# articles

feed_id: 622395baad54ba1fd84e8afee34b8666
title: Canada strengthens net neutrality rules
uri: Canada-strengthens-net-neutrality-rules
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Canada_strengthens_net_neutrality_rules%29

content:
<p>
As US Prepares to Gut Net Neutrality Rules, 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/as-us-prepares-to-gut-net-neutrality-rules-canada-strengthens-them/">Canada
Strengthens Them</a>.


feed_id: 9fe5e4c83d45eccf5d7b73e26516d4d4
title: Antibiotic resistance
uri: 2017-04-25-Antibiotic-resistance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Antibiotic_resistance%29
content:
<p>
We are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/21/almost-untreatable-superbug-poses-serious-threat-to-patients-doctors-warn-carbapenemase-producing-enterobacteriaceae">at
the edge</a> of having antibiotic resistance make surgery dangerous.


feed_id: a1cb27d12b4804255a7821bd8f473f9b
title: North Korea threatened with sanctions
uri: North-Korea-threatened-with-sanctions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28North_Korea_threatened_with_sanctions%29

content:
<p>
The UN Security Council has threatened North Korea with 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/20/un-security-council-north-korea-nuclear-tests-sanctions">sanctions
if it continues nuclear testing</a>.
<p>
This warning has the support of China, so Mr Kim will find it
difficult to defy.  It has a chance of succeeding as a diplomatic
solution to the problem of North Korea's nuclear weapons.


feed_id: c56e9092cf369ee58500a7b724efd0f2
title: Poor predictors of terrorist threat
uri: Poor-predictors-of-terrorist-threat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Poor_predictors_of_terrorist_threat%29

content:
<p>
The [US] Government's Own Data Shows 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/20/the-governments-own-data-shows-country-of-origin-is-a-poor-predictor-of-terrorist-threat/">Country
of Origin Is a Poor Predictor of Terrorist Threat</a>.


feed_id: 2d0639ddf19712d211a6664c8e775069
title: FBI "protecting" Americans
uri: FBI-protecting-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28FBI_protecting_Americans%29
content:
<p>
The FBI is now eagerly protecting Americans from unstable 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/20/fbi-stings-zero-in-on-isis-sympathizers-few-have-terrorist-links/">fantasy
supporters of PISSI</a>.
<p>
There must be hundreds of these.  They are not totally harmless; a few
of them might someday commit solo terrorist attacks with cars, but the
chance any particular one would do so is small.
<p>
Although the FBI says it is protecting us from very dangerous people,
it does not seem to consider them very dangerous 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/20/more-than-400-people-convicted-of-terrorism-in-the-u-s-have-been-released-since-911/">when
they are released from prison</a>.


feed_id: b1bf7e1cca8712ad81bb92c765b59e5b
title: Russia bans Jehovah's Witnesses church
uri: Russia-bans-Jehovah-s-Witnesses-church
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Russia_bans_Jehovahs_Witnesses_church%29

content:
<p>
Russia has banned the Jehovah's Witnesses church, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/20/russia-bans-jehovahs-witnesses">labeling
it as "extremist"</a>.
<p>
The sect has peculiar, unfounded beliefs, and strictly shuns anyone
that leaves or is kicked out, but it does not do anything to outsiders
that goes beyond minor annoyance.  Its members deserve freedom of
speech and freedom in religion just as the rest of us do.


feed_id: 8c61764470fd34b58a334af767918dbb
title: "Brittle Masculinity"
uri: Brittle-Masculinity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Brittle_Masculinity%29
content:
<p>
Don't Underestimate the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/20/dont-underestimate-harm-brittle-masculinity-do-world">Harm
'Brittle Masculinity' Can Do to the World</a>.
<p>
Somehow I never learned that I was supposed to appear strong because
I'm male.  At least one bad thing I escaped!


feed_id: fd24584898fe7d0c6068aa1e7f56951b
title: Tories moving UK toward one-party state
uri: Tories-moving-UK-toward-one-party-state
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Tories_moving_UK_toward_one-party_state%29

content:
<p>
The Tories are moving UK step by small step closer to a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/20/theresa-may-breaking-promises-politics-conservative-election">one-party
state</a>.


feed_id: c7dec134e6b7c5b1783090694df8e344
title: Public revulsion against Bill O'Reilly
uri: Public-revulsion-against-Bill-O-Reilly
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Public_revulsion_against_Bill_OReilly%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/20/bill-oreilly-fox-news-money-morals">Organized
public revulsion</a> against Bill O'Reilly struck home and compelled
<a href="/glossary.html#faux">Faux News</a> to stop giving him a platform.
<p>
The boycott was about his odious conduct towards women he personally
met, perhaps dozens, but the main harm he has done to America and the
world was through 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/20/bill-oreilly-fox-is-long-overdue">right-wing
bullying and falsehood</a>.  We need to organize boycotts based on
that, without waiting for personal wrongs to emerge.


feed_id: 68f9e40630b5771fe4b9af499985b878
title: Congressional staff for sale
uri: Congressional-staff-for-sale
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Congressional_staff_for_sale%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/20/staff-for-sale/">selling
access to congressional staff</a>.


feed_id: 7e97c5c5115b0cc76fe5bc39584886fd
title: Prosecution for having a drug overdose
uri: Prosecution-for-having-a-drug-overdose
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Prosecution_for_having_a_drug_overdose%29

content:
<p>
The town of Washington Court House, Ohio, 
<a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/03/31/ohio-city-pressing-charges-against-opioid-overdose-victims">prosecutes
people for trumped up crimes</a> when they have a drug overdose.


feed_id: c499a0e9ea38a618e4c23b02dcb20725
title: Somalia's children starving
uri: Somalia-s-children-starving
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Somalias_children_starving%29
content:
<p>
Somalia's children today are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/apr/20/somalia-debt-arrears-children-starve-famine">starving
for the debts of the former dictator Siad Barre</a>.
<p>
This kind of injustice has happened in many countries.  The tendency
to insist that dictators' victims pay the dictators' debts is why
banksters encourage dictators.  Thus, we need to replace it with the
principle that loans to dictators are never repaid.


feed_id: fe53a9396a1f2ee283a59835554a0f5f
title: Australian PM lacks wisdom and judgment
uri: Australian-PM-lacks-wisdom-and-judgment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_April_2017_%28Australian_PM_lacks_wisdom_and_judgment%29

content:
<p>
The Australian prime minister 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/apr/20/malcolm-turnbull-says-he-trusts-the-wisdom-and-judgement-of-trump-and-pence">trusts
the "wisdom and judgment" of America's racist bully president</a>.
<p>
This should demonstrate to Australia that their prime minister has no
wisdom or judgment.


feed_id: df4888d7b333647ff530b8b71e2c9197
title: Corbyn
uri: 2017-04-25-Corbyn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_April_2017_%28Corbyn%29
content:
<p>
With Corbyn, Britain has a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2017/apr/20/liberal-capitalism-has-rotted-our-souls-but-its-days-might-be-numbered">chance
to decide that it is wrong for some people to be so rich</a>, and to
demand they give the rest a bigger share.


feed_id: 4a4eeb86813b2aac6dfafa593854fd60
title: Making the US #1 in imprisonment
uri: Making-the-US-1-in-imprisonment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_April_2017_%28Making_the_US_number_1_in_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
Many prisoners in Pennsylvania state prisons come from Philadelphia,
and many of them are held far away from there.  The result is that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/20/philadelphia-bridging-the-gap-van-service-prisons">nobody
in their families can afford to visit them</a>.
<p>
That makes them less likely to find a way to stay out of prison once
they are released.
<p>
Forbidding anyone who was ever in prison from visiting a prisoner has
the same effect of directing prisoners to become career criminals.  It
is a reflection of the attitudes that make the US #1 in imprisonment.
The US asks, "What might that ex-con do if he visits a prisoner," and
not, "What might that prisoner do, after spending the prison term out
of contact with family?"
<p>
The policy of excluding former prisoners from all but menial work, and
from most educational opportunity, also pressures them into a life of
crime.


feed_id: fbd642120be2706f5aa85aafdfc5680a
title: When it's better not to say anything
uri: When-it-s-better-not-to-say-anything
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_April_2017_%28When_its_better_not_to_say_anything%29

content:
<p>
If you see something, it's often better not to say anything.  
<a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/when-not-to-call-the-cops-genius-on-a-refrigerator-magnet/">How
to decide</a>?


feed_id: 6e94016ff55090400d8a0abcc85498ff
title: Persecuting people who drug themselves
uri: Persecuting-people-who-drug-themselves
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_April_2017_%28Persecuting_people_who_drug_themselves%29

content:
<p>
Persecuting people who drug themselves into insensibility is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/20/spice-terrifying-drug-panic-wont-make-go-away">not
a solution for the factors that make them look for a way to do
that</a>.
<p>
But some of them might die because their friends have learned that
taking such people to a hospital is dangerous for them.


feed_id: 05c96315f415960f72ef7626058b3781
title: Palestinian prisoner hunger strike
uri: Palestinian-prisoner-hunger-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_April_2017_%28Palestinian_prisoner_hunger_strike%29

content:
<p>
Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/opinion/palestinian-hunger-strike-prisoners-call-for-justice.html">explains
the hunger strike</a> he is participating in.
<p>
Gush Shalom 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1464389870">comments</a>
on the trial of Marwan Barghouti.
<p>
How Israel punishes prisoners who are sick for participating in the
hunger strike.


feed_id: 3e3d6446b15e18459f5ececb92accd72
title: US support for Salafi Arabia
uri: US-support-for-Salafi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28US_support_for_Salafi_Arabia%29
content:
<p>
US 'Deep State' 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/22/us-deep-state-sold-out-counter-terrorism-keep-itself-business">Sold
Out Counter-Terrorism to Keep Itself in Business</a>.  Basically,
weakening al-Qa'ida was subordinated to other interests such as
supporting <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>.
<p>
This is ironic given that the harsh Salafi approach to Islam is what
built today's jihadi movement.


feed_id: 2e90e7691b6e9b4c15788d31b7df2055
title: People under al-Shabaab control need aid
uri: People-under-al-Shabaab-control-need-aid
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28People_under_al-Shabaab_control_need_aid%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has pushed for a new attack against the guerrilla group
al-Shabaab.  Humanitarian aid organizations warn that this is likely
to block aid to the region controlled by al-Shabaab, which is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/22/us-action-al-shabaab-somalia-millions-famine-drought">suffering
from famine</a>.


feed_id: 8c8293d19f0fb6bd7b18fe2bfc0b06b2
title: Ugandan schoolgirls need menstrual pads
uri: Ugandan-schoolgirls-need-menstrual-pads
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Ugandan_schoolgirls_need_menstrual_pads%29

content:
<p>
Activists in Uganda are campaigning for the state to provide menstrual
pads to the nation's schoolgirls, many of whom 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/22/activist-uganda-president-buttocks-jail-stella-nyanzi">miss
school because they can't afford to buy the pads</a>.
<p>
One of them has been imprisoned for insulting the president for his
refusal.  To punish people for insults is a sign of tyranny.  (Are you
listening, France, Turkey, Russia and others?


feed_id: be71fb3489bab7df8f1e78d1e2d88f70
title: Science already politicized
uri: Science-already-politicized
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Science_already_politicized%29
content:
<p>
Science has already been politicized, by those who want to disregard
knowledge in favor of fantasy.  We who want to pay attention to
knowledge 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/22/sciences-role-society-threatened-protest-right-response">must
not hold back from campaigning for that</a>.


feed_id: 9d297853e08650b69ae478537e59ddbf
title: Female genital mutilation
uri: 2017-04-25-Female-genital-mutilation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Female_genital_mutilation%29
content:
<p>
Prosecuting female genital mutilation 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/genital-cutting-indian-doctor-women-khatna">in
the US</a>.


feed_id: b3be599e7a2a81b38ab704b1e2e646c5
title: Arms merchant sentenced to prison
uri: Arms-merchant-sentenced-to-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Arms_merchant_sentenced_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
An arms merchant who supplied arms to Liberian tyrant Charles Taylor
has been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/apr/22/dutch-arms-trafficker-to-liberia-guus-kouwenhoven-given-war-crimes-conviction">sentenced
to prison</a>.


feed_id: abfd1418039fd2469e9a850eee95f203
title: Hunters in Malta shoot migrating birds
uri: Hunters-in-Malta-shoot-migrating-birds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Hunters_in_Malta_shoot_migrating_birds%29

content:
<p>
Chris Packham made a video recording of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/22/chris-packham-birds-malta">hunters
in Malta shooting migrating birds</a>, and hunters falsely accused him
of physically attacking them.
<p>
The hunt in Malta is authorized, but since it endangers some species
of birds, Malta must change its policy.


feed_id: d9cbde0fd0e6e6e6d60f1680e12861f7
title: Reaching out to Trump supporters
uri: Reaching-out-to-Trump-supporters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Reaching_out_to_Trump_supporters%29

content:
<p>
<p>
Practical advice for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/21/reaching-out-trump-voters">how
to talk with relatives and friends</a> that support Trump, so that
they might start to listen.


feed_id: 919e7cc5dbd369005cd12346355de7d3
title: ISPs authorized to gouge on prices
uri: ISPs-authorized-to-gouge-on-prices
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28ISPs_authorized_to_gouge_on_prices%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> of the FCC, Ajit Pai, has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/21/trumps-fcc-gives-big-telecom-free-reign-vote-major-handouts">authorized
ISPs with no competitors to gouge on prices</a>.


feed_id: d56de8d8b28efdd53cd01aabe4fb3535
title: War on painkillers
uri: 2017-04-25-War-on-painkillers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28War_on_painkillers%29
content:
<p>
Instead of the incoherent war on painkillers, the US should aim for
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2017/04/19/harm-reduction-an-alternative-to-incoher/1">harm
reduction</a>.
<p>
Untreated pain is part of the harm that we should aim to reduce.
And an addiction to pain killers, kept in check by medical attention,
is not as bad as continuing agony.


feed_id: 1417ac31b9d760419a71342ea3b4b49c
title: US denies reporters access to bombed zone
uri: US-denies-reporters-access-to-bombed-zone
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28US_denies_reporters_access_to_bombed_zone%29

content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/20/whats-worse-trump-dropping-mother-all-bombs-or-70-americans-approve">denied
reporters access</a> to the zone in Afghanistan where it dropped the
large conventional bomb.  No one can verify any claims about what was
or wasn't destroyed.
<p>
Even people whose families lived in the area can't get information.


feed_id: c379bf62e8d7674912860b6660695d59
title: Almost 300 Iraqi and Syrians killed by US Bombs
uri: Almost-300-Iraqi-and-Syrians-killed-by-US-Bombs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Almost_300_Iraqi_and_Syrians_killed_by_US_Bombs%29

content:
<p>
Specific reports covered <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/17/through-the-war-on-terror-looking-glass/">almost 300 civilians killed by US bombs in
Iraq and Syria in one week in April</a>.  The actual figure is probably
several times that.
<p>
Orwell's point is valid: we are morally obliged to judge the killing
of civilians by the same standards no matter which side does it.
Zinn's point about inevitable casualties is also valid, but that
doesn't mean that all civilian casualties constitute war crimes.  No
army can completely avoid killing or wounding civilians; every army
has an obligation to make a real effort.
<p>
There are reports that the troll has more or less countermanded
Obama's precautions in the US military. Perhaps the casualties in April
occurred at a higher level than was normal for the past few years.
<p>
It may be anachronistic to apply today's standards to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapons_in_World_War_I">use of chemical
weapons during and shortly after World War I</a>. While there was a
treaty that prohibited them, all the main combatants used them or
tried to, and all were targeted with them.


feed_id: b9567c3e8475f5254af4fb1935109120
title: Probe Israel Influence on US Government
uri: Probe-Israel-Influence-on-US-Government
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_April_2017_%28Probe_Israel_Influence_on_US_Government%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/20/why-not-a-probe-of-israel-gate/">Why not probe Israel's influence</a> in the US government?
There's plenty of evidence of it.


feed_id: 2cb673d9bb8be65d7d0cf34029dab82c
title: The Democratic Party
uri: 2017-04-27-The-Democratic-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28The_Democratic_Party%29
content:
<p>
Cornel West: give up on the corporate-friendly Democratic Party
and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/24/democrats-delivered-one-thing-100-days-disappointment">start
a new one</a>.
<p>
I am not sure whether we have a better chance of a progressive victory
with or without the Democratic Party.


feed_id: cfe53b798c9ea37a48eb4fada4adcf4e
title: Japan not protecting bluefin tuna
uri: Japan-not-protecting-bluefin-tuna
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Japan_not_protecting_bluefin_tuna%29

content:
<p>
Japan is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/24/japan-criticised-exceed-bluefin-tuna-fishing-quota">failing
to abide by an agreement</a> to protect the survival of bluefin tuna.


feed_id: ab780d9cd7454b00abb143abe271d950
title: Sale of inbox data
uri: Sale-of-inbox-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Sale_of_inbox_data%29
content:
<p>
Unroll.me Head 'Heartbroken' That 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/24/unrollme-mail-unsubscription-service-heartbroken-sells-user-inbox-data-slice">Users
Found Out it Sells Their Inbox Data</a>.


feed_id: 9e436415c776efb43050d6c8124bfce8
title: The need for late-term abortions
uri: The-need-for-late-term-abortions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28The_need_for_late-term_abortions%29

content:
<p>
Three women explain 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/18/late-term-abortion-experience-donald-trump">why
they needed late-term abortions</a>.
<p>
Banning them is terrible cruelty, based on many cases on willful
denial of reality.  That's faith for you.


feed_id: 592aef2e5af8075e79a00bc9e99d0ab8
title: "Tax reform"
uri: Tax-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Tax_reform%29
content:
<p>
What 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/18/real-solutions-tax-day-not-bogus-tax-reforms">"tax
reform"</a> means to SCROTUS, and to the cheater.
<p>
Likeliest Outcome of Tax Reform is a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/18/likeliest-outcome-tax-reform-deficit-financed-tax-cut-rich-will-expire-decade">Deficit-Financed
Tax Cut for the Rich That Will Expire in a Decade</a>.


feed_id: 2908ec9f43d9ccf0685b13d38b9907fe
title: UK NHS records used for deportation
uri: UK-NHS-records-used-for-deportation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28UK_NHS_records_used_for_deportation%29

content:
<p>
In the UK, unauthorized immigrants are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/20/crackdown-migrants-nhs-doctors-border-guards-immigration-undocumented-migrants">afraid
to see a doctor</a> lest it lead to deportation.
<p>
People living in precarious circumstances should ask themselves,
before they make a child, whether it is right to make a child live in
precarious circumstances.  However, it may be that they can't get
reliable birth control or abortions because they fear seeing a doctor.


feed_id: b8ec7b5d6549fce2ec6d377ec3fc7316
title: Callous political plutocracy
uri: Callous-political-plutocracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Callous_political_plutocracy%29
content:
<p>
"We 
<a 'https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/21/generation-spite-kids-scapegoat-young-people'>scapegoat
and impoverish young people</a> while destroying the world we older,
luckier ones inherited.  As abdications of duty go, this one is
absolute."
<p>
Consigning most young people to a precarious and painful life results
from the callous political plutocracy squeezing on one side while
growing global population, global heating, and overusing the world's
resources squeeze on the other size.
<p>
Humanity can't continue its profligate resource use.  But it could, if
it tried to, enlist everyone in reducing resource use and reducing the
birth rate, while treating everyone as worthy of a decent life.


feed_id: c4c7b163443c6bec2b94ee4c6123dd75
title: Unauthorized immigrants
uri: Unauthorized-immigrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Unauthorized_immigrants%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> is 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/21/trump-administration-ramps-up-threat-to-prosecute-immigrant-parents/">planning
to prosecute parents that pay to smuggle their children into the
US</a>.
<p>
Human rights don't include the right to move to the US, or bring
someone else to the US.  So I have no objection to this plan, in the
abstract, as long as it isn't implemented in a cruel way or used to
stir up hatred towards immigrants.  I expect the troll and his
saboteurs to do those things, though.
<p>
This issue is completely separate from the issue of how to treat
unauthorized immigrants that were brought to the US as children, many
years ago.  We should offer them citizenship.


feed_id: 34da06b8028d8a9c37310578febaa2d1
title: Oil firm pulls out of national park
uri: Oil-firm-pulls-out-of-national-park
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Oil_firm_pulls_out_of_national_park%29

content:
<p>
Canadian Oil Firm Pulls Out of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2017/apr/22/canadian-oil-firm-pulls-out-of-national-park-in-perus-amazon">National
Park in Peru's Amazon</a>.


feed_id: 13a5ec0a3a4a4de6dead0bbf2ff9cb6c
title: Hungry People Last
uri: Hungry-People-Last
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Hungry_People_Last%29
content:
<p>
When the troll says, "America First", it means
"<a href='https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/21/hunger-president-trump-doctrine-takes-poor-gives-rich'>Hungry
People Last</a>."


feed_id: 85b6e42df8398dd037e53257b3f79809
title: Killer Gorsuch
uri: Killer-Gorsuch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Killer_Gorsuch%29
content:
<p>
Killer Gorsuch voted on the Supreme Court for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/21/first-vote-gorsuch-allows-machinery-death-whir-arkansas">executing
a man immediately rather than examining DNA evidence</a> which could
have proved he was innocent.


feed_id: 4fd0e2d7d608224c934bf6880926b695
title: Criticizing Israel's colonies in Palestine
uri: Criticizing-Israel-s-colonies-in-Palestine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Criticizing_Israels_colonies_in_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
The Massachusetts Democratic Party is considering a resolution to
criticize Israel's colonies in Palestine as an 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/21/massachusetts-dems-turmoil-over-proposal-condemn-west-bank-settlements">obstacle
to peace between Israel and Palestine</a>.  There is a lot of
opposition to acknowledging this basic fact.


feed_id: e1dc614380236af86a8c1e60de2b67a4
title: Troll's bombings
uri: Troll-s-bombings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Trolls_bombings%29
content:
<p>
Trumpâs Bombings May Elicit the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/21/trumps-bombings-may-elicit-mother-all-blowback">'Mother
of All Blowback'</a>.


feed_id: 6ab9072bd29a291c25713765a19d0c0c
title: Anti-abortion Democrat
uri: Anti-abortion-Democrat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Anti-abortion_Democrat%29
content:
<p>
Should we endorse an 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/21/sanders-stumping-anti-choice-mayoral-candidate-draws-ire">anti-abortion
Democrat</a> as a replacement for a right-wing Republican?
<p>
I probably would not, because I think that abortion rights are very
important.


feed_id: 107860f13ceff7d87d567c36f7ece449
title: Exxon's request to operate wells in Russia
uri: Exxon-s-request-to-operate-wells-in-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Exxons_request_to_operate_wells_in_Russia%29

content:
<p>
The US Treasury 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/21/exxon-waiver-drill-russia-rejected-treasury-department">denied</a>
Exxon's request for permission to operate oil wells in Russia.


feed_id: 27c4db80c1ca4dc168d1cbdfb840fb0a
title: Troll's handouts to Wall Street
uri: Troll-s-handouts-to-Wall-Street
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Trolls_handouts_to_Wall_Street%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has given Wall Street a big handout with 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/21/latest-populist-betrayal-trump-executive-order-unchains-wall-street-greed">three
executive orders</a>.


feed_id: 8dbb8334d5ce92187bd76a3986dee599
title: Capture of Australia by British colonists
uri: Capture-of-Australia-by-British-colonists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_April_2017_%28Capture_of_Australia_by_British_colonists%29

content:
<p>
British colonists captured Australia in a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/apr/23/black-diggers-are-hailed-on-anzac-day-but-the-indigenous-great-war-was-in-australia">long
slow series of battles, massacres, and hunting aboriginals for
sport</a>.
<p>
I read in <i>The Other Side of the Frontier</i>, by Henry Reynolds,
that colonists would often take the most fertile land in an area for
farming or stock raising, and demand the aboriginals live on the rest
of the area; but that fertile part was the biggest part of their food
supply, so this condemned them to fight or die.


feed_id: aec509cd5d525e3d89b643e06aeab240
title: Urgent: Protection from toxic pollution
uri: Urgent-Protection-from-toxic-pollution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Protection_from_toxic_pollution%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/dont-let-trumps-budget">call
on Congress</a> not to let the troll kill funds for protecting
Americans from toxic pollution.
<p>
The petition's author lived in near toxic industry, and both her
children got peculiar diseases from that.


feed_id: fda5e84259856eea4affa49fdc64e3e6
title: Urgent: Stop ads on bigotry site
uri: Urgent-Stop-ads-on-bigotry-site
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_ads_on_bigotry_site%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Amazon_Breitbart">call on
Amazon</a> to stop advertising on the right-wing bigotry site
Breitbart.
<p>
Amazon does a lot of worse things, which is why I urge people not
to do buy from Amazon at all.


feed_id: cf7404aa20d476095b7a2d482a24969f
title: American public goods
uri: American-public-goods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28American_public_goods%29
content:
<p>
"Public Goods" 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/public-goods-made-america-great-and-can-do-so-again-74421">Made
America Great And Can Do So Again</a>.
<p>
Among public goods, we should count free software and free educational
resources.


feed_id: 456ca45e1196212ae975736171c5c017
title: US government prosecuting 200 protesters
uri: US-government-prosecuting-200-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28US_government_prosecuting_200_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The US government is prosecuting 200 protesters for the 
<a href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a54391/how-the-government-is-turning-protesters-into-felons/">"felony"
of participating in a protest</a> where someone broke windows.
<p>
Even for those who broke the windows, 10 years in prison is repressive
in the extreme.


feed_id: cefdce7315208946a7744e4b826c6a13
title: Troll's executive orders
uri: Troll-s-executive-orders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Trolls_executive_orders%29
content:
<p>
Most of the troll's executive orders don't really change anything.
They only start a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/23/trump-25-executive-orders-100-days">procedure
that might possibly change something</a>.
<p>
That doesn't make them harmless.  The agencies that will carry out
these procedures are run by saboteurs appointed by the troll, and they
will do their utmost to take advantage of these opportunities for
sabotage.


feed_id: d71c24193184c6fbfde524381670104d
title: Journalists murdered in Maldive Islands
uri: Journalists-murdered-in-Maldive-Islands
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Journalists_murdered_in_Maldive_Islands%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/23/maldives-blogger-yameen-rasheed-stabbed-to-death-in-capital">Three
journalists</a> have been murdered, one by one, in the Maldive
Islands.
<p>
It goes with the tyranny that was set up after the overthrow
of the only elected president, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#04_December_2015_(President_of_the_Maldives)">Nasheed</a>.
I suspect that oil interests played a role in the coup that overthrew
Nasheed, because he
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#10_February_2012_(Maldive_Islands)">campaigned
at the global level</a> to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that will
eliminate the Maldive Islands.


feed_id: 7e6d059f969b6e2c18f5ee831209f57b
title: Neocon neoliberalism
uri: Neocon-neoliberalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Neocon_neoliberalism%29
content:
<p>
Trumponomics: Neocon Neoliberalism (and unilateralism) 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/21/trumponomics-neocon-neoliberalism-camouflaged-anti-globalization-circus">Camouflaged
with Anti-Globalization Circus</a>.


feed_id: d061ff2bde1f9bd7f4a4b5a78f40ba10
title: Houston's newly elected prosecutor
uri: Houston-s-newly-elected-prosecutor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Houstons_newly_elected_prosecutor%29

content:
<p>
Houston's newly elected prosecutor has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/18/houston-district-attorney-kim-ogg-marijuana-decriminalization-texas">decided
to stop prosecuting possession of marijuana, and to stop keeping
people in jail for months for being poor</a>.


feed_id: 7b10432c88bbda1420c211b795a05df8
title: New Orleans taking down monuments
uri: New-Orleans-taking-down-monuments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28New_Orleans_taking_down_monuments%29

content:
<p>
New Orleans is taking down 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/24/new-orleans-takes-down-confederate-monuments">monuments
that support the pro-slavery side in the US Civil War</a>.


feed_id: c86a00c9489301eb38718311e7f4f815
title: US race laws studied by Nazi lawyers
uri: US-race-laws-studied-by-Nazi-lawyers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28US_race_laws_studied_by_Nazi_lawyers%29

content:
<p>
Nazi lawyers studied the US race laws that were designed to keep
blacks and Chinese down, as a 
<a href="http://davidswanson.org/node/5516">guide for designing laws
to keep Jews down</a>.


feed_id: c8037db102bc090227d4222e895ce4a9
title: Problem of troll armies
uri: Problem-of-troll-armies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Problem_of_troll_armies%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.accessnow.org/solve-problem-like-troll-armies/">How
to solve</a> the problem of troll armies?


feed_id: 8d891e1c57f48e00d828b053a7ebc99b
title: Restrictions on abortion
uri: 2017-04-28-Restrictions-on-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Restrictions_on_abortion%29
content:
<p>
Restrictions on abortion 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/abortion-is-economic-1b05be2b3d">perpetuate
economic inequality</a>, as well as being fundamentally unjust.
<p>
Nonetheless, I won't say it is wrong for Sanders to support an
anti-abortion progressive Democrat against an anti-abortion
bankster-subservient Republican.


feed_id: 2a40aebb51143cb2ae210ff6825a7e8a
title: 100 Days of Gibberish
uri: 100-Days-of-Gibberish
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28100_Days_of_Gibberish%29
content:
<p>
100 Days of Gibberish — Trump Has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/trump-100-days-gibberish-weaponised-white-house-language-presidency">Weaponised
Nonsense</a>.


feed_id: 4b7b9c8336bb6d2530f9b9526903cff0
title: State Department promotes Mar-a-Lago
uri: State-Department-promotes-Mar-a-Lago
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28State_Department_promotes_Mar-a-Lago%29

content:
<p>
The State Department was promoting the troll's private business, the
Mar-a-Lago club, but it 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/call-state-department-ad-mar-a-lago-plea-for-corruption">stopped
when people named and shamed it</a>.
<p>
In a few decades, Mar-a-Lago will become simply Mar due to sea level
rise.  But that's likely to be after the troll's lifetime.


feed_id: dbe7ce7a0e150f3e9078478e4424018f
title: German foreign minister disobeys Netanyahu
uri: German-foreign-minister-disobeys-Netanyahu
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28German_foreign_minister_disobeys_Netanyahu%29

content:
<p>
Natanyahu gave the German foreign minister an ultimatum: "Cancel your
meetings with Israeli human rights groups or I won't meet with you."
The minister 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/25/israel-snubs-german-foreign-minister-in-row-over-human-rights-talks">did
not obey</a>.


feed_id: 54f12222252438aa6454fd39c5b4cfc7
title: Ivanka Trump met with derision
uri: Ivanka-Trump-met-with-derision
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Ivanka_Trump_met_with_derision%29
content:
<p>
Ivanka Trump met with derision as she 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/25/ivanka-trump-w20-summit-berlin-angela-merkel">claimed
that the troll is trying to help women</a>.
<p>
It may be useful to let her speak occasionally before a live audience,
so that she can't pass off bullshit as believed.
<p>
But 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/dont-mention-ivanka-trump-womens-empowerment-same-breath">not
very often</a>.


feed_id: 578f4e8ca8ab0d477f1e8acff1da8c49
title: Persecution of pacifists in Russia
uri: Persecution-of-pacifists-in-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Persecution_of_pacifists_in_Russia%29

content:
<p>
Putin persecutes Jehovah's Witnesses because they are pacifists,
and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/jehovahs-witnesses-russia-putin-persecution">calls
them "violent extremists"</a>.


feed_id: d0169002ae176c8823bb0d00e9532488
title: Tory cuts in support for the poor
uri: Tory-cuts-in-support-for-the-poor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Tory_cuts_in_support_for_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
Due to Tory cuts in support for the poor, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/24/school-holidays-leave-3-million-children-at-risk-of-hunger-report-says">3
million British children can't eat right</a> at the times of year when
school is not feeding them.


feed_id: 19f4e6af8310972ecc45cda1ecce461a
title: Buying saboteur Senate appointees
uri: Buying-saboteur-Senate-appointees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Buying_saboteur_Senate_appointees%29

content:
<p>
The Koch brothers 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/25/koch-industries-and-other-corporations-lobbied-for-donald-trumps-cabinet-picks-filings-show/">spend
3 million dollars</a> to press the troll's saboteur appointees thru
the Senate.


feed_id: 2d7459a09af78454966c0a8dfa338418
title: Prosecution of Dmitry Bogatov
uri: Prosecution-of-Dmitry-Bogatov
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Prosecution_of_Dmitry_Bogatov%29
content:
<p>
Dmitry Bogatov is being prosecuted in Russia for 
<a href="https://www.accessnow.org/access-now-eff-condemn-arrest-tor-node-operator-dmitry-bogatov-russia/">messages
that others sent through his Tor node</a>.
<p>
In a free country, nobody would be prosecuted for those messages, not
even those who sent them.


feed_id: 85928b1687f0f14eb566ebc525d8006f
title: Court's tendency to side with thugs
uri: Court-s-tendency-to-side-with-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Courts_tendency_to_side_with_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Two Supreme Court justices say the court has a 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/sotomayor-sees-disturbing-trend-of-unequal-treatment-regarding-police-alleged-victims/2017/04/24/dfe8c368-2912-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html">tendency
to take the side of violent thugs</a> against their victims.
<p>
If you ever serve on a jury, keep in mind that thugs have lots of
practice in lying in court.  They have practiced presenting lies
smoothly to make them sound plausible.  One thug's testimony supports
another's because the system ensures they have a chance to coordinate
their stories.  This should raise a reasonable doubt about whatever
they say.


feed_id: 5dfebc904651264671e22d906cd08415
title: South Florida facing inundation
uri: South-Florida-facing-inundation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28South_Florida_facing_inundation%29
content:
<p>
With South Florida including Miami facing inundation due to global
heating, the wiser property owners are starting to sell.  
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-19/the-nightmare-scenario-for-florida-s-coastal-homeowners">Property
values could collapse to near zero</a> once the public realizes the
land will cease to be land.
<p>
In effect, coastal land is a bubble, and the sooner these bubbles
burst, the less harm they do.
<p>
It's more or less the same for coasts around the world, though the
local rate of sea level rise varies.  (It is faster in Florida because
the land is sinking.)  The inundation of ancient ports around the
Mediterranean will be a terrible loss for all humanity, not just for
the people who live in them.
<p>
I propose that the US government should buy out non-rich homeowners
who bought before a certain cutoff date, but only up to a certain
limit.  That would save the poor from being wiped out, while not
wasting money on wealthy people who don't face being wiped out, and
avoid creating a "moral hazard" of encouraging people to buy
properties at risk.
<p>
Those who bought their homes after the cut-off date could receive a
buy-out reduced by 4% for each year between the cut-off date and when
they purchased the property.
<p>
That would be the sensible thing to do, but I'd be surprised if it
were done.


feed_id: f503072abfc7eb47c6c566505d9e520d
title: Tories' delay in welfare support
uri: Tories-delay-in-welfare-support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Tories_delay_in_welfare_support%29
content:
<p>
The Tories' intentional delay in welfare support has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/25/food-banks-report-record-demand-amid-universal-credit-chaos">driven
the need for food banks to a record level</a>.
<p>
The Tories are lower than vermin — 
<a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">Aneurin
Bevan</a>.


feed_id: f72abbdeb9a70ce3ab072cd1cafbb682
title: People granted asylum in UK left homeless
uri: People-granted-asylum-in-UK-left-homeless
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28People_granted_asylum_in_UK_left_homeless%29

content:
<p>
Most of the people granted asylum in the UK are promptly made homeless
and destitute, because 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/25/two-tier-refugee-system-leaves-many-destitute-and-homeless-say-mps">the
government won't support or help them</a>.


feed_id: 22326b14ecbaed2c477b22e545dc4166
title: Tories against renewable electricity generation
uri: Tories-against-renewable-electricity-generation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Tories_against_renewable_electricity_generation%29

content:
<p>
The Tories 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/25/uk-windfarm-subsidies-ban-cheap-energy-electricity">fight
to the last drop of oil combustion</a> against renewable electricity
generation.


feed_id: e6f0fc8b239a236b1ddf0806310d7414
title: President Do-dirty
uri: 2017-04-28-President-Do-dirty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28President_Do-dirty%29
content:
<p>
The International Criminal Court has received a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/25/mass-complaint-launched-against-philippines-president-duterte-at-icc">complaint
about the mass murder</a> of President Do-dirty of the Philippines.


feed_id: f17a9c6ff54825bc4d4530d2ad66c9e2
title: Privatizing state assets
uri: Privatizing-state-assets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Privatizing_state_assets%29
content:
<p>
Privatizing state assets generally means the new owners make a killing
at state expense.  Here's 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/apr/25/mod-privatise-military-housing-disaster-guy-hands">how
it happened to the UK's military housing</a>.
<p>
If the private financier that wants to buy is in favor of the deal,
that's enough to show the state should reject the deal.


feed_id: ecf398da4f07f950d952ba161c04a1d5
title: US bail system
uri: US-bail-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28US_bail_system%29
content:
<p>
The US bail system regularly 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/25/california-bail-system-tiffany-li-joseph-warren">ruins
the lives of poor people whenever they are accused of a crime</a>.  If
they make bail, they go away with debts they cannot pay.  If they
don't make bail, they lose their careers and their homes.  That's
regardless of whether they are ultimately convicted of the charges.
<p>
Many people make false confessions just to get out of jail.


feed_id: 43b96a25cc622fe15b6c4fd9234d584d
title: Obama's campaign against PISSI
uri: Obama-s-campaign-against-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Obamas_campaign_against_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
Obama's campaign against <a href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> has been advancing 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/23/1654605/-Only-Trump-can-save-ISIS-now">slowly
but surely</a>.  "Only Trump can save ISIS now."


feed_id: f28e0639b504afe280ccf5a131c8535f
title: Loss of jobs in US retail stores
uri: Loss-of-jobs-in-US-retail-stores
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Loss_of_jobs_in_US_retail_stores%29

content:
<p>
Almost 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/23/1654092/-The-YUGE-job-losses-Trump-is-ignoring-retail-workers">90,000
jobs</a> have been lost in US retail stores since last October —
and this could be just the beginning of a disaster that affects
millions of jobs.
<p>
In a physical store, you can buy anonymously.  Internet purchases are
a surveillance system.  That is why I have never bought anything over
the internet.  Please buy in physical stores by preference.


feed_id: 7f3a2af1dda2f734a8cbd109829de4ad
title: US Chamber of Commerce
uri: 2017-04-28-US-Chamber-of-Commerce
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28US_Chamber_of_Commerce%29
content:
<p>
Calling on Disney, Pepsico, and the Gap to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/24/disney-the-gap-and-pepsi-urged-to-quit-us-chamber-of-commerce">quit
the US Chamber of Commerce</a>.


feed_id: c1a3857e85ebc205866f5f9b75c24277
title: Al-Sisi's military regime shooting prisoners
uri: Al-Sisi-s-military-regime-shooting-prisoners
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_%28Al-Sisis_military_regime_shooting_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Al-Sisi's military regime is shooting prisoners, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/24/the-guardian-view-on-egypts-dictatorship-a-war-of-sisis-own-making">losing
the war in the Sinai</a> that it provoked by the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_August_2013_(Egyptian_suppression_forces_attacked_Morsi_supporters%27_protest_camps)">bloody
coup against the elected president, Morsi</a>.  Once Islamists in
Egypt saw they would not be allowed to win democratically, they were
motivated to join an armed uprising.
<p>
Islamists do not respect human rights either, but under a system of
free elections it would have been possible to vote them out of power.
Al-Sisi does not allow opposition at all.


