# articles

title: Manchin and Sinema help sink voting rights
uri: Manchin-and-Sinema-help-sink-voting-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#22_January_2022_(Manchin_and_Sinema_help_sink_voting_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#22_January_2022_(Manchin_and_Sinema_help_sink_voting_rights)

content:
 
<p>

*Amid 'Slow-Motion Coup,' Manchin and Sinema Help GOP <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/20/amid-slow-motion-coup-manchin-and-sinema-help-gop-sink-voting-rights">Sink Voting Rights</a>.*

 


title: Urgent: Program of distributing N95 masks
uri: Urgent-Program-of-distributing-N95-masks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Urgent:_Program_of_distributing_N95_masks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Urgent:_Program_of_distributing_N95_masks)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to fund a continuing program of <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-and-president-biden-use-your-power-to-distribute-n95-masks-to-all-americans">distributing
N95 masks</a> to Americans that want to use them.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Confirm Lisa Cook and Sarah Bloom Raskin to Federal Reserve
uri: Urgent-Confirm-Lisa-Cook-and-Sarah-Bloom-Raskin-to-Federal-Reserve
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Urgent:_Confirm_Lisa_Cook_and_Sarah_Bloom_Raskin_to_Federal_Reserve)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Urgent:_Confirm_Lisa_Cook_and_Sarah_Bloom_Raskin_to_Federal_Reserve)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your senators to <a href="https://act.350.org/letter/jan-22-confirm-cook-raskin-senate/">confirm Lisa Cook and Sarah
 Bloom Raskin</a> to the Federal Reserve.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Call on Biden not to recruit fossil fuel executives
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-not-to-recruit-fossil-fuel-executives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_not_to_recruit_fossil_fuel_executives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_not_to_recruit_fossil_fuel_executives)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden <a href="https://act.350.org/signup/fossil-fuel-execs-jan-2022-petition/">not to recruit fossil fuel
executives</a> for White House activities.

 


title: Whistle blown on UK Environment Agency
uri: Whistle-blown-on-UK-Environment-Agency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Whistle_blown_on_UK_Environment_Agency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Whistle_blown_on_UK_Environment_Agency)

content:
 
<p>

*Staff <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/20/environment-agency-cuts-staff-blow-whistle">blow whistle on [UK] Environment Agency</a> that "no longer deters
 polluters."*
<p>
This does not surprise me.  The Tory Party is the all-out plutocracy
party.  Its policy on <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#16_July_2019_(Fossil_fuel_facilities)">pollution by businesses</a> is, "Full speed ahead."
We've seen the EPA in the US quietly <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-may-aug.html#28_August_2021_(Risk_assessments_for_dangerous_chemicals)">yield to business pressure</a> under
past administrations, Republican and Democrat,
and then the corrupter <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#21_December_2017_(EPA_coal_ash_program)">converted it into the Environmental Poisoning Agency</a>.

 


title: Reports of conflict of masks in court are untrue
uri: Reports-of-conflict-of-masks-in-court-are-untrue
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Reports_of_conflict_of_masks_in_court_are_untrue)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Reports_of_conflict_of_masks_in_court_are_untrue)

content:
 
<p>

Justices Sotomayor, Gorsuch and Roberts say that the reports of a
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/gorsuch-sotomayor-masks-covid-supreme-court/index.html">conflict over whether to wear masks in court sessions are untrue</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Special_election_thugs)
title: Special election thugs
uri: Special-election-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Special_election_thugs)
content:
 
<p>

With Governor DeSantis's <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/ron-desantis-pushes-election-police-force/index.html">new special election thugs</a>, it will require a hero
to locally oversee an honest election.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(County_in_Georgia)
title: County in Georgia
uri: County-in-Georgia
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(County_in_Georgia)
content:
 
<p>

A Republican-dominated county in Georgia is considering closing all
but one of the voting places.  The result would be to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-lincoln-county-georgia/index.html">stop poor people
from voting</a>, because it would be too far to go.
<p>
In principle, they could vote by mail, but Republicans are also imposing new
rules on that.
<p>
Republicans claim this won't stop poor people from voting, but given
how Republicans endorse lying, I don't believe a word of it.  There is
no other reason for them to do these things except voter suppression,
so they will surely get around to that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Tracked_using_Apple_airtags)
title: Tracked using Apple airtags
uri: Tracked-using-Apple-airtags
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Tracked_using_Apple_airtags)
content:
 
<p>

Many people are calling the cops to report that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/20/apple-airtags-stalking-complaints-technology">they are being tracked
using Apple airtags</a>.
<p>
The systems to inform people that they are being tracked with airtags
are available only to people that carry an iMonster or an Android
phone.  However, to use those devices as protection from tracking is
perverse, because they are tracking devices themselves.  The phone
network <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_July_2018_(LocationSmart_phone_tracking)">records its locations</a> and stores that data for months.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#9_November_2016_(Phone_WiFi_tracking)">IMSI-catcher devices</a> (used by thugs
at protests to identify protesters) track them locally, too.

 


title: Living with Covid ethically and responsibly
uri: Living-with-Covid-ethically-and-responsibly
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Living_with_Covid_ethically_and_responsibly)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Living_with_Covid_ethically_and_responsibly)

content:
 
<p>

*It is easy to say that we [in the UK] must learn to live with
   Covid.  But to do so ethically and responsibly means <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/20/the-guardian-view-on-dropping-covid-restrictions-follow-the-scandal">focusing on the
   welfare of all</a> &mdash; not the political survival of the prime minister.*

 


title: FTC summaries of web site terms and conditions
uri: FTC-summaries-of-web-site-terms-and-conditions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(FTC_summaries_of_web_site_terms_and_conditions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(FTC_summaries_of_web_site_terms_and_conditions)

content:
 
<p>

Congress is considering a possible law to have the FTC write <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220113/11382448276/new-tldr-bill-requires-companies-provide-synopsis-overlong-predatory-terms-service.shtml">official summaries of terms and conditions of web sites</a>.
<p>
This could be a step in the right direction, but not enough to make
them acceptable.  For any kind of service that is widely used, the
state should regulate the allowable conditions, not merely summarize
the conditions that the business chooses.
<p>
This is not to mention the many nasty aspects to what the dis-services
actually do.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Conclusion_on_Havana_Syndrome)
title: Conclusion on Havana Syndrome
uri: Conclusion-on-Havana-Syndrome
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Conclusion_on_Havana_Syndrome)
content:
 
<p>

The CIA concluded that the "Havana syndrome" is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/20/havana-syndrome-cia-report-foreign-power">mainly a mirage</a>
constructed out of various unrelated illnesses that people happened to
develop.  However, a few of the cases call for further investigation.

 


title: UK schools teaching about alcohol
uri: UK-schools-teaching-about-alcohol
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(UK_schools_teaching_about_alcohol)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(UK_schools_teaching_about_alcohol)

content:
 
<p>

UK schools teach about the effects of drinking alcohol <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/20/uk-pupils-taught-about-alcohol-with-misleading-industry-funded-resources">using texts
sponsored by the alcoholic beverage companies</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Gene-edited_crops)
title: Gene-edited crops
uri: Gene-edited-crops
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Gene-edited_crops)
content:
 
<p>

The UK will allow experiments with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/20/uk-moves-closer-to-allowing-gene-editing-of-crops-by-allowing-more-research">planting gene-edited crops</a>.
<p>
I see no reason why this should be totally forbidden, but each case
needs to be checked with care.  Almost any wild plant or animal
species has the potential to become a dangerous invasive species if it
gets to the wrong place, and a gene-edited variety has this no less
than a wild variety.  Varieties designed to kill "pests" could become
threats to wild species, even very plentiful ones.  (<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#18_December_2020_(Wiping_out_monarch_butterflies)">Pesticides have
driven monarch butterflies close to extinction.)
<p>
In addition, gene-edited varieties could carry <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_May_2013_(Supreme_Court_rules_for_Monsanto_against_farmer)">patent pollution</a> that
endangers poor farmers and the independence of family farms.

 


title: Massachusetts "right to repair" law
uri: Massachusetts-right-to-repair-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Massachusetts_right_to_repair_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Massachusetts_right_to_repair_law)

content:
 
<p>

Massachusetts is <a href="https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/01/massachusetts-connected-car-right-to-repair-law-still-on-hold/">considering proposed changes</a> for its "right to
repair" law for cars.
<p>
I think H400 is a step forward &mdash; the additional requirements are
worth the delay &mdash; but more is needed.  The law should also require
that each new car offer a physical switch to turn off all radio
transmission from the car (except when the user asks for an emergency
call) and a physical switch to turn off all recording of location data
(no matter how it is obtained or computed) and of any data from which
locations could be inferred (such as by recording directions of motion
or turns made).
<p>
I'm going to talk with my state lawmakers about this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Union_membership_fell_in_2021)
title: Union membership fell in 2021
uri: Union-membership-fell-in-2021
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Union_membership_fell_in_2021)
content:
 
<p>

Despite the increased fighting spirit of US unions, the fraction of
workers that belong to unions <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/20/fetterman-calls-fall-union-membership-national-disgrace">fell substantially in 2021</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(US_climate_defense)
title: US climate defense
uri: US-climate-defense
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(US_climate_defense)
content:
 
<p>

The US is not doing as much for climate defense as most European countries,
and it's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/20/how-are-us-and-other-countries-doing-fighting-climate-change">too little, too late</a> &mdash; but at least it's a start.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Drunk_with_feeling_of_importance)
title: Drunk with feeling of importance
uri: Drunk-with-feeling-of-importance
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Drunk_with_feeling_of_importance)
content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich theorizes that Manchin and Sinema are <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ego">drunk with the
feeling of importance</a> that they get from being able to block whatever
Biden tries to do.

 


title: Retail and restaurant workers in the US
uri: Retail-and-restaurant-workers-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Retail_and_restaurant_workers_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Retail_and_restaurant_workers_in_the_US)

content:
 
<p>

Millions of American retail and restaurant workers are in such a
squeeze that they <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/economy/paid-sick-leave-covid-retail-restaurant-workers/index.html">can't call in sick</a>, even if they have Covid-19.

 


title: Aid for struggling personal stock portfolio
uri: Aid-for-struggling-personal-stock-portfolio
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Aid_for_struggling_personal_stock_portfolio)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Aid_for_struggling_personal_stock_portfolio)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Nancy Pelosi Introduces Landmark Legislation To <a href="https://www.theonion.com/nancy-pelosi-introduces-landmark-legislation-to-provide-1848393259">Provide Aid
For Struggling Personal Stock Portfolio</a>.*

 


title: American Innovation and Choice Online Act
uri: American-Innovation-and-Choice-Online-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(American_Innovation_and_Choice_Online_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(American_Innovation_and_Choice_Online_Act)

content:
 
<p>

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/20/senate-panel-approves-antitrust-bill-rein-big-tech">American Innovation and
Choice Online Act</a>, intended to curb the power of big tech platforms.

*[450 scientists] called on public relations and advertising
   agencies to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/19/450-climate-scientists-demand-pr-industry-drop-fossil-fuel-clients">no longer work with fossil fuel clients</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Campaign_to_rig_elections)
title: Campaign to rig elections
uri: Campaign-to-rig-elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Campaign_to_rig_elections)
content:
 
<p>
Republican officials who are willing to condemn the wrecker <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/22/republicans-voting-rights-trump">are nonetheless
supporting the campaign to rig future elections</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Restoring_ecosystems)
title: Restoring ecosystems
uri: 2022-01-24-Restoring-ecosystems
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Restoring_ecosystems)
content:
 
<p>
A large project aims to restore <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/22/finland-restoring-river-ecosystems-rewilding">the ecosystems of Finland's rivers and
forests</a>.
  Finland converted its forests into tree plantations and its rivers
into conveyors for logs.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Vulnerable_population)
title: Vulnerable population
uri: Vulnerable-population
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Vulnerable_population)
content:
 
<p>
7% of the population of England consists of people who for medical
reasons are especially vulnerable to Covid-19.  The elimination of
anti-contagion precautions <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/22/more-people-will-die-fears-clinically-vulnerable-england-axes-plan-b">makes them choose between grave danger
and the equivalent of prison</a>.

<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/22/shielders-say-lifting-of-england-plan-b-covid-restrictions-complete-nightmare">More</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Blackmail)
title: Blackmail
uri: Blackmail
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Blackmail)
content:
 
<p>
*About a dozen Tory MPs said to have accused party whips of blackmail.*
The aim of the blackmail <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/22/about-a-dozen-tory-mps-said-to-have-accused-party-whips-of-blackmail">was to make them vote to keep Bogus Johnson as
prime minister</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Overestimation_of_income)
title: Overestimation of income
uri: Overestimation-of-income
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Overestimation_of_income)
content:
 
<p>
Rich people overestimate the income of most Americans, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/22/the-super-rich-live-on-a-different-planet-their-thoughts-on-us-salaries-prove-it">and underestimate
what they need to pay for housing</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Retaliating_to_nuclear_attack)
title: Retaliating to nuclear attack
uri: Retaliating-to-nuclear-attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Retaliating_to_nuclear_attack)
content:
 
<p>
Daniel Ellsberg argues that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/21/nuclear-annihilation-and-other-topics-talk-whistleblower-daniel-ellsberg">it would make no strategic sense to
retaliate for a large nuclear attack</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Make_electric_cars_catch_on_fast)
title: Make electric cars catch on fast
uri: Make-electric-cars-catch-on-fast
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Make_electric_cars_catch_on_fast)
content:
 
<p>
Norway demonstrated the way to make electric cars catch on fast: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/22/how-do-we-make-the-move-to-electric-cars-happen-ask-norway">with
lots of financial incentives</a>.

<p>
Watch out for the efforts to eliminate one financial incentive to reduce
fossil fuel consumption &mdash; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/15/uk-public-warms-to-road-pricing-fuel-duty-replacement-considered">by replacing the fuel tax with "road pricing"</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Uber_for_nurses)
title: Uber for nurses
uri: Uber-for-nurses
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Uber_for_nurses)
content:
 
<p>
The brilliant new idea for our plutocratist medical system <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/nurses-travel-apps-uber-flexibility-lean-production">is an Uber
for nurses</a>.

<p>
Imagine getting treated by a nurse that has no sick pay and therefore
desperately needs to work even when sick.  In principle, it is not
much different from eating a sandwich made by a cook that has no sick
pay and therefore desperately needs to work even when sick.  Both are
plutocracy at work and we should not allow them to occur.  But we need
to make it safe to go to a clinic.

<p>
At least the nurse will wear a mask.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Annexation)
title: Annexation
uri: Annexation
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Annexation)
content:
 
<p>
*[The wrecker] recognized the wholesale annexation of one country by
 another. If Biden lets that stand, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/22/bidens-continuation-trumps-western-sahara-policy-deeply-troubling">the global implications are deeply
 troubling</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Withdrawing_from_gas_project)
title: Withdrawing from gas project
uri: Withdrawing-from-gas-project
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Withdrawing_from_gas_project)
content:
 
<p>
*Chevron and Total withdraw from Myanmar gas project* and say <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/chevron-and-total-withdraw-from-myanmar-gas-project">it is
because of the junta's oppressive rule</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Climate_disinformation)
title: Climate disinformation
uri: Climate-disinformation
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Climate_disinformation)
content:
 
<p>
*Oil industry board members <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/21/oil-industry-board-members-to-testify-congress-climate-disinformation">to testify to Congress on climate
 disinformation</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Intimidating_journalists)
title: Intimidating journalists
uri: Intimidating-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Intimidating_journalists)
content:
 
<p>
*Oligarchs from authoritarian countries <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jan/21/oligarchs-use-london-law-firms-to-intimidate-journalists-mps-say">use London law firms to
intimidate journalists</a>, MPs say.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Bombing_of_prison)
title: Bombing of prison
uri: Bombing-of-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Bombing_of_prison)
content:
 
<p>
The UAE bombed a prison in Yemen, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/airstrike-yemen-prison-leaves-many-dead-or-wounded">killing 100 people and wounding
hundreds more</a>.

<p>
Prisoners are not combatants.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Unvaccinated_seniors)
title: Unvaccinated seniors
uri: Unvaccinated-seniors
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Unvaccinated_seniors)
content:
 
<p>
*Unvaccinated seniors 49 times more likely to be hospitalized <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/21/cdc-covid-vaccine-hospitals-americans">than those with
boosters</a> – CDC.*


 


title: Making the military seize voting machines
uri: Making-the-military-seize-voting-machines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Making_the_military_seize_voting_machines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Making_the_military_seize_voting_machines)

content:
 
<p>
The corrupter's inner circle wrote an executive order in December 2020
directing the US military <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/21/donald-trump-voting-machines-draft-executive-order">to seize the voting machines that had been
used in swing states</a>.

