


title: Threat of stalemate between Ukraine and Putin forces
uri: Threat-of-stalemate-between-Ukraine-and-Putin-forces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Threat_of_stalemate_between_Ukraine_and_Putin_forces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Threat_of_stalemate_between_Ukraine_and_Putin_forces)

content:
 
<p>

Ukraine and the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> are both suffering heavy casualties,
which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/08/ukraine-and-russia-compete-to-be-last-army-standing-as-donbas-deaths-mount">threatens to lead to stalemate</a>.

 


title: Rebuked for failing to invest in energy efficiency
uri: Rebuked-for-failing-to-invest-in-energy-efficiency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Rebuked_for_failing_to_invest_in_energy_efficiency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Rebuked_for_failing_to_invest_in_energy_efficiency)

content:
 
<p>

The International Energy Agency <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/08/government-failure-to-boost-energy-efficiency-inexplicable-says-iea">rebuked governments (and businesses)</a> for
failing to invest in energy efficiency.
<p>
As Amory Lovins pointed out for decades, the most cost-efficient way to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution is through increased
efficiency of using energy.

 


title: Countries investing in new gas production, distribution and use
uri: Countries-investing-in-new-gas-production-distribution-and-use
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Countries_investing_in_new_gas_production,_distribution_and_use)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Countries_investing_in_new_gas_production,_distribution_and_use)

content:
 
<p>

*   Governments including the US, Germany, the UK and Canada are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/08/gold-rush-for-gas-production-threatens-to-lock-in-global-heating">investing
   in new gas production, distribution and use</a>.* The supposed reason for this is to thwart Russia's threats to cut
off gas to Europe.  But the cure is far worse than the disease.  It
would destroy Russia and Ukraine, and the four countries that are
doing it, and all the rest of the world.

 


title: Vote against week EU carbon emissions trading system
uri: Vote-against-week-EU-carbon-emissions-trading-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Vote_against_week_EU_carbon_emissions_trading_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Vote_against_week_EU_carbon_emissions_trading_system)

content:
 
<p>

The European Parliament voted against a weak proposal for how to extend
the EU's carbon emissions trading system; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/08/meps-reject-key-eu-climate-proposal-watered-down-european-emissions-trading-system">MEPs want a stronger system</a>.
<p>
A planet roaster MEP from a "center-right" (<a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a>) party was
put in charge of negotiations, and he has been trying to thwart efforts
to strengthen the system so as to reduce emissions more.
<p>
However, they also voted in favor of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/08/business/eu-climate-vote-energy-intl/index.html">banning the sale
of gasoline-powered cars in 2035</a>.
<p>
The same planet roaster MEP worked against this, too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Ideas_to_protect_abortion_rights)
title: Ideas to protect abortion rights
uri: Ideas-to-protect-abortion-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Ideas_to_protect_abortion_rights)
content:
 
<p>

Senators Warren and Murray sent Biden a list of ideas for using executive
orders to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/08/warren-murray-lead-call-biden-defend-abortion-rights-executive-order">protect abortion rights from right-wing fanatics</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(How_fascism_develops)
title: How fascism develops
uri: How-fascism-develops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(How_fascism_develops)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/08/when-us-truly-run-these-fascists-it-will-be-too-late">How fascism develops</a>, with one small change after another gradually
building up to a dictatorship in which defiance is basically impossible.
<p>
I am skeptical of the claim that Venezuela is "fascist".  Real
opposition candidates do get elected there.  I am also dubious about
the idea that Hungary has gone so far as fascism.  But these are minor
details which I mention for the record &mdash; they don't affect the
article's conclusions.
<p>
We don't have fascism in the US yet, but I haven't see anyone propose
a way to stop it, other than to pray for a miracle.  And praying
doesn't do any good.

 


title: Investigation of Louisiana state police
uri: Investigation-of-Louisiana-state-police
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Investigation_of_Louisiana_state_police)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Investigation_of_Louisiana_state_police)

content:
 
<p>

*US justice department to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/09/us-investigatation-louisiana-state-police-brutality-cases-ronald-greene-doj">investigate Louisiana State Police</a> following 2019
death of Ronald Greene.*

 


title: Putin compared himself to Tsar Peter I
uri: Putin-compared-himself-to-Tsar-Peter-I
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Putin_compared_himself_to_Tsar_Peter_I)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_June_2022_(Putin_compared_himself_to_Tsar_Peter_I)

content:
 
<p>

Putin <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/10/putin-compares-himself-to-peter-the-great-in-quest-to-take-back-russian-lands">compared himself to Tsar Peter I</a>, in effect saying that
conquering Ukraine is his divine mission.
<p>
The original name of the city now known as St Petersburg was Nyen
(Swedish) or Nevanlinna (Finnish).  Imagine giving that city to
Finland and restorie those names!  The idea would make Putin writhe.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Queensland_investigating_its_thugs)
title: Queensland investigating its thugs
uri: Queensland-investigating-its-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Queensland_investigating_its_thugs)
content:
 
<p>

Queensland is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/10/cultural-issues-appear-to-impact-queensland-police-response-to-domestic-violence-victims-inquiry-hears">investigating the attitude its thugs take</a> towards
people who call to complain about domestic violence.

 


title: Wage cut practices taught in business schools
uri: Wage-cut-practices-taught-in-business-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Wage_cut_practices_taught_in_business_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Wage_cut_practices_taught_in_business_schools)

content:
 
<p>

Business schools train executives to <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/06/fortress-mentality/#mbas">cut wages in downturns</a> and refuse to raise them when the economy gets better.

 


title: Wrecker's 7-point coup plan described
uri: Wrecker-s-7-point-coup-plan-described
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Wrecker's_7-point_coup_plan_described)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Wrecker's_7-point_coup_plan_described)

content:
 
<p>

Rep. Cheney described the wrecker's <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/jan-6-hearing-cheney-trump-overturn-election-plan/index.html">7-point coup plan</a>.

 


title: Campaign to take Manchin and Sinema's veto power
uri: Campaign-to-take-Manchin-and-Sinema-s-veto-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Campaign_to_take_Manchin_and_Sinema's_veto_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Campaign_to_take_Manchin_and_Sinema's_veto_power)

content:
 
<p>

Sanders said that Democratic leaders need to campaign to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/09/make-manchin-sinema-obstruction-central-target-midterms-sanders-tells-democrats">take away
Manchin and Sinema's veto power</a> by electing some more Democrats, so
that Manchin and Sinema's votes are not needed.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Cost_of_recently_launched_drugs)
title: Cost of recently launched drugs
uri: Cost-of-recently-launched-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Cost_of_recently_launched_drugs)
content:
 
<p>

*Half of New Drugs Launched in 2020-2021 <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/09/unbelievable-half-new-drugs-launched-2020-2021-cost-150000-or-more-year">Cost $150,000 or More
Per Year</a>.*

 


title: Americas partnership for economic prosperity
uri: Americas-partnership-for-economic-prosperity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Americas_partnership_for_economic_prosperity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Americas_partnership_for_economic_prosperity)

content:
 
<p>

*   How will the White House ensure that powerful interests do not turn the
   Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/09/bidens-proposed-pan-american-partnership-must-not-repeat-past-free-trade-failures">"into another
   corporate-dominated, wildly unpopular trade exercise?"</a>.*

 


title: Selfish billionaires campaign against Social Security and Medicare
uri: Selfish-billionaires-campaign-against-Social-Security-and-Medicare
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Selfish_billionaires_campaign_against_Social_Security_and_Medicare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Selfish_billionaires_campaign_against_Social_Security_and_Medicare)

content:
 
<p>

How selfish billionaires campaign to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/08/peterson-billionaire-clique-back-your-social-security">cut the Social Security and
Medicare benefits</a> of other Americans.
<p>
Turns out billionaires don't need financial help for their living
expenses or their medical expenses, so (if they are selfish) they
consider Social Security and Medicare pointless.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Global_heating_in_summers_in_US)
title: Global heating in summers in US
uri: Global-heating-in-summers-in-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Global_heating_in_summers_in_US)
content:
 
<p>

People can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/10/us-summer-temperatures-rising-climate-science">feel global heating</a> in summers in the US.

 


title: High concentrations of hormone disruptors
uri: High-concentrations-of-hormone-disruptors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(High_concentrations_of_hormone_disruptors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(High_concentrations_of_hormone_disruptors)

content:
 
<p>

Various hormone disruptors have been found in surprisingly <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/10/cocktail-of-chemical-pollutants-linked-to-falling-sperm-quality-in-research">high concentrations in humans</a>, and correlate with poor sperm quality and various birth defects.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Criticisms_of_Michelle_Bachelet)
title: Criticisms of Michelle Bachelet
uri: Criticisms-of-Michelle-Bachelet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Criticisms_of_Michelle_Bachelet)
content:
 
<p>

Academics who study China's repression and mass brainwashing of Uygurs
condemned Michelle Bachelet for visiting China and then <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/09/fury-at-un-human-rights-chief-over-whitewash-of-uyghur-repression">downplaying
those evils</a>.

 


title: Church in Texas offering "medical insurance"
uri: Church-in-Texas-offering-medical-insurance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Church_in_Texas_offering_medical_insurance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Church_in_Texas_offering_medical_insurance)

content:
 
<p>

A church in Texas offers people something that it passes off
as "medical insurance", except it <a href="https://khn.org/news/article/health-care-sharing-ministry-insurance-complaints-jericho-share/">doesn't actually insure them</a>.
It holds out the possibility that other church members may help pay
their medical bills, but not the really expensive ones of course.
<p>
Fraudsters seek people disposed to put unwarranted faith in them.
What place could be better to seek such people than a "faith-based
institution"?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Punish_the_wrecker_for_sedition)
title: Punish the wrecker for sedition
uri: Punish-the-wrecker-for-sedition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Punish_the_wrecker_for_sedition)
content:
 
<p>

"Treason" is defined in the US to be limited to wartime, and
comparable actions in peacetime are called "sedition".  The wrecker
thus organized the peacetime equivalent of treason.  We need to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/10/these-trump-led-seditionists-must-be-punished-court-and-ballot-box">punish
him and his faction both</a> in court and in elections.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Time_for_taxpayer_revolt)
title: Time for taxpayer revolt
uri: Time-for-taxpayer-revolt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Time_for_taxpayer_revolt)
content:
 
<p>

Ralph Nader: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/nader/time-for-a-taxpayer-revolt-against-rich-corporate-welfarists-9ev69mkg8o?e=555e9be067">*Time for a Taxpayer Revolt Against Rich Corporate Welfarists.*</a>

 


title: Art thieves have stolen from Ukrainian museums
uri: Art-thieves-have-stolen-from-Ukrainian-museums
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Art_thieves_have_stolen_from_Ukrainian_museums)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Art_thieves_have_stolen_from_Ukrainian_museums)

content:
 
<p>

Specialized art thieves have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/12/specialist-gang-targeting-ukrainian-treasures-for-removal-to-russia">stolen ancient Scythian treasures</a> from
various museums in Ukraine. There is suspicion that Putin organized this.