feed_id: 508998e35cddb5a7bacf4184d05138fb
title: Urgent: SJRes 40
uri: Urgent-SJRes-40
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#28_April_2017_%28Urgent%3A_SJRes_40%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/senate-dont-imitate-catch">call
on the senate</a> to pass SJRes 40, which would call on the troll to
certify that <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> is not arming al-Qa'ida before selling the
former any more arms.
<p>
I would go further.  The US should refrain from meddling in Yemen.  By
doing so, it has 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_October_2016_(Cease-fire_in_Yemen)">prolonged
the civil war there</a> which has since
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#6_September_2016_(Famine_in_Yemen)">led
to famine</a>.
<p>
More fundamentally, <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> is responsible for the spread of
virulent, jihadi forms of Islam, that have reached the point of
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-mar-jun.html#04%20April%202008%20(Prominent%20Suadi%20cleric%20calls%20for%20executions)">murdering
the believers in civil, neighborly Muslims</a>.  It has
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#1_August_2016_(Funders_of_violent_jihadi_groups)">funded
this for decades</a>.
<p>
The US has done plenty to inspire Muslims' hostility: first supporting
Israel's occupation of Palestine, and since 15 years ago fighting wars
of aggression in the Middle East.  However, these work together with the
spread of Salafism.


feed_id: ec18b8511469cd1aae26e3938b56c0b9
title: Very urgent: War Powers Resolution
uri: Very-urgent-War-Powers-Resolution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#28_April_2017_%28Urgent%3A_War_Powers_Resolution%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at (202) 224-3121 and say, "I
urge you to invoke the War Powers Resolution to force a debate and
vote before the U.S. helps Saudi Arabia push Yemen into famine
by bombing the port of Hodeida."
<p>
More info is in 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/house-assert-war-powers">this 
petition</a>, which I suggest signing.


feed_id: 9da809fb31d12825a98108b3bf04dcac
title: Islamic States Terrorist Sneaking into Europe
uri: Islamic-States-Terrorist-Sneaking-into-Europe
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#30_April_2017_%28Islamic_States_Terrorist_Sneaking_into_Europe%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/28/islamic-state-fighters-infiltrate-europe-posing-injured-libyan-soldiers">
Islamic States terrorists may be sneaking into Europe by posing as wounded
Libyan soldiers
</a>.


feed_id: b977530bba396fafb0b24897728a9670
title: Brazil Corrupt Politicians
uri: Brazil-Corrupt-Politicians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#30_April_2017_%28Brazil_Corrupt_Politicians%29
content:
<p>
Brazilians Sick of Corrupt Politicians <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/28/brazil-corruption-unions-strike-michel-temer-austerity">Hit the Streets to Protest Austerity
Measures.</a>
<p>
Plutocratist politicians speak of "reforms" when what they mean is
to eliminate workers' rights and reduce their pay.
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/brazil-paralyzed-by-nationwide-strike-driven-by-a-familiar-global-dynamic-of-elite-corruption/">More information here</a>.


feed_id: 2414fd7aa10524bc0e66b5be66a1b7af
title: Turkey Blocks Wikipedia
uri: Turkey-Blocks-Wikipedia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#30_April_2017_%28Turkey_Blocks_Wikipedia%29
content:
<p>
Erdo¿an has underligned his repressive vision for Turkey by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/29/turkey-blocks-wikipedia-under-law-designed-to-protect-national-security">blocking
access to Wikipedia</a>.


feed_id: 5228576dca112494616a2beeb26da8c6
title: Horseshit Silicon Valley
uri: Horseshit-Silicon-Valley
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#30_April_2017_%28Horseshit_Silicon_Valley%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://medium.com/@freddiedeboer/the-three-hot-trends-in-silicon-valley-horseshit-95cc5a85e8a4">The Three Hot Trends in Silicon Valley Horseshit</a>.


feed_id: aed4dbcbab131977b594f5a2f7e59bde
title: Urgent: No spending on troll's wall
uri: Urgent-No-spending-on-troll-s-wall
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_spending_on_trolls_wall%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-congress-no-border-wall-money/">call
on Congress</a> not to spend any money on the troll's border wall.


feed_id: 654443cbfb79015c3cd548cacc851199
title: Urgent: Network neutrality
uri: 2017-05-02-Urgent-Network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: stand for network neutrality 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Pai-netneutrality_dems/">yet
again</a>.


feed_id: c53671854d51f7dfc643e61fda5619ac
title: Arkansas governor rushes to kill man
uri: Arkansas-governor-rushes-to-kill-man
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_May_2017_%28Arkansas_governor_rushes_to_kill_man%29

content:
<p>
Arkansas governor Hutchinson rushed to execute a man 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/24/its-rush-kill-arkansas-may-have-executed-innocent-man">whose
trial was a series of bullshit</a> and whose defense attorneys omitted
the most obvious steps.
<p>
In effect, Hutchinson said, "Never mind justice, let's kill someone."


feed_id: 7785ee90dbff0c688dc55f333d3c2281
title: Humans Blows Volcanoes Away on CO2
uri: Humans-Blows-Volcanoes-Away-on-CO2
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_May_2017_%28Humans_Blows_Volcanoes_Away_on_CO2%29
content:
<p>
Humans emit 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/oct/07/carbon-footprint-volcano">100 times as much CO2</a> as volcanoes do.


feed_id: c6322b8d1b5eb1ad46acf38140a8f182
title: Turkey Blocks Wikipedia
uri: 2017-05-02-Turkey-Blocks-Wikipedia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_April_2017_%28Turkey_Blocks_Wikipedia%29
content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an has underlined his repressive vision for Turkey by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/29/turkey-blocks-wikipedia-under-law-designed-to-protect-national-security">blocking
access to Wikipedia</a>.


feed_id: 08f42571c1b0764a3a0d8836397cf103
title: Sea level rise forecasts
uri: Sea-level-rise-forecasts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Sea_level_rise_forecasts%29
content:
<p>
As sea level rise forecasts for California 
<a href="http://www.ocregister.com/2017/04/26/ocean-might-swallow-california-sooner-than-you-think/">increase</a>,
it appears that inundation threatens houses, beaches, roads, bridges,
railways, and nuclear power plants.
<p>
40,000 houses could disappear beneath the Pacific Ocean, or San
Francisco Bay, in 70 years.
<p>
Of course, global heating could go even faster if some new positive
feedback appears.


feed_id: 9edd116eae6107beee76d7afbc3dc734
title: "Regulatory Accountability Act"
uri: Regulatory-Accountability-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Regulatory_Accountability_Act%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> have proposed the "Regulatory Accountability Act" to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/04/26/science-based-public-health-safety-protections-would-be-devastated-raa">make
regulations more accountable to the companies they are supposed to
regulate</a>.
<p>
The idea is that regulation should be so gentle that it won't hamper
companies from making people sick or broke.
<p>
Republicans have campaigned for years to turn "regulation" into a
smear term so they can 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/26/trumps-hundred-days-rage-and-rapacity">permit
businesses to harm and cheat the public with no regulations to hold
them back</a>.


feed_id: 6625ce1083dafa50fa1ffe51a3eede8e
title: Troll's budget
uri: 2017-05-03-Troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s budget would 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/26/womens-rights-chopping-block-trump-budget-leaked-docs-show">eliminate
spending to support women's rights, world wide</a>.


feed_id: f209f5907a9cac4f19148f5db816bc0c
title: Holding prosecutors accountable
uri: Holding-prosecutors-accountable
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Holding_prosecutors_accountable%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU is campaigning to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/04/26/effort-significantly-reduce-us-jail-and-prison-population-aclu-launches-new">hold
prosecutors accountable for their decisions</a>, with the goal of
reducing mass imprisonment in the US.


feed_id: 7903a6acc39d39494b9f86c0f1c9d671
title: Divestment from fossil fuels
uri: 2017-05-03-Divestment-from-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Divestment_from_fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>
Harvard is starting to respond to years of pressure to divest
from fossil fuels.  It will 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/04/26/harvard-pauses-fossil-fuel-investment-natural-resources-portfolio-students">"pause"
in buying such stocks</a>.
<p>
Seems more disappointing than exciting.


feed_id: fbd0c9073c101f403a646cd94fb212ff
title: Tax cuts for rich corporations
uri: Tax-cuts-for-rich-corporations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Tax_cuts_for_rich_corporations%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/26/5-reasons-why-trumps-corporate-tax-cut-appallingly-dumb">arguments</a>
for tax cuts for rich corporations are bogus.


feed_id: e6a7bb541a4fffd1809b6c9ae4f199ab
title: Repression of democracy supporters in HK
uri: Repression-of-democracy-supporters-in-HK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Repression_of_democracy_supporters_in_HK%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/27/new-arrests-in-hong-kong-as-police-charge-nine-democracy-activists">Systematic
repression</a> of democracy supporters in Hong Kong.


feed_id: f0121eddf70ee5e7a3afd2f0cd2bd92d
title: Terrorists aim to expel Christians in Egypt
uri: Terrorists-aim-to-expel-Christians-in-Egypt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Terrorists_aim_to_expel_Christians_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
Islamist terrorists now aim to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/27/egypt-christians-papal-visit-pope-francis">expel
or kill the Christians that remain in Egypt</a>.


feed_id: 80c1d5224ec1ad84df2c69fa826af312
title: Russia wants investigation of sarin use
uri: Russia-wants-investigation-of-sarin-use
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Russia_wants_investigation_of_sarin_use%29

content:
<p>
Russia 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/25/syria-chemical-attack-investigation-russia-opcw">wants
the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to send an
investigation team to Khan Sheikhun</a> to verify whether the deadly
chemical released there was sarin.  The western countries in the
organization voted against this, leading to suspicion they are
covering something up.
<p>
Assad and Russia together can surely assure the safety of inspectors
from their side, and if the rebels refuse, the onus will fall on them.


feed_id: ee15dce11c79dd1538fe17cc49ce8cf3
title: Copyright
uri: 2017-05-03-Copyright
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Copyright%29
content:
<p>
The copyright industry wants to 
<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/330175-with-registrar-of-copyrights-bill-big-media-seeks-its-own-in">convert
the head of the copyright office into its own servant</a> by having
the president appoint him.
<p>
I expect this to make it very hard to get any significant DMCA
exemptions in the future.  The DMCA exceptions process is basically a
distraction, meant to divert energy away from campaigning to repeal
the unjust sections of the DMCA.  But it has provided limited relief
from the wrong, because the copyright office has granted some
exemptions.  If it stops, maybe we can mobilize opposition to the
DMCA again.
<p>
Nonetheless, I oppose this change, and I hope some organization will
start a campaign against it that I can support.  I do not believe in
endorsing a change for the worse on the supposition that it might spur
opposition.
<p>
The idea that copyright should "balance" interests of copyright
holders with those of the public 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html">gives
the copyright holders too much importance</a>.  Copyright is supposed
to balance one aspect of public interest with another aspect of public
interest.


feed_id: 3c8df0436eec2bd4638a0a3aa1aabc54
title: Campaign to raise federal minimum wage
uri: Campaign-to-raise-federal-minimum-wage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Campaign_to_raise_federal_minimum_wage%29

content:
<p>
The campaign to raise the federal minimum wage has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/26/22-dems-supporting-sanders-15-minimum-wage-bill-and-24-who-are-not">grown
considerably stronger since two years ago</a>.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> will not support it, but the effort is worth while because it
shows that they stand for low wages.


feed_id: 4b767f2c7df82aa1086c070139c6da98
title: Defending speech we hate
uri: Defending-speech-we-hate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Defending_speech_we_hate%29
content:
<p>
We All Need to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/26/we-all-need-defend-speech-we-hate">Defend
Speech We Hate</a>.  Even right-wing bigots such as Ann Coulter or the
troll should not be blocked from speaking to people.


feed_id: f3be06c8f2653368fd247549c2a057af
title: Sex robots that send your data to companies
uri: Sex-robots-that-send-your-data-to-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Sex_robots_that_send_your_data_to_companies%29

content:
<p>
A sex robot with AI could eventually become a diverting companion, but
it would 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/27/race-to-build-world-first-sex-robot">tell
various companies everything about you</a>.
<p>
If you use your imagination, a fantasy that costs you nothing can be
as enjoyable as an expensive robot, and it won't spy on you.


feed_id: bffb084b1a2ccd24dce655c12884a535
title: Troll to "renegotiate" NAFTA
uri: Troll-to-renegotiate-NAFTA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Troll_to_renegotiate_NAFTA%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> plans to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/27/donald-trump-to-stick-with-nafta-free-trade-pact-despite-vow-to-leave">"renegotiate"
NAFTA</a>, not kill it.
<p>
In principle, renegotiation could make NAFTA less damaging, or more
damaging.  NAFTA is damaging because it is a business-supremacy
treaty, and we can't expect the troll to oppose that in general.
<p>
It is also quite likely that ultimately he won't do anything;
that this is a preparation for forgetting about the issue.


feed_id: f5f709d0211f7ab607bd3493cb4949dc
title: Turkey bombing Syrian Kurds
uri: Turkey-bombing-Syrian-Kurds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Turkey_bombing_Syrian_Kurds%29
content:
<p>
Turkey has begun 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/26/turkish-forces-kurds-syria-airstrikes">bombing
the Syrian Kurds</a>.
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an has a history of grasping for excuses to start wars.
He started a civil war with the Kurds of Turkey in order to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#17_August_2015_(Provoking_PKK)">rerun
an election and get more votes</a>.  He is likely to grasp this excuse
for all-out war against the Kurds of Syria.


feed_id: ddceedf383fdffbccf7d2be257db87ac
title: Pakistani student murdered for blasphemy
uri: Pakistani-student-murdered-for-blasphemy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Pakistani_student_murdered_for_blasphemy%29

content:
<p>
Pakistanis are defending the student, Mashal Khan, who was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/26/lynching-of-a-student-sparks-uproar-in-pakistan-against-blasphemy-laws">accused
of blasphemy and murdered</a>.
<p>
Alas, it seems that this is more because they think the accusation was
erroneous than because of new-found respect for freedom of speech.


feed_id: 03e6a4dee921c6487a7f8d07c0bcddbf
title: Slipshod capital trials in Oklahoma
uri: Slipshod-capital-trials-in-Oklahoma
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Slipshod_capital_trials_in_Oklahoma%29

content:
<p>
A state investigation found that capital trials, and executions, in
Oklahoma are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/26/innocent-people-have-been-sentenced-to-death-in-oklahoma-commission-concludes/">so
slipshod it strains belief</a>.
<p>
I disagree with the supporters of execution, but still I am surprised
they are so careless in deciding who to kill.


feed_id: 380f13343d8a65793e9f1458b1e1a0aa
title: Zero-hours contracts
uri: 2017-05-03-Zero-hours-contracts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Zero-hours_contracts%29
content:
<p>
McDonalds has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/25/mcdonalds-contracts-uk-zero-hours-workers">offered
fixed-hours contracts</a> to many of its workers in the UK.


feed_id: fa01d35d40bfe34480ba0a1d7f98115e
title: Troll not following his pledge
uri: Troll-not-following-his-pledge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Troll_not_following_his_pledge%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/25/betraying-hire-american-pledge-trump-rewards-companies-offshoring-us-jobs">not
following his pledge to punish companies that send US jobs to other
countries</a>.


feed_id: c4a2be6b1816377bb16e9188fc8b114d
title: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
uri: 2017-05-03-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Bureau
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau%29

content:
<p>
How <a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/04/25/financial-choice-act-cruel-choice-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-consumers">want
to make the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau totally
ineffective</a>.


feed_id: b943a07d87a162163bf21e81d6006801
title: Privatized charter schools in New Orleans
uri: Privatized-charter-schools-in-New-Orleans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Privatized_charter_schools_in_New_Orleans%29

content:
<p>
After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans replaced public schools with
privatized charter schools 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/25/everything-wrong-charter-schools-display-new-orleans">do
a lousy job, and are segregated too</a>.


feed_id: ceee54c10a1087af5c1cff7321e85a1e
title: Senate's phony Trump-Russia investigation
uri: Senate-s-phony-Trump-Russia-investigation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Senates_phony_Trump-Russia_investigation%29

content:
<p>
The Senate's Trump-Russia investigation is a phony — it is
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/23/senate-trump-russia-probe-has-no-full-time-staff-no-key-witnesses.html">not
actually investigating</a>.


feed_id: b50266f5792dd6012e457e53e454c563
title: Heath Mello
uri: Heath-Mello
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Heath_Mello%29
content:
<p>
It seems that Heath Mello, the candidate that Sanders recently
campaigned for, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/25/why-was-heath-mello-thrown-under-bus">doesn't
actually advocate restrictions on abortion</a>.  He says he is opposed
to that.


feed_id: 6370a64854c33db5e189b921b7fea70b
title: Spying on US students
uri: Spying-on-US-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Spying_on_US_students%29
content:
<p>
1/3 of the primary and secondary school students in the US have been
given computers to use, and these 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/wp/school-issued-devices-and-student-privacy">nearly
always spy on the student</a>.
<p>
The EFF doesn't mention that devices are fundamentally unjust because
they contain nonfree software.


feed_id: b651e2a1ee285e30344bbadf69a11fcd
title: Urgent: No immigration prison expansion
uri: Urgent-No-immigration-prison-expansion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_immigration_prison_expansion%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=68620">Oppose
expanding</a> US immigration prisons; spend the money on something
that helps people.


feed_id: 7cd8afec25481b07c066ef32f45cd7c0
title: Urgent: No using military as political prop
uri: Urgent-No-using-military-as-political-prop
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_using_military_as_political_prop%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://go.commondefensepac.com/page/s/we-are-not-political-props">tell
the troll</a> not to use the US military as political props.


feed_id: f3329dc0a78c43cd0b175e0830edce2f
title: Urgent: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
uri: 2017-05-03-Urgent-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Bureau
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-congress-oppose-any-efforts-undermine-cfpb/">Tell
Congress</a> not to mess with the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau.


feed_id: 62f759ef4889030109f3ccc157c4e5e9
title: Freedom of the press in Britain
uri: Freedom-of-the-press-in-Britain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Freedom_of_the_press_in_Britain%29
content:
<p>
Reporters Without Borders says that freedom of the press in Britain is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/apr/26/uk-world-press-freedom-index-reporters-without-borders">in
danger</a> from Theresa May's prohibition on publishing leaks.


feed_id: 017be08015693c7c19890ba57a0ff022
title: Abortions in Afghanistan
uri: Abortions-in-Afghanistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Abortions_in_Afghanistan%29
content:
<p>
In Afghanistan, abortions save lives, but they are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/apr/26/human-toll-abortion-afghanistan">still
illegal</a>.


feed_id: 0b1cb70fd32fafa604da30e32e00b62c
title: Environmental security and public health
uri: Environmental-security-and-public-health
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Environmental_security_and_public_health%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/26/donald-trump-is-slashing-programs-linking-climate-change-to-u-s-national-security/">wants
to cancel</a> programs that help cities protect environmental security
and public health.


feed_id: 85fda4b22dd4d26b148eb688b0417eda
title: US national monuments
uri: US-national-monuments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28US_national_monuments%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/26/trump-national-monuments-review-obama-wilderness">threatens
to abolish several national monuments</a>.


feed_id: 478a4ad1a0b7b23d2e879d55efcc86d7
title: US and UK laws blocking humanitarian aid
uri: US-and-UK-laws-blocking-humanitarian-aid
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28US_and_UK_laws_blocking_humanitarian_aid%29

content:
<p>
US and UK laws against "supporting terrorism" are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/apr/26/anti-terrorism-laws-have-chilling-effect-on-vital-aid-deliveries-to-somalia">blocking
humanitarian aid to Somalia</a>.


feed_id: 71e34e295c283f4a26082fa9796144fc
title: China arrests elected Hong Kong legislators
uri: China-arrests-elected-Hong-Kong-legislators
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28China_arrests_elected_Hong_Kong_legislators%29

content:
<p>
Two elected Hong Kong legislators, barred from the legislature by
henchmen of China, have now been arrested and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/26/hong-kong-police-detain-pro-independence-lawmakers-after-china-protest">charged
with a forbidden protest</a>.
<p>
It seems the US is not the only country that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_January_2017_(Indiscriminately_charging)">fabricates
charges to repress political protest</a>.


feed_id: 3d49ab06838002b49bb5c8bf21194c4b
title: Foreign policy
uri: Foreign-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Foreign_policy%29
content:
<p>
Where Is the Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/25/where-elizabeth-warren-or-bernie-sanders-foreign-policy">Foreign
Policy</a>?


feed_id: 9274a1c29fbb2eae1359bed40b34da68
title: Troll's retreat from promises
uri: Troll-s-retreat-from-promises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Trolls_retreat_from_promises%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has retreated from 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/25/president-trumps-dramatic-retreat-trade">most
of what he said he would do about international trade</a>.


feed_id: 6927e23b7e049b09eabc664af7e26ef7
title: The right to die
uri: 2017-05-03-The-right-to-die
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28The_right_to_die%29
content:
<p>
Olive Beddows begged her husband to kill her so she would not die in a
nursing home.  He
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/25/denver-beddows-95-mercy-killing">tried,
but failed</a>.  I suspect he couldn't bring himself to hit her hard
enough, what with loving her so much.
<p>
I fear they will put her in a nursing home, even if not right away.


feed_id: f4b6b017ac4de15f433262a248a92257
title: Milwaukee County jail guards kill prisoner
uri: Milwaukee-County-jail-guards-kill-prisoner
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Milwaukee_County_jail_guards_kill_prisoner%29

content:
<p>
Milwaukee County Jail guards killed prisoner Terrill Thomas by 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/4/24/1655960/-Inmate-who-died-of-dehydration-in-Sheriff-Clarke-s-jail-had-water-turned-off-for-seven-days">denying
him water for 7 days</a>.


feed_id: d773620c19e7cd02ab086507965e889b
title: Troll rewards offshoring American jobs
uri: Troll-rewards-offshoring-American-jobs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Troll_rewards_offshoring_American_jobs%29

content:
<p>
New Report Reveals Trump Is Not Punishing Corporations That Offshore
American Jobs, But
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/04/25/new-report-reveals-trump-not-punishing-corporations-offshore-american-jobs">Awarding
Them New Government Contracts</a>.


feed_id: fd0d35af6df287cca2a837eb1d64596c
title: Nonviolent Palestinian protest
uri: Nonviolent-Palestinian-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Nonviolent_Palestinian_protest%29
content:
<p>
Israel can't cope with nonviolent Palestinian protest and opposition
except to
<a href="http://lobelog.com/palestinian-prisoners-hunger-strike/">smear
it as "support for terrorism"</a>.
<p>
Marwan Barghouti, one of the leaders of the prisoners' hunger strike,
was convicted in Israel of murder -- but the Inter-Parliamentary Union
says his trial was unfair and that his guilt is not established.
<p>
The article describes how unfair trial, even pretrial torture to
extract false confessions, is standard practice in Israel when dealing
with accused Palestinians.  
<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/04/palestinian-prisoners-share-stories-170416132359955.html">More
information about that</a>.
<p>
Israel has 
<a href="http://imemc.org/article/israeli-prevents-pps-attorney-from-visiting-detainees-in-ofer/">blocked
lawyers</a> from meeting with the hunger strikers.
<p>
Could 
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4950793,00.html">Barghouti</a>
Become Israel's Peace Partner?


feed_id: 1b31cdd80f4e1beb105f3646f53bb396
title: Israel selling natural gas
uri: Israel-selling-natural-gas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Israel_selling_natural_gas%29
content:
<p>
Israel is selling natural gas 
<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/04/israel-europe-gas-deal-sparks-criticism-170411073907336.html">from
a field underneath Israel and Palestine</a>.  Naturally it isn't
giving Palestine any say or any share.  Basically that is theft.
<p>
However, the most important thing about fossil fuel deposits is not
who gets to burn them, but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/16/why-we-need-keep-80-percent-fossil-fuels-ground">avoiding
burning them at all</a>.  If the pipeline from Israel to Europe is
actually put to use at the scheduled completion in 2025, Israel and
Palestine will both be doomed.  There is no possible good in spending
money to build a pipeline in these circumstances, regardless of who
will get paid for a while.


feed_id: c5b1741b9ca0398a0ced4a30d2f88d85
title: Attacks on Palestinian shepherds
uri: Attacks-on-Palestinian-shepherds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Attacks_on_Palestinian_shepherds%29
content:
<p>
Extremist "settlers" repeatedly attacked Palestinian shepherds,
driving them off their land.  Israeli thugs naturally did nothing to
stop this.  When nonviolent Israeli activists came to support the
shepherds, the "settlers" 
<a href="https://972mag.com/settler-attack-showcases-impunity-of-jewish-extremists/126847/">attacked
them too</a>.
<p>
On one occasion, they attacked Israeli thugs as well.  But that is no
longer necessary; the thugs have learned their lesson and now
blatantly give the Israeli terrorists full support.
<p>
<a href="https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2017/4/22/israeli-settlers-attack-peace-activists-in-west-bank">More
information</a>.


feed_id: f150f7284e38fd13858f33116960af76
title: Troll's favors to investors
uri: Troll-s-favors-to-investors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Trolls_favors_to_investors%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has had a very successful 100 days when it comes to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/24/president-trumps-corporate-government">giving
favors to the companies that have invested in his presidency</a>.


feed_id: b401d8584aa3da2c5a6349fde7d56bc6
title: Public school funding
uri: Public-school-funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Public_school_funding%29
content:
<p>
Kucinich has launched a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/24/dennis-kucinich-back-his-sights-set-profit-education">campaign
against siphoning off money from public schools to fund privatized
charter schools</a>.


feed_id: 1a339820bec67b91527b6e950317f531
title: Drilling national parks
uri: Drilling-national-parks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Drilling_national_parks%29
content:
<p>
One of the troll's executive orders gave <a href="/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> of the Interior
Zinke an
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/04/national-parks-oil-gas-drilling">opportunity
to allow</a> drilling for oil and gas in national parks.


feed_id: 85e5d1519605d19cdecb7c802d68ffc2
title: UK general election
uri: 2017-05-03-UK-general-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28UK_general_election%29
content:
<p>
George Monbiot: "I would love to elect a government led by someone
both competent and humane, but this option will not be on the ballot
paper. The choice today is between 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/vote-labour-jeremy-corbyn-theresa-may'>brutal
efficiency in pursuit of a disastrous agenda, and gentle inefficiency
in pursuit of a better world</a>. I know which I favour."


feed_id: a26e86ec3a03a82551cc6d96d6b61fa3
title: Russians getting angry at corruption
uri: Russians-getting-angry-at-corruption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Russians_getting_angry_at_corruption%29

content:
<p>
Russians are getting angry at the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/apr/25/unequal-russia-is-anger-stirring-in-the-global-capital-of-inequality">massive
corruption of the high officials</a>.


feed_id: 574e3d3e57796e3407a0b15f348e40e4
title: Ethical clothing
uri: Ethical-clothing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Ethical_clothing%29
content:
<p>
Some companies are promoting 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/apr/25/sustainable-clothing-fashion-revolution-week-rana-plaza-emma-watson">ethical
clothing</a> — less pollution and decent treatment of workers.


feed_id: fb90710da2751c3bb95fc2ede4748ae6
title: Preserving EU's laws in Britain
uri: Preserving-EU-s-laws-in-Britain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_May_2017_%28Preserving_EUs_laws_in_Britain%29
content:
<p>
Labour proposes to continue taking Britain out of the EU but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/labour-brexit-plan-tory-blank-cheque">preserve
almost all of the EU's laws</a>.
<p>
This might perhaps avoid most of the harm that the Tories will end up
doing.  It will also avoid nearly all the possible good of leaving the
EU: eliminating plutocratic laws that give business too much power and
oppress countries such as Greece.  However, the Tories don't want to
eliminate those laws anyway -- quite the contrary, they are looking
for an excuse to make those <em>worse</em>.


feed_id: a187044d0bdfde0e37645dbc860614b3
title: Urgent: Preserve national monuments
uri: Urgent-Preserve-national-monuments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Preserve_national_monuments%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4236">call
on Zinke</a> to preserve national monuments.


feed_id: 07d5f4537d6ba30aca4397670ca86689
title: Urgent: Legalized marijuana
uri: Urgent-Legalized-marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Legalized_marijuana%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.signherenow.org/petition/let-states-regulate-marijuana/defazio/e/">Tell
the troll</a> not to interfere with states that have legalized and
regulated marijuana.


feed_id: 99d65b638d22f275e175f104f9d9e372
title: Urgent: Troll's tax returns
uri: Urgent-Troll-s-tax-returns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Trolls_tax_returns%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_tax_legislation">tell
Congress</a> not to pass any tax legislation until the troll publishes
his tax returns.


feed_id: b30084abaf732afb17e3d6b1ada67075
title: Urgent: Force vote before attack on Hodeida
uri: Urgent-Force-vote-before-attack-on-Hodeida
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Force_vote_before_attack_on_Hodeida%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/house-assert-war-powers">call
on the House of Representatives</a> to force vote before General
Mattis attacks the Yemeni port of Hodeida, pushing Yemen into famine.


feed_id: ca3f0acde52feafbbdd26374e322dd16
title: Urgent: Suspend Kushner's security clearance
uri: Urgent-Suspend-Kushner-s-security-clearance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Suspend_Kushners_security_clearance%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/suspend-jared-kushners-1">call
for immediate suspension</a> of Jared Kushner's Interim Top-Secret
Security Clearance.


feed_id: 484008e36a043be15581cb3f96d8e754
title: Tennessee governor's blatant corruption
uri: Tennessee-governor-s-blatant-corruption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Tennessee_governors_blatant_corruption%29

content:
<p>
Tennessee's governor encourages state agencies to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/27/tennessees-billionaire-governor-works-with-his-corporate-buddies-to-privatize-government-jobs/">subcontract
jobs to a company that he profits from</a>.
<p>
He's a Republican, naturally.  Republican officials feel that, in the
troll's wake, no corruption is too blatant.


feed_id: f37584b25f03848900d4bceb89a544eb
title: Repression of unauthorized immigrants
uri: Repression-of-unauthorized-immigrants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Repression_of_unauthorized_immigrants%29

content:
<p>
Texas Republicans are passing a bill to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/27/texas-sanctuary-cities-bill-police-detain-immigrants">imprison
thug chiefs that don't cooperate 100% with repression</a> of
unauthorized immigrants.
<p>
They seek to whip up Americans' hatred of foreigners, then offer
Americans the excitement of vicarious participation in repressing
them.


feed_id: aee2564e062152b0c15ff493a43879eb
title: Ending deforestation for palm oil
uri: Ending-deforestation-for-palm-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Ending_deforestation_for_palm_oil%29
content:
<p>
Greenpeace says that palm oil company IOI Group has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/28/greenpeace-halt-campaign-against-palm-oil-trader-that-has-come-a-long-way">made
progress in ending deforestation</a>, and has dropped its pressure
campaign against that company.


feed_id: 0708bbcdc524066d4c79a82c2418a1b8
title: Slavery in India
uri: Slavery-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Slavery_in_India%29
content:
<p>
Slavery in India is tied up in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/apr/28/what-i-learned-from-india-slaveowners-austin-choi-fitzpatrick">social
networks</a> that make it very difficult to put an end to.


feed_id: 3ea8e00542d42975727b0171bd46d5c2
title: Imprisonment of human rights lawyer
uri: Imprisonment-of-human-rights-lawyer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Imprisonment_of_human_rights_lawyer%29

content:
<p>
Chinese human rights lawyer Li Heping was given a suspended sentence
— for a bogus crime, in a secret trial, after 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/28/china-convicts-rights-lawyer-li-heping-of-subversion-of-state-power">2
years of imprisonment with torture</a>.


feed_id: 6efcb6b5428e486345a72f913d472737
title: Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
uri: Madres-de-la-Plaza-de-Mayo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Madres_de_la_Plaza_de_Mayo%29
content:
<p>
The Madres de la Plaza de Mayo 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/28/mothers-plaza-de-mayo-argentina-anniversary">fear
that the right-wing government of Argentina will cover up the 1970s
murder of their children</a> with systematic lies.


feed_id: 1ddafaefecb26a50573b9ecce999758e
title: Union organizers in southern US
uri: Union-organizers-in-southern-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Union_organizers_in_southern_US%29
content:
<p>
Union organizers in the right-wing southern US 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/unions-us-south-fight-for-15-labor-movement">have
to reach out to an entire community</a>, not just the workers in a
particular company.


feed_id: a2d03836d9e667ec9ece3dda18be1e9b
title: Death penalty
uri: 2017-05-03-Death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Death_penalty%29
content:
<p>
Kayla Greenwood, whose father was killed by Kenneth Williams, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/27/dear-governor-please-dont-execute-kennth-williams">begged
the governor not to execute him</a>.
<p>
It is a moving letter, though I denounce the idea that the state
should reduce someone's punishment because that person became
religious.
<p>
The governor, standing firm for the principle that the state is
mercilessness, carried out the execution anyway.
<p>
Most of us will not be sentenced to death, but we could easily be
hit by that immoral principle in lesser ways.


feed_id: 2b07816e89fbd288838dd9870732c419
title: Systematic lie-fabrication campaigns
uri: Systematic-lie-fabrication-campaigns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Systematic_lie-fabrication_campaigns%29

content:
<p>
Holocaust denial was an early example of the sort of systematic
lie-fabrication campaigns that the right-wing now uses 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/apr/27/holocaust-denial-leaflets-at-australian-universities-spark-confrontation">derail
serious political discussion based on facts</a>.


feed_id: 8a57b202ef08c988fa476f5060a69ad4
title: Politicians
uri: Politicians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Politicians%29
content:
<p>
Politicians today sometimes advocate laws and repressive policies for
no evident reason except to
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2017/04/25/when-laws-become-partisan-weapons/1">harass
their opponents</a>.
<p>
The article errs in putting gun control in that category.  Guns really
are dangerous, especially to the families of their owners.


feed_id: 72231c38924a0db72ada2c42be593043
title: Doxxing users through "social" features
uri: Doxxing-users-through-social-features
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Doxxing_users_through_social_features%29

content:
<p>
"Social" features that say "If you like what A posts, try what B
posts", can
<a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604286/james-comeys-twitter-security-problem-is-your-problem-too/">indirectly
doxx A or B</a>.


feed_id: 04fd07a9744b3511dfff4bd9d53c0ddd
title: Rising rate of CO2 increase in atmosphere
uri: Rising-rate-of-CO2-increase-in-atmosphere
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Rising_rate_of_CO2_increase_in_atmosphere%29

content:
<p>
Although human greenhouse gas emissions seem to have leveled off, the
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/27/record-breaking-co2-levels-tax-cuts-and-catastrophe-what-you-dont-know-will-hurt">rate
of increase in the atmosphere is rising</a>.  Evidently the heat has
damaged part of the Earth's natural CO<sub>2</sub> sink.


feed_id: 4edcde061e4596312e63105a74bafad5
title: US submarine-launched nuclear missiles
uri: US-submarine-launched-nuclear-missiles
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28US_submarine-launched_nuclear_missiles%29

content:
<p>
The US government has made submarine-launched nuclear missiles
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/27/public-plan-peace">accurate
enough to destroy Russian ICBMs</a>.
<p>
That was a foolish and dangerous thing to do, since it gives Russia a
reason to fear a US first strike, and thus a reason to launch its
missiles on warning, thus increasing the danger of accidental nuclear
war.


feed_id: 6e3a0fb44141fe9a156eed86b20d47e1
title: Application for US citizenship
uri: Application-for-US-citizenship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Application_for_US_citizenship%29
content:
<p>
The US government is arguing, before the Supreme Court, that the
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/27/can-you-lose-your-citizenship-by-lying-a">slightest
omission in an application for citizenship</a>, even failing to
mention that you once went to a meeting of any club or once drove
faster than the speed limit, is ground to revoke citizenship.


feed_id: b1652e4dbdb3d0d3e03030907ef27c3e
title: Projection of sea level rise
uri: Projection-of-sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Projection_of_sea_level_rise%29
content:
<p>
The worst plausible projection of sea level rise is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/27/what-it-will-look-when-new-orleans-new-york-city-and-mar-lago-disappear-under-rising">8
feet by 2100</a>.


feed_id: 11eeab38707bf65d1507c9486744c9b4
title: Bill to ban new fossil fuel pipelines
uri: Bill-to-ban-new-fossil-fuel-pipelines
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Bill_to_ban_new_fossil_fuel_pipelines%29

content:
<p>
Sanders and two Democrats have a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/27/100-percent-renewable-energy-2050-senators-introduce-most-ambitious-climate-plan">proposed
a bill to move the US rapidly towards renewable electric
generation</a>.  New fossil fuel pipelines would be banned.
<p>
The aim of the bill, which <a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> will surely block, is to change the
debate.


feed_id: 6b11603524ad2558bc0e58e6119974a8
title: Obama's loyalty to rich investors
uri: Obama-s-loyalty-to-rich-investors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Obamas_loyalty_to_rich_investors%29
content:
<p>
Obama demonstrates his loyalty to rich investors by 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/27/wall-street-firm-paying-obama-400000-faced-internal-controversy-after-pocketing-huge-911-settlement/">going
to their event for $400,000</a>.
<p>
What I rebuke Obama for is not the fact that he is working for
pay, but who he is working for.
<p>
The reason I didn't support Clinton in November was that she would
clearly have been 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#10_October_2016_(Clinton%27s_speeches_leaked)">even
more of a supporter of the banksters</a> than Obama was.


feed_id: cddcca25e98b877c432fa8e81bdf17ab
title: Abortion advice website
uri: Abortion-advice-website
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Abortion_advice_website%29
content:
<p>
A website 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/27/abortion-website-women-help-women">offers
advice to women in the US</a> that want to use abortion drugs and
can't consult a doctor.


feed_id: 7a266401f3feadab99fd525c95c9a529
title: US on verge of war with Assad's forces
uri: US-on-verge-of-war-with-Assad-s-forces
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28US_on_verge_of_war_with_Assads_forces%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/26/intel-vets-voice-doubts-on-syrian-crisis/">Former
US intelligence personnel warn</a> that the US is on the verge of
going to war with Assad's forces based on intelligence conclusions
that they have chemical weapons, without making really sure -- much as
it did against Iraq.
<p>
The conclusions were wrong in the case of Iraq.


feed_id: 2cf0a31e8e39cd85e68bfd8a592c7244
title: Garbage patch in Arctic Ocean
uri: Garbage-patch-in-Arctic-Ocean
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Garbage_patch_in_Arctic_Ocean%29
content:
<p>
Most of the plastic that finds its way to the North Atlantic ends up
in a 
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/19/15358950/plastics-arctic-ocean-microplastics-polar-ice-caps-birds-animals">garbage
patch in the Arctic Ocean</a>.


feed_id: 3af89bdc2f1f6563fd8cf697b9de94aa
title: Troll's proposed tax cuts
uri: Troll-s-proposed-tax-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Trolls_proposed_tax_cuts%29
content:
<p>
The cheater has proposed tax cuts 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/27/donald-trump-tax-plan-benefit-organization">designed
to benefit himself personally</a> (and other rich people).
<p>
This is the result of changes that are supposedly to help small
businesses, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/27/trump-tax-plan-millions-small-businesses">will
help large businesses more</a>.
<p>
For decades, Republicans have proposed tax cuts that reduced most
people's taxes an insignificant amount and mainly benefited rich
people.  The natural concomitant is spending cuts that mainly hurt
the poor or middle class.  The total outcome is <a href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a>.


feed_id: 90226f7a5a08a3ed61fc6b6ac8107b09
title: Bluefin tuna
uri: Bluefin-tuna
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Bluefin_tuna%29
content:
<p>
Bluefin tuna are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jan/09/overfishing-pacific-bluefin-tuna">being
fished to extinction</a>.  90% of the fish that are caught nowadays
are not old enough to reproduce.


feed_id: 583739110aa904335a88accd9a8f7b02
title: Press freedom in the UK
uri: Press-freedom-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Press_freedom_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Why the UK is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/27/press-freedom-uk-40th-press-freedom-rankings-election">sinking
in respect</a> for press freedom.


feed_id: 08b75964fe7f921b59c670b342c12bb6
title: Barrett Brown imprisoned again
uri: Barrett-Brown-imprisoned-again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Barrett_Brown_imprisoned_again%29
content:
<p>
Barrett Brown was imprisoned again — 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/27/formerly-imprisoned-journalist-barrett-brown-taken-back-into-custody-before-pbs-interview/">for
giving interviews to the press</a>.


feed_id: 618a84ddca07e0998d8f6dd39b50e194
title: Holocaust denial
uri: Holocaust-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Holocaust_denial%29
content:
<p>
Le Pen resigned as president of her political party, for electoral
reasons.  The party appointed a replacement that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/27/le-pens-replacement-as-fn-leader-questioned-existence-of-gas-chambers">dabbled
in holocaust denial</a>.
<p>
It is wrong to prosecute holocaust denial, as France does, because
freedom of speech includes the freedom to express any views about
history.  However, the people who say such things do not deserve
respect or support.


