# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(UK_refugee_scheme_designed_to_fail)
title: UK refugee scheme designed to fail
uri: UK-refugee-scheme-designed-to-fail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(UK_refugee_scheme_designed_to_fail)
content:
 
<p>
  *Homes For Ukraine whistleblower says <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/23/homes-for-ukraine-whistleblower-says-uk-refugee-scheme-is-designed-to-fail">UK refugee scheme is "designed to fail"</a>.*
  Basically, Bogus Johnson wants to pretend to be offering asylum to Ukrainian
  refugees without actually giving it to very many.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Fast-growing_wildfires)
title: Fast-growing wildfires
uri: Fast-growing-wildfires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Fast-growing_wildfires)
content:
 
<p>
  New Mexico now has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/24/thousands-forced-to-flee-as-wildfires-sweep-through-new-mexico">fast-growing wildfires</a>.
<p>
  A long-term increasing drought covers the US southwest, so fast-spreading fires
  will become the norm.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(New_pun)
title: New pun
uri: 2022-04-26-New-pun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(New_pun)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.stallman.org/puns.html#floodlights">Most powerful floodlights in New York City</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Elon_Musk)
title: Elon Musk
uri: 2022-04-26-Elon-Musk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Elon_Musk)
content:
 
<p>
  Robert Reich: *Elon Musk wants to own Twitter <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/24/elon-musk-twitter-billionaire-robert-reich">to protect his
  "freedom", not everyone else's</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Sovereign_countries_as_border_zones)
title: Sovereign countries as border zones
uri: Sovereign-countries-as-border-zones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Sovereign_countries_as_border_zones)
content:
 
<p>
  Nominally-sovereign countries on the borders of wealthy countries
  have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/24/new-age-imperialism-west-no-need-to-conquer-money-coercion-do-job">conscripted as border zones to slow migration</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Sri_Lanka's_opposition)
title: Sri Lanka's opposition
uri: Sri-Lanka-s-opposition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Sri_Lanka's_opposition)
content:
 
<p>
  President Rajapaksa has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/24/humanitarian-crisis-sri-lanka-rajapaksa-spark-real-change">united Sri Lanka's opposition; can they push
  him out</a>?

 


title: (Satire) Cheap and poorly constructed fantasy world
uri: (Satire)-Cheap-and-poorly-constructed-fantasy-world
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_((Satire)_Cheap_and_poorly_constructed_fantasy_world)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_((Satire)_Cheap_and_poorly_constructed_fantasy_world)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Ikea Wardrobe Contains <a href="https://www.theonion.com/ikea-wardrobe-contains-cheap-poorly-constructed-fantas-1848362920">Cheap, Poorly Constructed Fantasy
  World Inside</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Flooding_from_global_heating)
title: Flooding from global heating
uri: Flooding-from-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Flooding_from_global_heating)
content:
 
<p>
  South Africa <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/24/south-africa-floods-rain-climate-crisis-extreme-weather">had flooding from rain that went on and on</a>.
  The government dares to say that this is global heating at work.
<p>
  I am disappointed that it used the neutral term "climate change", but at least
  it gets the substance right.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Covid_patients_and_serious_problems)
title: Covid patients and serious problems
uri: Covid-patients-and-serious-problems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Covid_patients_and_serious_problems)
content:
 
<p>
  70% of Covid patients who are hosptalized <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/24/only-29-of-uk-covid-hospital-patients-recover-within-a-year">still have serious problems
  a year later</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(US_courts_and_junk_science)
title: US courts and junk science
uri: US-courts-and-junk-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(US_courts_and_junk_science)
content:
 
<p>
  *Once a form of evidence is accepted by a judge, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/04/24/bite-mark-evidence-junk-science/">[US] legal precedent
  makes it incredibly difficult to keep even the most questionable
  forensic practices out of court</a>.*

 


title: Planet-roaster disinformation on antisocial media
uri: Planet-roaster-disinformation-on-antisocial-media
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Planet-roaster_disinformation_on_antisocial_media)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Planet-roaster_disinformation_on_antisocial_media)

content:
 
<p>
  Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace report on how <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/21/social-media-giants-climate-misinformation-policies-leave-users-dark-report">the main antisocial
  media platforms are wide open to disinformation from planet-roasters</a>.
<p>
  I recommend against using them, because almost all of them require
  running nonfree software.  The two exceptions are that you can get
  read-only access to Youtube and Twitter via the proxies, invidio.us
  and nitter.net.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(US_student_loan_borrowers)
title: US student loan borrowers
uri: US-student-loan-borrowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(US_student_loan_borrowers)
content:
 
<p>
  *More Than Half of US Student Loan Borrowers Say <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/21/more-half-us-student-loan-borrowers-say-they-cant-afford-single-payment">They Can't Afford
  [even a] Single Payment</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Romance_book_club_cancelled)
title: Romance book club cancelled
uri: Romance-book-club-cancelled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Romance_book_club_cancelled)
content:
 
<p>
  An Oklahoma library board's Republican censorship decision <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/23/us/book-club-romance-ban-lgbtq-enid-oklahoma-cec/index.html">required
  cancellation of the romance book club</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(McCarthy_and_the_Big_Lie_Party)
title: McCarthy and the Big Lie Party
uri: McCarthy-and-the-Big-Lie-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(McCarthy_and_the_Big_Lie_Party)
content:
 
<p>
  The House minority leader, McCarthy, privately said after the Jan 6
  coup attempt that the corrupter should resign.  Then, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/politics/mccarthy-trump-jan-6-lie/index.html">when he
  recognized how completely the Republican Party had morphed into the
  Big Lie Party, he denied saying that</a>.
<p>
  This is an illustration of how the corrupter uses power to turn tens
  of millions of people into liars.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Katie_Porter_and_Medicare_Advantage)
title: Katie Porter and Medicare Advantage
uri: Katie-Porter-and-Medicare-Advantage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Katie_Porter_and_Medicare_Advantage)
content:
 
<p>
  *Katie Porter <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/22/katie-porter-leads-letter-urging-biden-not-dump-more-money-medicare-advantage">Leads Letter Urging Biden Not to Dump More Money Into Medicare
  Advantage</a>*.
<p>
  *"Private contractors, through Medicare Advantage plans, game the system
  and bill patients as sicker than they are to rake in billions of
  taxpayer dollars."*
  

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_((Satire)_Theater_sharing)
title: (Satire) Theater sharing
uri: (Satire)-Theater-sharing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_((Satire)_Theater_sharing)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Struggling AMC <a href="https://www.theonion.com/struggling-amc-threatens-to-clamp-down-on-theater-shari-1848830251">Threatens To Clamp Down On Theater Sharing</a>.*

 


title: Covid mask mandates and US transportation
uri: Covid-mask-mandates-and-US-transportation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Covid_mask_mandates_and_US_transportation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Covid_mask_mandates_and_US_transportation)

content:
 
<p>
  *Lifting of Covid mask mandate on US transportation <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/22/covid-mask-mandate-us-transportation-experts">horrifies health
    experts</a>.*
<p>
  It horrifies me, too.  Yesterday I went to a party in a
  well-ventilated space.  When I got to the transfer station at Park
  Street I found that the train line from there was shut down; we had to
  take shuttle buses instead.  There were not enough shuttles so there
  was a long line.  People were waiting in line for half an hour,
  standing quite close to strangers, to board a packed bus; most of
  them had no masks.  I decided not to ride a bus under conditions
  like that.
<p>
  I waited quite some time and saw that the line was not getting
  shorter, so I tried to look for a taxi.  No one could point me at a
  functioning taxi stand, there in the heart of Boston.  A hotel bell
  captain tried to phone for a taxi for me, and got no answer.  I did
  see some taxis go by in the street but there was little chance of
  finding an empty one.
<p>
  On returning to the shuttle stop, I found that the line had become
  short and buses were no longer packed.  I reached the party over two
  hours delayed; many of the people had already left.
<p>
  A mask requirement by itself would not have prevented this problem,
  and I would not ride on a packed bus even if everyone had a mask.  But
  it would have reduced the amount of infection that took place on those
  crowded buses.
<p>
  The airlines that have gleefully eliminated mask requirements
  will regret it when sick employees lead to cancelling flights.

 


title: Urgent: Remove Ginni Thomas from the Library of Congress
uri: Urgent-Remove-Ginni-Thomas-from-the-Library-of-Congress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Urgent:_Remove_Ginni_Thomas_from_the_Library_of_Congress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Urgent:_Remove_Ginni_Thomas_from_the_Library_of_Congress)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-remove-ginni-thomas-from-the-library-of-congress-trust-fund-board-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">remove Ginni Thomas from the Library of Congress</a>.
       
 


title: Urgent: Support new transparency rules for private equity funds
uri: Urgent-Support-new-transparency-rules-for-private-equity-funds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Urgent:_Support_new_transparency_rules_for_private_equity_funds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Urgent:_Support_new_transparency_rules_for_private_equity_funds)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: tell the SEC <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-and-send-a-comment-supporting-the-sec-new-protections-for-investors-against-wall-street-private-equity?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-take-action-we-can-stop-wall-street-firms-from-ripping-off-retirees">you support new transparency rules for private equity funds</a>.
<p>
  I think we need to regulate them a lot more than this, but maybe the SEC
  can't go that far on its own without new laws.

 


title: Urgent: Sign the US up to the International Criminal Court
uri: Urgent-Sign-the-US-up-to-the-International-Criminal-Court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Urgent:_Sign_the_US_up_to_the_International_Criminal_Court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Urgent:_Sign_the_US_up_to_the_International_Criminal_Court)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/tell-president-biden-its-time-join-international-criminal-court?source=em20220420&t=1006&akid=7732%2E223515%2Es2z8lq">sign up the US to the International Criminal Court</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Change how antisocial media platform moderate
uri: Urgent-Change-how-antisocial-media-platform-moderate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Urgent:_Change_how_antisocial_media_platform_moderate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Urgent:_Change_how_antisocial_media_platform_moderate)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on antisocial media platforms to <a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/ctt_fp_petition_social_cos/?akid=22168.9489429.kTD_ZN&rd=1&t=1002">change how they moderate, to reduce disinformation</a>.

 


title: (Satire) The Onion banned on Twitter
uri: (Satire)-The-Onion-banned-on-Twitter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_((Satire)_The_Onion_banned_on_Twitter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_((Satire)_The_Onion_banned_on_Twitter)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Twitter, Enemy Of First Amendment Rights, <a href="https://www.theonion.com/twitter-enemy-of-first-amendment-rights-permanently-b-1848824517">Permanently Bans
    The Onion</a>.*
<p>
  (satire) *Our Intern Is <a href="https://www.theonion.com/breaking-our-intern-is-being-forced-into-a-hunger-stri-1848807470">Being Forced Into A Hunger Strike Until
    Twitter Lifts [Ban on The Onion]</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Gezi_Park_nonviolent_protest)
title: Gezi Park nonviolent protest
uri: Gezi-Park-nonviolent-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Gezi_Park_nonviolent_protest)
content:
 
<p>
  Erdoğan displays his Humpty Dumpty idea of justice: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/25/philanthropist-sentenced-to-life-in-turkey-in-travesty-trial-over-gezi-park-protests">the nonviolent
  protest in Gezi Park declared "trying to overthrow the government</a>".

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Covid_case_reporting)
title: Covid case reporting
uri: Covid-case-reporting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Covid_case_reporting)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/health/states-scale-back-covid-data-reporting/index.html">Most US states now report Covid cases every week, instead of every day</a>.  This imitates bad judgment of the CDC.  The result is that detecting trends can take several weeks.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Vegetable_oil_shortage)
title: Vegetable oil shortage
uri: Vegetable-oil-shortage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Vegetable_oil_shortage)
content:
 
<p>
  The world is about to have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/indonesias-palm-oil-export-ban-sparks-concern-over-global-food-prices">a shortage of the main kinds of vegetable oils</a>.
  <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> is implicated for most of them.

 


title: Special thug department for voter fraud
uri: Special-thug-department-for-voter-fraud
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Special_thug_department_for_voter_fraud)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Special_thug_department_for_voter_fraud)

content:
 
<p>
  Florida <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/25/ron-desantis-florida-governor-bill-police-voter-fraud">now has a special thug department for voter-fraud</a>.
<p>
  Since real voter-fraud is so rare, I expect it will spend most of its
  time pursuing vague or false suspicions, the way Republicans try to
  prosecute women that have miscarriages &mdash; all with the aim of
  frightening blacks out of voting.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Stay_of_execution)
title: Stay of execution
uri: Stay-of-execution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Stay_of_execution)
content:
 
<p>
  *Texas death row prisoner Melissa Lucio <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/25/melissa-lucio-stay-of-execution-texas">granted stay of execution</a>.*
<p>
  Jurors in her trial have stated that they may have made a mistake in
  convicting her.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Contempt_of_court)
title: Contempt of court
uri: Contempt-of-court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Contempt_of_court)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/25/donald-trump-contempt-new-york-attorney-general-investigation">The bullshitter has been found in contempt of court</a>, and will be fined
  ten thousand dollars per day until he hands over the subpoena'd
  evidence.
<p>
  What a weak action by the judge!  A fine so small means nothing to a
  putative billionaire.  For a measly $3,650,000 per year, he will get
  the opportunity to vaunt his defiance of all authority.
<p>
  To have a chance of making him comply, the court should fine him 10
  million dollars a day &mdash; or jail him.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Urgent:_Patrick_Lyoya)
title: Urgent: Patrick Lyoya
uri: Urgent-Patrick-Lyoya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Urgent:_Patrick_Lyoya)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/demand-justice-for-patrick-lyoya//?source=ef_0420_stage1_redbutton1&t=1005&akid=53260%2E1242918%2E-hiOnR">call for justice for Patrick Lyoya</a> &mdash; fire and prosecute
  the killer thug.
<p>
  Also call for a federal investigation into the murder andracism in the
  Grand Rapids Thug Department, and support alternative approaches to
  policing

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)
title: Non-nuclear deal with Iran
uri: 2022-04-27-Non-nuclear-deal-with-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: phone the White House and call on Biden to finalize the
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#1_February_2021_(Non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)">non-nuclear deal with Iran</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Idea_for_reducing_US_gun_violence)
title: Idea for reducing US gun violence
uri: Idea-for-reducing-US-gun-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Idea_for_reducing_US_gun_violence)
content:
 
<p>
  An idea for reducing gun violence in the US: to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/23/opinions/surprising-solution-to-gun-violence-ludwig/index.html">alter common situations to
  be less threatening and easier to handle without violence</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Machine_learning_can_be_backdoored)
title: Machine learning can be backdoored
uri: Machine-learning-can-be-backdoored
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Machine_learning_can_be_backdoored)
content:
 
<p>
  It appears that <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/20/ceci-nest-pas-un-helicopter/#im-a-back-door-man">any machine learning model can be backdoored during training</a>.
  The backdoor makes it possible to fool the model during real use.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(US_law_and_forced_arbitration)
title: US law and forced arbitration
uri: US-law-and-forced-arbitration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(US_law_and_forced_arbitration)
content:
 
<p>
  The EFF explains <ahref="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/stop-forced-arbitration-data-privacy-legislation">the principles by which US law rejected forced arbitration,
  until plutocratists on the Supreme Court started trashing those principles
  in the 1980s</a>.

 


title: Covid-19 racial disparities and reckless behavior
uri: Covid-19-racial-disparities-and-reckless-behavior
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Covid-19_racial_disparities_and_reckless_behavior)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Covid-19_racial_disparities_and_reckless_behavior)

content:
 
<p>
  *Pointing out racial disparities in COVID-19 <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/04/21/new-study-pointing-out-racial-disparities-in-covid-19-makes-white-people-more-reckless.html">makes white people more
    reckless</a>.*
<p>
  In other words, they think, "The danger is for blacks, so I must be
  safe."
<p>
  Wrong!

 


title: The past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid
uri: The-past-10-years-of-American-life-have-been-uniquely-stupid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(The_past_10_years_of_American_life_have_been_uniquely_stupid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(The_past_10_years_of_American_life_have_been_uniquely_stupid)

content:
 
<p>
  *Why <a href="*Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.*">the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid</a>.*
<p>
  Jonathan Haidt puts the blame on the changes that converted social
  media platforms into antisocial media, almost tailor-made to encourage
  factional hatred.  The article ends with recommendations for reforming
  these platforms that he argues could correct the problem.
<p>
  I wish he didn't use the term "consume" in regard to works of authorship.
  That word's implications are all wrong.  To consume food means to break it
  down into small building blocks and extract what is useful, to build into
  other things.  That is not what we do with text we read.
<p>
  The word "absorb" is not very good, but it avoids part of what's bad
  about "consume".

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(After_school_Satan_club_denied)
title: After school Satan club denied
uri: After-school-Satan-club-denied
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(After_school_Satan_club_denied)
content:
 
<p>
  A school district in Pennsylvania has <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2022/04/20/after-school-satan-club-denied/7382508001/">refused to allow the an
  extracurricular activities club sponsored by the Satanic Temple</a>.
  However, it has allowed a similar club sponsored by a Christian church.
<p>
  This is unconstitutional and is likely to lead to a lawsuit.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Billionaires_take_from_society)
title: Billionaires take from society
uri: Billionaires-take-from-society
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Billionaires_take_from_society)
content:
 
<p>

*Billionaires Do Not Give Anything to Society &mdash; They <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/22/billionaires-do-not-give-anything-society-they-take-it">Take From It</a>.*
<p>
I think one of his points is not 100% true &mdash; there are a few
exceptions.  Thomas Edison built a business empire based on
inventions, some of which he invented on his own.  Most were developed
with others that worked under his direction, and I think he deserves
some of the credit for those too.
<p>
Steve Jobs did not invent anything, but Apple made important
innovations in computer and systems.  Some of those innovations were
good.  Others were evil, and they reflected Apple's power and Jobs's
lack of respect for others' rights.
<p>
This side issue doesn't invalidate the article overall.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Biden_administration_on_climate)
title: Biden administration on climate
uri: Biden-administration-on-climate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Biden_administration_on_climate)
content:
 
<p>

*"Soft Climate Denial": The Biden administration claims to "believe
the science" on climate, but its <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/22/soft-climate-denial-biden-administration">actions need to catch up with its
words</a>.*
<p>
We should recognize that this is only partly his fault.  Biden has
tried to do a lot more, and <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratists</a> (Republicans, Manchin and
Sinema) have blocked it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Ideas_to_address_high_gas_prices)
title: Ideas to address high gas prices
uri: Ideas-to-address-high-gas-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Ideas_to_address_high_gas_prices)
content:
 
<p>

*Six <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/22/six-ideas-address-high-gas-prices-wont-fan-flames-climate-change">Ideas to Address High Gas Prices</a> That Won’t Fan the Flames of
[<a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>].* And why even temporarily reducing the taxes on gasoline is harmful.
<p>
Motorists perceive increases in tax on gasoline as pressure.  They attribute
that pressure to the government and may protest.  But actually that pressure
comes from the disaster our fossil fuel use is creating.  If we are wise,
we will recognize that we dare not press back against it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Philadelphia_mask_requirement)
title: Philadelphia mask requirement
uri: Philadelphia-mask-requirement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Philadelphia_mask_requirement)
content:
 
<p>

Philadelphia <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/us/philadelphia-rescinds-mask-mandate/index.html">ended its newly restored mask requirement</a> after just a few days
on seeing that new Covid-19 cases had leveled off anyway.
<p>
I think they should have continued the mask mandate, so as to reduce the
number of new cases and spare some people the risks of catching Covid-19.
These risks include death, which is unlikely for vaccinated people,
plus a fate worse than death &mdash; lasting disablement.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(France_reelected_Macron)
title: France reelected Macron
uri: France-reelected-Macron
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(France_reelected_Macron)
content:
 
<p>

France <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/24/emmanuel-macron-wins-french-presidential-election-say-projected-results">reelected plutocratist President Macron</a> rather than the extreme
right-wing Le Pen.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(US_spending_on_nuclear_weapons)
title: US spending on nuclear weapons
uri: US-spending-on-nuclear-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(US_spending_on_nuclear_weapons)
content:
 
<p>

*The US Spent <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/21/us-spent-75-times-more-nuclear-weapons-global-vaccine-donations">7.5 Times More on Nuclear Weapons Than Global Vaccine Donations</a>.
<p>
This is the second level of an outrage.  The first level is allowing
the Covid-19 vaccines to be monopolized and thus very expensive, so
that poor countries need to solicit donations instead of making their
own.
<p>
Biden endorsed the proposal to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Proposed_vaccine_patent_waiver_has_been_leaked)">waive these rules</a> for the specific case
of Covid-19 vaccines, but the US was as eager as other countries to impose these deadly
rules world-wide in the 1990s.

 


title: Republican persecution of trans-kids
uri: Republican-persecution-of-trans-kids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Republican_persecution_of_trans-kids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Republican_persecution_of_trans-kids)

content:
 
<p>

Parents of trans-kids talk about the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/25/us-parents-fight-anti-trans-laws">Republican persecution</a> that is
just getting started.

 


title: EU plan to test suspected toxic chemicals
uri: EU-plan-to-test-suspected-toxic-chemicals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(EU_plan_to_test_suspected_toxic_chemicals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(EU_plan_to_test_suspected_toxic_chemicals)

content:
 
<p>

The EU is considering a program to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/25/eu-unveils-plan-largest-ever-ban-on-dangerous-chemicals">systematically test 12,000
suspected toxic chemicals</a> that appear to endanger wildlife and humans,
and vigorously ban those that are verified as dangerous.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Women_killed_by_Putin_forces)
title: Women killed by Putin forces
uri: Women-killed-by-Putin-forces
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Women_killed_by_Putin_forces)
content:
 
<p>

Forensic examiners studying corpses of women killed by the Putin
forces say that the women <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/25/evidence-ukraine-women-raped-before-being-killed-say-doctors-russia-war">were raped first</a>.
Presumably also by the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>.
<p>
Many living Ukrainian women describe being <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(russia_rape_weapon_war)">raped by soldiers</a> in the
<a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>.
<p>
When people are ashamed of having been raped, that reflects an unjust
way of thinking in their own society &mdash; the injustice of blaming the
victim.  Shame on those who do this!  It is the <em>perpetrator</em> that
deserves the blame.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Lesson_in_moral_courage)
title: Lesson in moral courage
uri: Lesson-in-moral-courage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Lesson_in_moral_courage)
content:
 
<p>

Rebecca Solnit: *Ukraine has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/25/ukraine-has-taught-us-all-a-lesson-in-moral-courage">taught us all a lesson</a> in moral courage.*
<p>
This lesson is applicable to any cause that requires making sacrifices
for the general good &mdash; even when they are smaller sacrifices that
don't generally involve violence and wounds.  Climate defense, and
defeating nonfree software, are two of many examples.

 


title: Human rights press awards in Hong Kong
uri: Human-rights-press-awards-in-Hong-Kong
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Human_rights_press_awards_in_Hong_Kong)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Human_rights_press_awards_in_Hong_Kong)

content:
 
<p>

It is no longer possible to give the Human Rights Press Awards in Hong Kong.
Giving the award would be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/25/hong-kong-human-rights-press-awards-foreign-correspondents-club-scrapped-security-law-fears">considered a crime</a>.
The winners would very likely have been charged already.
<p>
I would suggest that the club continue to have a press freedom committee,
and state publicly that it no longer has any members.

 


title: Expectancy of healthy life for poor people
uri: Expectancy-of-healthy-life-for-poor-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Expectancy_of_healthy_life_for_poor_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Expectancy_of_healthy_life_for_poor_people)

content:
 
<p>

The expectancy of healthy life in England is now almost <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/25/growing-gap-in-healthy-life-expectancy-between-poorest-and-richest-in-england">20 years less
for poor people</a> than for better-off people.
<p>
This is surely due to the ever-increasing privations imposed by <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> politicians, specifically Tories.
<p>
I wonder how large this difference was in 2005, during the last time
Labour was in power.
<p>
*How bad do things have to get in Britain before we start to see <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/25/bad-britain-solidarity-anger-division">solidarity
emerge</a>?*
There is no telling how bad, because the right wing flies into mad
hatred when anyone shows a hint of supporting a left-wing cause.

 


title: Extreme propaganda requirements in Hong Kong
uri: Extreme-propaganda-requirements-in-Hong-Kong
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Extreme_propaganda_requirements_in_Hong_Kong)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Extreme_propaganda_requirements_in_Hong_Kong)

content:
 
<p>

Hong Kong reporters (some of whom no longer do journalism) talk about
the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/free-media-in-hong-kong-almost-completely-dismantled-report">extreme propaganda requirements</a> that China has imposed.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Lawyer_Steven_Donziger)
title: Lawyer Steven Donziger
uri: Lawyer-Steven-Donziger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Lawyer_Steven_Donziger)
content:
 
<p>
  Lawyer Steven Donziger <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/25/steven-donziger-walks-free-after-993-days-completely-unjust-detention">has been released after almost three years
  under arrest</a>, but Chevron is still persecuting him for defending the
  indigenous Ecuadorians whose land was polluted by Chevron wells.
<p>
  He was arrested after Chevron used a series of dirty tricks and what
  looks like corruption to avoid paying damages to those Ecuadorians.

 


title: Company with influence over public opinion purchased
uri: Company-with-influence-over-public-opinion-purchased
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Company_with_influence_over_public_opinion_purchased)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Company_with_influence_over_public_opinion_purchased)

content:
 
<p>
  A centibillionaire has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/25/real-threat-democracy-musk-buys-twitter-44-billion">purchased a company</a> with enormous
  influence over public opinion.
  Serious competition for that company is effectively impossible, so
  it is a natural monopoly, but it is entirely unregulated.
<p>
  His stated intentions have made people fear that he will use it to
  strengthen right-wing movements that demonize people, or to change laws
  to benefit himself.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Macron)
title: Macron
uri: 2022-04-29-Macron
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Macron)
content:
 
<p>
  Yanis Varoufakis: *Macron's Centrist Win Over Le Pen Also <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/25/macrons-centrist-win-over-le-pen-also-shows-why-neoliberalism-strengthens-right">Shows Why
  Neoliberalism Strengthens the Right</a>.*

 


title: Corporate criminal prosecutions hit record low under Biden
uri: Corporate-criminal-prosecutions-hit-record-low-under-Biden
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Corporate_criminal_prosecutions_hit_record_low_under_Biden)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Corporate_criminal_prosecutions_hit_record_low_under_Biden)

content:
 
<p>
  *Prosecutions of Corporate Criminals <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/25/prosecutions-corporate-criminals-hit-record-low-under-biden-report">Hit Record Low Under Biden</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_((Satire)_24-hour_burger_wait)
title: (Satire) 24-hour burger wait
uri: (Satire)-24-hour-burger-wait
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_((Satire)_24-hour_burger_wait)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *New Tennessee Law Requires Women To <a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-tennessee-law-requires-women-to-wait-24-hours-befor-1848799826">Wait 24 Hours Before
  Getting A Burger</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Great_Barrier_Reef_coal_mine)
title: Great Barrier Reef coal mine
uri: Great-Barrier-Reef-coal-mine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Great_Barrier_Reef_coal_mine)
content:
 
<p>
  A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/27/clive-palmers-proposed-open-cut-mine-could-have-far-reaching-impact-on-great-barrier-reef-study-finds">proposed new coal mine in Australia</a> could have "far-reaching impact"
  on the Great Barrier Reef.
<p>
  That is in addition to the grievous blow to the Earth's future climate.
<p>
  Given predictions that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Export_market_for_coal)">the market for Australia's coal exports is
  going to disappear in a few years</a>,
  starting another coal mine will be a waste of money as well.
  That's less important for the world, but might help convince some not
  to start it.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Aung_San_Suu_Kyi)
title: Aung San Suu Kyi
uri: 2022-04-29-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Aung_San_Suu_Kyi)
content:
 
<p>
  Burma's military rulers have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/27/myanmar-junta-sentences-aung-san-suu-kyi-to-five-years-for-corruption">made an excuse to sentence Aung San Suu
  Kyi to prison for five years</a>.
<p>
  This won't change anything in practice, since she was already in prison.
  It just means there is an official excuse for that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Martial_law)
title: Martial law
uri: Martial-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Martial_law)
content:
 
<p>
  Marjorie Taylor Greene urged the wrecker to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/26/marjorie-taylor-greene-texts-mark-meadows-martial-law-2020-election">declare martial law so as to
  steal the 2020 election</a>.
<p>
  Meanwhile, Mark Meadows said he would give Congress all his text
  messages that were pertinent to the Jan 6 investigation, but he seems
  to have hidden some.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(UK_passport_office)
title: UK passport office
uri: UK-passport-office
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(UK_passport_office)
content:
 
<p>
  Bogus Johnson <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/26/boris-johnson-threatens-to-privatise-passport-office-dvla-applications-backlog">threatened to privatize the UK passport office</a>
  because it is not keeping up with applications.
<p>
  Privatizing it would in theory enable the same amount of money to hire
  more workers.  But some of those funds would be diverted to profits.
  Meanwhile, those workers would be inexperienced and desperate.  Overall
  I think this would result in worse service.  But it would result in
  more profits, which is what a neoliberal really wants.

 


title: The "go back to Mexico and wait" policy
uri: The-go-back-to-Mexico-and-wait-policy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(The_go_back_to_Mexico_and_wait_policy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(The_go_back_to_Mexico_and_wait_policy)

content:
 
<p>
  This article presents the argument that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/26/biden-trump-supreme-court-remain-in-mexico">the "go back to Mexico and
  wait" policy at the border with Mexico can't be terminated by the
  executive branch because it was somehow required by Congress</a>.
<p>
  Does anyone know more details?  Is it true?  If so, what exactly was
  it that Congress did?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Funeral_insurance)
title: Funeral insurance
uri: Funeral-insurance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Funeral_insurance)
content:
 
<p>
  In Australia, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/27/government-under-pressure-to-help-aboriginal-families-after-predatory-funeral-insurers-collapse">poor people need to pay for funeral insurance</a>.  A
  company that insured many indigenous people turned out to be a fraud, and
  now those who paid for the insurance can't have funerals.
<p>
  Poor people should not have to pay for funerals -- not at all.  A
  reasonable, non-luxurious funeral should be the norm, and the state
  should pay for that.
<p>
  The lavish and expensive funerals that are usual in the US are not
  fraudulent like Youpla, but they are predatory.  Your dead relative
  won't notice what the coffin is made of, and a well-embalmed and
  sculptured corpse won't be any more alive than one which decays.
<p>
  Let's resist the social pressure for this and other sorts of
  competitive conspicuous consumption, and spend money on goods and
  services that are actually useful for the living.  For instance, the
  opportunity for the relatives and friends of the deceased to meet and
  talk is the part of a funeral that serves them rather than a business.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(WHO_and_Covid-19)
title: WHO and Covid-19
uri: WHO-and-Covid-19
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(WHO_and_Covid-19)
content:
 
<p>
  The WHO warns that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/lack-of-covid-testing-leaves-researches-blind-to-evolution-patterns-who-warns">the world has blinded itself to the evolution of
  Covid-19</a> by eliminating massive testing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Transnistria)
title: Transnistria
uri: Transnistria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Transnistria)
content:
 
<p>
  Putin seems to be preparing to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/russias-war-in-ukraine-threatens-to-spill-over-in-dangerous-new-phase">send a large force to Transnistria</a>, an
  eastern sliver of Moldova which borders Ukraine and which was set up
  by separatists in 1992 and hosts a small detachment of the Russian army.

 


title: Urgent: Demand Big Food and Big Soda disclose their political activities and spending
uri: Urgent-Demand-Big-Food-and-Big-Soda-disclose-their-political-activiti
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Urgent:_Demand_Big_Food_and_Big_Soda_disclose_their_political_activities_and_spending)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Urgent:_Demand_Big_Food_and_Big_Soda_disclose_their_political_activities_and_spending)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: Demand that Big Food and Soda <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-demand-big-food-and-soda-disclose-its-global-political-activities-and-spending?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">disclose their global political
    activities and spending</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Pass the Green New Deal for Cities Act
uri: Urgent-Pass-the-Green-New-Deal-for-Cities-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Green_New_Deal_for_Cities_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Green_New_Deal_for_Cities_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/ads_ms_ll_202204-ea-progam-listr-gnd-q2-em001?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=ads_ms_LL_202204-EA-progam-listr-GND-q2-em001">pass the Green New Deal for Cities Act</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Urgent:_Ghost_gun_regulation)
title: Urgent: Ghost gun regulation
uri: Urgent-Ghost-gun-regulation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_April_2022_(Urgent:_Ghost_gun_regulation)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: tell Biden <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-tell-president-biden-you-support-ghost-gun-regulation?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">you support regulation of "ghost guns"</a>.

 


title: Poland's natural gas sales cut off since they refuse to pay in rubles
uri: Poland-s-natural-gas-sales-cut-off-since-they-refuse-to-pay-in-rubles
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Poland's_natural_gas_sales_cut_off_since_they_refuse_to_pay_in_rubles)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Poland's_natural_gas_sales_cut_off_since_they_refuse_to_pay_in_rubles)

content:
 
<p>
  Putin has cut off sales of natural gas to Poland, saying <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/russia-to-halt-gas-supply-to-poland-government-told">this is
  because Poland refuses to pay in rubles</a>.
<p>
  Poland will sue, claiming breach of contract.  However, I don't think
  anything can make gas flow through the pipeline if Putin decides
  not to pump gas into it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Nonnuclear_deal)
title: Nonnuclear deal
uri: Nonnuclear-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Nonnuclear_deal)
content:
 
<p>
  If we don't restore the nonnuclear deal with Iran soon, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/time-running-out-to-reach-iran-nuclear-deal-warn-experts">it will develop
  the capacity to quickly enrich some uranium and make nuclear weapons</a>.
<p>
  That would reduce the value of the deal, but the deal might still be
  worth having.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Weakening_the_Putin_forces)
title: Weakening the Putin forces
uri: Weakening-the-Putin-forces
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Weakening_the_Putin_forces)
content:
 
<p>
  The US government has reached the conclusion that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/west-gearing-up-to-help-ukraine-for-long-haul-says-us-defence-secretary">it is crucial to
  weaken the Putin forces</a> to the point that he won't think of starting
  another war.
<p>
  I came to <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Peace_needs_to_weaken_Putin_but_not_ruin_him)">a similar cnclusion a few weeks ago</a>: that it would wrong to let Putin make peace and keep any sort of gains from he battle.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Urgent:_Workers'_power)
title: Urgent: Workers' power
uri: Urgent-Workers-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Urgent:_Workers'_power)
content:
 
<p>US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-this-petition-to-president-biden-expand-worker-power?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">expand workers' power</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Stop offering new offshore oil drilling leases
uri: Urgent-Stop-offering-new-offshore-oil-drilling-leases
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_offering_new_offshore_oil_drilling_leases)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_offering_new_offshore_oil_drilling_leases)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49512&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:106112&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:DRILLING:OFFSHORE-0322&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-AGE">stop offering new leases for offshore
    oil drilling</a>.</p>
<p>To sign without <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">running nonfree JavaScript code</a>
  from the web site,
             use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(facebook_internal_document)
uri: An-internal-document-from-Facebook-says-that-the-company-has-no-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(facebook_internal_document)
title:
 An internal document from Facebook says that the company has no
systematic control of how data gets used 

content:
 
<p>
An internal document from Facebook says that the company has no
systematic control over what purposes each kind of data gets used for.
"We can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external
commitments such as 'we will not use X data for Y purpose.' And yet,
this is 
<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-what-it-does-with-your-data-or-where-it-goes">exactly what regulators expect us to do.</a>"
<p>
This is because much of Facebook's important data is derived
correlations and instances of those correlations.  Those didn't
directly come from anywhere, but rather was calculated based on
various kinds of data from various sources, including various people's
personal data.
<p>
If they find that listening to a certain song has a 75% correlation
with being gay, the fact that person X listened to that song is
certainly personal data.  What about the conclusion that X is likely
to be gay?  What do various privacy laws require about data like that?
<p>
If Europe is firm about regulating the whole mass of data that
companies like Facebook deduce, it might make surveillance-based
advertising totally unfeasible.  That would be great.  But Big Data
will lobby for a weaker rule, or a weaker interpretation, that would
make less difference.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(texas_voter_suppression)
title: how Texas voter suppression helps keep climate action off the table.
uri: how-Texas-voter-suppression-helps-keep-climate-action-off-the-table
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(texas_voter_suppression)
content:
 
<p>
*"We have a democracy problem": how Texas voter suppression helps keep climate 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/27/texas-voter-suppression-climate-action-impact">action off the table.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(climate_crisis_zoonotic)
title: Climate crisis and new instances of viruses
uri: Climate-crisis-and-new-instances-of-viruses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(climate_crisis_zoonotic)
content:
 
<p> 
Global heating effects will lead to thousands of instances of viruses
jumping to a new host species, due to various host species' 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/28/climate-crisis-future-pandemics-zoonotic-spillover">moving to
new habitats.</a>
<p>
The prediction suggests around 15,000 such events, but I doubt that we
can predict anything more accurate than "many thousands".