<p>
This appears to have been intended to give the impression that the
election had been stolen, using the "We made smoke, so you know there
was fire" principle.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(US_bombed_a_big_dam)
title: US bombed a big dam
uri: US-bombed-a-big-dam
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(US_bombed_a_big_dam)
content:
 
<p>
  The US <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/21/us-risked-killing-thousands-bombing-syria-dam-no-strike-list">bombed a big dam in Syria and caused its equipment to fail</a>.
  Only an emergency truce between all the sides fighting in Syria,
  including Turkey, made it possible to repair the dam.
<p>
  The rogue targeting unit, Task Force 9, ordered the bomb run,
  disregarding standing orders not to bomb that dam.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Minimum_wage_for_federal_workers)
title: Minimum wage for federal workers
uri: Minimum-wage-for-federal-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Minimum_wage_for_federal_workers)
content:
 
<p>
  Biden gave help to a substantial fraction of poor people in the US
  by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/21/biden-praised-15-minimum-wage-hike-all-federal-workers">raising the minimum wage for federal workers</a>.
<p>
  We need to raise it generally, but that would require help from
  Manchin and Sinema.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Detained_for_indirect_insult)
title: Detained for indirect insult
uri: Detained-for-indirect-insult
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Detained_for_indirect_insult)
content:
 
<p>
  *Turkey: prominent journalist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/23/turkey-prominent-journalist-detained-for-insulting-president-erdogan">detained for [indirectly] insulting
  president Erdoğan</a>.*
<p>
  The journalist was talking about an ox.  It was Erdoğan who asserted that
  he was the ox.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Christian_adoption_agency)
title: Christian adoption agency
uri: Christian-adoption-agency
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Christian_adoption_agency)
content:
 
<p>
*Tennessee Jewish couple <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/22/tennessee-jewish-couple-sues-state-christian-adoption-agency-denies-them-services">sues state after Christian adoption agency denies
them services</a>.*

 


title: Calls on PR industry to drop fossil fuel clients
uri: Calls-on-PR-industry-to-drop-fossil-fuel-clients
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Calls_on_PR_industry_to_drop_fossil_fuel_clients)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#23_January_2022_(Calls_on_PR_industry_to_drop_fossil_fuel_clients)

content:
 
<p>
*[450 scientists] called on public relations and advertising
   agencies to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/19/450-climate-scientists-demand-pr-industry-drop-fossil-fuel-clients">no longer work with fossil fuel clients</a>.*

 


title: Urgent: Protect election workers from Republican threats
uri: Urgent-Protect-election-workers-from-Republican-threats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_election_workers_from_Republican_threats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_election_workers_from_Republican_threats)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-protect-this-countrys-election-workers">protect election workers from
Republican threats</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word</p>

 


title: 1987 Reformation of political debates
uri: 1987-Reformation-of-political-debates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(1987_Reformation_of_political_debates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(1987_Reformation_of_political_debates)

content:
 
<p>

Presidential debates were reformed in 1987 so as to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/21/authoritarian-rnc-renounces-corporate-debate-system-it-helped-create">exclude parties
other than Republican and Democratic</a>.
<p>
I knew this, of course, when I suggested that the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#14_January_2022_(Refusing_to_debate)">Democratic candidate
debate the candidates of the secondary parties</a>.
This would be better for the Democratic Party than to ignominiously
allow the Republicans to cancel the debates.  It would make the
Republican Party suffer the brunt of its refusal.

 


title: (satire) NFL-Military partnership
uri: (satire)-NFL-Military-partnership
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_((satire)_NFL-Military_partnership)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_((satire)_NFL-Military_partnership)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *New NFL-Military Partnership Sends <a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-nfl-military-partnership-sends-first-1-000-fans-to-1848392989">First 1,000 Fans To Stand
For National Anthem Off To War</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Lasting_harm_to_sense_of_smell)
title: Lasting harm to sense of smell
uri: Lasting-harm-to-sense-of-smell
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Lasting_harm_to_sense_of_smell)
content:
 
<p>

*Half of first-wave Covid cases may have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/23/nearly-half-of-first-wave-covid-cases-may-suffer-lasting-harm-to-sense-of-smell">lasting harm to sense of smell</a>.* This can make food taste bad.  It terrifies me.
<p>
I don't think it is known yet how Omicron today compares to those results.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Phony_teams_of_electors)
title: Phony teams of electors
uri: Phony-teams-of-electors
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Phony_teams_of_electors)
content:
 
<p>

Real Republican officials supported the wrecker's plan to send <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/opinions/2020-election-phony-electors-democracy-alexander/index.html">phony
teams of electors</a> to present themselves as the winners of their state'
presidential elections.
<p>
Why does the US have such a bizarre system for determining the result
of the presidential election?  Why have so many elected officials play
a role?
<p>
I have a hypothesis.  I think the people who designed that system
wanted all the officials to play a part so that they would feel a
loyalty to the eventual results.  They thought this would increase
respect for the process and its result.  It must never have occurred
to them that some of those officials would make a conscious plan to
cheat.  They expected dispute, not sedition.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Civic_engagement_in_UK)
title: Civic engagement in UK
uri: Civic-engagement-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Civic_engagement_in_UK)
content:
 
<p>

*Faster internet speeds linked to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/23/internet-access-decline-civic-engagement-uk">lower civic engagement in UK</a>.*
<p>
It seems that increasing speed of web access reduces involvement in
political parties, trade unions and volunteering.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Reselling_luxury_assets)
title: Reselling luxury assets
uri: Reselling-luxury-assets
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Reselling_luxury_assets)
content:
 
<p>

Very Rich People Can Now Make Millions More By <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/22/billionaire-side-hustle-neoliberalism-created">Reselling luxury assets
to each other</a>.
<p>
It is true that this money tends to come from other very rich people.
It may not have the effect of increasing the squeezing of the poor.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Accepting_pain_for_goals)
title: Accepting pain for goals
uri: Accepting-pain-for-goals
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Accepting_pain_for_goals)
content:
 
<p>

People want to be happy, but will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/23/hedonism-is-overrated-to-make-the-best-of-life-there-must-be-pain-says-yale-professor">accept pain for goals they want</a>.
Interestingly, one of the goals many accept to suffer for is to have a
meaningful life.
<p>
Most of my life has been sad, but the Free Software Movement has made
it meaningful.

 


title: Florida electric companies slowing solar
uri: Florida-electric-companies-slowing-solar
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Florida_electric_companies_slowing_solar)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Florida_electric_companies_slowing_solar)

content:
 
<p>

Florida is the latest target of the electric companies' <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/23/politics/florida-solar-industry/index.html">campaign to slow the installation of home solar panels</a> by cutting the incentives.
<p>
Survival of civilization is something we all need.  If the rapid increase
of solar power systems requires improvements in the electric grid, the state
should pay for that as it pays for other necessary forms of defense.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(UK_propaganda_leaflets)
title: UK propaganda leaflets
uri: UK-propaganda-leaflets
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(UK_propaganda_leaflets)
content:
 
<p>
The UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/23/uks-propaganda-leaflets-inspired-1960s-massacre-of-indonesian-communists">contributed to the propaganda for the 1965-66 massacre in Indonesia</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Britons_exiled)
title: Britons exiled
uri: Britons-exiled
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Britons_exiled)
content:
 
<p>
  The UK has exiled at least 464 Britons by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/21/hundreds-stripped-british-citizenship-last-15-years-study-finds">cutting off their citizenship,
  since it gave itself the power to do this easily</a>.
<p>
  Whatever a person has done, exile is an unacceptable punishment.
  Furthermore, any punishment is unjust if it is imposed without
  a proper, fair trial.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_((Satire)_Stratocaster)
title: (Satire) Stratocaster
uri: (Satire)-Stratocaster
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_((Satire)_Stratocaster)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame <a href="https://www.theonion.com/rock-roll-hall-of-fame-under-pressure-to-return-loote-1848385651">Under Pressure To Return Looted
Ancient Mesopotamian Stratocaster</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Judge_Rearden)
title: Judge Rearden
uri: Judge-Rearden
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#24_January_2022_(Judge_Rearden)
content:
 
<p>
  Biden is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/21/atrocious-biden-renominates-chevron-lawyer-first-chosen-trump">giving plutocratist Judge Rearden a second chance to be
  confirmed permanently as a federal judge</a>.
<p>
  Rearden has carried out Chevron's persecution of Steven Donziger, as Biden
  surely knows.
<p>
  I hope there is a campaign to defeat Rearden.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_('Free-range_kids'_laws)
title: 'Free-range kids' laws
uri: Free-range-kids-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_('Free-range_kids'_laws)
content:
 
<p>
  Three more US states are considering <a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/three-states-about-to-introduce-free-range-parenting-bills/">"free-range kids" laws</a>,
  intended to free parents of the burden of supervising their children nonstop, 24/7.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Putin_and_Ukraine)
title: Putin and Ukraine
uri: 2022-01-25-Putin-and-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Putin_and_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
  An analyst believes <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/24/rising-costs-of-ukraine-gamble-could-force-russias-hand">Putin is coming to realize he can't grab anything
  from Ukraine by bombastic threats</a>.
  He thinks Putin will turn to war.  That would be undesirable.
<p>
  It suggests to me that the US should try to help Putin save face if he
  does not attack.

 


title: Julian Assange may get to appeal extradition
uri: Julian-Assange-may-get-to-appeal-extradition
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Julian_Assange_may_get_to_appeal_extradition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Julian_Assange_may_get_to_appeal_extradition)

content:
 
<p>
  Julian Assange <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jan/24/julian-assange-wins-first-stage-of-attempt-to-appeal-against-extradition">may get a chance to appeal the extradition decision to
  the UK Supreme Court</a>.
<p>
  This means there is a chance to reverse the disastrous general
  decision to extradite journalists for "espionage" changes, as well as
  the cruel decision to subject Assange to brainwashing prison
  conditions for at least a few more years.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Newt_Gingrich's_warning)
title: Newt Gingrich's warning
uri: Newt-Gingrich-s-warning
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Newt_Gingrich's_warning)
content:
 
<p>
  Newt Gingrich warned us that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/24/newt-gingrich-capitol-attack-committee-jail">if Republicans take over Congress next fall,
  they will invent excuses to jail the people who are now investigating
  the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol</a>.
<p>
  In other words, they will institute arbitrary rule, as we see in
  Russia and China, where the rulers invent crimes to accuse opponents of.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Cairo_police_torture)
title: Cairo police torture
uri: Cairo-police-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Cairo_police_torture)
content:
 
<p>
  *Prisoner’s secret filming appears to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/24/cairo-egypt-police-station-secret-filming-appears-to-show-torture">show torture in Cairo police
  station</a>.*
<p>
  The only surprise is that we get something like proof of this.
  The prisoners accused specific <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> by name.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Long_Covid)
title: Long Covid
uri: 2022-01-25-Long-Covid
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Long_Covid)
content:
 
<p>
  Almost 1% of the population of Britain has had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/24/long-covid-nearly-2m-days-lost-in-nhs-staff-absences-in-england">long Covid disabilities</a>
  for at least a year.  Around 2% have them now.
<p>
  People who oppose practicing and requiring precautions against spread
  are imposing on everyone a fate worse than death.

 


title: Dealing with hostage takers and murderers
uri: Dealing-with-hostage-takers-and-murderers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Dealing_with_hostage_takers_and_murderers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Dealing_with_hostage_takers_and_murderers)

content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/23/us/secure-community-network-jewish-security/index.html">Training on how to deal with hostage-takers and murderers</a> was very effective
  in thwarting the attack on the synagogue in Texas.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Economic_warfare)
title: Economic warfare
uri: Economic-warfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#25_January_2022_(Economic_warfare)
content:
 
<p>
  Biden is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/23/politics/us-gas-production-strategy-russia-ukraine-invasion/index.html">planning economic warfare that will really hurt Russia</a>: to stimulate world gas extraction so Europe won't buy from Russia any more.
<p>
  Its other short-term effect will be to push the world closer to global
  heating disster.  And it may not be easy to shut off the increased
  flow of gas after a few years.
<p>
  If the threat dissuades Putin from attacking, perhaps the increase will not
  have to occur.

 


title: 'Fighting takeovers' of public water systems
uri: Fighting-takeovers-of-public-water-systems
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_('Fighting_takeovers'_of_public_water_systems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_('Fighting_takeovers'_of_public_water_systems)

content:
 
<p>
*How Americans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/25/corporate-vultures-americans-fearing-higher-water-bills-fight-takeovers">fearing higher water bills are fighting takeovers</a>* of
their public water systems.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Hacking_railroad)
title: Hacking railroad
uri: Hacking-railroad
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Hacking_railroad)
content:
 
<p>
Belarus hackers cracked Belarusian railroad computers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/25/cyberpartisans-hack-belarusian-railway-to-disrupt-russian-buildup">to interfere
with Russian troop trains</a>.
  They say they can crash the signaling and emergency control systems
and may do that later.

<p>
The specific activity they are doing, breaking security on systems,
is called "cracking", but I refer to them as "hackers" because they
seem to have the hacker spirit.

<p>
They say they are using ransomware, but not demanding money &mdash;
instead, they demand freeing political prisoners.
 

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Paramilitaries_convicted_of_rape)
title: Paramilitaries convicted of rape
uri: Paramilitaries-convicted-of-rape
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Paramilitaries_convicted_of_rape)
content:
 
<p>
Government-sponsored Guatamalan paramilitaries have been convicted of
raping Maya women <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/25/guatemala-victory-in-court-for-indigenous-women-raped-during-civil-war">as an act of political violence during the civil war</a>.

<p>
One of the victims demands return of the remains of her parents &mdash; the
paramilitaries took them away and they were never seen again.

<p>
The civil war in Guatamala was organized by the US government.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Asylum_and_families)
title: Asylum and families
uri: Asylum-and-families
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Asylum_and_families)
content:
 
<p>
The UK plans to change the asylum rules so that refugees granted asylum <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/24/new-rules-could-prevent-thousands-of-refugees-from-joining-close-family-in-uk">can
no longer bring their families</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Stakeholder_capitalism)
title: Stakeholder capitalism
uri: Stakeholder-capitalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Stakeholder_capitalism)
content:
 
<p>
"Stakeholder capitalism", like trickledown economics, tries to
convince us that truly wise capitalists would naturally make life
better for the non-rich.  There is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/23/woke-capitalism-new-trickle-down-economics">no sign that this really happens</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Earth_end)
title: Earth end
uri: Earth-end
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Earth_end)
content:
 
<p>
(<a href="https://www.theonion.com/leaked-documents-confirm-exxonmobil-has-known-exactly-w-1848355647">satire</a>) *Leaked Documents Confirm ExxonMobil Has Known Exactly Which
Day Earth Ends Since The 1970s.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Equivalent_value)
title: Equivalent value
uri: Equivalent-value
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Equivalent_value)
content:
 
<p>
(<a href="https://www.theonion.com/biden-vows-that-if-russia-invades-ukraine-u-s-will-in-1848401421">satire</a>) *Biden Vows That If Russia Invades Ukraine, U.S. Will Invade
One Country Of Equivalent Value.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Pragmatic_extremist)
title: Pragmatic extremist
uri: Pragmatic-extremist
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Pragmatic_extremist)
content:
 
<p>
(<a href="https://www.theonion.com/pragmatic-extremist-stresses-importance-of-assassinatin-1848235413">satire</a>) *Pragmatic Extremist Stresses Importance Of Assassinating
Local Politicians.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Plan_to_reduce_gun_crime)
title: Plan to reduce gun crime
uri: Plan-to-reduce-gun-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Plan_to_reduce_gun_crime)
content:
 
<p>
The new mayor of New York City <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/24/us/nypd-eric-adams-gun-violence/index.html">has a plan to reduce gun crime</a>.

I can imagine that "targeted, precision policing" of 30 precincts is
(1) not very different from <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#6_February_2020_(Precogs_fail)">"predictive policing"</a>
                                                  and (2) not a big
change from what's already done.

<p>
I can also imagine that "spot checks" and bus and train stations will
not be very different from "stop and search", and that most of the
arrests they make will be for drug possession.  Though they may
succeed in dissuading non-car-owners from New Jersey to come into New
York City with weapons.

<p>
What other things will the reported "new technology" do, besides
identify people with illegal guns?'


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Statue_attacked)
title: Statue attacked
uri: Statue-attacked
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Statue_attacked)
content:
 
<p>
Unidentified individuals <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/24/puerto-rico-statue-spanish-king-juan-ponce-de-leon">attacked the statue of Juan Ponce de León in
San Juan, Puerto Rico</a>.

<p>
Ponce de León became successful by enslaving Tainos in Hispaniola, and 
his main achievement was to extend such slavery to Puerto Rico.  I think
his statue is a good candidate for official removal.


 


title: Banning teacher to speak about gender and queer
uri: Banning-teacher-to-speak-about-gender-and-queer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Banning_teacher_to_speak_about_gender_and_queer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Banning_teacher_to_speak_about_gender_and_queer)

content:
 
<p>
Florida Republicans seek to ban teachers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/24/florida-republican-committee-dont-say-gay-bill">from talking about the topics
of queer sexual orientation or gender identity in class</a>.

<p>
This is premised on the supposition that parents have a right to
dictate their children's sexual orientation and gender identity &mdash; but
they can't do that.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Voluntary_funding_of_WHO)
title: Voluntary funding of WHO
uri: Voluntary-funding-of-WHO
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Voluntary_funding_of_WHO)
content:
 
<p>
The head of WHO says that it is weakened by depending on voluntary
funding from donor countries &mdash; that gives them <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/24/world-health-organization-funding-who-director-general">too much control
over what WHO tries to do</a>.

<p>
It also lets them specifically control what WHO does not do &mdash; for
instance, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#25_May_2021_(WHO_plenary_meeting)">allow Taiwan to participate</a>.