feed_id: 4a6d20e179dcb650cf4455d3d34c685d
title: Republicans joining global heating caucus
uri: Republicans-joining-global-heating-caucus
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Republicans_joining_global_heating_caucus%29

content:
<p>
Some Republicans in Congress are joining a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/27/climate-solutions-caucus-republicans-trump">bipartisan
global heating caucus</a>.


feed_id: 3ab98a6dc8d591e73bb2a89d2f142a4a
title: North Carolina supreme court
uri: North-Carolina-supreme-court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28North_Carolina_supreme_court%29
content:
<p>
North Carolina Republicans are trying to reduce the size of the state
supreme court, so that Governor Cooper cannot appoint anyone.  A
Republican judge was so incensed at this that he 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/25/1656240/-GOP-judge-shocks-fellow-Republicans-in-NC-by-resigning-to-allow-Dem-governor-to-choose-replacement">resigned
and gave Cooper a chance to appoint his successor</a>.


feed_id: 04389f57a5b1c11521751a81a5024c50
title: Hate group activists appointed by troll
uri: Hate-group-activists-appointed-by-troll
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Hate_group_activists_appointed_by_troll%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/04/25/1656193/-Hate-group-leader:-Our-allies-are-now-very-well-placed-in-the-Trump-administration">appointed
a number of hate group activists</a> to various US agencies.


feed_id: 93c6f5cd7b9cce7b34e5143197b7ae0e
title: UN Commission on the Status of Women
uri: UN-Commission-on-the-Status-of-Women
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28UN_Commission_on_the_Status_of_Women%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/26/women-beware-saudia-arabia-charged-shaping-global-standards-womens-equality">"Free"
western countries</a> voted to put Salafi Arabia on the UN Commission
on the Status of Women.


feed_id: 4b3bf9ad11fba515409ab709c4370f39
title: Melting ice in Antarctica
uri: Melting-ice-in-Antarctica
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Melting_ice_in_Antarctica%29
content:
<p>
Melting ice in Antarctica could subject the US east coast to 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/us-vulnerable-to-worst-of-extreme-sea-rise-21388">12
feet of sea level rise</a>.
<p>
800,000 people's homes in New York City could be underwater.
Parts of Boston too.
<p>
And of course Miami and New Orleans.


feed_id: b28c51b0e6dbf69c1622536a19f51ff7
title: Sabotage of EPA's climate science pages
uri: Sabotage-of-EPA-s-climate-science-pages
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Sabotage_of_EPAs_climate_science_pages%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> Pruitt is 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/epa-removes-climate-content-from-website-861cc168ee91">sabotaging</a>
the EPA's climate science pages.


feed_id: 0101fd6a20b90f2a7b274f9737f5fc49
title: Hatred faced by Dalits
uri: Hatred-faced-by-Dalits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Hatred_faced_by_Dalits%29
content:
<p>
When two Dalits got high scores on the entrance exam for the Indian
Institute of Technology, local bigots
<a href="http://www.firstpost.com/india/home-of-dalit-brothers-who-cracked-iit-entrance-gets-pelted-with-stones-2308066.html">attacked
their house with stones</a>.
<p>
Nobody was hurt, but it shows the nature of the hatred that Dalits in
general have to face.  Most Dalits, like most non-Dalits, can't get
into an exclusive school, but they deserve decent treatment anyway.


feed_id: a53fe8230414a73f29ce5290dc99d491
title: Erdo&gbreve;an blocks access to Wikipedia
uri: Erdo-gbreve-an-blocks-access-to-Wikipedia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Erdogan_blocks_access_to_Wikipedia%29
content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an has underlined his repressive vision for Turkey by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/29/turkey-blocks-wikipedia-under-law-designed-to-protect-national-security">blocking
access to Wikipedia</a>.


feed_id: f2eb3182323eec4aa476432043ec2d03
title: NY Times fact-checking failure
uri: NY-Times-fact-checking-failure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28NY_Times_fact-checking_failure%29
content:
<p>
The New York Times hired a right-wing columnist who 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/apr/29/ny-times-hired-a-hippe-puncher-to-give-climate-obstructionists-cover">presents
global heating denial salted with falsehoods</a>.  The Times said it
would do fact checking on that columnist's writing, but 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/the-ny-times-promised-to-fact-check-their-new-climate-denier-columnist-they-lied-72ad9bdf6019">didn't
effectively do so</a>.


feed_id: 6e3b71c0e6ef8ada84f10f741522f678
title: China jails Taiwanese activist
uri: China-jails-Taiwanese-activist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28China_jails_Taiwanese_activist%29
content:
<p>
China has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/28/wife-of-taiwan-activist-seized-china-pleads-for-release-lee-ming-che">jailed
visiting Taiwanese activist Lee Ming-che</a>.
<p>
Due to the hostility between the two countries, Taiwan's government is
in no position to press for his release.  It's possible that the
motive for doing so is political pressure on Taiwan.


feed_id: 9c6714d40389e8bf1b74fa25dbac8f08
title: Abortion medicines without prescription
uri: Abortion-medicines-without-prescription
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Abortion_medicines_without_prescription%29

content:
<p>
Selling abortion medicines without prescription 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/28/should-over-counter-medical-abortion-be-available">seems
to be safe</a>, and it would protect women from antiabortionist
repression.


feed_id: 354971595464ae3274c2fea2674dc9f0
title: US to escalate bombing in Somalia
uri: US-to-escalate-bombing-in-Somalia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28US_to_escalate_bombing_in_Somalia%29
content:
<p>
The US is apparently going to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/u-s-signals-possible-airstrikes-in-somalia-by-asking-aid-groups-for-their-locations/">escalate
its bombing campaign against al-Shabaab</a> in Somalia, reducing the
care taken to avoid civilian casualties.


feed_id: f546c47f2ae051c454b9958cf5bc18af
title: Troll wants antiabortion campaigner
uri: Troll-wants-antiabortion-campaigner
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Troll_wants_antiabortion_campaigner%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> wants to put a persistent antiabortion campaigner, who also
opposes effective birth control, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/trump-health-human-services-anti-abortion-charmaine-yoest">in
the Department of Health</a>.


feed_id: f9a7f36992d63b4040fb71bae5b2cdbc
title: Troll sets up number for reporting UFOs
uri: Troll-sets-up-number-for-reporting-UFOs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Troll_sets_up_number_for_reporting_UFOs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> set up a phone number for people to report crimes committed
by unauthorized immigrants.  The system is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/27/trumps-reviled-hotline-criminal-aliens-flooded-reports-ufos">entirely
useless for curbing crimes or catching criminals</a>.  Its sole
purpose is to spread, by existing, the impression that they commit a
lot of crimes.
<p>
People immediately began reporting supposed crimes by aliens of
another sort, flying in UFOs.
<p>
In general, the victims and witnesses can't tell whether the person
who committed the crime is an unauthorized immigrant, unless they know
that person.  However, Serious investigation says they commit fewer
crimes on average than US citizens.


feed_id: d16762301a443c226a8bc260e9c717a0
title: NSA to reduce snooping on American's email
uri: NSA-to-reduce-snooping-on-American-s-email
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28NSA_to_reduce_snooping_on_Americans_email%29

content:
<p>
The NSA said it 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/nsa-backs-down-on-major-surveillance-program-that-captured-americans-communications-without-a-warrant/">will
stop examining Americans' email merely because it mentions some
coordinates associated with a foreign surveillance subject</a>.
<p>
This is a small change in the right direction, but I emphasize
"small".  The fight to disestablish 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">massive
collection of data about our activities</a> is just beginning.


feed_id: 521ca5c26568b6a4ec3b39c91b1d6c7f
title: Thugs snooping on past communications
uri: Thugs-snooping-on-past-communications
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Thugs_snooping_on_past_communications%29

content:
<p>
The Australian national thugs snooped on lists of journalists' past
communication records 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/apr/29/public-metadata-six-cases-of-alleged-police-misconduct-investigated">without
even a warrant</a>.
<p>
A warrant should be required to start keeping records of anyone's
communications.


feed_id: 61d6db50d30b9384da8d393671e9fbc3
title: Humpback whales organize for other species
uri: Humpback-whales-organize-for-other-species
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Humpback_whales_organize_for_other_species%29

content:
<p>
<p>
Humpback whales sometimes organize to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/28/orca-killer-whales-killings-monterey-bay-california">block
orcas from hunting other kinds of prey</a>.
<p>
Are they smart enough to realize this will indirectly protect the
humpback whales from being attacked by orcas on other occasions?


feed_id: d8f1c39289496595859eef52eb463f45
title: North Korea fires ballistic missile
uri: North-Korea-fires-ballistic-missile
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28North_Korea_fires_ballistic_missile%29

content:
<p>
North Korea 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/28/north-korea-test-fires-ballistic-missile">fired
another ballistic missile</a>.
<p>
I get the impression that King Kim and the troll have the same
approach to peace negotiations: act as bellicose as possible, hoping
to get the "best deal".  Unfortunately, that resembles a game of
chicken.


feed_id: d13b67b416a52c8b8e0e7de1547c8ae0
title: Changing repressive institutions
uri: Changing-repressive-institutions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Changing_repressive_institutions%29
content:
<p>
Progressive activists 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/27/why-are-leftists-targeting-troll-columnists-ann-coulter-instead-institutions">should
focus their campaigns on changing powerful repressive
institutions</a>.  Trying to silence right-wing speakers is wrong, and
protesting them tends to be a distraction from substantive issues.


feed_id: afbaf9479d91a6a0e01567db9a65ca9a
title: Missouri makes school fights a felony
uri: Missouri-makes-school-fights-a-felony
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Missouri_makes_school_fights_a_felony%29

content:
<p>
Missouri's insane new law requires schools to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/4/26/1656572/-Missouri-has-a-new-law-that-makes-fights-in-grade-school-a-felony-with-up-to-4-years-of-prison-time">report
all fights between students for prosecution</a>, and makes fighting a
felony.
<p>
Prosecutors will decide which students to prosecute.  I suppose they
will usually prosecute blacks and not whites.  But it is vicious
prosecute students for this.


feed_id: be6fc2385029f0e390a65e5fbe45e212
title: Ivanka Trump soliciting foreign donations
uri: Ivanka-Trump-soliciting-foreign-donations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Ivanka_Trump_soliciting_foreign_donations%29

content:
<p>
Ivanka Trump is 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/26/1656405/-Ivanka-Trump-has-been-soliciting-donations-from-foreign-governments-companies-for-a-women-s-fund">soliciting
foreign donations</a> for a fund for "female entrepreneurs".


feed_id: e37e07fece7b61905ab9ff4ee6f5a1c3
title: Global heating denialism
uri: 2017-05-04-Global-heating-denialism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Global_heating_denialism%29
content:
<p>
Some Republicans are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/how-a-professional-climate-change-denier-discovered-the-lies-and-decided-to-fight-for-science/">campaigning
to move the Republican Party out of global heating denialism</a>.
<p>
Please don't legitimize these denialists, in many cases paid to
campaign or deluded by paid campaigns, by calling them "skeptics".
<p>
However, the Republican Party still merits Chomsky's term: 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/26/1656465/-Chomsky-doubles-down-on-statement-that-the-Republican-Party-is-most-dangerous-group-in-human-history">the
most dangerous group in human history</a>.


feed_id: 682edc9f51eea909ffda1965cfb73cd6
title: Brazilians protest austerity
uri: Brazilians-protest-austerity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28Brazilians_protest_austerity%29
content:
<p>
Brazilians Sick of Corrupt Politicians Hit the Streets to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/28/brazil-corruption-unions-strike-michel-temer-austerity">Protest
Austerity Measures</a>.
<p>
Plutocratist politicians speak of "reforms" when what they mean is
to eliminate workers' rights and reduce their pay.
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/brazil-paralyzed-by-nationwide-strike-driven-by-a-familiar-global-dynamic-of-elite-corruption/">More
information</a>.


feed_id: cee3c4d1eb90504a447bd92b70b12900
title: PISSI posing as wounded Libyan soldiers
uri: PISSI-posing-as-wounded-Libyan-soldiers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28PISSI_posing_as_wounded_Libyan_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> terrorists may be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/28/islamic-state-fighters-infiltrate-europe-posing-injured-libyan-soldiers">sneaking
into Europe by posing as wounded Libyan soldiers</a>.


feed_id: daf2a1e654f2bae318e2ef1ec1f4620e
title: US system of plea bargaining
uri: US-system-of-plea-bargaining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_May_2017_%28US_system_of_plea_bargaining%29
content:
<p>
Many countries are adopting the US system of plea bargaining, which
effectively 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/apr/27/traditional-trial-rights-renounced-as-countries-adopt-us-style-plea-bargaining">denies
most accused people a trial</a>.


feed_id: 8649ff4dfd5429ca264b6a9cc24c5750
title: Election rigging by internet army
uri: Election-rigging-by-internet-army
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Election_rigging_by_internet_army%29
content:
<p>
It 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/how-easy-would-it-be-to-rig-the-next-election-819326cbbbd">would
be easy for an internet army to rig the 2018 election</a>.
<p>
Of course, it is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/evoting.html">even easier for
insiders</a>.  It is a mistake to depend on computers for elections.
<p>
However, saving paper ballots for an audit is no use if state laws
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_January_2017_(Jill_Stein_on_election_recounts)">make
recounts almost impossible</a>, as we discovered in 2016.


feed_id: 117c518f4d3c061171fa29276438b93d
title: Taser storing video from thugs' body cameras
uri: Taser-storing-video-from-thugs-body-cameras
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Taser_storing_video_from_thugs_body_cameras%29

content:
<p>
Taser is storing the video from thugs' body cameras, and 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/30/taser-will-use-police-body-camera-videos-to-anticipate-criminal-activity/">wants
to analyze it all</a>.
<p>
Body camera footage should be saved only when there is a 
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/539631/controlling-when-the-cameras-record/">specific
justification for doing so</a> These videos should be held by the
state and used only as evidence for specific crimes, as specified by
law.  No company should ever get its hands on any of these videos,
except those which are published.


feed_id: 565b88f766aab2ad4fd19eee27c2e2f2
title: US troops return to Helmand
uri: US-troops-return-to-Helmand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28US_troops_return_to_Helmand%29
content:
<p>
US troops have returned to Helmand, where their 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/30/it-feels-like-groundhog-day-us-marines-return-to-helmand-province-afghanistan">previous
"victory" proved to be entirely transitory</a>.
<p>
The US-supported Afghan government cannot defeat the Taliban.  It
can't even stand against the Taliban for more than a few years without
US troops to prop it up.  But US soldiers can't defeat the Taliban
either.  They can only push it down.
<p>
The Taliban are stronger than the corrupt Afghan government because
the Taliban inspire real support from a segment of the population, but
the Afghan government gets no support except what it pays for.
<p>
Is it worth a forever war just to keep the Taliban from winning in
Afghanistan?


feed_id: 7e35e46b7aaa25244e2ab49079646636
title: Women in army of Syrian Kurds
uri: Women-in-army-of-Syrian-Kurds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Women_in_army_of_Syrian_Kurds%29
content:
<p>
Interviews with women in the army of the Syrian Kurds.
<p>
The few refugees that escape from Raqqa confirm that the civilians
there are faced with starvation if they stay, but <a href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> will try to
kill them if they leave.  While there, they are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/30/hundreds-of-us-will-die-in-raqqa-the-women-fighting-isis">used
as human shields</a>.
<p>
The US persistently refuses to give the Kurds much in the way of
weapons.  I think the US has been planning all along to betray the
Kurds to Turkey once <a href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> is
defeated.  The increasing tyranny of Erdo&gbreve;an apparently appeals
to the troll, which makes that suspicion even more plausible.


feed_id: 796808fea7cd90321e95963d28c61acf
title: Resisting climate trumpery
uri: Resisting-climate-trumpery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Resisting_climate_trumpery%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/29/building-trump-free-fossil-free-future">Approaches</a>
for resisting climate trumpery so as to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions.
<p>
Food and Water Watch says that protecting food and water safety now
requires avoiding climate chaos, so it 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/29/our-lives-depend-stopping-dirty-energy-heres-how-well-do-it">intends
to campaign for that</a>.
<p>
"There can be no greater crime against humanity than the foreseeable,
and methodical, 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/29/climate-alarmist-global-warming-crime-humanity'>destruction
of conditions that make human life possible</a>."


feed_id: 2d4f4a460246989d6885f0155975986d
title: Preventing extinction of vaquita porpoise
uri: Preventing-extinction-of-vaquita-porpoise
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Preventing_extinction_of_vaquita_porpoise%29

content:
<p>
The only way to prevent extinction of the vaquita porpoise is to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/29/bid-to-save-vaquita-porpoise-from-extinction-trained-dolphins">catch
all 3 of them and move them to protected waters</A>.


feed_id: 49f52ecbcee323dadebc8e9ccc9d79f7
title: Desperation of Americans
uri: Desperation-of-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Desperation_of_Americans%29
content:
<p>
The election of Obama, and that of Trump, both reflect that Americans
are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/29/heres-why-we-shouldnt-laugh-at-donald-trumps-100-day-faceplant/">desperate
for politicians that will serve the public rather than the rich</a>.
<p>
In each case they didn't get it.  (To be fair to Obama, he tried to go
further on medical insurance, and was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_(Reason_for_Obamacare_opposition)">blocked
by Republicans and business lobbying</a>.)  The general point is that
the US political system is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#28_January_2017_(US_Democracy_rating_downgraded)">no
longer a democracy</a>.
<p>
Sanders recognizes this, which is why he aims for a 
<a href="https://ourrevolution.com">"political revolution"</a>.


feed_id: 2304cc8143c51e52864bc09e1ead6ff0
title: Childhood stress
uri: 2017-05-05-Childhood-stress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Childhood_stress%29
content:
<p>
Doctors are starting to measure the phenomenon that childhood stress
tends to cause medical problems that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/29/how-bad-parenting-can-knock-20-years-off-your-life">take
many years off people's lives</a>.
<p>
The US is causing childhood stress for millions of children in some
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_August_2013_(US_selling_cluster_bombs)">other</a>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_(US-made_cluster_bombs_dropped_on_Yemen)">countries</a>.
Meanwhile,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_March_2014_(Right-wing_politicians_try_to_vilify_the_poor)">right-wing</a>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#9_May_2016_(SCROTUS_wants_to_make_poor_people_poorer)">antisocialist
policies</a> are causing child stress for millions of children in the
US.
<p>
If saying hello to each student on entering the classroom makes a big
difference to the class, this is one example of why large classes will
tend to be bad classes, no matter how capable and assiduous the
teacher is.


feed_id: 0ab853b286b0b4b0a1e4067be42b693e
title: US business with Russia
uri: US-business-with-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28US_business_with_Russia%29
content:
<p>
The US has put sanctions on doing business with Russia, but a 
<a href="http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/what-sanctions-jp-morgan-and-goldman-sachs-are-now-top-three-investment-banks-russia">loophole</a>
permits JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs to continue.


feed_id: 5664fdce89dd49b23135a0d29771bf99
title: Facebook agrees to censorship
uri: Facebook-agrees-to-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Facebook_agrees_to_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Facebook has agreed to 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-vietnam-idUSKBN17T0A0">censor
publications to Vietnam's specifications</a>.
<p>
(Please don't refer to publications as 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">"content"</a>.)


feed_id: 1c52b5f7b59efe93211ab85e9ca0ab11
title: Silicon Valley Horeshit
uri: Silicon-Valley-Horeshit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Silicon_Valley_Horeshit%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://medium.com/@freddiedeboer/the-three-hot-trends-in-silicon-valley-horseshit-95cc5a85e8a4">Three
Hot Trends</a> in Silicon Valley Horseshit.


feed_id: 4da1bde542de16380c8e91a33b7f13ab
title: Anti-semites given important platforms
uri: Anti-semites-given-important-platforms
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Anti-semites_given_important_platforms%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has given prominent anti-semites 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2017/04/26/the-stain-of-anti-semitism-at-the-white-house-is-not-going-away_partner/">important
platforms</a>.
<p>
His own personal relationships with some Jews do not cancel that out.


feed_id: d7cf08b19f11b5ccb449d0a448bd1b1b
title: Price of insulin
uri: Price-of-insulin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Price_of_insulin%29
content:
<p>
US drug companies have increased the price of some kinds of insulin to
the point where 
<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/desperate-families-driven-black-market-insulin-n730026">some
diabetic people can barely afford to stay alive</a>.
<p>
This wouldn't happen if we had a single-payer Medicare for All system.


feed_id: dadad056e678dc1c2ec91dad1b20c4e6
title: Deputy Saboteur of the Interior
uri: Deputy-Saboteur-of-the-Interior
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Deputy_Saboteur_of_the_Interior%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s appointee for Deputy Saboteur of the Interior, to be in
charge of approving or disapproving mining and drilling, has made a
career of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/04/28/foe-endangered-species-public-lands-nominated-deputy-interior-secretary">lobbying
for polluting projects</a>.


feed_id: f50942b3d48bb55aa037b280236e92b7
title: Troll proposes attack on US Constitution
uri: Troll-proposes-attack-on-US-Constitution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Troll_proposes_attack_on_US_Constitution%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> proposes to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/27/1656782/-Trump-says-he-s-absolutely-considering-proposals-to-dissolve-court-blocking-his-executive-orders">eliminate
courts that block implementation of his illegal proclamations</a>.
This is, in effect, a proposal to eliminate the independence of the US
judiciary — an attack on the constitution.
<p>
The frightening thing is that the troll and the billionaires that
mostly control Republican legislators might actually be able to do it.
The level of civic virtue among Republicans is too low to assure
failure.


feed_id: 1fb8ea05ddc2c9b1586ae97b3388b640
title: Democratic Party fund raising and expendature
uri: Democratic-Party-fund-raising-and-expendature
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_May_2017_%28Democratic_Party_fund_raising_and_expendature%29

content:
<p>
A Democratic Party campaign funding organization analyzed the 2016
election defeat, and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/28/why-are-house-dems-treating-2016-campaign-autopsy-classified-document">refuses
to say what it found</a>.
<p>
But if the findings have to do with fund raising and expendature, it
is clear they are looking for the failure next to the UV streetlight
because that's the only place they can see through their UV-filter
glasses.


feed_id: fcdd2209d5ed0e06a2e238951a3d8fa8
title: Gorka's antisemitic ties
uri: Gorka-s-antisemitic-ties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28Gorka%27s_antisemitic_ties%29
content:
<p>
The troll has found Sebastian Gorka's antisemitic ties 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/01/sebastian-gorka-to-leave-white-house-amid-accusations-of-links-to-far-right">too
embarrassing</a>.


feed_id: 9d7fa50676978f4905113b4a2a7949ec
title: US protecting Syrian Kurds from Turkey
uri: US-protecting-Syrian-Kurds-from-Turkey
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28US_protecting_Syrian_Kurds_from_Turkey%29

content:
<p>
The US is protecting the Syrian Kurds from Turkey by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/01/tensions-rise-along-the-turkey-syria-border-pkk-ypg-erdogan">stationing
US troops on the border between them</a>.
<p>
The situation is complicated, with the Kurdish northern region of Iraq
allied with Turkey and not with the Syrian Kurds.
<p>
Apparently the troll's praise for ErdoÄan was as insincere as almost
everything else he says.


feed_id: 3bafc90dd5d370b277dee55af4f64592
title: Asylum seekers from Central America
uri: 2017-05-06-Asylum-seekers-from-Central-America
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28Asylum_seekers_from_Central_America%29

content:
<p>
The troll's threats scared many in Central America out of fleeing to
the US.  But their lives are in danger at home, so they are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/01/us-border-asylum-seekers-trump-effect">recovering
their courage to try</a>.


feed_id: 655f1055ede5c5c02e0ba07de7ad4897
title: Freedom of the press
uri: 2017-05-06-Freedom-of-the-press
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28Freedom_of_the_press%29
content:
<p>
The troll is looking at changing the US constitution so he can 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/apr/30/reince-priebus-libel-law-change-media-white-house">sue
those that publish accusations that he denies</a>.  That would include
anything which is negative about him, since he calls such facts "false
news".
<p>
This announcement came just after he reminded Americans that
May 1 is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/29/trump-blames-constitution-for-first-100-days-chaos-presidency">"Loyalty
Day"</a>, on which we are supposed to remember our loyalties to the
principles of the United States, such as freedom of the press.


feed_id: fda54a636905beaea3b8f68d67cf83e2
title: Oil-free future in Norway
uri: Oil-free-future-in-Norway
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28Oil-free_future_in_Norway%29
content:
<p>
In Norway, A 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/30/norway-growing-movement-builds-oil-free-future">Growing
Movement</a> Builds an Oil-Free Future.


feed_id: a7b5b5b4b507252a7ae604d842133531
title: Private school
uri: Private-school
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28Private_school%29
content:
<p>
In Washington DC, students that got a voucher and transferred to a
private school
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/27/1656817/-New-study-has-bad-news-for-school-voucher-advocates">did
not do any better</a> subsequently, and in many cases did worse.


feed_id: b70ce4440fa92b644cac0174f0677280
title: Human rights for businesses
uri: Human-rights-for-businesses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28Human_rights_for_businesses%29
content:
<p>
The only "persons" whose rights matter to the troll are 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/29/trumps-first-100-days-corporate-rights-trump-human-rights">businesses</a>.


feed_id: 1cc9590eb2acee7ec3ec70c827bfde45
title: CO2 emissions from humans
uri: CO2-emissions-from-humans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28CO2_emissions_from_humans%29
content:
<p>
Humans emit 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/oct/07/carbon-footprint-volcano">100 
times as much CO<sub>2</sub> as volcanoes</a> do.


feed_id: 59602727e153aa6302fe5b4d3e57b381
title: Environmental Pollution Agency
uri: Environmental-Pollution-Agency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28Environmental_Pollution_Agency%29
content:
<p>
The EPA is now the Environmental Pollution Agency.  It is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/04/28/trumps-epa-solicits-ideas-how-polluters-can-attack-water-protections">soliciting
excuses to allow more pollution</a>.


feed_id: 3da28017703c776a9b2e8b0c238aa1c5
title: US jobs still moving to other countries
uri: US-jobs-still-moving-to-other-countries
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28US_jobs_still_moving_to_other_countries%29

content:
<p>
Companies are still moving thousands of US jobs to other countries
where pay is less, and the troll 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-isnt-saving-jobs-thousands-have-left-the-country-since-he-took-office-d45844db11fb">isn't
doing much if anything to stop it</a>.
<p>
If your boss tells you "We are moving this work to another country,
and first we want you to train your replacements," be brave!  Quit
before doing that — and organize your coworkers to quit too.
<p>
As the article points out, direct transfer of specific jobs is a very
small part of the overall job transfer out of the US due to
business-driven globalization.  Its overall global effect is that
companies pay workers less, anywhere in the world.


feed_id: bec2f9de71d9998f203a7f9610c2e599
title: Gorka's antisemitic ties
uri: 2017-05-07-Gorka-s-antisemitic-ties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28Gorka%27s_antisemitic_ties%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has found Sebastian Gorka's antisemitic ties 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/01/sebastian-gorka-to-leave-white-house-amid-accusations-of-links-to-far-right">too
embarrassing</a>.


feed_id: 90f615a5b3600dabd02855e8637d45e6
title: US protecting Syrian Kurds from Turkey
uri: 2017-05-07-US-protecting-Syrian-Kurds-from-Turkey
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28US_protecting_Syrian_Kurds_from_Turkey%29

content:
<p>
The US is protecting the Syrian Kurds from Turkey by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/01/tensions-rise-along-the-turkey-syria-border-pkk-ypg-erdogan">stationing
US troops on the border between them</a>.
<p>
The situation is complicated, with the Kurdish northern region of Iraq
allied with Turkey and not with the Syrian Kurds.
<p>
Apparently the troll's praise for Erdo&gbreve;an was as insincere as
almost everything else he says.


feed_id: e9b15c697db3e0a61b6a029e2654fe43
title: Asylum seekers from Central America
uri: 2017-05-07-Asylum-seekers-from-Central-America
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28Asylum_seekers_from_Central_America%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s threats scared many in Central America out of fleeing to
the US.  But their lives are in danger at home, so they are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/01/us-border-asylum-seekers-trump-effect">recovering
their courage to try</a>.


feed_id: c9ce26d90eee0987d046a7d0021bd05c
title: Freedom of the press
uri: 2017-05-07-Freedom-of-the-press
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_May_2017_%28Freedom_of_the_press%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> is looking at changing the US constitution so he can 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/apr/30/reince-priebus-libel-law-change-media-white-house">sue
those that publish accusations that he denies</a>.  That would include
anything which is negative about him, since he calls such facts "false
news".
<p>
This announcement came just after he reminded Americans that
May 1 is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/29/trump-blames-constitution-for-first-100-days-chaos-presidency">"Loyalty
Day"</a>, on which we are supposed to remember our loyalties to the
principles of the United States, such as freedom of the press.


feed_id: 8cd00b2e089373d71596fb05c0f63881
title: Fines for unpaid fines
uri: Fines-for-unpaid-fines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_May_2017_%28Fines_for_unpaid_fines%29
content:
<p>
The UK hounds poor people for small fines that they cannot pay, by
adding ever more fines.  Jerome Roberts found that his
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/30/debt-ridden-couriers-suicide-after-bailiff-visit-prompts-call-for-reforms">$100
fine was increased to $1500</a> because he could not pay it.
<p>
Jerome Roberts killed himself because, once they denied him use of his
motorcycle, he could no longer make any money.
<p>
Most of the victims pay the fines eventually, perhaps instead of
eating, but this becomes a substantial drain on poor people's income.
This resembles the practice of Ferguson, Missouri, and many other US
towns that get a lot of their income by fining poor people.
<p>
The practice of escalating fines to make people pay them presumes
people have money and simply refuse to pay.  In a society so unjust as
to force millions into poverty, such as the UK or the US, that
assumption is false; the system of fining to collect fines is an
additional injustice visited on the poor.
<p>
The real solution, though, is to give poor people more money.
Then they will be able to pay their fines when first levied.


feed_id: d0f0710ddbbbc9bd7ff55871c2010e3c
title: Troll to honor President Do-dirty
uri: Troll-to-honor-President-Do-dirty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_May_2017_%28Troll_to_honor_President_Do-dirty%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> is going to honor the President Do-dirty with a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/30/outrage-white-house-set-roll-out-red-carpet-murderer-duterte">visit
to Washington</a>.
<p>
We must suppose that he will receive this honor for being a bully and
showing contempt for human rights in the Philippines.


feed_id: 079353d6a1b004ee17579d8d5f8a52eb
title: Online sales stores
uri: Online-sales-stores
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_May_2017_%28Online_sales_stores%29
content:
<p>
Online sales stores are working together to use personal profiles to
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-online-shopping-makes-suckers-of-us-all/521448/">mislead
the public about what the normal price of products is</a>.  They
arrange to give people the idea that they are getting a discount, when
in fact they are paying extra.
<p>
This is so pervasive that the concept of "the" price (for a given
product) may no longer make sense.
<p>
Economists claim that the market is excellent because it determines
the proper price for each good.  I wonder if they are worried about
this.


feed_id: 4d7158ba801ef0048db7a53b89df5127
title: Troll's saboteur for Department of Health
uri: Troll-s-saboteur-for-Department-of-Health
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_May_2017_%28Trolls_saboteur_for_Department_of_Health%29

content:
<p>
A
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/28/women-be-warned-trump-just-nominated-radical-anti-choice-activist-key-hhs-post">right-wing
campaigner that seeks to ban abortion entirely</a> has been nominated
as assistant saboteur of public communication in the Department of
Health.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> is placing a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/01/trump-teresa-manning-family-planning-role">religious
extremist that opposes birth control</a> in charge of a big
contraceptive program there.


feed_id: 3c66be937287b420b7c21c548f63900c
title: Urgent: Troll's tax returns
uri: 2017-05-08-Urgent-Troll-s-tax-returns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Trolls_tax_returns%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://petitions.signforgood.com/RyanReleaseTrumpTaxes/">call
on your congresscritter to sign the discharge petition</a> for the
bill to require the troll to release his tax returns.


feed_id: 4de18d77f59824848fdd3366879e2a80
title: Urgent: Criminal charges against thug
uri: Urgent-Criminal-charges-against-thug
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Criminal_charges_against_thug%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/justice-for-jordan-edwards/">call
for criminal charges</a> against the thug that killed Jordan Edwards.


feed_id: bd175cb7514ee51e783493190522355e
title: Falling housing prices in London
uri: Falling-housing-prices-in-London
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Falling_housing_prices_in_London%29
content:
<p>
Housing prices in London are falling.  This is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/03/buy-a-home-get-a-car-free-offers-galore-as-london-estate-agents-struggle-to-sell">good
news for poor people that actually live there</a>.


feed_id: 2200d10541da42ce75df40ab954246cb
title: The troll
uri: 2017-05-08-The-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28The_troll%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> is rushing to install a missile defense system in South
Korea 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/03/trump-and-rush-deploy-thaad">before
the Korean people and politicians can debate whether they want it</a>.
<p>
It would be a very good thing to cancel the Korea-US business
<a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">supremacy treaty</a>.  All
those treaties are designed to reduce democracy in all the countries
that sign them.
<p>
However, when the troll says such things, he usually is not serious,
just trying to provoke a reaction and then offer some other option.


feed_id: 27521dc83103159b1ba07753b07b5343
title: US border thugs
uri: 2017-05-08-US-border-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28US_border_thugs%29
content:
<p>
US border thugs 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/03/senators-tweetstorm-shows-stark-human-toll-trump-immigration-crackdown">deported
a family to Honduras while their lawyers were presenting their asylum
case</a>.
<p>
The officials displayed trollish contempt for the very idea that
people have legal rights.


feed_id: dfe1168bd922c6214215ac43e305b4fa
title: FBI
uri: 2017-05-08-FBI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28FBI%29
content:
<p>
The FBI, which 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/03/fbis-james-comey-calls-wikileaks-intelli">uses
criminal methods to inculpate people every day</a>, should not dare
try to say what is or is not legitimate journalism.


feed_id: a4cdeccb1ecbffc74479188963ca4805
title: Use of terror laws to suppress free speech
uri: Use-of-terror-laws-to-suppress-free-speech
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Use_of_terror_laws_to_suppress_free_speech%29

content:
<p>
UN Accuses Saudi Arabia of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/04/un-accuses-saudi-arabia-of-using-terror-laws-to-suppress-free-speech">Using
Terror Laws to Suppress Free Speech</a>.  I'm glad to see some
criticism in the UN for that repressive and fanatical state.


feed_id: f21bf83ce9756c09269b94bd3e147dee
title: Tory systems for cutting support
uri: Tory-systems-for-cutting-support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Tory_systems_for_cutting_support%29
content:
<p>
The Tory outsourced system for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/04/benefits-assessments-damaging-lives-hardworking-britain">cutting
support for the disabled</a>, after it has crushed their spirit,
starts pressing them to explain why they haven't committed suicide
yet.
<p>
The Tories are lower than vermin.


feed_id: 783b9701da990e63c4244fdaf377436f
title: People's budget
uri: People-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Peoples_budget%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s budget is designed to enrich the rich.  The people's
budget, written by the progressive caucus, is designed to help the
non-rich.


feed_id: e8387179211ddc4a47ac49a5d4461b20
title: Arpa-E
uri: Arpa-E
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Arpa-E%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/this-little-known-research-program-trump-wants-to-cut-is-where-the-future-is-made-b22508e43d">wants
to shut down Arpa-E</a>, which funds long-term research in generating
and using energy more efficiently.
<p>
We can guess his motive: more efficiency would lead to less demand for
fossil fuels, and less profit for fossil fuels companies.
<p>
Not all systems for saving energy are good; some have too high an
ethical price.  For instance, the app described in the article is a
dangerous surveillance system.  I will never have the portable phone
that the system presupposes.


feed_id: 9f39d0d26402779a0afc440f4a3fc3d6
title: Senator Warren rebukes Obama
uri: Senator-Warren-rebukes-Obama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Senator_Warren_rebukes_Obama%29
content:
<p>
Senator Warren rebuked Obama and other Democrats 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/01/elizabeth-warren-barack-obama-democrats-economy">for
ignoring the harm done by plutocracy</a>.


feed_id: 28c5a2fa985177660ae75f4055959fad
title: Families of terminally ill people
uri: Families-of-terminally-ill-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Families_of_terminally_ill_people%29
content:
<p>
Most people who are terminally ill would rather die at home, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/01/dying-at-home-terminally-ill-hospital">many
families can't cope with that</a>.


feed_id: f8985d8ce4489263a994bfea966ebb3d
title: US ex-presidents
uri: US-ex-presidents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28US_ex-presidents%29
content:
<p>
Not too long ago, ex-presidents of the US 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/01/barack-obama-is-using-his-presidency-to-cash-in-but-harry-truman-and-jimmy-carter-refused/">didn't
hire themselves out to companies</a>.


feed_id: 6c4dffcf434db0e0de0345d5d6c0b9a7
title: Facebook
uri: 2017-05-08-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Facebook%29
content:
<p>
Facebook Helped Advertisers 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/05/facebook-helped-advertisers-target-teens-who-feel-worthless/">Target
Teens Who Feel "Worthless"</a>.
<p>
Heavy use of Facebook tends to make some people 
<a href="/facebook.html#exploitation">feel worthless</a>.  We could
call this "vertical integration of exploitation."


feed_id: 1a35cff48842a987ad70bf02d66d3057
title: NSA mass surveillance on Americans
uri: NSA-mass-surveillance-on-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28NSA_mass_surveillance_on_Americans%29
content:
<p>
How does the surveillance state watch thee?  We can't count the ways,
but here's a 
<a href="http://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/big_brother_is_still_watching_you_dont_fall_for_the_nsas_latest_ploy">list
of quite a few of them</a>.
<p>
We need general laws to prohibit most systems from collecting data
about people, or even identifying them at all.


feed_id: 76e714074f50ee31905766231f7163f4
title: Urgent: California bail reform
uri: Urgent-California-bail-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_California_bail_reform%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/ca-bail-reform/">support</a>
the California bail reform bill.


feed_id: f8e37f1c4eaa594aef5536ad88d94a1c
title: Urgent: Reject the Dontcare bill
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-Dontcare-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_Dontcare_bill%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.moveon.org/go/9892">call on Senate Republicans</a>
to reject the Dontcare bill.


feed_id: bb2a5d7ba4068dd31562b828d9d1a48d
title: Urgent: Paris climate agreement
uri: Urgent-Paris-climate-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Paris_climate_agreement%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://act.350.org/sign/paris-response/">state your
support</a> for the Paris climate agreement.
<p>
It isn't enough to avoid global disaster, but undermining it would
hurry the disaster.


feed_id: ea010a0ec852f57685b75350523919de
title: Battle of Puebla
uri: Battle-of-Puebla
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Battle_of_Puebla%29
content:
<p>
What the Battle of Puebla can teach us about the 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/05/the-forgotten-history-of-cinco-de-mayo-its-not-about-beer-its-about-rich-countries-strangling-poor-ones/">injustice
of international debt</a>, in 1862 and still today.


feed_id: bf2b8e1cbf9e5116c4a7d43af2f80986
title: Urgent: Cancel invitation to DeVos
uri: Urgent-Cancel-invitation-to-DeVos
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_invitation_to_DeVos%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/betsy-devos-has-no-place-at-our-hbcu/">call
on Bethune-Cookman University</a> to cancel its speech invitation to
DeVos.


feed_id: eedc1022e241184ad8edad3501ae6528
title: Urgent: Oppose Keystone XL pipeline
uri: 2017-05-09-Urgent-Oppose-Keystone-XL-pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Keystone_XL_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/nebraska_keystone_xl">call
on Nebraska</a> to refuse the permit for the Keystone XL
planet-roaster pipeline.