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(forensics_bite_marks_junk_science)
title: How junk science ruins innocent lives
uri: How-junk-science-ruins-innocent-lives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(forensics_bite_marks_junk_science)
content:
 
<p>
How a group of dentists built a great career by claiming to be experts
in matching bite marks in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/28/forensics-bite-mark-junk-science-charles-mccrory-chris-fabricant">corpses with the teeth of the alleged biter.</a>



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Ukraine_names_human_rights)
title: Ukraine names 10 Russian soldiers in alleged human rights abuses
uri: Ukraine-names-10-Russian-soldiers-in-alleged-human-rights-abuses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Ukraine_names_human_rights)
content:
 
<p>
*Ukraine names 10 Russian soldiers in alleged 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/28/ukraine-names-10-russian-soldiers-in-alleged-human-rights-abuses-in-bucha">human rights abuses in Bucha.</a>*



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(mp_accused_of_watching_porn)
title: A member of UK Parliament has been accused of watching porn
uri: A-member-of-UK-Parliament-has-been-accused-of-watching-porn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(mp_accused_of_watching_porn)
content:
 
<p>
A member of the UK Parliament has been accused of (gasp) watching porn 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/28/johnson-must-act-now-on-mp-accused-of-watching-porn-in-commons-starmer">inside Parliament.</a>
<p>
This must be a convenient distraction from the <Em>really</Em> bad things
some MPs do in Parliament, such as lying about public issues, voting
to impoverish the poor, or actually sexually harassing an actual person.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(fda_menthol_ban_rules)
title: US FDA moves to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars
uri: US-FDA-moves-to-ban-menthol-cigarettes-and-flavored-cigars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(fda_menthol_ban_rules)
content:
 
<p>
*US FDA moves to ban menthol cigarettes and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/28/us-fda-menthol-cigarettes-flavored-cigars-ban-rules">flavored cigars.</a>*
<p>
I think it is wrong to ban recreational drugs, but helping teenagers
avoid being drawn into smoking tobacco is a good thing.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(global_warming_risks)
title: Global warming risks most cataclysmic extinction of marine life in 250m years.
uri: Global-warming-risks-most-cataclysmic-extinction-of-marine-life-in-250
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(global_warming_risks)
content:
 
<p>
*Global warming risks most cataclysmic extinction of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/28/global-warming-risks-cataclysmic-mass-extinction-marine-life">marine life in 250m years.</a>*



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(donetsk_separatists_draft_campaign)
title: Putin forces are trying to conscript men in Donetsk
uri: Putin-forces-are-trying-to-conscript-men-in-Donetsk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(donetsk_separatists_draft_campaign)
content:
 
<p>
The Putin forces are trying to conscript men in Donetsk, so the men there
have gone into 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/28/donetsk-separatists-desperate-draft-campaign-empties-streets-of-men-ukraine">hiding away from home.</a>
<p>
Meanwhile, Ukraine has more volunteers that it can arm and equip.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(wendys_fair_food_program)
title: Wendy's refuses to support action against enslavement of farm workers.
uri: Wendy-s-refuses-to-support-action-against-enslavement-of-farm-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(wendys_fair_food_program)
content:
 
<p>
Wendy's refuses to support action against 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/28/us-farm-wendys-fair-food-program">enslavement of farm workers.</a>



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(UK_economy_losses_from_Covid-19)
title: UK economy losses from Covid-19
uri: UK-economy-losses-from-Covid-19
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(UK_economy_losses_from_Covid-19)
content:
 
<p>
  The UK economy will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/27/uk-lose-8bn-covid-decline-size-workforce-illness">lose an estimated 8 billion UKP in this year alone</a>
  as a result of the loss of 400,000 workers due to cosequences
  of Covid-19.  The losses from those people will not end this year.

 


title: Non-trumpet Republican as an independent
uri: Non-trumpet-Republican-as-an-independent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Non-trumpet_Republican_as_an_independent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Non-trumpet_Republican_as_an_independent)

content:
 
<p>
  This November, the Utah Democratic Party will not run a candidate
  for the Senate &mdash; instead, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/opinions/utah-senate-race-breaking-political-polarization-kasparov-epshtein/index.html">it will support a non-trumpet Republican
  running as an independent</a>.
<p>
  Urging people to vote for an independent compromise candidate has an
  advantage over nominating a compromise candidate, because the former
  avoids giving the impression that the compromise candidate speaks for
  the party.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(US_military_housing)
title: US military housing
uri: US-military-housing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(US_military_housing)
content:
 
<p>
  The US military outsourced housing for soldier to private companies.
  <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/politics/privatized-military-housing-senate-report/index.html">Can you guess what happened</a>?
<p>
  That's outsourcing for you.  When the government (or a larger company)
  outsources a job, that job will tend to be done in an exploitative
  way.  (That's what makes it cheaper.)  And if the job involves
  providing any sort of service to people, the service will be done
  badly, unreliably, and (whenever possible) in ways that endangering
  their health.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Subsidizing_fossil_fuel_facilities)
title: Subsidizing fossil fuel facilities
uri: Subsidizing-fossil-fuel-facilities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Subsidizing_fossil_fuel_facilities)
content:
 
<p>
  Manchin and the Republicans are learning to play a new song:
  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/26/no-negotiating-arsonists-green-groups-slam-manchin-led-climate-compromise-gop">subsidizing new fossil fuel facilities</a>.

 


title: (Satire) Unsightly overgrown rainforest
uri: (Satire)-Unsightly-overgrown-rainforest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_((Satire)_Unsightly_overgrown_rainforest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_((Satire)_Unsightly_overgrown_rainforest)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Mark Zuckerberg Asks Hawaiian Neighbor To <a href="https://www.theonion.com/mark-zuckerberg-asks-hawaiian-neighbor-to-cut-down-unsi-1848844213">Cut Down
  Unsightly, Overgrown Rainforest</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Nuclear_arms_don't_deter_war)
title: Nuclear arms don't deter war
uri: Nuclear-arms-don-t-deter-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Nuclear_arms_don't_deter_war)
content:
 
<p>
  More and costlier nuclear weapons do not deter conventional war.
  So it makes sense to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/26/mass-delusion-nuclear-age">seek nuclear arms limitation treaties</a>.

 


title: UK entering "imagine there's no Covid" camp
uri: UK-entering-imagine-there-s-no-Covid-camp
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(UK_entering_imagine_there's_no_Covid_camp)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(UK_entering_imagine_there's_no_Covid_camp)

content:
 
<p>
  The UK is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/26/uk-health-agency-to-cut-40-of-jobs-and-suspend-routine-covid-testing">entering further into the "Imagine there's no Covid" camp</a>,
  like the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Fallacious_cease-fire_argument)
title: Fallacious cease-fire argument
uri: Fallacious-cease-fire-argument
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Fallacious_cease-fire_argument)
content:
 
<p>
  This article proposes a fallacious argument for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/27/ukraine-war-end-putin-russia-talks">imposing a cease-fire
  on Ukraine, to be followed by negotiations under circumstances that
  would give Putin the territory he has conquered plus wherever else he
  demands</a>.
<p>
  The article starts by assuming that continued war can mean, for
  Ukraine, nothing other than continuing destruction and advance by the
  Putin forces.  This is called "defeatism".  I don't think it is true.
<p>
  It continues by claiming that the only way to save Ukraine from
  putative violent defeat by Putin is to cease the fighting under
  conditions that compel defeat by negotiating.  Putin will insist on
  all of Ukraine he wants by threatening to renew the war, after having
  brought copious supplies.
<p>
  That outcome follows from that defeatism, but that defeatism is a
  supposition, not fact.  Ukrainians do not want to be "saved" by
  forcing them to give up the fight.  They want the chance to fight and
  win some of their country back.
<p>
  As Putin's army gets ever weaker, he will become willing to settle for
  less and less.  After enough damage, he will settle for taking what's
  left of his army out of Ukraine so that he can remain in power in
  Russia.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(US_in_danger_of_recession)
title: US in danger of recession
uri: US-in-danger-of-recession
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(US_in_danger_of_recession)
content:
 
<p>
  *Grassroots progressive groups on Tuesday urged Democratic congressional
  leaders to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/26/penny-wise-and-pound-foolish-democrats-urged-reject-pivot-austerity">ignore Republicans, right-wing members of their own party,
  and neoliberal economists who are pushing lawmakers to hit the
  brakes on federal spending as inflation surges to levels not seen in
  decades</a>.
<p>
  The US is in danger of a recession.  To cut spending now would make
  that recession worse, as it did for President Hoover in 1930: it
  hoovered up the jobs, and dumped Americans into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville">Hoovervilles</a>.  The way
  to avoid a recession, as Keynes taught and FDR carried out, is
  to increase government spending.  The US government learned to do this,
  until the plutocrats came to dominate the government in the 1980.
  Now a recession is an opportunity for the richest to get richer.

 


title: Poor nations face debt, food, and energy crises
uri: Poor-nations-face-debt-food-and-energy-crises
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Poor_nations_face_debt,_food,_and_energy_crises)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Poor_nations_face_debt,_food,_and_energy_crises)

content:
 
<p>
  *Poor Nations Face <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/26/poor-nations-face-perfect-storm-debt-food-and-energy-crises-un">'Perfect Storm' of Debt, Food, and Energy Crises</a>: UN.*

 


title: Mother denied care and affection to baby
uri: Mother-denied-care-and-affection-to-baby
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Mother_denied_care_and_affection_to_baby)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Mother_denied_care_and_affection_to_baby)

content:
 
<p>
  A mother in the UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/26/northamptonshire-child-neglect-case-why-was-toddler-allowed-to-stay-at-home">systematically denied her baby, referred to as
  Child AU, all kinds of care and all expressions of affection</a>.  There
  is a scandal now about why state agencies did not do anything to
  take Child AU out of that situation earlier.
</p>
<p>
  Child AU must have suffered terribly.  I fear she may never learn to
  feel loved by anyone.  However, beyond the question of what the state
  should have done differently to rescue her sooner, I raise a few other
  questions:
</p>
<ul>
  <li>Why did her mother treat the baby that way?</li>
  <li>What might have led the mother to treat the baby better?</li>
  <li>Did the mother want to have this baby?</li>
  <li>If not, why did she have the baby rather than an abortion?</li>
</ul>

 


title: One in five reptiles face extinction
uri: One-in-five-reptiles-face-extinction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(One_in_five_reptiles_face_extinction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(One_in_five_reptiles_face_extinction)

content:
 
<p>
  A study estimated that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/27/one-in-five-reptiles-face-extinction-in-devastating-blow-to-biodiversity-aoe">21% of all reptile species are "threatened" or
  worse</a>.
  This covers all the reptile species whose status is known well enough
  to determine whether each one is threatened.  There are species whose
  conditions are so little known that scientists find it hard to determine
  whether they are threatened; those were omitted from the survey.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Anti-SLAPP_directive)
title: Anti-SLAPP directive
uri: Anti-SLAPP-directive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Anti-SLAPP_directive)
content:
 
<p>
 T he EU is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/apr/27/eu-announces-plans-protect-journalists-vexatious-lawsuits-anti-slapp">considering an anti-SLAPP directive</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Russia_attacks_infrastructure)
title: Russia attacks infrastructure
uri: Russia-attacks-infrastructure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Russia_attacks_infrastructure)
content:
 
<p>
  *Russia <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/27/russia-attacks-infrastructure-western-ukraine-slow-supply-lines">attacks infrastructure in western Ukraine</a> to slow supply lines.*
<p>
  Since I hope for Ukraine's victory, I am alared.  However, this kind
  of counterattack is not an atrocity.
  
 


title: Bogus Johnson criticized for risking soldiers' safety
uri: Bogus-Johnson-criticized-for-risking-soldiers-safety
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_criticized_for_risking_soldiers'_safety)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_criticized_for_risking_soldiers'_safety)

content:
 
<p>
  *Former head of Polish army criticizes [Bogus Johnson] for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/27/boris-johnson-tempting-evil-revealing-ukrainian-soldiers-trained-poland">risking safety of soldiers</a>.*
<p>
  This was truly incompetent of him, to blurt out important military secrets
  for the purpose of boastihg.  Johnson demostrated thet he does understand
  the conditions of these discussions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Putin's_gas_supply_control)
title: Putin's gas supply control
uri: Putin-s-gas-supply-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Putin's_gas_supply_control)
content:
 
<p>
  Putin <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/27/the-guardian-view-on-war-in-ukraine-the-stakes-rise-higher">has cut off the gas supply to some
  European countries and is threatening to cut off the gas supply to others</a>.
  Those countries are calling this an outrage.
<p>
  I disagree with them &mdash; this is simply another economic sanction.
  NATO countries are refusing to sell certain things to Russia, and now
  Russia is refusing to sell a certain thing to some of those countries.
  It hurts, for sure &mdash; but it is not an outrage or a crime, like some
  other things Putin has done.
<p>
  The goal of "weakening Russia" has a range of concrete possible
  meanings.  I believe that the only way to reach a peace that will last
  is for Ukraine to give Putin a defeat that will convince him not to
  attack again later.  That is one form of "weakening Russia," which I
  agree is necessary.
<p>
  However, to damage Russia in other ways would mean widening the war,
  and that would asking for trouble.

 


title: Manchin meets with billionaires who want more riches
uri: Manchin-meets-with-billionaires-who-want-more-riches
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Manchin_meets_with_billionaires_who_want_more_riches)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Manchin_meets_with_billionaires_who_want_more_riches)

content:
 
<p>
  Manchin is <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/04/27/joe-manchin-no-labels-billionaire-gathering/">having a meeting with billionaires who carry no political
  affiliation except "we want more riches"</a>.

 


title: Racial discrimination by Minneapolis thugs
uri: Racial-discrimination-by-Minneapolis-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Racial_discrimination_by_Minneapolis_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Racial_discrimination_by_Minneapolis_thugs)

content:
 
<p>
  *Minneapolis police <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/27/minneapolis-police-racial-discrimination-state-investigation-report">engaged in pattern of racial discrimination</a>,
  inquiry finds.*
<p>
  *A state investigation accuses the Minneapolis Thug Department
  of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/us/minneapolis-police-practices-investigation/index.html">systematically practicing "discriminatory,
  race-based policing</a>."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(NLRB_budget_boost_urged)
title: NLRB budget boost urged
uri: NLRB-budget-boost-urged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(NLRB_budget_boost_urged)
content:
 
<p>
  *Lawmakers Urge <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/27/lawmakers-urge-nlrb-budget-boost-amid-dramatic-increase-unionization">NLRB Budget Boost Amid 'Dramatic Increase' in Unionization</a>.*

 


title: Jared Kushner took bribe from Salafi Arabia
uri: Jared-Kushner-took-bribe-from-Salafi-Arabia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Jared_Kushner_took_bribe_from_Salafi_Arabia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Jared_Kushner_took_bribe_from_Salafi_Arabia)

content:
 
<p>
  Accusing Jared Kushner of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/26/jared-kushner-sold-out-saudis-2-billion-and-nobody-seems-care">taking a 2-billion-dollar bribe from Crown
  Prince Bone Saw for helping him take over Salafi Arabia</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Another_humanitarian_corridor_shelled)
title: Another humanitarian corridor shelled
uri: Another-humanitarian-corridor-shelled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Another_humanitarian_corridor_shelled)
content:
 
<p>
  The <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> yet again agreed to a "humanitarian corridor" for
  civilians to get out of Mariupol, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/russia-accused-of-shelling-mariupol-humanitarian-corridor">and yet again shelled it</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Fear_of_media_freedom_being_in_danger)
title: Fear of media freedom being in danger
uri: Fear-of-media-freedom-being-in-danger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Fear_of_media_freedom_being_in_danger)
content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/apr/26/media-freedom-is-in-danger-survey-in-four-eastern-european-countries-finds">More than half of the people in four former communist central European
  counties fear media freedom is in danger</a>, with significant majorities
  wanting government or EU measures to protect it, according to a survey.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Amazonia_gold_mine_blocked_by_court)
title: Amazonia gold mine blocked by court
uri: Amazonia-gold-mine-blocked-by-court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Amazonia_gold_mine_blocked_by_court)
content:
 
<p>
  A large gold mine in Amazonia <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/26/brazil-court-deals-blow-massive-amazon-gold-mine-project">has been blocked by a Brazilian court</a>.
  The company sought approval while covering up some of the mine's
  environmental dangers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Jan_6_coup_investigation)
title: Jan 6 coup investigation
uri: Jan-6-coup-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Jan_6_coup_investigation)
content:
 
<p>

The Jan 6 coup investigation will finish soon, but how will that
translate into <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/politics/meadows-texts-trump-lies-2022-election-analysis/index.html">accountability for the culprits</a>, and hampering the many
who are now organizing to try again?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Buying_major_companies_to_use_as_toys)
title: Buying major companies to use as toys
uri: Buying-major-companies-to-use-as-toys
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Buying_major_companies_to_use_as_toys)
content:
 
<p>

The hyper rich can now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/26/twitter-44bn-elon-musk-users-investors">buy major companies on whims</a> to use as toys.
This could destabilize society even more.

 


title: Biggest bottled water company in the US
uri: Biggest-bottled-water-company-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Biggest_bottled_water_company_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Biggest_bottled_water_company_in_the_US)

content:
 
<p>

The biggest bottled water company in the US is hardly known: it hides
behind various names including "Poland Spring".  It is <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/04/26/plastic-recycling-bottled-water-poland-spring/">being sued
for false claims</a> about protecting the environment.
Its defense is that "everyone should realize that the claims are
meaningless nonsense."

 


title: Planned coal plants will push beyond 1.5C of warming
uri: Planned-coal-plants-will-push-beyond-1-5C-of-warming
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Planned_coal_plants_will_push_beyond_1.5C_of_warming)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Planned_coal_plants_will_push_beyond_1.5C_of_warming)

content:
 
<p>

The coal plants now planned for construction will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/26/too-many-new-coal-fired-plants-planned-for-15c-climate-goal-report-concludes">push the Earth
beyond 1.5C</a> of warming.

 


title: Important to wear mask in airplanes and airports
uri: Important-to-wear-mask-in-airplanes-and-airports
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Important_to_wear_mask_in_airplanes_and_airports)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Important_to_wear_mask_in_airplanes_and_airports)

content:
 
<p>

It is still important to wear a mask (a good one!) <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/25/yes-face-masks-are-still-needed-airplanes">in airplanes and
airports</a>.
<p>
It is even more important to wear a good mask in buses and trains, and
stores.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Better_off_catching_Covid-19_later)
title: Better off catching Covid-19 later
uri: Better-off-catching-Covid-19-later
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Better_off_catching_Covid-19_later)
content:
 
<p>

If we assume you're going to catch Covid-19 some day, you're <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/opinions/flattening-the-curve-covid-sepkowitz/index.html">better off
catching it <em>later</em></a>.  Not now!
<p>
Lots of research is still being done, so next year various groups
of people may have a smaller chance of death, or a smaller chance
of developing <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#29_May_2021_(Covid-19_long_term_symptoms)">lasting damage</a>
or <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Generation_affected_by_disability)">lasting disability</a>.

 


title: Legal issues about "Remain in Mexico" policy
uri: Legal-issues-about-Remain-in-Mexico-policy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Legal_issues_about_Remain_in_Mexico_policy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Legal_issues_about_Remain_in_Mexico_policy)

content:
 
<p>

There are two different policies under which the US border <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> send
asylum seekers back into Mexico.  This article <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/politics/remain-in-mexico-supreme-court-immigration/index.html">discusses the legal
issues</a> about the policy called "Remain in Mexico", now being considered
by the Supreme Court. The other one, known as <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Urgent:_End_the_hater's_Title_42_wait_in_Mexico_policy)">Title 42</a>, supposedly operated in the name of public health, is going through the courts too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Emergency_contraception_for_Ukraine)
title: Emergency contraception for Ukraine
uri: Emergency-contraception-for-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Emergency_contraception_for_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>

*[There is a] rush to get <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/28/russia-ukraine-emergency-contraception-amid-rape-reports">emergency contraception into Ukraine</a> as
 reports of rape rise.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Musk's_stated_plans_for_Twitter)
title: Musk's stated plans for Twitter
uri: Musk-s-stated-plans-for-Twitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Musk's_stated_plans_for_Twitter)
content:
 
<p>

Musk's stated plans for Twitter are sketchy, but we can already see
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/elon-musk-twitter-privacy/">they are dangerous</a>.
And that includes the plan to "open source" algorithms that judge
what tweets to promote.
<p>
That may come as a surprise to you, especially if you believe I
advocate open source.  In fact, I have <em>never</em> been a supporter
of that.
<p>
In the mid-80s I launched the free software movement, which campaigns
for all users' right to <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html "> redistribute the software they run</a>, either
verbatim or modified.
The free software movement says that distributing a program to users
as nonfree software is an injustice to those users, and that we
shouldn't stand for that.
<p>
However, we don't believe that it's wrong for you, or Twitter, to
develop software and run it privately without ever distributing a
copy.  The <a href="/twitter.html">Twitter</a> service does things that are unjust,
but having and using private software is not one of them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Raising_prices_on_Americans)
title: Raising prices on Americans
uri: Raising-prices-on-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Raising_prices_on_Americans)
content:
 
<p>

*Revealed: top US corporations <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/27/inflation-corporate-america-increased-prices-profits">raising prices on Americans</a> even as
profits surge.*
<p>
Robert Reich said <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Higher_interest_rates)">something similar</a>; this is confirmation.

 


title: Accusation of discriminatory race-based policing
uri: Accusation-of-discriminatory-race-based-policing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Accusation_of_discriminatory_race-based_policing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Accusation_of_discriminatory_race-based_policing)

content:
 
<p>

*A state investigation accuses the Minneapolis <a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thug</a> Department
of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/us/minneapolis-police-practices-investigation/index.html">systematically practicing</a> "discriminatory,
race-based policing."

 


title: Videoconferencing inferior to physical meetings
uri: Videoconferencing-inferior-to-physical-meetings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Videoconferencing_inferior_to_physical_meetings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Videoconferencing_inferior_to_physical_meetings)

content:
 
<p>

Videoconferencing tends to be <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/health/creativity-in-person-remote-wellness-scn/index.html">inferior to physical meetings</a>
for coming up with creative ideas.

 


title: Video of thug kneeling on someone's back
uri: Video-of-thug-kneeling-on-someone-s-back
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Video_of_thug_kneeling_on_someone's_back)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Video_of_thug_kneeling_on_someone's_back)

content:
 
<p>

The sheriff of Los Angeles county accused a reporter of possessing
"stolen property" &mdash; a leaked video showing a thug <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/media/los-angeles-sheriff-la-times-reliable-sources/index.html">kneeling on
someone's back</a>.
<p>
I am glad that the power of the press can make a bullying official
back off.  Now if only we could make the US government back off
prosecuting journalists such as Julian Assange who likewise publish
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_(WikiLeaks_Collateral_Murder_video)">leaked videos showing crimes</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Permanent_occupation_of_Kherson)
title: Permanent occupation of Kherson
uri: Permanent-occupation-of-Kherson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Permanent_occupation_of_Kherson)
content:
 
<p>

The <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> captured Kherson weeks ago, but now they are setting
up a heavy-handed permanent occupation.  <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/europe/kherson-ukraine-evacuees-intl/index.html">Ukrainians are fleeing</a>, those who can.

 


title: (satire) Sharing pizza topping data with police
uri: (satire)-Sharing-pizza-topping-data-with-police
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_((satire)_Sharing_pizza_topping_data_with_police)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_((satire)_Sharing_pizza_topping_data_with_police)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/domino-s-under-fire-for-sharing-pizza-topping-data-with-1848800555">*Domino's Under Fire For Sharing Pizza Topping Data With Police.*</a>

 


title: (satire) Disney World fortifies with armed characters
uri: (satire)-Disney-World-fortifies-with-armed-characters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_((satire)_Disney_World_fortifies_with_armed_characters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_((satire)_Disney_World_fortifies_with_armed_characters)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/disney-world-fortifies-borders-with-armed-characters-as-1848830661">*Disney World Fortifies Borders With Armed Characters As Park
Announces Plan To Secede From Florida.*</a>

 


title: Closing gap of legacies of slavery and racism
uri: Closing-gap-of-legacies-of-slavery-and-racism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Closing_gap_of_legacies_of_slavery_and_racism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Closing_gap_of_legacies_of_slavery_and_racism)

content:
 
<p>

Harvard University will spend $100m to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/apr/26/harvard-slavery-racism-endowment-fund">"close the educational, social
and economic gaps that are legacies of slavery and racism</a>".
<p>
That is an admirable effort.

 


title: Public deception on hazards of plastics
uri: Public-deception-on-hazards-of-plastics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Public_deception_on_hazards_of_plastics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Public_deception_on_hazards_of_plastics)

content:
 
<p>

*California accuses ExxonMobil of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/29/california-investigating-fossil-fuel-companies-plastic-exxonmobil">deceiving public on hazards of plastics</a>.*

 


title: Bogus Johnson's decision on nursing home admission without Covid-19 test
uri: Bogus-Johnson-s-decision-on-nursing-home-admission-without-Covid-19-te
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Bogus_Johnson's_decision_on_nursing_home_admission_without_Covid-19_test)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Bogus_Johnson's_decision_on_nursing_home_admission_without_Covid-19_test)

content:
 
<p>

When Bogus Johnson decided to allow people into nursing homes without
testing them for Covid, he had already discussed with his advisors the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/30/boris-johnsons-defence-on-covid-risk-to-care-homes-hit-by-new-revelation">danger of transmission by asymptomatic people</a>.
<p>
But he told Parliament that this wasn't known at the time.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(London_thugs_face_investigation)
title: London thugs face investigation
uri: London-thugs-face-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(London_thugs_face_investigation)
content:
 
<p>

London <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> face an investigation for misconduct over handcuffing and
searching two famous black athletes who drove by in a car.  They had
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/27/five-met-officers-to-face-misconduct-charges-over-bianca-williams-stop-and-search">no specific grounds to suspect them</a>, except perhaps their skin color.
<p>
One of the said this example should be used as an opportunity to do
something about the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> department's culture of racism.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Wildfire_in_New_Mexico)
title: Wildfire in New Mexico
uri: Wildfire-in-New-Mexico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Wildfire_in_New_Mexico)
content:
 
<p>

New Mexico this year has had <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/weather/wildfires-forecast-new-mexico/index.html">more wildfire than in a normal whole year</a>,
due to heat and deep drought.

 


title: British libel laws protected Jimmy Saville
uri: British-libel-laws-protected-Jimmy-Saville
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(British_libel_laws_protected_Jimmy_Saville)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(British_libel_laws_protected_Jimmy_Saville)

content:
 
<p>

Serial sexual abuser Jimmy Saville was protected by British libel
laws.  No newspaper dared publish any suggestion of accusation,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/28/outrageous-libel-laws-protected-jimmy-savile-lawsuits">despite having evidence</a>.
<p>
Now the UK may weaken libel laws because Russian billionaires are
using them too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Segregation_in_Sweden)
title: Segregation in Sweden
uri: Segregation-in-Sweden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Segregation_in_Sweden)
content:
 
<p>

Sweden has permitted segregation to extend to the point of allowing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/28/swedens-failed-integration-creates-parallel-societies-says-pm-after-riots">Islamist and right-wing hate blocs to develop side by side</a>.
<p>
I hope they can find a way to integrate the various groups.
<p>
For immigrants to make up 20% of the population risks weakening all
aspects of a country's cultural heritage &mdash; even perhaps the Swedish
language.  A cultural environment has a certain capacity to absorb
people coming from other backgrounds, and it is better not to overload
that capacity.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Extreme_heatwave_in_India_and_Pakistan)
title: Extreme heatwave in India and Pakistan
uri: Extreme-heatwave-in-India-and-Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Extreme_heatwave_in_India_and_Pakistan)
content:
 
<p>

*Extreme heatwave in India and Pakistan causes <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/28/extreme-heatwave-in-india-and-pakistan-causes-power-and-water-shortages">power and water shortages</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Critic_of_EU's_governance_structure)
title: Critic of EU's governance structure
uri: Critic-of-EU-s-governance-structure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Critic_of_EU's_governance_structure)
content:
 
<p>

A member of the European Parliament <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/27/totally-dysfunctional-sophie-in-t-veld-on-the-eus-relationship-with-democracy">criticizes the EU's governance structure</a>
that was designed to be weak.
<p>
I made this criticism around 15 years ago after the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-may-aug.html#13%20July%202004%20(Software%20Patents%20in%20European%20Union)">software patents
directive</a> revealed how difficult it is for a plurality of the
MEPs who care about an issue to block a directive they oppose.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Let's_teach_children_how_to_think)
title: Let's teach children how to think
uri: Let-s-teach-children-how-to-think
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Let's_teach_children_how_to_think)
content:
 
<p>

*Instead of obsessing over learning facts, let’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/29/learning-facts-children-how-think-scientific-method-uk">teach children how to think</a>.*
To think with careful rationality, that is &mdash; scientifically.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Highway_expansions_in_Texas)
title: Highway expansions in Texas
uri: Highway-expansions-in-Texas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Highway_expansions_in_Texas)
content:
 
<p>

Texans from minority communities are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/29/texas-highway-expansions-project-displacements-protests">campaigning against highway expansion</a>
that would push us closer to the end of civilization.
<p>
I expect that planet-roaster lobbyists played a big role in adopting the policy
of spending state money only on cars.

 


title: Journalism and Julian Assange's freedom
uri: Journalism-and-Julian-Assange-s-freedom
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Journalism_and_Julian_Assange's_freedom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Journalism_and_Julian_Assange's_freedom)

content:
 
<p>

How the future of journalism <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/29/future-gen-z-journalism-depends-julian-assanges-freedom">depends on Julian Assange's freedom</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Bombing_mosques_in_Afghanistan)
title: Bombing mosques in Afghanistan
uri: Bombing-mosques-in-Afghanistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Bombing_mosques_in_Afghanistan)
content:
 
<p>

Various sects of Muslim fanatics are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/blast-kabul-mosque-worshippers-afghan-capital-ramadan">bombing mosques in Afghanistan</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Benefits_of_Brexit_too_expensive)
title: Benefits of Brexit too expensive
uri: Benefits-of-Brexit-too-expensive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Benefits_of_Brexit_too_expensive)
content:
 
<p>

Supporters of taking the UK out of the European Union touted the benefit
of restricting imports and putting a tariff on them.  But now a minister
has admitted that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/29/jacob-rees-mogg-brexit-disaster-leaving-eu-boris-johnson">actually doing it is too expensive</a>.
Having made Britain pay the enormous price, they don't want what they bought.
<p>
This suggests it was dishonest political distraction all along, like
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#9_November_2019_(Sawing_the_wall)">bullshitter's border wall</a>.

<p>
I said years ago that the only way for leaving the EU to benefit
Britain would be to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#26_September_2021_(Multiple_crises)">have the Left in charge</a>.
Corbyn, for instance, as
leader of Labour, could have discarded the EU's plutocratic rules
while keeping the good aspects.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Putin_playing_madman_card)
title: Putin playing "madman card"
uri: Putin-playing-madman-card
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Putin_playing_madman_card)
content:
 
<p>

Putin seems to be playing the "fear me, I'm a madman" card, and it is
a mistake to be too scared.  However, it's right to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/29/the-guardian-view-on-putins-nuclear-threats-russia-is-losing-in-ukraine">avoid making real
threats to escalate</a>, because even a non-madman might react drastically
to that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Healthy_foods_in_food_deserts)
title: Healthy foods in food deserts
uri: Healthy-foods-in-food-deserts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Healthy_foods_in_food_deserts)
content:
 
<p>

*America's food deserts start seeing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/29/us-food-deserts-federal-stimulus-funds">influx of healthy foods</a> thanks to
federal funds.*

 


title: Local governments in the British Virgin Islands
uri: Local-governments-in-the-British-Virgin-Islands
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Local_governments_in_the_British_Virgin_Islands)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Local_governments_in_the_British_Virgin_Islands)

content:
 
<p>

The UK will eliminate local government in the British Virgin Islands
due to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/british-virgin-islands-direct-rule-andrew-fahie-drug-arrest">corruption of its officials</a>,
including its prime minister who was just arrested in the US and accused
of drug trafficking.
<p>
The British Virgin Islands carry out a big business of hiding taxes
for rich people and companies.  The UK now has a chance to put a stop
to that.  Will it do so?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Fracking's_harm_to_health_and_climate)
title: Fracking's harm to health and climate
uri: Fracking-s-harm-to-health-and-climate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Fracking's_harm_to_health_and_climate)
content:
 
<p>

*New Report Details Fracking's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/28/new-report-details-frackings-widespread-and-severe-harm-health-and-climate">'Widespread and Severe Harm'</a> to Health
and Climate.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Harm_of_US_trade_sanctions)
title: Harm of US trade sanctions
uri: Harm-of-US-trade-sanctions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Harm_of_US_trade_sanctions)
content:
 
<p>

US trade sanctions have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/28/coalition-denounces-us-sanctions-harming-people-worldwide">caused harm to the innocent</a> in many countries.
<p>
In many of these cases there was no valid reason for the US to take
any action against the other country.  In the case of Russia, there
are reasons to take action, but I wonder whether the sanctions are an
effective contribution to the goal.  Since they don't make Putin
change policies, are they pointless harm?  Would arming Ukraine be enough
by itself?


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Assembling_evidence_of_war_crimes)
title: Assembling evidence of war crimes
uri: Assembling-evidence-of-war-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#1_May_2022_(Assembling_evidence_of_war_crimes)
content:
 
<p>

Ukraine is <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20220502055149/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/28/ukraine-prosecuting-russia-war-crimes/">assembling evidence of war crimes</a> and identifying their
perpetrators.  Nine <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> soldiers who are prisoners have been
charged for specific crimes.
<p>
And this is without torturing anyone.
<p>
I am disappointed &mdash; though I shouldn't be surprised &mdash; that some
Ukrainian soldiers vent their anger on <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> who are
surrendering.  The Ukrainians must heed their consciences and treat
prisoners as human beings.
<p>
To fail to do this is stupid as well as wrong.  It is important to
show <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> soldiers that surrendering is the wisest thing they
can do.
<p>
Russia and Ukraine will be neighbors for centuries, if civilization
survives this century.  Hatred between them will only make things
worse.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Urgent:_Rejected_math_books_in_Florida)
title: Urgent: Rejected math books in Florida
uri: Urgent-Rejected-math-books-in-Florida
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Urgent:_Rejected_math_books_in_Florida)
content:
 
<p>

Everyone: demand that the Florida Department of Education and Governor
DeMentis <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/math-books-pushing-crt-tell-governor-desantis-and-the-florida-dept-of-ed-to-prove-it">justify their claim</a> that math textbooks they rejected teach
"critical race theory" (or anything else objectionable about race).
<p>
Refer to the explanation of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#13_October_2021_(Critical_race_theory)">what critical race theory really is</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Confirm Nancy Abudu as appeals judge
uri: Urgent-Confirm-Nancy-Abudu-as-appeals-judge
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Urgent:_Confirm_Nancy_Abudu_as_appeals_judge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Urgent:_Confirm_Nancy_Abudu_as_appeals_judge)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/confirm-nancy-abudu/">confirm Nancy Abudu</a> as appeals judge.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Urgent:_Reject_the_TRUST_act)
title: Urgent: Reject the TRUST act
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-TRUST-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Urgent:_Reject_the_TRUST_act)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your senators to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/protect-social-security-and-medicare-stop-the-trust-act-now">reject the TRUST Act</a>, designed
to cut Social Security and Medicare, each time Senator Romney tries to
sneak it in.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Union_described_as_Terrorists)
title: Union described as "Terrorists"
uri: Union-described-as-Terrorists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Union_described_as_Terrorists)
content:
 
<p>

*Kellogg's Executive <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/04/30/kelloggs-union-terrorists-more-perfect-union/">Described Union as "Terrorists"</a> Emboldened by
 Social Media.*
<p>
I expect that the executive and the consultants really believe that.
I would guess that they are Republicans and believe other forms
of lunacy too.