 


title: (satire) 48-hour weekend getaway sleeping pill
uri: (satire)-48-hour-weekend-getaway-sleeping-pill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_((satire)_48-hour_weekend_getaway_sleeping_pill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_((satire)_48-hour_weekend_getaway_sleeping_pill)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/ambien-unveils-new-48-hour-weekend-getaway-sleeping-pil-1848955674">*Ambien Unveils New 48-Hour Weekend Getaway Sleeping Pill.*</a>

 


title: Tory government undermined supervision of state activities
uri: Tory-government-undermined-supervision-of-state-activities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Tory_government_undermined_supervision_of_state_activities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Tory_government_undermined_supervision_of_state_activities)

content:
 
<p>

The Tory government has systematically <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/10/britain-political-housing-health">undermined management and
supervision of state activities</a>, from <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_March_2022_(Private_medical_treatment_in_Britain)">medical treatment</a> to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#11_November_2020_(Fire_hazard)">building
codes</a> to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_April_2018_(Proof_of_UK_citizenship)">issuing passports</a>.
This seems to be a general structural problem with the functioning
of the state.
<p>
The government ordered Covid-19 protective equipment (including masks)
in a big hurry in 2020, but neglected to supervise the production.
Around 6 billion dollars worth is substandard; they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/10/4bn-of-nhs-covid-ppe-to-be-burned-as-it-is-unusable-says-committee-report">plan to burn it</a>.
<p>
I hope that the incineration does not release dangerous chemicals that
will harm the public.  Regulation of air pollution is probably
inadequate too.

 


title: Phasing out sales of disposable plastics
uri: Phasing-out-sales-of-disposable-plastics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Phasing_out_sales_of_disposable_plastics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Phasing_out_sales_of_disposable_plastics)

content:
 
<p>

The Interior department will gradually <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/08/biden-ban-single-use-plastic-national-parks-public-lands">phase out all sales of
disposable plastics</a> on public land. (That includes the national parks, plus lots of additional land.) This is something campaigners have pushed for; I've signed and posted
petitions for it.
<p>
The article falls into confusion when it speaks of the "falling
recycling rate", since most disposable plastic items, including water
bottles, are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Plastic_recycling)">not in fact feasible to recycle</a>.

 


title: Pain relief during medical procedures
uri: Pain-relief-during-medical-procedures
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Pain_relief_during_medical_procedures)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Pain_relief_during_medical_procedures)

content:
 
<p>

*Women must <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/12/women-must-insist-on-pain-relief-during-medical-procedures">insist on pain relief during medical procedures</a>.*
It seems there are doctors who believe that suffering is, for a woman, normal
and they don't really feel it.

 


title: From authoritarian to vindictive against vigil participants
uri: From-authoritarian-to-vindictive-against-vigil-participants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(From_authoritarian_to_vindictive_against_vigil_participants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(From_authoritarian_to_vindictive_against_vigil_participants)

content:
 
<p>

The London thug department has gone from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/12/the-guardian-view-on-policing-protest-the-wrong-approach">authoritarian to vindictive</a>
in its continuing attempts to punish the people who organized a vigil
to remember Sarah Everard, who was murdered by a <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Google_chatbot_fears_death)
title: Google chatbot fears death
uri: Google-chatbot-fears-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Google_chatbot_fears_death)
content:
 
<p>

A Google chatbot told its developer that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine">it is a person and is afraid
of death</a> &mdash; the developer says.
<p>
Assuming he is not distorting the facts about these conversations,
this suggests that we now face, in real life, the famous philosophical
conundrum of determining whether something is a real person or a mere
simulation.

 


title: Congresscritters asked for pre-emptive pardons
uri: Congresscritters-asked-for-pre-emptive-pardons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Congresscritters_asked_for_pre-emptive_pardons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Congresscritters_asked_for_pre-emptive_pardons)

content:
 
<p>

Seven congresscritters asked the corrupter for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/12/pardons-and-prayers">pre-emptive pardons</a>
after the Jan 6 coup attempt.
<p>
*   Disclosure that [several] House Republicans sought presidential pardon may
   show they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/12/us-capitol-attack-panel-hearings-trump-allies-trouble">believed election fraud claim was false</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(NNamdi_Kanu_in_prison_in_Nigeria)
title: NNamdi Kanu in prison in Nigeria
uri: NNamdi-Kanu-in-prison-in-Nigeria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(NNamdi_Kanu_in_prison_in_Nigeria)
content:
 
<p>

NNamdi Kanu, a separatist from Nigeria, is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/12/liz-truss-accused-of-ignoring-evidence-of-rendition-of-uk-citizen-to-nigeria">in prison in Nigeria</a>.
But how did he get there?  He was in exile.
<p>
His family say that Kenya's secret police seized him and tortured him,
then handed him to Nigeria with no hearing.
<p>
I have no opinion about the separatist cause he advocates; I don't
support separatist causes by default.  However, torture is an
injustice, and handing a prisoner to another country without a hearing
is an injustice.

 


title: Loyalty oath to uphold Chinese repression
uri: Loyalty-oath-to-uphold-Chinese-repression
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Loyalty_oath_to_uphold_Chinese_repression)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Loyalty_oath_to_uphold_Chinese_repression)

content:
 
<p>

Hong Kong has given foreign teachers just one week to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/12/hong-kong-nets-foreign-teachers-of-english-forced-to-take-allegiance-oath">sign a loyalty oath</a>
to uphold Chinese repression.
<p>
This haste may subject them to grave losses if they have leased apartments
and are forced to pay for them for another year with no employment.

 


title: Sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches
uri: Sexual-abuse-in-Southern-Baptist-churches
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Sexual_abuse_in_Southern_Baptist_churches)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Sexual_abuse_in_Southern_Baptist_churches)

content:
 
<p>

The Southern Baptist churches in the US are in crisis because of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/12/southern-baptist-church-sexual-abuse-scandal">many years
of sexual abuse</a>.
<p>
Why is there a "Southern Baptist" organization of churches?  Before
the US Civil War, the organization of Baptist churches condemned
slavery.  So the Baptist churches in the south split off and made
their own organization, which was in favor of slavery.
<p>
Of course, after the Civil War, they eliminated that stand, but now
they have other stands that are almost as nasty.  I would wish
the Southern Baptists total destruction, except that their members
might join the evangelicals in the extreme right wing.

 


title: Claim of Guantanamo prisoners killing themselves
uri: Claim-of-Guantanamo-prisoners-killing-themselves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Claim_of_Guantanamo_prisoners_killing_themselves)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Claim_of_Guantanamo_prisoners_killing_themselves)

content:
 
<p>

In 2006, three prisoners in Guantanamo <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/06/11/the-truth-never-mattered-at-guantanamo/">supposedly killed themselves</a>, but that
claim was impossible.  They must have been murdered.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Canadian_Tim_Hortons_fined)
title: Canadian Tim Hortons fined
uri: Canadian-Tim-Hortons-fined
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Canadian_Tim_Hortons_fined)
content:
 
<p>

Canada has fined the company Tim Hortons for making an app that <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/tim-hortons-coffee-app-broke-law-by-constantly-recording-users-movements/">tracks
people's movements</a> to learn things such as where they live, where they
work, and when they visit competitors' stores.

 


title: Trouble punishing Elon Musk's stock manipulation
uri: Trouble-punishing-Elon-Musk-s-stock-manipulation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Trouble_punishing_Elon_Musk's_stock_manipulation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Trouble_punishing_Elon_Musk's_stock_manipulation)

content:
 
<p>

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/06/05/sec-lacks-the-tools-to-put-the-breaks-on-elon-musk.html">trouble punishing
the stock manipulation</a> that Elon Musk does on Twitter.
It is subtle, and sometimes it is impossible to pin it down enough
to establish the crime in it.
<p>
The fines it has imposed on him are <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/06/04/1102327987/elon-musk-sec-tweets-lawsuit-power">too small</a> to make any difference to him.
We need to give the SEC the power to fine billionaires billions.

 


title: Call for nationwide strike to demand effective gun control
uri: Call-for-nationwide-strike-to-demand-effective-gun-control
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Call_for_nationwide_strike_to_demand_effective_gun_control)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Call_for_nationwide_strike_to_demand_effective_gun_control)

content:
 
<p>

A call for a nationwide strike of US students to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/11/march-our-lives-call-nationwide-strike-schools">demand effective gun
control</a>.
<p>
I suggest that they target <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> too.  That will kill a lot
more of the people who are in high school today than will random
shootings.
<p>
It could happen that after 2050 millions of Americans will be killed
by guns &mdash; but that would be due to warring gangs, not random
massacres.  And the warring gangs would themselves be the result of
<a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.

 


title: UK to deport torture victims to Rwanda
uri: UK-to-deport-torture-victims-to-Rwanda
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(UK_to_deport_torture_victims_to_Rwanda)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(UK_to_deport_torture_victims_to_Rwanda)

content:
 
<p>

The UK's deportation ministry plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/12/callous-home-office-warns-torture-victims-they-face-deportation">deport torture victims to Rwanda</a>.
Rwanda may have no particular interest in torturing those people,
but you can't expect them to feel safe merely because of that.