feed_id: 8527578613c1a3430260fdb98e638fa3
title: Hodeida
uri: Hodeida
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Hodeida%29
content:
<p>
It looks like the US and <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> are 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/02/alarm-grows-in-washington-as-saudi-coalition-attack-on-yemen-port-appears-imminent/">about
to bomb Hodeida</a>.  This would make the famine in Yemen deeper,
causing misery for 19 million people.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> has no legitimate justification for attacking Yemen,
and the US has neither justification nor reason to do so.


feed_id: e2879f06b3e5e3b1ebf07f1d8059e267
title: Salafi Arabia
uri: 2017-05-09-Salafi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Salafi_Arabia%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>n defense minister 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/02/iran-is-seeking-to-control-islamic-world-says-saudi-arabian-prince">says
Iran is trying to "control the Islamic world"</a>.
<p>
This is absurd, since most Muslims are Sunnis and they would hardly
follow Iran.  The reason he made the claim is to distract us from 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#1_August_2016_(Funders_of_violent_jihadi_groups)">what
Salafi Arabia is doing to the Islamic world</a>.


feed_id: 91641a30ace56358b47098d2d3720fa4
title: Killer thug
uri: Killer-thug
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Killer_thug%29
content:
<p>
A thug shot at a moving car and 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/1/1657907/-15-year-old-unarmed-high-school-student-shot-by-rifle-wielding-cop-as-he-leaves-house-party">killed
15-year-old Jordan Edwards</a>.
<p>
Can you guess his racial background?
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/jordan-edwards-shooting-post">15-Year-Old's
Death Shows What Can Happen When Cops Shoot at Cars</a>.


feed_id: 4b0d93d3742514e2aa068ab4ea834b73
title: The TPP
uri: 2017-05-09-The-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28The_TPP%29
content:
<p>
The other countries that were in the TPP plan are 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/02/back-grave-secret-tpp-talks-resume-toronto">trying
to continue with it</a>.
<p>
The TPP is a malicious plan to give businesses more power over people
and states, so they can take a bigger share of production and wealth.
The result, as we know from 30 years of this approach, is that 
<a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">the non-rich get less</a>.


feed_id: b10b81edef0d8b97f07a118931b27ad3
title: Republican Party split
uri: Republican-Party-split
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Republican_Party_split%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/02/obamacare-repeal-republican-healthcare-bill-opposition">latest
SCROTUS plan</a> to repeal Obama's medical insurance plan has split
the Republican Party.


feed_id: a12a001122fae22753e4eb45e8227b4a
title: Tasmania sides with business against citizens
uri: Tasmania-sides-with-business-against-citizens
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Tasmania_sides_with_business_against_citizens%29

content:
<p>
Tasmania (a part of Australia) 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/02/bob-browns-lawyers-to-argue-anti-protest-laws-are-unconstitutional">punishes
protests if they inconvenience business</a>.
<p>
What that means is that the government of Tasmania takes the side of
business against its citizens.


feed_id: 742c723cec5810a967ed493772c7b0a9
title: Urgent: Sanctions against Philippines
uri: Urgent-Sanctions-against-Philippines
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Sanctions_against_Philippines%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/no-more-killing-name-drug-war">call
on your senators</a> to support sanctions against the Philippines
because of <a href="/glossary.html#dodirty">President Do-dirty</a>'s crimes.


feed_id: 6e3efb635d79ba3b61d95aee00f5884b
title: Urgent: Reject Dontcare bill
uri: Urgent-Reject-Dontcare-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_Dontcare_bill%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/create-a-firewall-in-the-senate">call
on the Senate</a> to reject the Dontcare bill.


feed_id: a7c07a097464e49665e88156299aa479
title: Urgent: No Keystone XL pipeline
uri: Urgent-No-Keystone-XL-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_Keystone_XL_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2967">submit
a comment</a> urging Nebraska to refuse to approve the Keystone XL
pipeline.


feed_id: 098172114d1ce6d8f6fa7963cc8fb588
title: Red-finned blue-eye fish
uri: Red-finned-blue-eye-fish
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_May_2017_%28Red-finned_blue-eye_fish%29
content:
<p>
Australia's rare red-finned blue-eye fish is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/02/rescuing-a-relic-battle-to-save-the-red-finned-blue-eye-from-a-modern-invader">threatened
with extinction</a> by an immigrant brought from the US.  To protect
it, people are building three artificial springs to which to
transplant populations of the fish.


feed_id: 7c8a5c279d38a6ab60141b4f6ed683fa
title: Peru air quality rules
uri: Peru-air-quality-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_May_2017_%28Peru_air_quality_rules%29
content:
<p>
Peru's Plans to Cut Air Quality Rules Would 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2017/may/01/perus-plans-cut-air-quality-rules-smooth-sale-major-polluter">Smooth
Sale of Top Polluter</a>.


feed_id: e32e56621988295148ed322eef164dd6
title: Elections in France
uri: Elections-in-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_May_2017_%28Elections_in_France%29
content:
<p>
Lots of French voters loathe Macron for the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/01/marine-le-pen-front-national-upbeat-leftwing-lethargy-french-elections">right-wing
labor law "reforms" that he imposed on them a year ago</a>.
<p>
Since the only reason to want Macron to win is that he's not a racist
anti-truther, France will be better off if he can't "govern
successfully".  A sufficient leftist majority in legislature could
stop this.


feed_id: 6cc1c199696790c8140c3c1f5d14665a
title: Tax breaks for wealthy Americans
uri: Tax-breaks-for-wealthy-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_May_2017_%28Tax_breaks_for_wealthy_Americans%29
content:
<p>
Wealthy Americans get, on the average, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/01/absurd-amount-entitlements-go-rich-people">far
more government entitlements (money and tax breaks) than poor
Americans do</a>.


feed_id: 9cd1e5ac5a366288b36812ceb369b234
title: Racist supporter of the troll
uri: Racist-supporter-of-the-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_May_2017_%28Racist_supporter_of_the_troll%29
content:
<p>
A racist supporter of the troll 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/01/white-nationalist-matthew-heimbach-charged-trump-rally">faces
charges for harassing a black protester</a>.


feed_id: beadbde09a83ffebac4e4c2db0a7d8f7
title: Hamas coexistence with Israel
uri: Hamas-coexistence-with-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_May_2017_%28Hamas_coexistence_with_Israel%29
content:
<p>
Hamas has adopted a new charter that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/01/hamas-new-charter-palestine-israel-1967-borders">accepts
coexistence with Israel with the pre-1967 borders</a>.
<p>
This ought to make peace possible, but it would require dismantling
Israel's colonies in Palestinian territory.  I think Netanyahu and
other right-wing Israeli leaders will find another excuse to avoid
that and continue the occupation.


feed_id: da959ab605e8e10b02a3c45babfb61b3
title: Barack Obama's speaking fees
uri: Barack-Obama-s-speaking-fees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_May_2017_%28Barack_Obamas_speaking_fees%29
content:
<p>
Barack Obama's 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/01/barack-obama-speaking-fees-economic-racial-justice">$400,000
Speaking Fees Reveal What Few [progressives] Want to Admit</a>.
Namely, that he was never committed to fight the plutocrats.
<p>
I could see this before he was elected, which is why I didn't vote for
him.


feed_id: b3a5b194404df350bf9df7b39914dee6
title: Brain scanning technology
uri: Brain-scanning-technology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_May_2017_%28Brain_scanning_technology%29
content:
<p>
As brain scanning technology advances, we will need to have laws to
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/delete-thoughts-read-your-mind-without-your-knowledge-neurotechnology-new-human-rights-laws-a7701661.html">protect
people's privacy and autonomy in their minds</a>.
<p>
But that won't be enough, because our thoughts can have visible
effects in tiny actions of our muscles.
<p>
Devices are being designed to 
<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/diagnostics/the-walls-have-eyes-and-theyre-watching-how-you-walk">watch
how fast people walk</a>, to deduce their state of health or to
identify them.


feed_id: 7086b5d36777e3baeec4a51cda1e82a6
title: Harassment by New Orleans prosecutors
uri: Harassment-by-New-Orleans-prosecutors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_May_2017_%28Harassment_by_New_Orleans_prosecutors%29

content:
<p>
New Orleans prosecutors 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/01/prosecuted-law-new-orleans">harass
investigations by public defenders</a> by filing criminal charges
against them over doing their jobs properly.


feed_id: c57d8ed2f7b6135f1768375b04cd2dde
title: Facebook more dangerous than The Circle
uri: Facebook-more-dangerous-than-The-Circle
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_May_2017_%28Facebook_more_dangerous_than_The_Circle%29

content:
<p>
The Circle is like a cartoon parody of Facebook, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/02/facebook-the-circle-film-social-media-parallels">the
real Facebook is more dangerous</a>.
<p>
Make sure your browser blocks Facebook's Like buttons so that they
can't snoop on your browsing.


feed_id: c5e12838393f224cefed58e4d4bf8277
title: Inequality
uri: 2017-05-11-Inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_May_2017_%28Inequality%29
content:
<p>
"The higher the inequality, the more likely we are to 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/may/02/higher-inequality-move-away-from-democracy-branko-milanovic-big-data'>move
away from democracy</a>."
<p>
Equality of opportunity includes more than just the opportunity for an
adult trying to enter a certain kind of work or school.  It also
includes the opportunity for a child to grow up into a capable adult.
That requires good food, good medical care, and a life without high
stress.


feed_id: d05154c5502133505d99d650dbecaf59
title: Urgent: Reject the Dontcare bill
uri: 2017-05-11-Urgent-Reject-the-Dontcare-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_Dontcare_bill%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.moveon.org/go/9892">call on Senate Republicans</a>
to reject the <a href="/glossary.html#care">Dontcare</a> bill.


feed_id: 4ace9dd70d69da62b128dd581ad2cb1a
title: Medical disinsurance bill
uri: Medical-disinsurance-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Medical_disinsurance_bill%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/house-republicans-just-passed-a-bill-that-would-take-health-insurance-from-millions-7eabb99d5251">House of Representatives passed an even worse version</a> of the
SCROTUS medical disinsurance bill.
<p>
It seems they papered over the denial of coverage to people with
preexisting medical conditions with a limited amount of funds to cover
some of them.
<p>
Then they rushed it through to deny the opportunity for informed
public criticism.  There was no emergency here.  Any legislator who
rushes a controversial change for no urgent reason is trying to
screw the public.
<p>
It is foolish and misleading to call that bill "Trumpcare".  The troll
tries to shock us, but in some ways he is totally predictable: he will
never care about Americans in general.
<p>
I have decided to call that bill "Dontcare".


feed_id: 7718c15d48425481dbe9e7784f94d7e0
title: Atlantic Coast Pipeline
uri: Atlantic-Coast-Pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Atlantic_Coast_Pipeline%29
content:
<p>
Forest Service's "Independent" Report on Atlantic Coast Pipeline
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40459-forest-service-s-independent-report-on-atlantic-coast-pipeline-written-by-pipeline-company-contractor">Written
by Pipeline Company Contractor</a>.


feed_id: 1120a2a79488a546f853c7c068c84c54
title: Money buys votes
uri: Money-buys-votes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Money_buys_votes%29
content:
<p>
A study
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40458-new-data-documents-wall-street-and-telecoms-impressive-control-of-congress">documents how effectively money buys votes</a> in congress.


feed_id: c668b941af71d874216d4366cbd5742f
title: Arbitrarily searching
uri: Arbitrarily-searching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Arbitrarily_searching%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/why-did-government-search-artists-iphone-border">ACLU is suing the US government for arbitrarily searching</a>
Aaron Gach's phone.


feed_id: 0fb7f5f7f74d100d51603ea2e0361992
title: Curse-words
uri: Curse-words
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Curse-words%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/05/strong-language-swearing-makes-you-stronger-psychologists-confirm">Saying curse-words boosts one's physical strength.</a>
<p>
I have a hunch it boosts firmness of will under some circumstances.


feed_id: a9a513eeac3580df5e14e2aaabda4468
title: Removing CO2
uri: Removing-CO2
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Removing_CO2%29
content:
<p>
There are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/may/05/negative-emissions-tech-can-more-trees-carbon-capture-or-biochar-solve-our-co2-problem">proposals for removing CO<sub>2</sub></a> from the atmosphere.
<p>
Growing a tree seems simple, but growing billions of trees is a lot
harder than just planting them.  For instance, they could be killed by
global heating effects such as drought, floods, or tropical pests.  A
dead tree doesn't sequester carbon.


feed_id: 04d5c6fec95d880631851d27eef2f733
title: Desiree Fairooz
uri: Desiree-Fairooz
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Desiree_Fairooz%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/387184-jury-convicts-woman-laughing-sessions/">An interview with Desiree Fairooz</a>, with more detail about the events
of her arrest and prosecution.
<p>
It seems she was expelled originally for laughing, but prosecuted
for objecting when she was expelled for laughing.


feed_id: 3ac8615ed5b37e7c9774d712261c8f66
title: Humanitarian safe zones
uri: Humanitarian-safe-zones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Humanitarian_safe_zones%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/04/putin-syria-carnage-humanitarian-safe-zones">Putin has got support from Turkey, Iran and the US</a> for a plan to
establish
"humanitarian safe zones" in Syria.


feed_id: cc2f3ef17f28f9ecb6d1f8f46ad16800
title: Urgent: Block Dontcare
uri: Urgent-Block-Dontcare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Dontcare%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/senate_stop_trumpcare">call
on the Senate</a> to block Dontcare.  More precisely, any law that
undermines Medicare and Medicaid, defunds Planned Parenthood, or takes
health care away from sick people.


feed_id: b51c61ba8973f2c7bd8c44a7a4ff021a
title: Urgent: Reject EPA budget cuts
uri: Urgent-Reject-EPA-budget-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_EPA_budget_cuts%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4248">call
on Congress</a> to reject EPA budget cuts.


feed_id: e0015502d382f533ddcb94c3ac660cba
title: Urgent: Stop using troll's golf courses
uri: Urgent-Stop-using-troll-s-golf-courses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_using_trolls_golf_courses%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/LPGA_Trump">call on
professional golf tournaments</a> to stop using the troll's golf
courses.


feed_id: ef73813f67acbb1b90857b58655434fd
title: Urgent: Condemn Dontcare bill
uri: Urgent-Condemn-Dontcare-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Condemn_Dontcare_bill%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://go.commondefensepac.com/page/s/trumpcare-is-betrayal">condemn</a>
the <a href="/glossary.html#care">Dontcare</a> bill.


feed_id: 21ae8181c9554b8f42da704db0424af4
title: Urgent: Protect the boreal forest
uri: Urgent-Protect-the-boreal-forest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_the_boreal_forest%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4247">Urge
Canada to protect the boreal forest.


feed_id: 8459d9015104fc200070fff0bd52a3b8
title: Tory "welfare reform"
uri: Tory-welfare-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Tory_welfare_reform%29
content:
<p>
The last stage of Tory "welfare reform" was an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2017/may/02/welfare-reform-cruel-chaotic-theresa-may">arbitrary
maximum limit on annual welfare payments</a>.  This was supposed to
pressure people into working, even disabled people and people for whom
working is logistically impossible.
<p>
This policy is a catastrophe for the non-rich, but not for the Tories
that set it up.  On the contrary, it achieves their goal: to drive the
non-rich into ever-worse poverty, to the point that they become a
timid and unresisting underclass, useful for intimidating everyone
else.
<p>
There is one good effect of the policy: that it encourages some women
to have abortions rather than babies.  In our overpopulated world,
with the human population still growing, people ought to ask
themselves, "Is it right for me to have a child?"  If it would be
difficult for you to support one, that is the indirect way that the
world shows you that you shouldn't have it.
<p>
However, the Tory choice to send this message by denying support to
children Tories consider "excess" is cruel and destructive.  It
condemns real, live children to grow up in poverty, hunger and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_July_2014_(The_permanent_stress_caused_by_poverty)">stress</a>,
which gratuitously
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_(Poverty_and_child_development)">stunts
them for life</a>.


feed_id: cd957ab7c04a2beddb8b6a4ba629152a
title: Cruelty of Republicans
uri: Cruelty-of-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Cruelty_of_Republicans%29
content:
<p>
A Republican congresscritter revealed the cruelty of Republicans by 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/02/exposing-gop-cruelty-alabama-rep-says-pre-existing-conditions-are-your-fault">blaming
individuals for all their medical problems</a>.
<p>
What Republicans are really saying is, "If you weren't born rich, you
deserve a life of shit."  They say this to serve the people they work
for: the rich.


feed_id: 9b579a13de4ad66c95ab8dad6ceb1769
title: No charges against killer thugs
uri: No-charges-against-killer-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28No_charges_against_killer_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The US Justice Department will bring no charges against the thugs that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/02/alton-sterling-shooting-no-charges-white-police-officers">held
Alton Sterling down and shot him dead</a>.
<p>
This could reflect a new policy of supporting thugs no matter how
flagrant their crimes.  But it will take more than one occasion to see
if it is a new policy.


feed_id: e9ece79b25c3bb61634ac5e24a8402af
title: "Bailout" of Greece
uri: Bailout-of-Greece
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Bailout_of_Greece%29
content:
<p>
Varoufakis gives quotes to prove that "bailout" of Greece was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/03/yanis-varoufakis-greece-greatest-political-memoir">designed
from the start to be a disaster</a>.
<p>
I disagree with Paul Mason's judgment of Tsipras.  Each stage of
"bailout" only makes Greece weaker.


feed_id: 9a56ab2566dd8fdcabf7d532e979d697
title: Today's plastic straws
uri: Today-s-plastic-straws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Todays_plastic_straws%29
content:
<p>
Eliminating today's 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/may/03/disturbing-turtle-video-drives-uk-pub-chain-to-clamp-down-on-plastic-straws">plastic
straws</a> is environmentally necessary.


feed_id: 3da378c0f03ca594f7a0ab4b4768ba38
title: US war crimes of the Korean War
uri: US-war-crimes-of-the-Korean-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28US_war_crimes_of_the_Korean_War%29
content:
<p>
Remembering the 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/03/why-do-north-koreans-hate-us-one-reason-they-remember-the-korean-war/">US
war crimes</a> of the Korean War.


feed_id: b7eb0a7b8bf24ae6ecef749a6748ce19
title: Agreement for peace in Libya
uri: Agreement-for-peace-in-Libya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Agreement_for_peace_in_Libya%29
content:
<p>
The two governments ruling parts of Libya 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/03/libya-rival-factions-appear-to-reach-outline-agreement">may
be making some sort of agreement</a> for peace with each other.


feed_id: 45cf6f121097aa26193ce9cbb4a8f52e
title: Nazi occupation collaborators
uri: Nazi-occupation-collaborators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Nazi_occupation_collaborators%29
content:
<p>
Ukrainians that collaborated with the Nazi occupation later led
guerrilla resistance against Stalin.  That 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/03/ukraine-investigates-soviet-veteran-death-red-army-boris-steckler">makes
it hard to judge those who fought them</a> on behalf of Stalin.


feed_id: 9fe683f35acc2d8998013bf6e432e04a
title: Riots in poor areas of Caracas
uri: Riots-in-poor-areas-of-Caracas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Riots_in_poor_areas_of_Caracas%29
content:
<p>
Poor areas of Caracas have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/03/venezuela-crisis-protests-nicolas-maduro-caracas">broken
out in riots</a>.


feed_id: 9ea234fbf22cee9520fcac2c4ac50d02
title: Tories to rewrite law, bypassing Parliament
uri: Tories-to-rewrite-law-bypassing-Parliament
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Tories_to_rewrite_law%2C_bypassing_Parliament%29

content:
<p>
The Tories, extractivists rather than conservatives, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/03/true-conservatives-fake-ones-destroying-britian-theresa-may-real-patriots">plan
to rewrite all of British law</a> bypassing Parliament, if nobody
stops them.


feed_id: 1299da0d926d6d564beb35619fa17f4d
title: Real pain from imaginary damage
uri: Real-pain-from-imaginary-damage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Real_pain_from_imaginary_damage%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/nov/13/nocebo-pain-wellcome-trust-prize">nocebo
effect</a>: how imaginary damage can cause real pain.


feed_id: c86cb28d0b63719f8bcd61d72b0027bd
title: Imprisoned refugees on Nauru
uri: Imprisoned-refugees-on-Nauru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Imprisoned_refugees_on_Nauru%29
content:
<p>
Among the refugees imprisoned by Australia on Nauru, 50 have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/03/nauru-self-immolation-led-to-up-to-50-similar-threats-and-attempts">threatened
or tried to burn themselves to death</a>.


feed_id: cb211cee60b76b56d28e1434bf50c0b3
title: Unconstitutional Wisconsin law
uri: Unconstitutional-Wisconsin-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Unconstitutional_Wisconsin_law%29
content:
<p>
Wisconsin had a law that 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/tamara-loertscher-unborn-child-protection-wisconsin-pregnant-jail">denied
human autonomy automatically</a> to every pregnant women who had a
history of using certain drugs.  It has been ruled unconstitutional.
<p>
Women have a moral obligation to the good health of babies they will
have — if they intend to have babies.  (Aborting a fetus
eliminates the issue because then it won't become a baby.)  But women
are not incubators.  Being pregnant doesn't take away their human
rights.


feed_id: bbd3d290ed7966e61f129f4c7d06ad73
title: Jailed by border thugs for being late
uri: Jailed-by-border-thugs-for-being-late
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Jailed_by_border_thugs_for_being_late%29

content:
<p>
Us border thugs jailed Baxter Reid for being one hour late in leaving
the US.  He was not late by choice &mdash he was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/02/us-border-officers-lock-up-australian-man-after-overstaying-visa-by-one-hour">delayed
in departure by Canadian immigration</a>.
<p>
Countries have a right to deport those who willfully overstay a visa.
But no country can excuse punishing people who in trying to carry out
their visa requirements encounter delays beyond their control.  That
is the act of people whose goal is to cause suffering and use rules as
an excuse.
<p>
The United States should give Reid an apology and fire those
responsible for this treatment of him.  If the government does not nip
this in the bud, soon we will hear about visitors that were jailed
because they had a heart attack before their visas expired, or their
departure flight was canceled, or their taxi had a collision on the
way to the airport.


feed_id: 9b9098213ccf14b5bc1d629609cd1564
title: Students from poor families stigmatized
uri: Students-from-poor-families-stigmatized
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Students_from_poor_families_stigmatized%29

content:
<p>
In many US schools, the staff go out of their way to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2017/may/02/lunch-shaming-battle-against-child-poverty">stigmatize
students from poor families</a>.  Anyone who would even think of this
should not be working with children.
<p>
It seems to me that schools are doing the wrong sort of background
check on their staff.  Contempt for some set of students —
whether it is poverty, or an ethnic group — is the biggest
danger to the students.


feed_id: 07026c5fb780a1dc5e8327ca0aa49c91
title: NRA's resistance to gun control
uri: NRA-s-resistance-to-gun-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28NRAs_resistance_to_gun_control%29
content:
<p>
How the NRA's resistance to gun control 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/florida-stand-your-ground-guns-rights-race-donald-trump-national-rifle-association">ties
in with traditional US racism</a>.


feed_id: 991bf1dc2ebabdccbfc327e91a2df735
title: Thug pleads guilty to civil rights charges
uri: Thug-pleads-guilty-to-civil-rights-charges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Thug_pleads_guilty_to_civil_rights_charges%29

content:
<p>
The thug that killed Walter Scott, shooting him in the back as he was
fleeing, has pleaded 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/02/walter-scott-shooting-police-michael-slager-pleads-guilty">guilty
to federal civil rights charges</a>.


feed_id: b433fe3e99c3645188d41f319fdd2a68
title: Prosecutor on trial for rigging trial
uri: Prosecutor-on-trial-for-rigging-trial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Prosecutor_on_trial_for_rigging_trial%29

content:
<p>
A prosecutor in Texas is on trial for 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/02/texas-prosecutor-in-junk-science-execution-case-stands-trial-for-misconduct/">illegally
rigging a trial</a>, which caused an innocent man to be executed.


feed_id: 7b1b3e28d3edbfea36fb2ed7d6298040
title: Exacerbation of inequality
uri: Exacerbation-of-inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Exacerbation_of_inequality%29
content:
<p>
When adults need to borrow money from their parents to buy a house,
this
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/02/bank-of-mum-and-dad-lend-65bn-property-market">exacerbates
inequality</a> — between those whose parents have that much
money and those whose parents don't.


feed_id: 0caf9b91690d43daf6705fc2ada62b3a
title: Troll's USDA saboteurs
uri: Troll-s-USDA-saboteurs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Trolls_USDA_saboteurs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s saboteurs in the USDA have 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/01/trumps-usda-rolls-back-school-lunch-guidelines-championed-michelle-obama">cancelled
new nutritional standards for school lunches</a>.
<p>
That shows how much he cares about poor rural children.


feed_id: 2b881307b279954f759db0c0ece7ff42
title: Funding for EPA and science saved
uri: Funding-for-EPA-and-science-saved
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Funding_for_EPA_and_science_saved%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/01/350org-budget-deal-people-power-our-best-tool-fight-trumps-climate-attacks">new
Congressional budget</a> saved funding for the EPA and for scientific
research, which the troll wanted to kill.


feed_id: 21bd5b8950d4a3e928ffeaa7af3d1101
title: Democrats that favor the rich
uri: Democrats-that-favor-the-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Democrats_that_favor_the_rich%29
content:
<p>
Americans have learned that 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/01/pro-clinton-probe-2016-reveals-yes-democrats-have-wall-street-problem">Democrats
such as Clinton favor the rich</a>.  Strangely, they believed the
troll when he said he was different.
<p>
Americans need to elect politicians like Senator Sanders and Senator
Warren, who really don't favor the rich.


feed_id: 378352d0871ba03b158576b476c08441
title: Guns banned at troll's speech for NRA
uri: Guns-banned-at-troll-s-speech-for-NRA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Guns_banned_at_trolls_speech_for_NRA%29

content:
<p>
When the troll gave a speech for the NRA, guns were 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/28/1657160/-Second-Amendment-snowflake-Guns-banned-at-Donald-Trump-s-NRA-speech">banned
in the hall</a>.
<p>
His bodyguards understand that this is necessary, even though he says
it isn't.


feed_id: c3fa9c6ff9b0383b63d4d0420418dc74
title: Plutocratist Democrat
uri: Plutocratist-Democrat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Plutocratist_Democrat%29
content:
<p>
Andrew Cuomo is a plutocratist Democrat; he favors progressive policies
as long as they don't cut into the income of his 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/59070e84e4b05279d4edbdb7">bankster
supporters</a>.


feed_id: 8144a0aafc230f1a3dc03a9b40d11f14
title: Protecting water from fracking
uri: Protecting-water-from-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Protecting_water_from_fracking%29
content:
<p>
The Safest Way to Protect Water from Fracking is to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/01/safest-way-protect-water-fracking-ban-fracking">Ban
Fracking</a>.
<p>
This is doubly the case since each gram of gas extracted, no matter
how, contributes to global heating.
<p>
We need to keep 80% of all known fossil fuel reserves 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_February_2016_(Fight_to_keep_fossil_fuel_in_ground)">in
the ground</a>, and we might as well start with all the reserves that
require dangerous procedures (such as fraction) to be extracted.


feed_id: 296cdbdc67c4b2c4221cf2d37c3f13c7
title: Radioactive fallout near Fukushima
uri: Radioactive-fallout-near-Fukushima
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Radioactive_fallout_near_Fukushima%29

content:
<p>
A forest fire in a fallout-contaminated area near Fukushima is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/01/sparking-fears-airborne-radiation-wildfire-burns-fukushima-no-go-zone">lifting
the radioactive fallout into the air</a>.
<p>
Whether this event has a significant effect would depend on the
current wind.  The radioactive atoms will drift for a while with the
wind, then fall down somewhere else.


feed_id: 646fc9b1c4ea381505ce493297d03612
title: Troll's political philosophy
uri: Troll-s-political-philosophy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Trolls_political_philosophy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s political philosophy is not neoliberal, nor antisocialist
("libertarian").  He is an 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/01/authoritarian-president">authoritarian</a>.


feed_id: b92b4c35c4bd5959b107785c43afbfdf
title: Troll's falsehoods
uri: Troll-s-falsehoods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Trolls_falsehoods%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> tells so many falsehoods that the Washington Post fact
checkers cannot keep up.  An average of 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/01/president-trumps-first-100-days-the-fact-check-tally/">almost
5 per day</a>.


feed_id: 987213d59760f61305f0f382ebe8a01f
title: Global heating denial
uri: 2017-05-11-Global-heating-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Global_heating_denial%29
content:
<p>
The handful of scientists that deny global heating and its human
causes have published arguments in a paper.  This article shows 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/may/02/climate-contrarians-want-to-endanger-the-epa-climate-endangerment-finding">its
errors</a>.


feed_id: b714309b9fdf81f6ace1e0e06c9ca002
title: The future of humanity
uri: The-future-of-humanity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28The_future_of_humanity%29
content:
<p>
Many intellectuals think about the future of humanity
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/05/the-great-climate-silence-we-are-on-the-edge-of-the-abyss-but-we-ignore-it">based solely on
their own fields of thought</a>y, ignoring and thus implicitly denying the
ecological and climate disasters that humanity is building up.
<p>
I wish the author would reconsider the name "Anthropocene" for the new
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/thermocene.html">geological epoch that is the result of human activity</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, the oil companies pay attention to the coming disaster —
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/05/santos-admits-business-plan-based-4c-global-temperature-rise">but only how to profit from it</a>.
<p>
They too underestimate the consequences that would result from 4C of
global heating.
<p>
Preventing an ice age in 50,000 years would be a good thing, if it
were not a side effect of an even bigger disaster in a few decades
from now.  The avoided ice age would imply 4C of global cooling.  The
Thermocene epoch could ultimately involve more than 4C of heating.


feed_id: 93cc891dad625468d3202be597dea934
title: Medical disinsurance bill
uri: 2017-05-12-Medical-disinsurance-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Medical_disinsurance_bill%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/house-republicans-just-passed-a-bill-that-would-take-health-insurance-from-millions-7eabb99d5251">House of Representatives passed an even worse version</a> of the
<a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> medical disinsurance bill.
<p>
It seems they papered over the denial of coverage to people with
preexisting medical conditions with a limited amount of funds to cover
some of them.
<p>
Then they rushed it through to deny the opportunity for informed
public criticism.  There was no emergency here.  Any legislator who
rushes a controversial change for no urgent reason is trying to
screw the public.
<p>
It is foolish and misleading to call that bill "Trumpcare".  <a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>
tries to shock us, but in some ways he is totally predictable: he will
never care about Americans in general.
<p>
I have decided to call that bill "<a href="/glossary.html#care">Dontcare</a>".


feed_id: 434d5282b41e1ab40a6ab73d7687f938
title: Activism against troll and saboteurs
uri: Activism-against-troll-and-saboteurs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#12_May_2017_%28Activism_against_troll_and_saboteurs%29

content:
<p>
The pace of activism against the troll and his saboteurs is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/03/protest-expert-says-anti-trump-resistance-not-slowing-down">increasing</a>.
People are not getting tired of fighting back.


feed_id: 052784aa8296a7a8ccc41eba4d41e67e
title: Asking citizens to do work of thugs
uri: Asking-citizens-to-do-work-of-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#12_May_2017_%28Asking_citizens_to_do_work_of_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Asking citizens to monitor each other for the thugs is 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/new-implication-cellphone-video-citizens-taping-each-other-police">very
dangerous</a>.


feed_id: 5caa767be0590febeff27ce74e1b808c
title: North Korea's missiles
uri: North-Korea-s-missiles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#12_May_2017_%28North_Koreas_missiles%29
content:
<p>
North Korea has missiles, but 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/03/north-korea-wants-to-convince-the-world-it-can-nuke-hawaii-donald-trump-is-happy-to-oblige/">even
their medium-range missiles rarely work</a>.  The ICBMs are pretty much
theoretical.


feed_id: cfce8df3d19b14496ce817c3d6a8256b
title: Limiting surveillance capabilities of thugs
uri: Limiting-surveillance-capabilities-of-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Limiting_surveillance_capabilities_of_thugs%29

content:
<p>
California has 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/california-lets-end-unchecked-police-surveillance">a
chance</a> to put strict limits on the surveillance capabilities of
thugs.


feed_id: 9cb7f05b4d13bb19bb8c672ea700f272
title: Vague and abstract patents
uri: Vague-and-abstract-patents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Vague_and_abstract_patents%29
content:
<p>
Congress is 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/congress-should-leave-alice-alone">considering
a law to reauthorize vague and abstract patents</a> on computing
activities.


feed_id: 85bad99f6323233b48afc460b553aafd
title: Australia's minister in charge sticks to lies
uri: Australia-s-minister-in-charge-sticks-to-lies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Australias_minister_in_charge_sticks_to_lies%29

content:
<p>
Australia's minister in charge
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/04/peter-duttons-claims-about-manus-violence-unsupported-on-the-ground-greens-senator-says">persistently
lies about a violent attack on refugees</a> that Australia has dumped
on Manus Island.
<p>
Some decades ago, it was the Stalinists that stuck to official the lie
no matter how absurd it became.  Now it's the capitalists.


feed_id: 978684fe4c87c6ec53310257593c64ee
title: US border thugs routinely lie
uri: US-border-thugs-routinely-lie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28US_border_thugs_routinely_lie%29
content:
<p>
US border thugs routinely 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/03/trump-says-we-dont-have-to-let-you-in-report-says-u-s-border-officials-are-turning-away-asylum-seekers/">lie
to Central Americans who want asylum</a>, denying them the chance to
apply for asylum and the possibility of protection from immediate
danger.


feed_id: 45b1827921bb0ff0efd52ebdc586cd01
title: US foreign policy
uri: 2017-05-13-US-foreign-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28US_foreign_policy%29
content:
<p>
Tillerson 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/03/rex-tillerson-america-first-speech-trump-policy">proposes
to disconnect US foreign policy from the stated values of the US</a>
(human rights and political freedom).
<p>
The sad and ironic thing is that this would be very little change, as
the two have been mostly separate for a long time.  The US been 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#23_September_2012_(Violence_used_by_Salafists)">allied
with repressive Salafi Arabia for decades</a>.  In the 1970s the US
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#29_May_2016_(Military_murderers_sentenced_in_Argentina)">arranged
murderous military governments</a> in several countries in South
America.
<p>
And that's just a fraction of the instances.


feed_id: 852b143303b02e0b6456b887616dfada
title: Activist convicted of laughing
uri: Activist-convicted-of-laughing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Activist_convicted_of_laughing%29
content:
<p>
Activist Desiree Fairooz has been convicted of 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/desiree-fairooz-jeff-sessions-confirmation-laugh-convicted">laughing
at the blatantly counterfactual testimony of a senator</a>.
<p>
Two others were convicted of being present before the hearing wearing
KKK robes.
<p>
The Republican Party is the enemy of everything the United States
stands for.


feed_id: f2dc3749f467aa3761d75572e0c188ce
title: 162,000 life prison sentences in the US
uri: 162-000-life-prison-sentences-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28162%2C000_life_prison_sentences_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The number of prisoners in the US sentenced to life in prison 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/life-sentences-america-are-record-high">keeps
increasing</a>.  There are now 162,000 of them.


feed_id: 94f3960e76b070cabb6a8d8aa801c04a
title: "Prosperity gospel" preacher Benny Hinn
uri: Prosperity-gospel-preacher-Benny-Hinn
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Prosperity_gospel_preacher_Benny_Hinn%29

content:
<p>
"Prosperity gospel" preacher Benny Hinn has been 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/irs-raids-prosperity-gospel-preacher-5ea1e94fd434">raided
by the US</a>.  His "prosperity" doesn't come from worshiping —
it comes from the worshipers to whom he promises riches, and
apparently from the US treasury.


feed_id: f2b87d6368c287530f74026d275d43a4
title: Troll tries same bogus economics as Reagan
uri: Troll-tries-same-bogus-economics-as-Reagan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Troll_tries_same_bogus_economics_as_Reagan%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> is trying to follow the same bogus economics that Reagan
followed: the idea that tax cuts will lead the rich to increase
investment and produce growth, 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40432-trump-s-tax-cut-flunks-the-napkin-test-a-d-student-s-misreading-of-economic-law">a
little of which will "trickle down" to the rest of us</a>.
<p>
It isn't good for the budget or the country, but it's great for dooH
niboR.
<p>
The US has had plenty of growth since Reagan.  None of it reached the
non-rich; 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-may-aug.html#13%20June%202004%20(Reagan%27s%20Casty%20Career)">the
rich kept it all</a>.  What we need now is not growth, it is to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_April_2017_(Democratic_Party_centrism)">take
our fare share from the rich</a>.


feed_id: 47ee2280c142cb4fbdf0738c3866dcd9
title: Global heating
uri: 2017-05-13-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
There 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2017/may/04/global-warming-scientists-learn-lessons-from-the-pause-that-never-was">was
no "hiatus" in global heating</a>.  Rather, denialists seized on the
way science handles a minor anomaly in important data by proposing and
testing various explanations for it.
<p>
We don't need to know exactly where the water rose over the seawall
to recognize a flood.  We shouldn't need to know every detail
of how the temperature of the ecosphere is rising to recognize that
it's going to swamp our world, nor that the only way to prevent that
is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a lot.


feed_id: a5b2e4423d43012b84d7d29b6ae7f14e
title: Advertisements and snooping
uri: Advertisements-and-snooping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Advertisements_and_snooping%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/40416191/ad-creep-is-not-invitable">US
law has been used before</a> to keep advertisements and snooping out
of certain areas of our lives.
<p>
Let's do it again!
<p>
(It is regrettable that the article refers to publications as 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">"content"</a>.)


feed_id: 3c079adda87724c5e379e868955c7307
title: Network neutrality
uri: 2017-05-13-Network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> have proposed a law to 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/gops-internet-freedom-act-permanently-guts-net-neutrality-authority/">bar
the FCC from requiring any kind of network neutrality</a>.


feed_id: 59dafe1e0b253e655e454a46b2ca17f6
title: Flint residents' water bills
uri: Flint-residents-water-bills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Flint_residents_water_bills%29
content:
<p>
The imposed government of Flint has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/03/flint-residents-could-lose-their-homes-over-unpaid-bills-poisoned-water">threatened
to seize the homes of people who have not paid their exorbitant water
bills</a>.
<p>
Those bills are for water that has to be filtered since it still has
too much lead.
<p>
The government of Flint is nondemocratic; the people of the city
cannot replace it.  It was put in place by the Republicans that
dominate Michigan as a whole.  Naturally it acts to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#11_March_2016_(Federal_funds_for_water_in_Flint_blocked)">oppress</a>,
since that is its purpose.


feed_id: 106aa51464d9a20b747a549e02a56dad
title: Windows 10 S
uri: Windows-10-S
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Windows_10_S%29
content:
<p>
Windows 10 S ("S for Straitjacket") 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/windows-10-s-edge-bing-default/">does
not allow users to change the default browser or the default search
engine</a>.


feed_id: 728a9d804ef613c403fa4d15a4070bb8
title: Sale of neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Sale-of-neonicotinoid-pesticides
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Sale_of_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29
content:
<p>
WalMart and TrueValue have or will 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/03/walmart-and-true-value-phase-out-bee-killing-pesticides-while-ace-hardware-lags">stop
selling neonicotinoid pesticides and plants grown with them</a>.
<p>
I expect that farms use a lot more neonicotinoids than home gardeners,
but this is a significant step forward.
<p>
Too bad our government is so submissive to business that it can't take
necessary decisive action that large companies oppose.  It reduces us
to begging companies to stop doing wrong.


feed_id: e06431a315e7049ebe6d8d016dfc1296
title: Obama's shame
uri: Obama-s-shame
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Obamas_shame%29
content:
<p>
As I suspected, the US federal claim that even an insignificant
falsehood in a citizenship application is grounds to revoke
citizenship was 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/02/dont-blame-trump-for-obamas-position-on">first
presented under Obama</a>.
<p>
It is to Obama's shame, and Holder's that neither of them objected to
this.  Of course, neither do the troll and Sessions.


feed_id: 17e64c609ab716ff6a7878b74da06b33
title: Leapforce
uri: Leapforce
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Leapforce%29
content:
<p>
Google outsources the checking of its algorithmic classifications to a
company called Leapforce.  The company just 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/05/google-rater-fired-after-speaking-to-ars-about-work-conditions/">cut
all its full-time workers to part-time, cut their wages, and
discharged many of them</a>.
<p>
It did this in a strange way — a new, replacement company has
been started up which is hiring only some of the workers, and it seems
the company Leapforce will be shut down.
<p>
The article doesn't explain the motive for doing it that way, but I
suspect it is an end run around US labor law — essentially, a
way to cheat some of the workers.