<p>
He also warns us not to assume that Omicron is the last big wave
of Covid-19.  There are plenty of people catching the disease and
giving it a chance to mutate.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Murder_crisis)
title: Murder crisis
uri: Murder-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Murder_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
*Third Mexican journalist killed this year <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/24/mexico-third-journalist-killed-this-year">as press corps faces murder crisis</a>.*


 


title: Deceptive suggestions from Google
uri: Deceptive-suggestions-from-Google
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Deceptive_suggestions_from_Google)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Deceptive_suggestions_from_Google)

content:
 
<p>
Google is being sued for "deceptive" suggestions that users can
disconnect themselves from old location data <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/24/google-sued-privacy-texas-district-of-columbia">simply by making a new
account and changing settings</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Slow_inundation)
title: Slow inundation
uri: Slow-inundation
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Slow_inundation)
content:
 
<p>
A museum exhibit teaches people about slow inundation, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jan/24/climate-crisis-floodzone-anastasia-samoylova-exhibition">what has
happened and what's coming</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Antimuslimism)
title: Antimuslimism
uri: Antimuslimism
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Antimuslimism)
content:
 
<p>
Antimuslimism is pervasive in the Tory Party: when instances pop up,
there is a brief furor, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/24/ugly-truth-tory-islamophobia-nusrat-ghani-anti-muslim">but no one is punished</a>.

<p>
This makes an interesting contrast with how Corbyn was drummed out of
the Labour Party, not for being antisemitic (he never showed any sign
of that), but merely for not stretching that term to punish critics
of Israel's occupation of Palestine.

<p>
I don't think either one is mainly about disapproval of bigotry.
I think plutocratism is at work in both cases.



 


title: Urgent: End all U.S. involvement in war in Yemen
uri: Urgent-End-all-U-S-involvement-in-war-in-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Urgent:_End_all_U.S._involvement_in_war_in_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Urgent:_End_all_U.S._involvement_in_war_in_Yemen)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/biden_end_yemen_involvement">end all U.S. involvement in [the war
 in] Yemen</a>.

 


title: Backlash against right-wing extremist Christians
uri: Backlash-against-right-wing-extremist-Christians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Backlash_against_right-wing_extremist_Christians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Backlash_against_right-wing_extremist_Christians)

content:
 
<p>

Backlash against right-wing extremist Christians seems to have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/25/the-backlash-against-rightwing-evangelicals-is-reshaping-american-politics-and-faith">encouraged many Americans to drop religion</a>.
<p>
A counter-backlash is making "evangelical" more equivalent to
"right-wing extremist" and eliminating internal resistance against
ever-more-extreme behavior.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Buying_things_in_metaverse)
title: Buying things in metaverse
uri: Buying-things-in-metaverse
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Buying_things_in_metaverse)
content:
 
<p>

The "metaverse" is *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/jan/25/ive-seen-the-metaverse-and-i-dont-want-it">another place to spend money on things</a>, except in
   this place the empty promise that buying stuff will make you happy
   is left even more exposed by the fact that the things in question
   do not physically exist.*
<p>
The article informs us that Facebook is thinking about ways to track
and profile people in its metaverse even more than they are tracked in
the physical world.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Stores_alter_internet_prices)
title: Stores alter internet prices
uri: Stores-alter-internet-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Stores_alter_internet_prices)
content:
 
<p>

Many large store chains <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/target-tracking-location-changing-prices_l_603fd12bc5b6ff75ac410a38">alter their internet prices</a> in surprising ways
based on tracking the customer.

 


title: Today's pervasive surveillance systems
uri: Today-s-pervasive-surveillance-systems
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Today's_pervasive_surveillance_systems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Today's_pervasive_surveillance_systems)

content:
 
<p>

Today's pervasive surveillance systems would quickly <a href="https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/257976-superhero-secret-identities-arent-possible-with-todays-computing-technologies/fulltext">expose the secret identities of superheroes</a>, if they really existed.
<p>
They can expose your secrets, too, and make you vulnerable to repression.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Scale_of_lost_schooling)
title: Scale of lost schooling
uri: Scale-of-lost-schooling
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(Scale_of_lost_schooling)
content:
 
<p>

*UN data reveals <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/25/un-data-reveals-nearly-insurmountable-scale-of-lost-schooling-due-to-covid">"nearly insurmountable" scale</a> of lost schooling due to Covid.*
<p>
I hazard a guess that the amount of schooling lost over the past few
decades due to IMF "structural reform" policies that made countries
charge money for elementary school greatly exceeded was was lost due
to Covid.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(ISP_choice_in_apartments)
title: ISP choice in apartments
uri: ISP-choice-in-apartments
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_(ISP_choice_in_apartments)
content:
 
<p>

*FCC chair plans to <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/fcc-chair-plans-crackdown-on-isp-landlord-deals-that-prevent-competition/">block exclusive deals</a> that limit ISP choice in
 apartments.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_((satire)_Law_named_after_him)
title: (satire) Law named after him
uri: (satire)-Law-named-after-him
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#26_January_2022_((satire)_Law_named_after_him)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Man Hoping His Death Fucked Up Enough That He Gets <a href="https://www.theonion.com/man-hoping-his-death-fucked-up-enough-that-he-gets-law-1848402329">Law Named
After Him</a>.*

 


title: Liability insurance for gun carriers
uri: Liability-insurance-for-gun-carriers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Liability_insurance_for_gun_carriers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Liability_insurance_for_gun_carriers)

content:
 
<p>
San Jose, California, passed a law <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/26/california-san-jose-gun-owners-liability-insurance">to require gun owners to carry
liability insurance</a>.

<p>
The big question is whether the Supreme Court will rule that this conflicts
with the Second Amendment.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Surprise_plant_inspections)
title: Surprise plant inspections
uri: Surprise-plant-inspections
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Surprise_plant_inspections)
content:
 
<p>
*US to hold surprise plant inspections <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/26/cancer-alley-epa-plant-inspections-pollution">targeting [air] pollution in
Louisiana's Cancer Alley</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(PFAS)
title: PFAS
uri: 2022-01-27-PFAS
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(PFAS)
content:
 
<p>
*Nearly 75% of water-resistant products <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/26/water-resistant-products-toxic-pfas-study">contain toxic PFAS</a>, study
 finds.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Regrow_of_leg_in_frogs)
title: Regrow of leg in frogs
uri: Regrow-of-leg-in-frogs
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Regrow_of_leg_in_frogs)
content:
 
<p>
Special drugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/26/frog-regrows-amputated-leg-after-being-given-drug-treatment">enable frogs to regrow an amputated leg</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Generic_Covid-19_treatment)
title: Generic Covid-19 treatment
uri: Generic-Covid-19-treatment
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Generic_Covid-19_treatment)
content:
 
<p>
Pfizer is cooperating on generic manufacturing of its Covid-19 treatment,
Paxlovid &mdash; but dragging its feet.  It should do everything it can
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/24/advocacy-group-urges-pfizer-combat-paxlovid-inequality">to get production up to the level the world needs</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Defending_voting_rights)
title: Defending voting rights
uri: Defending-voting-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Defending_voting_rights)
content:
 
<p>
Jesse Jackson: there are things Biden can do to defend voting right
against some attacks, but what we need most <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/25/voting-rights-will-be-dead-without-street-heat">is to mobilize large
numbers of people in the street</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Thugs_killings)
title: Thugs killings
uri: 2022-01-27-Thugs-killings
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Thugs_killings)
content:
 
<p>
US thugs <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/01/24/u-s-cops-killed-at-least-1134-people-last-year.html">killed 1,134 people (or more) in 2021</a>.

<p>
In 2020, they killed 1,021.  Reportedly a disproportionate share of
the increase was due to more killing of blacks.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(New_Covid-19_variant)
title: New Covid-19 variant
uri: 2022-01-27-New-Covid-19-variant
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(New_Covid-19_variant)
content:
 
<p>
A new Covid-19 variant, named BA.2, <a href="https://www.cityam.com/new-covid-variant-is-spreading-like-wildfire-in-scandinavia-ba-2-stealth-mutation-now-half-of-all-coronavirus-cases-in-denmark-and-rapidly-pushing-omicron-aside/">is spreading fast in several
countries</a>.

<p>
In its basic behavior, it resembles Omicron: it spreads fast and its symptoms
tend to be mild.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Olympics_boycott)
title: Olympics boycott
uri: Olympics-boycott
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Olympics_boycott)
content:
 
<p>
A call for athletes to boycott the Olympics in China in solidarity
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/25/a-genocide-against-our-people-australian-uyghur-leader-calls-for-athlete-boycott-of-beijing-winter-olympics">with the Uyghurs that China is imprisoning and brainwashing</a>.

<p>
It is not easy to convince thousands of athletes to stay away from the most
important contest of their lives.  The best chance of success is if groups
of athletes make the decision together.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Mask_mandate_in_schools)
title: Mask mandate in schools
uri: Mask-mandate-in-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Mask_mandate_in_schools)
content:
 
<p>
*Virginia Schools <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/24/virginia-schools-sue-youngkin-mandate-making-masks-optional">Sue Youngkin Mandate Making Masks Optional</a>.*

<p>
Some parents might want to tell their children not to wear masks in school.
That would be foolish of them, but they might.

<p>
Other parents might want to tell their children to stay safe in school,
by not hanging out with dangerous unmasked and unvaccinated people.

<p>
It is impossible to give both kinds of parents their way.  So which 
is more important?  The ones who want to keep their children safe.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Department_of_Homeland_Security)
title: Department of Homeland Security
uri: Department-of-Homeland-Security
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Department_of_Homeland_Security)
content:
 
<p>
The Department of Homeland Security has an ingrained blindness to the
danger of right-wing extremists, partly because it contains ingrained
right-wing extremists, and it has little to restrain it from obeying
orders <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/25/what-if-department-homeland-security-was-aimed-nation-it-was-created-protect">to go after dissidents that the president labels as dangerous</a>.

<p>
I've called it various things, including <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-nov-feb.html#9_January_2018_(Voter_suppression)">the Department of Homeland
Suppression</a>
            and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-sep-dec.html#04_September_2011_(DHS_mobile_scanners)">the Department of Harm and Sickness</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Nutritional_Supplements)
title: Nutritional Supplements
uri: Nutritional-Supplements
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Nutritional_Supplements)
content:
 
<p>
(<a href="https://www.theonion.com/tom-brady-rips-into-his-nutritional-supplements-for-let-1848419517">satire</a>) *Tom Brady Rips Into His Nutritional Supplements For Letting
Him Down In Big Game.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Poor_children)
title: Poor children
uri: Poor-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Poor_children)
content:
 
<p>
A study of 1000 children whose parents were poor gave substantial
funds to half the parents, and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/25/ctc-ends-study-says-monthly-payments-boost-baby-brain-activity">found that the children showed improved
brain function</a>.

<p>
This was, presumably, the result of using the additional income
to correct problems in the families' lives.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Covax)
title: Covax
uri: Covax
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#27_January_2022_(Covax)
content:
 
<p>
The "Covax" campaign, which was supposed to provide Covid vaccines to
non-rich countries, has achieved only half its 2021 target, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/25/covax-out-cash-inadequacy-vaccine-charity-model-further-exposed">and has
run out of funds</a>.

<p>
The people of those countries, and indirectly the rest of us, will
remain vulnerable until we vaccinate everyone with an up-to-date
vaccine.

<p>
We have to hope that the virus has not started developing new variants
to frequently to ever catch up.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Using_Covid)
title: Using Covid
uri: 2022-01-28-Using-Covid
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Using_Covid)
content:
 
<p>
*Governments around the world <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/25/governments-around-the-world-used-covid-to-erode-human-rights-report">used Covid to erode human rights</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Giving_up_on_funding)
title: Giving up on funding
uri: Giving-up-on-funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Giving_up_on_funding)
content:
 
<p>
*Dutch university gives up Chinese funding <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/25/dutch-university-gives-up-chinese-funding-due-to-impartiality-concerns">due to impartiality concerns</a>.*

<p>
The funding was, effectively, a bribe to deny Chinese repression,


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Reparations)
title: Reparations
uri: 2022-01-28-Reparations
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Reparations)
content:
 
<p>
*Reparations to the Caribbean could break the cycle of corruption –
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/25/reparations-caribbean-cycle-of-corruption-china">and China’s grip</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Ukraine_and_neutrality)
title: Ukraine and neutrality
uri: Ukraine-and-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Ukraine_and_neutrality)
content:
 
<p>
Arguing that NATO can afford <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/24/how-us-and-nato-could-settle-dispute-over-ukraine-without-war">to commit not to bring Ukraine into NATO</a>.

<p>
I think committing to Ukraine's neutrality could be a good path if it
does includes an end to Putin's military destabilization of Eastern
Ukraine.  A commitment by Ukraine to respect the rights of
Russian-speaking Ukrainians would make it even better.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Short-term_convenience)
title: Short-term convenience
uri: Short-term-convenience
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Short-term_convenience)
content:
 
<p>
Xi declared short-term convenience for Chinese <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/xi-jinping-warns-chinas-low-carbon-ambitions-must-not-interfere-with-normal-life">higher priority than
the survival of civilization</a>.

<p>
Meanwhile, in the US, the plutocrats have a veto, and they consider
their profit higher priority than the survival of civilization.


 


title: Condemning medically vulnerable people
uri: Condemning-medically-vulnerable-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Condemning_medically_vulnerable_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Condemning_medically_vulnerable_people)

content:
 
<p>
The UK, by telling people not to bother with masks, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/26/disabled-people-plan-b-restrictions">has condemned
medically vulnerable people to prison in their homes</a> -- in isolation.
  This could last for years.  It could last for their whole lives.


 


title: Teaching not to use misogynist swear words
uri: Teaching-not-to-use-misogynist-swear-words
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Teaching_not_to_use_misogynist_swear_words)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Teaching_not_to_use_misogynist_swear_words)

content:
 
<p>
A man in India is trying to teach people <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/26/cut-the-cussing-the-indian-man-on-a-mission-to-end-sexist-swearing">not to swear at people using
misogynist words</a>.

<p>
I agree with the man's goal.  I don't like attacking people based on
their race or sex, and I never do that, because I don't associate rage
or frustration with demographic groups.  I fortunately escaped being
taught that bad habit.

<p>
However, the law that prohibits all swear words (misogynist or not) is
unjust -- fucking evil censorship.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Carbon_offsetting)
title: Carbon offsetting
uri: 2022-01-28-Carbon-offsetting
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Carbon_offsetting)
content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: *Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental
collapse –- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/26/carbon-offsetting-environmental-collapse-carbon-land-grab">it's accelerating it</a>.*

<p>
I've expected this <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jan-apr.html#22 January 2007 (Carbon offsetting is ineffective)">for years</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Two_doses_of_vaccine)
title: Two doses of vaccine
uri: Two-doses-of-vaccine
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Two_doses_of_vaccine)
content:
 
<p>
A survey of patients found that two doses of vaccine greatly reduces
the chances a person <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/26/coronavirus-vaccines-may-reduce-risk-of-long-covid-ons-study-finds">will have symptoms 12 weeks after infection with
Covid-19</a>.

<p>
More studies are needed to track the development of long Covid more carefully,
and control better for variables such as which variant the patients had.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Taking_someone_citizenship)
title: Taking someone citizenship
uri: Taking-someone-citizenship
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Taking_someone_citizenship)
content:
 
<p>
A UK court ruled it was illegal to take away someone's citizenship
without informing her, and on those grounds <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/26/uk-unlawfully-stripped-woman-of-citizenship-without-telling-her-court">ruled her citizenship
was restored</a>.

<p>
The UK government is already working to change the law to give itself
permission to toy with people in that way.  But, even with notification,
exile is an unjust punishment -- even if it is the result of a fair trial.

<p>
Without a trial, no punishment is legitimate.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Smaller_attacks)
title: Smaller attacks
uri: Smaller-attacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Smaller_attacks)
content:
 
<p>
Discussion about various smaller attacks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/focused-russian-attack-on-ukraine-seen-as-more-likely-than-full-scale-invasion">that Putin could launch
against Ukraine</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Saving_dogs_rather_than_people)
title: Saving dogs rather than people
uri: Saving-dogs-rather-than-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Saving_dogs_rather_than_people)
content:
 
<p>
There is evidence that Bogus Johnson <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/26/emails-suggest-boris-johnson-authorised-afghanistan-animal-rescue-despite-denials">directly authorized saving dogs
instead of Afghan human beings</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Investigation_of_Republicans)
title: Investigation of Republicans
uri: Investigation-of-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Investigation_of_Republicans)
content:
 
<p>
*US prosecutors investigate Republicans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/26/fake-trump-electors-us-investigation-doj">who sent fake Trump electors
to Congress</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Justice_retiring)
title: Justice retiring
uri: Justice-retiring
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Justice_retiring)
content:
 
<p>
Justice Breyer has agreed to retire, rather than hang on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jan/26/stephen-breyer-retires-supreme-court-biden-pick-justice">and probably
be replaced by Republicans with a right-wing extremist</a>.


 


title: End to fossil fuel extraction inside city
uri: End-to-fossil-fuel-extraction-inside-city
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(End_to_fossil_fuel_extraction_inside_city)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(End_to_fossil_fuel_extraction_inside_city)

content:
 
<p>
Los Angeles has decided, in principle, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/26/los-angeles-vote-phase-out-oil-and-gas-drilling">to put an end to fossil fuel extraction 
inside the city</a>.