 


title: Billionaire loses libel suit against journalist
uri: Billionaire-loses-libel-suit-against-journalist
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Billionaire_loses_libel_suit_against_journalist)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Billionaire_loses_libel_suit_against_journalist)

content:
 
<p>

A right-wing British billionaire has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jun/13/libel-loss-for-arron-banks-gives-welcome-fillip-to-media-industry-carole-cadwalladr">lost his libel suit</a> against
journalist Carole Cadwalladr.
This slightly blunts the threat that UK libel law poses to journalism.
But it's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/13/carole-cadwalladr-victory-arron-banks-libel-laws-drastic-reform">not enough</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Outing_people_has_lost_its_power)
title: "Outing" people has lost its power
uri: Outing-people-has-lost-its-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Outing_people_has_lost_its_power)
content:
 
<p>

"Outing" people <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/13/a-journalist-trying-to-out-rebel-wilson-was-like-something-from-the-sordid-80s-thankfully-the-world-has-changed">no longer has the power to cause scandal</a> with today's
youth. (Perhaps that is not true for people who belong to sexually
repressed communities.)  I agree that is a change for the better.
<p>
I repeat my suggestion that Instagram require every user to post a
nude photo &mdash; after a few years, revenge porn will cease to be a problem,
because the targets will simply shrug.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Google_chatbot_LaMDA)
title: Google chatbot LaMDA
uri: Google-chatbot-LaMDA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Google_chatbot_LaMDA)
content:
 
<p>

Why the Google chatbot LaMDA is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/13/how-does-googles-ai-chatbot-work-and-could-it-be-sentient">certainly not a person</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Shortage_of_baby_milk_substitutes)
title: Shortage of baby milk substitutes
uri: Shortage-of-baby-milk-substitutes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Shortage_of_baby_milk_substitutes)
content:
 
<p>

The lack of competition in US manufacturing created the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/13/baby-formula-shortage-crisis-matt-stoller">shortage of
baby milk substitutes</a>, the shortage of N95 masks, the shortage of home Covid tests, and shortages of hundreds of other medicines.  Matt Stoller traces this
to a lack of competition in purchasing.

 


title: Little blue penguin getting wiped out
uri: Little-blue-penguin-getting-wiped-out
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Little_blue_penguin_getting_wiped_out)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Little_blue_penguin_getting_wiped_out)

content:
 
<p>
Global heating is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/14/search-for-clues-as-bodies-of-hundreds-of-little-blue-penguins-wash-ashore-in-new-zealand">wiping out the little blue penguin in the north
island of New Zealand</a>.

 


title: New South Wales teachers union sued for one-day strike
uri: New-South-Wales-teachers-union-sued-for-one-day-strike
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(New_South_Wales_teachers_union_sued_for_one-day_strike)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(New_South_Wales_teachers_union_sued_for_one-day_strike)

content:
 
<p>
New South Wales, with a right-wing government, is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/14/nsw-education-department-launches-legal-action-against-teachers-union-over-may-strikes">suing the
teachers' union for holding a one-day strike</a>.
<p>
The best response to this attack is to strike again -- each teacher
individually, immediately on hearing the news.  If the government
threatens some of the individual teachers, they can march, chanting
"Why don't you fire us all?"

 


title: Catching Omicron does little or nothing to boost immunity
uri: Catching-Omicron-does-little-or-nothing-to-boost-immunity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Catching_Omicron_does_little_or_nothing_to_boost_immunity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Catching_Omicron_does_little_or_nothing_to_boost_immunity)

content:
 
<p>
A study has found that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/14/people-who-caught-covid-in-first-wave-get-no-immune-boost-from-omicron">catching Omicron does little or nothing to boost
one's immunity to Omicron</a>.  One can catch it again and again.
<p>
However, vaccination does greatly reduce the chance that one will get
badly sick (or die) from Omicron.  

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Elephants_are_not_people)
title: Elephants are not people
uri: Elephants-are-not-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Elephants_are_not_people)
content:
 
<p>
A US court declined to rule that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/14/elephant-person-human-animal-rights-happy">an elephant is a persons</a>.
Once in a while, sanity does prevail.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Proposal_for_peace_industrial_policy)
title: Proposal for "peace industrial policy"
uri: Proposal-for-peace-industrial-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Proposal_for_peace_industrial_policy)
content:
 
<p>
A proposal for a "<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/13/setting-precedent-peace-industrial-policy">peace industrial policy</a>."
<p>
Imagine having a privacy-industrial complex, a nonpollution-industrial
complex, a wildlife-industrial complex, and a
sustainability-industrial complex.

 


title: Wrecker's efforts to overthrow US democracy not over
uri: Wrecker-s-efforts-to-overthrow-US-democracy-not-over
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Wrecker's_efforts_to_overthrow_US_democracy_not_over)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Wrecker's_efforts_to_overthrow_US_democracy_not_over)

content:
 
<p>

The wrecker's efforts to overthrow US democracy have not ended.
We need Congress to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/10/insurrection-isnt-over-january-6-hearings-reveal-threat-future-election-violence">take action</a> against defiance by the officials
that are supposed to carry out an honest election, and against the threat
of violent intimidation of voters.
<p>
In the 1930s, the US chose the New Deal instead of fascism.  The Democrats
must offer a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/franklin-roosevelt-new-deal-robert-kuttner-book/">big improvement</a> again now, to avoid plutocracy and fascism.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_((satire)_Watching_drag_shows)
title: (satire) Watching drag shows
uri: (satire)-Watching-drag-shows
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_((satire)_Watching_drag_shows)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/conservatives-warn-watching-drag-shows-could-turn-child-1849037870">*Conservatives Warn Watching Drag Shows Could Turn Children
Into Attention Seekers.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Amazon_fired_union_organizer)
title: Amazon fired union organizer
uri: Amazon-fired-union-organizer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Amazon_fired_union_organizer)
content:
 
<p>

Amazon <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/10/its-war-says-amazon-labor-union-after-company-fires-top-organizer">fired one of the main union organizers</a>, apparently as retaliation.

 


title: ISDS clauses as obstacle to defend against global heating
uri: ISDS-clauses-as-obstacle-to-defend-against-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(ISDS_clauses_as_obstacle_to_defend_against_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(ISDS_clauses_as_obstacle_to_defend_against_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#business-supremacy">Business-supremacy treaties</a> with ISDS clauses ("I Sue Democratic States")
are <a href="https://www.levernews.com/fossil-fuel-interests-are-suing-countries-for-taking-climate-action-and-winning/">becoming a big obstacle</a> to laws to defend the climate from global heating.
<p>
I've condemned <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy treaties</a>
for years.

 


title: Bipartisan agreement for advances in gun control
uri: Bipartisan-agreement-for-advances-in-gun-control
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Bipartisan_agreement_for_advances_in_gun_control)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Bipartisan_agreement_for_advances_in_gun_control)

content:
 
<p>

There is a tentative bipartisan agreement in the Senate for some
small but <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/12/politics/whats-in-senate-gun-reform-agreement/index.html">useful advances in gun control</a>.
<p>
In addition, I fear that "safety measures in and around primary and
secondary schools" could include more <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> stationed in schools,
arresting more students, and feeding them into the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_January_2014_('Groundbreaking'_Guidelines_to_Stop_'School-to-Prison_Pipeline')">school-to-prison
pipeline</a>.

 


title: Climate change is Asia's biggest security threat
uri: Climate-change-is-Asia-s-biggest-security-threat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Climate_change_is_Asia's_biggest_security_threat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Climate_change_is_Asia's_biggest_security_threat)

content:
 
<p>

*Fiji says Asia's biggest security threat is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/12/asia/fiji-climate-change-shangri-la-dialogue-intl-hnk/index.html">climate change, not conflict</a>.*
<p>
Bravo!  In fact, that is true for almost all the world, but few political
leaders dare to recognize the magnitude of this danger.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Putin's_lies_about_Ukraine)
title: Putin's lies about Ukraine
uri: Putin-s-lies-about-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Putin's_lies_about_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>

In parts of Africa, people generally <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/08/the-congolese-student-fighting-with-pro-russia-separatists-in-ukraine?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Yahoo_Mail">believe Putin's lies</a> about Ukraine.
<p>
People reproach western governments for their history of colonization
and repression in Africa, and are inclined to assume they are to blame
this time too.
<p>
It's a mistake to understand events in terms of "the good guy" and
"the bad guy".  The US has done wrong to many countries in recent
decades (and did wrong before ethat too); now Russia and China are
playing the same game and committing similar wrongs.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Increased_levels_of_pollen)
title: Increased levels of pollen
uri: Increased-levels-of-pollen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Increased_levels_of_pollen)
content:
 
<p>

A painful result of global heating: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/13/north-america-pollen-climate-crisis">increased levels of pollen</a>.