feed_id: 4ca42ab6858a9ea902da4c9362821c45
title: Feinstein and insurance companies
uri: Feinstein-and-insurance-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Feinstein_and_insurance_companies%29
content:
<p>
Senator Feinstein persistently opposes single-payer medical care.
Perhaps her reason is that she 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/02/feinstein-hosts-industry-fundraiser-days-after-dissing-single-payer">depends
on money from insurance companies</a>.


feed_id: 0bfda6aa64eabf9c16665f40287da805
title: Attack on the right to protest
uri: Attack-on-the-right-to-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_May_2017_%28Attack_on_the_right_to_protest%29
content:
<p>
South Dakota Republicans are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/03/keystone-pipeline-protests-land-rights-south-dakota">attacking</a>
the right to protest.


feed_id: dc01ae6853eac4ec150b5129ee0113b1
title: Carry bombs
uri: Carry-bombs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Carry_bombs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/05/dressed-for-death-the-women-boko-haram-sent-to-blow-themselves-up">Boko Haram lures young girls to carry bombs into crowds</a> for murder.
The children are too young to understand death, and it doesn't occur
to them to disobay.
<p>
As a result, people in Maiduguri are afraid of any unknown children
that approach them.
<p>
Sometimes an adult man hugs the girl to carry her away from the crowd,
much as some soldiers in World War II threw themselves on a grenade to
save the other soldiers around them.


feed_id: 325f3d7475a99f96e46d4b6f69419a21
title: Food banks
uri: Food-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Food_banks%29
content:
<p>
We don't need to pretend that everyone who gets food from food banks
is totally admirable.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/05/left-victims-food-bank-safety-net">It's a shame to make life so hard that people
need to go to food banks</a>.
<p>
It's also a shame not to make make alcoholism treatment available
to everyone that needs it.


feed_id: 6d3ca67124b438c52d32f0b8b13eafc4
title: Visa Applications
uri: Visa-Applications
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Visa_Applications%29
content:
<p>
The US plans to demand that some visa applicants
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2017/05/04/state-department-seeks-to-screen-social-media-of-visa-applicants/">describe their travel
and work history for 15 years</a> — which many people could not possibly
answer — as well as demanding to look at their social media accounts.
<p>
Doing this at the time of visa application is less cruel than doing it
when people enter the US.  If you get asked unacceptable prying
questions when you apply for the visa, at least you can still cancel
your trip without losing the price of intercontinental airplane
tickets.


feed_id: 90e7725e79a42d96ae43585a683f7c04
title: Former prisoners in Guantanamo
uri: Former-prisoners-in-Guantanamo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Former%20prisoners_in_Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/05/lakhdar-boumediene-guantanamo-book-witnesses-of-the-unseen">Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir</a>, formerly prisoners in
Guantanamo,
write about their torture and their legal cases.
<p>
The US imprisoned them without trial, and eventually released them
after the Supreme Court ruled they were entitled to demand justice.
But that was after 7 years of unjust imprisonment.
<p>
The dates suggest that Dubya was unwilling to release them
and they were freed only after Obama became president.


feed_id: 4620c09c48fc87cf0b4af04b142d8f4b
title: The Kentucky Derby
uri: The-Kentucky-Derby
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28The_Kentucky_Derby%29
content:
<p>
The Kentucky Derby is complaining that it can't find the workers
it needs.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/06/kentucky-derby-workers-trump-immigration-deportation">It generally hires immigrants for low wages.</a>
<p>
The idea of limiting immigration of workers is that businesses will
have to hire citizens.  If citizens won't accept the job without a
higher salary and better working conditions, the businesses will be
compelled to improve wages and conditions.  That is unpleasant for
businesses, and good for the people.  But it takes time for the labor
market to adjust to that.


feed_id: 794536b89752acf1693a88cc0228f4db
title: Social mobility
uri: Social-mobility
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Social_mobility%29
content:
<p>
Stephenie Jimenez got a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/may/06/elite-school-us-new-york">scolarship to a private school</a>, which offered
her a rare opportunity for social mobility.  But she recognizes that
lots
of other people from poor families could be successful with a good
public
school system.


feed_id: f3b68e68d11c791e8e9408464cc79623
title: Dangerously thin
uri: Dangerously-thin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Dangerously_thin%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/may/06/fashion-models-france-doctors-note-thin-health-photographs">France has adopted new laws</a> to prevent clothing publicity from
teaching
people
that women should be dangerously thin.


feed_id: 8142d2c4af12337357cbdfb1b329b211
title: Trumpcare disaster
uri: Trumpcare-disaster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Trumpcare_disaster%29
content:
<p>
"Democrats have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/06/democrats-business-rejoicing-trumpcare-disaster-ahca">no business rejoicing</a> at the Trumpcare disaster."
<p>
Wall Street Democrats are not on our side.  We have to defeat them
in primaries.


feed_id: ce83175864ffd31f41b755cd2d57be13
title: World population growth
uri: World-population-growth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28World_population_growth%29
content:
<p>
World population growth, and plans for farming in Africa,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/06/the-end-of-wild-elephants-why-we-must-not-let-africa-become-one-giant-food-farm">could
eliminate wild African elephants</a>, and wipe out lots of other species.
<p>
The article proposes ways to limit the disaster, but keeps its eyes
firmly shut to the best solution: keep the human population down.  We
should give people everywhere contraception aid, and offer incentives
for people to get themselves sterilized.  Let's aim to cut the human
birth rate in half, so the population will start slowly decreasing
to a sustainable level.


feed_id: 6978534d4ffae749499039bca51c7d4e
title: The New Deal
uri: The-New-Deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28The_New_Deal%29
content:
<p>
Around 1900, poor working stiffs recognized that the rich "robber
barons" were keeping them down — and they supported the
progressive movement and then the New Deal.
<p>
Today's robber barons have used the consolidated, corporate media to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/06/new-gilded-age-robber-barons-no-longer-villains-inequality-vote-for-super-rich">convince
the working stiffs that the robber barons deserve what they have
taken</a>, and it's the urban middle class (or what's left of it) that
is making them poor.


feed_id: 5d496e761680da9f452aaa20cec6adcb
title: Macron campaign's internal documents
uri: Macron-campaign-s-internal-documents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Macron_campaigns_internal_documents%29

content:
<p>
A leak of the Macron campaign's internal documents seems, on initial
examination,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/05/french-election-hack-emmanuel-macron">not
to contain anything scandalous</a>.
<p>
Macron says that some of them are fake.
<p>
It seems to have been published in the hope that voters will assume,
"Where there's a leak, there is wrongdoing."  But that doesn't seem to
have taken hold with the voters.
<p>
This contrasts with the Democratic Party officials' leaked emails,
which proved that they were
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#15_April_2016_(Superdelegate_support_for_Clinton)">secretly
biasing the primary race</a> in favor of Clinton and against Sanders.


feed_id: 3ec3756efd7be5ca0c4f72331e3c3275
title: Thug to be charged with murder
uri: Thug-to-be-charged-with-murder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Thug_to_be_charged_with_murder%29
content:
<p>
The thug that shot Jordan Edwards
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/jordan-edwards-shooting-officer-charged-murder-roy-oliver">will
be charged with murder</a>.


feed_id: 2219aadb274ebfbc86ac2c3a07e6a0d9
title: US government and cattle companies
uri: US-government-and-cattle-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28US_government_and_cattle_companies%29

content:
<p>
The US government is working with cattle companies to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/06/meatonomics-author-says-government-working-with-meat-and-dairy-industry-to-boost-consumption">convince
people to eat more beef and dairy products</a>.
<p>
Eating a lot of beef is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#25_December_2015_(Antibiotic-resistant_bacteria_in_ground_beef)">bad
for health</a>, and maintaining a lot of cattle
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#15_June_2016_(Giving_up_Beef_will_reduce_Carbon_Footprint)">contributes
substantially to global heating</a>.
<p>
We have to consider this another example of the harm done by having
plutocracy instead of democracy.


feed_id: a37c7eaa144626540aa8516f1954ad72
title: Troll's Dontcare bill
uri: Troll-s-Dontcare-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Trolls_Dontcare_bill%29
content:
<p>
If the troll's Dontcare bill passes, Republicans
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/05/donald-trumps-homicidal-healthcare-bill-enrich">will
have American blood on their hands</a>.
<p>
The Dontcare bill offers companies an
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/04/i-have-never-seen-lawmakers-so-deeply-hurt-so-many-their-own-constituents">excuse
to reduce the scope of the medical coverage</a> that they provide to
employees.
<p>
It would
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/04/i-have-never-seen-lawmakers-so-deeply-hurt-so-many-their-own-constituents">gut
Medicaid</a> along with Obama's insurance law.
<p>
It would
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/05/04/personal-responsibility.html">allow
insurance companies to deny coverage</a> for certain treatments to
those that already suffer mental illness from being raped or
experiencing domestic violence.


feed_id: 06a0708e35a2d7a39543f43a80c90f7d
title: Cloudflare sends personal information to publishers
uri: Cloudflare-sends-personal-information-to-publishers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Cloudflare_sends_personal_information_to_publishers%29

content:
<p>
When people complain to Cloudflare about neo-nazi material, Cloudflare
sends their personal information to the publishers of that material,
who
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serve-up-hate-on-the-web">sometimes
use it to harass and threaten those that complained</a>.
<p>
I wonder, does Cloudflare follow this same nasty practice for all the
sites that use it?
<p>
I agree with Cloudflare, however, in opposing attempts to ban neo-nazi
sites.  Freedom of speech includes the freedom to take a position we
disagree with, even one we despise.  Remember, there are people who
despise your views, too, but they should not be able to kick you off
the internet.


feed_id: b5c4f11951bdce5c2de832c1e29182e1
title: Sending arms to Salafi Arabia
uri: Sending-arms-to-Salafi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Sending_arms_to_Salafi_Arabia%29
content:
<p>
US officials that now participate in sending arms to Salafi Arabia
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/04/us-officials-risk-complicity-war-crimes-yemen">may
be guilty of war crimes</a>.


feed_id: 0e0e8cd99844773431a721356ed56d2e
title: How Americans remember US wars
uri: How-Americans-remember-US-wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28How_Americans_remember_US_wars%29
content:
<p>
Americans
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/04/terror-eye-beholder">remember
only the parts of US wars in which the US was attacked or in which
Americans acted admirably</a>.  They forget the parts in which US
armed forces committed enormous terrorism.
<p>
I was particularly interested by the point about using the terminology
"ground zero" to equate the September 2001 terrorist attacks (about
3000 victims, mainly American) with the US use of nuclear bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki (hundreds of thousands of victims, mainly
Japanese).  I have generally rejected the use of the term "ground
zero" for the World Trade Center because it struck me as tendentious,
but I never before understood why this was so.


feed_id: 8b693ccc032478936ffe3dc3a8e44ea2
title: New approach to economics
uri: New-approach-to-economics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28New_approach_to_economics%29
content:
<p>
A new approach to economics
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/04/why-just-and-sustainable-economy-looks-doughnut">recognizes
the limits imposed by nature and the needs of society</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/05/21st-century-economy-darwin-capitalism">Darwinian
economics</a> is another new perspective.


feed_id: d20c84e24ca3d8cf6d6f55e76b1606d8
title: Rich Foreigners
uri: Rich-Foreigners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Rich_Foreigners%29
content:
<p>
    Kushner told rich foreigners they
    <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/07/jared-kushners-family-criticised-for-touting-cash-for-visas-scheme-in-china">could get US residency by investing
	in his company</a>.
</p>
<p>
    He
    <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/2/1658137/-Jared-Kushner-left-some-things-off-his-disclosure-form-like-a-company-with-1-billion-in-loans">left out important business from his official diclosure form</a>, too.
</p>


feed_id: 2cc976f07494c46b6c2ef13b6c3a0ae0
title: Wireless power
uri: Wireless-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Wireless_power%29
content:
<p>
Wireless power for small snooping devices: is that an advance for
    the good,
    <a href="http://news.mit.edu/2017/wireless-power-ingestible-electronics-0427">or is it dangerous</a>?
</p>


feed_id: 45b9d4cd50877b47de1cfa4e003e7bd0
title: Food aid
uri: Food-aid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Food_aid%29
content:
<p>
    The world is
    <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/03/yemen-hunger-norwegian-refugee-council-chief-jan-egeland-shocked-to-the-bones">not providing enough food aid to feed the starving people</a>
in Yemen.
</p>
<p>
    If Salafi Arabia and the US bomb Hodeida, the food aid couldn't reach
    Yemen anyway.
</p>


feed_id: 6870b2b7af08a8017e43b89b208101a1
title: Built-in flaws
uri: Built-in-flaws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Built-in_flaws%29
content:
<p>
"The insurance market is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/06/cyber-insecurity-hackers-data-theft-protection">extracting millions to protect us from the
built-in flaws</a> the surveillance state relies on."


feed_id: 7d0c17f1a99013acf2144fc7faf3982e
title: The same side
uri: The-same-side
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28The_same_side%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-u-s-and-al-qaeda-are-on-the-same-side-in-yemen/">US and al-Qa'ida are effectively fighting on the same side</a> in
Yemen.


feed_id: 85c171c8b15572e417eb65cb72db0449
title: DecaBDE
uri: DecaBDE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28DecaBDE%29
content:
<p>
The EU supported a ban on DecaBDE, an endocrine disruptor,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/05/eu-supports-toxic-regulations-immediately-creates-loopholes-undermine-them">then turned
around and asked for broad exceptions</a>.


feed_id: 9cccfbd6f59da4ba7b1218da470501eb
title: Medicaid babies
uri: Medicaid-babies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Medicaid_babies%29
content:
<p>
Medicaid funds the medical care for half the babies born in the US.
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/4/1658883/-The-insurance-of-half-of-all-babies-born-in-the-U-S-is-threatened-by-Trumpcare?detail=emaildkre&link_id=15&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-ny-daily-news-cover-says-it-all-2&email_referrer=ny-daily-news-cover-says-it-all-2&email_subject=ny-daily-news-cover-says-it-all">That's what SCROTUS just cut.</a>


feed_id: 619292f795c04cfc8c9ed4aad9da116e
title: Divestment movement
uri: Divestment-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Divestment_movement%29
content:
<p>
The divestment movement offers
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/05/face-government-apathy-activists-launch-wave-global-divestment-actions">a way for people to put global heating
on the political agenda</a> and press to loosen the ties between fossil
fuel
industry and the rest of the world.


feed_id: 8ca0cb9ed2e5fd72a70572ad4b39a130
title: Egyptian Social Media Users
uri: Egyptian-Social-Media-Users
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Egyptian_Social_Media_Users%29
content:
<p>
Draft Law Would Require Egyptian Social Media Users to
<a href="https://globalvoices.org/2017/05/05/draft-law-would-require-egyptian-social-media-users-to-register-with-government/">Register With
Government</a>.


feed_id: ccf003f451f5ae35da0377d0289b793a
title: Measles
uri: Measles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Measles%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/anti-vaccine-activists-spark-a-states-worst-measles-outbreak-in-decades/2017/05/04/a1fac952-2f39-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html">Anti-vaxxers caused an outbreak</a> of measles in Minnesota.


feed_id: a0add26d008608c63c8c5253ef807762
title: The Panchen Lama
uri: The-Panchen-Lama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28The_Panchen_Lama%29
content:
<p>
China has kept the Panchen Lama
<a href="https://freetibet.org/free-panchen-lama?utm_source=Free+Tibet+email+updates">in prison incommunicado for 22 years</a>.


feed_id: cbf9bbce3b0c626657868056d064c979
title: Making people suffer
uri: Making-people-suffer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Making_people_suffer%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/05/did-marquis-de-sade-write-health-care-bill">Did the Marquis de Sade Write This Health Care Bill?</a>
<p>
No, he was only interested in directly and personally making people
suffer.
To get pleasure from harming millions of people you don't personally
know,
you have to be a Republican.
<p>
The article includes a long list of specific harmful provisions in the
bill.


feed_id: eb35c9d5d500a87df44fe04ffc2de67d
title: Taxes on high earners
uri: Taxes-on-high-earners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Taxes_on_high_earners%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/06/labour-tax-80000-general-election-promise">Labour Party says it will raise taxes on high earners</a>.
<p>
That's a good first step.  It must also make businesses pay tax.


feed_id: 15946dc59e384fbe21cfe6f82ec79d09
title: Macron leaks
uri: Macron-leaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Macron_leaks%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/06/french-warned-not-to-publish-emmanuel-macron-leaks">Anyone in France who republishes anything from the Macron leaks</a> is
threatened with prosecution.
<p>
These leaks appear to be of no intrinsic importance, but the
repressive policy of the state towards leaks will help cover up real
scandals in the future.
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/02/free-speech-groups-call-for-public-interest-defence-for-whistleblowers">UK wants to do the same thing</a>.


feed_id: 3b40fc5fac0cea321c12e659ed51800a
title: National monuments
uri: National-monuments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28National_monuments%29
content:
<p>
The troll seeks to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/06/trump-national-monuments-review-bears-ears">eliminate 27 US national monuments</a>.


feed_id: 00c2ce53f4c1b684f623f64cf5b87c4e
title: On behalf of Greece
uri: On-behalf-of-Greece
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28On_behalf_of_Greece%29
content:
<p>
Varoufakis says that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/04/macron-greece-french-left-marine-le-pen-yanis-varoufakis">Macron was the only French minister that opposed
the Euro-banksters</a> on behalf of Greece.


feed_id: 52a4c568e7af5f4ab29a4138a437654b
title: State-imposed censorship
uri: State-imposed-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28State-imposed_censorship%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-internet-censorship-security-idUSKBN17Y0Y6">China will require all online news portals</a> to have staff specifically
to carry out state-imposed censorship.


feed_id: b3c3c5ccc0911ae13704b9bc2146b373
title: Disinformation
uri: 2017-05-14-Disinformation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Disinformation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/facebook-enters-war-against-information-operations-acknowledges-election-hijinx/">Facebook reports</a> that it was used by organized groups to spread
disinformation to influence the US election.


feed_id: b7ae69a299f6bf283e8016243309c6b5
title: Human health
uri: Human-health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Human_health%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/may/05/medical-scientists-report-on-the-impact-climate-change-is-having-on-health">Global heating effects are already harming human health.</a>
  With the years, the effects will get worse.
<p>
Does anyone have an idea how to breed, or engineer, plants to make
as much protein as they do now even with higher CO<sub>2</sub> concentration?


feed_id: ff516d34d207ad8dbf055147c139b288
title: Puerto Rico Bankruptcy
uri: Puerto-Rico-Bankruptcy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Puerto_Rico_Bankruptcy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/05/puerto-rico-files-for-bankruptcy-in-last-ditch-attempt-to-sustain-public-services">Puerto Rico has applied for bankruptcy</a> and relief of some of its debt.
<p>
The objections of creditors and plutocratist politicians suggest the
bankruptcy scheme might actually do some good for Puerto Rico's
citizens.


feed_id: 70ed2d3c0a55575d721daa810e37bfc9
title: Cuts
uri: Cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Cuts%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/republicans-house-healthcare-bill-senate">The Republicans in the Senate may modify Dontcare drastically to
bypass
a filibuster.</a>  It will have to be limited to spending cuts and tax
cuts.
<p>
That will provide no opportunity to disguise the nature of the bill.


feed_id: 27bd1859fc6be78408d6785d743b9d14
title: Urgent: Sessions's resignation
uri: Urgent-Sessions-s-resignation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Sessionss_resignation%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/sessions_resign">call on
Congress</a> to insist that Sessions resign.


feed_id: 0a38251e9af7ce0d34929db06c04cf82
title: Urgent: Independent investigation
uri: Urgent-Independent-investigation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Independent_investigation%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/enough-is-enough-create">call
for an independent investigation</a> of the troll's links to Russia.


feed_id: 72845432103a3a5edb66d68c6246a7f9
title: Urgent: The People's Budget
uri: Urgent-The-People-s-Budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_The_Peoples_Budget%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/peoples-budget-citizen-cosponsor-just-foreign-policy">support</a>
the People's Budget.


feed_id: 8902127031fbee1b6f5400ea8e0a6758
title: Urgent: College for All Act
uri: Urgent-College-for-All-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_College_for_All_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/sanders_free_college">support</a>
the College for All Act.


feed_id: 121f9cae5e788b21b6195b53604ffa02
title: Urgent: Restore water credits
uri: Urgent-Restore-water-credits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Restore_water_credits%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/flint-tax-liens/">call on
Michigan governor Snyder</a> to restore the water credits for the
people of Flint rather than letting his henchmen take away their
homes.
<p>
Snyder is primarily responsible for the lead contamination in Flint.
It was his effort that imposed a nondemocratic government on Flint and
that is what
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#5_February_2016_(Unpoison_Flint%27s_water)">changed
the water source in a way that caused lead contamination in people's
homes</a>.


feed_id: c507cb53c8c8354f60d716f44bd6d861
title: Rich Foreigners
uri: 2017-05-14-Rich-Foreigners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Rich_Foreigners%29
content:
<p>
    Kushner told rich foreigners they
    <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/07/jared-kushners-family-criticised-for-touting-cash-for-visas-scheme-in-china">could get US residency by investing
	in his company</a>.
</p>
<p>
    He
    <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/2/1658137/-Jared-Kushner-left-some-things-off-his-disclosure-form-like-a-company-with-1-billion-in-loans">left out important business from his official disclosure form</a>, too.
</p>


feed_id: 1596e0a220fde918fc3e0e7c233d418d
title: Food aid
uri: 2017-05-14-Food-aid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Food_aid%29
content:
<p>
    The world is
    <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/03/yemen-hunger-norwegian-refugee-council-chief-jan-egeland-shocked-to-the-bones">not providing enough food aid to feed the starving people</a>
in Yemen.
</p>
<p>
    If <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> and the US bomb Hodeida, the food aid couldn't reach
    Yemen anyway.
</p>


feed_id: 280f669875357546d4938dd5e5123284
title: National monuments
uri: 2017-05-14-National-monuments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28National_monuments%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> seeks to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/06/trump-national-monuments-review-bears-ears">eliminate 27 US national monuments</a>.


feed_id: 532c20873d75330c3e266176d50f774e
title: Carry bombs
uri: 2017-05-14-Carry-bombs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Carry_bombs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/05/dressed-for-death-the-women-boko-haram-sent-to-blow-themselves-up">Boko Haram lures young girls to carry bombs into crowds</a> for murder.
The children are too young to understand death, and it doesn't occur
to them to disobey.
<p>
As a result, people in Maiduguri are afraid of any unknown children
that approach them.
<p>
Sometimes an adult man hugs the girl to carry her away from the crowd,
much as some soldiers in World War II threw themselves on a grenade to
save the other soldiers around them.


feed_id: 7feb50e4aa8abea2ab0d641a395d4050
title: Former prisoners in Guantanamo
uri: 2017-05-14-Former-prisoners-in-Guantanamo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Former%20prisoners_in_Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/05/lakhdar-boumediene-guantanamo-book-witnesses-of-the-unseen">Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir</a>, formerly prisoners in
Guantanamo,
write about their torture and their legal cases.
<p>
The US imprisoned them without trial, and eventually released them
after the Supreme Court ruled they were entitled to demand justice.
But that was after 7 years of unjust imprisonment.
<p>
The dates suggest that <a href="/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> was unwilling to release them
and they were freed only after Obama became president.


feed_id: 7d058c154fcade59b840721e7fe62792
title: Social mobility
uri: 2017-05-14-Social-mobility
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Social_mobility%29
content:
<p>
Stephenie Jimenez got a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/may/06/elite-school-us-new-york">scholarship to a private school</a>, which offered
her a rare opportunity for social mobility.  But she recognizes that
lots
of other people from poor families could be successful with a good
public
school system.


feed_id: 88fa9dfd59f2a14eecad940bc4998bea
title: Troll's Dontcare bill
uri: 2017-05-14-Troll-s-Dontcare-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Trolls_Dontcare_bill%29
content:
<p>
If the troll's <a href="/glossary.html#care">Dontcare</a> bill passes, Republicans
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/05/donald-trumps-homicidal-healthcare-bill-enrich">will
have American blood on their hands</a>.
<p>
The <a href="/glossary.html#care">Dontcare</a> bill offers companies an
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/04/i-have-never-seen-lawmakers-so-deeply-hurt-so-many-their-own-constituents">excuse
to reduce the scope of the medical coverage</a> that they provide to
employees.
<p>
It would
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/04/i-have-never-seen-lawmakers-so-deeply-hurt-so-many-their-own-constituents">gut
Medicaid</a> along with Obama's insurance law.
<p>
It would
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/05/04/personal-responsibility.html">allow
insurance companies to deny coverage</a> for certain treatments to
those that already suffer mental illness from being raped or
experiencing domestic violence.


feed_id: 539fd4a3762a547f0ea9349490404b1a
title: Sending arms to Salafi Arabia
uri: 2017-05-14-Sending-arms-to-Salafi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#13_May_2017_%28Sending_arms_to_Salafi_Arabia%29
content:
<p>
US officials that now participate in sending arms to <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/04/us-officials-risk-complicity-war-crimes-yemen">may
be guilty of war crimes</a>.


feed_id: 840122a720b6a4a0f43c494a835939ae
title: Political philosophy
uri: Political-philosophy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Political_philosophy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/08/donald-trumps-ignorance-evident-by-the-day">The troll has no serious political philosophy.</a>  Trying to construct
one
from his inconsistent, even nonsensical words is like trying to
interpret
white noise with a speech recognition system.


feed_id: 90866e87f37ef25240f6caa26d954bd6
title: No trial
uri: No-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28No_trial%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ccrjustice.org/guled-hassan-duran">Guled Hassan Duran has been held prisoner in Guantanamo for 11 years</a>
with no trial.  The US government is giving his lawyers a runaround.


feed_id: defc4a9163149bca57f160a7b1f22f7e
title: Illegal Searches
uri: Illegal-Searches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Illegal_Searches%29
content:
<p>
Mississippi African Americans
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/08/mississippi-african-americans-illegal-searches-aclu-lawsuit">Besieged by Illegal Searches</a>, ACLU
Lawsuit
Says.


feed_id: 432e130c7a432390d60fdfbd4ae8f888
title: Death to the Unemployed
uri: Death-to-the-Unemployed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Death_to_the_Unemployed%29
content:
<p>
Republicans: "Death to the Unemployed!"
  They
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/medicaid-work-requirement_us_590b5b33e4b0e7021e955c21">want to take Medicaid
away</a> from unemployed people.


feed_id: fd2fec0aca16e75a4fe180b9186ee9e1
title: Case Farms
uri: Case-Farms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Case_Farms%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/case-farms-chicken-industry-immigrant-workers-and-american-labor-law">Case Farms sought out unauthorized immigrants to hire</a>, guided them in
how to help Case officially deny it was doing this … then used
their vulnerability to impose illegal working and living conditions.


feed_id: 5d37b68d5593525dad81795cc6245dc2
title: Supports dicrators
uri: Supports-dicrators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Supports_dicrators%29
content:
<p>
When the troll supports dictators, even mass murderers, that's nothing
new for the US.
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/02/trumps-support-and-praise-of-despots-is-central-to-the-u-s-tradition-not-a-deviation-from-it/">The US has done that for decades</a>, maybe more than a
century.
<p>
Nonetheless, the article misses out on an important change.  The US
used to have certain general policies that acted weakly to promote
freedom globally.  Also, it proclaimed principles of freedom which
inspired freedom-lovers to defend freedom in their own countries.
Stating these principles did some good even though many people
knew that the US did not follow them.


feed_id: cb938fc80d433d36ec0616655a4fea75
title: Always to blame
uri: Always-to-blame
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Always_to_blame%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/alabama-congressman-people-who-lead-good-lives-dont-have-preexisting-conditions/">A Republican in Congress said</a> that people are always to blame for
their preexisting medical conditions.


feed_id: d6c4b37e1bc4b6bbee6cf72bbf9cadd1
title: Encryption
uri: 2017-05-15-Encryption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Encryption%29
content:
<p>
The UK government is
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/leaked-document-reveals-uk-plans-for-wider-internet-surveillance/">planning to ban products with encryption it can't
break</a>.


feed_id: 04184b3c104a16a4f2b523bd4a3f971d
title: Kidnaped girls
uri: Kidnaped-girls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Kidnaped_girls%29
content:
<p>
Boko Haram released 50 or 60 kidnaped girls
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/06/boko-haram-releases-dozens-of-kidnapped-chibok-schoolgirls">after negotiation with the
Nigerian government</a>.


feed_id: a62e3675450d6d9135820d2f43c9fcff
title: Protests made a felony
uri: Protests-made-a-felony
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Protests_made_a_felony%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/06/oklahoma-governor-signs-anti-protest-law-imposing-huge-fines-on-conspirator-organizations/">Oklahoma has made sit-in protests a felony</a>, and some other kinds of
trespassing or minor mischief if it is part of a protest.
  Any organization that helps organize the protest can also be
prosecuted.  Those who provide legal aid to those who are arrested or
prosecuted might also be prosecuted.
<p>
The Republican Party is the enemy of what America says it stands for.
I wonder what they would dare say about the Boston Tea Party.


feed_id: d7b59e5f28f517f6a2738a6a6110de45
title: Troll's gratuitous cruelty
uri: Troll-s-gratuitous-cruelty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Trolls_gratuitous_cruelty%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/04/trumps-unnecessary-cruelty">common
theme in the troll's actions</a> is gratuitous cruelty.


feed_id: 487e1d69ba84f8f3e6dcc0330ae32074
title: Michigan tax laws
uri: Michigan-tax-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Michigan_tax_laws%29
content:
<p>
A few developers are 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2017/05/04/will-crony-capitalists-make-detroit-grea">changing
Michigan tax laws to get a big payoff</a> for developing a small part
of Detroit.


feed_id: 748f364f7be266560484cc307e606ab0
title: Arrested for taking pictures of city hall
uri: Arrested-for-taking-pictures-of-city-hall
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Arrested_for_taking_pictures_of_city_hall%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/04/photographer-held-under-anti-terror-law-for-taking-hove-town-hall-pictures">arrested
a press photographer for taking pictures of city hall</a>.  This is a
small illustration of the danger of giving thugs too much
discretionary power: some of them, inevitably, will be overeager.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> around the US 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2005-jul-oct.html#09%20July%202005%20(Arrest%20students%20on%20a%20field%20trip)">used
to do this sort of thing in the early 2000s</a>.  I have not seen
reports of it recently.


feed_id: 94066ffe2be5d1a1d353b33d88c3b394
title: The troll and political ads from churches
uri: The-troll-and-political-ads-from-churches
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28The_troll_and_political_ads_from_churches%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> will 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/04/trumps-executive-order-citizens-united-20-threatens-integrity-religious-and">allow
churches to collect money secretly and use it for political ads</a>.
That behavior is illegal, but the troll has ordered federal agencies
to let churches get away with it.


feed_id: cb1bd9ffc98e30305d041a50ec46bc5a
title: Freedom of speech
uri: 2017-05-15-Freedom-of-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Freedom_of_speech%29
content:
<p>
We must defend freedom of speech from attacks from all sides.  Your
words don't need to have some identifiable social value to give you
<a href="http://theweek.com/articles/694398/liberals-freespeech-amnesia">the
right to say them</a>.
<p>
Committee to Protect Journalists: With press freedom under attack
worldwide, US is 
<a href="https://www.cpj.org/blog/2017/05/with-press-freedom-under-attack-worldwide-us-is-se.php">setting
the wrong example</a>.


feed_id: 5222b22f432d88303f7c6de45efb5cac
title: Iran nuclear deal
uri: Iran-nuclear-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Iran_nuclear_deal%29
content:
<p>
President Rouhani says that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/05/iran-president-hassan-rouhani-nuclear-agreement-sabotaged">hard-liners
in Iran tried to sabotage the nuclear deal</a>.
<p>
Sounds 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_January_2017_(Nuclear_Experts_Warn)">like
the US</a>.


feed_id: 0e9ba1a4b9cf692aa47acb145da67841
title: Kim Jong-un
uri: Kim-Jong-un
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Kim_Jong-un%29
content:
<p>
The accusation that the CIA tried to kill Kim Jong-un is not beyond
the bounds of credibility, given its 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/cia-long-history-kill-leaders-around-the-world-north-korea">past
history</a>.
<p>
However, it's entirely plausible that Kim Jong-un made it up.


feed_id: c0267d4de5e89b5b7b253dadc9777250
title: Argentina's military torturers and murderers
uri: Argentina-s-military-torturers-and-murderers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Argentinas_military_torturers_and_murderers%29

content:
<p>
Argentina's right-wing government has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/04/argentina-supreme-court-human-rights">found
an excuse to shorten the sentences</a> of the military torturers and
murderers of the 1970s, who were prosecuted only decades later.
<p>
These people have still refused to disclose what they did with the
people they kidnaped and killed, and with the children they took.


feed_id: fb128374dadbe4b6dc3e1d38eb8e4639
title: When your web browsing is tracked
uri: When-your-web-browsing-is-tracked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28When_your_web_browsing_is_tracked%29
content:
<p>
If you let ISPs and data brokers see what web sites you visit, that can
add up to a 
<a href="https://edri.org/hakuna-metadata-lets-have-some-fun-with-sids-browsing-history/">nightmare
for you</a>.


feed_id: 5d75049f0be37a2ab492fbd35215125c
title: National monuments
uri: 2017-05-15-National-monuments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28National_monuments%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>, and Saboteur Zinke, are 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/bears-ears-zinke-deaf-78edcbad7def">legally
required to consult with various indigenous tribes</a> before
abolishing national monuments, but refuse even to talk with them.
<p>
This will give the tribal governments a basis to sue.


feed_id: a59b6baa0f71e804141f19c8e5a52fc0
title: Driverless cars
uri: 2017-05-15-Driverless-cars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Driverless_cars%29
content:
<p>
Some predict that driverless cars will take over completely in 13
years, drastically 
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-robot-revolution-will-take-your-car-your-moms-car-and-all-the-oil-in-13-years">cutting
the combustion of oil</a>.
<p>
If this happens, it will be great — but we have to make sure
they don't turn into a massive surveillance system that tracks where
people go, like 
<a href="/uber.html">Uber</a>.
<p>
Sad to say, the proponents are encouraging exactly this.


feed_id: 8a4d5f01df38ca3b1183d53238d66064
title: Department of Injustice
uri: Department-of-Injustice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Department_of_Injustice%29
content:
<p>
Jeff Sessions now heads the Department of Injustice.  He is taking
action to 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40455-jeff-sessions-department-of-injustice">put
more people in prison, deny voting rights to minorities, and let
uniformed thugs bully and harass at will</a>.


feed_id: d7bf04a3d46721ba1d8d67e5e4f287f1
title: Human noise in wilderness areas
uri: Human-noise-in-wilderness-areas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Human_noise_in_wilderness_areas%29
content:
<p>
Many wilderness areas in the US are affected by noise from human
activities which drowns out natural sounds,  This 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/04/noise-pollution-is-drowning-out-nature-even-in-protected-areas-study">can
mess up the lives of some animals that need to hear</a>.


feed_id: 088d579bcb2a5422484c0b13b6436d3f
title: Muslim fanatics lynch Hindu man
uri: Muslim-fanatics-lynch-Hindu-man
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Muslim_fanatics_lynch_Hindu_man%29
content:
<p>
Muslim fanatics in Pakistan tried to lynch a Hindu man 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/04/10-year-old-boy-killed-attempted-blasphemy-lynching-pakistan">jailed
for an accusation of blasphemy</a>.
<p>
It is a good thing that the thugs are protecting suspects from
lynching, but the law against blasphemy is as unjust as lynching.


feed_id: d6d2159aea69ffb3eccd92e8b0a2f456
title: Companies' annual meetings
uri: Companies-annual-meetings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_%28Companies_annual_meetings%29
content:
<p>
Companies are doing away with physical annual meetings
so that there is 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/duke-energy-abandons-in-person-shareholder-meeting-d9837db3969b">no
place or time for the public to protest</a>.
<p>
The US did the same thing with 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#05_October_2012_(Imprisoned_for_blocking_illegal_auction)">auctions
for fossil fuel deposits</a>.


feed_id: f86fa0978fafb8f18bb06db3eb6afccd
title: Urgent: Oppose discrimination against queer people
uri: Urgent-Oppose-discrimination-against-queer-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#15_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_discrimination_against_queer_people%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on the US National Collegiate Athletic Association
to 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/pac12_NC">stop holding
prestigious football matches in North Carolina</a> and other states
that allow discrimination against queer people.


feed_id: e06d2faae994977e354eb97c585a960d
title: Urgent: support Safe Energy Future Plan
uri: Urgent-support-Safe-Energy-Future-Plan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#15_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_support_Safe_Energy_Future_Plan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to support the 
<a href="https://www.earthworksaction.org/media/detail/safe_energy_future_plan_would_end_preferential_treatment_for_oil_and_gas_po">Safe
Energy Future Plan</a>, which would make fossil fuel business follow
the usual environmental standards.


feed_id: a8fb93c51bca704321d4d83ff9d8ff48
title: Urgent: oppose Regulatory Accountability Act
uri: Urgent-oppose-Regulatory-Accountability-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#15_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_Regulatory_Accountability_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/no-corporate-con-job-stop-the-regulatory-accountability-act">oppose</a>
the Regulatory Accountability Act.
<p>
Please don't try to send a message through that page — it
requires nonfree Javascript code.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: fda5f5232f14666ea2118f034f0e3c40
title: Urgent: Have Comey testify
uri: Urgent-Have-Comey-testify
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#15_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Have_Comey_testify%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/tell-congress-create-an-independent-investigation-into-trump-s-ties-to-russia/">call
on the Senate Intel Committee</a> to have Comey testify.


feed_id: c1c260f50499460fa1db975ebaa5c16a
title: Urgent: Respect State Marijuana Laws Act
uri: Urgent-Respect-State-Marijuana-Laws-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#15_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Respect_State_Marijuana_Laws_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/end-federal-war-marijuana-democrats">Ask
your congresscritter</a> to support the Respect State Marijuana Laws
Act.


feed_id: 4985068e9fde978d1a24c573c4fb5ab2
title: Represent polluters
uri: Represent-polluters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#15_May_2017_%28Represent_polluters%29
content:
<p>
    <a href="/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> Pruitt is
    <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/08/epa-board-scientific-scott-pruitt-climate-change">packing the EPA Scientific Board with saboteurs</a>
that represent polluters.
</p>


feed_id: 6ed1fdd5b7bf4ec8793c52e70ff0ef94
title: Life Expectancy Gap
uri: Life-Expectancy-Gap
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#15_May_2017_%28Life_Expectancy_Gap%29
content:
<p>
Life Expectancy Gap Between Rich And Poor US Regions Is "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/may/08/life-expectancy-gap-rich-poor-us-regions-more-than-20-years">More Than 20 Years</a>".
    And it is getting worse.
</p>


feed_id: e254f2b9d5d1eb14dd18d13841bc5e1d
title: Puerto Rico's bankrupt cy
uri: Puerto-Rico-s-bankrupt-cy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#15_May_2017_%28Puerto_Rico%27s_bankruptcy%29
content:
<p>
    Puerto Rico's bankruptcy
    <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/08/puerto-ricos-debt-crisis-greece">may be a disaster instead of a solution</a>.
  The board placed in charge of running Puerto Rico can impose
austerity that would kills thousands, or hundreds of thousands.
</p>


feed_id: b7ac95be57dec52333848a47d05deda6
title: Bills to punish pr otesters
uri: Bills-to-punish-pr-otesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#15_May_2017_%28Bills_to_punish_protesters%29
content:
<p>
30 state bills to punish protesters would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/08/donald-trump-anti-protest-bills">'attack right to speak out'</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 150a5e1b125c0cc28c4527a64f01fe5d
title: Union power
uri: Union-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#15_May_2017_%28Union_power%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2017/05/13239/bradley-foundation-bankrolls-attacks-unions">Right-wing billionaires quietly fund efforts to wipe out</a> union power
in the US.
</p>
<p>
    The biggest defeat that US workers have suffered is that they have
    lost the idea that unions need their support.
</p>


feed_id: f5fc17179b32d2ca20cbf35c18a8fef5
title: Disinformation techn iques
uri: Disinformation-techn-iques
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#15_May_2017_%28Disinformation_techniques%29
content:
<p>
    A general explanation of anti-science disinformation techniques
    <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/may/08/study-to-beat-science-denial-inoculate-against-misinformers-tricks">helped
people resist those techniques</a> on multiple issues.
</p>


feed_id: 4d7eeb2c13f08f3a80843d2d95d71b56
title: Distribution of nude photos without consent
uri: Distribution-of-nude-photos-without-consent
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Distribution_of_nude_photos_without_consent%29

content:
<p>
In a sample of Australians, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/08/revenge-porn-research-one-in-five-australians-have-been-victims">20%
had had nude photos distributed without their consent</a>.  Revenge is
only one of the motives of those who do it.
<p>
In our culture, the person whose photo is distributed can feel great
pain as a result.  There are other cultures where people would say,
"So what?  Is this supposed to hurt me?  Everyone in the village sees
me nude every day."
<p>
200 years ago, in Europe and the US, if you slapped a man's face he'd
feel he had no choice but to fight you to the death.  We are fortunate
to have discarded that idea.  Now let's discard the idea there is
something shameful about nudity.