 


title: Leaving human space travel to centibillionaires
uri: Leaving-human-space-travel-to-centibillionaires
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Leaving_human_space_travel_to_centibillionaires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Leaving_human_space_travel_to_centibillionaires)

content:
 
<p>

Martin Rees suggests <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/30/space-billionaires-cosmic-earth-elon-musk-jeff-bezos">leaving human space travel to private
centibillionaires</a>.
<p>
The advantages he suggests make sense, but I see a danger also:
that the centibillionaire might organize a space settlement
as per own personal demesne.  If only 50 people can go, it won't
be hard to find 50 people who want it badly enough to yield to that.
<p>
I think Rees's equanimity about the prospect of human descendants so
drastically different from us is misguided.  Unless it is so different
that conflict is impossible, I think that difference would lead to
war, or else complete subjugation of our kind.

 


title: Government sent college student data to Facebook
uri: Government-sent-college-student-data-to-Facebook
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Government_sent_college_student_data_to_Facebook)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Government_sent_college_student_data_to_Facebook)

content:
 
<p>

The US government <a href="https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/04/28/applied-for-student-aid-online-facebook-saw-you">sent personal data to Facebook</a> for every college
student that applied for US government student aid.  It justified this
as being for a "campaign".
<p>
The data included name, phone number and email address.  This shows
the agency didn't even make a hand waving attempt to anonymize the
student.  Not that anonymization usually does much good &mdash; but the
failure to even try shows that the agency was completely blind to the
issue of respecting students' privacy,
<p>
Facebook did this with a tracking pixel.  The article explains
carefully what that implies.
<p>
Federal agencies should not be allowed to send Javascript code in
their web pages; on the contrary, they should be required to take care
that none of their pages sends any JavaScript whatsoever.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Supporting_women_asylum_seekers)
title: Supporting women asylum seekers
uri: Supporting-women-asylum-seekers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Supporting_women_asylum_seekers)
content:
 
<p>

A pilot program in the UK found that *supporting women asylum seekers
in the community &hellip; improve[d] their well being at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/01/were-collateral-damage-fury-in-yorkshire-village-at-its-role-in-migrant-detention-plan">half the cost of [jailing] them</a>.*
<p>
Ministers were not impressed, though.  Perhaps because it contradicted
their plans for a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#29_November_2019_(UKs_hostile_environment_for_foreigners)">"hostile environment"</a>.
The UK is already planning more immigration prisons.
<p>
Any one country which is so helpful to immigrants is likely to get far
too many immigrants.  But if many countries do it, it may be
acceptable for all of them.

 


title: UK immigration agency infiltrated local governments
uri: UK-immigration-agency-infiltrated-local-governments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(UK_immigration_agency_infiltrated_local_governments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(UK_immigration_agency_infiltrated_local_governments)

content:
 
<p>

The UK immigration agency has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/01/immigration-officers-local-authorities-home-office-foi-embedded">infiltrated its agents into local
governments</a>, in agencies where people might look for help.
Even in child protection services.
<p>
Immigrants will learn  to avoid asking for any help  for themselves or
their children, and the agencies will say, "It's not our fault the
didn't contact us."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Twitter_promotion_algorithm)
title: Twitter promotion algorithm
uri: Twitter-promotion-algorithm
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Twitter_promotion_algorithm)
content:
 
<p>

If the Twitter promotion algorithm works using machine learning, its
code (not including the neural net) <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/27/1051472/the-problems-with-elon-musks-plan-to-open-source-the-twitter-algorithm/">won't tell people much</a> about how
Twitter chooses what to show them.
It also may not be much use to anyone.
<p>
Basically, the trained neural net is a part of the program.  It can be
considered source code, since (1) it isn't compiled from any other
form of the code, and (2) changing it is possible (by retraining.
But if you don't get that, you don't have the whole source code.

 


title: Havasupai tribe trying to block uranium mine
uri: Havasupai-tribe-trying-to-block-uranium-mine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Havasupai_tribe_trying_to_block_uranium_mine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Havasupai_tribe_trying_to_block_uranium_mine)

content:
 
<p>

The Havasupai tribe is trying to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/29/arizona-slammed-permitting-uranium-mine-imperils-grand-canyon-tribes-water">block a uranium mine</a> that the US has
approved near the aquifer they get water from.  Uranium from the mine
could poison it for millions of years.
<p>
If they can't get water, they can have a soup pie.
But that is fattening &mdash; they need to have water available, too.

 


title: (satire) Washington Commanders Let Make-A-Wish Kid Announce Pick
uri: (satire)-Washington-Commanders-Let-Make-A-Wish-Kid-Announce-Pick
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_((satire)_Washington_Commanders_Let_Make-A-Wish_Kid_Announce_Pick)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_((satire)_Washington_Commanders_Let_Make-A-Wish_Kid_Announce_Pick)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/washington-commanders-let-make-a-wish-kid-announce-pick-1848855388">*Washington Commanders Let Make-A-Wish Kid Announce Pick,
Become New Team President, Take Fall For Financial Irregularities.*</a>
<p>
The beauty of this arrangement is that no one will actually have to go
to jail.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Pro-worker_Republicans)
title: "Pro-worker" Republicans
uri: Pro-worker-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Pro-worker_Republicans)
content:
 
<p>

*The So-Called "Pro-Worker" Republicans Are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/29/so-called-pro-worker-republicans-are-silent-unionization-wins">Silent on Unionization Wins</a>.*
<p>
Republicans don't have ideals seriously, only as ways to get power.
The people they really serve are those who give them money.

 


title: (satire) Thank you notes for gift of parenthood
uri: (satire)-Thank-you-notes-for-gift-of-parenthood
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_((satire)_Thank_you_notes_for_gift_of_parenthood)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_((satire)_Thank_you_notes_for_gift_of_parenthood)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/ohio-law-mandates-rape-victims-send-thank-you-notes-for-1848860173">*Ohio Law Mandates Rape Victims Send Thank You Notes For Gift
Of Parenthood.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Covid-19_increasing_in_US)
title: Covid-19 increasing in US
uri: Covid-19-increasing-in-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Covid-19_increasing_in_US)
content:
 
<p>

Covid-19 is increasing in the US, but due to Republican obstruction,
the US government <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/29/dire-consequences-us-neglecting-ongoing-pandemic">can't do much to restrain the increase</a>, nor to help
vaccinate the people of poor countries.
<p>
The problem of unvaccinated global poor is entirely artificial.  The
reason vaccinating them is so expensive that no one will pay for it
is the obstruction of patents and trade secrets that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Covid_vaccine_patents)">prevent generic
vaccine production</a>.

 


title: Procedures to reevaluate if a book should be in public school libraries
uri: Procedures-to-reevaluate-if-a-book-should-be-in-public-school-librarie
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Procedures_to_reevaluate_if_a_book_should_be_in_public_school_libraries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Procedures_to_reevaluate_if_a_book_should_be_in_public_school_libraries)

content:
 
<p>

Schools have established thoughtful procedures to reevaluate whether a
book should be in public school libraries, while respecting the First
Amendment.  Republicans using censorship to demonize queer people
systematically <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/education/3272872-book-bans-sweeping-the-u-s-show-its-not-ok-to-be-a-unicorn/">disregard or bypass those procedures</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(GOP_Big_Lie_embrace_of_martial_law)
title: GOP "Big Lie" embrace of martial law
uri: GOP-Big-Lie-embrace-of-martial-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(GOP_Big_Lie_embrace_of_martial_law)
content:
 
<p>

*Nothing Spells "Big Government" Better Than GOP "Big Lie" <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/29/nothing-spells-big-government-better-gop-big-lie-embrace-martial-law">Embrace of
Martial Law</a>.*
<p>
In general, the Republican Party supports big government, except when it comes
to programs that help non-rich people.

 


title: US-China military tensions secondary to rising seas
uri: US-China-military-tensions-secondary-to-rising-seas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(US-China_military_tensions_secondary_to_rising_seas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(US-China_military_tensions_secondary_to_rising_seas)

content:
 
<p>

*Pacific Elders Say US-China Military Tensions <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/29/pacific-elders-say-us-china-military-tensions-secondary-rising-seas">Secondary to Rising Seas</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Elon_Musk_excusing_powerful_far_right)
title: Elon Musk excusing powerful far right
uri: Elon-Musk-excusing-powerful-far-right
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Elon_Musk_excusing_powerful_far_right)
content:
 
<p>

Elon Musk is citing a barely extant American "far left" as a bugaboo
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/29/what-far-left-asks-aoc-we-cant-even-get-our-party-import-cheaper-prescription-drugs">excuse the powerful, menacing, election-stealing far right</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(tory_mp_neil_parish)
title: Disgraced mp broke law by watching porn in commons
uri: Disgraced-mp-broke-law-by-watching-porn-in-commons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(tory_mp_neil_parish)
content:
 
<p>
According to some members of the UK Parliament, looking at a small
image in a place where others could possibly look at it over your
shoulder is legally considered a "public display", equivalent to
projecting it on a wall in the street.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/30/disgraced-tory-mp-neil-parish-broke-law-by-watching-porn-in-commons"></a>
<p>
Prohibiting thing A, and stretching the terminology to include thing B
as well, is morally dishonest.  When people who look over your
shoulder, or out of the corner of the eye, to see something small that
you hold in front of you, you are not "displaying" it.  Rather, they
are prying.
<p>
I am not saying that prying is a great wrong -- only that when you
pry, you take on the responsibility for seeing whatever you saw, so
you cannot blame that on the person whose affairs you pried into.
<p>
Some sexual material (i.e., porn) embodies misogyny or treats women as
objects.  I have a low opinion of that.  But the moral dishonesty I am
criticizing would apply to all porn, regardless of the attitudes any
given porn work presents.
<p>
I have no sympathy for Parish, the Tory MP who might be prosecuted.
He is a Tory!  As a member of Parliament in the governing party, he
shares responsibility for all government policies, and so many of them
are cruel.
<p>
The Tories have done truly horrible things in recent years -- starving
the poor, freezing the poor, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/07/public-nhs-the-new-health-and-care-bill-alarm-bells-privatisation">undermining the National Health Service,</a>
deporting people because their parents didn't get certain documents 50
years ago, making the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2019/aug/09/we-should-be-scared-about-how-horror-stories-of-austerity-will-end">disabled prove their disability to someone</a>
unqualified while disregarding doctors' reports, imposing harsh
punishments on protesters trying to save the ecosphere, encouraging
fossil fuels over renewable energy, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/17/scientists-and-climate-advisers-condemn-tory-environmental-record">and more.</a>
These wrongs have
harmed millions of Britons already and could easily harm tens of
millions of them in the future.  These are the substantial reasons to
condemn Parish.  I have listed only the few I could immediately
remember; there are many more.
<p>
Thus, Parish's resignation, in and of itself, is a good thing.  But
achieving something politically beneficial through unjust means can do
more harm than good, through collateral damage to everyone.  This
moral dishonesty, if it prevails, will not be limited to Tories.  So
their guilt for unrelated wrongs, even enormous wrongs, cannot excuse
it.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(university_ca_waive_tuition)
title: UC will waive tuition and fees for students US-recognized indigenous groups
uri: UC-will-waive-tuition-and-fees-for-students-US-recognized-indigenous-g
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(university_ca_waive_tuition)
content:
 
<p>
The University of California will waive tuition and fees for students
from 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/30/university-california-waive-tuition-native-students">US-recognized indigenous California groups.</a>
<p>
That's a good thing to do, but it should cover all low-income
students.  The purpose of state universities and colleges is to
provide higher education to residents at a cost they can bear. No
state residents should be left out because of their ethnicity.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(apartment_proposed_rent_increases)
title: New York apartment rent increases
uri: New-York-apartment-rent-increases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(apartment_proposed_rent_increases)
content:
 
<p>
New York City "rent stabilized" apartments have had rent increases that
the tenants 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/30/new-york-rent-stabilized-apartments-proposed-increases">can't pay even if they go hungry.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(schmidt_pregnancy_rape)
title: According to Jean Schmidt, pregnancy from rape is ‘an opportunity’
uri: According-to-Jean-Schmidt-pregnancy-from-rape-is-an-opportunity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(schmidt_pregnancy_rape)
content:
 
<p>
A Republican state representative says, think of being raped as an
opportunity to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/30/ohio-republican-jean-schmidt-pregnancy-rape-opportunity">have the baby you never wanted.</a>
<p>
One step further and she'll be advocating The Handmaid's Tale, in
which fertile women are given this opportunity whether they want it
or not.
<p>
In this age of overpopulation, every birth is a missed opportunity
to avoid more overpopulation.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(taylor_greene_acccused_of_lying)
title: Marjorie Taylor Greene accused of lying in hearing in Capitol attack case.
uri: Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-accused-of-lying-in-hearing-in-Capitol-attack-c
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(taylor_greene_acccused_of_lying)
content:
 
<p>*Marjorie Taylor Greene accused of lying in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/30/marjorie-taylor-greene-accused-lying-capitol-attack-case">hearing in Capitol attack case.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(gop_ban_choice_voting)
title: GOP moves to ban Ranked-Choice voting at local level
uri: GOP-moves-to-ban-Ranked-Choice-voting-at-local-level
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(gop_ban_choice_voting)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans in Florida and Tennessee have banned ranked choice voting,
which 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/29/despite-broad-popularity-gop-moves-ban-ranked-choice-voting">cities there want to use.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(trumps_border_wall_injuries)
title: Surge in injuries and deaths for those climbing Trump's border wall
uri: Surge-in-injuries-and-deaths-for-those-climbing-Trump-s-border-wall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(trumps_border_wall_injuries)
content:
 
<p>
The bully's partial border wall is possible for healthy people to
climb, but a significant fraction of the climbers fall and suffer 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/30/absolutely-tragic-doctors-tie-trumps-30-foot-border-wall-surge-injuries-and-deaths">grave injury or death.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(kardashian_existential_terror)
title: An existential terror to beauty
uri: An-existential-terror-to-beauty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(kardashian_existential_terror)
content:
 
<p>
The fashion and beauty competition works with antisocial media to make
nearly all women desperately insecure about whether 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/30/as-khloe-kardashian-appears-to-know-theres-an-existential-terror-to-beauty">they are beautiful
enough.</a>
<p>
This is partly because society -- even in work -- compels women to
compete at beauty, judged by a standard that is set by photos of the
most beautiful few.
<p>
The saddest thing is that being beautiful does not spare one the
feeling of insecurity.  Even "winners" of the enforced competition
are subject to the pain.
<p>
It may be possible to escape by refusing to compete.  Rejecting
antisocial media might get you part way there.
<p>
I expect that the antisocial media companies are aware of this
and intentionally increase the addictiveness and pressure.
This is an example of the kind of collective trap that makes
for the greatest success.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(grass_lawn_water_crisis)
title: Much of the American west can no longer sustain inessential lawns.
uri: Much-of-the-American-west-can-no-longer-sustain-inessential-lawns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(grass_lawn_water_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
Much of the American west can no longer sustain inessential lawns.
Governments are moving to prohibit them, applying law'n order
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/us/why-grass-lawns-are-bad-for-drought-water-crisis-climate/index.html">law'n order</a>
to water use.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(study_warns_marine_extinction)
title: Study Warns Only 'Rapid Action' Can Prevent Worst Marine Extinction
uri: Study-Warns-Only-Rapid-Action-Can-Prevent-Worst-Marine-Extinction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(study_warns_marine_extinction)
content:
 
<p>
*Study Warns Only 'Rapid Action' Can Prevent Worst Marine Extinction
in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/29/study-warns-only-rapid-action-can-prevent-worst-marine-extinction-250-million-years">250 Million Years.</a>*



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Florida_inmate_death)
title: Charges for Florida inmate death
uri: Charges-for-Florida-inmate-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_May_2022_(Florida_inmate_death)
content:
 
<p>
Based on video evidence, three Florida prison thugs have been charged
with beating 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/29/us/florida-inmate-death-murder-charges/index.html">a prisoner to death.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(israel_sergei_lavrov)
title: Putin's diplomatic spokesman, tried to identify anti-Semites with Jews.
uri: Putin-s-diplomatic-spokesman-tried-to-identify-anti-Semites-with-Jews
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(israel_sergei_lavrov)
content:
 
<p>
Lavrov, Putin's diplomatic spokesman, tried to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/02/israel-summons-russia-envoy-sergei-lavrov-hitler-comments">identify anti-Semites 
with Jews.</a>
<p>
This disinformation may be an attempt to deal with the absurdity of
the claim that Ukraine is ruled by Nazis when it fact its leader is a
Jew.  It brought a rebuke from Israel.  (Israel has been too friendly
with Russia in recent months.)
<p>
In disinformation, one extreme lie paves the way for another more
extreme.  I won't be surprised if some day Putin's representatives
claim that they need to kill the Jews of Ukraine because those are the
anti-Semites

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(new_mexico_wildfire_flee)
title: Thousands flee from New Mexico wildfire
uri: Thousands-flee-from-New-Mexico-wildfire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(new_mexico_wildfire_flee)
content:
 
<p>
Wildfires in the US have burnt over a thousand square miles this year,
and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/02/new-mexico-wildfire-calf-canyon-thousands-flee">it's only the middle of spring.</a>
<p>
The ground and the plants are so dry that fires spread very fast and
it is hard to slow them down.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(deportation_id_privilege)
title: ID privilege and deportation
uri: ID-privilege-and-deportation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(deportation_id_privilege)
content:
 
<p>
UK thugs are eager to deport people.  If you look non-white, and can't
speak, they may presume you're not a citizen -- 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/03/british-people-id-black-boy-from-kent-deportation-id-privilege">no need to bother
ascertaining your origin.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(tories_elections_downing)
title: The Tories, elections, and Downing Street
uri: The-Tories-elections-and-Downing-Street
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(tories_elections_downing)
content:
 
<p>
In the UK as elsewhere, right-wing officials want you to assume
that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/03/tories-terrible-believe-elections-downing-street-behaviour">everyone else is equally corrupt.</a>
<p>
That's basically saying, "give up trying to change things -- it is hopeless."
But we know it's not hopeless -- we have succeeded before.
<p>
The amount of corruption among plutocratists of any party is far too
much.  In the US, we have read about Manchin and Sinema's corruption,
but plenty of other plutocratist Democrats are corrupt in the same
way.  However, right-wing officials make corruption their ideology,
and they recognize no moral limits on it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(roe_v_wade_draft_opinion)
title: Leaked document shows US Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade
uri: Leaked-document-shows-US-Supreme-Court-will-overturn-Roe-v-Wade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(roe_v_wade_draft_opinion)
content:
 
<p>
A leaked document seems to show that the US Supreme Court will overturn
Roe v Wade and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/02/roe-v-wade-abortion-supreme-court-draft-opinion">allow states to ban abortion.</a>
If this had happened 20 years ago, Americans would have voted the right-wing officials out of office.  But now that Republicans have pre-rigged US elections
with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/17/texas-ballots-mail-march-primary">voter suppression, </a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/21/florida-republicans-pass-map-limits-black-voter-power">gerrymandering, </a>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/feared-2020-census-significantly-undercounted-minorities">and rigging the census,</a>
<p>
we may no longer have the option to do that.

 


title: Kinzinger Introduces Measure to Allow US Military Intervention in Ukraine
uri: Kinzinger-Introduces-Measure-to-Allow-US-Military-Intervention-in-Ukra
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(kinzinger_ukraine_military_intervention)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(kinzinger_ukraine_military_intervention)

content:
 
<p>
*Kinzinger Introduces Measure to Allow US Military Intervention in Ukraine*
only if Putin uses nuclear, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/01/kinzinger-introduces-measure-allow-us-military-intervention-ukraine">chemical or biological weapons.</a>
<p>
This is not a move to escalate (that would be harmful), but rather
pressure for Putin not to escalate.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(putin_forces_chechnya_tractors)
title: Putin forces stole tractors which were disabled remotely
uri: Putin-forces-stole-tractors-which-were-disabled-remotely
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(putin_forces_chechnya_tractors)
content:
 
<p>
The Putin forces stole tractors and took them to Chechnya, but they
don't work, because they have been 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/europe/russia-farm-vehicles-ukraine-disabled-melitopol-intl/index.html">disabled remotely using a back
door.</a>
<p>
The back door is a weapon against whoever wants to use the tractor.
In these surprising special circumstances, the weapon was used
against the Putin forces.  That was good, since they deserve the
attack.  But that weapon was designed to be used against farmers,
and that use is evil.  These special circumstances do not excuse the
back door.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(union_wins_us_labor_movement)
title: US unions are gaining public approval and strength.
uri: US-unions-are-gaining-public-approval-and-strength
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(union_wins_us_labor_movement)
content:
 
<p>
US unions are gaining public approval and strength.  Now they need
government agencies to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/30/after-amazon-and-starbucks-union-wins-whats-next-reenergized-us-labor-movement">enforce workers' legal rights.</a>

 


title: Prosecute Russian and Other Powerful Countries' War Crimes.
uri: Prosecute-Russian-and-Other-Powerful-Countries-War-Crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(prosecute_powerful_countries_war_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(prosecute_powerful_countries_war_crimes)

content:
 
<p>
*Prosecute Russian and Other Powerful Countries' War Crimes.*  
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/30/prosecute-russian-and-other-powerful-countries-war-crimes">But how?</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(UN_chief_fossil_fuel_sector)
title: UN Chief Slams Fossil Fuel Sector
uri: UN-Chief-Slams-Fossil-Fuel-Sector
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#4_May_2022_(UN_chief_fossil_fuel_sector)
content:
 
<p> 
*UN Chief Slams Fossil Fuel Sector for Trying to Use Ukraine War to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/30/un-chief-slams-fossil-fuel-sector-trying-use-ukraine-war-lock-high-carbon-future">"Lock in a High Carbon Future."</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(New_pun)
title: New pun
uri: 2022-05-07-New-pun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(New_pun)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://stallman.org/puns.html#elongated">The procedure for creating a Twitter account could soon be Elon-gated.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(First_peoples)
title: First peoples
uri: First-peoples
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(First_peoples)
content:
 
<p>
  New antiglossary entry: <a href="https://stallman.org/antiglossary.html#firstpeoples">first peoples</a>.

 


title: The $1.5 million for a Justice Thomas ad
uri: The-1-5-million-for-a-Justice-Thomas-ad
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(The_$1.5_million_for_a_Justice_Thomas_ad)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(The_$1.5_million_for_a_Justice_Thomas_ad)

content:
 
<p>
  Inquiring into <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/02/who-bankrolled-ginni-thomas-she-sought-overthrow-2020-election">the source of the 1.5 million dollars that paid for ads
  to laud corrupt Justice Thomas and attack nominee Jackson</a>.
<p>
  I agree that Justice Thomas deserves to be removed -- just as the
  corrupter did.  But impeaching the corrupter was ineffective and
  impeaching Thomas would be likewise a waste of time, because the
  Republicans would all defend him.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(New_Mexico_childcare)
title: New Mexico childcare
uri: New-Mexico-childcare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(New_Mexico_childcare)
content:
 
<p>
New Mexico <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/02/new-mexico-pilot-program-makes-child-care-free-majority-families">now pays for childcare for most families &mdash; all but those with
a comfortable income</a>.

 


title: Over 20% of Australis houses could become uninsurable
uri: Over-20-of-Australis-houses-could-become-uninsurable
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(Over_20%25_of_Australis_houses_could_become_uninsurable)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(Over_20%25_of_Australis_houses_could_become_uninsurable)

content:
 
<p>
  In some areas of Australia, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/03/flood-and-cyclone-prone-areas-in-eastern-australia-may-be-uninsurable-by-2030-report-suggests">over 20% of houses could become
  uninsurable by 2030</a> due to increasing dangers caused by global
  heating.

 


title: Possibility of leaving states for abortions
uri: Possibility-of-leaving-states-for-abortions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(Possibility_of_leaving_states_for_abortions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(Possibility_of_leaving_states_for_abortions)

content:
 
<p>
  Will the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/03/us-abortions-travel-wave-of-restrictions">allow states to prohibit women from leaving the
  state to get an abortion</a>?
<p>
  Until we restore abortion rights in the whole US, we must make it easy
  to get abortion medicine anonymously and ship them untrackably to
  women who need them and are forbidden to get them.  It might be better,
  in an ideal world, for each woman to get examined by a doctor before
  using these medicines.  But in this world, the risk of abortion medicine
  is less than the risk of any other method of abortion.
<p>
  I suspect thet it is also less than the sum of all the risks
  (short-term and long-term), for women from marginalized groups, of
  having a baby.  The risk of death or injury in giving birth is just
  the start.  There's also the risk of poverty later on.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(Advocacy_for_a_nonaligned_movement)
title: Advocacy for a "nonaligned movement"
uri: Advocacy-for-a-nonaligned-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(Advocacy_for_a_nonaligned_movement)
content:
 
<p>
  Advocating a kind of "<a href="https://braveneweurope.com/nontobeko-hlela-why-nonalignment-is-an-urgent-imperative-for-the-global-south">nonaligned movement</a>" that isn't even aligned
  against wars of conquest.
<p>
  I see the sense in South Africa's refusing to be generally "aligned
  with the US" and instead forming another bloc of cooperating poor
  countries.  However, thinking of China as one of those poor countries,
  rather than as a budding imperialist as nasty as the European
  imperialists were in 1900, is blindness.
<p>
  There are many issues on which it is right to oppose the US.  But I
  can't see how their movement can be any more legitimate than
  colonialism if it takes the wrong side in Putin's colonial war
  just because he calls the US the enemy.

 


title: Urgent: Support Roadless Area Conservation Act
uri: Urgent-Support-Roadless-Area-Conservation-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Urgent:_Support_Roadless_Area_Conservation_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Urgent:_Support_Roadless_Area_Conservation_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49454">support the Roadless
Area Conservation Act</a>.
<p>
To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript</a> code
from the web site,
use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Pass Women's Health Protection Act
uri: Urgent-Pass-Women-s-Health-Protection-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_Women's_Health_Protection_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_Women's_Health_Protection_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your senators and call on them to pass the
Women's Health Protection Act.  Along with other things, it would
keep abortion legal.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Distribution of right-wing OAN channel
uri: Urgent-Distribution-of-right-wing-OAN-channel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Urgent:_Distribution_of_right-wing_OAN_channel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Urgent:_Distribution_of_right-wing_OAN_channel)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Verizon to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-tell-verizon-to-drop-oan">stop distributing the right-wing OAN
channel</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Rules for disclosing climate risks
uri: Urgent-Rules-for-disclosing-climate-risks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Urgent:_Rules_for_disclosing_climate_risks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Urgent:_Rules_for_disclosing_climate_risks)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: tell the SEC you support its proposed new rules for <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-and-send-a-comment-supporting-the-secs-proposed-disclosure-rule-on-corporations-climate-related-financial-risks">disclosing climate risks</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Show Jan 6 committee hearings on TV
uri: Urgent-Show-Jan-6-committee-hearings-on-TV
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Urgent:_Show_Jan_6_committee_hearings_on_TV)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Urgent:_Show_Jan_6_committee_hearings_on_TV)

content:
 
<p>

In the US: call on major US broadcast TV networks to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/televise-the-january-6th-house-select-committee-hearings">show the Jan 6
committee hearings</a>.

 


title: Move to ban race-based medical guidance
uri: Move-to-ban-race-based-medical-guidance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Move_to_ban_race-based_medical_guidance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Move_to_ban_race-based_medical_guidance)

content:
 
<p>

*US pediatricians’ group moves to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/02/us-pediatricians-group-aims-to-ban-race-based-medical-guidance">ban race-based medical guidance</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Government_secrecy_and_reprisals)
title: Government secrecy and reprisals
uri: Government-secrecy-and-reprisals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Government_secrecy_and_reprisals)
content:
 
<p>

Journalism in the Solomons is being hit by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/03/in-35-years-reporting-from-solomon-islands-i-have-never-seen-such-secrecy-as-the-last-few-months">government secrecy and reprisals</a>, apparently linked by the secret deal with China.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Canceled_nuclear_cruise_missile)
title: Canceled nuclear cruise missile
uri: Canceled-nuclear-cruise-missile
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Canceled_nuclear_cruise_missile)
content:
 
<p>

Biden wisely <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/02/very-important-case-against-more-tactical-nuclear-weapons">canceled a new nuclear cruise missile</a> that the wrecker
had proposed.
<p>
However, the US could do without some other new nuclear weapons projects,
especially via <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Nuclear_arms_don't_deter_war)">arms limitation treaties</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Emissions_from_wildfires)
title: Emissions from wildfires
uri: Emissions-from-wildfires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Emissions_from_wildfires)
content:
 
<p>

*   Wildfires in the vast and pristine forests of Canada, Europe and the
   far Northern US could release an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/world/boreal-forest-wildfires-carbon-climate/index.html">enormous amount of planet-warming
   emissions</a> between now and 2050, putting the world’s climate goals
   in peril.*
<p>
*The most devastating hurricanes could <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/weather/intense-tropical-cyclones-could-double-climate/index.html">double by 2050</a> in nearly all regions of
world,*

 


title: Sanders pushes to nix Amazon federal contracts
uri: Sanders-pushes-to-nix-Amazon-federal-contracts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Sanders_pushes_to_nix_Amazon_federal_contracts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Sanders_pushes_to_nix_Amazon_federal_contracts)

content:
 
<p>

*Sanders Pushes Biden to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/27/sanders-pushes-biden-nix-amazons-federal-contracts-over-illegal-anti-union-activity">Nix Amazon's Federal Contracts</a> Over 'Illegal
Anti-Union Activity'.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Protecting_historic_shops)
title: Protecting historic shops
uri: Protecting-historic-shops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Protecting_historic_shops)
content:
 
<p>

*Catalonia plans law to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/03/catalonia-plans-law-to-protect-historic-shops-as-rents-soar">protect historic shops</a> as rents soar.*
<p>
I wish Cambridge, Massachusetts had such a law.  The most interesting
stores in Harvard Square disappeared in the past few decades.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Survivors_of_Tulsa_race_massacre)
title: Survivors of Tulsa race massacre
uri: Survivors-of-Tulsa-race-massacre
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Survivors_of_Tulsa_race_massacre)
content:
 
<p>

The last few aged survivors of the Tulsa race massacre, 101 years ago,
are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/us/tulsa-race-massacre-hearing-trial/index.html">suing government agencies</a> that supported the massacre.
<p>
It is a gross understatement to describe mass murder by a mob as "a
public nuisance", but if that is the only way they can get into court,
it is better than nothing.

 


title: Civilians rescued from Mariupol by Putin forces
uri: Civilians-rescued-from-Mariupol-by-Putin-forces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Civilians_rescued_from_Mariupol_by_Putin_forces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Civilians_rescued_from_Mariupol_by_Putin_forces)

content:
 
<p>

Some 120 civilians were <a href="https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-05-02-22/h_0828aa7762c41eaa4f7655d7e4c25442">rescued from Mariupol</a> with cooperation of the
<a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>.  However, they were taken to Putin-held territory
and it is not clear whether they were all allowed to go to Ukraine-held
territory.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Extreme_heat_in_India)
title: Extreme heat in India
uri: Extreme-heat-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Extreme_heat_in_India)
content:
 
<p>

An <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/asia/india-pakistan-heatwave-climate-intl-hnk/index.html">extreme heat wave in India</a> is causing cancellation of trains,
school, and farming.
There could be a big food shortage in India this year, and due to
Putin's war there will be little available to buy.  I can imagine that
millions may die from it.  But it's just the beginning.  By 2050 I
expect that poor people will die from hunger every year in the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Smuggled_immigrants_in_Australia)
title: Smuggled immigrants in Australia
uri: Smuggled-immigrants-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Smuggled_immigrants_in_Australia)
content:
 
<p>

Australia uses junk science to conclude that smuggled immigrants are "adults", 
as an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/04/expert-warned-against-wrist-x-rays-used-by-afp-to-prosecute-children-as-adult-people-smugglers">excuse to prosecute them</a>.
<p>
It is absurd to treat a person of age X and a person of age X-1 so
drastically differently in the same situation.  But I think this is a
secondary injustice that results from Australia's hostility towards
immigrants that want to go to Australia.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Registry_of_pregnancies_in_Poland)
title: Registry of pregnancies in Poland
uri: Registry-of-pregnancies-in-Poland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Registry_of_pregnancies_in_Poland)
content:
 
<p>

Poland's plans to set up a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/03/erosion-of-abortion-rights-gathers-pace-around-the-world-as-us-signals-new-era">registry of all pregnancies</a>, and make doctors report all pregnancies to the government.
I have to suspect that this is for repression of abortion.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Europeans_wiping_out_oysters)
title: Europeans wiping out oysters
uri: Europeans-wiping-out-oysters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Europeans_wiping_out_oysters)
content:
 
<p>

Indigenous people in Australia and North America ate oysters in
large quantities without depleting them.  Europeans didn't bother
to preserve them, and wiped out so many that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/04/precolonial-first-nations-oyster-fisheries-sustained-millennia-of-intense-harvests-study-shows">they have become rare</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Addressing_Europe's_energy_crisis)
title: Addressing Europe's energy crisis
uri: Addressing-Europe-s-energy-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Addressing_Europe's_energy_crisis)
content:
 
<p>

*Windfall taxes, price caps and VAT cuts: how nations are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/03/windfall-taxes-price-caps-and-vat-cuts-how-nations-are-addressing-europes-energy-crisis">addressing Europe’s energy crisis</a>.*
<p>
Reducing sales taxes (such as VAT) is a good thing to do since sales
taxes fall mainly on the poor.  Governments should tax rich people's
gains instead of poor people's purchases or poor people's income.
<p>
Limiting the price of fossil fuels or electricity is a mistake,
because people must be under pressure to use less of them.
Subsidizing the cost of fuel is a dangerous addiction.
<p>
Instead of reducing what poor people pay for energy, the right thing
to do is to support them <em>unconditionally</em> with enough money to get
by.  Those who don't spend it all on energy will be able to use it for
other things.
<p>
A windfall profits tax will not directly help the poor or conserve fuel,
but it will give governments income, so that the money for the poor
does not all have to come from deficit spending.  And it will slow the growth
of economic inequality, which <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#22_December_2020_(Trickle-down)">tends to make society more cruel and unjust.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(News_media_owned_by_billionaires)
title: News media owned by billionaires
uri: News-media-owned-by-billionaires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(News_media_owned_by_billionaires)
content:
 
<p>

*It is now unusual for major news media <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/may/03/billionaires-extra-power-media-ownership-elon-musk">not to be owned by a
billionaire</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Cognitive_disability_after_Covid-19)
title: Cognitive disability after Covid-19
uri: Cognitive-disability-after-Covid-19
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Cognitive_disability_after_Covid-19)
content:
 
<p>

Some people who were hospitalized for Covid-19 experience <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/may/03/covid-hospitalisation-thinking-ageing-cognitive-decline-illness">lasting
cognitive disability afterwards</a> &mdash; sometimes comparable to 20 years of
aging.
<p>
This is distinct from "long Covid", which is unrelated to the severity
of the acute infection.  It appears that vaccination mostly prevents this
because it mostly prevents the severe disease.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Taliban_studying_to_be_police_officers)
title: Taliban studying to be police officers
uri: Taliban-studying-to-be-police-officers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#5_May_2022_(Taliban_studying_to_be_police_officers)
content:
 
<p>

With Taliban who are studying to act <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/03/taliban-swap-guns-for-pens-to-learn-about-human-rights">properly as police officers</a>
instead of brutal <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.
<p>
I am shocked by the idea that anyone under 18 is a "child".  That they
should not be soldiers, I agree &mdash; but "child"?  If someone had called
me a child when I was 14 I would have resented it.