 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(petroleum_pull_out_myanmar)
title: Major oil companies pulled out of Burma
uri: Major-oil-companies-pulled-out-of-Burma
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(petroleum_pull_out_myanmar)
content:
 
<p>
Several major oil companies have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/27/woodside-petroleum-to-pull-out-of-myanmar-one-year-on-from-military-coup">pulled out of Burma.</a>
<p>
I the past, this would be a blow to the military rulers.  Now I
suspect that China will gladly replace them in supporting the Burmese
rulers.
<p>
I'm afraid that Western leverage to discourage atrocious behavior
through economic sanctions is gone: China is always there to compete.
<p>
China may not always win this competition, but human rights are sure
to lose.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Bahraini_dissident_extradited)
title: Bahraini dissident extradited
uri: Bahraini-dissident-extradited
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Bahraini_dissident_extradited)
content:
 
<p> 
*Serbia extradites 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/25/serbia-extradites-bahraini-dissident-in-cooperation-with-interpol">Bahraini dissident in cooperation with Interpol.</a>*
<p>
This was in despite of an order from the European Court of Human Rights.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Palestinian_man_autopsy)
title: Palestinian man detained and neglected
uri: Palestinian-man-detained-and-neglected
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Palestinian_man_autopsy)
content:
 
<p> 
Israeli soldiers arrested an old Palestinian man, tied him up and
gagged him, and blindfolded him so tightly that it injured his eyes.
Soldiers saw him "fall asleep", 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/man-78-died-of-stress-induced-heart-attack-after-israeli-detention-says-autopsy">so they cut the zip ties, then left
him lying on the ground.</a>
<p>
He was dying, or perhaps dead already, but the soldiers didn't check.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Us_27th_least_corrupt)
title: US is 27th least corrupt country in the world
uri: US-is-27th-least-corrupt-country-in-the-world
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Us_27th_least_corrupt)
content:
 
<p>
*The US is only the 27th least corrupt country in the world.* 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/25/politics/us-corruption-perception-index-trump/index.html">Tied with Chile.</a>


 


title: (satire) McConnell Blocks Justice
uri: (satire)-McConnell-Blocks-Justice
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_((Satire)_McConnell_Blocks_Justice)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_((Satire)_McConnell_Blocks_Justice)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Mitch McConnell Blocks 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/mitch-mcconnell-blocks-justice-stephen-breyer-from-reti-1848427236">Justice Stephen Breyer From Retiring.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(bogus_job_claim_fossil_fuel)
title: Bogus fossil fuel job creation claim
uri: Bogus-fossil-fuel-job-creation-claim
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(bogus_job_claim_fossil_fuel)
content:
 
<p>
Don't believe the fossil fools when they claim that US needs the
employment they provide.  They employ much fewer than what they claim,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/26/new-analysis-exposes-bogus-job-creation-claims-fossil-fuel-industry">and the number decreasing pretty fast.</a>
<p>
Investment in renewable energy would support far more jobs, and help
civilization keep going.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(childrens_assault_rifles)
title: Children's version of an assault rifle
uri: Children-s-version-of-an-assault-rifle
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(childrens_assault_rifles)
content:
 
<p>
Parents can now buy their children a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/26/gun-maker-slammed-childrens-assault-rifles-based-ar-15">child's version of the AR-15 rifle.</a>
<p>
It shoots real bullets that can really kill.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(poland_protests_abortion_death)
title: Young mother denied an abortion
uri: Young-mother-denied-an-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(poland_protests_abortion_death)
content:
 
<p>
A Polish woman carrying two fetuses needed an abortion to save her
life, because one of them had died.  The other fetus still lived, and
doctors feared prosecution if they aborted the dead one, so they
waited.  The other fetus died, and they did the abortion, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/27/protests-flare-across-poland-after-death-of-young-mother-denied-an-abortion">during
that time her condition had deteriorated, leading to her death.</a>
<p>
Now her death has become a cause to mobilize Polish women for
abortion rights.
<p>
I've read that the Catholic Church initially decided to oppose
abortion, in the 19th century, on the grounds that the fetus might be
male, and males (even mere fetuses) were of higher value than any
female.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(reforms_curb_corp_power)
title: Report says several industries are distorting Australia's democracy
uri: Report-says-several-industries-are-distorting-Australia-s-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(reforms_curb_corp_power)
content:
 
<p>
*New report from Human Rights Law Centre says fossil fuel, gambling and tobacco industries are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/28/extensive-reforms-needed-to-curb-corporate-power-in-australian-politics-human-rights-group-says">distorting Australia's democracy.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(dozen_ways_older_population)
title: Dozen ways a older population might be awesome
uri: Dozen-ways-a-older-population-might-be-awesome
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(dozen_ways_older_population)
content:
 
<p>
*A dozen ways a smaller older 
<a href="https://secularhumanism.org/2021/10/a-dozen-ways-a-smaller-older-population-might-be-awesome/">population might be awesome.</a>*



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Eu_city_house_prices)
title: Study finds investors driving up house prices
uri: Study-finds-investors-driving-up-house-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#28_January_2022_(Eu_city_house_prices)
content:
 
<p>
*Large investors drive up house prices 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/27/large-investors-drive-up-house-prices-in-europes-cities-study-finds">in Europe’s cities, study finds.</a>*



 


title: Urgent: Year of executive actions
uri: Urgent-Year-of-executive-actions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Urgent:_Year_of_executive_actions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Urgent:_Year_of_executive_actions)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to make this year the year of Executive
 Actions &mdash; with <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-president-biden-make-this-year-the-year-of-executive-actionsar-of-executive-actions">several suggestions</a>.

 


title: Early death if living near frack wells
uri: Early-death-if-living-near-frack-wells
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Early_death_if_living_near_frack_wells)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Early_death_if_living_near_frack_wells)

content:
 
<p>

A study found that people in the US are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/27/people-living-closer-us-oil-and-gas-wells-higher-risk-dying-prematurely-study">more likely to die early</a>
if they live near frack wells.  Downwind of them is even worse.
<p>
The study controlled for socioeconomic, environmental and
demographic factors, so it's not that these wells are built where poor
people live, or that the wells drive down housing prices and poor
people have to move near them.
<p>
Other medical problems are also more likely near frack wells.
<p>
Basically, frack is a dangerous drug.

 


title: Republican gerrymandering in Nashville
uri: Republican-gerrymandering-in-Nashville
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Republican_gerrymandering_in_Nashville)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Republican_gerrymandering_in_Nashville)

content:
 
<p>

Republican gerrymandering split the Democrats of
Nashville among <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/27/republicans-just-wiped-out-a-democratic-district-heres-how">three congressional districts</a>, each of which has a
majority of Republicans from outside the city.
<p>
Nashville's current representative, a Democrat, has no chance of
winning any of those three districts.
<p>
There is a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#25_October_2017_(Gerrymandering)">mathematical system</a> which finds the fairest possible
division of districts, which can be implemented by computer.
Some states use that method to produce an unbiased electoral system.
But Republicans aim to rig elections, not to make them fair.

 


title: Skyhorse publishing publishes cancelled authors
uri: Skyhorse-publishing-publishes-cancelled-authors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Skyhorse_publishing_publishes_cancelled_authors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Skyhorse_publishing_publishes_cancelled_authors)

content:
 
<p>

Skyhorse Publishing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/27/tony-lyons-skyhorse-publisher-cancelled-books">publishes books whose authors have been cancelled</a>
(and which are likely to sell many copies).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Nazi_hate)
title: Nazi hate
uri: Nazi-hate
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Nazi_hate)
content:
 
<p>

The principal target of Nazi hatred was the Jews, but they had hate <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/27/black-people-were-hitlers-victims-too-that-must-not-be-forgotten">left
over for several other groups</a>.

 


title: NYC families investigated for neglect
uri: NYC-families-investigated-for-neglect
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(NYC_families_investigated_for_neglect)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(NYC_families_investigated_for_neglect)

content:
 
<p>

2400 families in New York City have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/27/covid-kids-school-reported-for-neglect">investigated for "neglecting"</a>
their children by keeping them away from school and the risk of Covid-19.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Deadly_heat_in_Phoenix,_Arizona)
title: Deadly heat in Phoenix, Arizona
uri: Deadly-heat-in-Phoenix-Arizona
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Deadly_heat_in_Phoenix,_Arizona)
content:
 
<p>

The heat in Phoenix, Arizona, is becoming more deadly.  The city is
considering <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/27/phoenix-arizona-hottest-city-cooling-technologies">long-term changes to reduce its heat-island effect</a>.

 


title: As concepts creep, freedoms retreat
uri: As-concepts-creep-freedoms-retreat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(As_concepts_creep,_freedoms_retreat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(As_concepts_creep,_freedoms_retreat)

content:
 
<p>

Russell Blackford: <a href="https://secularhumanism.org/2021/10/as-concepts-creep-freedoms-retreat/ ">*As Concepts Creep, Freedoms Retreat.*</a>
<p>
For instance, many antiracists stretch the concept of "harming people"
to include disagreeing with their views, or <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#14_June_2019_(George_Washington_murals)">showing an action that they
condemn</a>.
<p>
Republicans are stretching it even further when they stretch "critical
race theory" to include <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-may-aug.html#14_July_2021_(Critical_race_theory)">blanket condemnation of whites</a>, and then ban
them both. And when they ban books such as Maus on the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/opinions/maus-ban-holocaust-teaching-spiegelman-perry/index.html">basis of minor details</a>.

 


title: Taliban must respect women and children's rights
uri: Taliban-must-respect-women-and-children-s-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Taliban_must_respect_women_and_children's_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Taliban_must_respect_women_and_children's_rights)

content:
 
<p>

*Taliban <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/taliban-must-respect-rights-of-women-and-children-says-un-head">must respect rights of women and children</a>, says UN head.*
<p>
He also called for powers to unblock humanitarian aid.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Maintaining_Saudi_jets)
title: Maintaining Saudi jets
uri: Maintaining-Saudi-jets
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#29_January_2022_(Maintaining_Saudi_jets)
content:
 
<p>

*Dems Demand Biden <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/26/dems-demand-biden-stop-maintaining-saudi-jets-causing-untold-suffering-yemen">Stop Maintaining Saudi Jets</a> Causing 'Untold
Suffering' in Yemen.*
<p>
I wonder which countries the US plans to get extra gas for Europe from,
whether they include the UAE or <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Fukushima_cancer_lawsuit)
title: Cancer patients sue TEPCO over Fukushima disaster
uri: Cancer-patients-sue-TEPCO-over-Fukushima-disaster
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Fukushima_cancer_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
Six Japanese who lived near Fukushima and developed thyroid cancer since
are suing 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/27/cancer-patients-file-landmark-suit-over-fukushima-disaster">TEPCO, the plant's operator, for damages.</a>
<p>
Thyroid cancer is one of the common consequences of fallout from
nuclear fission

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(King_crabs_british_waters)
title: King crabs invade British waters.
uri: King-crabs-invade-British-waters
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(King_crabs_british_waters)
content:
 
<p>
King crabs have invaded British waters. They have wiped out the
native fisheries of Norway, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/28/king-crabs-invade-uk-waters-threatening-native-species">and may now do the same to Britain.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Eu_farm_antibiotics_ban)
title: Europe is reducing amount of antibiotics fed to farm animals.
uri: Europe-is-reducing-amount-of-antibiotics-fed-to-farm-animals
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Eu_farm_antibiotics_ban)
content:
 
<p>
Europe is making good progress on reducing the amount of antibiotics 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/28/uk-risks-falling-behind-on-reducing-farm-antibiotics-after-eu-ban">routinely fed to farm animals.</a>
<p>
I suspect it is even more important to restrict <em>which</em> antibiotics
are given routinely to animals -- never give them the ones that are
still fairly likely to cure humans' diseases.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Hungary_pegasus_lawsuit)
title: Journalists targeted with Pegasus softwre to sue state
uri: Journalists-targeted-with-Pegasus-softwre-to-sue-state
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Hungary_pegasus_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
Hungarian journalists will sue Hungary and the company that made the
Pegasus spyware, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/28/hungarian-journalists-targeted-with-pegasus-spyware-to-sue-state">which was apparently used to snoop on them.</a>



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Biden_memo_debt)
title: Biden secret memo on student debt authority
uri: Biden-secret-memo-on-student-debt-authority
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Biden_memo_debt)
content:
 
<p>
Biden got a secret memo about the extent of his authority to cancel
student debt, and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/26/80-dems-tell-biden-release-secret-memo-student-debt-authority">he refuses to reveal what it says.</a>
<p>
The suspicion is that it says he can cancel a lot of debt,
but he has made some deal by which he will not do it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_((Satire)_police_unsolved_crimes)
title: (satire) Police Flip Through Unsolved Crimes
uri: (satire)-Police-Flip-Through-Unsolved-Crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_((Satire)_police_unsolved_crimes)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Police Flip Through Unsolved Crimes To See What Else 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/police-flip-through-unsolved-crimes-to-see-what-else-th-1848424844">They
Can Pin On Mentally Disabled Man.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Biden_egypt_armsale)
title: Biden approves arms sale to egypt despite rights abuse
uri: Biden-approves-arms-sale-to-egypt-despite-rights-abuse
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Biden_egypt_armsale)
content:
 
<p>
The US is withholding part of an arms sale to Egypt on grounds that 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/26/despite-rights-abuses-biden-approves-25-billion-arms-sale-egypt">Egypt violates human rights.</a>
<p>
Part of the sale is going through -- radar systems and transport
aircraft -- but those, while useful in a war, won't actually shoot
anyone.
<p>
This might be an effective way to tell al-Sisi that it is time to
start respecting human rights, without being so nasty that he will run
off bitterly angry.

 


title: (Satire) Biden Meets With Senate Democrats
uri: (Satire)-Biden-Meets-With-Senate-Democrats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_((Satire)_biden_supremecourt_nominee)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_((Satire)_biden_supremecourt_nominee)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Biden Meets With Senate Democrats To Discuss Breaking Up
Supreme Court 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/biden-meets-with-senate-democrats-to-discuss-breaking-u-1848434601">Nominee And Confirming Her In Parts.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Biden_vaccine_recipes)
title: Progressives demand Biden to force pharma to share vaccine recipes
uri: Progressives-demand-Biden-to-force-pharma-to-share-vaccine-recipes
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Biden_vaccine_recipes)
content:
 
<p>
Progressives in Congress demanded that Biden compel vaccine companies to share
their 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/27/progressives-biden-force-pharma-share-vaccine-recipes-globally">secret methods with other countries for generic production.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_((Satire)_lies_police)
title: (satire) Lies All Police Are Legally Allowed To Tell You
uri: (satire)-Lies-All-Police-Are-Legally-Allowed-To-Tell-You
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_((Satire)_lies_police)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Lies All Police Officers 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/lies-all-police-officers-are-legally-allowed-to-tell-yo-1848429896">Are Legally Allowed To Tell You.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Stove_methane_leak)
title: Gas stoves even worse than previously thought
uri: Gas-stoves-even-worse-than-previously-thought
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Stove_methane_leak)
content:
 
<p>
Gas stoves leak methane all the time, even when turned off.  The total leakage
is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/27/gas-stoves-even-worse-climate-health-previously-thought">enough to be worth shutting off.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Paley_cancellation)
title: What the cancellation of Nina Paley, teaches about cancellation
uri: What-the-cancellation-of-Nina-Paley-teaches-about-cancellation
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Paley_cancellation)
content:
 
<p>
What the cancellation of Nina Paley, brilliant animator, 
<a href="https://theusfreespeechunion.substack.com/p/prisoners-of-our-own-action-resend">teaches about
cancellation.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Dishonest_sources)
title: Knowing the rules about often-dishonest sources
uri: Knowing-the-rules-about-often-dishonest-sources
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Dishonest_sources)
content:
 
<p>
Knowing the rules that often-dishonest sources follow in their lies
can enable you to determine that certain specific 
<a href="https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/bounded-distrust">statements from them
are probably true.</a>


 


title: Urgent: Ban members of congress from buying/selling stocks
uri: Urgent-Ban-members-of-congress-from-buying-selling-stocks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_members_of_congress_from_buying%2Fselling_stocks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_members_of_congress_from_buying%2Fselling_stocks)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/stock-trading-ban-congress/">ban members of Congress from buying
and selling stocks while in office</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call Pepsico to stop funding antiabortion candidates
uri: Urgent-Call-Pepsico-to-stop-funding-antiabortion-candidates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Urgent:_Call_Pepsico_to_stop_funding_antiabortion_candidates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Urgent:_Call_Pepsico_to_stop_funding_antiabortion_candidates)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Pepsico to <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/Pepsi_abortionban/">stop funding antiabortion candidates
and parties</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Urge Biden to send N95 masks to Americans
uri: Urgent-Urge-Biden-to-send-N95-masks-to-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Urgent:_Urge_Biden_to_send_N95_masks_to_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Urgent:_Urge_Biden_to_send_N95_masks_to_Americans)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden and Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-and-president-biden-use-your-power-to-distribute-n95-masks-to-all-americans">send Americans N95 masks
regularly on a continuing basis</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Pass Get Foreign Money Out of US Elections Act
uri: Urgent-Pass-Get-Foreign-Money-Out-of-US-Elections-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_Get_Foreign_Money_Out_of_US_Elections_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_Get_Foreign_Money_Out_of_US_Elections_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-get-foreign-money-out-of-us-elections-close-the-citizens-united-loophole">pass the Get Foreign Money Out of
U.S. Elections Act</a>, to stop foreign owners of US corporations from
donating to US election campaigns.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Rebuilding_of_bookshop_in_Gaza)
title: Rebuilding of bookshop in Gaza
uri: Rebuilding-of-bookshop-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Rebuilding_of_bookshop_in_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>

Donors have provided <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/28/gaza-samir-mansour-bookshop-reopening-after-global-campaign">funds to rebuild the bookshop in Gaza</a> that
Israeli bombers destroyed, and books for it to sell.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Manchin_represents_billionaires)
title: Manchin represents billionaires
uri: Manchin-represents-billionaires
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Manchin_represents_billionaires)
content:
 
<p>

It is now quite clear that Manchin <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/28/joe-manchin-republican-donor-donation">represents billionaires in the Senate</a>.
One billionaire supporter publicly announced his reasons for
opposing the Build Back Better bill, and it is totally bogus &mdash; he
called it "Socialism," which is already a big exaggeration, but what
he attacks is an extreme form of Communism that no country ever
practiced.