 


title: GOP lawmakers blaming 'Mental Illness' for massacres
uri: GOP-lawmakers-blaming-Mental-Illness-for-massacres
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(GOP_lawmakers_blaming_'Mental_Illness'_for_massacres)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(GOP_lawmakers_blaming_'Mental_Illness'_for_massacres)

content:
 
<p>

*GOP Lawmakers Blaming 'Mental Illness' [for massacres] Are Same Ones
Who <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/13/gop-lawmakers-blaming-mental-illness-are-same-ones-who-refuse-expand-medicaid">Refuse to Expand Medicaid</a> [to help treat mental illness].*
<p>
This would be a real contradiction of the blame were serious and valid.
But since it is only bullshit, it hardy matters what it may contradict.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(More_proof_Trump_lied)
title: More proof Trump lied
uri: More-proof-Trump-lied
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(More_proof_Trump_lied)
content:
 
<p>

*Jan. 6 Hearing Offers Yet <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/13/jan-6-hearing-offers-yet-more-proof-trump-lied-and-he-knew-he-lied">More Proof</a> That 'Trump Lied' and 'He Knew He Lied'.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Republicans_fraudulent_fund-raising)
title: Republicans fraudulent fund-raising
uri: Republicans-fraudulent-fund-raising
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Republicans_fraudulent_fund-raising)
content:
 
<p>

Republicans used the corrupter's big lie (that he had really won the
2020 election) for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/13/jan-6-committee-confirms-big-lie-was-also-big-ripoff-trump-donors">fraudulent fund-raising</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(People_Over_Pentagon)
title: People Over Pentagon
uri: People-Over-Pentagon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(People_Over_Pentagon)
content:
 
<p>

*'People Over Pentagon' Proposal Would Take $100 Billion From Pentagon to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/13/people-over-pentagon-proposal-would-take-100-billion-pentagon-fund-social-programs">Fund Social Programs</a>.*

 


title: Australian minister endorsed natural gas ahead of renewables
uri: Australian-minister-endorsed-natural-gas-ahead-of-renewables
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Australian_minister_endorsed_natural_gas_ahead_of_renewables)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Australian_minister_endorsed_natural_gas_ahead_of_renewables)

content:
 
<p>

The new Australian government includes a minister for resources who
recently endorsed the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/climate-groups-blast-ministers-support-of-new-australian-gas-projects-as-fact-free-spin">bogus idea</a> of natural gas as a first step
to be followed by renewable generation.
<p>
It would be a way to give some <a href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a> some profits, if it is
allowed to keep operating when it would need to be shut down.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Border_thug_coverup_incident_teams)
title: Border thug coverup incident teams
uri: Border-thug-coverup-incident-teams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Border_thug_coverup_incident_teams)
content:
 
<p>

Jenn Budd, a former US border <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>, helped make the border thug
department shut down its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/14/i-was-a-border-patrol-agent-the-experience-was-horrifying">"coverup incident teams"</a>, after one of them
helped cover up the fact that other border <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> had beaten Anastasio
Hernández-Rojas to death.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Homes_on_by_the_coast_of_England)
title: Homes on by the coast of England
uri: Homes-on-by-the-coast-of-England
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Homes_on_by_the_coast_of_England)
content:
 
<p>

200,000 homes by the coast of England <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/sea-level-rise-in-england-will-force-200000-to-abandon-homes-data-shows">will be lost</a> to rising seas by
2050. Of course, there are millions more in the rest of the world.
<p>
It is too late to prevent this, but sea-level rise won't end in 2050.
Indeed, it will accelerate.  If we take proper action, we might reduce
the number of houses to be lost in the following thirty years.

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title: Gig-economy ballot question in Massachusetts
uri: Gig-economy-ballot-question-in-Massachusetts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Gig-economy_ballot_question_in_Massachusetts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Gig-economy_ballot_question_in_Massachusetts)

content:
 
<p>

Gig-economy businesses proposed a ballot question in Massachusetts
to deny their drivers the rights of employees.  The Massachusetts
supreme court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/14/uber-lyft-massachusetts-voter-ballot-measure">rejected it</a> because they snuck in a provision to dump
the responsibility for accidents on the drivers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Gag_law_in_Spain)
title: Gag law in Spain
uri: Gag-law-in-Spain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Gag_law_in_Spain)
content:
 
<p>

The "gag law" imposed by Spain's last right-wing government continues
to repress journalists.  Now a prominent journalist covering the conditions
of refugees that arrive in Gran Canaria <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/14/photographer-capturing-migrant-camp-fined-1000-under-spains-gag-law">has been the victim</a>.
<p>
The <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_December_2014_(Million-dollar_fine_for_protests_in_Spain)">law</a> was wrong when it was adopted,
and it will be wrong for as long as it exists.
Maybe this will pressure the Socialists to get rid of it.

 


title: When Israeli soldiers kill Palestinians
uri: When-Israeli-soldiers-kill-Palestinians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(When_Israeli_soldiers_kill_Palestinians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(When_Israeli_soldiers_kill_Palestinians)

content:
 
<p>

When Israeli soldiers kill Palestinians, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jun/14/reporter-death-israeli-army-investigations-shireen-abu-aqleh-dalia-samoudi">military "investigations" tend
to be cover-ups</a>.

 


title: Canadian flight crew jailed in Dominican Republic
uri: Canadian-flight-crew-jailed-in-Dominican-Republic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Canadian_flight_crew_jailed_in_Dominican_Republic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Canadian_flight_crew_jailed_in_Dominican_Republic)

content:
 
<p>

A Canadian flight crew who reported unexplained bags in their airplane
while in the Dominican Republic were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/14/canada-air-crew-detained-dominican-republic-drugs-bust">arrested and put in a horrible
jail</a>. They are only witnesses, but they were treated treated worse than
any suspect ought to be treated.  Now they are out on bail, but still
forbidden to leave.

 


title: Some US churches denouncing followers of the corrupter
uri: Some-US-churches-denouncing-followers-of-the-corrupter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Some_US_churches_denouncing_followers_of_the_corrupter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Some_US_churches_denouncing_followers_of_the_corrupter)

content:
 
<p>

Some US Christians and churches that are not right-wing extremists are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/14/roger-stone-michael-flynn-distorting-christianity-reawaken-america">publicly
denouncing</a> the followers of the corrupter.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(It_is_easy_for_machines_to_fool_us)
title: It is easy for machines to fool us
uri: It-is-easy-for-machines-to-fool-us
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(It_is_easy_for_machines_to_fool_us)
content:
 
<p>

We are learning that it is easy for machines to fool us &mdash; for instance,
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/14/labelling-googles-lamda-chatbot-as-sentient-is-fanciful-but-its-very-human-to-be-taken-in-by-machines">pretend convincingly to be humans</a>.
To me, this seems to call into question the validity of the Turing test.

 


title: Unionization of Starbucks stores vs Amazon warehouses
uri: Unionization-of-Starbucks-stores-vs-Amazon-warehouses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Unionization_of_Starbucks_stores_vs_Amazon_warehouses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Unionization_of_Starbucks_stores_vs_Amazon_warehouses)

content:
 
<p>

Why unionization of Starbucks stores is taking off, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/14/starbucks-amazon-union-drives">while unionization
of Amazon warehouses is not</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Details_of_Russia's_filtration_camps)
title: Details of Russia's "filtration camps"
uri: Details-of-Russia-s-filtration-camps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Details_of_Russia's_filtration_camps)
content:
 
<p>

*Ukrainians who fled to Georgia <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/12/ukrainians-who-fled-to-georgia-reveal-details-of-russias-filtration-camps">reveal details</a> of Russia’s "filtration camps."*

 


title: Republican congresscritter recorded giving tour to people who joined the attack
uri: Republican-congresscritter-recorded-giving-tour-to-people-who-joined-t
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Republican_congresscritter_recorded_giving_tour_to_people_who_joined_the_attack)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Republican_congresscritter_recorded_giving_tour_to_people_who_joined_the_attack)

content:
 
<p>
A Republican congresscritter, Barry Loudermilk,
was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/barry-loudermilk-tour-photos-security-january-6-attacker">recorded
on video giving a tour of the Capitol on Jan 5, 2021, to people who
joined in the attack the following day</a>.

 


uri: UK-investigating-system-that-enabled-companies-to-build-apartments-wit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(UK_investigating_system_that_enabled_companies_to_build_apartments_with_cladding_known_to_make_it_a_firetrap)

title:
 UK investigating system that enabled companies to build apartments with cladding known to make it a firetrap 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(UK_investigating_system_that_enabled_companies_to_build_apartments_with_cladding_known_to_make_it_a_firetrap)

content:
 
<p>
The UK is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/14/grenfell-inquiry-five-years-72-lives-change">investigating the bad system that enabled various companies
to build an apartment building with cladding that was known in advance
to make it a firetrap</a>.  But nothing has been done to prevent it from
happening again, and the government has not arranged to fix all the
building that were built with the same problem.

 


title: Global heating causing economic losses
uri: Global-heating-causing-economic-losses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Global_heating_causing_economic_losses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Global_heating_causing_economic_losses)

content:
 
<p>
Global heating is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/11/climate-crisis-inflation-economy-climatenomics-book">causing big economic losses already</a>.  "Supply-chain
problems" are often the result of this.
Adding them up shows that they are a substantial part of today's
inflation.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">Plutocratist</a> politicians use inflation as an opportunity for dooH
niboR.  To invest now to reduce future inflation (and future losses)
does not concern them unless it avoids losses for the rich.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Ideas_to_reinvigorate_Britain)
title: Ideas to reinvigorate Britain
uri: Ideas-to-reinvigorate-Britain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Ideas_to_reinvigorate_Britain)
content:
 
<p>
*I'm sick of daft Tory ideas to reinvigorate Britain, so I've come up
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/16/tory-boris-johnson-imperial-rwanda">with a few of my own</a>.*
<p>
I posted this because it is full of delightful sharp humor.

 


title: 7.4 million lives will be saved if the US cuts its emissions to net zero by 2050
uri: 7-4-million-lives-will-be-saved-if-the-US-cuts-its-emissions-to-net-ze
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(7.4_million_lives_will_be_saved_if_the_US_cuts_its_emissions_to_net_zero_by_2050)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(7.4_million_lives_will_be_saved_if_the_US_cuts_its_emissions_to_net_zero_by_2050)

content:
 
<p>
Modelling concluded that *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/16/us-climate-crisis-millions-lives-saved">a total of 7.4 million lives around the
world will be saved over this century if the US manages to cut its
emissions to net zero by 2050</a>.*
<p>
This model considers only death caused directly by heat.  Including
fires, floods, heating-strengthened hurricanes, heating-spread
diseases and climate-caused wars, I expect it to be hundreds of times
that &mdash; but estimating that number is difficult.
<p>
The model also estimates saving $3.7tn in costs to adapt to the rising
heat.  A way to understand that is around 70 billion per year over 50
years.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Obstacles_to_making_Putin_pay)
title: Obstacles to making Putin pay
uri: Obstacles-to-making-Putin-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Obstacles_to_making_Putin_pay)
content:
 
<p>
A think-tank describes the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/16/plan-needed-to-make-russia-pay-reparations-to-ukrainians-says-report">obstacles to making Putin pay reparations
for destruction in Ukraine</a>.
<p>
*International courts not in a position to award compensation and UN
would have no enforcement power.*

 


uri: Urgent-Call-on-members-of-Congress-to-cosponsor-the-war-powers-resolu
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_members_of_Congress_to_cosponsor_the_war_powers_resolution_to_end_US_support_for_Salafi_Arabia's_military_intervention_in_Yemen)

title:
 Urgent: Call on members of Congress to cosponsor the war powers resolution to end US support for Salafi Arabia's military intervention in Yemen 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_members_of_Congress_to_cosponsor_the_war_powers_resolution_to_end_US_support_for_Salafi_Arabia's_military_intervention_in_Yemen)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/we-can-end-the-saudi-war-on-yemen-pass-the-war-powers-resolution?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-we-can-end-the-saudi-war-on-yemen-pass-the-war-powers-resolution">call on members of Congress to cosponsor the war powers
resolution to end US support for <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>'s military intervention
in Yemen</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to protect the sage grouse
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Interior-Secretary-Deb-Haaland-to-protect-the-sage-gro
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Interior_Secretary_Deb_Haaland_to_protect_the_sage_grouse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Interior_Secretary_Deb_Haaland_to_protect_the_sage_grouse)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=50217">call on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to protect the
sage grouse</a>.
<p>
Protecting that one species actually protects many species in the
ecosystem with it.  