 


title: Urgent: Fire thug who appears to have murdered Patrick Lyoya
uri: Urgent-Fire-thug-who-appears-to-have-murdered-Patrick-Lyoya
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_Fire_thug_who_appears_to_have_murdered_Patrick_Lyoya)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_Fire_thug_who_appears_to_have_murdered_Patrick_Lyoya)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Thug Chief Eric Winstrom to <a href="https://act.grassrootslaw.org/sign/patrick-lyoya/?akid=7590.7967588.voDQiV&rd=1&source=ema20220427-7590&t=1001">fire the thug who
appears to have murdered Patrick Lyoya</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Prioritize ending child hunger in US
uri: Urgent-Prioritize-ending-child-hunger-in-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_Prioritize_ending_child_hunger_in_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_Prioritize_ending_child_hunger_in_US)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to prioritize <a href="https://secure.feedingamerica.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=00000000.app20023b?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=607">ending child
hunger</a> in the US.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_Ending_Corporate_Greed_Act)
title: Urgent: Ending Corporate Greed Act
uri: Urgent-Ending-Corporate-Greed-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_Ending_Corporate_Greed_Act)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to <a href="https://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/Ending-Corporate-Greed-Act/?t=1001&refcode=g-Corporategreed0502.d-20220502.m-28428.s-316146&akid=28428%2E1906019%2ESCcUdA">co-sponsor the Ending Corporate Greed Act</a>, which would to establish a windfall profits tax
for all industries.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Codify Roev Wade and abortion rights
uri: Urgent-Codify-Roev-Wade-and-abortion-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_Codify_Roev_Wade_and_abortion_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_Codify_Roev_Wade_and_abortion_rights)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/tell-senate-codify-roe?source=em20220504&t=1006&akid=7763%2E223515%2EBQ4iXy">codify Roe v Wade</a> and abortion rights.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Ended fossil fuel leases on federal land
uri: Urgent-Ended-fossil-fuel-leases-on-federal-land
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_Ended_fossil_fuel_leases_on_federal_land)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_Ended_fossil_fuel_leases_on_federal_land)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to keep his promise and <a href="https://act.350.org/sign/biden-stop-public-lands-drilling/?source=em20220504-1-30&akid=202833%2E1151744%2EIhsVRT">end the stake of
fossil fuel leases</a> for federal land.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Campaign_for_fracking_in_the_UK)
title: Campaign for fracking in the UK
uri: Campaign-for-fracking-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Campaign_for_fracking_in_the_UK)
content:
 
<p>

Fossil fuel companies in the US are funding a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/04/climate-sceptic-thinktank-received-funding-from-fossil-fuel-interests">campaign for fracking in the UK</a>.

 


title: Plans to corrupt Britain's National Health Service
uri: Plans-to-corrupt-Britain-s-National-Health-Service
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Plans_to_corrupt_Britain's_National_Health_Service)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Plans_to_corrupt_Britain's_National_Health_Service)

content:
 
<p>

Tory officials are working with drug companies on plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/04/radical-plans-to-transform-nhs-drawn-up-at-drug-firms-and-no-10-roundtable">corrupt
Britain's National Health Service</a> in the name of facilitating drug
trials.
<p>
The basic idea of having data managers allow research queries while
protecting patients' queries is worth thinking about.  But I would not
trust <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> politicians to restrain companies from abusing such
a scheme.  The companies would game the rules to try to deduce data
about individual patients and sell it, and if the data managers simply
follow rules, the snoopers will run rings around them.
<p>
The main moral issue in this is that the government should not give
this cooperation without charging them a price.  The price must be a
reduction in monopoly power (patents, secrets, and restrictions on
self-replicating substances).

 


title: Microbial protein to halve deforestation
uri: Microbial-protein-to-halve-deforestation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Microbial_protein_to_halve_deforestation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Microbial_protein_to_halve_deforestation)

content:
 
<p>

*Swapping 20% of beef for microbial protein <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/04/swapping-20-of-beef-for-quorn-could-halve-global-deforestation">"could halve deforestation."</a>
<p>
I love eating fungi, but I want them to taste and feel like authentic
fungi, not like fake meat.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(EU_purchases_of_Russian_oil)
title: EU purchases of Russian oil
uri: EU-purchases-of-Russian-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(EU_purchases_of_Russian_oil)
content:
 
<p>

The EU is considering <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/04/ursula-von-der-leyen-says-putin-must-pay-high-price-as-she-proposes-oil-ban">ending purchase of Russian oil</a>, over a period
of a year or so.
<p>
To make this work, the EU needs to prepare a program of investment in
reducing its use of fossil fuel.  Otherwise, Russia will sell to some
other country and Europe will buy what that country used to get, and
the net effect will be zero,

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Drilling_in_New_Mexico)
title: Drilling in New Mexico
uri: Drilling-in-New-Mexico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Drilling_in_New_Mexico)
content:
 
<p>

Fossil fuel companies are trying to convince New Mexicans to think of
fossil fuels as desperately necessary, authorize more oil drilling,
using <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/04/oil-and-gas-industry-us-public-schools">ads linking new wells to public schools</a>.
<p>
I can imagine an advertising campaign showing a school being burnt by
a wildfire, a school near a river being flooded by rain from an
"atmospheric river", and a school near a coast being flooded by a
hurricane, saying that "these disasters are powered mainly by oil and
natural gas (plus coal)."
<p>
That is the "easy listening" version.  The grim version is that most
of the students in those schools will die from <a href="/glossary.html#climate">climate mayhem</a> before
they get old.

 


title: Georgia law about teaching "divisive concepts"
uri: Georgia-law-about-teaching-divisive-concepts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Georgia_law_about_teching_divisive_concepts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Georgia_law_about_teching_divisive_concepts)

content:
 
<p>

Georgia has passed a law <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/politics/georgia-bill-limits-race-discussions-classrooms/index.html">banning the teaching of "divisive concepts"</a>
about racism.
<p>
It specific lists a few of them:

<li>the United States of America is
   fundamentally racist.

<li> an individual, by virtue of his or her race, is
   inherently or consciously racist or oppressive toward individuals of
   other races,

<li>an individual, solely by virtue of his or her race,
   bears individual responsibility for actions committed in the past by
   other individuals of the same race.

These are worse than merely "divisive".  They constitute bigotry, and
schools should not teach them.
<p>
The dirty part of the law is that "divisive" concepts include other
things too, and the boundary would be easy to stretch.  Right-wing
officials could easily act to stop all teaching about racism.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Christian_flag_at_Boston_City_Hall)
title: Christian flag at Boston City Hall
uri: Christian-flag-at-Boston-City-Hall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Christian_flag_at_Boston_City_Hall)
content:
 
<p>

The Supreme Court ruled that a Christian group is entitled to have its
flag flown at Boston City Hall.  Now the Satanic Temple <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/04/satanic-flag-boston-city-hall-request-supreme-court-ruling">demands the
same privilege</a>.
<p>
US governmental agencies are not allowed to prefer one religious
position over another.  Whatever one group is allowed to do, others
can also do.  Including secular groups whose position on religion
is "none of the above", such as the Satanic Temple.
<!--
[pol note explaining what it is]
  -->

 


title: Rights threatened by right-wing Christian fanatics
uri: Rights-threatened-by-right-wing-Christian-fanatics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Rights_threatened_by_right-wing_Christian_fanatics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Rights_threatened_by_right-wing_Christian_fanatics)

content:
 
<p>

Rebecca Solnit explains that the right-wing Christian fanatics now
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/03/heres-how-americans-can-fight-back-to-protect-abortion-rights">threaten a wide range of rights</a>: abortion rights, birth control,
same-sex marriage, even homosexual sex.  Not to mention freedom
of speech and the right to vote.
<p>
This makes a broad resistance coalition possible.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Banning_abortions_nationally)
title: Banning abortions nationally
uri: Banning-abortions-nationally
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Banning_abortions_nationally)
content:
 
<p>

Republicans are preparing to <a href="http://web.archive.org/save/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/02/abortion-ban-roe-supreme-court-mississippi/">ban abortions nationally</a> if they get
power again.
<p>
This unpopular policy, joined with others, would lead to their defeat
at the polls, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#12_January_2022_(Laws_helping_overturn_elections)">if we had free and fair elections</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Children_walking_around_on_their_own)
title: Children walking around on their own
uri: Children-walking-around-on-their-own
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Children_walking_around_on_their_own)
content:
 
<p>

How one couple taught the annoyingly "concerned" neighbors to <a href="https://letgrow.org/get-kids-outside/">get used
to seeing their children walking around</a> on their own.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Bully_asked_to_have_protesters_shot)
title: Bully asked to have protesters shot
uri: Bully-asked-to-have-protesters-shot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Bully_asked_to_have_protesters_shot)
content:
 
<p>

Mark Esper, the bully's Defense Secretary, says that the bully <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/02/trump-wanted-shoot-protesters-says-his-former-pentagon-chief">asked him
to have protesters shot</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Britain's_insufficient_public_housing)
title: Britain's insufficient public housing
uri: Britain-s-insufficient-public-housing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Britain's_insufficient_public_housing)
content:
 
<p>

The Tories want to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/02/boris-johnson-pondering-right-to-buy-for-housing-association-tenants">sell off more Britain's insufficient public housing</a>.
<p>
They did this in the 80s and 90s, which created a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_(Housing_policies_of_main_UK_parties)">big shortage</a>,
but apparently they're not satisfied yet.

 


title: Attempts to subvert democracy at the state level
uri: Attempts-to-subvert-democracy-at-the-state-level
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Attempts_to_subvert_democracy_at_the_state_level)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Attempts_to_subvert_democracy_at_the_state_level)

content:
 
<p>

*   Even the few Republicans in Washington who opposed the worst excesses
   of Trumpism have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/02/conservatives-dont-want-true-democracy-and-nice-republicans-are-no-exception">unwilling to fight attempts</a> to subvert democracy at the state level.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Spanish_prime_minister's_phone)
title: Spanish prime minister's phone
uri: Spanish-prime-minister-s-phone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Spanish_prime_minister's_phone)
content:
 
<p>

*Spanish prime minister’s phone <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/02/spain-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez-phone-pegasus-spyware">"targeted with Pegasus spyware"</a>.*
<p>
NSO, the company that makes Pegasus, claims to make sure in some mysterious
way that the software is used only against legitimate targets,
but also claims that it doesn't verify who is actually targeted.
I suspect that this is doubletalk.  Perhaps by "legitimate targets"
it means "targets actually chose by an authorized user."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Telecom_lobbyists_against_Gigi_Sohn)
title: Telecom lobbyists against Gigi Sohn
uri: Telecom-lobbyists-against-Gigi-Sohn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Telecom_lobbyists_against_Gigi_Sohn)
content:
 
<p>

Telecom lobbyists are spending hard to convince Senate Democrats
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/28/infuriating-telecom-lobbyists-spending-big-money-keep-gigi-sohn-fcc">not to confirm</a> Gigi Sohn as FCC commissioner.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Comparing_arms_for_Ukraine_today)
title: Comparing arms for Ukraine today
uri: Comparing-arms-for-Ukraine-today
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Comparing_arms_for_Ukraine_today)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/04/us-lend-lease-act-ukraine-1941-second-world-war">Comparing arms for Ukraine</a> today with arms for Britain, China and
Russia in 1941.
<p>
The war is Putin's choice.  He chose to start it, and I am confident
he can end it by choice any time.  All he would need to do is pull his
forces out of Ukraine, and allow everyone he has taken from Ukraine to
Russia to go back to Ukraine if <a href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> chooses.

 


title: Interview with polio vaccination worker
uri: Interview-with-polio-vaccination-worker
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Interview_with_polio_vaccination_worker)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Interview_with_polio_vaccination_worker)

content:
 
<p>

An <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/04/its-scary-work-but-im-determined-we-will-make-pakistan-polio-free">interview with a polio vaccination</a> worker in Pakistan.
<p>
Sometimes I wish we had a vaccine against religion too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_((satire)_Crab-stuffed_M%26M's)
title: (satire) Crab-stuffed M&M's
uri: (satire)-Crab-stuffed-M-M-s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_((satire)_Crab-stuffed_M%26M's)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/mars-introduces-new-crab-stuffed-m-m-s-1848738976">*Mars Introduces New Crab-Stuffed M&M's.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_('Green'_and_'Nontoxic'_products)
title: 'Green' and 'Nontoxic' products
uri: Green-and-Nontoxic-products
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_('Green'_and_'Nontoxic'_products)
content:
 
<p>

*Study Shows Even 'Green' and 'Nontoxic' Products for Kids <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/04/study-shows-even-green-and-nontoxic-products-kids-contain-forever-chemicals">Contain Forever
Chemicals</a>.* These include clothing and pillow protectors.
<p>
*Over half of child car seats have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/05/us-child-car-seats-pfas-foxic-flame-retardants-study">toxic flame retardants and PFAS</a> &mdash; US study.*

 


title: Indian street sweepers constantly tracked
uri: Indian-street-sweepers-constantly-tracked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Indian_street_sweepers_constantly_tracked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Indian_street_sweepers_constantly_tracked)

content:
 
<p>

Indian street sweepers, who usually come from very disprivileged castes,
are <a href="https://thewire.in/labour/how-digital-snooping-on-sanitation-workers-is-worsening-their-struggles">tracked constantly</a> using snoopwatches.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Starbucks_anti-union_tactics)
title: Starbucks anti-union tactics
uri: Starbucks-anti-union-tactics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Starbucks_anti-union_tactics)
content:
 
<p>
  Decribing the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/04/starbucks-anti-union-tactics">pressure and threat tactics</a> that Starbucks uses in a Denver
  store where workers will vote on unionization.
<p>
  Starbucks says it will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/04/smells-illegal-starbucks-ceo-says-unionized-workers-will-be-excluded-wage-hikes">soon give workers a raise, except at stores
  that voted to unionize</a>.
  Workers say that's illegal.

 


title: Urgent: Fire Postmaster General Louis DeJoy
uri: Urgent-Fire-Postmaster-General-Louis-DeJoy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Urgent:_Fire_Postmaster_General_Louis_DeJoy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Urgent:_Fire_Postmaster_General_Louis_DeJoy)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49702">fire Postmaster General Louis DeJoy</a>.
<p>
To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript</a> code
from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Urgent:_Expand_the_Supreme_Court)
title: Urgent: Expand the Supreme Court
uri: 2022-05-10-Urgent-Expand-the-Supreme-Court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Urgent:_Expand_the_Supreme_Court)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/expand-scotus-alito/?t=1001&akid=29098%2E96703%2ESFTJsp">expand the Supreme Court</a>
so as to dilute the votes of the religious extremists.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Climate activists who blocked Houston bridge
uri: Climate-activists-who-blocked-Houston-bridge
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Climate_activists_who_blocked_Houston_bridge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Climate_activists_who_blocked_Houston_bridge)

content:
 
<p>

*Climate Activists Who Blocked Houston Bridge to Fossil Fuel Traffic <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/03/climate-activists-who-blocked-houston-bridge-fossil-fuel-traffic-cleared-all-federal">Cleared of All Federal Charges</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Highlighted_increase_of_poverty_in_UK)
title: Highlighted increase of poverty in UK
uri: Highlighted-increase-of-poverty-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Highlighted_increase_of_poverty_in_UK)
content:
 
<p>

The increase of poverty in the UK is highlighted by the case of a
77-year-old retired woman who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/03/stories-like-elsies-highlight-pensioners-plight-and-the-inadequate-help">can't afford heat</a>.  She spends all day
riding buses.  This way she can afford one meal per day.
<p>
It's actually worse in the US, with thousands of people who haven't got
any indoor place to live.

 


title: (satire) Justice Alito somberly ties noose
uri: (satire)-Justice-Alito-somberly-ties-noose
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_((satire)_Justice_Alito_somberly_ties_noose)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_((satire)_Justice_Alito_somberly_ties_noose)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/justice-alito-somberly-ties-noose-after-realizing-he-no-1848875143">*Justice Alito Somberly Ties Noose After Realizing He's Not
Mentioned In Constitution.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_((satire)_Back-Alley_Supreme_Court)
title: (satire) Back-Alley Supreme Court
uri: (satire)-Back-Alley-Supreme-Court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_((satire)_Back-Alley_Supreme_Court)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/nation-forced-to-seek-human-rights-from-back-alley-supr-1848875105">*Nation Forced To Seek Human Rights From Back-Alley Supreme Court.*</a>

 


title: Senator Collins comment on draft Roe opinion
uri: Senator-Collins-comment-on-draft-Roe-opinion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Senator_Collins_comment_on_draft_Roe_opinion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Senator_Collins_comment_on_draft_Roe_opinion)

content:
 
<p>

Republican Senator Collins said that *the draft Roe opinion is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/susan-collins-reaction-kavanaugh-gorsuch/index.html">"completely
inconsistent"</a> with what Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said during hearings and
meetings.*
<p>
The way to make up for her damaging credulousness is to undo what she
did.  She has the obligation to help pass a law to expand the Supreme
Court with three new justices to override the right-wing fanatics.

 


title: Voter-suppression blocking disabled people
uri: Voter-suppression-blocking-disabled-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Voter-suppression_blocking_disabled_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Voter-suppression_blocking_disabled_people)

content:
 
<p>

Harsh Republican voter-suppression is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/ballot-access-disabled-voters-ctzn/index.html">blocking disabled people</a> from
voting in some states.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Louisiana_career_criminals)
title: Louisiana "career criminals"
uri: Louisiana-career-criminals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Louisiana_career_criminals)
content:
 
<p>

In Louisiana, people living in bad conditions have been branded as
"career criminals", then <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/06/life-in-prison-for-stealing-20-how-the-division-is-taking-apart-brutal-criminal-sentences">sentenced to life in prison</a> for minor crimes.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Amazon_firing_managers)
title: Amazon firing managers
uri: Amazon-firing-managers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Amazon_firing_managers)
content:
 
<p>

Amazon seems to have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/06/amazon-fires-new-york-managers-labor-union">fired managers</a> for failing to defeat the unionization
drive in a warehouse.
Insulting the public, Amazon denies that this was the reason.
That's treating the managers like the staff.
<p>
Please don't buy from <a href="/amazon.html">Amazon</a>.
Especially, please don't ever give Amazon someone else's name and address.
That's like giving Amazon your own name and address, except that you're
doxing someone else instead of yourself.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Enforced_childbirth_is_slavery)
title: Enforced childbirth is slavery
uri: Enforced-childbirth-is-slavery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Enforced_childbirth_is_slavery)
content:
 
<p>

Margaret Atwood: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/07/enforced-childbirth-is-slavery-margaret-atwood-on-the-right-to-abortion">*Enforced childbirth is slavery.*</a>

 


title: Efforts to make farming protect the soil
uri: Efforts-to-make-farming-protect-the-soil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Efforts_to_make_farming_protect_the_soil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Efforts_to_make_farming_protect_the_soil)

content:
 
<p>

George Monbiot discusses efforts to make farming <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/07/secret-world-beneath-our-feet-mind-blowing-key-to-planets-future">protect the soil
instead of degrading it</a>.
<p>
Don't forget <a href="/articles/children.html ">birth reduction</a>
as a part of the solution!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Accusations_of_institutional_racism)
title: Accusations of institutional racism
uri: Accusations-of-institutional-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Accusations_of_institutional_racism)
content:
 
<p>

The elected official in charge of policing in the area around Liverpool
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/05/merseyside-police-commissioner-says-force-is-institutionally-racist">accused the thug department there</a> of institutional racism.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Public_education_for_all_students)
title: Public education for all students
uri: Public-education-for-all-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Public_education_for_all_students)
content:
 
<p>

The governor of Texas wants the Supreme Court to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/05/texas-gop-governor-considers-challenging-1982-ruling-requiring-free-public-education">overturn a decision</a>
that states must provide public education gratis to all students.
<p>
Regardless of how a child came to be, or came to be in Texas, it is
cruel and wrong to deny the child what children need to grow up into
capable adults.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Estimated_15_million_Covid-19_deaths)
title: Estimated 15 million Covid-19 deaths
uri: Estimated-15-million-Covid-19-deaths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Estimated_15_million_Covid-19_deaths)
content:
 
<p>

WHO estimates that Covid-19 has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/05/who-says-pandemic-has-killed-15-million-people-nearly-3-times-more-reported">killed around 15 million people</a>.
<p>
A fraction of them died of other medical causes because they were
unable to get treatment while hospitals were filled due Covid-19,
but most of them actually died of Covid-19.
<p>
The figure of 14.9 million is surely excess precision.  We can't estimate
the number within .1 million.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Barrier_of_automatic_surveillance)
title: Barrier of automatic surveillance
uri: Barrier-of-automatic-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Barrier_of_automatic_surveillance)
content:
 
<p>

Biden has replaced the bully's symbolic border wall with a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/05/border-industrial-complex-biden-era">barrier
of automatic surveillance</a>.
<p>
A border thug might <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_July_2014_(US_border_patrol_thugs_brutalize_people)">beat you to death</a>, or kill you by poisoning wells,
motivated by racist hatred.
A robot, even an unarmed one, might beat
you to death or even push you over a cliff without having any
emotions, and without any concept of what it means to be injured.  It
need only be programmed to recognize you as a "threat".
<p>
I don't see anything inherently wrong with detecting people that
cross the border.  It's what happens after that, that can be wrong.
<p>
However, the surveillance of "the border" is not limited to people
that recently crossed it.  The US border <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are authorized to snoop
on, and search, everyone within 50 miles of a coast or border.  Most
Americans <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_June_2014_(US_Border_Patrol)">live in that zone</a>.
The monitoring of everyone could be extended to you in your neighborhood.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Plunge_in_flying_insect_population)
title: Plunge in flying insect population
uri: Plunge-in-flying-insect-population
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Plunge_in_flying_insect_population)
content:
 
<p>

*UK Survey Finds 'Terrifying' <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/05/uk-survey-finds-terrifying-60-plunge-flying-insect-population">60% Plunge in Flying Insect Population</a>.*
This is since 17 years ago.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Begging_Manchin_to_support_relief_bill)
title: Begging Manchin to support relief bill
uri: Begging-Manchin-to-support-relief-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Begging_Manchin_to_support_relief_bill)
content:
 
<p>

Some in West Virginia beg Senator Manchin to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/05/im-west-virginian-farmer-my-brothers-work-oil-and-coal-and-we-need-manchin-act">support the relief bill</a>
in August.

 


title: (satire) Aliens ask to meet Princess Di
uri: (satire)-Aliens-ask-to-meet-Princess-Di
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_((satire)_Aliens_ask_to_meet_Princess_Di)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_((satire)_Aliens_ask_to_meet_Princess_Di)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/aliens-making-first-contact-excitedly-ask-to-meet-princ-1848739014">*Aliens Making First Contact Excitedly Ask To Meet Princess Di.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(List_of_important_human_rights)
title: List of important human rights
uri: List-of-important-human-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(List_of_important_human_rights)
content:
 
<p>

A list of <a href="https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/05/roe-v-wade-v-sanity.html">important human rights</a> decisions that the fanatical
Christians on the Supreme Court could overturn with the same reasoning
that they used on abortion rights.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Raising_drug_plan_prices)
title: Raising drug plan prices
uri: Raising-drug-plan-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Raising_drug_plan_prices)
content:
 
<p>

*Medicare Surprise: Drug Plan Prices Touted During Open Enrollment Can <a href="https://khn.org/news/article/medicare-drug-plan-prices-open-enrollment-rise/">Rise
Within a Month</a>.*
<p>
That is, Medicare Advantage plans can advertise a price to attract you,
then increase the price, and you won't have another chance to switch
for six months.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Thug_threatened_Katie_Wright)
title: Thug threatened Katie Wright
uri: Thug-threatened-Katie-Wright
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Thug_threatened_Katie_Wright)
content:
 
<p>

Katie Wright, whose son was killed by a cop in Brooklyn Center,
Minnesota, began filming from a distance the actions of a <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> doing a
traffic stop to someone else, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/us/daunte-wright-mother-grabbed-by-police-film-traffic-stop/index.html">he came over and threatened her</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Only_10_remaining_vaquita_porpoises)
title: Only 10 remaining vaquita porpoises
uri: Only-10-remaining-vaquita-porpoises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Only_10_remaining_vaquita_porpoises)
content:
 
<p>

There are only <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/world/vaquita-porpoises-endangered-scn/index.html">10 remaining vaquita porpoises</a>.  Quick action can still
protect the species, but it must be fully effective and can't wait.
<p>
To enforce the prohibition on gillnets completely enough to achieve
the goal would be unlikely.  Perhaps it would work to confine them to
a small part of the sea and provide them with live fish until their
population reaches 100 or more.

 


title: Identifying people suspect of having abortions
uri: Identifying-people-suspect-of-having-abortions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Identifying_people_suspect_of_having_abortions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Identifying_people_suspect_of_having_abortions)

content:
 
<p>

The ordinary surveillance of nearly everyone, by snoopphones and apps,
could be used as an excuse to <a href="https://gizmodo.com/roe-v-wade-supreme-court-abortion-overturn-ron-wyden-da-1848876732">identify people to be suspect of having
abortions</a>.
<p>
In many cases, nonfree programs are responsible for this surveillance.
Nearly all apps are nonfree.  Nonfree browsers typically send
various identifying information.
<p>
This surveillance can provide an excuse to investigate further, for
almost anything that a fanatical state might prohibit.  So it is not
enough to protect people who engage in one particular activity (in
this case, abortion).  We need to eliminate the system of <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">pervasive
surveillance</a>.

 


title: Torture and execution of civilians in Central African Republic
uri: Torture-and-execution-of-civilians-in-Central-African-Republic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Torture_and_execution_of_civilians_in_Central_African_Republic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Torture_and_execution_of_civilians_in_Central_African_Republic)

content:
 
<p>

Human Rights Watch: *Russian-linked forces <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/africa/russian-forces-executions-car-intl/index.html">'tortured' and 'executed'
civilians</a> in Central African Republic since 2019.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_((satire)_Trigger_laws_in_13_states)
title: (satire) Trigger laws in 13 states
uri: (satire)-Trigger-laws-in-13-states
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_((satire)_Trigger_laws_in_13_states)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/trigger-laws-in-13-states-to-automatically-detonate-abo-1848886145">*Trigger Laws In 13 States To Automatically Detonate Abortion
Clinics Moment Roe v. Wade Overturned.*</a>

 


title: Noam Chomsky interview about war in Ukraine
uri: Noam-Chomsky-interview-about-war-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Noam_Chomsky_interview_about_war_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Noam_Chomsky_interview_about_war_in_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>

An <a href="https://braveneweurope.com/noam-chomsky-propaganda-wars-are-raging-as-russias-war-on-ukraine-expands">interview with Noam Chomsky</a> about the war in Ukraine, the
Republican fanatics, and what has changed and not changed in US media.
<p>
Alongside the many points I agree with, or trust him to report
accurately, I must point out one disagreement.  Rivalry between powers
over international influence or wealth, if it is short of war, morally
cannot count as "provocation" for war, because losing a game of
rivalry doesn't excuse starting a war.
<p>
Thus, Japan's desire to conquer China, thwarted by US economic
sanctions, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#18_September_2019_(Iran)">did not justify</a> Japan's attack on the US.
Dubya's desire for oil riches, together with power rivalry, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#15_March_2013_(US-imposed_disaster_in_Iraq)">did not
justify</a> Dubya's attack on Iraq.
Likewise, the desire for a sphere of interest did not justify
Putin's attack on Ukraine.

 


title: Russian interference in the 2020 election
uri: Russian-interference-in-the-2020-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Russian_interference_in_the_2020_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Russian_interference_in_the_2020_election)

content:
 
<p>
  One of the wrecker's appointees in the Department of Hostility and
  Savagery ordered intelligence professionals not to talk about the
  <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/donald-trump-russian-interference-election-politics/index.html">possibility of Russian interference in the 2020 election</a>.

 


title: Putin forces invited civilians to go to Russia
uri: Putin-forces-invited-civilians-to-go-to-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Putin_forces_invited_civilians_to_go_to_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Putin_forces_invited_civilians_to_go_to_Russia)

content:
 
<p>
  Interviews with Ukrainian civilians who were brought from Mariupol to
  Zaporizhzhia.
<p>
  One of them reported that the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> invited civilians to go to
  Russia (and some accepted), but did not force people to go.
<p>
  Ukraine has reported for weeks than over 100,000 civilians were still
  in Mariupol, but I don't think it has a way to find out who is still
  alive.  It does not seem that anyone outside the Azovstal plant has
  been given a chance to leave.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Presidential_emergency_powers)
title: Presidential emergency powers
uri: Presidential-emergency-powers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Presidential_emergency_powers)
content:
 
<p>
  Hardly anyone, even in Congress, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/opinions/secret-presidential-powers-unite-states-cohen-hart/index.html">knows what emergency powers the US
  president has</a>.  But we cannot trust future presidents to use them only when necessary.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Healthcare_crisis)
title: Healthcare crisis
uri: Healthcare-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Healthcare_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/04/medicare-all-can-fix-unaffordable-healthcare-crisis">Medicare for All</a> Can Fix the Unaffordable Healthcare Crisis.*

 


title: Women killed by laws restricting abortion
uri: Women-killed-by-laws-restricting-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Women_killed_by_laws_restricting_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Women_killed_by_laws_restricting_abortion)

content:
 
<p>

The stories of five women <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/07/killed-by-abortion-laws-five-women-whose-stories-we-must-never-forget">killed by laws restricting abortion</a>.

 


title: Torture that broke Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
uri: Torture-that-broke-Abd-al-Rahim-al-Nashiri
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Torture_that_broke_Abd_al-Rahim_al-Nashiri)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Torture_that_broke_Abd_al-Rahim_al-Nashiri)

content:
 
<p>

The CIA's torture psychologists describe just a little of the torture
that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/04/all-these-guys-belong-prison-cia-torture-described-vivid-detail-psychologist">broke Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri</a> to the point where he would crawl
into a box in anticipation of a command.

 


title: Suit to stop Rep. Green running for congress was rejected
uri: Suit-to-stop-Rep-Green-running-for-congress-was-rejected
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Suit_to_stop_Rep._Green_running_for_congress_was_rejected)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Suit_to_stop_Rep._Green_running_for_congress_was_rejected)

content:
 
<p>

A judge <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/06/trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-reelection-georgia-judge-raffensperger">rejected the suit</a> to stop insurrectionist Rep. Greene from
running again for Congress.
<p>
It seems that only blatant admission of insurrectionist intent could
suffice to bar a candidate.

 


title: Morally and legally liable for climate damage
uri: Morally-and-legally-liable-for-climate-damage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Morally_and_legally_liable_for_climate_damage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Morally_and_legally_liable_for_climate_damage)

content:
 
<p>

*Filipino inquiry finds big polluters <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/filipino-inquiry-finds-big-polluters-morally-and-legally-liable-for-climate-damage">"morally and legally liable"</a> for
climate damage.*
<p>
This inquiry is part of a lawsuit about damage caused by a storm
(basically a hurricane but in the Pacific Ocean).

 


title: Murders committed by Assad's torture forces
uri: Murders-committed-by-Assad-s-torture-forces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Murders_committed_by_Assad's_torture_forces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Murders_committed_by_Assad's_torture_forces)

content:
 
<p>

Syrian families have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/he-ran-in-a-familiar-way-heartbreak-as-families-identify-tadamon-victims">identified their relatives</a> in the films of murders
committed by Assad's torture forces in 2013.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Belarus_forced_down_airliner)
title: Belarus forced down airliner
uri: Belarus-forced-down-airliner
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Belarus_forced_down_airliner)
content:
 
<p>

Belarus forced down the airliner carrying dissident activists Roman
Protasevich and Sofia Sapega, and took them off the plane.
Now Sapega has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/belarus-plane-arrest-activist-sofia-sapega-sentenced-to-six-years">sentenced to six years in prison</a>.
<p>
It appears Russia pressured Roman Protasevich into a
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/europe/belarus-ryanair-sentence-sofia-sapega-intl/index.html">public confession</a> of being a dissident.

 


title: Lula's campaign to become president of Brazil
uri: Lula-s-campaign-to-become-president-of-Brazil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Lula's_campaign_to_become_president_of_Brazil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Lula's_campaign_to_become_president_of_Brazil)

content:
 
<p>

Lula has launched his campaign to become president of Brazil again and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/07/lula-launches-campaign-to-reclaim-brazilian-presidency-from-bolsanaro">oust Bolsonaro</a>.

 


title: Unauthorized immigrants forced to throw away possessions
uri: Unauthorized-immigrants-forced-to-throw-away-possessions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Unauthorized_immigrants_forced_to_throw_away_possessions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Unauthorized_immigrants_forced_to_throw_away_possessions)

content:
 
<p>

US border thugs force unauthorized immigrants to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/08/us-mexico-border-agents-belongings">throw away most of their
possessions</a>.  Sometimes they destroy immigrants' passports too.

 


title: Bogus "proof" fetuses feel pain before 24 weeks
uri: Bogus-proof-fetuses-feel-pain-before-24-weeks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Bogus_proof_fetuses_feel_pain_before_24_weeks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Bogus_proof_fetuses_feel_pain_before_24_weeks)

content:
 
<p>

Giandomenico Iannetti, professor of neuroscience, says
antiabortionists have twisted his work to make a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/08/british-scientist-says-us-anti-abortion-lawyers-misused-his-work-to-attack-roe-v-wade">bogus "proof"</a> that fetuses can feel pain before 24 weeks.
<p>
The question is a red herring, because abortions after 3 months
in the US already require a strong justification, and some pain
would not be enough to overcome a strong justification.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Sewage_sludge_as_fertilizer)
title: Sewage sludge as fertilizer
uri: Sewage-sludge-as-fertilizer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Sewage_sludge_as_fertilizer)
content:
 
<p>

Millions of acres of US farmland could be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/08/us-cropland-may-be-contaminated-forever-chemicals-study">contaminated with PFAS</a> as a result
of using sewage sludge as fertilizer.
<p>
There is no known way to decontaminate the soil of those farms.
However, we don't know what the level of contamination is.
There may be some safe way to grow something there.  Or there may not.

 


title: Abortion travel benefits provided to employees
uri: Abortion-travel-benefits-provided-to-employees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Abortion_travel_benefits_provided_to_employees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Abortion_travel_benefits_provided_to_employees)

content:
 
<p>

Many major US companies are providing abortion travel benefits to
their employees.  Republicans are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/08/us-companies-abortion-travel-assistance-roe-v-wade">looking for ways to persecute them</a>.
<p>
California can turn some of these measures around to punish companies
which don't provide such benefits.
<p>
Ultimately, companies can move operations out of the states controlled
by religious fanatics.

 


title: (satire) Brainstorm Even Grislier Method
uri: (satire)-Brainstorm-Even-Grislier-Method
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_((satire)_Brainstorm_Even_Grislier_Method)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_((satire)_Brainstorm_Even_Grislier_Method)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/court-delays-inmate-s-execution-to-brainstorm-even-gris-1848830883">*Court Delays Inmate's Execution To Brainstorm Even Grislier
Method.*</a>
<p>
My view is that the death penalty is wrong regardless of the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jul-oct.html#26_August_2020_(Flaws_in_death_penalty_convictions)">details</a>.