 


title: Judge blocks Gulf of Mexico drilling leases
uri: Judge-blocks-Gulf-of-Mexico-drilling-leases
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Judge_blocks_Gulf_of_Mexico_drilling_leases)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Judge_blocks_Gulf_of_Mexico_drilling_leases)

content:
 
<p>

*US judge <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/28/gulf-of-mexico-oil-gas-drilling-leases-judge-blocks-climate-biden">blocks sale of Gulf of Mexico drilling leases</a> over climate
 concerns.*
<p>
I suppose the Supreme Court will actually decide the case, months from now,
and I expect the worst.

 


title: Proposal to charge unvaccinated patients for Covid treatment
uri: Proposal-to-charge-unvaccinated-patients-for-Covid-treatment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Proposal_to_charge_unvaccinated_patients_for_Covid_treatment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Proposal_to_charge_unvaccinated_patients_for_Covid_treatment)

content:
 
<p>

A French hospital official proposed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/28/outrage-as-paris-hospitals-chief-raises-idea-of-charging-unvaccinated-patients">charging unvaccinated patients for
Covid-19 treatment</a>.
<p>
The basic idea that those who go unvaccinated should bear the burden
they impose on society is valid, but charging patients is the wrong
way to implement it.  It is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#12_July_2012_(Urgent:_Support_medicare_for_all">wrong to charge patients for medical
treatment</a>.  (The US medical system is so bad because it is based on
charging patients.)
<p>
It is better to punish people directly for refusing vaccination &mdash;
whether they catch Covid-19 or not.
<p>
Also, if hospital facilities are full and it is impossible to treat
all the patients at that time, vaccinated patients should have
priority.
<p>
That situation won't arise if we are careful in precautions to prevent
the spread of the disease, so we should all practice them.  The main
precautions are vaccination, isolation when sick, not spending time
close to other people, and wearing good masks.  The good masks &mdash;
FFP2, or even better N95 with its tight head straps &mdash; will give you
substantial protection.
<p>
We must make sure that all workers have paid sick leave available,
so that they can afford to stay home when sick.

 


title: North America has lost a fourth of its birds
uri: North-America-has-lost-a-fourth-of-its-birds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(North_America_has_lost_a_fourth_of_its_birds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(North_America_has_lost_a_fourth_of_its_birds)

content:
 
<p>

*   In the past half century, North America has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/28/birds-are-remarkable-and-beautiful-animals-and-theyre-disappearing-from-our-world">lost a fourth of its birds</a>.
   Earth is now a coalmine, and every wild bird is a canary.*
<p>
However, it is a mistake to make too much of the fact that birds are
remotely descended from dinosaurs (they split off about 100 million
years ago).  After all, birds are also <a href="/articles/birds-dinosaurs-fish.html">descended from fish</a>, around 300
million years ago.
Neither of these facts causes a hawk to closely resemble a
velociraptor, or a tuna.

 


title: UK Environment Agency threatens to fire staff
uri: UK-Environment-Agency-threatens-to-fire-staff
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(UK_Environment_Agency_threatens_to_fire_staff)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(UK_Environment_Agency_threatens_to_fire_staff)

content:
 
<p>

The UK's Environment Agency <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/29/it-is-desperate-how-environment-agency-staff-were-silenced-as-pollution-worsened">threatened to fire staff</a> if they talked with each other about how the agency was neglecting its mission to protect
waterways.
<p>
The US Environmental Protection Agency has a history of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-nov-feb.html#12_February_2018_(Reduced_EPA_enforcement)">systematic dereliction</a>
of duty, going back decades.
The corrupter intentionally made it more corrupt, to the point that I
called it the Environmental Poisoning Agency.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(CIA_torture_of_Zayn_al-Abidin)
title: CIA torture of Zayn al-Abidin
uri: CIA-torture-of-Zayn-al-Abidin
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(CIA_torture_of_Zayn_al-Abidin)
content:
 
<p>

The CIA tortured Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn ("Abu Zubaydah")
around 20 years ago to experiment with torture techniques.  To keep
the torture secret, the US government decided to keep him
incommunicado for life.  Now there is movement towards <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/29/the-cia-lied-to-justify-torturing-one-prisoner-after-911-20-years-later-his-story-is-still-shrouded-in-secrecy">ending the
cruel secrecy</a>.

 


title: Neil Young and Joni Mitchell boycott Spotify
uri: Neil-Young-and-Joni-Mitchell-boycott-Spotify
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Neil_Young_and_Joni_Mitchell_boycott_Spotify)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Neil_Young_and_Joni_Mitchell_boycott_Spotify)

content:
 
<p>

Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/29/joni-mitchell-joins-neil-young-in-demanding-spotify-remove-her-music">boycotting Spotify</a> because of its support
for Joe Rogan with his Covid misinformation.
<p>
I disapprove of his misinformation, but I have been boycotting Spotify
for unjust treatment of its customers, so I have no way to boycott it
harder.

The latest thing for star musicians is to sell their song catalogs to
Big Music. Those that do so won't have the option of joining in
a boycott like this one.

 


title: If Tory legislation is left unchallenged
uri: If-Tory-legislation-is-left-unchallenged
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(If_Tory_legislation_is_left_unchallenged)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(If_Tory_legislation_is_left_unchallenged)

content:
 
<p>

*   If Tory legislation is left unchallenged, it won’t just be the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/29/as-the-tide-of-populism-recedes-is-it-taking-our-civil-liberties-with-it">right to protest that ordinary Britons will lose</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Fort_Bragg)
title: Fort Bragg
uri: Fort-Bragg
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Fort_Bragg)
content:
 
<p>

"Fort Bragg", California, was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/jan/29/california-city-to-retain-confederate-generals-name-after-year-of-debate">named after General Bragg</a> when he
was in the US Army, before the Civil War.
<p>
He was not a traitor then, but he became one subsequently.  In my
opinion, the name should be changed.  Will it be possible to convince
the people of the town to change it?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(REI_workers_trying_to_unionize)
title: REI workers trying to unionize
uri: REI-workers-trying-to-unionize
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(REI_workers_trying_to_unionize)
content:
 
<p>

REI is a cooperative &mdash; of customers, not of workers.  Some
of its workers are trying to unionize, and the <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/rei-progressive-company-union-election-nlrb-retail-workers">company is opposed</a>.
<p>
More <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qdjx/unionizing-rei-workers-want-their-progressive-employer-to-pay-a-living-wage">info</a>.

 


title: Private voter-suppression in Chile
uri: Private-voter-suppression-in-Chile
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Private_voter-suppression_in_Chile)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Private_voter-suppression_in_Chile)

content:
 
<p>

Private voter-suppression in Chile: private bus companies stopped
their service on election day to <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/transit-neoliberalism-presidential-election-boric-kast">stop non-rich people from getting to
polling places</a>.
<p>
I have a feeling that some cities had closed the polling places
in working-class neighborhoods, as a first blow.

 


title: China's altered ending of Fight Club
uri: China-s-altered-ending-of-Fight-Club
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(China's_altered_ending_of_Fight_Club)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(China's_altered_ending_of_Fight_Club)

content:
 
<p>

Chuck Palahniuk says that China's altered ending of the film, Fight Club,
makes it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/27/fight-club-author-chuck-palahniuk-praises-chinese-cut-super-wonderful">closer to the ending of his book</a>.
<!--
 /* Waiting for direction from Richard on which pol note we're looking for. */

 


title: Make GOP vote on popular policies
uri: Make-GOP-vote-on-popular-policies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Make_GOP_vote_on_popular_policies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Make_GOP_vote_on_popular_policies)

content:
 
<p>

*'No More Hiding': Sanders Says <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/27/no-more-hiding-sanders-says-make-gop-vote-popular-policies">Make GOP Vote on Popular Policies</a>.*
<p>
I've made this suggestion here.

<!--

[pol note -- use the first one which suggested this.]

-->
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Crop_insurance_payments)
title: Crop insurance payments
uri: Crop-insurance-payments
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Crop_insurance_payments)
content:
 
<p>

US crop insurance payments have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/27/climate-cant-wait-us-crop-losses-have-more-tripled-1995">increased since 1995 by a factor of 5</a>.
The cause is <a href="/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>, and that means it will get a lot worse
in the next 25 years.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Car_travel_over_public_transit)
title: Car travel over public transit
uri: Car-travel-over-public-transit
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Car_travel_over_public_transit)
content:
 
<p>

When the US prioritizes car travel over public transit, it
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/27/new-report-shows-how-us-transportation-system-fuels-inequality">systematically hurts the poor</a>.
<p>
The article 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 articles which promote it.  But I make
exceptions for some articles which are important enough.

 


title: Not benefiting from the strong economy
uri: Not-benefiting-from-the-strong-economy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Not_benefiting_from_the_strong_economy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Not_benefiting_from_the_strong_economy)

content:
 
<p>

American workers are not benefiting from the "strong economy", but it
is not because of inflation &mdash; it's <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-starbucks-dilemma">because they are not unionized</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Thugs_and_fentanyl)
title: Thugs and fentanyl
uri: Thugs-and-fentanyl
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Thugs_and_fentanyl)
content:
 
<p>
  US thugs <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/27/extraordinary-popular-delusions/#onshore-havana-syndrome">believe that the touch of someone overdosing on fentanyl is
  deadly</a>, and based on this, put them in prison for threatening thugs'
  lives.

 


title: Arizona Republicans proposal for rejecting election results
uri: Arizona-Republicans-proposal-for-rejecting-election-results
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Arizona_Republicans_proposal_for_rejecting_election_results)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Arizona_Republicans_proposal_for_rejecting_election_results)

content:
 
<p>
  Arizona Republicans propose to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/politics/arizona-john-fillmore-gop-election-results-bill/index.html">authorize the state legislature to
  reject election results and order a new election</a>.
<p>
  The bill would also require counting all the ballots in 24 hours.
  That is an invitation to confusion and errors, which could provide
  a pretext to reject election results.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Torching_village_after_village)
title: Torching village after village
uri: Torching-village-after-village
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Torching_village_after_village)
content:
 
<p>
*Myanmar's junta <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/29/myanmars-junta-torching-village-after-village-in-bid-to-quell-opposition">torching "village after village" in bid to quell opposition</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Superyacht)
title: Superyacht
uri: Superyacht
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Superyacht)
content:
 
<p>
  New superyachts
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/29/superyacht-sales-surge-prompts-fresh-calls-for-curbs-on-their-emissions">emit as much CO2 as 1500 cars, and almost 1000 are being made per year</a>.
  I urge countries to prohibit them from entering harbors except in an
  emergency.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Georgia_voter_suppression)
title: Georgia voter suppression
uri: 2022-01-31-Georgia-voter-suppression
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Georgia_voter_suppression)
content:
 
<p>
  New Georgia voter suppression rules for mail-in ballots would, if
  applied in 2020, have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/28/analysis-finds-staggering-rise-voter-suppression-after-gop-restrictions-georgia">stopped almost 70,000 people from voting by mail</a>.
  That's far more than enough to change the outcome.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Civilian_casualties)
title: Civilian casualties
uri: 2022-01-31-Civilian-casualties
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Civilian_casualties)
content:
 
<p>
  If Biden is serious about <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/01/29/military-innocent-civilian-casualties/">reducing civilian casualties from US war
  operations</a>, the Pentagon should do more than study the problem.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Thai_monarchy)
title: Thai monarchy
uri: Thai-monarchy
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Thai_monarchy)
content:
 
<p>
Reverence for the Thai monarchy is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/29/our-culture-has-changed-young-thais-boycott-graduation-ceremonies">fading away among young people</a>.

 


title: Divisive concepts prohibited in education bills
uri: Divisive-concepts-prohibited-in-education-bills
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Divisive_concepts_prohibited_in_education_bills)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Divisive_concepts_prohibited_in_education_bills)

content:
 
<p>
  Many Republican education
  bills <a href="https://theusfreespeechunion.substack.com/p/knaves-or-fools">prohibit
  teaching a list of "divisive concepts" that are supposedly related
  to Critical Race Theory</a>. This article presents a list of the
  "divisive concepts", and it seems to me that (1) all of them are bad
  things to teach in school, and (2) they have little in common with
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-jul-oct.html#13_October_2021_(Critical_race_theory)">Critical Race Theory</a>.
<p>
  The article goes on to explain that many of these prohibitions are
  likely to be unconstitutional due to various specific conflicts with
  US legal precedents about freedom of speech.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Alaska_climate_case_rejected)
title: Alaska climate case rejected
uri: Alaska-climate-case-rejected
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Alaska_climate_case_rejected)
content:
 
<p>
Alaska's Supreme Court <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/28/not-over-alaska-supreme-court-rejects-youth-climate-case">killed the young people's climate damages case</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Everybody_knows_that)
title: Everybody knows that
uri: Everybody-knows-that
url: https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Everybody_knows_that)
content:
 
<p>
  Ways that the phrase "Everybody knows that" is <a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BNfL58ijGawgpkh9b/everybody-knows">used to cut off discussion
  and put people down</a>.
<p>
  The comments show that there are valid situations to claim that
  "everyone knows that".  Sometimes everyone does know X, but not
  everyone knows that everyone does know X.

 


title: Fracking Democrats join lobby group
uri: Fracking-Democrats-join-lobby-group
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Fracking_Democrats_join_lobby_group)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Fracking_Democrats_join_lobby_group)

content:
 
<p>
  Two fracking former Democratic senators <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/27/utterly-shameless-former-democratic-senators-join-fossil-fuel-lobby-group">joined a lobby group for fracking</a>.
<p>
  Frack off, planet roasters!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Russia_in_NATO)
title: Russia in NATO
uri: Russia-in-NATO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Russia_in_NATO)
content:
 
<p>
To admit a post-Putin democratic Russia to NATO <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/31/putin-russia-eastern-europe-ukraine">could make sense</a>.

<p>
Indeed, under those circumstances, Russia might replace the US as the
mainstay of NATO, if the US has fallen under Putin-like Republicans.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Endemic_covid)
title: Endemic covid
uri: Endemic-covid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Endemic_covid)
content:
 
<p>
*Covid becoming endemic doesn’t mean it will be mild – <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/01/covid-becoming-endemic-doesnt-mean-it-will-be-mild-or-that-there-wont-be-new-variants">or that there won’t be
new variants</a>.*
  It might become like the Polio virus, which most patients didn't even notice,
except for the small fraction that it crippled.

<p>
Thus, "endemic" does not imply "we don't need precautions
against its spread."  Not if we are wise, that is.
 

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Arrest_of_protesters)
title: Arrest of protesters
uri: Arrest-of-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Arrest_of_protesters)
content:
 
<p>
The Burmese military government threatens to arrest people <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/31/myanmars-junta-threatens-protesters-planning-coup-anniversary-action">who participate
in a planned silent protest</a>.
  Some shop owners have been arrested for saying they will close their shops
in sympathy.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Contradictions)
title: Contradictions
uri: Contradictions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Contradictions)
content:
 
<p>
The bullshitter seems not to have noticed, when he said that Pence
"could have overturned the election", <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/31/donald-trump-mike-pence-overturn-election">that he admitted he lost it</a>.

<p>
Recently he said he might pardon the Jan 6 attackers if he were
president again.  Didn't he tell us that the attackers were supporters
of the Antifa (anti-fascist) movement?  Why would be want to pardon
them?


 


title: Urgent: Dominant tech platforms and payment
uri: Urgent-Dominant-tech-platforms-and-payment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Urgent:_Dominant_tech_platforms_and_payment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Urgent:_Dominant_tech_platforms_and_payment)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/cfpb/">call on regulators</a> to ban ownership of payment systems by
the dominant tech platforms.

<p>
The main digital payment systems are unjust for two reasons: they
require users to run nonfree Javascript code to use them, and they
require users to identify themselves.  If they were owned by
megacompanies, that would be an additional injustice.  Preventing that
would be good, but would not make them acceptable to use.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(State_on_fire)
title: State on fire
uri: State-on-fire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(State_on_fire)
content:
 
<p>
*Where to build in a state on fire? California housing projects <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/housing-developments-fire-prone-california-wildlands-legal-challenges">face
growing challenges</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Oil_spill)
title: Oil spill
uri: Oil-spill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Oil_spill)
content:
 
<p>
An oil spill from a broken pipeline in the Ecuadorian Amazon <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/30/disaster-burst-pipeline-sprays-crude-oil-ecuadorian-amazon">has
polluted a river that provides drinking water to almost 30,000 people</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Celebrating_world_instability)
title: Celebrating world instability
uri: Celebrating-world-instability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Celebrating_world_instability)
content:
 
<p>
The CEOs of Lockheed and Raytheon -- two major US military contractors
-- <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/30/defense-contractor-ceos-applaud-deteriorating-global-security">celebrated increasing world instability as good for their business</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Prosecution_of_military_rulers)
title: Prosecution of military rulers
uri: Prosecution-of-military-rulers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Prosecution_of_military_rulers)
content:
 
<p>
A Burmese dissident calls for prosecution of the military rulers in
the International Criminal Court, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/30/people-burma-demand-accountability-2021-military-coup">and a cut-off of arms sales</a>.

<p>
Does anyone know which countries still sell arms to the Burmese
military government?