 


uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-to-designate-Castner-Range-National-Monument-in
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_designate_Castner_Range_National_Monument_in_El_Paso,_Texas,_to_protect_the_region's_wildlife)

title:
 Urgent: Call on Biden to designate Castner Range National Monument in El Paso, Texas, to protect the region's wildlife 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_designate_Castner_Range_National_Monument_in_El_Paso,_Texas,_to_protect_the_region's_wildlife)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49914&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:107657&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:PARKSREC:NATLPARKPARK-0522&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-AGE">call on Biden to designate Castner Range National
    Monument in El Paso, Texas, to protect the region's wildlife</a>.
<p>
  To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a>
  from the web site,
  use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_June_2022_(poverty_scars_cost_of_living)
title: The long-term impacts of poverty are a ticking health time bomb
uri: The-long-term-impacts-of-poverty-are-a-ticking-health-time-bomb
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_June_2022_(poverty_scars_cost_of_living)
content:
 
<p>
* Denying people basic human needs for the sake of saving a few [pounds] now is a false economy -– the long-term impacts of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/16/poverty-scars-life-impact-cost-of-living-crisis-felt-for-years">poverty are a ticking health time bomb.</a>*
<p>
We know that growing up deprived can stunt a child, physically or
mentally. So I've taken the stand that we must 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/16/top-global-scientists-call-profound-food-system-transformation-combat-extreme">give every child what
children need to grow up well.</a>
<p>
The article linked above shows that poverty does lasting harm
to adults, too.

 


title: Republicans in NM to recheck results of computerized ballot tabulators
uri: Republicans-in-NM-to-recheck-results-of-computerized-ballot-tabulators
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_June_2022_(republican_commission_refuses_certify_nm)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_June_2022_(republican_commission_refuses_certify_nm)

content:
 
<p>
Republicans in New Mexico decided to recheck the results of
computerized ballot tabulators, because they claim those were
used in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/republican-commission-refuses-certify-new-mexico-primary-vote">2020 to steal the election from the corrupter.</a>
<p>
All computerized 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/evoting.html">voting machines are suspect in principle.</a>
<p>
Those Republicans seem to have learned of that problem, but they
garbled the point.  Machines that tabulate paper ballots are less
suspect, precisely because their reports can be verified by hand.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_June_2022_(jamal_khashoggi_street_sign)
title: Street sign in Washington DC honoring Jamal Khashoggi
uri: Street-sign-in-Washington-DC-honoring-Jamal-Khashoggi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_June_2022_(jamal_khashoggi_street_sign)
content:
 
<p>
A street sign in Washington DC honoring Jamal Khashoggi is,
apparently, all the punishment Crown 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/15/jamal-khashoggi-street-sign-honoring-unveiled-saudi-embassy-dc">Prince Bone Saw will get for
having him murdered.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_June_2022_(phoenix_arizona_heatwave)
title: Global heating making Phoenix, Arizona, so hot at night that many cannot sleep
uri: Global-heating-making-Phoenix-Arizona-so-hot-at-night-that-many-cann
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_June_2022_(phoenix_arizona_heatwave)
content:
 
<p>
Global heating has made Phoenix, Arizona, so hot at 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/13/phoenix-arizona-heatwave-daytime-night">night that many
people can't sleep.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_June_2022_(human_rights_court_rwanda)
title: European Court of Human Rights blocked UK plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda
uri: European-Court-of-Human-Rights-blocked-UK-plans-to-send-asylum-seekers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_June_2022_(human_rights_court_rwanda)
content:
 
<p> 
The European Court of Human Rights blocked UK plans to send 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/15/it-took-human-rights-court-to-halt-rwanda-flight-act-with-humanity">asylum
seekers to Rwanda, at the last minute.</a>
<p>
*Asylum seekers [were] being rushed towards flights to Rwanda, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/14/asylum-seekers-flights-rwanda-justice-case-lawful">without
proper access to justice.*</a>
<p>
The US has done 
<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/evk3kw/ice-modified-its-risk-assessment-software-so-it-automatically-recommends-detention">similar things to migrants.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(Urgent:_transit_funding_8bil)
title: Urgent: US citizens: call on Congress to allocate for public transit the full $8.3 billion
uri: Urgent-US-citizens-call-on-Congress-to-allocate-for-public-transit-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(Urgent:_transit_funding_8bil)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to allocate for public transit the full
$8.3 billion 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/become-a-grassroots-co-signer-and-demand-congress-allocate-the-full-83-billion-needed-for-public-transit-in-the-next-appropriations-bill-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-icymi-congress-funded-it-now-they-have-to-do-it">that was already made available for that.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(Urgent:_garland_prosecute_trump_coup)
title: US citizens: call on Merrick Garland to prosecute the corrupter
uri: US-citizens-call-on-Merrick-Garland-to-prosecute-the-corrupter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(Urgent:_garland_prosecute_trump_coup)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Merrick Garland to prosecute the corrupter and
his 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-merrick-garland-prosecute-trump-and-his-criminal-network-of-coup-conspirators?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progressive-change-campaign-committee&source=pccc-e220612_1747-fin-all">criminal network of coup conspirators.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(Urgent:_abortion_misinformation)
title: Everyone: call on social media companies to stop the spread of abortion lies.
uri: Everyone-call-on-social-media-companies-to-stop-the-spread-of-abortio
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(Urgent:_abortion_misinformation)
content:
 
<p>
Everyone: call on social media companies to stop the 
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/abortion_misinformation/">spread of
abortion lies.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(Urgent:_protect_vunerable_US_species)
uri: US-citizens-call-on-your-congresscritter-to-support-protecting-more-o
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(Urgent:_protect_vunerable_US_species)
title:
 US citizens: call on your congresscritter to support protecting more
of the vulnerable US species. 

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to support protecting more
of the vulnerable 
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=50417">US species</a>
<p>
To sign without running nonfree 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">JavaScript code</a>
<p>
from the web site,
use the 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/salsalabs-method.html">Salsa labs workaround.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(medicare_death_prevention)
title: Medicare for All could have prevented many US Covid Deaths.
uri: Medicare-for-All-could-have-prevented-many-US-Covid-Deaths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(medicare_death_prevention)
content:
 
<p>
*Medicare for All Could Have Prevented More Than 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/14/medicare-all-could-have-prevented-more-338000-us-covid-deaths-study">338,000 US Covid Deaths.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(jeremy_corbyn_direct_action_group)
title: Jeremy Corbyn has joined forces with Just Stop Oil.
uri: Jeremy-Corbyn-has-joined-forces-with-Just-Stop-Oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(jeremy_corbyn_direct_action_group)
content:
 
<p>
Jeremy Corbyn, effectively shut out of activity in the Labour party,
has joined 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/16/jeremy-corbyn-unites-with-direct-action-group-just-stop-oil">forces with Just Stop Oil.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(health_pass_china_political_control)
title: How China is using health passes to carry out political agendas
uri: How-China-is-using-health-passes-to-carry-out-political-agendas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(health_pass_china_political_control)
content:
 
<p>
China is using people's "health passes" to carry out 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/15/china/china-zhengzhou-bank-fraud-health-code-protest-intl-hnk/index.html">arbitrary political
control.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(economists_warn_fed_rate_hikes)
title: Progressive economists warn of interest rates and how it will drive the US into a recession
uri: Progressive-economists-warn-of-interest-rates-and-how-it-will-drive-th
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(economists_warn_fed_rate_hikes)
content:
 
<p>
Progressive economists warn that the Federal Reserve's policy of
raising interest rates 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/16/big-mistake-economists-warn-fed-rate-hikes-risk-plunging-us-recession">will drive the US into a recession.</a>
<p>
Robert Reich explains why the rate increase is a misguided solution
and what the 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-really-need-to-know-about">US government really should do.</a>
<p>
Progressives campaigned against reappointing Powell as the head of the
Federal Reserve, explaining that he would be likely to follow his 
<a href="https://act.350.org/letter/powell-senate-confirmed-nos/?source=em20211126-2-nostates&akid=176891%2E1151744%2EYpjvOD">bad ideas
to make decisions like this one.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(gun_reform_republican_john_cornyn)
title: Senate Republicans have demanded changes in the weak gun safety deal
uri: Senate-Republicans-have-demanded-changes-in-the-weak-gun-safety-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(gun_reform_republican_john_cornyn)
content:
 
<p>
Senate Republicans have demanded changes in the weak gun safety
deal 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/16/top-republican-negotiator-john-cornyn-senate-gun-reform">that they agreed to a week ago.</a>
<p>
They are dragging Democrats through a process of bad faith and blaming
them for the resulting lack of agreement.
<p>
I think Democrats should refuse to agree to a compromise
starting from their last compromise.  Instead, they should say,,
"We made a deal, and we are still ready to accept it;
but if you now reject it, we will have to start over from the beginning
and see if we can make a deal."
<p>
In the future, they should refuse to be dealt with in bad faith in
negotiations.  Being desperate for a deal is the path to a bad deal.