feed_id: f1e88e8d20a4e46338d2b80e705c6407
title: The Democratic Party
uri: 2017-05-16-The-Democratic-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28The_Democratic_Party%29
content:
<p>
The Democratic Party, if it is to win again, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/06/why-progressives-need-long-term-strategy-built-values">must
present progressive values and stick to them</a>.


feed_id: 6100491a46b7b2f540c71d35ddc0e991
title: Stephen Fry faces possible blasphemy charges
uri: Stephen-Fry-faces-possible-blasphemy-charges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Stephen_Fry_faces_possible_blasphemy_charges%29

content:
<p>
Stephen Fry 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/may/07/stephen-fry-investigated-by-irish-police-for-alleged-blasphemy">faces
possible criminal charges</a> for talking about a "a mean-minded,
stupid god who creates a world so full of injustice and pain" on Irish
television.
<p>
That law is evidently unjust.


feed_id: 1c6e0fb17d94314934bf97fbe5f5ada2
title: Troll embraces dictators
uri: Troll-embraces-dictators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Troll_embraces_dictators%29
content:
<p>
As the troll blatantly embraces dictators, he is 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/opinion/trumps-valueless-foreign-policy.html?_r=0">trying
to destroy the US's national conscience</a>.
<p>
Quietly embracing other dictators, which the US did before and still
does, does damage in some ways; embracing them openly does that damage
and other kinds too.


feed_id: 6bff9510b4010e35763321748411b629
title: Virtual reality games
uri: Virtual-reality-games
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Virtual_reality_games%29
content:
<p>
Can virtual reality games provide a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-robots-sapiens-book">sense
of meaning for our lives</a>?
<p>
The end of work won't be an unprecedented situation for humanity.
Hunter-gatherers typically had lots of leisure time.  They needed to
do some work, but that was far less than 6 hours a day (the equivalent
of 42 hours a week).  They had plenty of time for rituals, games,
whatever they wanted to do.  We know people don't have trouble living
that way.
<p>
The article helped me understand something about myself: I am
completely insensitive to "deep play" that has no intrinsic interest
for me.  I don't care deeply about baseball or football in the US, any
more than about about cockfights in Bali or soccer in Argentina.  I
don't try to learn to care deeply.  I don't pretend to care deeply.
The fact that other people do care deeply about these things has no
influence on me because it makes no sense to me.
<p>
I can be curious about a sport — for instance, I read a book
about cricket so I could understand how it works.  I'd be interested
in watching part of a game one day, to understand it better.  But that
is simply curiosity.  I would never get worked up about whether team A
wins or loses.
<p>
And the only way I want to play a computer game is without
competition.


feed_id: 13ae5ea357333cda3e3f6c9527a36c43
title: Texas immigration law
uri: Texas-immigration-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Texas_immigration_law%29
content:
<p>
Texas has adopted a state law 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/08/texas-sanctuary-cities-ban-immigration-bill-greg-abbott">requiring
local thug departments to arrest people for deportation</a>.


feed_id: 453dc7976e00bc8df1b9b6fe62ae6577
title: State aid
uri: State-aid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28State_aid%29
content:
<p>
Which is worse: the risk of giving aid to someone who is cheating the
system in a small way, or the risk of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2017/may/07/the-benefits-system-dial-is-set-to-brutal">denying
needed aid to someone who isn't cheating</a>?
<p>
When the state's aid to those who are honest is not enough to get by,
it systematically compels them to cheat in every small way that they
can find.  If that is bad, the blame falls those who run the state.


feed_id: 3a2ae185b80a944ba39ecfc2e263d736
title: Urgent: Network Neutrality
uri: Urgent-Network-Neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Network_Neutrality%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://petitions.signforgood.com/ProtectNetNeutrality/">stand</a>
for Network Neutrality.


feed_id: 10d601ed1b18adf0a5e7cb3ad3efd1e0
title: Urgent: Call Comey to testify
uri: Urgent-Call-Comey-to-testify
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Call_Comey_to_testify%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/tell-congress-create-an-in">urge
the Senate intelligence committee</a> to call Comey to testify about
troll/Russia.


feed_id: b567f529eea279ad8e13f3c40d7f0b9c
title: Urgent: Stop promotion of troll's businesses
uri: Urgent-Stop-promotion-of-troll-s-businesses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_promotion_of_trolls_businesses%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/no-state-department-resources-plug">Tell
the State Department</a> to stop promoting the troll's businesses.


feed_id: 800d1ea54f6987dd03e3ff11e932f193
title: Urgent: Volkswagen union negotiation
uri: Urgent-Volkswagen-union-negotiation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Volkswagen_union_negotiation%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-volkswagen-to-stop-its-anti-union-campaign">call
on Volkswagen</a> to negotiate with the US workers' new union.


feed_id: 2977b3c9031e38c0544211de323f73b6
title: Urgent: Ban "conversion therapy"
uri: 2017-05-17-Urgent-Ban-conversion-therapy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_conversion_therapy%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/conversion_therapy_fraud">call
on Congress</a> to ban "conversion therapy" that purports to "cure"
homosexuality.


feed_id: 1665eccdc1bd7502a90baf8b43b14da2
title: UK Official Undercover Infiltrator
uri: UK-Official-Undercover-Infiltrator
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28UK_Official_Undercover_Infiltrator%29

content:
<p>
A high official of UK thugs was formerly an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/12/cambridgeshire-deputy-police-commissioner-facing-calls-to-resign-over-spy-allegations">undercover infiltrator of
protest groups</a>, and seduced a real protester to get cover.


feed_id: 392aca4c60ba71f0a8cf47449d16017d
title: Lawrence Tribe: Trump Above Justice
uri: Lawrence-Tribe-Trump-Above-Justice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Lawrence_Tribe%3A_Trump_Above_Justice%29

content:
<p>
Lawrence Tribe: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/12/firing-comey-worse-breaking-law">"Trump is putting himself above justice in a
fundamental challenge to our system."</a>


feed_id: 5af07ad081dddfefb1b808be2887e21b
title: Microfibers
uri: Microfibers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Microfibers%29
content:
<p>
Clothing companies are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/may/13/clothes-companies-microfiber-pollution">doing little to reduce the release of
microfibers</a> from new clothing.


feed_id: 8880ab102a14d910c16bdd8b804ec034
title: Sprint and T-mobile
uri: Sprint-and-T-mobile
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Sprint_and_T-mobile%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.freepress.net/press-release/108074/free-press-sprintt-mobile-merger-would-destroy-wireless-competition-kill-jobs">Sprint and T-mobile are considering a merger</a> that would take the US
even closer to a monopoly of mobile service.


feed_id: 061d8218b453cc605110bf40efea9fbd
title: US Constitution
uri: US-Constitution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28US_Constitution%29
content:
<p>
The US constitution, or any constitution, is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/12/donald-trump-has-no-shame-that-makes-him-dangerous
">impotent to stop a president
who disregards the unwritten rules</a> of democracy with no shame.


feed_id: b00d88b4f39f655dfa8b70cac8df1a40
title: Network Neutrality
uri: 2017-05-17-Network-Neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Network_Neutrality%29
content:
<p>
Oracle and Cisco are eager to see <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170510/07262037333/cisco-oracle-applaud-looming-death-net-neutrality.shtml">the end of Network Neutrality</a> in the
US.


feed_id: cb0dbe3ae04ff9b9b4ee8f30e17a44da
title: Shari'a Law in Indonesia
uri: Shari-a-Law-in-Indonesia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Shari%27a_Law_in_Indonesia%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/two-men-prosecuted-for-gay-sex-face-80-lashes-in-indonesia">The repression of Shari'a law in part of Indonesia.</a>
<p>
It was wrong of Indonesia to allow Aceh to impose Shari'a law on
anyone.  Individuals should have the right to choose the same
law that applies to the rest of Indonesia.


feed_id: c304d545e5a41eb198b8616a10e0f61b
title: Voter Fraud Commission
uri: Voter-Fraud-Commission
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Voter_Fraud_Commission%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/12/trumps-voter-commission-shameless-white-power-grab"><cite>Trump's Voter Fraud Commission Is a Shameless White Power Grab</cite></a>.


feed_id: a5ec934f75bb3076a3b8de35bf0c8a15
title: Oil Pipeline Leaks
uri: Oil-Pipeline-Leaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Oil_Pipeline_Leaks%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/12/dakota-access-pipeline-leaking-big-spill">Substantial oil pipeline leaks happen fairly often</a>.

Troll Conversations With Comey
The troll hinted that he <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/12/trump-threatens-comey-secretly-recorded-tapes-conversations/">secretly recorded his conversations with Comey</a>
and threatened to use them to refute Comey's statements about their
conversations.
<p>
Said recordings may not really exist, and we must never assume the troll
means what he says.  However, I do hope Comey sticks to the truth
in his statements.


feed_id: 8e83e6d4f9d5d110057269fa655aeda6
title: Fake News
uri: 2017-05-17-Fake-News
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Fake_News%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2017/may/12/defining-fake-news-will-help-us-expose-it">A proposed definition of fake news</a>, to distinguish that from
flawed journalism.


feed_id: 8a0488cc40a5077efcdf0613862f8585
title: Hostility to US
uri: Hostility-to-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Hostility_to_US%29
content:
<p>
Nader: The US keeps attacking new enemies, and yet hostility to the US
keeps spreading to more countries.  It is because <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/11/losing-warfare-state">Congress fails
to exercise its responsibility to control US war</a>.


feed_id: 21422ad46fd274dbcf3c19080c733b4c
title: Corbyn Diplomacy
uri: Corbyn-Diplomacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Corbyn_Diplomacy%29
content:
<p>
Corbyn said that Labour would try to use <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/12/corbyn-sets-out-a-better-way-to-live-together-in-foreign-policy-revamp">diplomacy rather than war</a>
to address international conflicts.


feed_id: 7181a6de0c7b9ad9fcd91f757a43331d
title: Drug Suspects
uri: Drug-Suspects
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Drug_Suspects%29
content:
<p>
Sessions has ordered prosecutors to aim to put drug suspects (in
particular) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/12/jeff-sessions-prison-sentences-obama-criminal-justice">in prison for longer</a>, by charging them with crimes
that have mandatory minimum sentences.


feed_id: cdfe88580c10e4cd3e903b970938245c
title: Myanmar Army
uri: Myanmar-Army
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Myanmar_Army%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/12/myanmar-army-allegedly-left-rohingya-refugees-with-bullet-wounds-and-burns"><cite>Myanmar Army Allegedly Left Rohingya Refugees with Bullet Wounds And Burns</cite></a>.


feed_id: 4dea1f7d5cfceb81cf01fd21f2781d39
title: Thugs Killing Blacks
uri: Thugs-Killing-Blacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Thugs_Killing_Blacks%29
content:
<p>
There are <a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2017/05/08/theres-way-worse-videos-todays-students-on-the-la-riots-and-rodney-king/">so many videos of thugs' killing blacks</a> that each one hardly
sticks in people's minds.
<p>
I have to look up the names of specific victims to recall what
happened to each one.


feed_id: 00dc902e7568e9ed8dbb931f6ffbf8a8
title: Zero-Hour Contracts
uri: Zero-Hour-Contracts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Zero-Hour_Contracts%29
content:
<p>
Almost a million Britons now work on zero-hour contracts in which they are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/11/number-of-zero-hours-contracts-stalls-at-staggering-1-7-million">not assured of any work each week</a>.


feed_id: 274b805a0fac2e392c2a5d17fc2f4301
title: US Government Secrets
uri: US-Government-Secrets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28US_Government_Secrets%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/11/classified-america-why-us-public-allowed-know-so-little">US government keeps too many secrets</a> and that threatens democracy.
Journalists must publish leaked secrets, when they consider them to
speak to important issues.
<p>
They also need to fight against plans to prosecute Wikileaks.


feed_id: b84cd1bc031a8a28d8775224ec6b23af
title: Baxter Reid Released
uri: Baxter-Reid-Released
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Baxter_Reid_Released%29
content:
<p>
A judge released Baxter Reid, who was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/11/australian-man-baxter-reid-who-overstayed-us-visa-by-90-minutes-released">jailed by the US when Canada
didn't let him leave the US</a> just before his visa required.
<p>
I am glad that judge resolved this in a good way, but the problem is
in the system.  It's not enough to end one example of the injustice.
The US needs to change the attitude of grasping for a chance
to screw someone.


feed_id: 06c46edf7d2d3dcb1b524c8574d47a54
title: Dakota Access Pipeline Spill
uri: Dakota-Access-Pipeline-Spill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Dakota_Access_Pipeline_Spill%29
content:
<p>
The Dakota Access pipeline isn't operating yet but has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/dakota-access-pipeline-first-oil-leak">already had an
oil spill</a>.  The company wasn't going to inform us.


feed_id: 5f1f402cd078e63f53099f2bcf48c8de
title: DeVos Booed
uri: DeVos-Booed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28DeVos_Booed%29
content:
<p>
DeVos was invited to speak to the graduation at Bethune-Cookman,
formerly one of the black colleges set up because blacks were
excluded from other colleges.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/betsy-devos-booed-commencement-speech-florida">The students booed her off the stage</a>.
Hooray for them.
<p>
I don't believe that the school administrators invited her for
intellectual reasons.  I believe they were doing it for political
reasons, effectively sucking up to Republicans.
<p>
I hope that students and donors demand they resign.


feed_id: e619e2752d465b0c603debd584d0e178
title: Blind Woman Disenfranchised
uri: Blind-Woman-Disenfranchised
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Blind_Woman_Disenfranchised%29
content:
<p>
ACLU: <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/new-hampshire-disenfranchised-94-year-old-legally-blind-woman-because-her?redirect=blog/speak-freely/after-voting-17-presidential-elections-94-year-old-was-disenfranchised-new"><cite>New Hampshire Disenfranchised This 94-Year-Old, Legally Blind Woman 
  Because of Her Signature.  Now We're Suing.</cite></a>


feed_id: 0f2f244093d020b6b2ab7b57cf0ad952
title: Dakota Access Pipeline
uri: 2017-05-17-Dakota-Access-Pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Dakota_Access_Pipeline%29
content:
<p>
The Dakota Access pipeline's owner has been <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/ohio-fines-company-behind-dakota-access-430-000-for-wetlands-destruction-59f4c4b6b819">fined in Ohio for
destroying wetlands</a> with a leak.
<p>
I don't think a half-million-dollar fine is enough to teach that company
any lesson.


feed_id: f69b6d0840ebfa109805ff46946f5d04
title: Methane Emissions
uri: Methane-Emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Methane_Emissions%29
content:
<p>
The Republican senators <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/10/methane-emissions-senate-republicans-vote-fails">foiled the troll's effort to eliminate Obama's
regulation</a> to limit methane emissions from extraction on federal land.


feed_id: 8588d1aeab7cf9763cc226140f5dfa5a
title: Surveillance Technology
uri: Surveillance-Technology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Surveillance_Technology%29
content:
<p>
Oakland, California, has adopted a <a href="https://rightsanddissent.org/news/oakland-adopts-sweeping-transparency-ordinance/">law requiring all new use of surveillance
technology to get approval</a> from the city council.
<p>
It would be even better if all current uses of surveillance technology
had to get approval from the city council within 2 years, or else be
discontinued.


feed_id: d2fb08004778cf4373e986072b7d31b3
title: Department of Health
uri: Department-of-Health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Department_of_Health%29
content:
<p>
Even Republicans in Congress won't stand for Saboteur Price's rule that
staff of the Department of Health <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/health-department-memo-congress-republicans">must get permission before talking with
Congress</a>.


feed_id: e9b5b1a585bc5100c22776a5f2450b7a
title: Stephen Mader
uri: Stephen-Mader
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Stephen_Mader%29
content:
<p>
A West Virginia police officer is suing the thug department which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/rj-williams-shooting-stephen-mader-fired-lawsuit
">fired
him for not shooting someone</a>.


feed_id: b6634f5b61c68bf75df237d8b0ed5b4d
title: Spying
uri: Spying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Spying%29
content:
<p>
More kinds of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/may/10/smart-packaging-recycling-nightmare-electronic-tags-food">product packaging may start spying on people</a>.
We need to push for a "No radio interaction" label.


feed_id: ade23ea1f5e8bb3b1aeb0cbd0b60c3dd
title: Yale Hunger Strike
uri: Yale-Hunger-Strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Yale_Hunger_Strike%29
content:
<p>
Yale graduate student teaching assistants are hunger striking
because <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/10/union-we-wont-eat-yale-university-negotiate">Yale won't negotiate with their union</a>.


feed_id: 407ffe1644541dce789c9af57d7e5f22
title: Blasphemy Law
uri: Blasphemy-Law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Blasphemy_Law%29
content:
<p>
The blasphemy law is being used to establish <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2017/may/10/indonesias-courts-have-opened-the-door-to-fear-and-religious-extremism
">Islamist domination of
Indonesia</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/10/jakarta-protests-christian-governor-ahok-guilty-blasphemy">Protests in Jakarta</a> After Christian Governor Convicted of Blasphemy.


feed_id: 77ae92ef8dcc4c7818b4a697afe07255
title: Israeli Fanatics
uri: Israeli-Fanatics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Israeli_Fanatics%29
content:
<p>
Joint events, organized by Israelis and Palestinians to remember the
dead of both peoples, were <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2017/05/alternative-ceremonies-criticizes/">attacked by Israeli fanatics</a>.


feed_id: 272d7603dddf1a3445e435dac674d245
title: Moving to West Bank
uri: Moving-to-West-Bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Moving_to_West_Bank%29
content:
<p>
Israel makes it <a href="http://gisha.org/en-blog/2017/05/08/a-procedure-so-special-it-applies-to-no-one/">extremely hard for a Palestinian in Gaza to move to
the West Bank</a>.
<p>
In 8 years, permission has been granted only 5 times.  Merely having a parent
or spouse living in the West Bank is not enough.


feed_id: d2138174a8b4796af57ea62235d84770
title: Force-Feeding
uri: Force-Feeding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Force-Feeding%29
content:
<p>
Since the Israeli Medical Association condemns force-feeding of prisoners,
<a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-resorts-psychological-warfare-try-break-strike
">Isreal threatens to bring in foreign doctors to do that</a>.
<p>
Force-feeding sometimes kills the prisoners.  Fasting also is
eventually fatal, but the prisoners (like anyone else) have a right to
end their own lives.
<p>
Some of the prisoners are too weak to stand up, so Israel is now fining
them for not standing when ordered to do so.


feed_id: 8775b3005739598d4e674088650093f8
title: Israeli Soldiers
uri: 2017-05-17-Israeli-Soldiers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Israeli_Soldiers%29
content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers <a href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=776941">shot at Gaza fishermen again,
and sprayed herbicide</a> on crops in Gaza.


feed_id: dd58e9192a0c223e9b255d3ef21bafa4
title: Israeli Fanatics
uri: 2017-05-17-Israeli-Fanatics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Israeli_Fanatics%29
content:
<p>
Israeli fanatics threw stones at Palestinian houses and broke their
windows.  The inhabitants tried to chase them away, so <a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=75716
">soldiers
came and shot rubber-coated steel bullets at the Palestinians</a>.
The soldiers didn't interfere with the attacking bigots.
<p>
Elsewhere, Palestinians protested land-grabbing Israeli "settlers" who
were building a road across Palestinians' farmland.  <a href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=776909">Israeli soldiers
defended the "settlers"</a>.
The soldiers paid no attention to the Israeli court decision that
ordered the "settlers" to stop.


feed_id: 35d1f8f31d1af062d435040e4704d674
title: Wisconsin's voter ID law
uri: 2017-05-17-Wisconsin-s-voter-ID-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Wisconsin%27s_voter_ID_law%29
content:
<p>
Wisconsin's voter ID law <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/09/wisconsin-id-law-kept-200000-voters-polls-and-trump-won-just-22748-votes">stole the election there for the cheater</a>.


feed_id: ab16c811666f6ee47d663b3519c7dc92
title: Dontcare Bill
uri: Dontcare-Bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Dontcare_Bill%29
content:
<p>
Republican senators are planning to draw up a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-09/senate-gop-plans-secret-health-care-debate-that-may-take-months?shr=g">new Dontcare bill
in secret meetings</a> with no hearings.
<p>
Why give the victims a platform to complain, they must have asked
themselves.


feed_id: d37e9140ac1229814f7730cc1480e707
title: Cloudflare rejected censorship
uri: Cloudflare-rejected-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Cloudflare_rejected_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Cloudflare <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/cloudflare-changes-abuse-policy-but-refuses-to-censor-the-internet/">rejected calls to impose censorship</a>, but offered a way to
make anonymous complaints to sites.


feed_id: 0ac8532ff47c660c87fdf393ba8fdeb3
title: Relaxed Media Concentration
uri: Relaxed-Media-Concentration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Relaxed_Media_Concentration%29
content:
<p>
The troll's FCC saboteurs have relaxed media concentration rules,
allowing right-wing radio chain <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/08/sinclairs-takeover-tribune-stations-brought-you-trumps-fcc-chairman">Sinclair to buy a lot more radio
stations</a>.


feed_id: 7b2a7092e766f549f726fe6bb0328475
title: Troll fired Comey
uri: Troll-fired-Comey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Troll_fired_Comey%29
content:
<p>
The troll <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/09/our-democracy-is-in-danger-key-reactions-to-donald-trumps-firing-of-fbi-director-james-comey/">fired FBI director Comey</a>, supposedly for treating Clinton
unfairly in July by announcing that Clinton would not be prosecuted.
<p>
This was said to exceed his authority and thus do wrong to the
Attorney General at the time (who did not, however, object).
<p>
If the cheater really wanted to fire Comey for this reason, he would
not have waited until now.  His real reason must be something else.
Many suspect it's an attempt to stop the FBI from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/terrifying-astonishing-nixonian-james-comeys-termination-by-trump">investigating the
cheater's team's relations with Russia</a>.


feed_id: 4502c65d13c88c1b7cb2b1460be51a33
title: Separate Nursing Homes
uri: Separate-Nursing-Homes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Separate_Nursing_Homes%29
content:
<p>
The UK now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/10/calls-for-end-to-inhumane-separation-of-elderly-couples-being-moved-into-care">forces long-married couples separately into nursing homes</a>.
That means they almost never see each other again.


feed_id: 19aaf821c6bc32d420888caa7fe4e17f
title: False Flag
uri: False-Flag
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28False_Flag%29
content:
<p>
Some German soldiers are on being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/09/second-german-soldier-held-over-plan-to-carry-out-extremist-attack">prosecuted for planning</a> a false flag
terrorist act.  They would have made it appear that refugees were the
culprits.


feed_id: cb5523ac4e91daf3f49885595f2257b0
title: US to give Syrian Kurds more arms
uri: US-to-give-Syrian-Kurds-more-arms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28US_to_give_Syrian_Kurds_more_arms%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/09/us-arm-kurdish-fighters-syria-isis-raqqa-trump">says
it will give the Syrian Kurds more arms</a>.  I hope so.
<p>
The worst terrorist group in Turkey is the Turkish army.  (<a href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> is a
distant second.)  We don't hear much about its terror activities
because they happen in places where tourists don't go — where
mainly Kurds live.  Recall that the Kurdish separatist group PKK made
a truce with the Turkish government many years ago, and Erdo&gbreve;an
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_August_2015_(Provoking_PKK)">broke
it to get more votes</a>.


feed_id: 3c7ecf8e36367d4c57dd7248c6f3ad8b
title: Children of unauthorized immigrants
uri: Children-of-unauthorized-immigrants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Children_of_unauthorized_immigrants%29

content:
<p>
Unauthorized immigrants 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/09/undocumented-immigrants-wic-nutrition-services-deportation">now
don't dare collect US benefits for giving their babies proper
nutrition</a>.
<p>
That means the babies may be permanently harmed.


feed_id: 3c7b1a6fc967af556edb4d3d76758385
title: Talking about abortions
uri: Talking-about-abortions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Talking_about_abortions%29
content:
<p>
It is 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/09/women-should-not-be-ashamed-to-talk-about-abortion-a-conversation-with-author-carol-sanger/">very
important for women to talk about their abortions</a>.  If they stay
in the closet, people can fool themselves that nobody they know would
ever have one.


feed_id: 718ea3480fcc79b29cb28bd4aac0935b
title: Troll wants to escalate war in Afghanistan
uri: Troll-wants-to-escalate-war-in-Afghanistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Troll_wants_to_escalate_war_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> condemned the war in Afghanistan, before the election.  
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/09/donald-trump-may-escalate-the-afghanistan-war-he-spent-years-calling-a-terrible-mistake/">Now
he wants to escalate it</a>.


feed_id: e4e58d9f28b6c8c7867128fe7929fba7
title: Taliban infiltrates schools
uri: Taliban-infiltrates-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Taliban_infilitrates_schools%29
content:
<p>
The Taliban have infiltrated schools in parts of Afghanistan,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/09/taliban-teachers-militants-infiltrating-afghanistan-schools">intimidating
teachers or imposing their own choice of teachers</a>.


feed_id: 17f2462be3853403876f9b1092ba5620
title: Banks shutting down small charity accounts
uri: Banks-shutting-down-small-charity-accounts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Banks_shutting_down_small_charity_accounts%29

content:
<p>
Laws punishing banks for anything that resembles money laundering are
leading banks to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/may/08/banks-charity-accounts-shut-without-notice-money-laundering">shut
the bank accounts of small charities and organizations</a>.  And they
refuse to explain why.


feed_id: 758f8fbcb0c6e53b0aebbfa0537be942
title: Right-wing lie campaigns
uri: Right-wing-lie-campaigns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Right-wing_lie_campaigns%29
content:
<p>
The internet facilitated today's right-wing lie campaigns: it created
"message-board" darwinian discourse, in which people compete for
attention and 
<a href="http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/04/the-whole-world-is-now-a-message-board.html">the
most brash and outrageous claims win</a>.


feed_id: 6287b344b82343a3700330b56ffa0882
title: Insecurity of Signaling System 7
uri: Insecurity-of-Signaling-System-7
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Insecurity_of_Signaling_System_7%29
content:
<p>
The total insecurity of Signaling System 7 means that
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/we-were-warned-about-flaws-in-the-mobile-data-backbone-for-years-now-2fa-is-screwed">crackers
can now fake two-factor authentication using SMS</a>.
<p>
I have never used two-factor authentication myself, because it
requires a mobile phone (portable tracking and listening device) and I
refuse to be tracked and listened to.
<p>
I think other sorts of two-factor authentication require a smart phone
— which means, even more malicious.
<p>
I don't do internet banking at all, because it is legally risky as
well as risky in regard to computer security.


feed_id: 658c455163e12871f09983ed94dcdb15
title: Fooling phishers
uri: Fooling-phishers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Fooling_phishers%29
content:
<p>
The Macron campaign fooled the phishers by 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/7/1659800/-Macron-campaign-knew-the-hackers-were-coming-so-they-laid-a-trap-and-defeated-them">giving
them phony accounts</a>.
<p>
There is good and bad about this.  If the Democratic National
Committee biases the primary race against Sanders in 2020, as it did
in 2016, it may be harder to detect that.


feed_id: 1d58cf4926ca0ec7cabc999da94439b2
title: Israel's national languages
uri: Israel-s-national-languages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Israels_national_languages%29
content:
<p>
Israel is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/07/israeli-ministers-back-proposed-law-demoting-arabic-language">considering
a law to eliminate Arabic as a national language</a> and say that
non-Jews are essentially second-class citizens.


feed_id: bb9589ad52da81fc6575d3e9214254c8
title: The German public medical system
uri: The-German-public-medical-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28The_German_public_medical_system%29
content:
<p>
An American living in Germany describes 
<a href="http://www.welcometogermerica.com/2015/01/american-expat-german-health-insurance.html">her
experience</a> with the German public medical system.


feed_id: 1017e8b4ac49704ec49cf7b7ef79fe2d
title: Managers not more stressed than employees
uri: Managers-not-more-stressed-than-employees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Managers_not_more_stressed_than_employees%29

content:
<p>
A survey found that managers 
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/your-boss-is-not-more-stressed-out-than-you-science-says">don't
have more stress than the employees they manage</a>.


feed_id: 051b43f71884969691906a1731c9e4b9
title: Yates warned about Michael Flynn
uri: Yates-warned-about-Michael-Flynn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Yates_warned_about_Michael_Flynn%29
content:
<p>
Sally Yates warned a lawyer from the White House that Michael Flynn
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/08/politics/sally-yates-senate-testimony/index.html">could
be blackmailed by Russia</a>.


feed_id: 600f79c02d142b9cfd82395b965fe62b
title: France faces challenge
uri: France-faces-challenge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28France_faces_challenge%29
content:
<p>
Now that Macron has defeated right-wing demonizer Le Pen, France faces
the challenge of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/08/victorious-emmanuel-macron-plots-phase-two-of-plan-to-change-france">preventing
him from "reforming" the French economy to suit business more</a>, in
the name of imaginary trickle-down.


feed_id: 3095154da75f5079064af2dc49da4e02
title: Alaskan tundra releasing more CO2
uri: Alaskan-tundra-releasing-more-CO2
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Alaskan_tundra_releasing_more_CO2%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#global heating">Global heating</a> is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/08/alaska-climate-change-tundra-soil-carbon-dioxide">causing
Alaskan tundra to release more CO<sub>2</sub></a>.


feed_id: b9d5265ddcd78f6cc473572fb74020c5
title: Legalization of marijuana
uri: 2017-05-17-Legalization-of-marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Legalization_of_marijuana%29
content:
<p>
Legalization of marijuana 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/jan/17/cannabis-memory-loss-cbd">makes
possible regulations to require higher levels of cannabidiol</a>,
which reduces harmful side effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).


feed_id: c8ae7cfafefb52142d31b860cb727a7a
title: The FCC
uri: The-FCC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28The_FCC%29
content:
<p>
The FCC is investigating Stephen Colbert for a joke some prudes
complained about, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/08/stephen-colbert-cross-a-line-fcc">instead
of doing its job</a> and protecting our freedom from ISPs.


feed_id: f13fddbe7ce3ba9ed476369561dcb5d1
title: Urgent: Reject GMO eucalyptus trees
uri: Urgent-Reject-GMO-eucalyptus-trees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_GMO_eucalyptus_trees%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/no_gmo_trees">call on the
USDA</a> to reject GMO eucalyptus trees.
<p>
The article is mistaken in one point: growing these trees and burning
them would not contribute to global heating.  But the other reasons,
such as the danger that the genes would spread, are significant.


feed_id: 7132cadd0e5f5a58d2557ed9c0a97482
title: Urgent: Phone the banks
uri: Urgent-Phone-the-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Phone_the_banks%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/15/how-contact-17-banks-funding-all-tar-sands-pipeline-expansion-including-keystone-xl">phone
the banks</a> that might fund the Keystone XL pipeline.


feed_id: d820f25cf4b31b57b4dc364279e69b1b
title: Urgent: Block sale of arms to UAE
uri: Urgent-Block-sale-of-arms-to-UAE
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Block_sale_of_arms_to_UAE%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-stop-uae-arms">call
on Congress</a> to block the sale of arms to the UAE if it rejects a
cease fire in Yemen.


feed_id: 8dcb6734564699bd32f68e2ec0176f4d
title: Urgent: Protect corals
uri: Urgent-Protect-corals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_corals%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.oceana.org/page/9295/petition/1">call for
protection</a> of the corals off the New England coast.


feed_id: 715c42af2fa966fb840d68620b8b426a
title: Urgent: Reject voter suppression commission
uri: Urgent-Reject-voter-suppression-commission
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_voter_suppression_commission%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/oppose-presidential-commission-election-integrity">call
on Congress</a> to reject the troll's commission that is designed to
provide an excuse for voter suppression.


feed_id: 56d4624c4295632f9564268985cba4b2
title: Urgent: Independent investigation
uri: 2017-05-18-Urgent-Independent-investigation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Independent_investigation%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://petitions.signforgood.com/independentprosecutor/">call
for an independent investigation</a> of the troll's campaign's ties
with Russia.


feed_id: 35a03a6aaca3858c49cd8bd87656ad99
title: Human rights lawyer tortured
uri: Human-rights-lawyer-tortured
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Human_rights_lawyer_tortured%29
content:
<p>
Chinese human rights lawyer Xie Yang 
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lawyer-xie-yang-tells-chinese-court-confession-forced-47269440">said,
in his show trial, that he wasn't tortured into confessing</a>.
However, he had already informed people that any confession would be
due to torture.  Apparently he was tortured into denying that he had
been tortured.
<p>
The charges against him amount to "campaigning for human rights".
When a state charges someone with that sort of "crime", it is
automatically an injustice.
<p>
The US also prosecutes people for political organizing.  Unlike China,
it
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#27_December_2012_(FBIs_investigation_of_Occupy_Wall_Street)">tries
to disguise this</a> behind phony accusations, but that doesn't make
it any less of an
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_April_2017_(US_government_prosecuting_200_protesters)">injustice</a>.


feed_id: c203b6d14756b4600ce3e6ac08cd4c26
title: Ireland drops prosecution of Stephen Fry
uri: Ireland-drops-prosecution-of-Stephen-Fry
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Ireland_drops_prosecution_of_Stephen_Fry%29

content:
<p>
Ireland has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/may/09/irish-police-halt-prosecution-of-stephen-fry-for-blasphemy">dropped
the prosecution of Stephen Fry</a> — hardly any Irish viewers
complained about what he said on TV.
<p>
This is a relief, but the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_(Pakistan_asks_sites_to_identify_blasphemers)">prohibition
of "blasphemy" remains unjust</a>, in Ireland as in Pakistan.


feed_id: 6c60b39fb2b5e929753811f4032fe9c1
title: Israel expels Dutch journalist
uri: Israel-expels-Dutch-journalist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Israel_expels_Dutch_journalist%29
content:
<p>
Israel has expelled a Dutch journalist, apparently for 
<a href="https://972mag.com/israeli-revokes-dutch-journalists-visa-after-he-tweeted-972-articles/127090/">tweeting
references to articles in 972 Magazine</a>.
<p>
Israel 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#06%20January%202011%20(Blau%20Back%20In%20Israel)">does
not have a free press</a>.  Now it is trying to repress foreign
writing about Israel.


feed_id: 1e21ae6cb8356e40d2497fdb602ad5f8
title: Reporter arrested for "yelling questions"
uri: Reporter-arrested-for-yelling-questions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Reporter_arrested_for_yelling_questions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> in West Virginia 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/west-virginia-reporter-arrested-tom-price-healthcare-bill">arrested
a reporter</a> for "yelling questions" at Saboteur of Health Tom
Price.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> have 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#27_December_2012_(FBIs_investigation_of_Occupy_Wall_Street)">repressed 
dissent in the US for a long time</a>, but it seems that the troll has
emboldened them in repression.


feed_id: bfe166ce103c61675c0893e8de571447
title: Employee ownership of businesses
uri: Employee-ownership-of-businesses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Employee_ownership_of_businesses%29
content:
<p>
Sanders has introduced a bill to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/11/legislative-package-introduced-encourage-employee-owned-companies">provide
funds to promote employee ownership of businesses</a>.


feed_id: 2c0e8a92e0a7742baac03a961b89097f
title: "Safety" used to shut down discussion
uri: Safety-used-to-shut-down-discussion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Safety_used_to_shut_down_discussion%29

content:
<p>
How 
<a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/using-thats-not-safe-to-control-others/">"safety"</a>
is used to shut down discussion and control people.


feed_id: a94a074a453a18d8a97ea7777c8f75f4
title: Republicans redefine "diversity"
uri: Republicans-redefine-diversity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Republicans_redefine_diversity%29
content:
<p>
Republicans have redefined "diversity" 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/11/trump-administration-diversity-race-gender">to
avoid representing minorities or women in decisionmaking bodies</a>.


feed_id: 8e2a513c8813bc32e893a330febcde4e
title: Republican congresscritters hiding
uri: 2017-05-18-Republican-congresscritters-hiding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Republican_congresscritters_hiding%29

content:
<p>
Republican congresscritters are receiving so much condemnation from the public
that most of them are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/11/republican-healthcare-bill-tom-macarthur-protest">hiding
from their constituents</a>.


feed_id: ea939e57fae2793f1db7ea4a45afecde
title: Confederate president's statue
uri: Confederate-president-s-statue
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Confederate_presidents_statue%29
content:
<p>
Taking down the confederate president's statue in New Orleans: "We
must remember all of our history, but 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/11/new-orleans-jefferson-davis-statue-removed-confederates'>we
need not revere it</a>."
<p>
The motive for the secession of the South was to perpetuate slavery.
No matter what good personal qualities some of the secessionists may
have had, they can't outweigh the wrong of what they were fighting
for.


feed_id: 94d87d115a30b9c3f47de3c94654ea9b
title: UK Labor Party platform
uri: UK-Labor-Party-platform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28UK_Labor_Party_platform%29
content:
<p>
The UK Labour Party platform 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/11/leaked-labour-manifesto-cornucopia-delights-tories-jeremy-corbyn-theresa-may">will
correct many of the policies that oppress the poor</a>.
<p>
It 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/11/why-has-labour-included-bees-in-its-manifesto">will
even ban neonicotinoids</a> to protect bees.
<p>
To wish for this platform but without Corbyn, as Polly Toynbee does,
is like wishing for a square circle.  The reason the Labour Party now
dares to propose to fix those wrongs, which it hasn't dared to propose
since the 1980s, is Corbyn.
<p>
A victory for Labour could be a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/11/labour-hope-broken-system-wages-children-poverty-voters">big
help to the poor in the UK</a>.


feed_id: 81e01b70f2fc63e3af0d4397aa14830b
title: Troll's meeting with Russian officials
uri: Troll-s-meeting-with-Russian-officials
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Trolls_meeting_with_Russian_officials%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> met with Russian officials and 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/trump-russia-meeting-american-reporters-blocked.html">allowed
a Russian news photographer but no US journalists</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2017/05/10/hey-we-know-lets-bring-some-despots-and-war-criminals-white-house-calm-everyone">Henry
Kissinger was his guest</a> at about the same time.


feed_id: ca1ee61eeb0fdb48d376533a1c63f31e
title: People demand independent investigation
uri: People-demand-independent-investigation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28People_demand_independent_investigation%29

content:
<p>
People are 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/10/dozens-local-protests-outside-senate-offices-nationwide-tonight-demand">protesting
outside senators' offices</a>, demanding an independent investigation
of troll/Russia.


feed_id: ebe51f38581e2bd1094a54c82e363c7a
title: Sessions' contradictions
uri: Sessions-contradictions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Sessions_contradictions%29
content:
<p>
Jeff Sessions' Defense of James Comey 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/10/jeff-sessions-defense-of-james-comey-con">Contradicts
His Justification for Firing Him</a>.