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Making_up_for_disinformation)
title: Making up for disinformation
uri: Making-up-for-disinformation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Making_up_for_disinformation)
content:
 
<p>
Spotify said it will point users at valid Covid-19 information
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/31/spotify-to-direct-listeners-to-correct-covid-information-after-joe-rogan-controversy">to make up for some of Joe Rogan's disinformation</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Urgent:_Fund_IRS_adequately)
title: Urgent: Fund IRS adequately
uri: Urgent-Fund-IRS-adequately
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Urgent:_Fund_IRS_adequately)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-congress-give-the-irs-the-resources-it-needs-to-serve-taxpayers-and-catch-wealthy-tax-cheats?nowrapper=true">call on Congress</a> to fund the IRS adequately, so it can
provide service to taxpayers and catch rich cheaters.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Employee_and_contractors)
title: Employee and contractors
uri: Employee-and-contractors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Employee_and_contractors)
content:
 
<p>
The National Labor Relations Board is considering whether falsely
labeling an employee as an independent contractor <a href="https://prospect.org/labor/nlrb-looks-at-independent-contractor-scam/">should be considered
a violation of federal law</a>.

This could make a big difference for gig workers in the US.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Near-monopoly_on_hospital_beds)
title: Near-monopoly on hospital beds
uri: Near-monopoly-on-hospital-beds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Near-monopoly_on_hospital_beds)
content:
 
<p>
The US has a near-monopoly on hospital beds.  A competitor has
recently sued, alleging that the monopolist <a href="https://prospect.org/power/rollups-theres-a-hospital-bed-monopoly/">uses secret, illegal
contracts to maintain its market power</a>.


 


title: Murdered associate of previous government
uri: Murdered-associate-of-previous-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Murdered_associate_of_previous_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Murdered_associate_of_previous_government)

content:
 
<p>
More than 100 people in Afghanistan who were formerly associated with
the previous government, or with foreign armies, whom the Taliban says
it had no grudge against, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/afghanistan-more-than-100-believed-killed-despite-taliban-amnesty-offer-says-un">have been murdered</a>.

<p>
To me, this suggests that the Taliban are not disciplined enough for a
policy to be effective.  The leadership can announce an amnesty but
that doesn't mean all supporters will obey it.

<p>
I don't see any solution except to offer asylum to all those who may
be next, along with whatever they need in order to get out.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Intimidation_of_journalists)
title: Intimidation of journalists
uri: Intimidation-of-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Intimidation_of_journalists)
content:
 
<p>
China intensely intimidates foreign journalists -- almost any aspect of life
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/foreign-journalists-china-intimidation-survey">can be perverted into harassment, a threat, or an attack</a>.

<p>
One common kind of threat is a bogus lawsuit, which can be used as an
excuse to stop you from leaving China.  If you're lucky, you're just
forced to leave China in a hurry.

<p>
China can arrange a pizzagate against anyone at any time.





 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Freedom_of_speech)
title: Freedom of speech
uri: 2022-02-01-Freedom-of-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Freedom_of_speech)
content:
 
<p>
*Freedom of speech was too hard won <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/30/freedom-of-speech-hard-won-cavalier-now-about-censorship">to be cavalier now about censorship</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Pardon_to_Capitol_rioters)
title: Pardon to Capitol rioters
uri: Pardon-to-Capitol-rioters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Pardon_to_Capitol_rioters)
content:
 
<p>
*Nixon aide: [the corrupter's] pardon promise for Capitol rioters <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/30/trump-pardon-promise-capitol-rioters-dictators-john-dean-nixon">is "stuff of dictators"</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Absurd_excuses)
title: Absurd excuses
uri: Absurd-excuses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Absurd_excuses)
content:
 
<p>
A long list of absurd excuses Tories make <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/30/note-to-boris-johnson-sad-apologists-stop-treating-the-public-as-if-they-are-fools">to excuse Bogus Johnson's
contempt for the public</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Whistleblower_tortured)
title: Whistleblower tortured
uri: Whistleblower-tortured
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Whistleblower_tortured)
content:
 
<p>
The whistleblower who reported abuse and underpayment of workers by
Foxconn, making Amazon products, was tortured by China.  Now he
demands that Amazon and Foxconn <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/30/alexa-factory-whistleblower-i-was-tortured-and-jailed-now-amazon-should-apologise">pressure China to clear his name</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Drought_and_famine)
title: Drought and famine
uri: Drought-and-famine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Drought_and_famine)
content:
 
<p>
Several regions of Ethiopia <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/30/we-pray-for-rain-ethiopia-faces-catastrophic-hunger-as-cattle-perish-in-severe-drought">are suffering from drought, with famine on
the way</a>.

<p>
This is in addition to Tigray, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#15_January_2022_(Getting_food_into_Tigray)">which suffers from civil war and blockage
of food and medical aid</a>.


 


title: Punishing prescribing quack remedies
uri: Punishing-prescribing-quack-remedies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Punishing_prescribing_quack_remedies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Punishing_prescribing_quack_remedies)

content:
 
<p>
Republicans are passing state laws so medical boards <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/30/republican-lawmakers-ivermectin-hydroxychloroquine-covid-treatment">can't punish doctors
for prescribing quack remedies for Covid-19</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Record_profits_and_losing_ground)
title: Record profits and losing ground
uri: Record-profits-and-losing-ground
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Record_profits_and_losing_ground)
content:
 
<p>
*Corporations have record profits. Most workers are losing ground. So
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/share-the-profits">why not create incentives for corporations to profit-share</a>?*



 


title: Overhaul of Civilian Harm Policies
uri: Overhaul-of-Civilian-Harm-Policies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Overhaul_of_Civilian_Harm_Policies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Overhaul_of_Civilian_Harm_Policies)

content:
 
<p>
*ACLU Demands <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/28/aclu-demands-truly-systemic-overhaul-us-civilian-harm-policies">'Truly Systemic Overhaul' of US [Military's] Civilian
 Harm Policies</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Concrete_truck_drivers_on_strike)
title: Concrete truck drivers on strike
uri: Concrete-truck-drivers-on-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Concrete_truck_drivers_on_strike)
content:
 
<p>
Concrete truck drivers in Seattle have been on strike for months.  The
contract they rejected would have meant <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/28/ongoing-seattle-strike-concrete-workers-face-against-corporate-greed-and-face">a decrease in wages once they
are adjusted for inflation</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(ICU_applicants)
title: ICU applicants
uri: ICU-applicants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(ICU_applicants)
content:
 
<p>
(<a href="https://www.theonion.com/elite-selective-hospital-only-accepts-9-of-icu-applica-1848434531">satire</a>) *Elite Selective Hospital Only Accepts 9% Of ICU Applicants.*
  Be sure to apply to several hospitals, including a nonprestigious
"safety" hospital.

<p>
(<a href="https://www.theonion.com/jesus-christ-starts-rival-eternal-paradise-after-family-1848364179">satire</a>) Paradises are competing for elite souls, too:
*Jesus Christ Starts Rival Eternal Paradise After Family Rift.*

<p>
Can you choose Valhalla, or Tlalocan, if that's where your spirit leads you?


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Generic_vaccine_production)
title: Generic vaccine production
uri: Generic-vaccine-production
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Generic_vaccine_production)
content:
 
<p>
300 scientists signed a letter to Bogus Johnson calling on him to
support allowing generic vaccine production world-wide, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/28/320-scientists-suspend-vaccine-patents-prevent-future-variants">as the way to
end the evolution of new variants</a>.

<p>
Bogus Johnson doesn't care about anything but staying in power, but
it may influence other politicians.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Pushing_hard_to_keep_filibuster)
title: Pushing hard to keep filibuster
uri: Pushing-hard-to-keep-filibuster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Pushing_hard_to_keep_filibuster)
content:
 
<p>
Greedy corporations push hard to keep the filibuster in place in the
US Senate. The US Chamber of Commerce admits it, but mainstream media
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/28/why-greedy-corporations-love-filibuster">generally try to distract attention from it</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Books_for_prisoners)
title: Books for prisoners
uri: Books-for-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Books_for_prisoners)
content:
 
<p>
*Why Is It So Hard for [many US prisoners] <a href="https://www.theroot.com/why-is-it-so-hard-for-incarcerated-people-to-get-access-1848407386">to Get Access to the
Books They Need And Want</a>?*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Journalists_freedom_of_movement)
title: Journalists freedom of movement
uri: Journalists-freedom-of-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#31_January_2022_(Journalists_freedom_of_movement)
content:
 
<p>
RSF: members of the European Parliament called on Israel <a href="https://rsf.org/en/news/meps-demand-israel-ensure-palestinian-journalists-freedom-movement">to respect
Palestinian journalists' freedom of movement</a>.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Homeowner_generated_solar_energy)
title: Homeowner generated solar energy
uri: Homeowner-generated-solar-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Homeowner_generated_solar_energy)
content:
 
<p>

A US appeals court ruled that when electric utilities cut what they
pay homeowners for their solar energy, this can constitute <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/31/ruling-rooftop-solar-called-game-changer-clean-energy">unfair
competition</a>.
<p>
That decision can be very important for reducing the US carbon footprint
if it isn't reversed by right-wing judges.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Rare_tree_species)
title: Rare tree species
uri: Rare-tree-species
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Rare_tree_species)
content:
 
<p>

Statistical techniques suggest that there are probably 9.000 species
of trees that are unknown to science, and around <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/31/global-count-estimates-earth-has-73000-tree-species-bletchley-park-good-turing-frequency-estimation">3,000 of them are
rare</a>.
<p>
Some of them may never have been recognized by any human being.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Urgent:_Block_bank_mergers)
title: Urgent: Block bank mergers
uri: Urgent-Block-bank-mergers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Urgent:_Block_bank_mergers)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the US government to block bank mergers that lead
to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-federal-regulators-stop-bank-mergers-until-guidelines-are-strengthened-to-protect-consumers-and-communities">insufficient local competition</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Take action against bait-and-switch salaries in job advertisements
uri: Urgent-Take-action-against-bait-and-switch-salaries-in-job-advertisem
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Urgent:_Take_action_against_bait-and-switch_salaries_in_job_advertisements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Urgent:_Take_action_against_bait-and-switch_salaries_in_job_advertisements)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Federal Trade Commission to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-federal-regulators-stop-bank-mergers-until-guidelines-are-strengthened-to-protect-consumers-and-communities">take action against bait-and-switch salaries</a> in job advertisements.

 


title: Urgent: Coalition to protect workers' rights
uri: Urgent-Coalition-to-protect-workers-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Urgent:_Coalition_to_protect_workers'_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Urgent:_Coalition_to_protect_workers'_rights)

content:
 
<p>

In Massachusetts, support the <a href="https://noprop22ma.com/">Coalition to Protect Workers’ Rights</a>,
which is campaigning against Lyft's ballot initiative whose
purpose is to permit Lyft (and Uber, and other companies) to
deny their gig workers the rights of employees.

 


title: Unvaccinated medical workers interacting with patients
uri: Unvaccinated-medical-workers-interacting-with-patients
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Unvaccinated_medical_workers_interacting_with_patients)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Unvaccinated_medical_workers_interacting_with_patients)

content:
 
<p>

A few percent of antivaxxers have pressured the UK into allowing unvaccinated
medical workers to stay on the job and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/31/ministers-plan-to-scrap-vaccine-mandate-for-nhs-staff-in-england">interact with patients</a>.
<p>
This is dangerous for the patients, as well as for their coworkers.
The system could compensate for this weakness by testing all the workers
frequently &mdash; perhaps every other day.

 


title: Donating half of existing vaccine production to poor countries
uri: Donating-half-of-existing-vaccine-production-to-poor-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Donating_half_of_existing_vaccine_production_to_poor_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Donating_half_of_existing_vaccine_production_to_poor_countries)

content:
 
<p>

Modelling suggests that donating half of existing vaccine production
to poor countries would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/01/world-better-protected-against-covid-if-rich-nations-donated-50-of-vaccines-to-low-income-countries">protect the world (as a whole) faster</a> from Covid-19,
as it would reduce the development of new variants,
some of which will surely be dangerous.
<p>
The question does not need to be asked if we <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#26_September_2021_(Vaccine_apartheid)">eliminate the artificial obstacles</a>
to producing vaccines much faster.
Or, for example, if the new American <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jul-oct.html#6_August_2020_(Researchers_have_released_a_free(libre)_recipe_for_a_possible_Covid-19_vaccine)">libre vaccine</a>
or the <a href="vacc">Cuban vaccine</a>
does the job.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Trials_given_a_wrong_result)
title: Trials given a wrong result
uri: Trials-given-a-wrong-result
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Trials_given_a_wrong_result)
content:
 
<p>

2800 American convicts have been exonerated in the past 30 years,
after trials that gave a mistaken wrong result.  Worse, it many cases
it was not an innocent mistake &mdash; these trials were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/31/david-rudolf-american-injustice-interview">deliberately
undermined</a>.
<p>
All of these wrong convictions could have been avoided if the
prosecutors and judges had respected the rights of the suspects.
<p>
The convictions that have been overturned were surely just a fraction
of the total.
<p>
How significant is it, whether those that undermined a trial did so
because they wanted to frame someone, or because they had jumped to
the conclusion that the suspect was guilty?
<p>
Morally, it makes a difference, because the framer has crossed an
additional moral line.  However, when there is a tendency to jump to
the conclusion that people of a certain group are guilty &mdash; as there
is with blacks &mdash; the result is systemic injustice even if none of the
<a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> involved believes perself to be framing someone innocent.

 


title: Tennessee thug using excessive force
uri: Tennessee-thug-using-excessive-force
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Tennessee_thug_using_excessive_force)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Tennessee_thug_using_excessive_force)

content:
 
<p>

A Tennessee thug has been found guilty of <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtn/pr/former-tennessee-law-enforcement-officer-convicted-federal-civil-rights-offenses">using excessive force against
people</a> as he was arresting them.
<p>
There is no implication that it was wrong to arrest them; that is not
the issue at hand.

 


title: Israeli cops use Pegasus to track enemies
uri: Israeli-cops-use-Pegasus-to-track-enemies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Israeli_cops_use_Pegasus_to_track_enemies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Israeli_cops_use_Pegasus_to_track_enemies)

content:
 
<p>

Israeli cops allegedly use Pegasus spyware to <a href="https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/report-claims-israeli-police-used-pegasus-spyware-against-citizens-tracked-netanyahu-opponents-former-government-employees/">track Netanyahu's personal
enemies</a>, as well as others.

 


title: The wreckers is threatening prosecutors investigating him
uri: The-wreckers-is-threatening-prosecutors-investigating-him
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(The_wreckers_is_threatening_prosecutors_investigating_him)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(The_wreckers_is_threatening_prosecutors_investigating_him)

content:
 
<p>

The wrecker is threatening to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/donald-trump-capitol-riot-pardons-2024-republicans/index.html">launch his followers against the
prosecutors investigating him</a>.
He did not explicitly tell them to do it with violence, but they won't
be slow to think of that.
<p>
A couple of those prosecutors happen to be
black, and the <a href="/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> took that as an opportunity to spread bigotry.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/31/critics-say-trump-threat-unleash-supporters-us-cities-should-ring-alarm-bells">More information</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Soft_on_those_refusing_to_testify)
title: Soft on those refusing to testify
uri: Soft-on-those-refusing-to-testify
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(Soft_on_those_refusing_to_testify)
content:
 
<p>

The House investigation of the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/opinions/house-january-6-select-committee-actions-honig/index.html">strangely
soft on most of the people who have refused to testify</a>.

 


title: Paying wild crows to collect cigarette butts
uri: Paying-wild-crows-to-collect-cigarette-butts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Paying_wild_crows_to_collect_cigarette_butts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Paying_wild_crows_to_collect_cigarette_butts)

content:
 
<p>
A city in Sweden is paying wild crows to collect cigarette butts off
the street and hand them in.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/01/swedish-crows-pick-up-cigarette-butts-litter">They get paid in food</a>.

<p>
The article mentions New Caledonian crows, which are native to New Caledonia,
not Sweden.  Has this project released New Caledonian crows into the wild
in Sweden?  That kind of action can do ecological harm.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Defense_of_filibuster)
title: Defense of filibuster
uri: 2022-02-02-Defense-of-filibuster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Defense_of_filibuster)
content:
 
<p>
Sinema marketed her defense of the filibuster <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/01/kyrsten-sinema-courted-republican-fossil-fuel-donors-filibuster-stance">directly to rich
Republicans</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Silent_strike)
title: Silent strike
uri: Silent-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Silent_strike)
content:
 
<p>
The "silent strike" to protest the coup in Burma <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/01/silent-strike-empties-streets-in-myanmar-on-anniversary-of-coup">showed almost complete
participation</a>
  despite threats by the military to punish participants.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Schemes_to_seize_voting_machines)
title: Schemes to seize voting machines
uri: Schemes-to-seize-voting-machines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Schemes_to_seize_voting_machines)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> explored, in 2020, several schemes to seize voting
machines <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/01/trump-giuliani-voting-machines-election-report">with a view to denying the actual votes</a>.
  He had Giuliani ask on his behalf.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Drug_prices_hike)
title: Drug prices hike
uri: Drug-prices-hike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Drug_prices_hike)
content:
 
<p>
*While Lobbying to Kill Build Back Better, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/31/while-lobbying-kill-build-back-better-pharma-hikes-costs-866-drugs">Pharma Hikes Costs of 866 Drugs</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Peace-ravaged_country)
title: Peace-ravaged country
uri: Peace-ravaged-country
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Peace-ravaged_country)
content:
 
<p>
(<a href="https://www.theonion.com/u-s-sends-military-advisors-to-peace-ravaged-country-1848355643">satire</a>) *U.S. Sends Military Advisors To Peace-Ravaged Country.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Digital_avatar_of_glacier)
title: Digital avatar of glacier
uri: Digital-avatar-of-glacier
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Digital_avatar_of_glacier)
content:
 
<p>
(<a href="https://www.theonion.com/crypto-executives-assuage-environmental-concerns-by-unv-1848353130">satire</a>) *Crypto[-Currency] Executives Assuage Environmental Concerns By
Unveiling Digital Avatar Of Glacier.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Methane_leaks)
title: Methane leaks
uri: 2022-02-02-Methane-leaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Methane_leaks)
content:
 
<p>
*Biden administration to offer $1.2 billion <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/biden-administration-methane-leaks-action-climate/index.html">for states to clean up
planet-warming methane leaks</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Long_prison_terms_for_protesters)
title: Long prison terms for protesters
uri: Long-prison-terms-for-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Long_prison_terms_for_protesters)
content:
 
<p>
Cuba is sentencing last summer's protesters to long prison terms,
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/americas/cuba-protesters-mass-trials-intl-latam/index.html">in some cases after beating them up</a>.