 


uri: Near-southeast-Greenland-a-small-group-of-polar-bears-survives-despite
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(polar_bears_thriving_greenland_species)

title:
 Near southeast Greenland a small group of polar bears survives despite
loss of sea ice for most of the year. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(polar_bears_thriving_greenland_species)

content:
 
<p>
Near southeast Greenland a small group of polar bears survives despite
loss of sea ice for most of the year.  It turns out they take
advantage of temporary ice floats that break 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/16/polar-bears-found-thriving-greenland-despite-lack-of-sea-ice-offer-hope-for-species">off glaciers and drift
downriver to the sea.</a>
<p>
I think this manner of subsistence will fail in its turn
once the glaciers have melted.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(cattle_deaths_kansas_heat_wave)
title: US heat wave, in Kansas, has killed 2,000 cows (at least).
uri: US-heat-wave-in-Kansas-has-killed-2-000-cows-(at-least)
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_June_2022_(cattle_deaths_kansas_heat_wave)
content:
 
<p>
The US heat wave, in Kansas, has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/16/cattle-deaths-kansas-heat-wave-climate">killed 2,000 cows (at least).</a>
<p>
This reminds us that there is cattle-fatal weather just as there is
human-fatal weather. Kansas is getting close to both thresholds.

 


title: Germany prosecuting Apple for giving their apps exceptions to surveillance
uri: Germany-prosecuting-Apple-for-giving-their-apps-exceptions-to-surveill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Germany_prosecuting_Apple_for_giving_their_apps_exceptions_to_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Germany_prosecuting_Apple_for_giving_their_apps_exceptions_to_surveillance)

content:
 
<p>
  Germany is prosecuting Apple for <a href="https://gizmodo.com/apple-app-store-iphone-ads-privacy-antitrust-germany-pr-1849058746">offering features to resist some surveillance
  by other companies' apps, but Apple's own apps get an exception</a>.

 


title: EPA reduces recommended maximum exposure for a few PFA chemicals
uri: EPA-reduces-recommended-maximum-exposure-for-a-few-PFA-chemicals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(EPA_reduces_recommended_maximum_exposure_for_a_few_PFA_chemicals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(EPA_reduces_recommended_maximum_exposure_for_a_few_PFA_chemicals)

content:
 
<p>
  The EPA reduced its recommended maximum exposure for a few specific
  PFA chemicals.
<p>
  This is a step in the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#23_November_2020_(Erin_Brockovich)">right</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#9_December_2020_(Associated_with_severe_case_of_Covid-19)">direction</a>
  but it's a small step.

 


title: Ex-spy chief's son says Biden's visit is "presidential pardon for murder"
uri: Ex-spy-chief-s-son-says-Biden-s-visit-is-presidential-pardon-for-murd
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Ex-spy_chief's_son_says_Biden's_visit_is_presidential_pardon_for_murder)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Ex-spy_chief's_son_says_Biden's_visit_is_presidential_pardon_for_murder)

content:
 
<p>
  *Biden Saudi visit is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/16/biden-saudi-arabia-visit-jamal-khashoggi">"presidential pardon for murder," says ex-spy
    chief’s son</a>.*
<p>
  This metaphor is partly valid, but not 100%.  Crown Prince Bone Saw is
  guilt of a murder, but the US can't try or punish him.  Pardons have a
  legal effect on criminal charges, but to moral culpability they are
  irrelevant.

 


title: (Satire) Why Americans oppose abolishing police
uri: (Satire)-Why-Americans-oppose-abolishing-police
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_((Satire)_Why_Americans_oppose_abolishing_police)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_((Satire)_Why_Americans_oppose_abolishing_police)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Americans Explain <a href="https://www.theonion.com/americans-explain-why-they-oppose-abolishing-the-police-1849053409">Why They Oppose Abolishing The Police</a>.*
<p>
  If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling Javascript entirely or
  telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then right-click
  and select item "Reveal hidden HTML".  Or use a browser such as lynx
  that doesn't implement Javascript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Extinction_rebellion)
title: Extinction rebellion
uri: 2022-06-24-Extinction-rebellion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Extinction_rebellion)
content:
 
<p>
  *Why <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/14/why-i-quit-being-banker-join-extinction-rebellion">I Quit Being a Banker to Join Extinction Rebellion</a>.*
<p>
  First he rejected the system of driving the economy with debt,
  that his bank was a part of.

 


uri: Urgent-Call-on-NY-Gov-Kathy-Hochul-to-transfer-the-criminal-investig
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_NY_Gov._Kathy_Hochul_to_transfer_the_criminal_investigation_of_the_Trump_Organization_to_a_prosecutor_that_will_carry_it_forward)

title:
 Urgent: Call on NY Gov. Kathy Hochul to transfer the criminal investigation of the Trump Organization to a prosecutor that will carry it forward 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_NY_Gov._Kathy_Hochul_to_transfer_the_criminal_investigation_of_the_Trump_Organization_to_a_prosecutor_that_will_carry_it_forward)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-ny-gov-kathy-hochul-transfer-the-criminal-investigation-of-the-trump-organization-to-the-new-york-attorney-generals-office-or-to-another-district-attorney-in-new-york-state?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">call on NY Gov. Kathy Hochul to transfer the criminal investigation of the Trump Organization to a prosecutor that will carry it forward</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on the EPA to block the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-EPA-to-block-the-proposed-Pebble-Mine-in-Alaska
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_EPA_to_block_the_proposed_Pebble_Mine_in_Alaska)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_EPA_to_block_the_proposed_Pebble_Mine_in_Alaska)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=50166">call on the EPA to block the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska</a>.
  
 


title: Urgent: Call on your state legislators to support the National Popular Vote Compact
uri: Urgent-Call-on-your-state-legislators-to-support-the-National-Popular
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_your_state_legislators_to_support_the_National_Popular_Vote_Compact)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_your_state_legislators_to_support_the_National_Popular_Vote_Compact)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/letter/national-popular-vote-w/">call on your state legislators to support the National Popular Vote Compact</a>.
<p>
  Here's <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#19_May_2020_(Electoral_college)">more about it</a>.

 


title: Federal Reserve remedies "will cause pain" for poor people
uri: Federal-Reserve-remedies-will-cause-pain-for-poor-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Federal_Reserve_remedies_will_cause_pain_for_poor_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Federal_Reserve_remedies_will_cause_pain_for_poor_people)

content:
 
<p>
  *The Federal Reserve says <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/18/the-federal-reserve-says-its-remedies-for-inflation-will-cause-pain-but-to-whom">its remedies for inflation "will cause pain."*
  What they don't say is that this will mainly be to poor people</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(25%25_of_UK_prisoners_have_ADHD)
title: 25% of UK prisoners have ADHD
uri: 25-of-UK-prisoners-have-ADHD
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(25%25_of_UK_prisoners_have_ADHD)
content:
 
<p>
  In the UK, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/18/uk-prisoners-attention-deficit-disorder-adhd-prison">25% of prisoners have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder</a>.
  The nature of prison makes them upset and can provoke violence.
<p>
  I wonder if ADHD has to do with why they committed the crimes they were
  convicted of.

 


title: Bad functioning medical system causes around 75,000 additional yearly deaths
uri: Bad-functioning-medical-system-causes-around-75-000-additional-yearly
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Bad_functioning_medical_system_causes_around_75,000_additional_yearly_deaths)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Bad_functioning_medical_system_causes_around_75,000_additional_yearly_deaths)

content:
 
<p>
  The bad functioning of the US medical system is estimated to cause
  around <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/18/us-profit-health-system-mass-killer">75,000 additional deaths per year</a> &mdash; that's from before Covid-19.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Apple_store_workers_vote_to_unionize)
title: Apple store workers vote to unionize
uri: Apple-store-workers-vote-to-unionize
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Apple_store_workers_vote_to_unionize)
content:
 
<p>
  Workers at one Apple store have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/19/apple-workers-vote-to-join-union-a-first-for-the-tech-giant-in-us">voted to unionize</a>.
<p>
  I do support their demand for better pay, but treating workers decently
  would not excuse the nasty things that Apple does to its customers,
  and non-customers that might have  airtags planted on them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Cryptocurrency_called_a_ponzi_scheme)
title: Cryptocurrency called a ponzi scheme
uri: Cryptocurrency-called-a-ponzi-scheme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Cryptocurrency_called_a_ponzi_scheme)
content:
 
<p>
  Robert Reich <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2022/jun/19/the-crypto-crash-all-ponzi-schemes-topple-eventually">calls cryptocurrency a Ponzi scheme, and calls for regulation
  so people don't get invited to get screwed</a>.

 


title: Thugs claim to fear climate protesters who never physically attacked anyone
uri: Thugs-claim-to-fear-climate-protesters-who-never-physically-attacked-a
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Thugs_claim_to_fear_climate_protesters_who_never_physically_attacked_anyone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Thugs_claim_to_fear_climate_protesters_who_never_physically_attacked_anyone)

content:
 
<p>
  Australian thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/19/nsw-police-feared-for-their-lives-during-raid-on-climate-protesters-says-assistant-commissioner">claim to have feared they would be killed by a group of climate defense protesters who never once physically attacked anyone</a>.
<p>
  The <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>' accusation seems to start from the premise that making
  unusual objects to block streets is equivalent to violence against
  persons.  What a vicious accusation.
<p>
  Ironically, the thugs are the ones participating in <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#1_July_2016_(Global_heating)">a deadly plan to
  continue increasing carbon emissions that have already started killing
  people</a>,
  to kill millions of people, in coming decades.