 


title: Pfizer price gouging on Covid-19 treatment
uri: Pfizer-price-gouging-on-Covid-19-treatment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Pfizer_price_gouging_on_Covid-19_treatment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Pfizer_price_gouging_on_Covid-19_treatment)

content:
 
<p>

Pfizer is accused of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/03/pfizer-covid-sales-pricing-vaccine-paxlovid-pill">price gouging</a> on its Covid-19 treatment, Paxlovid.
<p>
I criticize this articles for using misleading terms, such as <a href="https://stallman.org/antiglossary.html#globalsouth">"global south"</a>
which is a progressive PR campaign whose spirit is laudable but whose
specifics are misleading.
<p>
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">"Intellectual property"</a> is a PR campaign for giving various businesses
various special privileges. Lumping those privileges together is an obstacle to thinking clearly
about the specific harms of each one, and judging against them any supposed
benefits are each one.  I have taught myself never to use that term
in my thinking, my speaking, and my writing.

 


title: Faux News as a model for right-wing organizations
uri: Faux-News-as-a-model-for-right-wing-organizations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Faux_News_as_a_model_for_right-wing_organizations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Faux_News_as_a_model_for_right-wing_organizations)

content:
 
<p>

Right-wing organizations are using <a href="/glossary.html#faux">Faux News</a> as a model for how
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/03/fox-news-model-fomenting-divisions-within-democratic-societies-global-watchdog-warns">provoke hostility</a> in various democratic countries.

 


title: Same-sex marriage and homosexual sex are next targets
uri: Same-sex-marriage-and-homosexual-sex-are-next-targets
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Same-sex_marriage_and_homosexual_sex_are_next_targets)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Same-sex_marriage_and_homosexual_sex_are_next_targets)

content:
 
<p>

Alito's draft opinion <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/03/critics-warn-alito-draft-threatens-much-much-more-abortion-rights">clearly states</a> that the right to same-sex marriage
and even homosexual sex are the next targets.
<p>
*Biden warns LGBTQ+ children could be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/04/biden-lgbtq-children-next-target-maga-crowd">next target</a> of Republican ‘Maga crowd’.*
<p>
"MAGA" means "Make America Groan Again."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Starbucks_violations_of_US_labor_laws)
title: Starbucks violations of US labor laws
uri: Starbucks-violations-of-US-labor-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Starbucks_violations_of_US_labor_laws)
content:
 
<p>

The NLRB accuses Starbucks of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/07/workers-say-nlrb-complaint-fully-unmasks-starbucks-facade-progressive-company">200 violations of US labor law</a>.
<p>
Sad to say, US labor law doesn't include imprisonment or even fines
of the executives responsible for these illegalities.  Why doesn't it?
I suspect the reason is the prevalence of <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratists</a> in Congress,
which in turn reflects the political power of the businesses that try
to break unions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Environmental_damage_to_Ukraine)
title: Environmental damage to Ukraine
uri: Environmental-damage-to-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Environmental_damage_to_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>

The Putin forces' attacks are causing <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/07/amid-war-and-devastation-ukrainians-track-russian-eco-crimes">massive environmental damage to
Ukraine</a>. People are keeping track of them, secretly, so as to avoid
helping the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> cause more damage.

 


title: Wrecker wanted to fire missiles at Mexican drug labs
uri: Wrecker-wanted-to-fire-missiles-at-Mexican-drug-labs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Wrecker_wanted_to_fire_missiles_at_Mexican_drug_labs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Wrecker_wanted_to_fire_missiles_at_Mexican_drug_labs)

content:
 
<p>

Mike Esper, secretary of defense under the wrecker, reports that the
wrecker <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/media/mark-esper-trump-missiles-mexico-defense-department/index.html">wanted to fire missiles at Mexican drug labs</a>.
<p>
Aside from the outrageousness of this act of war, I don't think the US
could have located them accurately enough to succeed in destroying
them that way.  And I suspect each missile would cost a thousand times
the cost of a drug lab.
<p>
The department subsequently tried to block Esper from mentioning this
in his book, but backed down.  Esper suggests that it was acting
politically, trying to protect the wrecker rather than the US.
<p>
The wrecker did so many provocative things to Mexico that the idea of
trying to protect the US's relations with Mexico by concealing this
proposal seems silly to me.

 


title: Easy to track visits to abortion clinics
uri: Easy-to-track-visits-to-abortion-clinics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Easy_to_track_visits_to_abortion_clinics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Easy_to_track_visits_to_abortion_clinics)

content:
 
<p>

In the surveillance society, data brokers will make it easy for
repressive state governments to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/04/roe-under-threat-sale-location-data-abortion-clinic-patients-raises-alarm">find who has gone to an abortion
clinic</a> in another state.
<p>
Payment applications will also be used to try to find people to prosecute.
<p>
When you go to an appointment related <em>in any way</em> to an abortion,
don't take any digital devices with you, unless it's a laptop running
GNU/Linux that won't connect to the internet except when you tell it
to.
<p>
And don't use a <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/abortion-access/">digital device to pay with</a>.
Pay in cash, for the abortion or pills, and all activities related to traveling to get
there.  That way, you don't need to give your real name and address.
<p>
This is one especially vicious aspect of the general injustice of
widespread surveillance and tracking.  It leads to many sorts
of repression, so we need to reject it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Tennessee's_attack_on_abortion_rights)
title: Tennessee's attack on abortion rights
uri: Tennessee-s-attack-on-abortion-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Tennessee's_attack_on_abortion_rights)
content:
 
<p>

Tennessee's latest attack on abortion rights is to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/us/tennessee-abortion-pills-by-mail-bill/index.html">prohibit sending
abortion medicines by mail</a>.
<p>
I think people will find it easy to defy that law.  In addition, I
suspect that Tennessee cannot actually prohibit the sending of such
mail in places outside Tennessee's jurisdiction.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(coalition_climate_target)
title: Coalition climate target consistent with more than 3C global heating, research says
uri: Coalition-climate-target-consistent-with-more-than-3C-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(coalition_climate_target)
content:
 
<p>
The Australian Labor Party is aiming for 2C of global heating, which
will be a disaster.  
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/06/coalition-climate-target-consistent-with-more-than-3c-global-heating-research-says">The extreme planet-roasters are aiming for 3C of
global heating.</a>



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(louisiana_abortion_bill)
title: Louisiana Republicans advance bill to make abortion a crime of murder.
uri: Louisiana-Republicans-advance-bill-to-make-abortion-a-crime-of-murder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(louisiana_abortion_bill)
content:
 
<p>
*Louisiana Republicans advance bill to make 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/05/louisiana-abortion-bill-murder-republicans">abortion a crime of murder.</a>*
<p>
Repressive US Christians are already campaigning to ban abortion and
even some kinds of contraception, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/05/the-guardian-view-on-what-follows-roe-v-wade-it-doesnt-stop-here">and not just in the US.</a>



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(who_estimates)
title: WHO estimates 15m people were killed by Covid or overwhelmed health systems.
uri: WHO-estimates-15m-people-were-killed-by-Covid-or-overwhelmed-health-sy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(who_estimates)
content:
 
<p>*WHO estimates 15m people were killed by Covid or 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/05/who-estimates-15m-people-were-killed-by-covid-or-overwhelmed-health-systems">overwhelmed health systems.</a>*
<p>
That is twice the usual estimate.  I've seen estimates of three times 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/05/who-says-pandemic-has-killed-15-million-people-nearly-3-times-more-reported">the usual estimate.</a>
<p>
*The UN says the report should prompt countries to invest more in
their capacity to quell future emergencies.*  Countries need to maintain
excess capacity, not aim for "just in time" processing of the usual number
of sick people.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(israel_court_west_bank_area)
title: Israeli Court has decided to evict 1000 Palestinians
uri: Israeli-Court-has-decided-to-evict-1000-Palestinians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(israel_court_west_bank_area)
content:
 
<p>
Israel has decided to evict 1,000 Palestinians from their homes in the
West Bank, converting the area 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/05/israeli-court-evict-1000-palestinians-west-bank-area">to a "military zone".</a>
<p>
Israel has used this excuse many times for taking land away from
Palestinians.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(sf_homelessness_encampment)
title: San Francisco bay area homelessness encampment
uri: San-Francisco-bay-area-homelessness-encampment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(sf_homelessness_encampment)
content:
 
<p>
160,000 disabled homeless people in California, who can't live in the
shelters as they exist, are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/05/san-francisco-bay-area-homelessness-encampment">getting evicted and have nowhere to go.</a>
<p>
I fully support laws against renting substandard housing; landlords
should not exploit tenants.  But we need to be flexible when it is a
matter of homeless people who scrounge a place to live which is not a
commercial rental.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Ukraine_winning)
title: Ukraine is already winning: victory can be achieved without risking nuclear war
uri: Ukraine-is-already-winning-victory-can-be-achieved-without-risking-nu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(Ukraine_winning)
content:
 
<p>
Searching desperately for reasons to justify compelling Ukraine to stop
fighting and accept the loss of conquest of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/05/ukraine-already-winning-victory-without-risking-nuclear-war">much of its territory.</a>
<p>
The reasons seem invalid to me.
<p>
It seems to me that if Ukraine finds it that recapturing what Putin
has taken costs too many casualties, it will drop the goal on its own.
<p>
On the other hand, if it succeeds in largely pushing Putin out, there
is no reason to believe Putin will go mad if Ukraine approaches
complete success.  At that point, if Ukraine offers a commitment to
neutrality in exchange for the rest of its territory back, I contend
Putin will accept that deal.


 


title: The Guardian published information about journalists persecuted by some regimes.
uri: The-Guardian-published-information-about-journalists-persecuted-by-som
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(journalists_regimes_jail_kill_russia_india)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(journalists_regimes_jail_kill_russia_india)

content:
 
<p>
The Guardian has published information about journalists persecuted
by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/03/journalists-regimes-jail-kill-russia-india">some regimes.</a>
<p>
However, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/29/future-gen-z-journalism-depends-julian-assanges-freedom">Julian Assange</a>
<p>
 and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/04/edward-snowden-people-still-powerless-but-aware">Edward Snowden</a>
<p>
were strangely omitted





 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(flying_insect_numbers_plunge)
title: population of flying insects in Britain decreased by 60%
uri: population-of-flying-insects-in-Britain-decreased-by-60
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(flying_insect_numbers_plunge)
content:
 
<p>
The population of flying insects in Britain has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/05/flying-insect-numbers-have-plunged-by-60-since-2004-gb-survey-finds">decreased by 60% since
2004.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(aoc_biden_student_debt_relief)
title: AOC argues for cancelling college debt for everyone.
uri: AOC-argues-for-cancelling-college-debt-for-everyone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(aoc_biden_student_debt_relief)
content:
 
<p>
AOC argues for cancelling 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/02/i-dont-believe-cutoff-aoc-says-biden-shouldnt-means-test-student-debt-relief">college debt for everyone.</a>
<p>
The really rich families probably didn't borrow anything -- they had
no reason to do so.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(wto_covid_patent_waiver)
title: WTO's bogus alternative to waving patients on patents and trade secrecy
uri: WTO-s-bogus-alternative-to-waving-patients-on-patents-and-trade-secrec
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(wto_covid_patent_waiver)
content:
 
<p>
The World Trade Organization has proposed a bogus alternative to
waiving the patents and trade secrecy that 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/03/complete-garbage-campaigners-blast-wto-alternative-covid-patent-waiver">block generic vaccine
production.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(protests_abortion_supreme_court)
title: US supporters of abortion rights need to organize strongly now.
uri: US-supporters-of-abortion-rights-need-to-organize-strongly-now
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#10_May_2022_(protests_abortion_supreme_court)
content:
 
<p>
Protests can sway the US Supreme Court.  US supporters of abortion rights
need to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/03/protesting-works-mobilizing-against-supreme-courts-attack-abortion">organize strongly now.</a>




 


title: Urgent: Codify Roe v Wade and abortion rights
uri: Urgent-Codify-Roe-v-Wade-and-abortion-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_Codify_Roe_v_Wade_and_abortion_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_Codify_Roe_v_Wade_and_abortion_rights)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/tell-senate-codify-roe?source=em20220504&t=1006&akid=7763%2E223515%2EBQ4iXy">codify Roe v Wade</a> and abortion rights.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: End fossil fuel leases on federal land
uri: Urgent-End-fossil-fuel-leases-on-federal-land
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_End_fossil_fuel_leases_on_federal_land)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_May_2022_(Urgent:_End_fossil_fuel_leases_on_federal_land)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to keep his promise and <a href="https://act.350.org/sign/biden-stop-public-lands-drilling/?source=em20220504-1-30&akid=202833%2E1151744%2EIhsVRT">end the stake of
fossil fuel leases</a> for federal land.

 


title: Urgent: Protest for abortion rights May 14th
uri: Urgent-Protest-for-abortion-rights-May-14th
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Urgent:_Protest_for_abortion_rights_May_14th)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Urgent:_Protest_for_abortion_rights_May_14th)

content:
 
<p>

In the US: protest for abortion rights on May 14.
<p>
I can't give you a pointer to the information about where and at what
hour the protests will be held.  The information is published in an
antifreedom web site &mdash; it requires visitors to run nonfree software
&mdash; so referring people to that site would be encouraging the public to
run nonfree software.
<p>
I would expect that every state has an organization that campaigns for
abortion rights.  I suggest finding one in your state, preferably in
your city, and phoning to ask for where and when the rally will occur.
<p>
The rallies will probably be outside, but don't stand too close to
other people.  Covid-19 continues to increase in the US, and we have
no statistics on the probability of getting a lasting disability from
the current variants.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Urgent:_Cluster_bomb_ban_treaty)
title: Urgent: Cluster bomb ban treaty
uri: Urgent-Cluster-bomb-ban-treaty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Urgent:_Cluster_bomb_ban_treaty)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to sign the <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/biden-no-more-cluster-bombs?source=em20220427&t=1006&akid=7752%2E223515%2EJGiYg2">cluster bomb ban treaty</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Undo right-wing Court's Roe decision
uri: Urgent-Undo-right-wing-Court-s-Roe-decision
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Urgent:_Undo_right-wing_Court's_Roe_decision)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Urgent:_Undo_right-wing_Court's_Roe_decision)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Senator Collins and Senator Murkowski to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/petition-susan-collins-and-lisa-murkowski-must-undo-this-right-wing-courts-roe-decision">undo this
right-wing Court's Roe decision</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Covid-19_surge_this_fall_and_winter)
title: Covid-19 surge this fall and winter
uri: Covid-19-surge-this-fall-and-winter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Covid-19_surge_this_fall_and_winter)
content:
 
<p>

Models suggest that a Covid-19 surge this fall and winter could <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/07/covid-surge-fall-winter-biden-administration-warning">infect
100 million people</a> in the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Murder_of_captured_guerrilla_fighters)
title: Murder of captured guerrilla fighters
uri: Murder-of-captured-guerrilla-fighters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Murder_of_captured_guerrilla_fighters)
content:
 
<p>

British forces are accused of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/07/tortured-to-death-the-14-cypriot-men-killed-by-british-in-50s-uprising">torturing and murdering</a> captured
guerrilla fighters in Cyprus in the 1950s.

 


title: High pharmaceutical levels in rare bonefish
uri: High-pharmaceutical-levels-in-rare-bonefish
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(High_pharmaceutical_levels_in_rare_bonefish)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(High_pharmaceutical_levels_in_rare_bonefish)

content:
 
<p>

Rare bonefish have become rarer in the sea around Florida.  A study found
that most bonefish found have levels of pharmaceuticals high enough
that they are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/29/drugs-medications-contaminate-ocean-food-chains-fish-florida-bonefish">likely to harm the fish</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Artworks_allegedly_seized_in_Mariupol)
title: Artworks allegedly seized in Mariupol
uri: Artworks-allegedly-seized-in-Mariupol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Artworks_allegedly_seized_in_Mariupol)
content:
 
<p>

*Ukraine accuses [Putin] forces of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/ukraine-accuses-russian-forces-of-seizing-2000-artworks-in-mariupol">seizing 2,000 artworks</a> in
 Mariupol.*
<p>
This claim may be useful in prosecution, because the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>
can't claim to have taken the artworks by mistake while trying to take
something else.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Plutocratist_narrative_of_inflation)
title: Plutocratist narrative of inflation
uri: Plutocratist-narrative-of-inflation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Plutocratist_narrative_of_inflation)
content:
 
<p>

If Democrats don't <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/08/most-price-increases-inflation-have-gone-corporate-profits">refute the plutocratist narrative of inflation</a>
(blaming it on insufficient poverty), they will lose a lot of votes.

 


title: US continues to subsidize Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine
uri: US-continues-to-subsidize-Moderna-s-Covid-19-vaccine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(US_continues_to_subsidize_Moderna's_Covid-19_vaccine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(US_continues_to_subsidize_Moderna's_Covid-19_vaccine)

content:
 
<p>

The US continues to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/06/while-hoarding-vaccine-recipe-moderna-got-another-300-million-us-taxpayers">subsidize Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine</a> development
without attaching the crucial condition: that it not do anything to
block generic vaccine production.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Fossil_fuel_non-proliferation_treaty)
title: Fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
uri: 2022-05-12-Fossil-fuel-non-proliferation-treaty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Fossil_fuel_non-proliferation_treaty)
content:
 
<p>

*Hawaii Legislature Calls For <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/06/hawaii-legislature-calls-fossil-fuel-non-proliferation-treaty">Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty</a>.*

 


title: Right-wing extremists are training thugs
uri: Right-wing-extremists-are-training-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Right-wing_extremists_are_training_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Right-wing_extremists_are_training_thugs)

content:
 
<p>

Members of violent right-wing extremist groups such as the "Oath Keepers"
are involved in <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/06/investigation-shows-hundreds-us-cops-being-trained-far-right-extremists">training thugs</a> in various parts of the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_((satire)_Period_tracking_app)
title: (satire) Period tracking app
uri: (satire)-Period-tracking-app
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_((satire)_Period_tracking_app)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/period-tracking-app-adds-surrender-to-authorities-fea-1848892232">*Period Tracking App Adds "Surrender to Authorities" Feature.*</a>
<p>
You shouldn't use an US online dis-service to save information about
when you have a period.  Under demand from a right-wing government,
the people who own the dis-service would not dare to protect you.
<p>
Maybe it is safe to use an online service in another country that
respects abortion rights strongly and would refuse to answer questions
from prying US governments.

 


title: Colonist housing units in Palestine's territory
uri: Colonist-housing-units-in-Palestine-s-territory
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Colonist_housing_units_in_Palestine's_territory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Colonist_housing_units_in_Palestine's_territory)

content:
 
<p>

Israel decided to build 4,000 more <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/06/after-court-oks-ethnic-cleansing-west-bank-israel-advances-4000-settler-homes">housing units for colonists</a> in
Palestine's territory.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(West's_energy_dependence_on_Russia)
title: West's energy dependence on Russia
uri: West-s-energy-dependence-on-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(West's_energy_dependence_on_Russia)
content:
 
<p>

*The west can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/02/west-energy-depencency-russia-green-ukraine-war">cut its energy dependency</a> on Russia and be greener.*
Just avoid taking suggestions from fossil fuel interests.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Without_food_because_of_lack_of_money)
title: Without food because of lack of money
uri: Without-food-because-of-lack-of-money
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Without_food_because_of_lack_of_money)
content:
 
<p>

More than 2m adults in the UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/09/more-than-2m-adults-in-uk-cannot-afford-to-eat-every-day-survey-finds">went a day without food</a> recently because
of lack of money.
<p>
That is 3% of the whole population, and it doesn't include minors
that can't afford to eat every day.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Human_rights_in_Britain)
title: Human rights in Britain
uri: 2022-05-12-Human-rights-in-Britain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Human_rights_in_Britain)
content:
 
<p>

The defenders of many kinds of human rights are pleading with the Tories
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/may/09/consequences-dire-human-rights-act-ditched-northern-ireland-boris-johnson">not to abolish them</a> in British law.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(We_must_fight_powerful_bullies)
title: We must fight powerful bullies
uri: We-must-fight-powerful-bullies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(We_must_fight_powerful_bullies)
content:
 
<p>

*We must <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/09/we-must-fight-powerful-bullies-whether-they-are-putin-trump-or-tech-billionaires">fight powerful bullies</a>, whether they are Putin, Trump, or tech billionaires.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Sinister_cult_of_victory)
title: Sinister cult of victory
uri: Sinister-cult-of-victory
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Sinister_cult_of_victory)
content:
 
<p>

*For Vladimir Putin, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/09/vladimir-putin-victory-russia-victory-day-russia">sinister cult of victory</a> is all that is left.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Anti-Defamation_League)
title: Anti-Defamation League
uri: Anti-Defamation-League
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Anti-Defamation_League)
content:
 
<p>

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How the <a href="https://droptheadl.org/">Anti-Defamation League</a> has helped attack and snoop on a slew
of progressive movements and campaigns, supported repression by <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>
departments, and even supported real antisemites &mdash;
all of that for decades.
<p>
The site linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  I object to bigotry, and
normally I decline to link to pages which promote it.  But I make
exceptions for important information about injustices or the fight to
eliminate them.  That site is one of the exceptions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_((satire)_Fat_shaming_ants)
title: (satire) Fat shaming ants
uri: (satire)-Fat-shaming-ants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_((satire)_Fat_shaming_ants)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-raid-pest-control-kit-fat-shames-ants-into-starving-1848800569">*New Raid Pest Control Kit Fat Shames Ants Into Starving Themselves.*</a>

 


title: Cancellation of student debt within authority of president
uri: Cancellation-of-student-debt-within-authority-of-president
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Cancellation_of_student_debt_within_authority_of_president)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Cancellation_of_student_debt_within_authority_of_president)

content:
 
<p>

*   By introducing a bill to prevent Joe Biden from wiping out student
   debt, "aren't Republican senators <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/27/gop-accidentally-admits-biden-has-power-cancel-student-debt">admitting that student debt
   cancellation is within the authority of the president?</a>"*
<p>
Actually, they are not admitting anything, because the concept of
"admitting" presumes that there is such a thing as truth, and that one
should try to adopt positions consistent with the truth.  Republicans
have left that far behind; the bullshitter has taught them to take
several inconsistent positions at once, and change them from day to
day.

 


title: North American wildfires and global carbon budget
uri: North-American-wildfires-and-global-carbon-budget
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(North_American_wildfires_and_global_carbon_budget)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(North_American_wildfires_and_global_carbon_budget)

content:
 
<p>

North American wildfires could <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/27/north-american-wildfires-could-use-sizable-amount-global-carbon-budget-study">emit 3% of the global carbon
budget</a>, and could trigger additional emissions.

 


title: Canadian applied for government help in suicide
uri: Canadian-applied-for-government-help-in-suicide
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Canadian_applied_for_government_help_in_suicide)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Canadian_applied_for_government_help_in_suicide)

content:
 
<p>

A 31-year-old Canadian has applied for <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-disabilities-nears-medically-assisted-death-after-futile-bid-for-affordable-housing-1.5882202">government help in suicide</a>
because living with multiple disabilities and chemical sensitivities,
with inadequate welfare benefits, is unbearable.
<p>
I respect her decision to choose death rather than a horrible life.
The state should not force her to stay alive in suffering and fear.
<p>
However, it is unconscionable that the state won't provide a place she
can live safely.
<p>
The war on the poor takes many forms.  This is an unusual extreme &mdash;
but the victims of the less extreme forms number millions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Poverty_and_homelessness_in_Brazil)
title: Poverty and homelessness in Brazil
uri: Poverty-and-homelessness-in-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Poverty_and_homelessness_in_Brazil)
content:
 
<p>

Poverty has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/09/sao-paulo-reportedly-plans-campsite-increase-homelessness">exploded in Brazil</a> &mdash; and so has homelessness.  Lula
rebuked the governor for not caring.

 


title: Crime to lock yourself to anyone or anything
uri: Crime-to-lock-yourself-to-anyone-or-anything
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Crime_to_lock_yourself_to_anyone_or_anything)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Crime_to_lock_yourself_to_anyone_or_anything)

content:
 
<p>

Bogus Johnson plans to make it a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/09/boris-johnson-to-force-through-new-anti-protest-curbs-in-queens-speech">crime to lock yourself to anyone or
anything</a>. Even carrying the equipment to do that would be a crime.
<p>
The punishment would include imprisonment, plus confiscation of all
your property.
<p>
What these protesters are trying to do is prevent <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> from
killing first tens of millions of people, then hundreds of millions,
and eventually billions.  Eventually the companies that the Tories serve
will cease to exist, but by then it will be too late to avoid disaster.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Failing_to_count_migrant_deaths)
title: Failing to count migrant deaths
uri: Failing-to-count-migrant-deaths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Failing_to_count_migrant_deaths)
content:
 
<p>

*The US Border Patrol Is <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/05/09/border-patrol-migrant-deaths-gao/">Systemically Failing to Count Migrant Deaths</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Sri_Lanka_fell_under_crushing_debt)
title: Sri Lanka fell under crushing debt
uri: Sri-Lanka-fell-under-crushing-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Sri_Lanka_fell_under_crushing_debt)
content:
 
<p>

The government of Sri Lanka has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/09/sri-lanka-is-the-first-domino-to-fall-in-the-face-of-a-global-debt-crisis">fallen because of crushing debt</a>.  This
could happen to other countries soon.
<p>
The underlying problem here is a system which gives countries no way
to escape unpayable debts.  The creditors get help from the
governments they control, such as the US government, and drive the
people of a fallen country into penury where they exist only as slaves
paying tribute to international creditors.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Close_to_1.5C_warming)
title: Close to 1.5C warming
uri: Close-to-1-5C-warming
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Close_to_1.5C_warming)
content:
 
<p>

Humanity is close to reaching 1.5C warming, which climate defense efforts
have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/09/climate-limit-of-1-5-c-close-to-being-broken-scientists-warn">aimed to avoid</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Saving_money_switching_from_coal)
title: Saving money switching from coal
uri: Saving-money-switching-from-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Saving_money_switching_from_coal)
content:
 
<p>

*Analysis says countries can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/10/avoid-using-gas-transition-fuel-move-clean-energy-study-urges">save money</a> by switching from coal straight
to renewable energies.* As well as reducing the amount of <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.

 


title: Phone-tracking companies tracking military and intelligence personnel
uri: Phone-tracking-companies-tracking-military-and-intelligence-personnel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Phone-tracking_companies_tracking_military_and_intelligence_personnel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Phone-tracking_companies_tracking_military_and_intelligence_personnel)

content:
 
<p>
  Two US phone-tracking companies showed <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/05/04/surveillance-anomaly-six-phone-tracking/">they could track military and
  intelligence personnel of several nations, including Russia and the US</a>.
<p>
  They could track Americans to abortion clinics for states with
  repressive laws, too, if there is no law to stop them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Protest_over_right_to_visit_forests)
title: Protest over right to visit forests
uri: Protest-over-right-to-visit-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Protest_over_right_to_visit_forests)
content:
 
<p>
  Protesters demanding the right to visit forests in England <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/08/picnic-protesters-duke-of-somerset-woods-right-to-roam-totnes">held a
  picnic as a protest</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Mariupol_survivors_describe_horrors)
title: Mariupol survivors describe horrors
uri: Mariupol-survivors-describe-horrors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Mariupol_survivors_describe_horrors)
content:
 
<p>
  *Mariupol survivors rescued from last civilian bunker
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/09/what-liberation-mariupol-survivors-rescued-from-last-bunker-describe-horrors-of-siege">describe horrors of siege</a>.*
<p>
  I continue to wonder about the situation with the other reported
  150,000 civilians that were reported to be stuck in Mariupol.  Ukraine
  accused Putin of taking some tens of thousands to Russia, some
  willingly and some who were effectively kidnaped (and some got out).
  That doesn't account for them all.  Are the rest all dead?  Is anyone
  still besieged in other parts of the city?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Odesa_port_blockade)
title: Odesa port blockade
uri: Odesa-port-blockade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Odesa_port_blockade)
content:
 
<p>
  *Zelenskiy calls for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/10/zelenskiy-calls-for-end-to-blockade-of-odesa-port-to-prevent-global-food-crisis">end to blockade of Odesa port to prevent global
  food crisis</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Poland's_abortion_laws)
title: Poland's abortion laws
uri: Poland-s-abortion-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Poland's_abortion_laws)
content:
 
<p>
  Pregnant Ukrainian refugees who have fled to Poland <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/10/ukrainian-women-face-harsh-reality-poland-abortion-laws">encounter Poland's
  repressive abortion laws</a>.
<p>
  Western Ukraine is basically safe.  Much safer than having a baby, I'd
  expect.  Can Ukrainians go back there for an abortion, or for abortion
  medicine?
<p>
  Can Polish women go there for that?
  

 


title: Economic plan in return for denuclearisation
uri: Economic-plan-in-return-for-denuclearisation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Economic_plan_in_return_for_denuclearisation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Economic_plan_in_return_for_denuclearisation)

content:
 
<p>
  *South Korea's new president <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/10/south-koreas-new-president-offers-north-economic-plan-in-return-for-denuclearisation">offers North economic plan in return for
  denuclearisation</a>.*
<p>
  It's worth trying, but it's a long shot.

 


title: 1/50 aviation industry climate targets met
uri: 1-50-aviation-industry-climate-targets-met
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(1%2F50_aviation_industry_climate_targets_met)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(1%2F50_aviation_industry_climate_targets_met)

content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/10/just-one-of-50-aviation-industry-climate-targets-met-study-finds">Just one of 50 aviation industry climate targets met</a>, study finds.*
<p>
  Basically, businesses won't conserve even to save their owners'
  children's lives.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Decriminalizing_sex_work)
title: Decriminalizing sex work
uri: 2022-05-13-Decriminalizing-sex-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_May_2022_(Decriminalizing_sex_work)
content:
 
<p>
  Victoria is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/10/street-based-sex-work-is-now-legal-across-victoria">following two other parts of Australia in decriminalizing sex work</a>.

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title: Erosion of work rights setting us back 100 years
uri: Erosion-of-work-rights-setting-us-back-100-years
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#12_May_2022_(Erosion_of_work_rights_setting_us_back_100_years)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#12_May_2022_(Erosion_of_work_rights_setting_us_back_100_years)

content:
 
<p>
  From health workers to beauticians, cleaners to academics, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/01/in-the-name-of-job-flexibility-uberisation-is-spreading-its-tentacles-across-society">the
  erosion of our rights at work [by the gig economy] is setting us
  back a hundred years</a>.*
<p>
  I've <a href="http://stallman.org/there-ought-to-be-a-law.html">proposed a law that would stop this</a> &mdash; requiring most of any
  given kind of employment go to full-time workers, while allowing a
  fraction to be less than full-time.
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title: Paul Rusesabagina's family sues Rwandan government
uri: Paul-Rusesabagina-s-family-sues-Rwandan-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#12_May_2022_(Paul_Rusesabagina's_family_sues_Rwandan_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#12_May_2022_(Paul_Rusesabagina's_family_sues_Rwandan_government)

content:
 
<p>
  *Paul Rusesabagina's family are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/01/family-of-hotel-rwanda-hero-launches-400m-lawsuit-over-his-alleged-abduction">suing the Rwandan government in the US</a>,
  accusing it of a plot to abduct, torture and jail him.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#12_May_2022_(The_climate_and_the_republic)
title: The climate and the republic
uri: The-climate-and-the-republic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#12_May_2022_(The_climate_and_the_republic)
content:
 
<p>
  *The Climate and the Republic, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/27/climate-and-republic-melting-down-real-time">Melting Down in Real Time</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#12_May_2022_(Urgent:_Make_Rep._McCarthy_testify)
title: Urgent: Make Rep. McCarthy testify
uri: Urgent-Make-Rep-McCarthy-testify
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#12_May_2022_(Urgent:_Make_Rep._McCarthy_testify)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on the Jan 6 committee to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/we-need-to-hear-from-rep-kevin-mccarthy?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-new-mccarthy-recordings-released">make Rep. McCarthy testify about what he knew</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(SafeGraph)
title: SafeGraph
uri: SafeGraph
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(SafeGraph)
content:
 
<p>
  The company "SafeGraph", which collects location data from people's
  snoopphones, admits <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/safegraphs-disingenuous-claims-about-location-data-mask-dangerous-industry">it was recently selling lists of people who visited
  abortion clinics</a>.
<p>
  "Anonymizing" the data does not effectively protect the people's identities.
  They can often be determined from the data, together with other lists of
  data about people.
<p>
  If this company really stops, others will do it instead.  Please, focus
  on the fundamental nastiness of the cell-phone freakosystem, and not one
  particular example of it.

 


title: Baby food shortage exacerbated by industrial concentration
uri: Baby-food-shortage-exacerbated-by-industrial-concentration
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Baby_food_shortage_exacerbated_by_industrial_concentration)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Baby_food_shortage_exacerbated_by_industrial_concentration)

content:
 
<p>
  The shortage of food for babies in the US is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/10/critics-say-iron-grip-market-monopolies-behind-baby-formula-shortage">exacerbated by the harmful
  concentration of that industry</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Dred_Scott_decision)
title: Dred Scott decision
uri: Dred-Scott-decision
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Dred_Scott_decision)
content:
 
<p>
  Jesse Jackson <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/10/right-wing-courts-attack-abortion-rights-call-mass-revolt">compares the coming anti-abortion decision to the 1857
  Dred Scott decision</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Proof_of_work_cryptocurrency_mining)
title: Proof of work cryptocurrency mining
uri: Proof-of-work-cryptocurrency-mining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Proof_of_work_cryptocurrency_mining)
content:
 
<p>
  We need to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/10/50-groups-challenge-biden-rein-climate-killing-cryptomining">put an end to proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining</a>, unless
  all the world's electricity supply is moved to renewable sources.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Tesla)
title: Tesla
uri: Tesla
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Tesla)
content:
 
<p>
  Tesla's <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/30/20891314/elon-musk-tesla-labor-violation-nlrb">labor law violations</a>.
<p>
  Tesla's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/10/tesla-workers-union-elon-musk">union-busting</a>.
<p>
  <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/26/tesla-and-ceo-elon-musk-punished-by-feds-over-illegal-anti-union-actions-at-fremont-plant/">Punishment</a> for union-busting.

 


title: Australian scientific research agency corrupted
uri: Australian-scientific-research-agency-corrupted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Australian_scientific_research_agency_corrupted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Australian_scientific_research_agency_corrupted)

content:
 
<p>
  Australia's right-wing government has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/02/csiro-has-become-extravagant-consulting-company-one-of-its-former-top-climate-scientist-says">corrupted Australia's scientific
  research agency</a>, according to its former head climate scientist, who
  how has quit.
<p>
  The agency does whatever research companies will fund.  In the field
  of climate science, that means that the planet-roaster companies
  control the research.
<p>
  The agencies scientists are gagged from commenting publicly on public
  issues relating to their expertise.
<p>
  He says that the main opposition party (Labor) is not much better
  than the governing coalition.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Worldwide_pro-labor_protests)
title: Worldwide pro-labor protests
uri: Worldwide-pro-labor-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Worldwide_pro-labor_protests)
content:
 
<p>
*Workers <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/01/workers-mark-may-day-pro-labor-protests-worldwide">Mark May Day With Pro-Labor Protests</a> Worldwide.*

 


title: Environmental offset land bulldozed for car park
uri: Environmental-offset-land-bulldozed-for-car-park
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Environmental_offset_land_bulldozed_for_car_park)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Environmental_offset_land_bulldozed_for_car_park)

content:
 
<p>
  *Bushland marked as environmental offset for new Sydney airport <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/02/bushland-marked-as-environmental-offset-for-new-sydney-airport-bulldozed-for-car-park">bulldozed for
  car park</a>.*
<p>
  When companies cite land as an "offset" for carbon emissions, the
  state makes no effort to check whether it really survives, These
  offsets are essentially bogus, mere excuses for present-day
  environmental destruction or excess greenhouse gas emissions.