<p>
I have to note that US <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> sometimes engage in similar violence against 
protesters,
            and protesters can face long prison sentences for charges
that are disproportionate to any harm they did, if they did any harm.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Seeking_to_unionize)
title: Seeking to unionize
uri: Seeking-to-unionize
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#2_February_2022_(Seeking_to_unionize)
content:
 
<p>
50 Starbucks stores' employees <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/31/our-movement-only-growing-workers-over-50-starbucks-seeking-unions">are now seeking to unionize</a>.

<p>
There are thousands of Starbucks stores in the US.  If each store has
to unionize separately, that will be a lot of trouble.  Furthermore,
if each store's workers need to negotiate separately, they won't have
the strength of their numbers.  I hope they can form a single body.


 


title: The wrecker is threatening prosecutors investigating him
uri: The-wrecker-is-threatening-prosecutors-investigating-him
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(The_wrecker_is_threatening_prosecutors_investigating_him)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#1_February_2022_(The_wrecker_is_threatening_prosecutors_investigating_him)

content:
 
<p>

The wrecker is threatening to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/donald-trump-capitol-riot-pardons-2024-republicans/index.html">launch his followers against the
prosecutors investigating him</a>.
He did not explicitly tell them to do it with violence, but they won't
be slow to think of that.
<p>
A couple of those prosecutors happen to be
black, and the <a href="/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> took that as an opportunity to spread bigotry.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/31/critics-say-trump-threat-unleash-supporters-us-cities-should-ring-alarm-bells">More information</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Next rally for Julian Assange
uri: Urgent-Next-rally-for-Julian-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Urgent:_Next_rally_for_Julian_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Urgent:_Next_rally_for_Julian_Assange)

content:
 
<p>
The next Boston rally for Julian Assange will be on the Boston Common
near Park St Station, at 1pm on Feb 7.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Green_investments)
title: Green investments
uri: Green-investments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Green_investments)
content:
 
<p>
*EU includes gas and nuclear <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/02/eu-guidebook-taxonomy-green-investments-gas-nuclear-included">in guidebook for "green" investments</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Unusual_rains)
title: Unusual rains
uri: Unusual-rains
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Unusual_rains)
content:
 
<p>
Unusual rains have flooded all the railroads and truck roads from
eastern Australia to western Australia, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/02/flooding-cuts-off-railway-supply-routes-to-northern-australia">and they are likely to be out
for weeks</a>.

<p>
I wonder what role <a href="/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> played in causing these rains.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Thugs_bantering_with_violent_hate)
title: Thugs bantering with violent hate
uri: Thugs-bantering-with-violent-hate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Thugs_bantering_with_violent_hate)
content:
 
<p>
A group of 19 London <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> was found to be "bantering" with violent
hate: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/01/met-officers-joked-raping-women-police-watchdog-racist">racist, misogynist, and antisemitic</a>.

<p>
Sometimes they threatened other cops (that expressed disapproval of
this hate) with violence if they exposed the practice.

<p>
If it were only 19 <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> in all London that indulged in hate, it
would be a small problem -- but there are surely many more.


 


title: Urgent: No office for insurrectionists
uri: Urgent-No-office-for-insurrectionists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Urgent:_No_office_for_insurrectionists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Urgent:_No_office_for_insurrectionists)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-if-you-agree-january-6-insurrectionists-must-be-banned-from-running-for-office?nowrapper=true">affirm</a> that the January 6 insurrectionists must be banned
from running for office.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Warrantless_search_power)
title: Warrantless search power
uri: Warrantless-search-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Warrantless_search_power)
content:
 
<p>
The NSA has been using its warrantless search power while disregarding
the rules <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/nsa-watchdog-concerns-searches-american-communications/index.html">that are meant to protect Americans from being snooped on</a>.


 


title: Withdrawal of single-payer medicine bill
uri: Withdrawal-of-single-payer-medicine-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Withdrawal_of_single-payer_medicine_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Withdrawal_of_single-payer_medicine_bill)

content:
 
<p>
The author of California's single-payer medicine bill withdrew it,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/31/progressives-vow-fight-hell-california-single-payer-bill-withdrawn">just before it was scheduled for a vote</a>.

<p>
He said this was because the bill would have been defeated -- but the
point is to make its opponents go on record against it, and be held
accountable.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Anonymized_data)
title: Anonymized data
uri: Anonymized-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Anonymized_data)
content:
 
<p>
The Crisis Text Line gives "anonymized" data about callers, and what
they said, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/28/suicide-hotline-silicon-valley-privacy-debates-00002617">to an AI company to analyze</a>.

<p>
What can be learned about individuals from this "anonymized" data?
We must not assume it is zero, or that none of them can be
identified from it.  If they want this to be trusted, they
had better let investigators make simulated help calls, see what
data they record from it, and try to deanonymize it.  And then they
should make a commitment never to include more data than that in the future.

<p>
The issue of bogus consent is always significant:
"you agreed to the fine print" is not a valid excuse.
We should establish by law strict rules for what any
such organization can do with personal data, strict enough
that you can take for granted any approved organization
won't abuse your personal data.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Vaccination_rate)
title: Vaccination rate
uri: Vaccination-rate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Vaccination_rate)
content:
 
<p>
If the US had had the vaccination rate of some European countries
(around 80%), it would have had <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/31/us-wouldve-halved-winter-covid-hospitalizations-if-it-matched-europes-vax-rate">half as many Covid hospitalizations
this winter</a>.

<p>
I expect that would mean half as many deaths; that would be around 30,000
Americans who would not have died.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Conviction_of_murderous_officers)
title: Conviction of murderous officers
uri: Conviction-of-murderous-officers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Conviction_of_murderous_officers)
content:
 
<p>
Guatemala has convicted some of the murderous officers and
paramilitaries who carried out mass murder, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/31/guatemalas-long-quest-justice">but right-wing
politicians with old military ties want to release them all</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Failure_to_tackle_dirty_money)
title: Failure to tackle dirty money
uri: Failure-to-tackle-dirty-money
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Failure_to_tackle_dirty_money)
content:
 
<p>
*Britain's failure to tackle Russian dirty money <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/01/ukraine-russia-vladimir-putin-boris-johnson-dirty-money">has enabled Putin’s
aggression</a>.*

<p>
British <a href="/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a> serve Russian oligarchs because it is very
profitable to do so.

<p>
To cease that service is something that the UK needs to do for its own
future honesty, even more than as a sanction against Putin.  But
honesty is not the Tories' priority.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(2_years_jailed_awaiting_trial)
title: 2 years jailed awaiting trial
uri: 2-years-jailed-awaiting-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(2_years_jailed_awaiting_trial)
content:
 
<p>
Two Chinese dissidents have been jailed for two years awaiting "trial"
for planning dissent, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/01/this-is-not-justice-chinese-activists-held-for-two-years-await-trial">which will surely be followed by long "sentences"</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Imprisonment_of_refugees)
title: Imprisonment of refugees
uri: Imprisonment-of-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Imprisonment_of_refugees)
content:
 
<p>
In 1940, Britain imprisoned all German and Austrian refugees,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/01/when-britain-imprisoned-refugees-second-world-war-internment-camps">even the dissidents that Hitler had imprisoned</a>.

<p>
Most were released later that year; it wasn't as bad as what the US
did to the Japanese-Americans.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Decarbonization)
title: Decarbonization
uri: 2022-02-03-Decarbonization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Decarbonization)
content:
 
<p>
Decarbonization has become <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/01/labor-pledges-extra-funding-for-snowy-hydro-power-plant-to-make-it-run-on-green-hydrogen">an important election issue in Australia</a>.

<p>
Generating hydrogen from renewably generated electricity, then burning
it for electricity later, is a form of energy storage.  Australia
needs more energy storage capacity; the question is whether this
method is cheaper than alternatives, such as charging batteries and
pumping water uphill.


 


title: Photographing protests, then funerals
uri: Photographing-protests-then-funerals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Photographing_protests,_then_funerals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Photographing_protests,_then_funerals)

content:
 
<p>
*I photographed Myanmar’s protesters one day –- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/01/photojournalist-myanmar-military-attacks-protesters-mandalay-funerals">and their funerals the next</a>.*




 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Beek_fertility_doctor)
title: Netherlands fertility doctor father to 21 children
uri: Netherlands-fertility-doctor-father-to-21-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Beek_fertility_doctor)
content:
 
<p>
Jos Beek was an artificial insemination doctor.  He told women he
would give them sperm from anonymous donors.  Anonymous to them,
that is.
<p>
Years later it was discovered that the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/02/netherlands-fertility-doctor-jos-beek-father-21-children">sperm was donated by Jos Beek.</a>
<p>
People seem to be vexed with this, but I don't understand their complaint.
Didn't he do exactly what he said he would do?
<p>
If you agreed to have a child with sperm from someone unknown, who
could be anyone, why would it be objectionable to find later that it
was one particular man?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Norway_new_pronoun)
title: New gender-neutral pronoun likely to enter Norwegian dictionaries
uri: New-gender-neutral-pronoun-likely-to-enter-Norwegian-dictionaries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Norway_new_pronoun)
content:
 
<p>
Norway plans to adopt a new 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/02/new-gender-neutral-pronoun-norwegian-dictionaries-hen-official-language">gender-neutral singular third-person
pronoun, "hen".</a>
<p>
Bravo, Norway.  This would address the need for a good way to refer to
a person of unspecified gender without causing the damage of making it
hard to tell singular from plural.
<p>
I suggest that Norwegians state their appreciation of this plan.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Bank_of_America_ppp)
title: Bank of America refusing to forgive some PPP loans
uri: Bank-of-America-refusing-to-forgive-some-PPP-loans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Bank_of_America_ppp)
content:
 
<p>
Bank of America is arbitrarily refusing to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/02/bank-of-america-ppp-loans-small-businesses/">forgive part of some small
business PPP loans.</a>
<p>
The bank refuses to accept the application for loan forgiveness unless
the business enters the lower figure that Bank of America says it is
willing to forgive.  Businesses can't appeal the refusal unless they
enter the application with the smaller amount.  But the owners
are afraid that entering that smaller amount would be presented
as accepting the bank's refusal.
<p>
This kind of thing can happen because the US has a few very large
banks that are "too big to fail".  We should prohibit the operation of
any such bank until it splits itself up into many small pieces, each
small enough that we wouldn't hesitate to give it a sentence that
would wipe it out.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(levelling_up_agenda_exposed)
title: Levelling up funding inequality exposed
uri: Levelling-up-funding-inequality-exposed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(levelling_up_agenda_exposed)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories say they will spend funds on raising the economic level of
poor areas -- 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2022/feb/02/levelling-up-funding-inequality-exposed-by-guardian-research">but the specific plan gives more funds to some wealthy
areas.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Flowers_arriving_early_climate)
title: Flowers arriving earlier as climate heats up
uri: Flowers-arriving-earlier-as-climate-heats-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Flowers_arriving_early_climate)
content:
 
<p>
Plants in the UK now flower several weeks 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/02/flowers-arriving-month-early-uk-climate-heats-up-bloom-insects-birds">earlier than they did in 1986.</a>
<p>
This means that global heating is discombobulating ecosystems
in a way that could wipe out some species.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_((Satire)_FTC_Google_merger)
title: (satire) FTC Questions Merger
uri: (satire)-FTC-Questions-Merger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_((Satire)_FTC_Google_merger)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *FTC Questions 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/ftc-questions-merger-of-google-with-u-s-government-1848400850"> Merger Of Google With U.S. Government.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Scotland_save_wild_salmon)
title: Scotland plans to plant millions of trees to help salmon survive
uri: Scotland-plans-to-plant-millions-of-trees-to-help-salmon-survive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Scotland_save_wild_salmon)
content:
 
<p>
Scotland plans to plant millions of trees near rivers to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/02/scotland-save-wild-salmon-planting-millions-trees-rivers">cool them and help salmon survive in them.</a>
<p>
It can work for a while, but eventually global heating will overwhelm
the cooling that the trees are capable of.  Scotland must give priority
to the long term.

 


title: Urgent: Sale of oil leases in Gulf of Mexico
uri: Urgent-Sale-of-oil-leases-in-Gulf-of-Mexico
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Urgent:_Sale_of_oil_leases_in_Gulf_of_Mexico)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Urgent:_Sale_of_oil_leases_in_Gulf_of_Mexico)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: Call the Department of Interior at <a href="tel:(1)(866-834-8040)"> 866-834-8040</a> and urge
Secretary Haaland to accept the court's cancellation of the sale of
oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico.
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Confirm Biden's nominees to Federal Reserve Board
uri: Urgent-Confirm-Biden-s-nominees-to-Federal-Reserve-Board
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Urgent:_Confirm_Biden's_nominees_to_Federal_Reserve_Board)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Urgent:_Confirm_Biden's_nominees_to_Federal_Reserve_Board)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your senators and <a href="https://act.350.org/call/sen-confirm-fed-nominees">urge them to confirm Biden's
nominees</a> to the Federal Reserve Board.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Restore non-nuclear deal with Iran
uri: Urgent-Restore-non-nuclear-deal-with-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Urgent:_Restore_non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Urgent:_Restore_non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/congress_diplomacy_iran">support diplomacy to restore the
non-nuclear deal with Iran</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Culture_of_the_London_thugs)
title: Culture of the London thugs
uri: Culture-of-the-London-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Culture_of_the_London_thugs)
content:
 
<p>

Bigotry and hatred are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/01/revealing-the-rot-police-misogyny-runs-deeper-still">part of the culture</a> of the London thugs:
the leadership doesn't support police officers that try to stop it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Covid_vaccine_hesitancy)
title: Covid vaccine hesitancy
uri: Covid-vaccine-hesitancy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Covid_vaccine_hesitancy)
content:
 
<p>

*Covid vaccine hesitancy could be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/01/covid-vaccine-hesitancy-could-be-linked-childhood-trauma-research">linked to childhood trauma</a>, research finds.*
<p>
Our society produces trauma for lots of children.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Oilfield_in_the_North_Sea)
title: Oilfield in the North Sea
uri: Oilfield-in-the-North-Sea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Oilfield_in_the_North_Sea)
content:
 
<p>

The UK approved a new <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/01/north-sea-abigail-oil-field-plan-approved-despite-climate-goals">oilfield in the North Sea</a>, claiming that this does not
conflict with its greenhouse gas targets.
<p>
I don't know if it is possible to prove that they conflict.  Perhaps if the UK
never does anything like this again, and pushes hard to reduce emissions
in all other ways, it can still achieve those targets, plus the additional
reductions necessary because those <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#7_November_2021_(Extinction_rebellion_cop26)">targets are inadequate</a>.
<p>
But anyone who wishes to achieve a target needs to set out as <a href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a>
intends to go on.  "Just one more dose and <em>then</em> I'll quit forever"
is an ill-auspicious way to start.