feed_id: 734bddbb372084ea3867d63ebaa731f6
title: BAE
uri: BAE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28BAE%29
content:
<p>
BAE, which sold jet fighters to <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> which it uses for the
bombardment of Yemen, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/10/bae-chair-roger-carr-staff-loading-bombs-saudi-jets-yemen">may
also employ people who load the bombs</a>.


feed_id: 2461f5e60a1f4e425fc8c5f8e24b141f
title: Innovation
uri: Innovation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Innovation%29
content:
<p>
Innovation 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/11/tech-innovation-silicon-valley-juicero">starts
from the state</a>.  Without state funding, what you get is lots of
juiceros.


feed_id: 96caeba290ea835d2336b91fc32a6ba2
title: Glacier National Park
uri: Glacier-National-Park
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Glacier_National_Park%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#global heating">Global heating</a> vs Glacier National Park: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/11/us-glacier-national-park-is-losing-its-glaciers-with-just-26-of-150-left">124
glaciers gone, 26 remain</a>.


feed_id: 767872e32d59220f54e4f2f17855efff
title: Dissent in Hong Kong
uri: Dissent-in-Hong-Kong
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Dissent_in_Hong_Kong%29
content:
<p>
Hong Kong Accused of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/hong-kong-accused-of-smothering-dissent-for-expected-xi-jinping-visit">Smothering
Dissent for Expected Xi Jinping Visit</a>.


feed_id: 3ee2868b9db017695798144d23523497
title: Ask for tap water
uri: Ask-for-tap-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Ask_for_tap_water%29
content:
<p>
Don't be embarrassed to ask for tap water.  Be proud that you are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/11/british-embarrassment-over-asking-for-tap-water-in-bars-fuels-plastic-bottle-waste-survey">avoiding
some harmful plastic waste</a>!


feed_id: 75d2142e26e994b6e89f2b8f7fc1509d
title: Right of instant divorce
uri: Right-of-instant-divorce
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Right_of_instant_divorce%29
content:
<p>
A Muslim Indian wife 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/11/turning-tables-india-instant-divorce-law">demands
the same right of instant divorce that Muslim Indian husbands
have</a>.


feed_id: 64692ca9dadeaed70aa9418925a69bd1
title: Troll impeachment campaign
uri: Troll-impeachment-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Troll_impeachment_campaign%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/10/its-time-build-trump-impeachment-campaign">It's
Time</a> to Build a Trump Impeachment Campaign.


feed_id: 58b13b96a7758d54beb5deb59cc43ceb
title: Troll/Russia investigation
uri: Troll-Russia-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Troll%252FRussia_investigation%29
content:
<p>
Congressional aides say Comey 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/comey-russia-investigation-fbi.html">asked
for more resources for the troll/Russia investigation a few days
before he was fired</a>.


feed_id: 62784e1b73eeba750511755fe46d54bb
title: New pipelines to pollute Pennsylvania
uri: New-pipelines-to-pollute-Pennsylvania
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28New_pipelines_to_pollute_Pennsylvania%29

content:
<p>
New pipelines will pollute Pennsylvania to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/10/building-pipelines-pennsylvania-make-plastics-scotland">ship
ethane to Europe to make plastic</a>.
<p>
It's not as bad as burning the gas, but fracking to get the gas will
cause local pollution and leak greenhouse-producing methane.


feed_id: cc7604005ede506d8327a54938177194
title: Minimum wage
uri: 2017-05-18-Minimum-wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#17_May_2017_%28Minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
Around 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/10/employers-steal-15-billion-year-workers-paying-less-minimum-wage">1/5
of low-wage workers in the US</a> are being paid, illegally, less than
the minimum wage.
<p>
The minimum wage is worth less now than it was 40 years ago, so you
can see how the economy is getting worse and worse for the poor.  This
is no accident: it is <a href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a> at work.


feed_id: 5757d77b6be1c701dc599338530e33f0
title: Department of Health
uri: 2017-05-18-Department-of-Health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Department_of_Health%29
content:
<p>
Even Republicans in Congress won't stand for <a href="/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> Price's rule that
staff of the Department of Health <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/health-department-memo-congress-republicans">must get permission before talking with
Congress</a>.


feed_id: 8309b2b754b791884dc91ccc5b8e7d73
title: Relaxed Media Concentration
uri: 2017-05-18-Relaxed-Media-Concentration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Relaxed_Media_Concentration%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s FCC saboteurs have relaxed media concentration rules,
allowing right-wing radio chain <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/08/sinclairs-takeover-tribune-stations-brought-you-trumps-fcc-chairman">Sinclair to buy a lot more radio
stations</a>.


feed_id: dfb9c9a21dd60d40651bac2751b5e03e
title: Urgent: Demand independent investigation
uri: Urgent-Demand-independent-investigation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Demand_independent_investigation%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and urge them to refuse to confirm a
new head of the FBI until an independent investigation under a special
prosecutor is under way.
<p>
Capitol Switchboard number: (202) 224-3121


feed_id: 36af0e206eb27b5f83fe9403af38f7ee
title: Urgent: No platform for bigotry
uri: Urgent-No-platform-for-bigotry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_platform_for_bigotry%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Kelly_NBC">call on NBC</a>
not to give Megyn Kelly a platform for bigotry.


feed_id: ce77cce1ab2355a14d26712ea2b63242
title: Urgent: Reject Sessions' war on drugs
uri: Urgent-Reject-Sessions-war-on-drugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_Sessions_war_on_drugs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/no_sessions_war_on_drugs/">call
on Congress</a> to reject Sessions' war on drugs.


feed_id: 06ef198553ad00972e3512058d91ce3e
title: Urgent: Pledge to move off fossil fuels
uri: Urgent-Pledge-to-move-off-fossil-fuels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Pledge_to_move_off_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2">call
on congresscritters</a> to pledge to move off fossil fuels.


feed_id: 6f7b6989817ce0aa1b8c776947fa57a2
title: Total surveillance
uri: 2017-05-19-Total-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Total_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Even total surveillance of everyone would not find all terrorists.
The few real terrorists would be buried under a heap of 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/13/misunderstanding-terrorism-how-the-us-vs-them-mentality-will-never-stop-attacks/">false
positives</a>.


feed_id: 8d53dc7526f2ed760b09480020fd9c15
title: Saboteur-controlled EPA
uri: Saboteur-controlled-EPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Saboteur-controlled_EPA%29
content:
<p>
The saboteur-controlled EPA has 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/pruitt-bristol-bay-mine-8fb9778247db">withdrawn
its objection to a giant mine in Alaska</a> that would sooner or later
poison the salmon of Bristol Bay.


feed_id: a2567fc5a3a382c21353c47e38b0105e
title: Madagascar's endemic plants
uri: Madagascar-s-endemic-plants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Madagascars_endemic_plants%29
content:
<p>
Madagascar's endemic plants are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/13/madagascar-mass-extinction-plants-kew-gardens">heading
for extinction</a>.


feed_id: 9755d8f555d365c87dd1d73bc94b2e9d
title: PCBs in the ocean
uri: PCBs-in-the-ocean
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28PCBs_in_the_ocean%29
content:
<p>
PCBs were banned in the 1970s, but millions of tons were produced and used
and they get into in the ocean, where they 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/14/pcbs-chemical-poison-marine-life">make
dolphins and sharks sterile</a>.


feed_id: dfcbc2e36f66cf2570878ea8903905d2
title: Doctors' conflicts of interest
uri: Doctors-conflicts-of-interest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Doctors_conflicts_of_interest%29
content:
<p>
To Avoid Conflicts of Interest, 
<a href="http://www.futurity.org/medical-ethics-doctors-salary-1425832/">Pay
Doctors a Salary</a>.


feed_id: d7b9f771c5c12c413785c775f72069a8
title: Worthless for-profit colleges
uri: Worthless-for-profit-colleges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Worthless_for-profit_colleges%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40567-for-profit-colleges-are-reinventing-themselves-to-profit-off-low-income-students">Government-organized
private loans</a> keep worthless for-profit colleges going.
<p>
The companies that make the loans 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40561-the-people-vs-the-student-loan-industry">treat
the borrowers terribly</a>.


feed_id: 0cb3e845be035f7624db7aaad462c0e7
title: Worker-owned cooperatives
uri: Worker-owned-cooperatives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Worker-owned_cooperatives%29
content:
<p>
Senator Sanders has introduced 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/11/idea-whose-time-has-come-lawmakers-roll-out-plan-expand-worker-ownership">a
bill to promote worker-owned cooperatives</a>.


feed_id: 3c2708ab79231a6f66a818290b2713d1
title: Torture in Pakistan
uri: Torture-in-Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Torture_in_Pakistan%29
content:
<p>
UN urges Pakistan to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/13/widespread-torture-by-police-in-pakistan-condemned-by-united-nations">"incorporate
into its legislation a specific definition of torture."</a>


feed_id: 2bfa55875b53076813303cdc4a199356
title: Troll appoints voter suppression activist
uri: Troll-appoints-voter-suppression-activist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Troll_appoints_voter_suppression_activist%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has appointed a Republican voter suppression activist to run
a
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/trump-voter-fraud.html?_r=0">phony
"investigation" of nonexistent individual "voting fraud"</a>.  This is
meant to provide an excuse for more voter suppression.
<p>
It is clear what the troll's plan is.  The Republicans know they can't
win an honest election, so they plan to steal the 2018 election even
more than they 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#12_November_2016_(The_election_was_stolen)">stole
the 2016 election</a>.  The reports of the "investigation" will be a
bunch of lies, and nearly all Republicans will pretend they are true,
as an excuse for more voter suppression.


feed_id: 96086403af32b2e7ca31421ccbc7d481
title: Total mass of insects falling
uri: Total-mass-of-insects-falling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Total_mass_of_insects_falling%29
content:
<p>
Since 1989 the total mass of insects in Germany has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/13/where-insects-extinction-world-denuded-life">fallen
by 80%</a>.  And it's not just in Germany — this is an example
of a widespread tendency.
<p>
I think the writer is obtuse about extinction.  Concern about
extinction is not a matter of "fetishizing" the last few individuals
of the species.  The species is different from its members, and the
loss of a species is different from the death of any number of members
of that species.
<p>
If a given species of frog has a million members, the death of a
specific hundred of them would not concern me much.  If those hundred
were the only ones left, their death would still not concern me much;
but it would mean the extinction of the species, and I would consider
that a real loss.
<p>
An 80% decrease in insect biomass is a big ecological change, and I
think we had better find out soon what we did to cause it.


feed_id: c620ca3c72d1405a65bbb87f480492ac
title: Theresa May's epidemic of poverty
uri: Theresa-May-s-epidemic-of-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Theresa_Mays_epidemic_of_poverty%29
content:
<p>
Theresa May Is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/12/theresa-may-poverty-tories-children-labour-gordon-brown">Creating
an Epidemic of Poverty</a>.  Don't Give Her a Free Hand.


feed_id: 115f9bf260fbc92598180d29eb957b44
title: Troll admits reason for firing Comey
uri: Troll-admits-reason-for-firing-Comey
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Troll_admits_reason_for_firing_Comey%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has admitted that he fired Comey 
<a href="https://www.vox.com/2017/5/11/15628276/trump-comey-fired-russia">because
Comey was pursuing an investigation of the troll/Russia links</a>.


feed_id: 5b32cf1b375d9533db638355e00f6c3f
title: Troll's attempt to destroy idea of truth
uri: Troll-s-attempt-to-destroy-idea-of-truth
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Trolls_attempt_to_destroy_idea_of_truth%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/12/trump-and-art-lie">Firing
Comey for obviously bogus reasons</a> was an example of the troll's
attempt to destroy the very idea of truth and loyalty to truth.
<p>
His gesture said, "I can do anything I want and no one will
dare stop me."
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/12/law-expert-says-trump-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-already-evident">confessed</a>
to obstruction of justice.
<p>
Some Americans have the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2017/05/11/true-definition-unapologetic">courage
to refuse to go along with the Republican lie machine</a>.
<p>
Our future depends on whether <a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> find the moral fiber
to stand for truth rather than lines.


feed_id: 0e60efa8bda212ae0652466036aa8b52
title: Cost of rent in the UK
uri: Cost-of-rent-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Cost_of_rent_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Millions of working people in the UK 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2017/may/12/working-people-struggle-rent-trapped-housing-system">can
barely pay the rent</a>.  Many sometimes have to borrow money to pay
the rent.
<p>
Thatcher started this by allowing tenants in public housing the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_(Right_to_Buy)">"right
to buy"</a>.


feed_id: 309bcab002adff775a8ca02541db89f5
title: Facebook censorship
uri: 2017-05-19-Facebook-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Facebook_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Thailand has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/12/thailand-threatens-facebook-with-legal-action-over-anti-monarchy-posts">ordered
Facebook to delete posts</a> that the state considers critical of the
Thai monarchy.
<p>
Facebook 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_January_2015_(Religious_censorship_on_Facebook)">has
generally given in to demands for censorship of political views</a>.
<p>
I think this shows that multinational social networks have a deep
problem: each country can impose its own censorship on the whole
world.


feed_id: 7b86fc243d676433bdcb44b1a1afec34
title: Comey wants to testify
uri: Comey-wants-to-testify
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Comey_wants_to_testify%29
content:
<p>
Comey wants to testify before Congress, but
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/13/fired-and-smeared-trump-comey-wants-talk-under-oath-and-public">only if his testimony is
public</a>.
<p>
Comey says that the troll
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/trump-comey-firing.html">asked him to pledge personal loyalty</a>,
basically to put the troll above his country, and he refused.


feed_id: 427bd9e7eca0f684f547af0b3cac23a4
title: Mothers
uri: Mothers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Mothers%29
content:
<p>
Campaigning to free the US black mothers (and others) that are jailed,
often for months,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/13/mothers-day-help-black-mamas-get-free">because they are too poor to pay bail</a>.


feed_id: 11142b912e2e4136c111a86d6fc8fb1a
title: Start impeaching
uri: Start-impeaching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Start_impeaching%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-must-be-impeached-heres-why/2017/05/13/82ce2ea4-374d-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html?utm_term=.ec113f061c4d">Laurence
  Tribe:</a> Congress must start impeaching the troll now, for his
  obstruction
of justice (as well as plenty of other acts).
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/13/are-there-22-patriotic-house-republicans">Are There 22 Patriotic House Republicans?</a>
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/13/fired-and-smeared-trump-comey-wants-talk-under-oath-and-public">Comey wants to testify before Congress</a>, but only if his testimony is
public.
<p>
Republicans that shield the troll from punishment for blatant
obstruction of justice, and investigation for possible treason, are
associating themselves morally with those acts.  They cannot be
legitimate parts of the US government.


feed_id: e74c16e9d3ce45a7b7192e05117d60d1
title: Trade route
uri: Trade-route
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Trade_route%29
content:
<p>
<a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/06/getting-lost-may-be-first-sign-of-alzheimers">The Syrian Kurds would like to negotiate a trade route</a> to the
Mediterranean.  That would involve an agreement with Assad.  They
also
e talk about capturing Idlib from the Islamists some day.
<p>
Liberating Idlib from the Islamists would be good, provided that the
inhabitants are happy with it.  That is easier said than done.  Who
would rule Idlib instead?  The inhabitants probably don't want that
to
be Assad, and they (being Arabs) may not be comfortable with Kurds
today
(though they were content enough with Salah ad-Din).


feed_id: 1f362d1baa23b10fc48cb488d83dc7bf
title: Polar bears
uri: Polar-bears
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Polar_bears%29
content:
<p>
Our global heating, which melts Arctic sea ice, is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/27/canada-living-with-polar-bears-climate-change">forcing polar bears
to live on land where they may fight with humans</a>.


feed_id: 90bc2f497d415c63eec994f48124112c
title: Beyond apartheid
uri: Beyond-apartheid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Beyond_apartheid%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/04/15/israeli-chief-rabbis-endorse-ethnic-cleansing-non-jewish-servitude/">Beyond apartheid to ethnic cleansing:</a> the rabbi that leads a
significant Israeli electoral party calls for expelling all non-Jews
from
Israel.
<p>
<a href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=776217">Peace Now:</a> Israel's New Settlement Policy an Attempt to "Fool
International Community".


feed_id: 5cdf6e3a0a922bf6f0dd7ac5a4822350
title: Sunscreens
uri: Sunscreens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Sunscreens%29
content:
<p>
Some sunscreens contain a chemical that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/28/sunscreen-damage-coral-research-oxybenzone">poisons coral</a> even in very low
concentrations.


feed_id: 5814e415b5502883153b13b16904c8d2
title: Civilian casualties
uri: 2017-05-19-Civilian-casualties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Civilian_casualties%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/30/pentagon-352-civilians-killed-strikes-isis-iraq-syria">Airwars has found over 3000 civilian casualties</a> from US bombing in
Iraq and Syria, but the Pentagon acknowledges only 352 of them.
<p>
Airwars' method of counting tends to lead to a considerable
underestimate.
The real number must be a lot more.
<p>
We should note that the US bombing in Syria and Iraq is far less
criminal than <a href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a>.  Meanwhile, the US bombing in Yemen is entirely
gratuitous.


feed_id: fbab798b6af9eb3047ccc4299caae639
title: Poverty
uri: 2017-05-19-Poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Poverty%29
content:
<p>
Sanders: "A
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/29/its-time-national-15-minimum-wage">basic principle of American economic life should be</a> that
if you work 40 hours or more a week, you do not live in poverty."
<p>
Really our goal should be that <em>no one</em> lives in poverty,
but Sanders is campaigning for a substantial step forward.


feed_id: a9926a8a6d046f78e7054a71e067ad54
title: Drink bottles
uri: Drink-bottles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Drink_bottles%29
content:
<p>
No
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/02/plastic-bottles-coca-cola-recycling-coke">system of recycling for drink bottles</a> will be effective unless
people get a refund on a deposit for turning in the bottles.


feed_id: 8a349c43b76343875f1d60ebec0086f5
title: Force-Feeding
uri: 2017-05-19-Force-Feeding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_%28Force-Feeding%29
content:
<p>
Since the Israeli Medical Association condemns force-feeding of prisoners,
<a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-resorts-psychological-warfare-try-break-strike
">Israel threatens to bring in foreign doctors to do that</a>.
<p>
Force-feeding sometimes kills the prisoners.  Fasting also is
eventually fatal, but the prisoners (like anyone else) have a right to
end their own lives.
<p>
Some of the prisoners are too weak to stand up, so Israel is now fining
them for not standing when ordered to do so.


feed_id: 93a95a4aa4bb63672a21a8689c46b6c9
title: Cholera spreading to Yemen
uri: Cholera-spreading-to-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28Cholera_spreading_to_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
Cholera is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/12/dangerous-trifecta-crises-yemen-hit-cholera-outbreak">spreading
in Yemen</a>.
<p>
This is a consequence of the bombing campaign operated by Salafi
Arabia with US help.  Those countries did not directly bring cholera,
but the bombing is what prevents it from being eradicated.
<p>
The bombing campaign has no moral justification.  Its motive is
nothing more than 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_October_2016_(Escalation_in_Yemen)">rivalry
for power</a>, which the US supports based on the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_(Salafi_Arabia)">bizarre
claim that Iran threatens to take over the whole Middle East</a>.


feed_id: 14fcc1737a5e81fb677ce93c2a90bb1d
title: The right to protest
uri: The-right-to-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28The_right_to_protest%29
content:
<p>
The mainstream media 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/12/big-media-need-fight-right-protest">must
defend the right to protest</a>.
<p>
Especially we must condemn 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#21_February_2014_(The_protests_in_Venezuela)">Haymarket</a>-style
prosecutions that hold protest organizers responsible for any crime
that occurs at the protest.


feed_id: bb2884f2465cca9d903b59a085dfbb5c
title: Russia arrests activists
uri: Russia-arrests-activists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28Russia_arrests_activists%29
content:
<p>
Activists on behalf of gay rights tried to deliver a petition to the
Russian state.  The state not only didn't accept the petition, it
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/lgbt-activists-opposed-to-chechen-crackdown-detained-in-moscow">arrested
them instead</a>.


feed_id: 36e77ed8242fcd69629391740630fd58
title: Barrett Brown speaks to press
uri: Barrett-Brown-speaks-to-press
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28Barrett_Brown_speaks_to_press%29
content:
<p>
Barrett Brown was released from prison, then arrested (the thugs
claimed he wasn't allowed to give interviews to the press), then freed
a few days later (perhaps because legally he is allowed to give
interviews to the press).  Here is his 
<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2017/5/12/jailed_reporter_barrett_brown_on_press">interview
with Democracy Now</a>.
<p>
He talks about the way the US government helps plutocrats get private
surveillance assistance from companies such as Palantir.


feed_id: 9884e9dbf99e1634d05dc1d12c1dd78c
title: NSA made ransomware attacks possible
uri: NSA-made-ransomware-attacks-possible
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28NSA_made_ransomware_attacks_possible%29

content:
<p>
The NSA made the wave of ransomware attacks possible by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/13/ransomware-cyber-attack-us-intelligence">perpetuating
vulnerabilities rather than fixing them</a>.


feed_id: f1a82f2e9ec966de3abb8fb2a3156f86
title: US border thugs
uri: 2017-05-20-US-border-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28US_border_thugs%29
content:
<p>
US border thugs are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/14/mothers-day-in-an-ice-detention-center/">gratuitously
cruel to refugees</a>, for instance throwing all their medicine in the
trash, and the troll is pushing them to be more cruel.


feed_id: e82160492a08f1195b4ab9acdba18e60
title: UK border thugs demand laptop password
uri: UK-border-thugs-demand-laptop-password
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28UK_border_thugs_demand_laptop_password%29

content:
<p>
Muhammad Rabbani of Cage faces 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/14/campaign-group-to-challenge-uk-over-surrender-of-passwords-at-border-control">possible
imprisonment for refusing</a> to give the UK border thugs the password
for his laptop.
<p>
Cage campaigns against torture and unjust imprisonment in various
countries including the US.  The laptop contained privileged legal
work product that he had no right to reveal to anyone.  Now Rabbani is
threatened with unjust imprisonment, unless Cage succeeds in
overturning that law.


feed_id: 1ff68574cb88b21413448540a046f834
title: Tory underfunding of ambulances
uri: Tory-underfunding-of-ambulances
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28Tory_underfunding_of_ambulances%29
content:
<p>
Because of Tory underfunding, the UK's 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2017/may/13/paramedic-ambulances-are-wrecks-nhs-cuts-spending">ambulances
are barely operable, and their first aid equipment for people having
heart attacks is rickety and slow</a>.  The experienced staff are
quitting due to pension cuts.
<p>
Nurses are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/14/nurses-vote-support-ballot-for-strike-action-low-pay">going
to strike due to pay cuts</a>.
<p>
In a few years, the Tories will admit that the NHS no longer
functions, and replace it by privatized medical treatment that most
people can't afford at all.


feed_id: 4cd8b603c634fb6747c7285e4daca757
title: EU's proposed copyright directive
uri: EU-s-proposed-copyright-directive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28EUs_proposed_copyright_directive%29
content:
<p>
The EU's proposed copyright directive would require all social media,
all sites that let users post anything, to set up 
<a href="https://edri.org/killing-parody-killing-memes-killing-the-internet/">copyright
censorship systems</a>.  Parodies and other fair use, not recognized
in Europe as part of freedom of speech, would be rigorously
eliminated.


feed_id: 7d171141a6b454c324ee8bf4a9ea89a3
title: Egypt drafts social media user law
uri: Egypt-drafts-social-media-user-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28Egypt_drafts_social_media_user_law%29

content:
<p>
Draft Law Would Require Egyptian Social Media Users to 
<a href="https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/05/05/draft-law-would-require-egyptian-social-media-users-to-register-with-government/">Register
With [Egyptian] Government</a>.


feed_id: 1cec1c567592f050d70efc2f6c492d6a
title: Kansas law allows concealed guns on campus
uri: Kansas-law-allows-concealed-guns-on-campus
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28Kansas_law_allows_concealed_guns_on_campus%29

content:
<p>
Professor Jacob Dorman explains his resignation from the University of
Kansas because of the state's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/12/i-resigned-professor-university-kansas-protest-states-gun-laws">insistence
on allowing concealed guns on campus</a>.
<p>
He also reviews the statistics that show why this will kill students
far more than it protects them.


feed_id: e0e2ecd2836441fae17d37cef46b2454
title: EPA scientists resign
uri: EPA-scientists-resign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28EPA_scientists_resign%29
content:
<p>
Two scientists resigned from an EPA advisory committee 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/12/scientists-resign-epa-protest">in
response to Saboteur Pruitt's dismissal of other scientists</a>.
<p>
They say the dismissal 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/12/experts-resign-epa-subcommittee-protest-trumps-war-science">shows
that their recommendations will not be valued</a>.  In effect, their
recommendations would be ignored and their names used to imply
endorsement of the conclusions.


feed_id: 2c5ad343e0604eb5c369668ef21bc05c
title: Unaffordable dental care
uri: Unaffordable-dental-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_%28Unaffordable_dental_care%29
content:
<p>
Many Americans that work full time 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2017/05/13/the-painful-truth-about-teeth/">can't
afford the dental work they need</a>.


feed_id: a50ad658a078bab56d973e1321720b7c
title: Trade route
uri: 2017-05-20-Trade-route
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Trade_route%29
content:
<p>
<a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/06/getting-lost-may-be-first-sign-of-alzheimers">The Syrian Kurds would like to negotiate a trade route</a> to the
Mediterranean.  That would involve an agreement with Assad.  They
also
talk about capturing Idlib from the Islamists some day.
<p>
Liberating Idlib from the Islamists would be good, provided that the
inhabitants are happy with it.  That is easier said than done.  Who
would rule Idlib instead?  The inhabitants probably don't want that
to
be Assad, and they (being Arabs) may not be comfortable with Kurds
today
(though they were content enough with Salah ad-Din).


feed_id: 15c3d8c15b4e31b5f72a342ea6fbe716
title: The values of most Americans
uri: The-values-of-most-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#20_May_2017_%28The_values_of_most_Americans%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/13/sorry-folks-donald-trump-everything-we-deserve">The
troll is the epitome</a> of the values of most Americans.  We should
not be surprised he got almost enough votes to win the election.
<p>
The article assumes that people deserve the consequences of their
foolish ways of thinking and acting.  I disagree.  Even when people
are so foolish that they bring disaster on their country, they still
don't deserve the disaster.
<p>
People get the government their behavior deserves.<br/>
People deserve better than that.


feed_id: 9eccbb23a0098bc4cc9e4178161ef29c
title: Comey
uri: Comey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#20_May_2017_%28Comey%29
content:
<p>
Comey 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/09/constitutional-rubicon-assange-prosecution">wanted
to prosecute Assange and Wikileaks based on a newly invented
criterion</a> about his perceptions of a journalist's motives.
<p>
I disagree with the author on one point.  I maintain that a US
government employee's duty of loyalty to the US and its constitution
must take precedence over any specific undertaking that the employee
has made.  That duty can morally require leaking information about
injustices of the state.  Drake, Manning and Snowden are the true
patriots.


feed_id: 36a5120f9cd5be3fc73c59a2fcd864ed
title: New president of South Korea
uri: New-president-of-South-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#20_May_2017_%28New_president_of_South_Korea%29
content:
<p>
New South Korea Leader Moon Jae-in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/10/south-korea-new-president-moon-jae-in-meet-north-kim-jong-un">Willing
to Talk to Kim in North</a>.
<p>
The new president is a former political prisoner and wants to bring
peace to Korea.


feed_id: d26e12d5b296e5bab3c24faf22a3a274
title: Texas "child care facilities" prison
uri: Texas-child-care-facilities-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#20_May_2017_%28Texas_child_care_facilities_prison%29

content:
<p>
Texas will try to negate a court ruling against keeping immigrant
children in immigration prison by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/texas-bill-childcare-detention-centers-immigration">designating
the prisons as "child care facilities"</a>.


feed_id: def46530015de9123a33b4d3e2abd768
title: China pushing to eliminate cash
uri: China-pushing-to-eliminate-cash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#20_May_2017_%28China_pushing_to_eliminate_cash%29
content:
<p>
One of the most repressive states on Earth is 
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/china-cashless">pushing
to eliminate cash</a>.
<p>
I hope this convinces you to defend the use of cash.
The way to do that is to insist on using cash.


feed_id: 2a59d26b5ab2292a6f6f548a86050c4e
title: FBI "study" based on thugs' opinions
uri: FBI-study-based-on-thugs-opinions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#20_May_2017_%28FBI_study_based_on_thugs_opinions%29
content:
<p>
To justify Comey's claims that protests against killer thugs have
inhibited thugs from doing their proper jobs, the FBI has released a
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170508/11013437318/fbi-releases-study-law-enforcements-persecution-complex.shtml">"study"
which only asked thugs their opinions</a>.


feed_id: 907831c801b45623b3973dccad99e452
title: US government torture
uri: 2017-05-20-US-government-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#20_May_2017_%28US_government_torture%29
content:
<p>
Abu Zubaydah 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/guantanamo-detainee-abu-zubaydah-cia-torture-hearing">will
testify</a> about how he was tortured by the US government.


feed_id: 2fff02bd47e7e0cd7b86233afe1d4f19
title: Ailments of impoverished British children
uri: Ailments-of-impoverished-British-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#20_May_2017_%28Ailments_of_impoverished_British_children%29

content:
<p>
Tory-imposed mass poverty is causing British children to suffer from
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/11/poverty-blighting-health-of-many-uk-children-paediatricians-warn">ailments
that were eradicated</a>.


feed_id: 30cb5841e9208ad439b72091e12261a5
title: Marijuana research
uri: 2017-05-20-Marijuana-research
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#20_May_2017_%28Marijuana_research%29
content:
<p>
Since marijuana has great medical potential, we 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/11/mice-benefit-research-cannabis-why-not-us">need
research on how it affects humans</a>.


feed_id: 04edffe0c48bd4efd4686e4da2842afb
title: Urgent: Protect national monuments
uri: Urgent-Protect-national-monuments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#20_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_national_monuments%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4251">Protect
Bears Ears</a> and other national monuments.


feed_id: b51dbfbf77d9ee957dd62c1afd2fcf24
title: Urgent: Protecting Sensitive Locations Act
uri: Urgent-Protecting-Sensitive-Locations-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#20_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Protecting_Sensitive_Locations_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.signherenow.org/petition/protect-sensitive-locations/kennedy/e/">support</a>
the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act, which would prohibit
deportation raids on schools, hospitals, courthouses, and churches.


feed_id: 2933905400ebdffb912d896d717c59ef
title: Urgent: Oppose causing famine in Yemen
uri: Urgent-Oppose-causing-famine-in-Yemen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#20_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_causing_famine_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/theresa_may-act-now-at">call
on UK Prime Minister</a> May to stop helping cause famine in Yemen.


feed_id: 8d56a91b4cf2a7a37d46076819c9c91f
title: Start impeaching
uri: 2017-05-21-Start-impeaching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Start_impeaching%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-must-be-impeached-heres-why/2017/05/13/82ce2ea4-374d-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html?utm_term=.ec113f061c4d">Laurence
  Tribe:</a> Congress must start impeaching the troll now, for his
  obstruction
of justice (as well as plenty of other acts).


feed_id: c8cf9e81cc526a827d675bdeaac85eb5
title: Patriotic House Republicans
uri: Patriotic-House-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_%28Patriotic_House_Republicans%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/13/are-there-22-patriotic-house-republicans">Are There 22 Patriotic House Republicans?</a>
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/13/fired-and-smeared-trump-comey-wants-talk-under-oath-and-public">Comey wants to testify before Congress</a>, but only if his testimony is
public.
<p>
Republicans that shield the troll from punishment for blatant
obstruction of justice, and investigation for possible treason, are
associating themselves morally with those acts.  They cannot be
legitimate parts of the US government.


feed_id: f88e5b4dab016a4422849919eb8f313b
title: Urgent: Move funds out of big banks
uri: Urgent-Move-funds-out-of-big-banks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Move_funds_out_of_big_banks%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: move funds out of the big banks that fund polluting
pipelines and 
<a href="https://petitions.signforgood.com/DefundPipelines/">tell the
banks that you're doing so</a>.


feed_id: 8705fb0ffbbf631fbb05b345173dc08e
title: Centuries of US racism
uri: Centuries-of-US-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Centuries_of_US_racism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> is the result of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/15/trump-symptom-not-disease">centuries
of US racism</a>.
<p>
The article presents Mumia Abu-Jamal's story of how he and friends
were beaten up by contemptuous thugs after they protested peacefully
at a campaign rally for white-supremacist candidate George Wallace.


feed_id: 0c12c276c9a98dc194547cc835256d1d
title: US high school history
uri: US-high-school-history
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28US_high_school_history%29
content:
<p>
US high school history teachers: devote the rest of the term to the
question of 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/59198260e4b02d6199b2f12e">how
to remove a president that is incompetent, repeatedly breaks the law,
and disregards the constitution</a>.


feed_id: ba78161ebc3f1abcb713ed5341c21156
title: Investigation of troll/Russia
uri: Investigation-of-troll-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Investigation_of_troll%2BRussia%29
content:
<p>
The Senate 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/14/following-money-senate-russian-investigations">has
not provided any resources for a real investigation</a> of
troll/Russia by the senate committees that are supposedly doing it.


feed_id: e49dc38df9f54c2098baf5f15bdbe864
title: Drug money laundering and deforestation
uri: Drug-money-laundering-and-deforestation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Drug_money_laundering_and_deforestation%29

content:
<p>
Laundering drug money is responsible for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/16/drug-money-traffickers-destroying-swaths-forest-central-america">large
amounts of deforestation of protected land</a> in Central America.


feed_id: f82f2500160c4ae6a6212922cda68a4b
title: Troll endangers intelligence sources
uri: Troll-endangers-intelligence-sources
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Troll_endangers_intelligence_sources%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> shared secret information with Russian officials in a way
that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/15/donald-trump-shared-classified-information-russia-white-house-report">endangered
intelligence sources</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html">More
information</a>.
<p>
Sharing secrets with Russia (or other countries) is not necessarily a
bad thing.  In some cases it is useful for diplomacy.  However,
endangering sources is a harmful practice; states do this at their
peril.
<p>
One of the few criticisms of Wikileaks that I agree with is that
sometimes it endangers intelligence sources (and other people) by
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-sep-dec.html#26_September_2011_(Journalist_Exile_Wikileaks)">failing
to redact information</a>.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> was criticized for 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2005-jul-oct.html#03%20October%202005%20(Cheney)">revealing
the identity of Valerie Plame</a>.  He did this merely to score
political points.


feed_id: fdcda50ad09063f712d7b24e50442cb5
title: Loss of fossils
uri: Loss-of-fossils
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Loss_of_fossils%29
content:
<p>
When a fossil appears at the surface of the ground, we have a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/lost-worlds/2013/jan/12/dinosaurs-fossils">limited
time to collect it before it erodes away or is crushed</a>.  We could
remain forever ignorant of past species unless we have people
collecting fossils as they appear.


feed_id: 041172d8e01b4a18f3d07e51b11e164a
title: Tory changes in voter registration
uri: Tory-changes-in-voter-registration
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Tory_changes_in_voter_registration%29

content:
<p>
Tory changes in voter registration have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/15/number-of-school-leavers-on-electoral-roll-in-england-falls-25">greatly
reduced the number of newly eligible voters</a> that are registered.


feed_id: da49565deb0bd78623aef93202033d89
title: White supremacists embolden troll
uri: White-supremacists-embolden-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28White_supremacists_embolden_troll%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has emboldened white supremacists in the US; they are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/15/emboldened-white-supremacists-charlottesville">becoming
a real danger</a>, just as the KKK was.


feed_id: 9d315e82669c66256d5ad044031a0f1a
title: Violation of copyrights by copyright industry
uri: Violation-of-copyrights-by-copyright-industry
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Violation_of_copyrights_by_copyright_industry%29

content:
<p>
The copyright industry 
<a href="https://falkvinge.net/2017/05/12/six-worst-hypocrisies-of-the-copyright-industry-in-the-last-decade/">repeatedly
violates copyrights in its campaigns</a> to make copyright law more
repressive.


feed_id: e081beffcedb791af3e58568d30160da
title: Massive surveillance a UK campaign issue
uri: Massive-surveillance-a-UK-campaign-issue
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Massive_surveillance_a_UK_campaign_issue%29

content:
<p>
The Liberal Democrats in the UK 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/15/lib-dems-promise-to-scrap-mass-snooping-powers-if-elected">have
made massive surveillance a campaign issue</a>.
<p>
I wish Labour would do that too.


feed_id: e7b58fe0674cd74d2d4b529c4552da00
title: Sadistic or cruel US deportation agents
uri: Sadistic-or-cruel-US-deportation-agents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Sadistic_or_cruel_US_deportation_agents%29

content:
<p>
US deportation agents didn't obey Obama's orders to focus on the
unauthorized immigrants that had committed serious crimes.  In
California, nearly half of those deported in the 9 months after that
order had no criminal record.
<p>
Agents particularly 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/15/obamas-deportation-policy-was-even-worse-than-we-thought/">picked
on immigrants whose children were US citizens</a>, which suggests that
the agents were motivated by sadism or cruelty.


feed_id: d8135c9a5508790fd85980fc9a1c0220
title: Callous undercover thug infiltrator
uri: Callous-undercover-thug-infiltrator
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Callous_undercover_thug_infiltrator%29

content:
<p>
A British antiwar activist describes her two-year relationship with an
undercover thug infiltrator who was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/15/undercover-officer-police-grooming-state-abuse-women">lying
all the way</a>.
<p>
If he didn't love her, he was callously lying when he told her he did.
If he did love her, he callously tossed her aside.


feed_id: 3d6ee9c379fa3cc9460a481b393992b0
title: Family values
uri: Family-values
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Family_values%29
content:
<p>
True support for family values means 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/15/sheryl-sandberg-mothers-childcare-has-to-change">giving
children everything they need to grow up strong and capable</a>.  And
that should mean <em>all</em> children.


feed_id: eb7f0177aa015e90fbe33d47e2c26275
title: Lead exposure and crime
uri: Lead-exposure-and-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Lead_exposure_and_crime%29
content:
<p>
Research from Sweden shows that reducing levels of children's lead exposure
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/05/unleaded-gasoline-reduces-violent-crime-sweden-too">reduces
subsequent crime</a>, even when the level starts out rather low.


feed_id: a2f5eddd164848a9a7a03ff268d68687
title: Diesel engine exhaust
uri: Diesel-engine-exhaust
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Diesel_engine_exhaust%29
content:
<p>
Diesel engine exhaust 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/15/diesel-emissions-test-scandal-causes-38000-early-deaths-year-study">kills
around 38000 people each year world-wide</a>, a study estimates.


feed_id: c201b077fb9a815b027afb2b3a13d133
title: Right-wing extremism
uri: 2017-05-21-Right-wing-extremism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Right-wing_extremism%29
content:
<p>
Each time right-wing politicians hurt millions of Americans, a
fraction of the victims are so deluded about who to blame that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/15/sovereign-citizens-rightwing-terrorism-hate-us-government">they
turn to right-wing extremism</a>.
<p>
This started with the 
<a href="/doggerel.html#OldMacDonald">"farm crisis"</a> caused by
President Reagan and the Republicans.


feed_id: 6d3a0a5b5cf08e91ef9a73e2ed182337
title: Great inequality
uri: Great-inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Great_inequality%29
content:
<p>
Great inequality 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/may/15/humans-most-atrocious-when-we-live-under-weight-great-inequalities-danny-dorling">makes
life unhappy for everyone</a>.  Even for the rich — because each
rich person thinks, "I don't have as much as I really deserve."
<p>
It is true that some people have more talents than others.  Few people
have as much of a talent for programming as I had in my prime.  Does
that mean I deserved to get rich?  That it would have been unjust not
to give me a chance to get rich that way?  Would that have justified
my using my talent to subjugate people, so that I could get rich?
<p>
I don't think so.


feed_id: 89be3627bb4c9159d6b335c158cf1243
title: Tories take from the non rich
uri: Tories-take-from-the-non-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Tories_take_from_the_non_rich%29
content:
<p>
The Tories offer to give back to the non rich a little of what they
have taken, and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/15/theresa-tories-working-people-employment-tribunal-unpaid-leave-carers-government">say
that is support for workers' rights</a>.