 


title: "Jane's revenge" attacks anti-abortion group
uri: Jane-s-revenge-attacks-anti-abortion-group
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Jane's_revenge_attacks_anti-abortion_group)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Jane's_revenge_attacks_anti-abortion_group)

content:
 
<p>
  An anti-abortion group in Wisconsin was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/10/abortion-arson-attack-wisconsin-pro-choice-janes-revenge">attacked with a molotov cocktail,
  and an unknown group calling itself "Jane's revenge" and claiming to defend
  abortion rights said it was responsible</a>.
<p>
  We can expect that the cancellation or Roe v Wade will lead to plenty
  of right-wing cruelty to take revenge for, but it's not happening
  <em>yet<em>, so the idea of revenge <em>now</em> doesn't make sense.
<p>
  In addition, it is the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#22_June_2019_(Antiabortion_attacks)">antiabortion movement that has repeatedly
  engaged in violence (including murder of doctors)</a>.
  The abortion rights movement has acted nonviolently.
<p>
  Those two reasons, plus the fact that the supposed group is unknown,
  lead me to speculate that maybe this was a false-flag attack.

 


title: Trump inquired about hurricanes made to harm US
uri: Trump-inquired-about-hurricanes-made-to-harm-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Trump_inquired_about_hurricanes_made_to_harm_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Trump_inquired_about_hurricanes_made_to_harm_US)

content:
 
<p>
  *Trump inquired if China could make hurricanes to harm US, ex-officials say.*
<p>
  In fact, China has been doing exactly that -- <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(pentagon_bloat_china)">by building more coal-fired
  power plants</a>.

  However, it is wrong to focus the blame primarily on China.
  Historically, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#19_April_2021_(Committing_to_curb_global_heating)">the US has done much more to exacerbate hurricanes than
  China has</a>.

 


title: Woman sentenced for 30 years over fetus's death
uri: Woman-sentenced-for-30-years-over-fetus-s-death
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Woman_sentenced_for_30_years_over_fetus's_death)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Woman_sentenced_for_30_years_over_fetus's_death)

content:
 
<p>
  Another Salvadorean woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for
  supposedly <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/10/el-salvador-woman-sentenced-prison-after-miscarriage">"killing" a fetus</a>.
<p>
  The article does not make it clear whether she had an abortion or an
  accidental miscarriage.  Maybe there is a dispute about which one it was,
  The verdict is unjust either way; only the precise nature of the injustice
  depends on which one it was.

 


title: Campaign to ban hate symbols spread to Australia
uri: Campaign-to-ban-hate-symbols-spread-to-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Campaign_to_ban_hate_symbols_spread_to_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Campaign_to_ban_hate_symbols_spread_to_Australia)

content:
 
<p>
  The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/11/victoria-to-become-first-state-to-ban-the-nazi-swastika">campaign to ban swastikas (and other symbols of hate ideologies)
  has spread to Australia</a>.
<p>
  Nazis today are a real threat to democracy, but there are lots of
  twisted messages and symbols they can spread their ideology with, with
  never a swastika.
<p>
  What makes them powerful and dangerous is the system that facilitates
  any sort of disinformation and scatterbrained hatred.  To attack their
  symbols with censorship is a misguided counterblow.  It hits the wrong
  target, freedom of speech.
<p>
  If we abandon the overriding principle of freedom of speech, we will
  have no strong defense to stop right-wing Nazi-lovers (such as the
  billehitter) from banning our own symbols and expressions of our
  ideas.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(China's_zero-Covid_policies)
title: China's zero-Covid policies
uri: China-s-zero-Covid-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(China's_zero-Covid_policies)
content:
 
<p>
  *Lifting zero-Covid policies in China <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/lifting-zero-covid-policies-in-china-could-risk-16m-deaths-says-study">could risk 1.6m death</a>s, says study.*
<p>
  I admire the spirit of the zero-Covid strategy -- ready to go to the
  mat to prevent a massive outbreak.  If it succeeds, it will greatly
  reduce the harm caused by the disease in China.  They ought to be somewhat
  less rigid about many details -- that is Communist authoritarianism at work.
<p>
  However, if it can't possibly succeed, it is better to make a careful
  plan for changing the strategy, than to keep trying it and failing and
  stay in lockdown ad infinitum.
  

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(US_ending_concessions_about_Taiwan)
title: US ending concessions about Taiwan
uri: US-ending-concessions-about-Taiwan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(US_ending_concessions_about_Taiwan)
content:
 
<p>
  The US seems to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/10/beijing-accuses-us-of-political-manipulation-in-latest-taiwan-row">ending its public concessions</a> to China's demands
  about Taiwan, which the US adopted in 1972 as part of its historic
  reconciliation with China.  For instance, going out of its way to
  state that it does not support independence for Taiwan.
<p>
  In the 1970s it made sense for the US to make these concessions.
  China was not then a threat to the US, or even to Taiwan; on the
  contrary, it offered the US some support on international disputes.
  The concessions did no harm and brought good consequences.
<p>
  All that has changed.  China is indeed a threat to Taiwan, and is
  allied with Russia.  The US actually supports Taiwan's resistance to
  China's plans for conquest.  For the US to tie itself in knots by
  explicitly limiting its support for Taiwan is a commitment to
  dishonesty.
<p>
  It may still be wise for the US not to support Taiwan's independence,
  but it can refrain from supporting that by saying nothing about the
  point.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Latin_American_feminists)
title: Latin American feminists
uri: Latin-American-feminists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Latin_American_feminists)
content:
 
<p>
  *What Latin American feminists can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/10/abortion-roe-v-wade-latin-america">teach American women about the abortion fight</a>.*

 


title: Black sea dolphin deaths indirectly linked to Putin's war
uri: Black-sea-dolphin-deaths-indirectly-linked-to-Putin-s-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Black_sea_dolphin_deaths_indirectly_linked_to_Putin's_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Black_sea_dolphin_deaths_indirectly_linked_to_Putin's_war)

content:
 
<p>
  Putin's war may be indirectly responsible for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/10/ukraine-war-rise-dolphin-deaths-strandings-black-sea">a big increase in death
  of dolphins in the Black Sea</a>.

 


title: Overturning Roe v Wade will destroy civil rights
uri: Overturning-Roe-v-Wade-will-destroy-civil-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Overturning_Roe_v_Wade_will_destroy_civil_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Overturning_Roe_v_Wade_will_destroy_civil_rights)

content:
 
<p>
  What is more outrageous and disgusting -- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/10/overturning-roe-v-wade-will-destroy-our-civil-rights-so-dont-ask-us-to-be-civil">protesting outside houses of
  Injustices of the Supreme Court, or forcing women to have babies</a>.

 


title: Transplant patient died from pig virus that wasn't supposed to be present
uri: Transplant-patient-died-from-pig-virus-that-wasn-t-supposed-to-be-pres
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Transplant_patient_died_from_pig_virus_that_wasn't_supposed_to_be_present)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Transplant_patient_died_from_pig_virus_that_wasn't_supposed_to_be_present)

content:
 
<p>
  The patient who received a transplanted GM pig heart <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/06/man-landmark-pig-heart-transplant-death-pig-virus">seems to have died
  from a pig virus, which wasn't supposed to be present</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Plastic_recycling)
title: Plastic "recycling"
uri: 2022-05-16-Plastic-recycling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Plastic_recycling)
content:
 
<p>
  When Exxon determined that recycling plastics was unlikely ever to be
  practical, it <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/26/plastic-fatalistic/#recycled-lies">launched a high-powered PR and lobbying campaign to
  label plastic products as "recyclable" so people would believe that
  recycling them was really an option</a>.
<p>
  Now, the biggest US bottled-water company is fighting a lawsuit over
  falsely telling the public that its bottles are recyclable.  Its
  defense is to claim that people should have known all along that that
  was bullshit.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Conflicting_trade_rule_commitments)
title: Conflicting trade rule commitments
uri: Conflicting-trade-rule-commitments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Conflicting_trade_rule_commitments)
content:
 
<p>
  In 2019, Bogus Johnson made <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/09/what-is-the-northern-ireland-protocol-explained-brexit">two conflicting commitments about future
  trade rules</a>, one to Northern Ireland and one to the EU.  At the time,
  people pointed out this could not work and would lead to big trouble.
  Johnson just brushed it off at the time, but the trouble is getting
  bigger.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(True_crisis_time)
title: True crisis time
uri: True-crisis-time
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(True_crisis_time)
content:
 
<p>
  *It's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/09/its-true-crisis-time-trans-people-america">True Crisis Time for Trans People in America</a>.*
  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/09/abortion-why-court-using-religious-belief-alter-what-should-be-secular-law">Trans people, and then anyone homosexual, are the scapegoats of choice
  of religious extremists</a>, as they push for laws that ought to be obvious
  violations of the First Amendment.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_((Satire)_Aborted_fetus)
title: (Satire) Aborted fetus
uri: (Satire)-Aborted-fetus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_((Satire)_Aborted_fetus)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Louisiana Police Officer Plants <a href="https://www.theonion.com/louisiana-police-officer-plants-aborted-fetus-on-black-1848892165">Aborted Fetus On Black
  Suspect</a>.*

 


title: Antisocial media companies dictating to Congress
uri: Antisocial-media-companies-dictating-to-Congress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Antisocial_media_companies_dictating_to_Congress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Antisocial_media_companies_dictating_to_Congress)

content:
 
<p>
  Antisocial media companies are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/09/congress-urged-reject-false-choice-tackling-big-tech-monopolies-or-protecting">trying to dictate that Congress can
  either split them up or legislate stronger privacy rules</a>.  Congress
  should have the courage to do both.
<p>
  A closely related issue is that nearly all <a href="https://www.stallman.org/articles/real-privacy-laws.html">privacy legislation</a>
  proposals focus on regulating the <em>use</em> of data.  That is weak and
  begs to be gamed or disregarded.  The way to really do the job is
  to severely limit <em>collection</em> of data.

 


title: Biden failing to restore non-nuclear deal
uri: Biden-failing-to-restore-non-nuclear-deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Biden_failing_to_restore_non-nuclear_deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Biden_failing_to_restore_non-nuclear_deal)

content:
 
<p>
  Biden has responded to the former <a href="/glossary.html#saboteur">saboteur</a>-in-chief's added sanctions on Iran
  with timidity, and thus <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/09/will-biden-find-courage-undo-trumps-sabotage-iran-nuclear-deal">failed to restore the non-nuclear deal with Iran</a>.
  It is not too late to show courage.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Tories_pushing_to_privatize_schools)
title: Tories pushing to privatize schools
uri: Tories-pushing-to-privatize-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Tories_pushing_to_privatize_schools)
content:
 
<p>
  The Tories have been pushing to privatize UK public schools, calling
  the privatized schools "academies", and claiming that this will make
  them function better.  However, a study found that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/may/10/council-run-schools-outperform-academies-england-analysis-shows">the still-public
  schools are, statistically, generally doing a better job</a>.

 


title: Clearview AI ends service for most private entities
uri: Clearview-AI-ends-service-for-most-private-entities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Clearview_AI_ends_service_for_most_private_entities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Clearview_AI_ends_service_for_most_private_entities)

content:
 
<p>
  Clearview AI settled a suit by agreeing to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/09/privacy-advocates-celebrate-big-win-against-facial-recognition-giant">end the service</a> of
  recognizing a face against its enormous data base, for "most" private
  entities.
<p>
  The article describes a few exceptions.  One is the use of its
  recognition algorithm against some other data base.  I have a hunch
  some other company will build up a database and keep it state by state
  so that it can be used to recognize everyone that is not from
  Illinois.
<p>
  Also, government use is still permitted, and getting more dangerous.
  This will endanger people that travel to get abortions.
<p>
  We still need a law restricting operation of systems that can do
  systematic face capture and/or recognition in everywhere the public is
  admitted.

 


title: Republican midterm candidates falling into line with Trump
uri: Republican-midterm-candidates-falling-into-line-with-Trump
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Republican_midterm_candidates_falling_into_line_with_Trump)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Republican_midterm_candidates_falling_into_line_with_Trump)

content:
 
<p>
  *One by one, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/01/republican-midterm-candidates-falling-into-line-trump">Republican midterm candidates are falling into line with Trump</a>.*
<p>
  It has been visible since 2016 that you can't work with the corrupter
  without becoming corrupt yourself.  His lies are so frequent and
  blatant that they attack the very idea of truth, so by accepting him
  you show that you do not value truth.

 


title: Medicare Advantage Plans Deny Necessary Care
uri: Medicare-Advantage-Plans-Deny-Necessary-Care
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Medicare_Advantage_Plans_Deny_Necessary_Care)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Medicare_Advantage_Plans_Deny_Necessary_Care)

content:
 
<p>
  *Watchdog Finds <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/28/staggering-watchdog-finds-medicare-advantage-plans-deny-necessary-care">Medicare Advantage Plans Deny Necessary Care</a>.*
<p>
  This is in addition to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Drug_prices_hike)">gouging patients</a> on the more expensive drugs
<p>
  and <a href="https://stallman.org/notes/current.html#9_May_2022_(Raising_drug_plan_prices)">raising prices</a> just after you bind yourself for 6 months.

 


title: Arrest and prosecute Trump's Jan 6 attack organizers who refuse to testify
uri: Arrest-and-prosecute-Trump-s-Jan-6-attack-organizers-who-refuse-to-tes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Arrest_and_prosecute_Trump's_Jan_6_attack_organizers_who_refuse_to_testify)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Arrest_and_prosecute_Trump's_Jan_6_attack_organizers_who_refuse_to_testify)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on the DOJ to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-doj-enforce-contempt-of-congress-arrest-and-prosecute-trumps-criminal-allies-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">arrest and prosecute Trump's Jan 6 attack organizers who refuse to testify</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Make the Supreme Court follow the Federal Judge Code of Conduct
uri: Urgent-Make-the-Supreme-Court-follow-the-Federal-Judge-Code-of-Conduc
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Urgent:_Make_the_Supreme_Court_follow_the_Federal_Judge_Code_of_Conduct)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Urgent:_Make_the_Supreme_Court_follow_the_Federal_Judge_Code_of_Conduct)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-make-the-supreme-court-follow-the-federal-judge-code-of-conduct?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progress-america&source=direct_link">make the Supreme Court follow the Federal Judge Code of Conduct</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(study_ice_surveillance_dragnet)
title: Study Reveals Sweeping Extent of ICE's Secret Surveillance Dragnet
uri: Study-Reveals-Sweeping-Extent-of-ICE-s-Secret-Surveillance-Dragnet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(study_ice_surveillance_dragnet)
content:
 
<p>
The US deportation thug department snoops on the digital records of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/10/study-reveals-sweeping-extent-ices-secret-surveillance-dragnet">nearly
everyone in the United States.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(covid_threat_nhs_leaders)
title: Covid threat being ignored in England for ideological reasons
uri: Covid-threat-being-ignored-in-England-for-ideological-reasons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(covid_threat_nhs_leaders)
content:
 
<p>
*Covid threat being ignored in England for ideological reasons,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/11/covid-threat-being-ignored-england-ideological-reasons-nhs-leaders"> [said] NHS
leaders [a month ago].*</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(nc_supreme_court_freespeech)
title: NC's Supreme Court and their refusal to review free speech case
uri: NC-s-Supreme-Court-and-their-refusal-to-review-free-speech-case
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(nc_supreme_court_freespeech)
content:
 
<p>
North Carolina's Supreme Court said that whether protesters in the
state assembly are "too loud" is an arbitrary decision -- 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/10/barber-blasts-nc-supreme-court-refusing-review-free-speech-case">up to whichever
politician doesn't like the protest.</a>
<p>
That court has rejected the idea that all deserve equal rights.
It is preparing for tyranny.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(queer_refugees_rwanda_persecution)
title: UK's plan to deport queer asylum-seekers to Rwanda
uri: UK-s-plan-to-deport-queer-asylum-seekers-to-Rwanda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(queer_refugees_rwanda_persecution)
content:
 
<p>
The UK plans to deport queer asylum-seekers to Rwanda despite knowing
that they have a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/10/home-office-admits-gay-lesbian-refugees-could-be-persecuted-sent-rwanda">substantial chance of being persecuted there.</a>



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_((Satire)_conspiring_with_bookie)
title: (satire) Bombshell Report Finds Democrats Conspiring With Bookie
uri: (satire)-Bombshell-Report-Finds-Democrats-Conspiring-With-Bookie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_((Satire)_conspiring_with_bookie)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Bombshell Report Finds Democrats Conspiring With Bookie To 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/bombshell-report-finds-democrats-conspiring-with-bookie-1848860778">Deliberately Throw Midterms.</a>*
<p>
Sad to say, the Democratic National Committee more or less did this when it
decided to give 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/07/24/mission-accomplished-dnc-clinton-hires-wasserman-schultz-top-post">Clinton unfair support to beat Sanders in 2016.</a>



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_((Satire)_shell_tree_planting)
title: (satire) Shell Announces Plans To Plant Single Trees
uri: (satire)-Shell-Announces-Plans-To-Plant-Single-Trees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_((Satire)_shell_tree_planting)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Shell Announces Plans To Plant Single Tree For Every 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/shell-announces-plans-to-plant-single-tree-for-every-ir-1848861446">Irreversible Planetary Disaster It Causes.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(mesa_county_clerk_elections_ban)
title: Colorado has removed election officials for trying to sabotage a past election.
uri: Colorado-has-removed-election-officials-for-trying-to-sabotage-a-past
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(mesa_county_clerk_elections_ban)
content:
 
<p>
Colorado has removed election officials for trying 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/politics/mesa-county-clerk-tina-peters-2022-elections-ban/index.html">to sabotage a past
election.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(mi5_police_spy_activities)
title: MI5 asked police chiefs to collect info about the political activities of schoolchildren
uri: MI5-asked-police-chiefs-to-collect-info-about-the-political-activities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(mi5_police_spy_activities)
content:
 
<p>
Political bias in the British thug departments and spies: they snooped
on thousands of anti-fascists who joined non-violent 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/09/mi5-asked-police-to-spy-on-political-activities-of-children-inquiry-hears">campaigns against
violent fascists.</a>
<p>
Apparently they did not consider violent fascists a problem.
<p>
I don't think it makes a difference that some of the antifascists
were high-school students.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(canada_cases_right_to_die_cases)
title: Canada cases right to die cases
uri: Canada-cases-right-to-die-cases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(canada_cases_right_to_die_cases)
content:
 
<p>
Now that disabled people in Canada who can't get treatment for
horrible pain can get help in suicide, some who oppose the idea of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/canada-cases-right-to-die-laws">assisted suicide are attacking the law for that consequence..</a>
<p>
I agree with Jocelyn Downie about the matter.  Those people do have
untreatable medical conditions -- untreatable in a practical sense.  A
plausibly effective treatment exists, but not for them.  Helping them
die is not the best possible help for them, but they consider it
better than nothing.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(canadian_mp_toilet_stall)
title: Canadian mp is castigated for toilet stall virtual session
uri: Canadian-mp-is-castigated-for-toilet-stall-virtual-session
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_May_2022_(canadian_mp_toilet_stall)
content:
 
<p>
A right-wing Canadian MP has been castigated for connecting to a
parliamentary session from a toilet.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/10/canadian-mp-toilet-stall-virtual-session"></a>
<p>
This shows that irrational persecution over "disgusting" (but
victimless) actions 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/28/johnson-must-act-now-on-mp-accused-of-watching-porn-in-commons-starmer">are not limited to things related to sex.</a>


 


title: Britain leaving the EU caused trouble for many citizens in EU countries
uri: Britain-leaving-the-EU-caused-trouble-for-many-citizens-in-EU-countrie
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Britain_leaving_the_EU_caused_trouble_for_many_citizens_in_EU_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Britain_leaving_the_EU_caused_trouble_for_many_citizens_in_EU_countries)

content:
 
<p>
  Britain's withdrawal from the EU has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/04/brexit-study-reveals-impact-britons-in-eu">caused trouble for many UK citizens
  that live in EU countries</a> &mdash; especially when they are married to people
  who are not UK citizens.
<p>
  Many of these problems are not direct consequences of the UK's decision,
  in that the problems are the result of decisions by the UK that the UK
  could unilaterally change.

 


title: Hospitalized Covid patients and long symptoms
uri: Hospitalized-Covid-patients-and-long-symptoms
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Hospitalized_Covid_patients_and_long_symptoms)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Hospitalized_Covid_patients_and_long_symptoms)

content:
 
<p>
  Of the patients hospitalized for Covid-19 two years ago in Wuhan, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/covid-hospitalised-long-symptomatic-two-years-on-wuhan-study">around 1/10 have not returned to work.  A much larger fraction have serious problems.</a>

 


title: Lindsey Graham said Joe Biden is "best person" to lead US
uri: Lindsey-Graham-said-Joe-Biden-is-best-person-to-lead-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Lindsey_Graham_said_Joe_Biden_is_best_person_to_lead_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Lindsey_Graham_said_Joe_Biden_is_best_person_to_lead_US)

content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/11/lindsey-graham-joe-biden-donald-trump">Lindsey Graham said Joe Biden is "best person" to lead US</a>, tapes
  reveal.* That was shortly after the wrecker's Jan 6 attempt to steal
  the election.
<p>
  The significance of this is that it shows Senator Graham's cowardice.
  He knew what was right, but he chose to join the insurrectionist mob
  rather than stay loyal to his country.
<p>
  It is not too late for Graham to redeem himself.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(British_Bill_of_Rights)
title: British "Bill of Rights"
uri: British-Bill-of-Rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(British_Bill_of_Rights)
content:
 
<p>
  *This British "bill of rights" is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/11/british-bill-of-rights-human-rights-act-government">constitutional butchery that will make us
  all less free</a>.*
<p>
  It is meant to replace the substantial support for human rights
  that was adopted when the UK was part of the EU.  It is a scheme
  to pretend to follow human rights standards while in practice
  allowing laws to reject them whenever desired.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Twitter_and_the_bullshitter)
title: Twitter and the bullshitter
uri: Twitter-and-the-bullshitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Twitter_and_the_bullshitter)
content:
 
<p>
  The musk-rat said <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/10/elon-musk-pledges-overturn-twitter-ban-donald-trump">he would allow the bullshitter back onto Twitter</a>.
<p>
  The bullshitter said he would refuse to post on Twitter anyway,
  but given his dishonesty there is no reason to believe anything he
  says about what he intends to do.  It is trolling, nothing more.

 


title: Dictator Marco's son elected president with Do-Dirty's daughter as vice president
uri: Dictator-Marco-s-son-elected-president-with-Do-Dirty-s-daughter-as-vic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Dictator_Marco's_son_elected_president_with_Do-Dirty's_daughter_as_vice_president)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Dictator_Marco's_son_elected_president_with_Do-Dirty's_daughter_as_vice_president)

content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/10/philippines-election-qa-why-did-macros-jr-win-and-what-can-we-expect-from-his-presidency">Dictator Marcos's son has been elected president of the Philippines,
  with Do-Dirty's daughter as vice president</a>.
<p>
  We can expect plutocracy and corruption.  The article says, they will help strengthen China.

 


title: Urgent: Call on corporations to stop funding anti-abortion candidates
uri: Urgent-Call-on-corporations-to-stop-funding-anti-abortion-candidates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_corporations_to_stop_funding_anti-abortion_candidates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_corporations_to_stop_funding_anti-abortion_candidates)

content:
 
  <p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/CorporateAmerica_abortionban/?t=1007&akid=51299%2E1105163%2EB5ilbE">call on US corporations to stop funding anti-abortion candidates</a>.</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Tell Congress to investigate the harm SESTA/FOSTA caused
uri: Urgent-Tell-Congress-to-investigate-the-harm-SESTA-FOSTA-caused
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Urgent:_Tell_Congress_to_investigate_the_harm_SESTA%2FFOSTA_caused)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Urgent:_Tell_Congress_to_investigate_the_harm_SESTA%2FFOSTA_caused)

content:
 
  <p>US citizens: <a href="https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/tell-congress-investigate-the-harm-caused-by-sesta-fosta/">call on Congress to investigate the harm caused by the censorship of SESTA/FOSTA, by passing the SAFE SEX Workers Study Act</a>.</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Thank senators who defeated attempt to block non-nuclear deal
uri: Urgent-Thank-senators-who-defeated-attempt-to-block-non-nuclear-deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Urgent:_Thank_senators_who_defeated_attempt_to_block_non-nuclear_deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_May_2022_(Urgent:_Thank_senators_who_defeated_attempt_to_block_non-nuclear_deal)

content:
 
  <p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/good-vote-iran-poison-pill?source=em20220509_2&t=1006&akid=7776%2E223515%2EMYR61i">Thank the senators who defeated the attempt to pass a law to block reestablishment of the non-nuclear deal with Iran</a>.</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Ukraine's_reconstruction)
title: Ukraine's reconstruction
uri: Ukraine-s-reconstruction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Ukraine's_reconstruction)
content:
 
<p>
  About <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/12/marshall-plan-for-ukraine-russian-invasion">how to support Ukraine's reconstruction</a>, comparing with the
  Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II.

 


title: Reporter's phone records subpoena'd to find leak originer
uri: Reporter-s-phone-records-subpoena-d-to-find-leak-originer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Reporter's_phone_records_subpoena'd_to_find_leak_originer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Reporter's_phone_records_subpoena'd_to_find_leak_originer)

content:
 
<p>
  The US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/12/us-government-subpoena-guardian-reporter-phone-records">subpoena's a Guardian reporter's phone records to try to find
  the originer of a leak</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Five_republicans_subpoena'd)
title: Five republicans subpoena'd
uri: Five-republicans-subpoena-d
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Five_republicans_subpoena'd)
content:
 
<p>
  The Jan 6 investigation committee has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/12/capitol-attack-panel-subpoenas-five-republicans-mccarthy">subpoena'd five Republican
  members of Congress to testify</a>.

 


title: Security called because there "could be" threats
uri: Security-called-because-there-could-be-threats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Security_called_because_there_could_be_threats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Security_called_because_there_could_be_threats)

content:
 
<p>
  *I Stopped to Watch [School] Recess in My Neighborhood &mdash; <a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/i-stopped-to-watch-recess-in-my-neighborhood-and-security-was-called/">and Security Was Called</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Iran_arrests_visitors_for_hostages)
title: Iran arrests visitors for hostages
uri: Iran-arrests-visitors-for-hostages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Iran_arrests_visitors_for_hostages)
content:
 
<p>
  Accusing Iran of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/iran-arrests-french-couple-and-threatens-to-execute-swedish-iranian">arresting visitors as an excuse to make them hostages</a>.
<p>
  Governments likely to be pressured in this way should very visibly
  warn all their citizens not to visit Iran.  Even if you have never
  been involved in anything political related to Iran, even if your
  activity there is beneficial, even if it is just a holiday, even if it
  is visiting friends and family &mdash; <em>do not go!</em>.  Especially, if you
  have Iranian relatives &mdash; <em>do not go!</em>.
<p>
  It would be best to have airport ground personnel give these warnings,
  and give them at the time of selling tickets too.
<p>
  "We are not suckers; tell your family <em>now</em> not to ask us to be
  suckers.  If Iran makes you a hostage, we will not give Iran anything
  to try to procure your release.  If you don't want to be a hostage,
  now is your only chance to avoid it.  Don't go to Iran!"

 


title: Maine bans sewage sludge for fertilizer
uri: Maine-bans-sewage-sludge-for-fertilizer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Maine_bans_sewage_sludge_for_fertilizer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Maine_bans_sewage_sludge_for_fertilizer)

content:
 
<p>
  Maine has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/12/maine-bans-sewage-sludge-fertilizer-farms-pfas-poisoning">banned use of sewage sludge as fertilizer</a>.  This law can prevent contamination of farmland with PFAS.

 


title: Covid-19 ran rampant through meat-packing plants
uri: Covid-19-ran-rampant-through-meat-packing-plants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Covid-19_ran_rampant_through_meat-packing_plants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Covid-19_ran_rampant_through_meat-packing_plants)

content:
 
<p>
  Meat-packing companies successfully lobbied the corrupter's officials
  to allow them to let <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/12/meatpacking-industry-trump-downplay-covid-threat">Covid-19 run rampant through their plants</a>.

 


title: 3000 new illegal Israel housing units to be built in Palestine
uri: 3000-new-illegal-Israel-housing-units-to-be-built-in-Palestine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(3000_new_illegal_Israel_housing_units_to_be_built_in_Palestine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(3000_new_illegal_Israel_housing_units_to_be_built_in_Palestine)

content:
 
<p>
  Israel showed disdain for Biden as well as contempt for Palestinians
  and dishonesty towards the public, by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/israel-approves-2700-housing-units-in-west-bank-settlements">authorizing almost 3000 new
  housing units for Israelis in the West Bank territory of Palestine</a>.
<p>
  These housing units are in colonies that Israel pretends to consider
  "illegal", but it doesn't let that acknowledged illegality interfere
  with building them.


 


title: Elon Musks's vision of a proper life for workers
uri: Elon-Musks-s-vision-of-a-proper-life-for-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Elon_Musks's_vision_of_a_proper_life_for_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Elon_Musks's_vision_of_a_proper_life_for_workers)

content:
 
<p>
  Elon Musk's vision of a proper life for workers is that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/12/elon-musk-praises-chinese-workers-for-extreme-work-culture">they spend
  all day working for someone like him, and the night too when he wants</a>.
  They are effectively robots in a giga-sweatshop.

 


title: EU attacks privacy to protect children
uri: EU-attacks-privacy-to-protect-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(EU_attacks_privacy_to_protect_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(EU_attacks_privacy_to_protect_children)

content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/12/planned-eu-rules-to-protect-children-online-are-attack-on-privacy-warn-critics">Planned EU rules to protect children online are attack on privacy</a>, warn
  critics.*
<p>
  The idea of scanning all messages for prohibited messages
  presumes that users are compelled to run a <a href="https://gnu.org/malware/">nonfree application</a>.
  That's fundamentally unjust, and these nonfree programs
  will surely be designed to mistreat their users.
  (Nonfree programs generally are.)
<p>
  I wonder if these applications will be designed to report you as an
  "abuser" if the text you send starts with <code>--BEGIN PGP MESSAGE--</code>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Igor_Pedin)
title: Igor Pedin
uri: Igor-Pedin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Igor_Pedin)
content:
 
<p>
  Interview with Igor Pedin, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/the-invisible-ukrainian-who-walked-225km-to-safety-from-mariupol">who walked from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia
  over 2-3 weeks</a>.

 


title: Russians leaving the country due to Putin's war
uri: Russians-leaving-the-country-due-to-Putin-s-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Russians_leaving_the_country_due_to_Putin's_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Russians_leaving_the_country_due_to_Putin's_war)

content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/russia-emigres-putin-war-ukraine-armenia">Hundreds of thousands of Russians have left the country</a>, partly because of
  opposition to Putin's war, partly from fear of being conscripted into it.

 


title: Parents suing son over him and his wife not wanting to have babies
uri: Parents-suing-son-over-him-and-his-wife-not-wanting-to-have-babies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Parents_suing_son_over_him_and_his_wife_not_wanting_to_have_babies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Parents_suing_son_over_him_and_his_wife_not_wanting_to_have_babies)

content:
 
<p>
  Parents in India are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/indian-couple-sue-son-demanding-grandchild-or-650000">suing their son for the money that they blew on
  his fancy wedding and his professional training, because he and his
  wife don't want to have babies</a>.
<p>
  I suspect that the parents were as much responsible for making the
  wedding expensive as the couple.  Fancy weddings are a form of
  competitive consumption, which in general can become a compulsion.
  Resisting it is a crucial part of wisdom.
<p>
  India's population is growing substantially, and the consequences will
  cause great suffering in a few decades for almost everyone in India,
  and contribute to the suffering of the rest of the world.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(US_baby_milk_substitute_shortage)
title: US baby milk substitute shortage
uri: US-baby-milk-substitute-shortage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(US_baby_milk_substitute_shortage)
content:
 
<p>
  One of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/12/us-baby-formula-shortage">several causes of the US shortage of milk substitutes for babies</a>
  is too many mergers.

 


title: Australian MP demands lobby stop using her picture on grounds of copyright
uri: Australian-MP-demands-lobby-stop-using-her-picture-on-grounds-of-copyr
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Australian_MP_demands_lobby_stop_using_her_picture_on_grounds_of_copyright)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Australian_MP_demands_lobby_stop_using_her_picture_on_grounds_of_copyright)

content:
 
<p>
  An Australian MP is demanding a "Christian lobby" <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/13/mp-rebekha-sharkie-threatens-legal-action-against-australian-christian-lobby-over-election-flyers">stop using her
  picture on a hostile leaflet, on grounds of copyright</a>.
<p>
  I don't know the details of the "religious discrimination bill", or
  why they call it that.  (The coverage of that bill in The Guardian
  presumed too much background for me to understand it without too much
  work.)  On general principles, if an incumbent elected official in a
  mainly Christian country is attacked by a "Christian lobby", I
  probably I disagree with that lobby.  Most likely I would agree with
  MP Sharkie if I knew what the issue was.
<p>
  However, it is clear that freedom of political speech includes
  the freedom to show a picture of a candidate you oppose.
  It is an injustice for copyright law to interfere with that.


 


title: DeMantis's racial gerrymandering violated Florida's state constitution
uri: DeMantis-s-racial-gerrymandering-violated-Florida-s-state-constitution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(DeMantis's_racial_gerrymandering_violated_Florida's_state_constitution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(DeMantis's_racial_gerrymandering_violated_Florida's_state_constitution)

content:
 
<p>
  A Florida judge <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/11/florida-judge-strikes-down-part-unconstitutional-map-rigged-gop-gov-desantis">invalidated Governor DeMentis's gerrymandering plan
  because racial gerrymandering violates the state constitution</a>.

 


title: Russian mercenaries linked to massacres in Mali
uri: Russian-mercenaries-linked-to-massacres-in-Mali
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Russian_mercenaries_linked_to_massacres_in_Mali)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Russian_mercenaries_linked_to_massacres_in_Mali)

content:
 
<p>
  *Russian ["Wagner"] mercenaries <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/04/russian-mercenaries-wagner-group-linked-to-civilian-massacres-in-mali">linked to civilian massacres in Mali</a>.*

 


title: DA buys Clearview face recognition software with civil forfeiture cash
uri: DA-buys-Clearview-face-recognition-software-with-civil-forfeiture-cash
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(DA_buys_Clearview_face_recognition_software_with_civil_forfeiture_cash)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(DA_buys_Clearview_face_recognition_software_with_civil_forfeiture_cash)

content:
 
<p>
  *Staten Island DA <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/05/04/clearview-face-recognition-staten-island/">Bought Clearview Face Recognition Software With
  Civil Forfeiture Cash</a>.*
<p>
  We must legally eliminate all possibility for prosecutors or other
  "law enforcers" to use any surveillance systems without getting
  specific approval from the city's elected government.

 


uri: Biden-rebuked-over-plans-to-exclude-Cuba-Nicaragua-and-Venezuela-fro
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Biden_rebuked_over_plans_to_exclude_Cuba,_Nicaragua,_and_Venezuela_from_the_Summit_of_the_Americas)

title:
 Biden rebuked over plans to exclude Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela from the Summit of the Americas 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#18_May_2022_(Biden_rebuked_over_plans_to_exclude_Cuba,_Nicaragua,_and_Venezuela_from_the_Summit_of_the_Americas)

content:
 
<p>
  AMLO <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/09/rebuke-biden-mexico-says-no-nation-should-be-excluded-americas-summit">objected to Biden's plans to exclude Cuba, Nicaragua, and
  Venezuela from the Summit of the Americas</a>.
<p>
  The dictator of Nicaragua is as repressive of dissidents as Putin,
  though not resembling Putin in military aggression.  Cuba <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#07%20August%202006%20(Cuban%20dissident)">represses</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(30_years_in_prison_for_protesting)">dissent</a> too,
  though perhaps not as thoroughly.  If any country deserved to
  be excluded from some international project, Nicaragua would.
<p>
  But there is a value in inviting all the countries in the region.