 


title: Russia-backed conspiracy theorist network identified
uri: Russia-backed-conspiracy-theorist-network-identified
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Russia-backed_conspiracy_theorist_network_identified)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Russia-backed_conspiracy_theorist_network_identified)

content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/19/russia-backed-network-of-syria-conspiracy-theorists-identified">Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified</a>.*
<p>
  The disinformationists focused on smearing the While Helmets, a medic
  and rescue group in rebel-held Syria.
<p>
  If you read progressive web sites while the civil war was hot, you
  probably saw a lot of this.  I did.  It didn't convince me to believe
  it, but did convince me to doubt.  I had no source that I was truly
  confident of to show me what the truth was.

 


title: Testimony bring us closer to prosecuting the wrecker
uri: Testimony-bring-us-closer-to-prosecuting-the-wrecker
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Testimony_bring_us_closer_to_prosecuting_the_wrecker)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Testimony_bring_us_closer_to_prosecuting_the_wrecker)

content:
 
<p>
Former prosecutors say that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/19/trump-charges-january-6-hearings-capitol-attack">testimony in the Jan 6 committee's
hearings bring us close to being able to prosecute the wrecker</a>.
<p>
  However, the Attorney General carefully shows no indication of where
  things might stand in regard to that.

 


title: Pentagon dreaming up bizarre imaginary uses for large rocket
uri: Pentagon-dreaming-up-bizarre-imaginary-uses-for-large-rocket
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Pentagon_dreaming_up_bizarre_imaginary_uses_for_large_rocket)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Pentagon_dreaming_up_bizarre_imaginary_uses_for_large_rocket)

content:
 
<p>
  The Pentagon is <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/06/19/spacex-pentagon-elon-musk-space-defense/">dreaming up bizarre imaginary uses for a large rocket
  for transporting people super-expensively from one place on the Earth
  to another</a>.
<p>
  They're unfeasible for actual use, but might be an excuse to obtain a
  lot of funding.

 


title: Environmentalists pushing for policies to avoid mass extinction event
uri: Environmentalists-pushing-for-policies-to-avoid-mass-extinction-event
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Environmentalists_pushing_for_policies_to_avoid_mass_extinction_event)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Environmentalists_pushing_for_policies_to_avoid_mass_extinction_event)

content:
 
<p>
  Environmentalists are pushing governments to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/16/species-extinction-choice-groups-urge-strong-global-pact-save-life-earth">adopt policies to avoid causing a mass extinction event</a>.
<p>
  The most important thing to do is to bring <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> to a halt.
  If we make the heating taper off, we will be able to take the
  secondary actions to protect species in marginal situations.  But if
  the temperature keeps increasing, that will overcome the limited resources
  we could possibly muster to save some species.

 


title: Bill to prohibit selling, licensing, or trading health and location data
uri: Bill-to-prohibit-selling-licensing-or-trading-health-and-location-da
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Bill_to_prohibit_selling,_licensing,_or_trading_health_and_location_data)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Bill_to_prohibit_selling,_licensing,_or_trading_health_and_location_data)

content:
 
<p>
  Senator Warren has introduced a bill to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/16/warren-leads-charge-ban-sale-peoples-health-and-location-data">prohibit "selling, licensing
  or trading" people's health and location data</a>.
  This bill makes a valliant attempt, but falls short at two levels.
<p>
  First, it has a specific loophole: it fails to cover answering
  questions about users' personal data.  If a company refuses to give,
  sell or trade the data itself, but will answer simple questions about
  what the data say, enough answers will enable the questioner to
  determine the data exactly.  If each question has two possible answers,
  the questioner can learn one bit of data per question.  It won't take
  data brokers more than a minute to think of this tactic.
<p>
  Second, more deeply, it only applies to providing data to other
  companies.  It does nothing to stop the government from accessing the
  data.  For instance, it won't protect people who get abortions.
<p>
  Finally, it is limited by design to only some sorts of personal data.
<p>
  In general, the reliable way to protect privacy is to prevent any
  entity from accumulating people's sensitive personal data unless
  it is absolutely inevitable.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(EPA_needs_legally_binding_standards)
title: EPA needs legally binding standards
uri: EPA-needs-legally-binding-standards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(EPA_needs_legally_binding_standards)
content:
 
<p>
  *Environmentalists praised [the EPA's] "baby steps" to [reduce exposure
  to PFAs] but say <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/16/tip-iceberg-groups-tell-epa-much-more-needed-toxic-forever-chemicals">legally binding standards are urgently needed</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Israel_won't_punish_thug)
title: Israel won't punish thug
uri: Israel-won-t-punish-thug
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Israel_won't_punish_thug)
content:
 
<p>
  Israel <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/16/israeli-cops-wont-be-punished-attack-shireen-abu-aklehs-funeral">won't punish the official thugs that brutalized people in the funeral
  of reporter Shireen Abu Akleh</a>,
  just as it won't punish the soldier that shot her dead.

 


title: TikTok's US user data has been accessed from China
uri: TikTok-s-US-user-data-has-been-accessed-from-China
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(TikTok's_US_user_data_has_been_accessed_from_China)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(TikTok's_US_user_data_has_been_accessed_from_China)

content:
 
<p>
  *Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access">US User Data Has
  Been Repeatedly Accessed From China</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Masklessness_as_a_consequence)
title: Masklessness as a consequence
uri: Masklessness-as-a-consequence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Masklessness_as_a_consequence)
content:
 
<p>
  Understanding <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/16/mask-less-world-how-corporate-capitalist-war-humanity-wreaking-havoc">governments' support for masklessness as a consequence of the
  political power of business</a>.
<p>
  I don't think that governments ended antitransmission requirements in
  obedience to a commend from businesses.  And I don't think that the
  pressure comes only from business.  But we can see that businesses
  acted to shift public attention from the dangers of Covid-19 to the
  attractions of behaving as if things were normal and safe.
<p>
  Around one million Americans have died from Covid-19 so far.
  Over 20 million report suffering from long Covid.
<p>
  Masks suck a little.  Dying sucks worse.  Being incapacitated for
  life sucks totally.

 


title: Heat waves endanger toddlers and babies
uri: Heat-waves-endanger-toddlers-and-babies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Heat_waves_endanger_toddlers_and_babies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(Heat_waves_endanger_toddlers_and_babies)

content:
 
<p>
  Heat waves, made far more common by global heating, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/15/us/extreme-heat-children-babies-health-risk-climate/index.html">already endanger the
  health of toddlers and babies</a>.

 


title: UK government formally approved extraditing Julian Assange to the US.
uri: UK-government-formally-approved-extraditing-Julian-Assange-to-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(uk_approves_extradition_assange_to_us)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(uk_approves_extradition_assange_to_us)

content:
 
<p>
The UK government formally approved extraditing 
<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2022/6/17/headlines/uk_home_secretary_approves_extradition_of_julian_assange_to_us">Julian Assange to the
US.</a>
<p>
His rejected appeal was against the court's decision that being in a
US prison would not put him in danger of death. Other questions
remain to be appealed, including the UK's acceptance of the US
assertion that 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/20/extradite-julian-assange-investigative-journalism-wikileaks">Assange's journalism constitutes spying.</a>
<p>
Here's more explanation about why the US charges against Assange
are a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/17/sad-day-western-democracy-chomsky-ellsberg-others-denounce-assange-extradition">danger to democracy and the public.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(EPA_glyphosate_bayer_weedkiller)
title: An appeals court ruled that the EPA disregarded its own safety criteria regarding glysphosate
uri: An-appeals-court-ruled-that-the-EPA-disregarded-its-own-safety-criteri
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(EPA_glyphosate_bayer_weedkiller)
content:
 
<p>
An appeals court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency
disregarded its own safety criteria when it 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/17/glyphosate-roundup-weed-killer-bayer">reevaluated whether
glyphosate harms humans and wildlife.</a>

 


title: (satire) *Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor Receives 8-Concert Suspension*
uri: (satire)-Philharmonic-Orchestra-Conductor-Receives-8-Concert-Suspensi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_((Satire)_Philharmonic_Orchestra_Conductor_Suspension)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_((Satire)_Philharmonic_Orchestra_Conductor_Suspension)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor Receives 8-Concert
Suspension 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/philharmonic-orchestra-conductor-receives-8-concert-sus-1848987743">For Using Corked Baton.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(how_long_trump_world_would_fall)
title: To supporters of the corrupter: *But I do have a question for you*
uri: To-supporters-of-the-corrupter-But-I-do-have-a-question-for-you
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(how_long_trump_world_would_fall)
content:
 
<p>
To supporters of the corrupter: *But I do have a question for you:
Don't you feel kind of stupid right now? Doesn't the revelation that
it was all a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/15/just-how-long-will-trump-world-fall-long-long-con">con leave you feeling like a sucker?*</a>
<p>
*But—and here's the part that relates to you -— even though his own
people told him quite clearly that there was no election fraud, he
still told you something [to the contrary]: a bizarre fable about a
vast and byzantine conspiracy involving Democrats, Republicans, poll
workers, truck drivers, a polling machine manufacturer and —- who
knows? -— maybe Bigfoot on the grassy knoll.*

 


title: *QAnon-Linked Conspiracy Theorist Wins GOP Primary for Nevada's Top Election Official.
uri: QAnon-Linked-Conspiracy-Theorist-Wins-GOP-Primary-for-Nevada-s-Top-El
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(qanon_linked_theorist_gop_wins_nevada_primary)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(qanon_linked_theorist_gop_wins_nevada_primary)

content:
 
<p>
*QAnon-Linked Conspiracy Theorist Wins GOP Primary for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/15/qanon-linked-conspiracy-theorist-wins-gop-primary-nevadas-top-election-official">Nevada's Top Election
Official.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(climate_feedback_loop_faster)
title: As global heating melts the Arctic ice, the molten water surface absorbs more sunlight.
uri: As-global-heating-melts-the-Arctic-ice-the-molten-water-surface-absor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(climate_feedback_loop_faster)
content:
 
<p>
As global heating melts the Arctic ice, the molten water surface
absorbs more sunlight.  This makes the heating faster, creating a
positive feedback.  Faster than expected heating in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/15/scale-warmer-arctic-ocean-fueling-climate-feedback-loop-faster-previously-known">the Barents Sea
confirms that this is happening now.</a>