feed_id: bf5f2387699fe81c8c0e2503b992a718
title: Widespread prosperity and lesser inequality
uri: Widespread-prosperity-and-lesser-inequality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Widespread_prosperity_and_lesser_inequality%29

content:
<p>
Right-wingers want people to think that the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/14/is-labour-manifesto-fantasy-land-quite-the-opposite">widespread
prosperity and lesser inequality of the 1970s</a> is a "fantasy",
impossible in the real world.
<p>
Since we did it once, we can do it again — if we stop the
plutocrats from getting in the way.


feed_id: 5c7cde57771f8c5671cd8781d13ed291
title: Troll's distractions
uri: Troll-s-distractions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Trolls_distractions%29
content:
<p>
The mainstream media's intense focus on troll/Russia and the firing of
Comey has pushed all the political nastiness of Republican policies
into the shadows.  
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/14/what-if-hes-not-idiot">Could
the troll have intended this</a>?
<p>
Making announcements as distraction is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_March_2017_(Trolls_distraction_tactics)">his
standard modus operandi</a>.  I don't think that was his motive for
firing Comey; I think he considered the investigation a real danger
and wanted to stop it.  But it could be that his shocking way of
firing Comey was a distraction operation.


feed_id: 6c493c8f218b084a2a55af24adef943e
title: French pun
uri: French-pun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#22_May_2017_%28French_pun%29
content:
<p>
New french
pun: <a href="https://stallman.org/french-puns.html#id=mines">Mines de
    charbon</a>.
</p>


feed_id: 204a6c2c7b4260e24e3b604c219ea18d
title: Urgent: Ban ivory trade
uri: Urgent-Ban-ivory-trade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#22_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_ivory_trade%29
content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://secure.awf.org/Taiwan-total-ivory-ban-democrats">Call
on Taiwan</a> to ban ivory trade.


feed_id: 150fadba83b53396d20952714c7f2f9d
title: Urgent: Block Sinclair TV chain merger
uri: Urgent-Block-Sinclair-TV-chain-merger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#22_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Sinclair_TV_chain_merger%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/stop_sinclair_tribune">call
on the FCC to block the Sinclair TV chain merger.


feed_id: e5750ff6ff55e2beb3272e5d981c578d
title: Urgent: Condemn troll's attack
uri: Urgent-Condemn-troll-s-attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#22_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Condemn_trolls_attack%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-say-trumps-syria">call
on Congress</a> to condemn the troll's latest attack against Assad's
forces as illegal and impeachable.


feed_id: acbfe2b6a9f6211115619d1d88495a6a
title: Urgent: Special committee
uri: Urgent-Special-committee
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#22_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Special_committee%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu-action/issues/alert/?alertid=77382626&type=CO">call
on your congresscritter</a> to support a special committee to
investigate the troll's ties with Russia.


feed_id: e48d4d89fa38bd9c90544a90dee01243
title: Texas Latinos protest
uri: Texas-Latinos-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#21_May_2017_%28Texas_Latinos_protest%29
content:
<p>
Texas Latinos have launched 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/15/texas-latinos-launch-100-days-resistance-protect-sanctuary-cities">100
days of protests and organizing</a> in response to the Texas law that
forbids cities to offer sanctuary to unauthorized immigrants.
<p>
The US practice of arresting them and deporting them 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_May_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_deportation_of_unconscious_injured_patients)">when
they get medical treatment</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_May_2017_(US_border_thugs)">when
they meet with government officials</a>, and even
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_February_2017_(Jailed_for_asking_for_protection)">when
they appear in court</a>, threatens public health and public safety.


feed_id: d54ea48242d011359a9b76d478726da1
title: Urgent: Block Sinclair TV chain merger
uri: 2017-05-23-Urgent-Block-Sinclair-TV-chain-merger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#22_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Sinclair_TV_chain_merger%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/stop_sinclair_tribune">call
on the FCC</a> to block the Sinclair TV chain merger.


feed_id: 728b3a2e0bd8194a863db30cb33291db
title: Fraudulent "organic" labels
uri: Fraudulent-organic-labels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Fraudulent_organic_labels%29
content:
<p>
The USDA hardly bothers to punish companies that import non-organic grain
and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/15/massive-fraud-organic-grain-imports-uncovered">fraudulently
label it "organic"</a>.


feed_id: a604d5c8f58f141dcb3ca030b9960dac
title: Supply of better jobs limited
uri: Supply-of-better-jobs-limited
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#23_May_2017_%28Supply_of_better_jobs_limited%29
content:
<p>
More training can enable one working person to move up the ladder and
get more pay and better working conditions.  But the 
<a href="https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rinesi20170516">supply
of those better jobs is limited</a>, so more training for everyone
won't change much.
<p>
To make everyone better off, workers need to organize to change the
system.  For instance, with progressive laws and unionization.


feed_id: 4437721032cc75edc13b9c99b7293f29
title: Poop Brits not voting
uri: Poop-Brits-not-voting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#23_May_2017_%28Poop_Brits_not_voting%29
content:
<p>
Poor people in Britain don't bother to vote because 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/16/poverty-election-vote-apathy">none
of the parties shows much concern for them</a>.
<p>
Even Labour doesn't show much concern for them, though 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/16/labour-manifesto-left-election-social-democracy">some
aspects of its platform will help them</a>.


feed_id: 1009624a2d7c76379c105dbc713e9d37
title: If troll were impeached
uri: If-troll-were-impeached
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#23_May_2017_%28If_troll_were_impeached%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/16/donald-trump-impeachment-russia-investigation-nixon">What
would happen</a> if Donald Trump were impeached?


feed_id: e50d93e9ee00c59956eaea856dd0c3b3
title: Right to assistance in suicide
uri: Right-to-assistance-in-suicide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#23_May_2017_%28Right_to_assistance_in_suicide%29
content:
<p>
Omid, in Britain, is condemned to years of suffering for a disease
that will kill him eventually.  He demands the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/16/omid-incurable-condition-assisted-dying-law">right
to assistance in suicide</a>.
<p>
I support his demand.  I do wonder whether he could die by refusing
food, and get treatment to help him bear the hunger.  Would the
nursing home force-feed him?


feed_id: ef3ca97d79665e1cea0a6374009ae936
title: Troll's new bank regulator
uri: Troll-s-new-bank-regulator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#23_May_2017_%28Trolls_new_bank_regulator%29
content:
<p>
Trumpâs New Bank Regulator: 
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-new-bank-regulator-lawyer-who-helped-banks-charge-more-fees">Lawyer
Who Helped Banks Charge More Fees</a>.


feed_id: 47106a2893dc1fb4911e48fa7ab605f7
title: Ukraine blocks access to Russian sites
uri: Ukraine-blocks-access-to-Russian-sites
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#23_May_2017_%28Ukraine_blocks_access_to_Russian_sites%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/16/ukraine-blocks-popular-russian-websites-kremlin-role-war">blocked
access</a> to Russian social media sites and a search engine.
<p>
There is no justification for this.


feed_id: 5669c0548fbaed6b726974ae024d9049
title: Plastic debris from Pacific Ocean
uri: Plastic-debris-from-Pacific-Ocean
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#23_May_2017_%28Plastic_debris_from_Pacific_Ocean%29
content:
<p>
Remote, uninhabited Henderson Island is covered by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/15/38-million-pieces-of-plastic-waste-found-on-uninhabited-south-pacific-island">18
tons of plastic debris</a> that washed up from the Pacific Ocean.
<p>
We 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/16/toxic-timebomb-why-we-must-fight-back-against-the-worlds-plague-of-plastic">need
to use less plastic</a>, so that we produce less plastic.


feed_id: cb001d7797ca351df8ad9d635087862f
title: Urgent: Oppose appointing Milwaukee sheriff
uri: Urgent-Oppose-appointing-Milwaukee-sheriff
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_appointing_Milwaukee_sheriff%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://somos.presente.org/petitions/dhs-secretary-kelly-don-t-hire-sheriff-clarke">call
on the Saboteur of Homeland Security</a> not to appoint Milwaukee
Sheriff Clarke to any sort of position.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/sheriff-david-clarke-dangerous-bigot-resisted">more
about why</a>.


feed_id: 50236f8bc9a4f5c0ecdbfd64963ae540
title: Urgent: Grizzly bears
uri: Urgent-Grizzly-bears
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Grizzly_bears%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4029">insist
on continued protection</a> for grizzly bears in Yellowstone National
Park.


feed_id: b05b545de2d917eca1a6a023b3bff843
title: Urgent: Endangered Species Act
uri: 2017-05-24-Urgent-Endangered-Species-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Endangered_Species_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4196">call
on your congresscritter</a> to protect the Endangered Species Act.


feed_id: 221edbe1b6263f79312ef6f07912d412
title: Urgent: Troll's tax returns
uri: 2017-05-24-Urgent-Troll-s-tax-returns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Trolls_tax_returns%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/demand-paul-ryan-and-republicans-put-country-before-party">call
on SCROTUS</a> to join in releasing the troll's tax returns.


feed_id: c671a07d43e86add2e1473cf340fb36b
title: Urgent: COAST Act
uri: Urgent-COAST-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_COAST_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to support the COAST Act
to ban offshore drilling on the Atlantic coast.


feed_id: 85d3e8c8f765ad1652a5922242697649
title: Chelsea Manning
uri: 2017-05-24-Chelsea-Manning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Chelsea_Manning%29
content:
<p>
Chelsea Manning is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/chelsea-manning-released-from-prison">out
of prison</a>.
<p>
I was worried that the troll would find some excuse to prevent this.


feed_id: fd4453726b4fa852d02e35dcf193c54e
title: US and Russia to support Syrian Kurds
uri: US-and-Russia-to-support-Syrian-Kurds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28US_and_Russia_to_support_Syrian_Kurds%29

content:
<p>
The US and Russia have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/erdogan-outgunned-at-trump-meeting-in-face-of-us-russian-united-front">both
decided to support the Syrian Kurds</a>, and told Erdo&gbreve;an to
get lost.
<p>
I consider this good news.  It is good when the US and Russia have
good relations and cooperate, when what they do together is good.  The
US government has
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#26_March_2017_(US_media_rushing_to_conclusion_without_proof)">stirred
up lots of hostility towards Russia</a> for no good reason.
<p>
Putin remains a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_January_2017_(Urgent:_Resist_pressure_for_military_confrontation)">tyrant</a>
and a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_(Russian_writer_Mikhail_Shishkin)">trumpish
liar</a>.  Other governments ought to condemn this, but that doesn't
call for international hostilities.


feed_id: 39c4029d4b72b3e4a3d41175824eb39e
title: Decrease of middle class in US cities
uri: Decrease-of-middle-class-in-US-cities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Decrease_of_middle_class_in_US_cities%29

content:
<p>
Various US cities show the same
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/may/17/america-geography-wealth-shrinking-urban-middle-class-visualised">decrease
of the middle class</a>.
<p>
A few of those who cease to be middle class become wealthy.  Most
become poor.


feed_id: e6dbe6a15e82a4818312147ea7bca411
title: Media consolidation
uri: Media-consolidation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Media_consolidation%29
content:
<p>
Media consolidation means that many Americans will have a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/14/how-media-consolidation-threatens-democracy-857-channels-and-nothing">choice
between right-wing propaganda news and right-wing propaganda news</a>.


feed_id: 19d90aa89dc9a2796f4682795eb69e7a
title: Teenager in handcuffs shot dead by thugs
uri: Teenager-in-handcuffs-shot-dead-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Teenager_in_handcuffs_shot_dead_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Video shows that Connecticut thugs
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/15/connecticut-teenager-shot-dead-police">shot
a teenager dead while he was handcuffed</a>, then lied about it.


feed_id: 4719d42ecf832d810eed88832c53924b
title: Needs of working mothers
uri: Needs-of-working-mothers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Needs_of_working_mothers%29
content:
<p>
To celebrate Mothers Day, how about thinking about
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/15/we-didnt-give-mothers-enough">the
needs of working mothers</a>?


feed_id: 3dffb0a402b6611c0b9b5e6fdca49383
title: Esteemed Mexican journalist murdered
uri: Esteemed-Mexican-journalist-murdered
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Esteemed_Mexican_journalist_murdered%29

content:
<p>
An esteemed Mexican journalist has been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/16/crusading-mexican-journalist-javier-valdez-shot-dead-in-sinaloa">murdered</a>,
apparently by narco gangsters.


feed_id: 09d3f63411b9dd09b221b0c4c005f881
title: The boat people on Manus Island
uri: The-boat-people-on-Manus-Island
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28The_boat_people_on_Manus_Island%29
content:
<p>
Australia is tightening the rope around the boat people that it dumped
onto Manus Island, by closing the place they live.
<p>
Those who have been judged to be refugees will have to live among a
community of people that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/16/manus-island-closure-does-not-fix-flaws-in-detention-policy-amnesty-says">hate
them and violently attack them</a>.
<p>
The rest are likely to be deported, though they may face punishment
there.


feed_id: 9136b8f1d658e72cdfb41741d5ff3d5d
title: The vaquita porpoise
uri: The-vaquita-porpoise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28The_vaquita_porpoise%29
content:
<p>
The WWF
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/16/chinese-appetite-totoaba-fish-bladder-threatens-rare-vaquita">calls
on Mexico to ban gillnet fishing</a> in the Gulf of California to
protect the nearly extinct vaquita porpoise.


feed_id: 64bd44cba806698da62ca8e558dadfaa
title: Israel prefers continued occupation
uri: Israel-prefers-continued-occupation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_%28Israel_prefers_continued_occupation%29

content:
<p>
Israel prefers continued occupation of Palestine to peace.  There will
be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/16/the-real-reason-the-israel-palestine-peace-process-always-fails">no
peace until outside pressure changes that preference</a>.


feed_id: 687d566008542033767de0140e6853df
title: Urgent: Oppose mechanical copyright censorship
uri: Urgent-Oppose-mechanical-copyright-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_mechanical_copyright_censorship%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens: 
<a href="https://act1.openmedia.org/savethelink">object to plans</a>
to require web sites to impose mechanical copyright censorship that
would reject parodies and other commentary.
<p>
The page raises two issues.  I think the copyright censorship
issue is the most important; if I were an EU citizen I would
respond put that one first.
<p>
I would also avoid using the word "content" to refer to works of
authorship in the text I wrote.


feed_id: 2fda149482805071203be7981ccf9c02
title: Urgent: Oppose snooping robots for children
uri: Urgent-Oppose-snooping-robots-for-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_snooping_robots_for_children%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.storyofstuff.org/sign/digital-nanny/">state
your opposition</a> to snooping robots for children.
<p>
I think they are just as bad when offered to adults.
The wrong is an outgrowth of the nonfree software in the device.


feed_id: a68a723362ef4bbf6a2de7d1364b7154
title: Troll's ghost-writer on troll's behavior
uri: Troll-s-ghost-writer-on-troll-s-behavior
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Trolls_ghost-writer_on_trolls_behavior%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s ghost-writer says his behavior pattern now is the same as
in 1985: 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/16/i-wrote-the-art-of-the-deal-with-trump-his-self-sabotage-is-rooted-in-his-past/">no
empathy, no conscience, no shame, and no respect for truth</a>.  Every
other person is a rival he needs to dominate.


feed_id: 282033d440136c6929fe7e40b42fecdd
title: Urgent: Rescind new prosecution policy
uri: Urgent-Rescind-new-prosecution-policy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Rescind_new_prosecution_policy%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/sessions-memo-petition">call
on Sessions</a> to rescind the new prosecution policy of always aiming
for the maximum sentence.


feed_id: d65f9498ace1fb597c6014c4072c471c
title: Urgent: Oppose bombardment of Hodeida
uri: Urgent-Oppose-bombardment-of-Hodeida
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_bombardment_of_Hodeida%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/uaeembassyus-renounce-2">call
on the UAE</a> to back out of planned bombardment of Hodeida or its
state-owned airline, Emirates, will face a boycott.


feed_id: 529bdfbe3bb1a572c0f0de69138e98c7
title: Urgent: The discharge petition
uri: Urgent-The-discharge-petition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_The_discharge_petition%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/House_Discharge_Petition_dems/">call
on Republican congresscritters</a> to sign the discharge petition for
an independent investigation of the troll's relationship with Russia.


feed_id: e012970e047924841c3f902197a95d24
title: US air force bombs Assad's allies
uri: US-air-force-bombs-Assad-s-allies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28US_air_force_bombs_Assads_allies%29
content:
<p>
The US air force bombed 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/18/us-iran-jet-attack-syria">some
of Assad's allies in Syria</a>.


feed_id: 71b66b600efb487f2cda916823425cc9
title: Saboteur of the Treasury
uri: Saboteur-of-the-Treasury
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Saboteur_of_the_Treasury%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> of the Treasury Mnuchin advocates bringing back all of the
Glass-Steagall Act, 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/18/steven-mnuchin-goes-through-the-looking-glass-steagall-in-strange-exchange-with-elizabeth-warren/">except
for the Glass-Steagall Act</a>.


feed_id: e69fa43edf578e71f2d2c3046e05abf3
title: Funding to Planned Parenthood cut off
uri: Funding-to-Planned-Parenthood-cut-off
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Funding_to_Planned_Parenthood_cut_off%29

content:
<p>
Iowa Republicans 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/18/planned-parenthood-closures-iowa-funding-cut">cut
off funding</a> to Planned Parenthood for contraception and tests for
cancer and diseases.
<p>
Many women on Medicaid will have trouble getting those services from
anywhere else.


feed_id: 60116604f6c9886c7bc099ab06eaa31e
title: Manus Island refugees
uri: Manus-Island-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Manus_Island_refugees%29
content:
<p>
Refugees Australia dumped on Manus Island are subject to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/19/scale-of-surveillance-in-manus-island-detention-centre-laid-bare">constant
intrusive surveillance</a>.  Guards take notes about how they look
each day and about who talks with whom.  When they make phone calls,
the guards listen.
<p>
They are threatened not to talk with journalists, and their supporters
have been arrested and deported without seeing them.  All this is at
the behest of the Australian state.
<p>
Sooner or later, the Australian state will arrange to waterboard them,
or stick burning cigarettes into their testicles.  Or behead them
— videos of that would sure scare any would-be refugees away
from Australia.


feed_id: de01e893cd01e116ddc3b259a95fe9d2
title: Thugs arrest autistic 7-year-old
uri: Thugs-arrest-autistic-7-year-old
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Thugs_arrest_autistic_7-year-old%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> arrested an autistic 7-year-old in school and 
<a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dallas-school-cops-handcuffing-7yo-boy-week/">jailed
him for a week</a>, and his parents could not find him.
<p>
He hadn't committed a crime.  He had only made a nuisance.


feed_id: a08d7fabeb2526b4683a770b1d122dd9
title: Wall-Street-supporting Senate "Democrat"
uri: Wall-Street-supporting-Senate-Democrat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Wall-Street-supporting_Senate_Democrat%29

content:
<p>
Wall-Street-supporting Senate "Democrat" Manchin challenged
progressives to vote him out.  Paula Swearengin is 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/18/activist-accepts-sen-joe-manchins-challenge-to-find-somebody-who-can-beat-me/">trying
to do that</a>.


feed_id: 041cb94d18307c095eb61612812d0e5b
title: Attack on peaceful protesters in DC
uri: Attack-on-peaceful-protesters-in-DC
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Attack_on_peaceful_protesters_in_DC%29

content:
<p>
McCain called for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/18/john-mccain-turkey-protest-ambassador">expulsion
of the Turkish ambassador, and prosecution of his bodyguard</a> for
attacking peaceful protesters in Washington DC.
<p>
I agree.


feed_id: 6c5ab3eab14911191806020868bd8a72
title: Apple lobbying against right to repair
uri: Apple-lobbying-against-right-to-repair
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Apple_lobbying_against_right_to_repair%29

content:
<p>
Apple Is 
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/apple-is-lobbying-against-your-right-to-repair-iphones-new-york-state-records-confirm">Lobbying
Against Your Right to Repair iPhones</a>, New York State Records
Confirm.


feed_id: 5587618e9c468db2b52d1e2bd6009174
title: Corrupt president of Brazil
uri: Corrupt-president-of-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Corrupt_president_of_Brazil%29
content:
<p>
Recorded phone calls show the corrupt president of Brazil is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/18/brazil-explosive-recordings-implicate-president-michel-temer-in-bribery">involved
in paying hush money to convicted official Eduardo Cunha</a>.
<p>
An investigation has been 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/18/brazil-president-corruption-invesitgation-supreme-court">launched</a>.
<p>
Everyone already 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/18/after-latest-bombshells-only-michel-temers-removal-and-new-elections-can-save-brazils-democracy/">knew
Tener was corrupt</a>; that was the motive for installing him.


feed_id: d1deccba7a5083130d8e6febbb50758d
title: Press freedom in Bangladesh
uri: Press-freedom-in-Bangladesh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Press_freedom_in_Bangladesh%29
content:
<p>
Press freedom in Bangladesh is being 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/18/it-all-depends-on-how-i-behave-press-freedom-under-threat-in-bangladesh">crushed
by prosecution of unwelcome points of view</a>, and arbitrary
intimidation of advertisers.


feed_id: 90b5b2eaa81990a626f7714d3d485033
title: Neighborhood evicted for Rio Olympics
uri: Neighborhood-evicted-for-Rio-Olympics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Neighborhood_evicted_for_Rio_Olympics%29

content:
<p>
A whole neighborhood was evicted for the Rio Olympics, and many of the
inhabitants are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/18/smashed-my-face-demolished-my-home-rio-olympic-games-maria-da-penha-macena">left
without a community</a> even though they have more valuable houses.
<p>
I don't think the Olympic games will be held very much in free
countries any more.  The people know what a swindle the games are and
will campaign to keep them away.  The games will be held in tyrannical
countries like China, where the people can't resist.
<p>
This raises the question of whether to hold Olympic games any more.
Typically each sport has an annual championship.  Those are held at
different times of year, and they don't put a burden on the cities
where they are held.  They also don't provide an opportunity for big
profits for a few businesses — and that is good.


feed_id: 33ca72a513bf8ce1dbbd6c61b942a099
title: Children need to play on their own
uri: Children-need-to-play-on-their-own
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Children_need_to_play_on_their_own%29

content:
<p>
Children 
<a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/saturday-is-take-our-children-to-the-park-and-leave-them-there-day/">need
to play on their own</a>.  Not playing is bad for their health.


feed_id: 7463976b8594b012ceee353644e4324e
title: Delta wants to use face recognition
uri: Delta-wants-to-use-face-recognition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Delta_wants_to_use_face_recognition%29

content:
<p>
Delta wants to use 
<a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/delta_automates_bag_dropoff_facial_recog/">face
recognition for checking luggage</a>.
<p>
I'm afraid that in a couple of years they will force this on everyone.


feed_id: a2d29110b883a7cf1f028855dc770dbd
title: Tories to hit the middle class
uri: Tories-to-hit-the-middle-class
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Tories_to_hit_the_middle_class%29
content:
<p>
Since the Tories can't squeeze much more money out of the poor, they
have announced 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/18/tory-general-election-manifesto-key-points-analysis">plans
to hit the middle class</a>, especially 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2017/may/18/social-care-is-broken-but-the-tories-have-no-intention-of-fixing-it">old
people and ill people</a> that can't live on their own.
<p>
I suppose they will continue hurting the poor more anyway.


feed_id: 3c0c5de0e8e6d112df632e317b76a9b0
title: Investment in renewable energy
uri: 2017-05-25-Investment-in-renewable-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Investment_in_renewable_energy%29
content:
<p>
Germany Is
<a href="https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/germany-renewable-energy-85-percent/">Showing
the World What's Possible</a> with a Sufficient Investment in
Renewable Energy.


feed_id: 20ecd9ae2e367c26b601741a64064f5d
title: Facebook censorship
uri: 2017-05-25-Facebook-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Facebook_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Facebook 
<a href="http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170516/local/pulitzer-prize-winner-blocked-from-facebook-after-series-of-corruption.648160">deleted
posts that presented evidence of individuals' use of shell
companies</a>, evidence coming from the Panama Papers.
<p>
This resembles Amazon, which famously 
<a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html#censorship">shut down
Wikileaks' virtual server</a> because Wikileaks didn't have US
government authorization to publish leaks.


feed_id: 775acb92822d7f74e9dd060112890cb3
title: Judging whether troll is fit to serve
uri: Judging-whether-troll-is-fit-to-serve
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Judging_whether_troll_is_fit_to_serve%29

content:
<p>
Proposing a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/17/many-americans-believe-donald-trump-unfit-serve-congressman-has-plan-determine">commission
made up of physicians and psychiatrists</a> to judge whether the US
president is incapacitated or unfit to serve.


feed_id: a4348cedf91d3578189cce7c0e83c549
title: Overprotective parents
uri: Overprotective-parents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Overprotective_parents%29
content:
<p>
Conjecture: US parents
<a href="http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/15/free-range-parents-scapegoats-parents-scared-arent-god/">demonize
non-overprotective parents</a> in a futile attempt to convince
themselves that they can guarantee nothing bad will ever happen to
their own children if they take enough precautions.


feed_id: f373707c26d65c029344e379ab0b055e
title: Driving with marijuana drugs
uri: Driving-with-marijuana-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Driving_with_marijuana_drugs%29
content:
<p>
Some US states 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/16/a-driver-gets-6-months-for-a-fatal-crash">criminalize
driving with even minimal amounts</a> of marijuana drugs that are too
little to impair driving.
<p>
It's not clear that marijuana is a significant factor for whether
people can drive safely.


feed_id: de300f3d99cea8a9c39c38dfe47c1605
title: Troll's wall
uri: Troll-s-wall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Trolls_wall%29
content:
<p>
A report says the troll's pet wall would 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/16/study-trumps-border-wall-threatens-93-endangered-species">threaten
93 endangered species</a>.
<p>
Birds can fly across a wall, but building the wall would destroy some
of their habitat.  Habitat destruction is typically an important
factor in pushing species towards extinction.


feed_id: 34fba62c96af1e19864c152fe2f4548b
title: UK thugs caught in perjury
uri: UK-thugs-caught-in-perjury
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28UK_thugs_caught_in_perjury%29
content:
<p>
UK thugs who accused four British man of plotting an act of terrorism
have been caught in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/16/west-midlands-police-unit-accused-of-perjury-and-falsifying-evidence">perjury
and other crimes</a>.


feed_id: cef8673eef73ff8084363228dcf9334b
title: SCROTUS to impose huge budget cuts
uri: SCROTUS-to-impose-huge-budget-cuts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28SCROTUS_to_impose_huge_budget_cuts%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> plans to impose huge budget cuts 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/16/gop-prepares-make-case-poor-people-must-sacrifice-so-rich-can-get-tax-cuts">without
saying what spending will be cut</a>.  Of course, the cuts will be
aimed at non-rich Americans, but they will pretend not to know that.


feed_id: 90d5c04744c55c1bfeecd3beaea620c2
title: Judge punished for recommending lynching
uri: Judge-punished-for-recommending-lynching
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Judge_punished_for_recommending_lynching%29

content:
<p>
A judge in Texas has been punished for 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/9/1660448/-Texas-judge-punished-after-Facebook-post-recommending-the-lynching-of-a-Black-defendant">urging
the public to lynch someone</a>.
<p>
Lynching was traditionally done mostly to blacks, and racism may have
been part of this judge's motivation for advocating it, but the wrong
of this judge is fundamental and not a matter of who the target is.
It is unacceptable for a judge to support lynching, and this one ought
to be dismissed.


feed_id: de6db58c28d45d50ed93aca2ebf403e1
title: Students fend off plan to invite Republican senator
uri: Students-fend-off-plan-to-invite-Republican-senator
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Students_fend_off_plan_to_invite_Republican_senator%29

content:
<p>
Students at a Texas college 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/12/1661775/-Students-at-HBCU-in-Texas-fight-having-a-Republican-Senator-at-their-graduation-and-they-won">fended
off a plan to invite</a> a Republican senator as their graduation
speaker.
<p>
I wish MIT students would organize to 
<a href="/apple.html">reject the CEO of Apple</a> as a graduation
speaker.  And I wish Harvard students would organize to 
<a href="/facebook.html">reject the CEO of Facebook</a> as a
graduation speaker.


feed_id: f3c3e1f679df67a0c9f68ab303be09dc
title: Challenging right-wing antiabortionists
uri: Challenging-right-wing-antiabortionists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Challenging_right-wing_antiabortionists%29

content:
<p>
A challenge that right-wing antiabortionists can't beat: 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/15/1662327/-How-I-Always-Win-the-Abortion-Argument">provide
benefits to make life easier for women that have babies</a>.
<p>
Alas, in the actual world we must not do that, because it would
encourage population growth, and that threatens to destroy
civilization.  What we can and should do is systematically provide
reliable contraception gratis to every woman that would choose to
abort a pregnancy.


feed_id: 1f1d12b65d333f0fcd06b0b7303704b1
title: Special investigator
uri: Special-investigator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Special_investigator%29
content:
<p>
The DOJ has appointed a special investigator to head the investigation
of troll.  This will include his 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/trump-russia-investigation-special-counsel-robert-mueller-fbi">relationship
with Russia</a> and whether he committed 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/18/donald-trump-impeach-special-counsel-robert-mueller-fbi">obstruction
of justice</a>.
<p>
The head of the investigation is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/trump-russia-investigation-special-counsel-what-to-know">independent
within certain limits</a>.


feed_id: 86307bb87527b52eb81e42bc3ad4a1a2
title: Australia concealing details of oil spill
uri: Australia-concealing-details-of-oil-spill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Australia_concealing_details_of_oil_spill%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/18/australian-oil-well-leaked-into-ocean-for-months-but-incident-kept-secret">concealing
the details of an oil spill in the ocean</a>, to protect the company
responsible from criticism and protests.


feed_id: ebe8a70f68e2de428e3b017e35219be2
title: Looting in part of Venezuela
uri: Looting-in-part-of-Venezuela
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Looting_in_part_of_Venezuela%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/17/venezuelan-government-troops-looting-violence">riot
of looting</a> occurred in a part of Venezuela where there is a major
crossing to Colombia.
<p>
When I was there, my friends told me that people bought subsidized
goods and took them to Colombia to sell at market prices, and this
resulted in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#11_July_2016_(Food_shortages_in_Venezuela)">shortages</a>.
The Venezuelan government subsidized those goods without limit, rather
than subsidizing limited amounts per person or family.


feed_id: 1fda99d7bda25e91751a357ec0554fa2
title: Comey
uri: 2017-05-25-Comey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Comey%29
content:
<p>
Don't lionize Comey — remember the
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/17/dont-lionize-james-comey-the-fbi-did-some-terrible-things-under-him/">injustices
he was involved in</a>.
<p>
He did show integrity in dealing with the troll, but that was just one
good thing among many bad things.


feed_id: acb3ff309393c232cb798b5be95de50e
title: Erdo&gbreve;an insults Turkey and Turkishness
uri: Erdo-gbreve-an-insults-Turkey-and-Turkishness
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Erdogan_insults_Turkey_and_Turkishness%29

content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an's bodyguards
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/17/trump-praises-erdogan-whose-bodyguards-assault-protesters-washington/">kicked
and strangled protesters in Washington DC</a>; then Turkish state
radio told lies about the attack.
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an's actions repeatedly insult Turkey and Turkishness, and
they attack all citizens of Turkey, regardless of ethnic background,
that want freedom for their country.


feed_id: 360f0b98fe4d05945fd562fb04f568bb
title: Troll asked Comey to jail journalists
uri: Troll-asked-Comey-to-jail-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Troll_asked_Comey_to_jail_journalists%29

content:
<p>
The Trump News You Missed: He 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/17/trump-news-james-comey-jail-journalists">Asked
Comey to Jail Journalists</a>.


feed_id: 25003423f23d2df49c715e511989eb16
title: Manus Island refugee camp
uri: Manus-Island-refugee-camp
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Manus_Island_refugee_camp%29
content:
<p>
Australia 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/17/revealed-year-long-campaign-to-make-conditions-harsher-for-manus-refugees">schemed
to make the Manus Island refugee camp more painful</a>, to pressure
refugees to leave.
<p>
Apparently that didn't work well enough, so now Australia is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_(The_boat_people_on_Manus_Island)">closing
the camp</a>.
<p>
The reason refugees don't leave is that the native population won't
tolerate them.


feed_id: 49e04b0fe45181ae16cf5ae1163c4cfe
title: What troll told Russian officials
uri: What-troll-told-Russian-officials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28What_troll_told_Russian_officials%29
content:
<p>
Congress should 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/16/whats-transcript-theres-way-find-out-what-trump-told-russia">demand
a copy of the private transcript</a> of what the troll told Russian
officials.


feed_id: 533fed33a1a7347e3652d069a0e5a0fc
title: Projection on troll's hotel
uri: Projection-on-troll-s-hotel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Projection_on_trolls_hotel%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/16/pay-trump-bribes-here-projected-presidents-dc-hotel">"Pay
Trump bribes here"</a> projected on the troll's hotel in DC.


feed_id: 2a21a0c309c722fe9a4905f3eb7c2a8d
title: SCROTUS gets bank employee fired
uri: SCROTUS-gets-bank-employee-fired
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28SCROTUS_gets_bank_employee_fired%29
content:
<p>
A <a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> 
<a href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/frelinghuysen-targets-activsts-letter-boss/">got
a bank employee fired</a> for actively opposing his campaign.


feed_id: 7816b25a01541d3b831930b3070c95b5
title: Troll's release of secrets to Russia
uri: Troll-s-release-of-secrets-to-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Trolls_release_of_secrets_to_Russia%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/trump-russia-classified-information-isis.html">release
of secrets to Russia</a> shows how unfair was his criticism of
Clinton's email server.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/15/1662597/-Remember-Trump-calling-Hillary-extremely-careless-and-Ryan-s-line-in-the-sand-on-classified-info">how
Paul Ryan put it</a>.
<p>
Clinton's email server was a red herring, an molehill blown up by
Republicans into an apparent mountain.  I rejected Clinton because of
her loyalty to Wall Street against America.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s release to Russia could conceivably have been worth while,
but we can't trust someone like the troll to judge that.


feed_id: ab20a635ebf73668e6707d109dc6b42b
title: Troll's new bank regulator
uri: 2017-05-26-Troll-s-new-bank-regulator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#23_May_2017_%28Trolls_new_bank_regulator%29
content:
<p>
Trump's New Bank Regulator: 
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-new-bank-regulator-lawyer-who-helped-banks-charge-more-fees">Lawyer
Who Helped Banks Charge More Fees</a>.


feed_id: 26c39486dc655fe100696804216619b7
title: Volunteer
uri: 2017-05-26-Volunteer
url: https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc
content:
<p>I am looking for people to find replacements for the broken links
       in <a href="https://stallman.org/broken-links.txt">broken-links.txt</a>.</p>


feed_id: 5340050d5823d535dd4a3f22dbf331cb
title: Urgent: Protect EPA's budget
uri: Urgent-Protect-EPA-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_EPAs_budget%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4261">call
on Congress</a> to protect the EPA's budget.


feed_id: 731dbe153b93ea9da5412f66c9f1418d
title: Removal of memorials to the Confederacy
uri: Removal-of-memorials-to-the-Confederacy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Removal_of_memorials_to_the_Confederacy%29

content:
<p>
New Orleans has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/19/new-orleans-robert-e-lee-statue-removed-confederacy">finished
removing</a> its memorials to the Confederacy.


feed_id: 8f9dfbfcd73a51f28831c15cd57123e3
title: Troll appoints hateful sheriff
uri: Troll-appoints-hateful-sheriff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Troll_appoints_hateful_sheriff%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has appointed a sheriff that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/sheriff-david-clarke-trump-administration-dhs">notoriously
hates Black Lives Matter</a> as liaison with local thug departments.


feed_id: 5f838dd000dba487e0bada3bd4b85306
title: Deputy Saboteur of the Interior Department
uri: Deputy-Saboteur-of-the-Interior-Department
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Deputy_Saboteur_of_the_Interior_Department%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s choice for Deputy Saboteur of the Interior Department
is a saboteur indeed: a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/17/eco-groups-trumps-interior-deputy-pick-walking-conflict-interest">walking
conflict of interest"</a>.


feed_id: 5207f60e9860872f150f9c66330a96f1
title: US intelligence about al-Qa'ida imperfect
uri: US-intelligence-about-al-Qa-ida-imperfect
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28US_intelligence_about_al-Qaida_imperfect%29

content:
<p>
If US intelligence about al-Qa'ida in Yemen is imperfect, the result is to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/19/u-s-drone-strike-in-yemen-killed-men-who-had-nothing-to-do-with-al-qaeda-according-to-relatives/">kill
lots of the wrong people</a>.
<p>
If the members of al-Qa'ida are a tiny fraction of the population, it
doesn't take much of an error rate for drone assassinations to kill
more bystanders then enemies.


feed_id: e31c4856b5fb019f31d0c66dc289efac
title: Tory victims' plans to vote for Tories
uri: Tory-victims-plans-to-vote-for-Tories
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Tory_victims_plans_to_vote_for_Tories%29

content:
<p>
Trying to explain 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/british-voters-rejecting-santa-embracing-scrooge-labour-popularity">why
do the Tories' victims plan to vote for Tories</a>.
<p>
I think politicians that will try to do good things and might fail are
preferable to politicians that can be relied on to implement policies
that will crush lots of people.


feed_id: 64912ba78a2b68d0831fdee6f8d43eb7
title: Tory state contracts with charities
uri: Tory-state-contracts-with-charities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Tory_state_contracts_with_charities%29

content:
<p>
The Tory state contracts with charities to implement state
responsibilities to help the poor, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/19/two-thirds-charities-subsidising-public-sector-contracts-survive">doesn't
pay for the costs</a>.  The charities need to use other money.
<p>
This can't go on much longer.  In a year or two, the charities will
cease to bid for these contracts.  Then the Tories will say, "Oops,
there's no money to help the poor, we have to stop!"  But there will
be no election scheduled for several years, so Britons will be stuck
with it.
<p>
That's if they are suckers enough to vote for Tories now.
<p>
These charities should cancel <em>now</em> to give voters a sign of
what they'd choose 
<a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">if they vote
Tory</a>.


feed_id: fbd00f8eac942918dc11e59d5a27101b
title: Peace between Israel and Hamas
uri: Peace-between-Israel-and-Hamas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Peace_between_Israel_and_Hamas%29
content:
<p>
If We Cared about Peace We Would Be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/hamas-peace-gaza-stalemate">Talking
to Hamas</a>.
<p>
Hamas's new charter demonstrates that there's a real possibility for
Israel and Hamas to make peace.  If you would like negotiations to
succeed, it makes no sense to demand more than that as a precondition
for starting negotiations.  When the US demands more than that from
Hamas, and doesn't
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_(Israel_prefers_continued_occupation)">make
similar demands on Israel</a>, it supports Israel's unstated
intentions to continue the occupation and siege; to reject peace.


feed_id: 8b1deabc1b52bd9fe61ff4f11ead0323
title: Antibiotics
uri: 2017-05-26-Antibiotics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Antibiotics%29
content:
<p>
Without Action on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/antibiotics-medicine-dark-ages-overprescribing">Antibiotics</a>,
Medicine Will Return to the Dark Ages.


feed_id: 0a424b98d32255dc69260b2ee1777fde
title: Seed vault in Svalbard
uri: Seed-vault-in-Svalbard
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Seed_vault_in_Svalbard%29
content:
<p>
The seed vault in Svalbard had a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-stronghold-of-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts">close
scare from global heating effects</a>.
<p>
Svalbard is heating faster than almost anywhere else on Earth.  If we
don't curb global heating soon, it will be above freezing all the time
for several months of the year.


feed_id: 1b42ea5eb8a0b2c8ff5f88be7a6b4977
title: Globalized industry
uri: Globalized-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Globalized_industry%29
content:
<p>
Globalized industry pressures countries to 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/when-some-us-firms-move-production-overseas-they-also-offshore-their-pollution-75371">compete
to allow the highest levels of pollution</a>.
<p>
If we want to change this, "rewarding social responsibility" is a weak
intervention.  We should prohibit import of goods that polluted where
they were made.