 


title: Republicans fueling extremism and terror
uri: Republicans-fueling-extremism-and-terror
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Republicans_fueling_extremism_and_terror)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Republicans_fueling_extremism_and_terror)

content:
 
<p>
  *Republicans are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/16/republicans-are-fueling-extremism-and-terror-like-the-buffalo-shooting">fueling extremism and terror like the Buffalo shooting</a>.*
<p>
  Republicans are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(The_Covid_party)">blocking funds for Covid-19 tests, treatment and vaccination</a>.
  Their willingness to sabotage the country for a partisan victory
makes them effectively terrorists.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Crops_ruined_by_floods)
title: Crops ruined by floods
uri: Crops-ruined-by-floods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Crops_ruined_by_floods)
content:
 
<p>
  Floods <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/16/is-it-all-worth-it-farmers-left-heartbroken-as-queensland-floods-ruin-crops">ruined crops</a> in part of northeast Australia.
  The area was previously flooded in February, as part of widespread
  flooding that also destroyed houses in much of eastern Australia.
<p>
  <a href="https://stallman.org/#apocalypse">Global heating</a> is increasing the frequency of such floods there and elsewhere.
  Australia's planet-roaster politicians are responsible for this (along
  with other countries' planet-roaster politicians).
<p>
  Isn't it a shame that the article says not a word about this?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Retail_and_fast-food_workers_strike)
title: Retail and fast-food workers strike
uri: Retail-and-fast-food-workers-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Retail_and_fast-food_workers_strike)
content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/16/strikes-us-retail-fast-food-dollar-general-mcdonalds-wendys">US retail and fast-food workers strike</a>.*

 


title: Heidi Marston quits and denounces how Los Angeles treats homeless people
uri: Heidi-Marston-quits-and-denounces-how-Los-Angeles-treats-homeless-peop
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Heidi_Marston_quits_and_denounces_how_Los_Angeles_treats_homeless_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Heidi_Marston_quits_and_denounces_how_Los_Angeles_treats_homeless_people)

content:
 
<p>
  Heidi Marston, head of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority,
  quit abruptly and denounced the government policy which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/16/homelessness-los-angeles-lahsa-heidi-marston">treats
  homeless people first of all as unsightly, and only second as people
  in need of help</a>.
<p>
  This is a response to selfish pressure from wealthy residents and
  business owners.
<p>
  The underlying cause of homelessness is that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#19_October_2020_(How_to_fix_the_problem_of_homelessness)">any place to live in a
  major city (where there are jobs) is too expensive for most people even
  when they have jobs</a>.
<p>
  One major cause of this is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#31_October_2016_(Homelessness)">zoning laws that
  block expansion of housing capacity</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Covid-19_evolution_and_vaccines)
title: Covid-19 evolution and vaccines
uri: Covid-19-evolution-and-vaccines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Covid-19_evolution_and_vaccines)
content:
 
<p>
  As Covid-19 evolves and becomes more transmissible, it also
  evolves away from the target that current vaccines are aimed at.
  Their effectiveness is gradually decreasing.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/16/covid-19-pandemic-exit-roadmap">But there is no
  special effort to accelerate development of better vaccines</a>.
<p>
  All this is happening as society in most countries has totally
  surrendered to the fools and jerks.  The fools say, "What, me worry
  about Covid?"  The jerks say, "I wouldn't wear a mask to save your
  life &mdash; or anyone's life."
<p>
  Contrast this with Japan and South Korea, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/why-are-masks-still-worn-in-japan-and-south-korea-covid">where people
  continue to reduce the number or cases by wearing masks</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Bogus_Johnson's_jet_zero_plan)
title: Bogus Johnson's "jet zero" plan
uri: Bogus-Johnson-s-jet-zero-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Bogus_Johnson's_jet_zero_plan)
content:
 
<p>
  Bogus Johnson has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/16/boris-johnson-jet-zero-plan-unrealistic-co2-targets-report">proposed a handwaving "plan" that would supposedly
  reduce greenhouse emissions from flights, as an excuse to permit
  airport expansion that will certainly increase emissions from flights</a>.
<p>
  That's what you get when you put a habitual liar in charge of a job
  that requires saying no to the wealthy.

 


uri: Australia-s-Administrative-Appeals-Tribunal-stops-member-from-hearing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Australia's_Administrative_Appeals_Tribunal_stops_member_from_hearing_over_deciding_favorably_in_too_many_cases)

title:
 Australia's Administrative Appeals Tribunal stops member from hearing over deciding favorably in too many cases 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Australia's_Administrative_Appeals_Tribunal_stops_member_from_hearing_over_deciding_favorably_in_too_many_cases)

content:
 
<p>
  A member of Australia's Administrative Appeals Tribunal says he was
  stopped from hearing welfare benefits cases because <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/16/aat-member-says-he-was-benched-after-too-many-decisions-against-government">he had decided too
  many cases in favor of the individuals who were making the appeals</a>.
<p>
  He has "rejected the department's interpretation of the law on a
  number of points that have never been definitively decided on appeal."

 


title: Cynics masquerade as wise while doing everyone a disservice
uri: Cynics-masquerade-as-wise-while-doing-everyone-a-disservice
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Cynics_masquerade_as_wise_while_doing_everyone_a_disservice)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Cynics_masquerade_as_wise_while_doing_everyone_a_disservice)

content:
 
<p>
  A large survey finds that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/08/cynics-masquerade-as-wise-but-they-are-doing-everyone-a-disservice">cynical people are perceived as being more competent than others, but on the average they aren't really so</a>.

 


title: Putin forces retreat from Kharkiv territory
uri: Putin-forces-retreat-from-Kharkiv-territory
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Putin_forces_retreat_from_Kharkiv_territory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Putin_forces_retreat_from_Kharkiv_territory)

content:
 
<p>
  The Putin forces have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/14/ukraine-has-won-the-battle-of-kharkiv-analysts-say-as-kyiv-warns-of-long-phase-of-war">retreated from most of the seized territory
  around Kharkiv</a>.  They gave way easily to advancing Ukrainian troops.
<p>
  As a result, Kharkiv is no longer in artillery range of the Putin
  forces.  There could be occasional missile attacks, but the city will
  not suffer further bulk destruction.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Nuclear_power_still_not_usable)
title: Nuclear power still not usable
uri: Nuclear-power-still-not-usable
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Nuclear_power_still_not_usable)
content:
 
<p>
  Nuclear power is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/14/poisoned-legacy-why-the-future-of-power-cant-be-nuclear">still not a usable solution</a>.  It's even more dangerous than we used to recognize.

 


title: Just Stop Oil activist says imprisonment threats will not make them give up
uri: Just-Stop-Oil-activist-says-imprisonment-threats-will-not-make-them-gi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Just_Stop_Oil_activist_says_imprisonment_threats_will_not_make_them_give_up)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Just_Stop_Oil_activist_says_imprisonment_threats_will_not_make_them_give_up)

content:
 
<p>
  A Just Stop Oil activist says that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/10/just-stop-oil-activists-queens-speech-tories">threats of imprisonment will not
  make them give up.  They will continue striving to save civilization
  and the ecosphere</a>.
<p>
  European news <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/14/sun-photos-climate-breakdown">associates dangerous heat waves, not with hot death to
  come, but with having fun</a>.

 


title: The corrupter lost the subpoena'd phones
uri: The-corrupter-lost-the-subpoena-d-phones
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(The_corrupter_lost_the_subpoena'd_phones)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(The_corrupter_lost_the_subpoena'd_phones)

content:
 
<p>
  The corrupter says that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/10/trump-cellphones-investigation-alleged-fraud-company">he lost the phones that the investigators
  subpoena'd from him</a>.
<p>
  I don't believe a word of it, but it will be hard to prove it is
  false.

 


title: DeMantis requiring schools to teach about the victims of communism
uri: DeMantis-requiring-schools-to-teach-about-the-victims-of-communism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(DeMantis_requiring_schools_to_teach_about_the_victims_of_communism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(DeMantis_requiring_schools_to_teach_about_the_victims_of_communism)

content:
 
<p>
  DeMentis signed a bill <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/10/florida-ron-desantis-communism-bill-students">requiring Florida schools to teach students
  about the victims of communism</a>.
<p>
  It is important for people to learn about the victims of communism.
  Stalin killed tens of millions of Russians, and Mao did the same to
  Chinese.  They left behind corrupt dictatorships.
<p>
  However, I fear that Republicans will use this opportunity to
  indoctrinate students to believe that today's extreme capitalism
  represents a just society.  Meanwhile, slavery in the US, and
  subsequent racist laws, are also crucial for Americans to learn about.

 


title: Twitter should not allow presidents or prime ministers
uri: Twitter-should-not-allow-presidents-or-prime-ministers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Twitter_should_not_allow_presidents_or_prime_ministers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Twitter_should_not_allow_presidents_or_prime_ministers)

content:
 
<p>
  Idea: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/05/14/twitter-elon-musk-trump-nuclear-war-north-korea/">Twitter should not allow any presidents or prime ministers of nuclear-armed states</a> to have accounts, because they could use Twitter to start a nuclear war.
<p>
  Perhaps Twitter should not allow any president or prime minister, or
  war minister, or general, to have an account.

 


title: Virtual reality issues of right and wrong
uri: Virtual-reality-issues-of-right-and-wrong
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Virtual_reality_issues_of_right_and_wrong)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Virtual_reality_issues_of_right_and_wrong)

content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/14/can-we-create-a-moral-metaverse">Multiperson virtual reality raises a number of issues of right and
  wrong</a>, which can be considered in relation to the laws of various
  countries, or to various ideas of morality.  There will be conflicts
  among these.
<p>
  One moral issue which the article is unaware of is that of <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">the nonfree
  software</a> in use at multiple levels in the underlying support, both
  in the VR headsets and in the multiperson interaction server.  These programs
  will have malicious functionalities, since nonfree software usually does.
<p>
  Until we have VR systems that companies can't snoop on and manipulate,
  I will carry out my interactions with people in other ways.
<p>
  Please do not dehumanize other people by referring to their words and
  actions as "<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#content">content</a>".

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Oil_company_profits)
title: Oil company profits
uri: Oil-company-profits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Oil_company_profits)
content:
 
<p>
  US oil company profits are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/11/amid-record-pump-prices-oil-giants-enjoy-sky-high-41-billion-q1-profits-report">running at twice the high level of a year ago</a>,
  Let's tax those profits and spend money on what we need!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Student_accused_of_blasphemy_murdered)
title: Student accused of blasphemy murdered
uri: Student-accused-of-blasphemy-murdered
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Student_accused_of_blasphemy_murdered)
content:
 
<p>
  In Nigeria, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/14/protests-nigeria-arrests-blasphemy-killing-female-student-sokoto">a mob of fanatical Muslims murdered a student accused of
  blasphemy</a>.  The local sultan condemned the murders, and cops are
  arresting the murderers.
<p>
  The fanatics don't like this, so they held a protest, which fortunately
  was not very big or dangerous.
<p>
  Whatever your religion may be, you have no right to kill people for
  rejecting it or criticizing it.  If you do so, you bring shame on it.

 


title: Federal judge blocks part of transgender medication law
uri: Federal-judge-blocks-part-of-transgender-medication-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Federal_judge_blocks_part_of_transgender_medication_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Federal_judge_blocks_part_of_transgender_medication_law)

content:
 
<p>
  *A federal judge has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/14/transgender-medication-law-alabama-blocked-judge">blocked part of a law that makes it a felony to give gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to minors</a>.*

 


title: Some genetically modified plants may be safe and useful
uri: Some-genetically-modified-plants-may-be-safe-and-useful
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Some_genetically_modified_plants_may_be_safe_and_useful)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Some_genetically_modified_plants_may_be_safe_and_useful)

content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/14/uk-scientists-food-gene-editing-genetic-technology">Some genetically modified plants may be safe and useful</a>.
  It would be good to have a path for careful testing and approval of
  them.
<p>
  The danger of using them, with a <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> government, is that it
  could become a pushover for business interests, and thus might not
  take the precautions seriously.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Heat_wave_destroying_wheat_harvest)
title: Heat wave destroying wheat harvest
uri: Heat-wave-destroying-wheat-harvest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Heat_wave_destroying_wheat_harvest)
content:
 
<p>
  A big heat-wave in India is <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/14/business/india-wheat-export-banned/index.html">destroying the wheat harvest</a>.
<p>
  This adds to the shortage caused by the inability to export Ukraine's wheat.
<p>
  It has been clear for years that we were driving ourselves into a food
  shortage.  It was not clear that we would hit it so soon.

 


title: Hospitals and insurance companies charging hundreds for free antibody
uri: Hospitals-and-insurance-companies-charging-hundreds-for-free-antibody
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Hospitals_and_insurance_companies_charging_hundreds_for_free_antibody)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Hospitals_and_insurance_companies_charging_hundreds_for_free_antibody)

content:
 
<p>
  The US government is distributing Evusheld, a monoclonal antibody for
  Covid-19, gratis, but greedy bastard hospitals and insurance companies
  are charging hundreds of dollars for it.
<p>
  This would not happen if the US adopted a universal medical system,
  also known as "<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_May_2022_(Healthcare_crisis)">Medicare</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(medicare_push_struggle)">for</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#24_October_2021_(National_medical_system)">all</a>".

 


title: "Discrimination" against some social media posts
uri: Discrimination-against-some-social-media-posts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Discrimination_against_some_social_media_posts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Discrimination_against_some_social_media_posts)

content:
 
<p>
  A confused appeals court in Texas has upheld a Texas law <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/tech/texas-hb20-social-media-law/index.html">making it
  illegal for any large social media site to "discriminate" against some
  postings in comparison to others, for any reason</a>.
<p>
  No one knows how to obey that law, since it has contradictory
  interpretations.  
<p>
  Perhaps this will require large social media sites not to operate in
  the US.  They may have to split up into competing companies which make
  sure none of them has enough users for the law to apply to it.

 


title: Result of high-pressure gymnast training
uri: Result-of-high-pressure-gymnast-training
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Result_of_high-pressure_gymnast_training)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Result_of_high-pressure_gymnast_training)

content:
 
<p>
  The high-pressure training of gymnasts, some not even teenagers, goes
  as far as <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/sport/amelia-cline-canada-gymnastics-spt-intl/index.html">claiming they are faking when they say they have been
  injured</a>.
<p>
  Ultimately this is the natural result of competitive pressure
  transmitted to the gymnasts through coaches that are interested in
  winning more than anything.  It is a perverse system.  We should not
  put people in a position where their health depends on resisting the
  demands of people they have been taught to trust.

 


title: (Satire) Google Maps shortcuts through houses
uri: (Satire)-Google-Maps-shortcuts-through-houses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_((Satire)_Google_Maps_shortcuts_through_houses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_((Satire)_Google_Maps_shortcuts_through_houses)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Google Maps Adds <a href="https://www.theonion.com/google-maps-adds-shortcuts-through-houses-of-people-goo-1848861825">Shortcuts Through Houses Of People Google
    Knows Aren't Home Right Now</a>.*
<p>
  Breaking news: Google will allow people to pay to opt out
  from this use of their homes.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Tomas's_law)
title: Tomas's law
uri: Tomas-s-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Tomas's_law)
content:
 
<p>
  Tomas's law:
  <blockquote>
    <p>Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from stupidity.
    (Because that provides deniability for the perpetrators.)</p>
  </blockquote>
<p>
  I don't know Tomas's identity, but he said I could post his law.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(UK_needs_national_housing_plan)
title: UK needs national housing plan
uri: UK-needs-national-housing-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(UK_needs_national_housing_plan)
content:
 
<p>
  The UK needs a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/15/weve-dont-it-before-others-do-it-now-national-housing-plan-not-beyond-our-wit">national housing plan</a>.
  Corbyn would give it one.
<p>
  The US also needs one, but Republicans don't want the poor and the
  disprivileged to suffer less.

 


title: Calling a man "bald" is not sexual harassment
uri: Calling-a-man-bald-is-not-sexual-harassment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Calling_a_man_bald_is_not_sexual_harassment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Calling_a_man_bald_is_not_sexual_harassment)

content:
 
<p>
  Arguing against <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/15/lets-not-mock-bald-men-but-do-they-really-feel-threatened">the absurd ruling that calling a man "bald" is sexual
  harassment</a>.
<p>
  I don't think it's even an insult.  Why fuss about it?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(US_and_Covid)
title: US and Covid
uri: US-and-Covid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(US_and_Covid)
content:
 
<p>
  Some of the reasons why <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/15/1-million-us-covid-deaths-effects">the US has had the third-highest rate of death from Covid-19</a> &mdash;
  higher than all other countries other than Brazil and Poland.
<p>
The article does not present the Republicans' intentional obstruction
US efforts to protect Americans from Covid.  (It is hidden behind the
word "polarized", which creates a false equivalence between Republicans
and non-Republicans.)
<p>
  Their obstruction started in February 2020, when <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#25_March_2020_(Urgent:_investigate_possible_profiteers)">Republican leaders
  publicly said not to worry while privately buying stocks to profit
  from the disease</a>.
  In April, when it became clear that people from
  disprivileged groups were more likely to die from Covid, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#23_March_2020_(Secret_Covid-19_meetings)">Republicans
  started opposing measures to reduce the spread</a>.
  During 2020 <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#18_June_2020_(Killing_to_win_election)">they politicized rejection of the use of masks, using
  their breath as an instrument to support their campaign of harassment
    and intimidation</a>.
<p>
  A few weeks ago, <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(The_Covid_party)">Republicans blocked federal funding for vaccines and
    treatment</a>.
<p>
  They are still the disease-spreader party.

 


title: DOJ applauded for Environmental Justice Plan
uri: DOJ-applauded-for-Environmental-Justice-Plan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(DOJ_applauded_for_Environmental_Justice_Plan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(DOJ_applauded_for_Environmental_Justice_Plan)

content:
 
<p>
  *Biden DOJ <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/05/biden-doj-applauded-long-overdue-environmental-justice-plan">Applauded for 'Long Overdue' Environmental Justice Plan</a>.*

 


title: Marcos Jr gives opportunity to sabotage commission
uri: Marcos-Jr-gives-opportunity-to-sabotage-commission
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Marcos_Jr_gives_opportunity_to_sabotage_commission)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Marcos_Jr_gives_opportunity_to_sabotage_commission)

content:
 
<p>
  The election of Marcos Jr as president of the Philippines will give
  him the opportunity to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/lost-picasso-spotted-in-imelda-marcos-home-after-son-bongbong-election-win">sabotage the commission whose job is to find
  and seize his father's corrupt gains</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Fight right-wing hate and defend rights of teachers and students
uri: Urgent-Fight-right-wing-hate-and-defend-rights-of-teachers-and-studen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Urgent:_Fight_right-wing_hate_and_defend_rights_of_teachers_and_students)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Urgent:_Fight_right-wing_hate_and_defend_rights_of_teachers_and_students)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-department-of-education-to-lead-the-fight-against-right-wing-hate-and-defend-the-rights-of-teachers-and-students-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-tell-dept-of-ed-defend-teachers-from-right-wing-hate-2">call on the Department of Education to fight right-wing hate and defend the rights of teachers and students</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Urgent:_We_need_Medicare_for_All_now)
title: Urgent: We need Medicare for All now
uri: Urgent-We-need-Medicare-for-All-now
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Urgent:_We_need_Medicare_for_All_now)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens, <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-senate-we-need-m4a?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-social-security-works&source=sms05122022">tell your senators: we need Medicare for All now</a>.

 


title: Dinesh D'Souza says dropping off ballots for others corrupts elections
uri: Dinesh-D-Souza-says-dropping-off-ballots-for-others-corrupts-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Dinesh_D'Souza_says_dropping_off_ballots_for_others_corrupts_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Dinesh_D'Souza_says_dropping_off_ballots_for_others_corrupts_elections)

content:
 
<p>
  The latest right-wing hit job movie by Dinesh D'Souza insists
  repeatedly that <a href="https://mailchi.mp/gregpalast/deep-dig-into-2000-mules-reveals-dinesh-dsouza-film-has-facts-ass-backwards-173998?e=8283eff9b8">dropping off ballots for others is corrupting US
  elections, and demonizes people who do it &mdash; without the slightest
  evidence that any of them did anything wrong</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Justice_Thomas)
title: Justice Thomas
uri: Justice-Thomas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Justice_Thomas)
content:
 
<p>
Justice Thomas <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/may/14/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-leak-abortion">rebuked Americans for not respecting the Supreme Court
    any more</a>.
<p>
  The 6-3 majority of right-wing justices is the result of Republicans' <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_June_2013_(Disenfranchising_minority_group_voters_now_much_easier)">by-hook-or-by-crook</a> attitude and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Campaign_to_rig_elections)">rigging of elections</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#19_September_2021_(Conspiracy_ideations)">for a political goal</a>.
  Why should Americans respect the Supreme Court more
  than they respect the way Republicans took it over.

 


title: (Satire) Resiliency of American decline
uri: (Satire)-Resiliency-of-American-decline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_((Satire)_Resiliency_of_American_decline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_((Satire)_Resiliency_of_American_decline)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Biden <a href="https://www.theonion.com/biden-touts-resiliency-of-american-decline-while-tourin-1848937809">Touts Resiliency Of American Decline While Touring Factory That's Been Closed For Decades</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_((Satire)_Gun_control_measures)
title: (Satire) Gun control measures
uri: (Satire)-Gun-control-measures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_((Satire)_Gun_control_measures)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Congress Placed On Lockdown After <a href="https://www.theonion.com/congress-placed-on-lockdown-after-deranged-man-enters-s-1848937789">Deranged Man Enters Senate With Gun Control Measures</a>.*

 


title: UK has approved several fossil fuel projects since Cop26
uri: UK-has-approved-several-fossil-fuel-projects-since-Cop26
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(UK_has_approved_several_fossil_fuel_projects_since_Cop26)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(UK_has_approved_several_fossil_fuel_projects_since_Cop26)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/19/uk-has-approved-several-fossil-fuel-projects-since-cop26-analysis-finds">Several major UK fossil fuel projects have been approved since
Cop26 concluded</a>, an analysis has found, while about 50 schemes are
thought to be in the pipeline between now and 2025.*

 


title: Banning artificial UV tanning salons reduced skin cancer
uri: Banning-artificial-UV-tanning-salons-reduced-skin-cancer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Banning_artificial_UV_tanning_salons_reduced_skin_cancer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Banning_artificial_UV_tanning_salons_reduced_skin_cancer)

content:
 
<p>
  Australia has reduced skin cancer by banning artificial UV tanning salons.
  Now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/19/ban-on-solariums-in-england-would-save-hundreds-of-lives-from-skin-cancer-study-finds">people propose the UK adopt a similar policy</a>.

 


title: Energy and food crisis worse than most Americans realize
uri: Energy-and-food-crisis-worse-than-most-Americans-realize
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Energy_and_food_crisis_worse_than_most_Americans_realize)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Energy_and_food_crisis_worse_than_most_Americans_realize)

content:
 
<p>
  *The [global] <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/18/energy-and-food-crisis-far-worse-most-americans-realize">Energy and Food Crisis Is Far Worse Than Most Americans
  Realize</a>.*
<p>
  If not for <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, we could aim for a "solution" consisting of 
  finding more oil to pump.  But that path is a very dead end.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Laws_to_protect_abortion_rights)
title: Laws to protect abortion rights
uri: Laws-to-protect-abortion-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Laws_to_protect_abortion_rights)
content:
 
<p>
  Several US states are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/abortion-pro-choice-states-safe-havens-funding-legal-protection">adopting laws to protect abortion rights for women
from repressive states</a>.

 


title: Mayor Adams said he would help homeless
uri: Mayor-Adams-said-he-would-help-homeless
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Mayor_Adams_said_he_would_help_homeless)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Mayor_Adams_said_he_would_help_homeless)

content:
 
<p>
  New York City Mayor Adams said during his campaign that he would help
  homeless people, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/11/new-york-city-homeless-sweeps-eric-adams">instead he has turned to the same old cruelty</a>.

 


title: Terrible solutions to cost of living crisis
uri: Terrible-solutions-to-cost-of-living-crisis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Terible_solutions_to_cost_of_living_crisis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Terible_solutions_to_cost_of_living_crisis)

content:
 
<p>
  *What unites conservatives in the US and the UK? <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/18/what-unites-conservatives-in-the-us-and-the-uk-terrible-solutions-to-the-cost-of-living-crisis">Terrible solutions to
    the cost of living crisis</a>.*
<p>
  Their "solutions" don't attempt to fix the problem, as much as to help
  demonize the victims.  For that goal, they don't need to be in touch
  with reality.
<p>
  Actually, inflation is nothing to worry about (in most companies) as
  long as your union can make the company you really work for raise
  workers' wages as fast as it raises prices.

 


title: Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost the Republican primary
uri: Rep-Madison-Cawthorn-lost-the-Republican-primary
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Rep._Madison_Cawthorn_lost_the_Republican_primary)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Rep._Madison_Cawthorn_lost_the_Republican_primary)

content:
 
<p>
  Rep. Madison Cawthorn, extremist supporter of the corrupter's big lie,
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/17/madison-cawthorn-chuck-edwards-congress">lost the Republican primary and thus will probably not be in Congress
    next year</a>.
<p>
  This might be a sign that the worst form of extremism are starting to
  lose support among Republicans.
<p>
  However, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/18/republicans-trump-big-lie-primary-election-results">trumpery is for the most part still popular among Republicans</a>.

 


title: Protesters sentenced to months of jail
uri: Protesters-sentenced-to-months-of-jail
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Protesters_sentenced_to_months_of_jail)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Protesters_sentenced_to_months_of_jail)

content:
 
<p>
  Protesters that blocked a coal train in New Hampshire <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/16/sentenced-coal-blockade-climate-activists-vow-continue-do-what-must-be-done">have been sentenced to
  months of jail</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Troops_sent_back_to_Somalia)
title: Troops sent back to Somalia
uri: Troops-sent-back-to-Somalia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Troops_sent_back_to_Somalia)
content:
 
<p>
  Biden is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/16/politics/somalia-troop-redeployment/index.html">sending US troops back to Somalia</a>.
<p>
  It's a bad idea for the US to get involved in fighting every terror
  group in the world.  Many of these fights can't possibly be completely
  won, and in the absence of that, the US would always have a reason to
  keep "helping" to fight them &mdash; and generating resentment that would
  fuel the terror group.

 


title: Law for bugs blocking or demoting social media posts
uri: Law-for-bugs-blocking-or-demoting-social-media-posts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Law_forbugs_blocking_or_demoting_social_media_posts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Law_forbugs_blocking_or_demoting_social_media_posts)

content:
 
<p>
  A Texas law <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/16/tech/tech-buffalo-shooting-video-hb20/index.html">forbids social media platforms from blocking or demoting
  posts, regardless of motive</a>.
<p>
  Right-wing ideas <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_May_2022_(Discrimination_against_some_social_media_posts)">do not in practice face discrimination by the main
  antisocial media platforms</a>.  On the contrary, right-wing
  disinformation tends to get promoted and spread more.
<p>
  The Supreme Court will eventually rule on that law.  I have no
  confidence in it to make a good decision, but I won't try to forecast
  what it will say.  I also don't have a clear idea of what the right
  decision would be.
<p>
  That decision will probably take months; meanwhile, the law is in
  effect.  So platforms face a quandary of what to do.  I am not sure
  what I would do.
<p>
  Please don't refer to people's postings as "<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">content</a>".

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Putin_forces_stealing_textbooks)
title: Putin forces stealing textbooks
uri: Putin-forces-stealing-textbooks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Putin_forces_stealing_textbooks)
content:
 
<p>
  Putin forces soldiers are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/16/europe/russia-ukraine-education-intl-cmd/index.html">stealing textbooks for Ukrainian, and
  textbooks in Ukrainian, from schools in the occupied parts of Ukraine</a>.
  They are using pressure and threats to demand teachers
  start teaching the Russian curriculum, but some teachers resist.
<p>
  They are stealing schools' laptops too.  Sad to say, these laptops
  are surely full of user-subjugating nonfree software, and if they are
  replaced, the replacements will have the same problem.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Another_blow_to_rule_of_law)
title: Another blow to rule of law
uri: Another-blow-to-rule-of-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Another_blow_to_rule_of_law)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories propose <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/15/priti-patel-accused-of-power-grab-over-new-policing-proposals">another blow to rule of law by planning to let
ministers seize more powers over <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> departments, including forbidding
their chiefs from criticizing the government</a>.

 


title: Mutual reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons
uri: Mutual-reduction-and-elimination-of-nuclear-weapons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Mutual_reduction_and_elimination_of_nuclear_weapons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Mutual_reduction_and_elimination_of_nuclear_weapons)

content:
 
<p>
  The US should start negotiations with Russia about <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/17/steps-encourage-peace-ukraine">mutual reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons</a>.

 


title: Right-wing extremists want to force having more babies
uri: Right-wing-extremists-want-to-force-having-more-babies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Right-wing_extremists_want_to_force_having_more_babies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Right-wing_extremists_want_to_force_having_more_babies)

content:
 
<p>
  Right-wing extremists show that <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/05/17/abortion-trans-health-care-pro-natalism-authoritarianism/">they want to pressure and force people
    to have more babies</a>.
<p>
  They equate puberty-blocking with sterilization; then they equate
  voluntary sterilization with forced sterilization.  Through those two
  evident errors, they arrive at the bizarre conclusion that choosing to
  block your own puberty is equivalent to someone else's forcibly
  sterilizing you.
<p>
  With this joined with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/17/republicans-have-invoked-the-great-replacement-theory-over-and-over-and-over">their racist assumption about whose babies are
  good and whose are bad</a>,
<p>
  they are gradually approaching the one-time Nazi ideology of making
  people have babies for the state.  With the added wrinkle that the
  increase in population puts the state's stability in danger, as well
  as the lives of all people except those already old.  Any sort of
  encouragement (or pressure) for people to reproduce (regardless of
  <em>which</em> people) puts civilization in increased danger.
<p>
  The articles linked to above display symbolic bigotry by capitalizing
  "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both
  words or neither one.)  I object to bigotry, and normally I decline to
  link to articles which promote it.  But I make exceptions for some
  articles which give important information about racism or the fight to
  eliminate racism.  These articles are some of the exceptions.

 


title: White supremacist bigot posted for a long time about his plans
uri: White-supremacist-bigot-posted-for-a-long-time-about-his-plans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(White_supremacist_bigot_posted_for_a_long_time_about_his_plans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(White_supremacist_bigot_posted_for_a_long_time_about_his_plans)

content:
 
<p>
  A white-supremacist bigot who killed 10 people in Buffalo
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/17/buffalo-shooting-gunman-plotted-attack-for-months">had been posting for a long time about his plans for killing</a>.
<p>
  Visible signs that someone is planning violence are generally not
  certain or clear, especially when you don't know very well the person
  that is giving the signs.  Chances are most of the people who might
  strike someone as suspect would never carry out any violence.
  Given that situation, what could possibly be useful to actually do?
  Nothing, I think.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(New_political_crimes)
title: New political crimes
uri: New-political-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(New_political_crimes)
content:
 
<p>
  Cuba has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/cuba-parliament-penal-code-updated">created a number of new political crimes</a>.
<p>
  I wonder about the precise definition of "to give information to
  international organizations, associations or even people who have not
  been authorized by the government."

 


title: Flooding and landslides from global heating
uri: Flooding-and-landslides-from-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Flooding_and_landslides_from_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Flooding_and_landslides_from_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>
  South Africa's recent flooding and landslides are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/13/hot-planet-made-deadly-south-african-floods-twice-likely-climate-scientists">twice as likely nowadays
  as they were decades ago, due to global heating</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Greenwashing)
title: Greenwashing
uri: 2022-05-21-Greenwashing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Greenwashing)
content:
 
<p>
  Explaining greenwashing: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/10/heres-how-spot-wall-streets-increasingly-infuriating-greenwashing">it's designed to distract the public
  from a company's continued involvement in developing new fossil fuel
  wells or infrastructure</a>.
<p>
  If a company's publicity about <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> doesn't talk about
  drastic reductions in use of fossil fuels, it's almost surely
  greenwashing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Ukraine_and_antiwar_dilemma)
title: Ukraine and antiwar dilemma
uri: Ukraine-and-antiwar-dilemma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Ukraine_and_antiwar_dilemma)
content:
 
<p>
  People accustomed to opposing the US's many unjust or
  avoidable wars <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/17/ukraine-and-anti-war-dilemma">face a dilemma about confronting Putin's war in Ukraine</a>.
<p>
  I'm one of the former group, more or less.  But I have held short of
  generalizing that opposition to a universal conclusion that "fighting
  is always simply wrong."  Most of the US's wars have been
  power-rivalry or imperialism (and I won't be surprised if it does
  those again), but aiding Ukraine is an exception and we need to
  recognize it as one.

 


title: Obstacle against buying politicians removed
uri: Obstacle-against-buying-politicians-removed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Obstacle_against_buying_politicians_removed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Obstacle_against_buying_politicians_removed)

content:
 
<p>
  The US Supreme Court has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/17/fec-vs-ted-cruz-supreme-court-campaign-contribution-limit">removed yet another obstacle (though not the
  biggest one) against buying politicians</a>.

 


title: Fossil fuel production sites need to shut down early
uri: Fossil-fuel-production-sites-need-to-shut-down-early
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Fossil_fuel_production_sites_need_to_shut_down_early)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Fossil_fuel_production_sites_need_to_shut_down_early)

content:
 
<p>
  *Exclusive: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/17/shut-down-fossil-fuel-production-sites-early-to-avoid-climate-chaos-says-study">Nearly half existing facilities will need to close prematurely to limit heating to 1.5C</a>, scientists say.*

 


title: Pro-Israel lobbying group Aipac wants to defeat progressive Democrats
uri: Pro-Israel-lobbying-group-Aipac-wants-to-defeat-progressive-Democrats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Pro-Israel_lobbying_group_Aipac_wants_to_defeat_progressive_Democrats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Pro-Israel_lobbying_group_Aipac_wants_to_defeat_progressive_Democrats)

content:
 
<p>
  *Pro-Israel lobbying group Aipac <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/17/pro-israel-lobby-defeat-democrats-palestinians-2022">secretly pouring millions into defeating
  progressive Democrats</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Climate_geoengineering_regulation)
title: Climate geoengineering regulation
uri: Climate-geoengineering-regulation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Climate_geoengineering_regulation)
content:
 
<p>
  A former head of the WTO <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/17/climate-geoengineering-must-be-regulated-says-former-wto-head">wants to develop a global system of
  government for geoengineering</a>.
  I agree that the world needs one, but someone whose career has
  been associated with serving the interests of business is the last
  person to entrust this to.
<p>
  Can anyone find the list of 16 experts he has invited to form the
  "Global Overshoot Commission", with information about their careers?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Getting_20-hour_shifts_or_beaten_up)
title: Getting 20-hour shifts or beaten up
uri: Getting-20-hour-shifts-or-beaten-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Getting_20-hour_shifts_or_beaten_up)
content:
 
<p>
  When UK fishing boats hire migrant workers, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/may/17/migrant-workers-exploited-and-beaten-on-uk-fishing-boats">1/3 of them are made to
  work 20-hour shifts, and 1/3 get beaten up</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Mariupol_capitulated)
title: Mariupol capitulated
uri: Mariupol-capitulated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Mariupol_capitulated)
content:
 
<p>
  Mariupol has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/17/defenders-of-mariupol-are-the-heroes-of-our-time-the-battle-that-gripped-the-world">capitulated after almost three months of siege</a>.  Some
  hundreds of the remaining Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered.
<p>
  There is no way to tell how many civilians were killed, but it may be possible
to count those who have got out, or who get out in coming days.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Car_crash_research_bias)
title: Car crash research bias
uri: Car-crash-research-bias
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Car_crash_research_bias)
content:
 
<p>
  Due to bias in research into car crashes, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/17/women-almost-twice-likely-trapped-crashed-vehicle-study">cars protect women less than
  they protect men</a>.