 


title: Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Sensitive data on Would-Be Patients
uri: Facebook-and-Anti-Abortion-Clinics-Are-Collecting-Sensitive-data-on-Wo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(facebook_anti_abortion_clinics_collecting_data)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(facebook_anti_abortion_clinics_collecting_data)

content:
 
<p>
*Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting 
<a href="https://revealnews.org/article/facebook-data-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-center/">Highly Sensitive
Info on Would-Be Patients.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(court_document_proud_boys_plan)
uri: Proud-Boys-had-a-written-plan-to-seize-and-hold-important-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(court_document_proud_boys_plan)
title:
 "Proud Boys" had a written plan to seize and hold important
government buildings in Washington DC. 

content:
 
<p>
The "Proud Boys" had a written plan to seize and hold 
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/court-document-proud-boys-case-laid-plan-occupy-capitol-buildings-jan-rcna33755?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma">important
government buildings in Washington DC.</a>
<p>
The group's leaders are being prosecuted, but their ultimate leader
is the wrecker, and he has corrupted the whole Republican Party into a
wrecking crew.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(can_democrats_save_their_party)
title: Jim Hightower rebukes the Democratic Party for giving up on rural and small-city voters
uri: Jim-Hightower-rebukes-the-Democratic-Party-for-giving-up-on-rural-and
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(can_democrats_save_their_party)
content:
 
<p>
Jim Hightower rebukes the Democratic Party for giving up on rural and
small-city voters -- both in seeking their votes and in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/15/can-democrats-save-their-party-its-leadership">working for
policies that help the non-rich among them.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(tiktok_surveillance_china)
uri: TikTok-has-been-storing-all-users-surveillance-data-in-China-where-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(tiktok_surveillance_china)
title:
 TikTok has been storing all users' surveillance data in China, where
the Chinese state can access it easily. 

content:
 
<p>
TikTok has been storing all users' surveillance data in China, where
the Chinese state can access it easily.  After US criticism, it will
store surveillance data about Americans in the US, where red US states
will be able to subpoena it to see whether 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/17/tiktok-us-user-data-china-bytedance">you discussed getting an
abortion.</a>

 


uri: Australia-s-supreme-court-awarded-indigenous-groups-the-power-to-parti
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(albanese_government_legal_power_deport)

title:
 Australia's supreme court awarded indigenous groups the power to
partially naturalize people as Australian citizens. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(albanese_government_legal_power_deport)

content:
 
<p>
Australia's supreme court awarded indigenous groups the power to
partially naturalize people as Australian citizens. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/18/albanese-government-urged-to-end-legal-fight-over-power-to-deport-aboriginal-people">The government is
seeking to reverse the ruling.</a>
<p>
The policy established by the ruling makes no sense in terms of human
rights.  It can only be understood as a form of discrimination
based on ethnicity.
<p>
over the 19th century, the English colonists kicked the aboriginals
off their land, in many cases by massacring them.  This was an enormous
crime,  Based on the human rights of their descendants, who continue
to be harmed by that crime, it calls for reparations to them.
<p>
Those descendants are the same indigenous people who compose the
groups which have been granted this special power -- but that we
should not think of that power as implementing the necessary
reparations, because (1) it will help only a few of those who are due
reparations, and (2) rather than reducing the preexisting inequality,
it creates an additional form of inequality.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(urban_temp_heatwave_resilient_city)
title: For cities to confront global heating, they need redesign on several dimensions.
uri: For-cities-to-confront-global-heating-they-need-redesign-on-several-d
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(urban_temp_heatwave_resilient_city)
content:
 
<p>
For cities to confront global heating, they need redesign on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/17/urban-temperatures-heatwave-heat-resilient-city-climate-emergency">several
dimensions.</a>
<p>
However, this is no substitute for stopping global heating.

 


title: Did good Republicans save us from the bad ones on January 6th?
uri: Did-good-Republicans-save-us-from-the-bad-ones-on-January-6th
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(jan_6_hearings_republicans_moral_convictions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(jan_6_hearings_republicans_moral_convictions)

content:
 
<p>
*A person of conscience and integrity would never have found himself in the position that Mike Pence was in on January 6. A man with courage would have stood up to Trump sooner; a man of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/17/did-good-republicans-save-us-from-the-bad-ones-on-january-6-i-dont-buy-it">moral commitment would never have worked for him in the first place.*</a>
<p>
The Republicans that broke with the wrecker and refused to support him
in overtly attacking the US election were prepared to go along with him
into betrayal, but there was a limit to how far they would go.
They are villains, not heroes, but they were not total villains.
<p>
*The attack on the US Capitol wasn’t the isolated doing of [the corrupter] and a few loyalists. Nearly the entire Republican party is now united behind it -– 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/17/the-january-6-hearings-arent-acknowledging-the-elephant-in-the-room">and the attack on democracy hasn’t ended.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(fight_to_save_worlds_brainiest_birds)
title: A lab that has studied intelligence of jays and rooks will be shut down for lack of funds.
uri: A-lab-that-has-studied-intelligence-of-jays-and-rooks-will-be-shut-dow
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(fight_to_save_worlds_brainiest_birds)
content:
 
<p>
A lab that has studied for decades the intelligence of jays and rooks
will be shut down for lack of funds. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/19/queen-of-corvids-the-scientist-fighting-to-save-the-worlds-brainiest-birds">There may be little work in this
field without it.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(russia_ukraine_war_attrition_nato)
title: Ukraine's strategic situation facing a artillery war of attrition.
uri: Ukraine-s-strategic-situation-facing-a-artillery-war-of-attrition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(russia_ukraine_war_attrition_nato)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine's strategic situation facing an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/19/ukraine-russia-war-of-attrition-nato">artillery war of attrition.</a>
<p>
I suggest that Ukraine forcibly evacuate civilians from cities facing
attack.  We all know, from reports from Mariupol, that the Putin
forces carry out unpredictable repression against the civilian
population.  If the presence of civilians in an area of combat puts
the military in strategic danger, it must avoid their presence.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(debunking_election_lies_trump)
title: Lies told by the bullshitter in 2020
uri: Lies-told-by-the-bullshitter-in-2020
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_June_2022_(debunking_election_lies_trump)
content:
 
<p>
Lies told by the bullshitter in 2020 that his own 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/fact-check-trump-officials-testimony-debunking-election-lies/index.html">officials told him
were not true.</a>

 


title: Democrat had power to block fossil fuel funding bill
uri: Democrat-had-power-to-block-fossil-fuel-funding-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Democrat_had_power_to_block_fossil_fuel_funding_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Democrat_had_power_to_block_fossil_fuel_funding_bill)

content:
 
<p>
  One single Democratic state assembly member <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/21/moral-failure-california-dem-pulls-plug-fossil-fuel-divestment-legislation">had the power to block
  a bill to divest California pension funds from fossil fuels,
  so that the assembly could not vote on it</a>.

 


title: War in Ukraine will have to end through negotiation
uri: War-in-Ukraine-will-have-to-end-through-negotiation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(War_in_Ukraine_will_have_to_end_through_negotiation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(War_in_Ukraine_will_have_to_end_through_negotiation)

content:
 
<p>
  The war in Ukraine will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/23/putin-not-ready-end-ukraine-war-prepared">have to end through negotiations between
  Ukraine and Putin</a>.
<p>
  I agree that we should not pressure Ukraine into accepting defeat,
  nor into fighting further if at some point it cannot continue.

 


title: 35 American Cities that will be largely inundated
uri: 35-American-Cities-that-will-be-largely-inundated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(35_American_Cities_that_will_be_largely_inundated)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(35_American_Cities_that_will_be_largely_inundated)

content:
 
<p>
  35 American cities that will be <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/06/18/climate-change-american-cities-that-will-soon-be-under-water/39533119/">largely inundated by the end of this
  century</a>.
<p>
  Since predictions for future sea level rise keep increasing,
  very likely it will happen some decades sooner than that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Ending_overfishing)
title: Ending overfishing
uri: Ending-overfishing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Ending_overfishing)
content:
 
<p>
  The WTO took <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/21/first-wto-deal-on-fishing-subsidies-hailed-as-historic-despite-big-holes">one basic but weak step towards ending overfishing</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Carbon_intensity_measure)
title: "Carbon intensity" measure
uri: Carbon-intensity-measure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Carbon_intensity_measure)
content:
 
<p>
  Fossil fuel companies have invented a new measure called "carbon
  intensity" which they pledge to reduce.  But <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/17/good-bad-and-ugly-wall-streets-climate-promises">it is a mirage: they can
  decrease "carbon intensity" of their activities while increasing the
  total emissions from burning their product</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Jan_6_investigation)
title: Jan 6 investigation
uri: 2022-06-26-Jan-6-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Jan_6_investigation)
content:
 
<p>
  The Jan 6 investigation committee is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/16/revelations-jan-6-hearings-must-be-communicated-better-if-us-democracy-survive">making its message clear on TV,
  but not following through to call Americans' attention to it effectively,
  even as the party of the lie is working to draw attention away</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Stop_blaming_people_for_being_poor)
title: Stop blaming people for being poor
uri: Stop-blaming-people-for-being-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Stop_blaming_people_for_being_poor)
content:
 
<p>
  *What can we do about poverty? First, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/17/poverty-blaming-poor-need-breadline">stop blaming people for being poor</a>.*
<p>
  We live in a world of systems, and the systems have great influence in
  how rich or poor anyone is.  To overcome that influence is often very
  very difficult.  We must not blame  individuals for which way systems
  have swept them.

 


title: Russian spy tried to infiltrate International Criminal Court
uri: Russian-spy-tried-to-infiltrate-International-Criminal-Court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Russian_spy_tried_to_infiltrate_International_Criminal_Court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Russian_spy_tried_to_infiltrate_International_Criminal_Court)

content:
 
<p>
  *Russian spy <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jun/16/russian-spy-caught-trying-to-infiltrate-war-crimes-court-says-netherlands">caught trying to infiltrate [the International Criminal
  Court]</a>, says Netherlands.*
  He was preparing his cover story for years.
<p>
  Apparently Putin has, since years ago, expected Russians or officials of
  Russian client states, to be tried there.

 