 


title: The white-supremacist massacre in Buffalo is terrorism
uri: The-white-supremacist-massacre-in-Buffalo-is-terrorism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(The_white-supremacist_massacre_in_Buffalo_is_terrorism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(The_white-supremacist_massacre_in_Buffalo_is_terrorism)

content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/16/ben-crump-buffalo-shooting-domestic-terrorism">The US should treat the white-supremacist massacre in Buffalo as
    terrorism</a>.
<p>
  More generally, we need to reverse the peculiar and unjustified focus on
  terrorism committed by people other than white-supremacists, since the
  latter are the big threat.
<p>
  More deeply, we need to change the right-wing bias that leads "law enforcement"
  agencies to enforce laws mainly against progressives and minority groups.
  This may require changing a lot of their personnel.

 


title: Putin trying to intimidate Sweden and Finland
uri: Putin-trying-to-intimidate-Sweden-and-Finland
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Putin_trying_to_intimidate_Sweden_and_Finland)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Putin_trying_to_intimidate_Sweden_and_Finland)

content:
 
<p>
  Putin is trying to intimidate Sweden and Finland, by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/12/russia-threatens-retaliatory-steps-finland-inches-closer-joining-nato">threatening to move
  military units and weapons around if they join NATO</a>.
<p>
  Putin is talking about their membership in NATO as if it constituted a
  threat to attack Russia (which is not true).  I think the purpose of
  that way of speaking is to encourage people to conceive of it that
  way.
<p>
  Russia can move its troops and missiles around for any reason, or no
  reason.  Putin could have moved troops to the Finnish border a year
  ago if it wanted to, but there was no reason to do so then, and will
  be no reason to do so next year, except to look bellicose.  It
  wouldn't make any big difference in practice anyway.
<p>
  This is just posturing, but it gives people something to panic about
  if they are so inclined.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Defense_against_future_pandemics)
title: Defense against future pandemics
uri: Defense-against-future-pandemics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Defense_against_future_pandemics)
content:
 
<p>
  *Experts Lay Out <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/12/experts-lay-out-proactive-measures-defend-world-against-future-pandemics">Proactive Measures to Defend World Against Future Pandemics</a>.*
<p>
  The first item in the list is protecting the forests where humans will
  occasionally catch new diseases from wild animals.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Medicare_for_all)
title: Medicare for all
uri: 2022-05-21-Medicare-for-all
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Medicare_for_all)
content:
 
<p>
  *Instead of sacrificing lives to a free-market insurance God, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/12/time-replace-deadly-wile-e-coyote-healthcare-lifesaving-medicare-all">[Medicare
  for All] saves lives while retraining people in [the insurance business] for
  the life-affirming jobs of the future</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Pandemic_Anti-Rights_Syndrome)
title: *Pandemic Anti-Rights Syndrome*
uri: Pandemic-Anti-Rights-Syndrome
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Pandemic_Anti-Rights_Syndrome)
content:
 
<p>
The Americans who cry "tyranny!" about masks and vaccinations
are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/12/america-unmasked-pandemic-anti-rights-syndrome">the same ones that are trying to abolish many substantial human rights
that were established in the 1960s and 70s</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Law_to_punish_price_gouging_companies)
title: Law to punish price gouging companies
uri: Law-to-punish-price-gouging-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Law_to_punish_price_gouging_companies)
content:
 
<p>
  Senator Warren's new proposed law would <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/12/new-warren-bill-would-empower-feds-crack-down-corporate-price-gouging">punish companies for price gouging
  while being profitable already</a>.

 


title: Persecution of people connected to abortions
uri: Persecution-of-people-connected-to-abortions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Persecution_of_people_connected_to_abortions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Persecution_of_people_connected_to_abortions)

content:
 
<p>
  Republican plans for persecution of people connected in any way with
  abortions <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2022/05/roe-overturn-data-privacy-laws.html">take advantage of the injustice of surveillance that has been
  built into digital infrastructure and online disservices over many years</a>.
<p>
  We will need to demand coin phones, and libraries that let us do searches
  without saying who we are.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Australia_buys_out_fisheries)
title: Australia buys out fisheries
uri: Australia-buys-out-fisheries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Australia_buys_out_fisheries)
content:
 
<p>
  Australia will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/16/australian-authorities-to-buy-out-fisheries-citing-climate-crisis">buy out some boats' fishing permits to help certain species
  survive</a>.
<p>
  If <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> effects are part of the problem, this sort of help
  may not suffice for long if <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> continues.

 


title: Formerly working Afghan woman now idle at home
uri: Formerly-working-Afghan-woman-now-idle-at-home
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Formerly_working_Afghan_woman_now_idle_at_home)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Formerly_working_Afghan_woman_now_idle_at_home)

content:
 
<p>
  Many of Afghanistan's working women are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/16/afghanistan-further-impoverished-as-women-vanish-from-workforce-taliban">now idle at home</a>, the jobs
  they formerly did are not done, the people they served (often women)
  are left wanting, and this adds to the economy's losses.
<p>
  *Taliban <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/17/taliban-dissolves-afghanistans-human-rights-commission-as-unnecessary">dissolves Afghanistan’s human rights commission</a> as "unnecessary."*

 


title: Helping Australians buy a house with their retirement funds
uri: Helping-Australians-buy-a-house-with-their-retirement-funds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Helping_Australians_buy_a_house_with_their_retirement_funds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#20_May_2022_(Helping_Australians_buy_a_house_with_their_retirement_funds)

content:
 
<p>
  The right-wing Australian government proposes to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/16/coalition-super-housing-policy-likely-to-inflate-prices-by-increasing-demand-analysts-say">help Australians
  get the money to buy a house by letting them draw money
  from their retirement funds</a>.
<p>
  This will mean more competition for the available housing, thus
  forcing the prices up.  It won't provide any net benefit for the
  non-rich.  In other words, it is a swindle.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Climate_defense)
title: Urgent: Climate defense
uri: Urgent-Climate-defense
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Climate_defense)
content:
 
  <p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.350.org/letter/apr-22-fed-board-letter/?source=em20220517-1-30-subs&akid=206278%2E1151744%2EPqXUyd">call on the Federal Reserve Board to take strong action for climate defense, by making banks prepare for the harm global heating will do</a>.</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Abbott_Labs)
title: Urgent: Abbott Labs
uri: Urgent-Abbott-Labs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Abbott_Labs)
content:
 
  <p>US citizens: <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/sign-now-investigate-shortages-of-baby-food-covid-tests">call on Congress to investigate how former Abbott Labs executives in the FDA were involved in shortages of Covid tests, and now in shortages of baby formula</a>.</p>
</li>

 


title: Very urgent: Amazon should publish financial results country by country
uri: Very-urgent-Amazon-should-publish-financial-results-country-by-countr
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Very_urgent:_Amazon_should_publish_financial_results_country_by_country)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Very_urgent:_Amazon_should_publish_financial_results_country_by_country)

content:
 
  <p>Everyone: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-amazon-shareholders-and-board-vote-to-hold-amazon-accountable-and-expose-global-tax-avoidance-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-americans-for-tax-fairness&source=group-americans-for-tax-fairness">call on Amazon shareholders to vote on May 25 to publish information on its financial results country by country</a>.</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Increase subway frequency and service
uri: Urgent-Increase-subway-frequency-and-service
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Increase_subway_frequency_and_service)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Increase_subway_frequency_and_service)

content:
 
  <p>Anyone with a connection to New York City: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-increase-frequency-and-service-not-punitive-fare-enforcement?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-nyc-is-getting-it-wrong">tell Mayor Eric Adams to increase subway frequency and service, not punitive fare enforcement</a>.</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Stop funding GOP election deniers
uri: Urgent-Stop-funding-GOP-election-deniers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_funding_GOP_election_deniers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_funding_GOP_election_deniers)

content:
 
  <p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-toyota-stop-funding-gop-election-deniers?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-i-cant-believe-toyota-did-this-2">call on Toyota to stop funding GOP election deniers</a>.</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_immigrant_workers)
title: Urgent: Protect immigrant workers
uri: Urgent-Protect-immigrant-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_immigrant_workers)
content:
 
  <p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.aflcio.org/petitions/protect-immigrant-workers?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-immigration-week-of-action">call on the DHS to protect immigrant workers</a>.</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Make your state a safe haven for abortion rights
uri: Urgent-Make-your-state-a-safe-haven-for-abortion-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Make_your_state_a_safe_haven_for_abortion_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Make_your_state_a_safe_haven_for_abortion_rights)

content:
 
  <p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14597">call on your state legislators to make your state a safe haven for abortion rights</a>.</p>
  <p>To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript</a> code from the web site, use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: DNC should invest in a summer youth organizing program
uri: Urgent-DNC-should-invest-in-a-summer-youth-organizing-program
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_DNC_should_invest_in_a_summer_youth_organizing_program)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_DNC_should_invest_in_a_summer_youth_organizing_program)

content:
 
  <p>US citizens: <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-the-dnc-invest-in-a-summer-youth-organizing-program?link_id=0&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-tell-the-dnc-launch-a-summer-youth-organizing-program-3&email_referrer=email_1542004&email_subject=tell-the-dnc-launch-a-summer-youth-organizing-program">call on the DNC to invest in a summer youth organizing program</a>.</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: District attorneys should not prosecute abortion
uri: Urgent-District-attorneys-should-not-prosecute-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_District_attorneys_should_not_prosecute_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_District_attorneys_should_not_prosecute_abortion)

content:
 
  <p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/district_attorneys_abortion/">call on your district attorney not to prosecute abortion</a>.</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Nonviolent_first_responders)
title: Urgent: Nonviolent first responders
uri: Urgent-Nonviolent-first-responders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Urgent:_Nonviolent_first_responders)
content:
 
  <p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.grassrootslaw.org/signup/end-extreme-police-spending/?akid=7835.7967588.0ni8oV&rd=1&source=ema20220512-7835&t=1002">call for nonviolent first responders, not more extreme police spending</a>.</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Green_energy_increase)
title: Green energy increase
uri: Green-energy-increase
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Green_energy_increase)
content:
 
<p>
  *EU plans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/18/eu-plans-massive-increase-in-green-energy-to-rid-itself-of-reliance-on-russia">"massive" increase in green energy</a> to help end reliance on Russia.*  Not to mention the even bigger danger of global heating disaster.

 


title: Speaker and microphone tracking movements without people knowing
uri: Speaker-and-microphone-tracking-movements-without-people-knowing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Speaker_and_microphone_tracking_movements_without_people_knowing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Speaker_and_microphone_tracking_movements_without_people_knowing)

content:
 
<p>
  A new sort of ultrasonic speaker and microphone could be used
  <a href="http://www.sci-news.com/physics/ultra-thin-lightweight-loudspeaker-10750.html">to track people's movements in within a house without their knowing</a>.

 


title: Afghan army set up along modern American lines
uri: Afghan-army-set-up-along-modern-American-lines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Afghan_army_set_up_along_modern_American_lines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Afghan_army_set_up_along_modern_American_lines)

content:
 
<p>
  A US investigation says that the Afghan army <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/18/afghanistan-us-withdrawal-defeat-watchdog-report-sigar">collapsed because it was set up
  along modern American lines and that made it dependent on US support</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Defense_Production_Act)
title: Defense Production Act
uri: 2022-05-23-Defense-Production-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Defense_Production_Act)
content:
 
<p>
  Biden should <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/perspectives/gas-prices-energy-russia/index.html">use the Defense Production Act to speed conversion
  to renewable energy</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Mariupol_surrender)
title: Mariupol surrender
uri: Mariupol-surrender
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Mariupol_surrender)
content:
 
<p>
  The surrender of Mariupol will <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/europe/mariupol-battle-over-russia-control-cmd-intl/index.html">enable Putin to conceal the war crimes
  his forces committed there</a>.
  With the exceotion of the biggest crimes, such as bombarding the
  city into ruins, and forcibly taking some of the residents to Russia.

 


title: Waiting before telling what the wrecker did
uri: Waiting-before-telling-what-the-wrecker-did
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Waiting_before_telling_what_the_wrecker_did)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#22_May_2022_(Waiting_before_telling_what_the_wrecker_did)

content:
 
<p>
  Several appointed high officials <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/opinions/former-trump-officials-priority-book-sales-dantonio/index.html">waited a year or more to tell the
  public, and Congress, about the horrible things they had seen the
  wrecker do or propose while in office</a>.
<p>
  If they had reported these thins in January 2021, they might have hepled
  protect the US from the extension of his grip over the Republican party.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(ukraine_war_crime_trials)
title: Russian soldier pleads guilty among first Ukraine war crimes since invasion
uri: Russian-soldier-pleads-guilty-among-first-Ukraine-war-crimes-since-inv
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(ukraine_war_crime_trials)
content:
 
<p>
A Putin forces soldier pled guilty to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/18/russian-soldier-pleads-guilty-first-ukraine-war-crimes-trial-since-invasion">killing a Ukrainian civilian.</a>
<p>
The civilian was talking on a phone while riding a bicycle, and The
soldier was ordered to shoot the civilian to stop him from reporting
on the presence of Russian soldiers.
<p>
At the time, the soldier was driving around in a seized civilian car.
That would have limited what the civilian could have known and
reported about the actions of the Putin forces.
<p>
But what if the situation had been different?  What if the soldier had
driven by in his tank instead?  Is it considered a war crime to kill a
civilian who seems to be acting as a scout for the enemy?  Should it
be?  What are soldiers supposed to do in that situation?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(anti_lynching_law)
title: New federal law to prosecute lynching is not enough
uri: New-federal-law-to-prosecute-lynching-is-not-enough
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(anti_lynching_law)
content:
 
<p>
The new federal law to prosecute lynching is not by itself going to
make racist murder cease.  To achieve that requires other kinds of
efforts, including rooting out white supremacists 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/18/why-do-white-supremacists-want-to-kill-black-people">(and white
supremacist ideas) from thug departments.</a>
<p>
The point that states are making it illegal to teach what happened to
Emmett Till is a very important one.
<p>
One of the things we need to do is to teach people to reject bigotry.
Engaging in bigotry, even in a symbolic way as that article does by
capitalizing "black" but not "white", works against that goal.
Normally I decline to link to articles which promote bigotry, but I
make exceptions for some articles which give important information
about racism or the fight to eliminate racism, as here.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(uk_inflation_richest_poorest_pay)
title: Bank of England and inflation
uri: Bank-of-England-and-inflation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(uk_inflation_richest_poorest_pay)
content:
 
<p>
* As the Bank [of England] lurches to reverse its own policies, there
   is a risk that "stability" will again be delivered on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/18/uk-inflation-richest-poorest-pay">the backs of
   poor people.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(environment_concerns)
title: the Two major parties in Australia have disregarded protecting the environment.
uri: the-Two-major-parties-in-Australia-have-disregarded-protecting-the-env
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(environment_concerns)
content:
 
<p>
The two major parties in Australia have disregarded protecting the
environment. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/17/we-must-end-our-command-and-control-relationship-with-the-environment-if-we-are-to-arrest-its-destruction"> As a result, both land and sea have been grievously
damaged.</a>
<p>
The list of recommendations are good ones, but a crucial recommendation
to reduce population 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/articles/children.html">growth (in Australia and elsewhere) is missing.</a>

 


title: Fate of hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers unclear as Azovstal resistance
uri: Fate-of-hundreds-of-Ukrainian-soldiers-unclear-as-Azovstal-resistance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Ukrainian_soldiers_azovstal_resistance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Ukrainian_soldiers_azovstal_resistance)

content:
 
<p>
Will Putin treat the Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered in Mariupol as
prisoners of war, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/17/fate-hundreds-ukrainian-soldiers-unclear-azovstal-resistance-ends">or try them for war crimes?</a>
<p>
The Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol would have had few opportunities
to commit war crimes while besieged.  The civilians around were
Ukrainian and the soldiers would not have hurt them.  Fighting Russian
soldiers with their personal weapons would not be a war crime.
<p>
It is possible that a few of them could be accused of committing war
crimes before the start of this war.  In a few cases, they could even
be guilty.  However, accusing enemies of fictitious crimes is standard
practice for Putin.
<p>
Putin could treat them properly as prisoners of war, while refusing to
exchange them while the war continues.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(global_food_complex_system)
title: Global food systems and instability
uri: Global-food-systems-and-instability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(global_food_complex_system)
content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: the global food system is becoming more concentrated
in various ways, and some scientists that study complex systems suspect
this is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-collapsed-in-2008-food-system-same-producers-regulators">responsible for increasing instability.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(elon_musk_crypto_tether)
title: Regulatory systems are becoming weaker
uri: Regulatory-systems-are-becoming-weaker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(elon_musk_crypto_tether)
content:
 
<p>
Regulatory systems are becoming weaker: Elon Musk regularly gets away
with violating laws and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/18/techscape-elon-musk-twitter-cryptocurrency-tether">regulations and suffers no significant penalty.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(victoria_police_indigenous_complaints)
title: Audit finds systemic failures in how Victorian police treat indigenous complaints
uri: Audit-finds-systemic-failures-in-how-Victorian-police-treat-indigenous
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(victoria_police_indigenous_complaints)
content:
 
<p>
In Victoria, more than 40% of complaints about thug departments by
indigenous 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/18/audit-finds-systemic-failures-in-how-victorian-police-treat-indigenous-complaints">Australians meet with bias.</a>
<p>
It is very rare that the complainants win.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(nazi_billionaires_hitler_bmw_porsche)
title: The [German] business dynasties who benefited from Nazis
uri: The-German-business-dynasties-who-benefited-from-Nazis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(nazi_billionaires_hitler_bmw_porsche)
content:
 
<p>
*The [German] business dynasties 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/18/nazi-billionaires-book-hitler-bmw-porsche">who benefited from Nazis</a>*,
<p>
and in some cases remained close to Nazis after the war.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(pacs_millions_plutocratist_democrats)
title: Right-wing PACs spent millions on plutocratist Democrats in several primaries
uri: Right-wing-PACs-spent-millions-on-plutocratist-Democrats-in-several-pr
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(pacs_millions_plutocratist_democrats)
content:
 
<p>
Right-wing PACs spent millions on plutocratist Democrats in several
primaries, aiming to defeat progressive Democrats, but many of the
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/05/18/democratic-voters-deliver-stinging-rebuke-to-partys-manchin-sinema-wing/">progressives won anyway.</a>
<p>
One incumbent that was defeated was 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/05/16/kurt-schrader-nancy-pelosi-build-back-better/">Kurt Schrader,</a>
<p>
who set up a devious scheme
to defeat Sanders's plan to pass the Build Back Better bill by not voting
on the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/05/foolishness-house-passes-infrastructure-bill-postpones-build-back-better-act">infrastructure bill until after it was passed before.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Decrease_in_sea_ice_thickness)
title: Decrease in sea ice thickness
uri: Decrease-in-sea-ice-thickness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Decrease_in_sea_ice_thickness)
content:
 
<p>
  Between two expeditions to find the Endurance on the bottom of the
  ice-covered Weddell Sea, one in 2019 and one in 2022. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/15/endurance-wreck-threatened-global-heating-technology-mensun-bound">there was a big
  decrease in the thickness of the sea ice</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Global_drought)
title: Global drought
uri: Global-drought
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Global_drought)
content:
 
<p>
  Global drought forecast: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/12/un-report-warns-earth-crossroads-battle-against-global-drought-crisis">700 million people forced to move by 2030, 7
  or 8 billion affected by 2050</a>.
<p>
  This probably implies food shortage &mdash; everywhere, all the time.
  And many deaths.  And lots of cities burning.  We may need desalination
  plants to get water to fight the fires, as well as water to drink.
<p>
  Drought is only one of the deadly effects of global heating.

 


title: Meat processiong companies and Covid-19
uri: Meat-processiong-companies-and-Covid-19
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Meat_processiong_companies_and_Covid-19)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Meat_processiong_companies_and_Covid-19)

content:
 
<p>
  The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/12/house-panel-exposes-how-shameful-meatpackers-put-profits-over-worker-health-during">big US meat processing companies used their political influence to
  keep operating in 2020 with no precautions against the spread of
  Covid-19 among their workers</a>.  The result was hundreds of workers
  dead, and Covid-19 spreading through the local area.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(California_coastal_fire)
title: California coastal fire
uri: California-coastal-fire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(California_coastal_fire)
content:
 
<p>
  *[California] Coastal Fire Shows <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/12/coastal-fire-shows-even-rich-are-not-safe-earth-breakdown">Even the Rich 'Are Not Safe From
  Earth Breakdown</a>'.*
<p>
  With the current drought, the fire season is now all year long.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Abott_wants_migrant_babies_to_starve)
title: Abott wants migrant babies to starve
uri: Abott-wants-migrant-babies-to-starve
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Abott_wants_migrant_babies_to_starve)
content:
 
<p>
  *Texas Gov. Abbott's Solution to Formula Shortage? <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/12/texas-gov-abbotts-solution-formula-shortage-let-migrant-babies-starve">Let Migrant Babies Starve</a>.*

 


title: Driverless cars used for systematic snooping
uri: Driverless-cars-used-for-systematic-snooping
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Driverless_cars_used_for_systematic_snooping)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Driverless_cars_used_for_systematic_snooping)

content:
 
<p>
  A driverless car constantly takes video in all directions.  <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dw8x/san-francisco-police-are-using-driverless-cars-as-mobile-surveillance-cameras">San
  Francisco thugs use them for systematic snooping</a>.

 


title: Covid vaccine donation model has failed
uri: Covid-vaccine-donation-model-has-failed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Covid_vaccine_donation_model_has_failed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Covid_vaccine_donation_model_has_failed)

content:
 
<p>
  In a testament to the the power of plutocracy, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/12/donation-model-has-failed-supremacy-greed-decried-covid-summit-begins">only 15% of people in
  poor countries have been vaccinated against Covid-19</a>.

 


title: Manchin and Sinema denounced for maintaining the filibuster
uri: Manchin-and-Sinema-denounced-for-maintaining-the-filibuster
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Manchin_and_Sinema_denounced_for_maintaining_the_filibuster)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Manchin_and_Sinema_denounced_for_maintaining_the_filibuster)

content:
 
<p>
  Women's rights groups <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/12/reproductive-rights-coalition-tells-dems-stop-defending-filibuster-our-name">denounced Manchin and Sinema for maintaining the
  filibuster and their claim that this will protect against Republican
  wrongdoing if they ever control the senate</a>.
<p>
  With Republicans' "by hook or by crook" attitude, we can expect them
  to cancel the filibuster whenever they get a chance.

 


title: Various governments against non-nuclear deal
uri: Various-governments-against-non-nuclear-deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Various_governments_against_non-nuclear_deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Various_governments_against_non-nuclear_deal)

content:
 
<p>
  Various Arab governments (hostile to Iran) have <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/05/16/saudi-uae-iran-irgc-lobbying/">lobbied very hard
  to block a new non-nuclear deal</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Culture_wars)
title: Culture wars
uri: 2022-05-24-Culture-wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Culture_wars)
content:
 
<p>
  In substance, culture wars are a distraction.  But that doesn't mean
  they are unimportant.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/16/are-culture-wars-distraction-critical-race-theory">This distraction can be deadly, by enabling
  right-wing extremists to control who has power on questions that do
  matter</a>.

 


title: Putin forces holding strongpoints close enough to Kharkiv
uri: Putin-forces-holding-strongpoints-close-enough-to-Kharkiv
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Putin_forces_holding_strongpoints_close_enough_to_Kharkiv)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Putin_forces_holding_strongpoints_close_enough_to_Kharkiv)

content:
 
<p>
  The Putin forces are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/when-will-it-all-end-kharkiv-counts-the-cost-as-russians-pull-back">holding on to some strongpoints close enough to Kharkiv
  to bombard the outskirts of the city from them</a>.

 


title: US wants the US to prosecute only non-US war criminals
uri: US-wants-the-US-to-prosecute-only-non-US-war-criminals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(US_wants_the_US_to_prosecute_only_non-US_war_criminals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(US_wants_the_US_to_prosecute_only_non-US_war_criminals)

content:
 
<p>
  The US Senate wants to enable the US to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/17/senators-try-expand-war-crimes-jurisdiction-critics-ask-if-us-war-criminals-count">prosecute non-US war criminals</a>.  US war criminals don't seem to  be included.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Urgent:_Indict_Trump)
title: Urgent: Indict Trump
uri: Urgent-Indict-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Urgent:_Indict_Trump)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizen<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-merrick-garland-indict-trump-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">s: call on Attorney General Merrick Garland to indict Trump promptly</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Broadcast the Jan 6 committee hearings
uri: Urgent-Broadcast-the-Jan-6-committee-hearings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Urgent:_Broadcast_the_Jan_6_committee_hearings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Urgent:_Broadcast_the_Jan_6_committee_hearings)

content:
 
<p>
  In the US: <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/televise-the-january-6th-house-select-committee-hearings?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-petition-january-6th-hearings">call on major US broadcast TV networks to show the Jan 6 committee hearings</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Take action against predatory for-profit colleges
uri: Urgent-Take-action-against-predatory-for-profit-colleges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Urgent:_Take_action_against_predatory_for-profit_colleges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Urgent:_Take_action_against_predatory_for-profit_colleges)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-to-the-department-of-education-take-action-against-predatory-colleges?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">call on the Department of Education to take action against predatory for-profit colleges</a>.</p>
<p>
  We should prohibit for-profit colleges; allowing them is asking for trouble.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Require public corporations to publish climate-related financial risk
uri: Urgent-Require-public-corporations-to-publish-climate-related-financi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Urgent:_Require_public_corporations_to_publish_climate-related_financial_risk)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Urgent:_Require_public_corporations_to_publish_climate-related_financial_risk)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-and-send-a-comment-supporting-the-secs-proposed-disclosure-rule-on-corporations-climate-related-financial-risks?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">support the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed new rule to require public corporations to publish their climate-related financial risk</a>.</p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Urgent:_Kigali_amendment)
title: Urgent: Kigali amendment
uri: Urgent-Kigali-amendment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#23_May_2022_(Urgent:_Kigali_amendment)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-and-send-the-petition-to-the-us-senate-address-our-global-climate-emergency-combat-climate-super-pollutants?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progress-america&source=2022HFCs_PA">call on the Senate to ratify the Kigali amendment, which would create a treaty requirement to st production of hydrofluorocarbons, which are very powerful greenhouse gases</a>.</p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(Zero_emissions_and_big_carmakers)
title: Zero emissions and big carmakers
uri: Zero-emissions-and-big-carmakers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(Zero_emissions_and_big_carmakers)
content:
 
<p>
  *Big carmakers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/18/big-carmakers-stuck-in-slow-lane-over-switch-to-zero-emissions-study-shows">stuck in slow lane over switch to zero emissions</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_((Satire)_No_way_to_prevent_this)
title: (Satire) No way to prevent this
uri: (Satire)-No-way-to-prevent-this
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_((Satire)_No_way_to_prevent_this)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *"<a href="https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1848930767">No Way To Prevent This</a>," Says Only Nation Where This
  Regularly Happens.*

 


title: Authoritarianism and global heating supported by same industries
uri: Authoritarianism-and-global-heating-supported-by-same-industries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(Authoritarianism_and_global_heating_supported_by_same_industries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(Authoritarianism_and_global_heating_supported_by_same_industries)

content:
 
<p>
  *Rising Authoritarianism and Escalating [Global Heating] <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/16/rising-authoritarianism-and-escalating-climate-change-are-supported-same-industries">Are Supported
  by the Same Industries</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(Bezos_thanks_Manchin)
title: Bezos thanks Manchin
uri: Bezos-thanks-Manchin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(Bezos_thanks_Manchin)
content:
 
<p>
  Bezos <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/16/bezos-praises-manchin-blocking-bidens-corporate-tax-hike">thanked Manchin for blocking a tax increase on corporations</a>.
<p>
  When you think of Amazon, think "Manchin."  This is one more reason
  to refuse to buy from Amazon, on top of <a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html">all the others</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_((Satire)_Abusive_Etiquette_Coaches)
title: (Satire) Abusive Etiquette Coaches
uri: (Satire)-Abusive-Etiquette-Coaches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_((Satire)_Abusive_Etiquette_Coaches)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *CIA Criticized For <a href="https://www.theonion.com/cia-criticized-for-use-of-abusive-etiquette-coaches-in-1848814805">Use Of Abusive Etiquette Coaches In Black
Site Finishing Schools</a>.*

 


title: EU proposes mandatory censorship to scan for prohibited communication
uri: EU-proposes-mandatory-censorship-to-scan-for-prohibited-communication
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(EU_proposes_mandatory_censorship_to_scan_for_prohibited_communication)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(EU_proposes_mandatory_censorship_to_scan_for_prohibited_communication)

content:
 
<p>
  The European Union proposes to become a branch of China.
<p>
  The European Union executive branch has proposed a directive for
  <a href="https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-chat-control-bill-fundamental-rights-terrorism-against-trust-self-determination-and-security-on-the-internet/">mandatory censorship of communication services including chat and
  email, which includes requiring client software to scan for prohibited
  communications</a>.
  Interpreting the description here literally, this would prohibit free
  software email or chat clients.
<p>
  The rules would also apply to cloudy services that offer to store data
  and snoop on it.  Under these rules, they would be required to snoop
  on everything.
<p>
  The proposal would also require all digital services to make users
  prove their identity, presumably through some nonfree software and/or
  online disservice.  This would be the total surveillance society that
  we have long feared the internet would turn into &mdash; a place in which
  whistleblowing and dissent would inevitably be caught.

 


title: Rome's favorite herb wiped out from climate alterations
uri: Rome-s-favorite-herb-wiped-out-from-climate-alterations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(Rome's_favorite_herb_wiped_out_from_climate_alterations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(Rome's_favorite_herb_wiped_out_from_climate_alterations)

content:
 
<p>
  2000 years ago, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/15/caesars-favourite-herb-was-the-viagra-of-ancient-rome-until-climate-change-killed-it-off">local climate alterations wiped out Rome's favorite herb</a>.
  Now, global climate alterations can wipe out many plant species, including
  some we grow massive quantities of.

 


title: UK makes poor people pay higher gas and electricity rates
uri: UK-makes-poor-people-pay-higher-gas-and-electricity-rates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(UK_makes_poor_people_pay_higher_gas_and_electricity_rates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(UK_makes_poor_people_pay_higher_gas_and_electricity_rates)

content:
 
<p>
  The UK's plutocratist government has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/15/watchdog-urged-to-step-in-as-uk-poorest-turn-off-energy-supply">arranged to make poor people pay
  a higher rate for gas and electricity than everyone else</a>.  Now some poor
people are disconnecting those services rather than pay debts of
around 10 to 20 dollars.

 


title: Robot assistance in bladder cancer surgery
uri: Robot-assistance-in-bladder-cancer-surgery
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(Robot_assistance_in_bladder_cancer_surgery)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(Robot_assistance_in_bladder_cancer_surgery)

content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/15/robot-assisted-surgery-can-cut-blood-clot-risk-and-speed-recovery-study-finds">Robot assistance in surgery for bladder cancer has made it much more
  reliable</a>.  It also enabled patients to recover faster.
<p>
  I wish the article explained more about what "robot" means here.
  Is it a kind of wireless waldo, or does it have some autonomous capability?
<p>
  I also wonder how they get the robot to the bladder.  Through a small
  incision?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(rio_tinto_mining)
title: Rio Tinto mining
uri: Rio-Tinto-mining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(rio_tinto_mining)
content:
 
<p>
Rio Tinto mining has made a non-binding agreement to cooperate with
some indigenous groups in protecting 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/20/juukan-gorge-traditional-owners-sign-agreement-with-rio-tinto-to-co-manage-wa-mining-land">ancient sites from its mines.</a>
<p>
It is probably better than no agreement at all; but I don't think
that the disposition of amazingly old art from the past ought to be
in the hands of a mining company.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(thomas_election_emails)
title: Ginni Thomas reportedly urged Arizona Republicans to overturn 2020 result.
uri: Ginni-Thomas-reportedly-urged-Arizona-Republicans-to-overturn-2020-res
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(thomas_election_emails)
content:
 
<p>
*Ginni Thomas reportedly urged 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/20/ginni-thomas-2020-election-arizona-emails">Arizona Republicans to overturn 2020 result.</a>*
<p>
That was on 9 Nov 2020, 6 days after the election.
<p>
She and her husband have persistently aimed to overthrow the US
government.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(climate_breakdown_state_corporate)
title: Climate Breakdown And State-Corporate Madness.
uri: Climate-Breakdown-And-State-Corporate-Madness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(climate_breakdown_state_corporate)
content:
 
<p>
*There is no way to fool physics. 
<a href="https://www.medialens.org/2022/there-is-no-way-to-fool-physics-climate-breakdown-and-state-corporate-madness/">Climate Breakdown And
State-Corporate Madness.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(fbi_white_supremacist_violence)
title: FBI failing to address white supremacist violence warns former agent.
uri: FBI-failing-to-address-white-supremacist-violence-warns-former-agent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(fbi_white_supremacist_violence)
content:
 
<p>
*FBI failing to address white supremacist violence, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/20/fbi-white-supremacist-violence-michael-german">warns former
 special agent.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(big_oil_gouging_rewards)
title: Big oil companies are profiting faster than last year.
uri: Big-oil-companies-are-profiting-faster-than-last-year
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(big_oil_gouging_rewards)
content:
 
<p>
Big Oil companies are using their windfall profits to buy back stock,
much 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/18/ahead-house-vote-analysis-details-how-big-oil-price-gouging-rewards-wall-street">faster than they did last year.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(right_wing_supreme_court)
title: The dawn of the right-wing legal movement
uri: The-dawn-of-the-right-wing-legal-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(right_wing_supreme_court)
content:
 
<p>
The right-wing Supreme Court could reverse a wide range of
long-standing decisions that put checks on the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/17/not-culmination-right-wing-legal-movement-its-dawn-it">power of the most
powerful.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(decarbonizing_energy_system)
title: Decarbonization US Energy System Benefits
uri: Decarbonization-US-Energy-System-Benefits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(decarbonizing_energy_system)
content:
 
<p>
*Decolonizing US Energy System Would Save 50,000 Lives and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/17/decarbonizing-us-energy-system-would-save-50000-lives-and-600-billion-year-study">$600
Billion a Year.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_((Satire)_febreze_rat_carcass)
title: (Satire) Febreze Introduces New Rotting Rat Carcass
uri: (Satire)-Febreze-Introduces-New-Rotting-Rat-Carcass
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_((Satire)_febreze_rat_carcass)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Febreze Introduces New Rotting Rat Carcass For 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/febreze-introduces-new-rotting-rat-carcass-for-covering-1848613857">Covering Up
Tough Odors.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(china_internet_censorship)
title: China and it's ability to demonize internet users
uri: China-and-it-s-ability-to-demonize-internet-users
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(china_internet_censorship)
content:
 
<p>
China makes antisocial media sites present the location of the user
who made a posting.  That makes it easy to demonize anyone that the 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/business/china-internet-censors-ip-address.html">government-supported majority wishes to demonize.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(us_military_syria_strike)
title: US has "investigated" an air strike in Syria that killed lots of civilians
uri: US-has-investigated-an-air-strike-in-Syria-that-killed-lots-of-civil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(us_military_syria_strike)
content:
 
<p>
The US has "investigated" an air strike in Syria that killed lots of
civilians, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/18/us-military-clears-itself-blame-syria-strike-killed-piles-women-and-children">mainly as a whitewash.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(roe_v_wade_catastrophe)
title: The serious implications of banning abortions
uri: The-serious-implications-of-banning-abortions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(roe_v_wade_catastrophe)
content:
 
<p>
Banning abortions significantly increases poverty, medical problems,
and danger of death for the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/18/overturning-roe-would-be-economic-catastrophe-women">women thus compelled to have babies.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(uk_bank_cash_access_uk)
title: UK will require banks to provide ATM/Branch access in all communities
uri: UK-will-require-banks-to-provide-ATM-Branch-access-in-all-communities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(uk_bank_cash_access_uk)
content:
 
<p> 
The UK will require banks to provide ATM or branch 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/may/18/city-watchdog-to-ensure-banks-provide-access-to-cash-across-uk">access in all
communities.</a>
<p>
I applaud this decision.  You can help make your country do likewise,
by insisting on purchasing anonymously (which currently means, only
with cash).

 