 


title: High temperatures devastating seas
uri: High-temperatures-devastating-seas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(High_temperatures_devastating_seas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(High_temperatures_devastating_seas)

content:
 
<p>

*   Formerly rare high temperatures now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/01/extreme-heat-oceans-passed-point-of-no-return-high-temperatures-wildlife-seas">covering half of seas</a> and
   devastating wildlife, study shows.*
<p>
*   Almost no corals on the planet will escape <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/01/all-coral-will-suffer-severe-bleaching-when-global-heating-hits-15c-study-finds">severe bleaching</a> once global
   heating reaches 1.5C, according to a new study of the world's reefs.*

 


title: Fossil fuel donations to Australian political parties
uri: Fossil-fuel-donations-to-Australian-political-parties
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Fossil_fuel_donations_to_Australian_political_parties)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Fossil_fuel_donations_to_Australian_political_parties)

content:
 
<p>

Australia's three major parties <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/02/more-money-than-ever-gas-companies-made-almost-1m-in-donations-to-labor-and-liberals">received large donations</a> from fossil fuel companies.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Leonard_Peltier_has_Covid-19)
title: Leonard Peltier has Covid-19
uri: Leonard-Peltier-has-Covid-19
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Leonard_Peltier_has_Covid-19)
content:
 
<p>

Leonard Peltier has caught Covid-19.  It is time to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/02/leonard-peltier-is-americas-longest-held-indigenous-prisoner-he-should-be-freed">free him from prison</a>. There was little reason to believe he was guilty in the first place.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_((Satire)_mi_controlled_demo)
title: (satire) *Mississippi Undergoes Controlled Demolition
uri: (satire)-Mississippi-Undergoes-Controlled-Demolition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_((Satire)_mi_controlled_demo)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Mississippi Undergoes Controlled Demolition To Make Way For 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/mississippi-undergoes-controlled-demolition-to-make-way-1848401889">New High-End Luxury U.S. Territory.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(end_policing_profit)
title: End policing for profit
uri: End-policing-for-profit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(end_policing_profit)
content:
 
<p>
Over and over we find US cities that squeeze their budgets out of poor
people by fining them over and over 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/opinions/end-policing-for-profit-alabama-nelson-jones/index.html">while threatening them with jail.</a>
<p>
It's easier to do this than to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/18/tax-global-mega-rich-could-help-lift-23-billion-out-poverty">make the rich pay fair taxes.</a>
<p>
Which is why we need to defeat their power.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(havana_syndrome_report)
title: Havana syndrome and concealable devices report
uri: Havana-syndrome-and-concealable-devices-report
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(havana_syndrome_report)
content:
 
<p>
Most people who think they have Havana Syndrome have various problems
and misattribute them, but the original victims may have been 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/02/havana-syndrome-concealable-devices-cia-report">injured
by "pulsed electromagnetic energy", or maybe ultrasound.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Tesla_stop_sign)
title: Tesla to recall all vehicles fsf feature
uri: Tesla-to-recall-all-vehicles-fsf-feature
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(Tesla_stop_sign)
content:
 
<p>
Tesla programmed its cars to go very slowly through a stop sign rather
than completely stop, in very 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/cars/tesla-fsd-stop-sign/index.html">limited circumstances, much as many
drivers do.</a>
<p>
This is regarded as "unsafe", but given the special conditions
required for the car to do it, I think that officials are exaggerating
that danger.
<p>
I know of two real reasons why the Tesla car is unsafe.
<p>
The "full self-driving" feature is unsafe because it's based on the
pretense that the driver will pay full attention to the driving all
the time, just as one does while actually driving.  Lots of drivers
will say they will do so, then not do it.
<p>
The computer systems are not safe for drivers because they contain
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">nonfree software, and that is always an injustice to the user.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(shielders_covid_fear)
title: Shielders who fear the end of Covid restrictions
uri: Shielders-who-fear-the-end-of-Covid-restrictions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#3_February_2022_(shielders_covid_fear)
content:
 
<p>
People who don't dare risk getting Covid-19 describe what it is like
to be frightened to leave their homes, knowing that in stores and
transport 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/02/i-dont-want-to-die-the-shielders-who-fear-the-end-of-covid-restrictions">many refuse to protect them by wearing masks.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#4_February_2022_(Leader_of_PISSI)
title: Leader of PISSI
uri: Leader-of-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#4_February_2022_(Leader_of_PISSI)
content:
 
<p>
The US raided the house of the leader of PISSI, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/03/biden-us-isis-leader-raid-qurayshi">who killed himself to
avoid capture</a>.

<p>
He used a large bomb that destroyed the upper floor of the house, and
killed his own family.

<p>
Killing the leader will not cripple the organization.
Guerrilla movements <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#29_August_2011_(Another_al_Qa">can always find new leaders</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#4_February_2022_(Fear_of_the_unmasked)
title: Fear of the unmasked
uri: Fear-of-the-unmasked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#4_February_2022_(Fear_of_the_unmasked)
content:
 
<p>
People who don't dare risk getting Covid-19 describe what it is like
to be frightened to leave their homes, knowing that in stores and
transport <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/02/i-dont-want-to-die-the-shielders-who-fear-the-end-of-covid-restrictions">many refuse to protect them by wearing masks</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#4_February_2022_(Havana_Syndrome)
title: Havana Syndrome
uri: Havana-Syndrome
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#4_February_2022_(Havana_Syndrome)
content:
 
<p>
Most people who think they have Havana Syndrome have various problems
and misattribute them, but the original victims may have been injured
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/02/havana-syndrome-concealable-devices-cia-report">by "pulsed electromagnetic energy", or maybe ultrasound</a>.

<p>
It should be possible to build detectors for the various frequency bands
that are suspected.  I wonder if they have done so.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#4_February_2022_(Going_very_slowly_through_a_stop)
title: Going very slowly through a stop
uri: Going-very-slowly-through-a-stop
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#4_February_2022_(Going_very_slowly_through_a_stop)
content:
 
<p>
Tesla programmed its cars to go very slowly through a stop sign rather
than completely stop, in very limited circumstances, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/cars/tesla-fsd-stop-sign/index.html">much as many
drivers do</a>.
  This is regarded as "unsafe", but given the special conditions
required for the car to do it, I think that officials are exaggerating
that danger.

<p>
I know of two real reasons why the Tesla car is unsafe.

<p>
The "full self-driving" feature is unsafe because it's based on the
pretense that the driver will pay full attention to the driving all
the time, just as one does while actually driving.  Lots of drivers
will say they will do so, then not do it.

<p>
The computer systems are not safe for drivers because they contain
nonfree software, <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">and that is always an injustice to the user</a>.


 


title: Squeezing budgets out of poor people
uri: Squeezing-budgets-out-of-poor-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#4_February_2022_(Squeezing_budgets_out_of_poor_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#4_February_2022_(Squeezing_budgets_out_of_poor_people)

content:
 
<p>
Over and over we find US cities that squeeze their budgets out of poor
people <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/opinions/end-policing-for-profit-alabama-nelson-jones/index.html">by fining them over and over while threatening them with jail</a>.

<p>
It's easier to do this than <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#21_January_2022_(Tax_us)">to make the rich pay fair taxes</a>.
  Which is why we need to defeat their power.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(School_teachers_burned_out)
title: School teachers burned out
uri: School-teachers-burned-out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(School_teachers_burned_out)
content:
 
<p>

US school teachers are increasingly <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/01/five-alarm-crisis-teachers-union-warns-pandemic-burnout-destroying-schools">burned out and stressed</a>, and
half plan to retire sooner than before.
<p>
Part of this comes from the shortage of teachers.  To fix it requires
paying teachers higher salaries <em>and</em> hiring more teachers.
<p>
I worry that the plutocrats will hand most US children over to robot teachers
that will snoop on them for Big Tech.  They won't learn a lot that way,
but <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratists</a> may prefer if most Americans don't learn much.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Apartheid_on_Palestinians)
title: Apartheid on Palestinians
uri: Apartheid-on-Palestinians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Apartheid_on_Palestinians)
content:
 
<p>

Amnesty International has presented the specific reasons for its conclusion
that Israel imposes a system of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/01/new-amnesty-report-outlines-true-extent-israeli-apartheid-regime">apartheid on Palestinians</a>.
<p>
A US court ruled that making a government contractor commit not to
boycott Israeli companies would <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/01/anti-bds-law-texas-violates-free-speech-rights-federal-judge-rules">violate its freedom of speech</a>.

 


title: Cheapest way to reduce greenhouse emissions
uri: Cheapest-way-to-reduce-greenhouse-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Cheapest_way_to_reduce_greenhouse_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Cheapest_way_to_reduce_greenhouse_emissions)

content:
 
<p>

The cheapest way to reduce greenhouse emissions over the next few
decades is to cancel expensive highway construction projects that will
increase car travel.  Adah Crandall is <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gmex/what-can-one-teenager-do-about-climate-change-adah-crandall-will-find-out">campaigning to stop one near
her school</a> &mdash; not in the name of "Not in my backyard", but in the name
of "Not in my planet."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Obstacles_Xiomara_Castro_faces)
title: Obstacles Xiomara Castro faces
uri: Obstacles-Xiomara-Castro-faces
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Obstacles_Xiomara_Castro_faces)
content:
 
<p>

Xiomara Castro faces <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/honduras-president-xiomara-castro-inauguration-left-challenges">huge obstacles to her program for Honduras</a>, some
of them from the US.

 


title: Biden to nominate black woman as Supreme Court justice
uri: Biden-to-nominate-black-woman-as-Supreme-Court-justice
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Biden_to_nominate_black_woman_as_Supreme_Court_justice)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Biden_to_nominate_black_woman_as_Supreme_Court_justice)

content:
 
<p>

Biden says he will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/01/biden-urged-nominate-scotus-justice-side-working-people">nominate a black woman as Supreme Court justice</a>.
<a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">Plutocratist</a> Democrat Rep. Clyburn has proposed a plutocratist
Democrat judge, who happens to be a black woman.
<p>
The last time a president promised to appoint a black justice to the
US Supreme Court, we got rigidly right-wing Clarence Thomas.  When a
president promised to appoint a woman, we got extreme right-wing Amy
Barrett.  Let's reject these distractions of judging race and sex, and
focus on what matters: is the nominee progressive or <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a>?

 


title: Jesse Jackson on defending voting rights
uri: Jesse-Jackson-on-defending-voting-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Jesse_Jackson_on_defending_voting_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Jesse_Jackson_on_defending_voting_rights)

content:
 
<p>

Jesse Jackson: *Time for the DOJ to Get Much <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/02/time-doj-get-much-more-aggressive-voting-rights">More Aggressive on
[defending] Voting Rights</a>.*

 


title: Brown University planned new institute
uri: Brown-University-planned-new-institute
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Brown_University_planned_new_institute)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Brown_University_planned_new_institute)

content:
 
<p>

Brown University faculty <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/02/brown-university-faculty-reject-push-koch-funded-scholarship">voted not to approve</a> a planned new institute,
which could be a path for Koch's right-wing funding to influence the
university.

 


title: Oil drilling in protected indigenous territory
uri: Oil-drilling-in-protected-indigenous-territory
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Oil_drilling_in_protected_indigenous_territory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Oil_drilling_in_protected_indigenous_territory)

content:
 
<p>

Ecuador's constitutional court <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/02/major-victory-indigenous-peoples-ecuadorian-court-rejects-drilling-protected-area">rejected President Moreno's effort</a> to
permit oil drilling in a protected indigenous territory.
<p>
This is a victory for civilization, whose survival depends on keeping
that oil in the ground, as well as for the inhabitants of that region,
who might be poisoned by local pollution.
<p>
President Lenín Moreno is the one who <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#18_December_2018_(Leaving_the_Ecuadorian_embassy)">forced Julian Assange into
British captivity</a>.
Among his first acts after being elected was
to make a surprise military deal with the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Means_test_on_Child_tax_credit)
title: "Means test" on Child tax credit
uri: Means-test-on-Child-tax-credit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Means_test_on_Child_tax_credit)
content:
 
<p>

Putting a "means test" on the Child Tax Credit is a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/03/means-testing-will-ruin-expanded-child-tax-credit">tool to ruin it</a> &mdash;
an excuse to exclude some poor people or make it inadequate.

 


title: Money stolen from the working class
uri: Money-stolen-from-the-working-class
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Money_stolen_from_the_working_class)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Money_stolen_from_the_working_class)

content:
 
<p>

*In a Single Year, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/03/single-year-178-trillion-was-stolen-working-class">$1.78 Trillion Was Stolen</a> From the Working Class*,
and that's only in the US.

 


title: J K Rowling cancelled by right and left
uri: J-K-Rowling-cancelled-by-right-and-left
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(J_K_Rowling_cancelled_by_right_and_left)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(J_K_Rowling_cancelled_by_right_and_left)

content:
 
<p>

J K Rowling has now been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/book-burning-harry-potter-twilight-us-pastor-tennessee">cancelled from the right</a> and from the left.
<p>
That makes three cancellations so far, the first being my boycott of
Harry Potter.  After she sued her own readers, and ordered them not to
read the books they had bought, I said it's ok to read her books but you
<a href="/harry-potter.html">should not buy them</a>.

 


title: Stopping viruses jumping to humans
uri: Stopping-viruses-jumping-to-humans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Stopping_viruses_jumping_to_humans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Stopping_viruses_jumping_to_humans)

content:
 
<p>

*Protecting wildlife to stop viruses jumping to humans would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/04/failure-to-prevent-pandemics-at-source-is-greatest-folly-say-scientists">save far
more than it costs</a>, analysis shows.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(extreme_weather_plans)
title: Immediate cost of today's climate mayhem
uri: Immediate-cost-of-today-s-climate-mayhem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(extreme_weather_plans)
content:
 
<p>
The immediate cost of today's climate mayhem in Washington State has
created a move to take funds away from 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/pacific-north-west-extreme-weather-plans">preventing it from getting
worse.</a>
<p>
That's a death spiral!


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Global_heating)
title: Humans are changing fire
uri: Humans-are-changing-fire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Global_heating)
content:
 
<p>
Global heating is not the only way humans are changing fire.  Fire
suppression and deforestation are equally important.  Less of the
Earth is burning now than in the past, but the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/a-deranged-pyroscape-how-fires-across-the-world-have-grown-weirder">fires destroy forests
now, and their smoke poisons millions.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(cnn_toobin)
title: Media trust plummeting
uri: Media-trust-plummeting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(cnn_toobin)
content:
 
<p>
The head of CNN ostensibly resigned because his vice president was
discovered to be his lover, but arguably that was just an excuse, to
avoid talking about the things that were really damaging, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/03/why-is-trust-in-media-plummeting-just-look-at-whats-happening-at-cnn">as well as
decreasing viewer numbers.</a>
<p>
The article attacks Jeffrey Toobin with 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/articles/toobin.html">weasel words</a>
<p>
that will be taken to mean A but, when challenged, will be defended as
meaning B.  I have no opinion of Toobin's journalism since I have not
read or seen it, but this is the wrong way to criticize anyone.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(snowden_nsa)
title: Snowden slams NSA's impunity
uri: Snowden-slams-NSA-s-impunity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(snowden_nsa)
content:
 
<p>
Snowden reminds us that the NSA suffers no penalty after being found
to have failed to follow precautions that were designed to reduce how
often it looks in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/01/snowden-slams-ongoing-impunity-nsas-domestic-spying">its surveillance data and finds information about
Americans.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(pandemic_profiteering)
title: Companies making high profits
uri: Companies-making-high-profits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(pandemic_profiteering)
content:
 
<p>
US food companies and fossil fuel companies have raised prices while
making high profits -- they didn't need to, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/01/data-highlights-egregious-pandemic-profiteering-us-food-and-oil-giants">but they could get away
with it.</a>
<p>
Starbucks is a clear example: profits up 31%,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/02/starbucks-profits-soar-31-its-raising-prices-anyway">but it plans to raise prices.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Amazon_union)
title: Amazon treats workers poorly
uri: Amazon-treats-workers-poorly
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Amazon_union)
content:
 
<p>
Amazon treats warehouse workers so badly 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/04/amazon-chews-through-the-average-worker-in-eight-months-they-need-a-union">that on the average they
leave after 8 months.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Iceland_whaling)
title: Iceland to end whaling in 2024
uri: Iceland-to-end-whaling-in-2024
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(Iceland_whaling)
content:
 
<p>
Iceland will end 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/04/iceland-to-end-whaling-in-2024-demand-dwindles">its whaling in 2024.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(eu_pesticides)
title: EU to reduce use of synthetic pesticides
uri: EU-to-reduce-use-of-synthetic-pesticides
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(eu_pesticides)
content:
 
<p>
The EU plans to reduce use of synthetic pesticides by 50%.
One of the means under consideration is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/04/eu-plans-to-ban-use-of-synthetic-pesticides-in-parks">to ban using them in parks.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(trump_voting_machines)
title: Trump reviewed draft order
uri: Trump-reviewed-draft-order
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(trump_voting_machines)
content:
 
<p>
*Revealed: [the wrecker] reviewed draft order 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/trump-draft-order-voting-machines-white-house-meeting">that authorized voting
machines to be seized.</a>*
<p>
Indeed, he had long discussions about the details with his advisors.
But ultimately he was convinced that the plan had a problem.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(gaslight_playbook)
title: Evade, gaslight, attack
uri: Evade-gaslight-attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(gaslight_playbook)
content:
 
<p>
*Evade, gaslight, attack: this is the playbook of a corrupt company,
not a government.* The article 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/04/gaslight-playbook-corrupt-company-government-sociopath">compares Tory government with an
organization determined to shield a criminal.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(robotic_patrol_dog)
title: U.S. tests robotic patrol dogs
uri: U-S-tests-robotic-patrol-dogs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(robotic_patrol_dog)
content:
 
<p>
The U.S. border thugs plan to test patrols by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/us-tests-of-robotic-patrol-dogs-on-mexican-border-prompt-outcry">robots on the border
with Mexico.</a>
<p>
A robot patroller can be programmed to be gentle and nonviolent.
Or it can be programmed to kill or disappear anyone "unauthorized".
It could even be programmed to flip from one to the other on command
in an instant.
<p>
My conclusion is that there is good reason to be frightened of robot
patrollers, because you can't start to predict what it will do to you
20 seconds from now.




 


title: (satire) Primed to sign free agents
uri: (satire)-Primed-to-sign-free-agents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_((satire)_Primed_to_sign_free_agents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_((satire)_Primed_to_sign_free_agents)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Washington Commanders <a href="https://www.theonion.com/washington-commanders-primed-to-sign-free-agents-after-1848475958">Primed To Sign Free Agents</a> After
Receiving $30 Billion From Defense Budget.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Movement_in_South_Korea)
title: Movement in South Korea
uri: Movement-in-South-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Movement_in_South_Korea)
content:
 
<p>

A growing movement in South Korea is made up of young people who have
decided <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/05/happy-alone-the-young-south-koreans-embracing-single-life">not to marry or have children</a>.
<p>
What I don't understand is why they feel this obligatorily includes
not having dates or lovers, and habitually eating alone.

 


title: Rejected Republican gerrymandering attempt
uri: Rejected-Republican-gerrymandering-attempt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Rejected_Republican_gerrymandering_attempt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Rejected_Republican_gerrymandering_attempt)

content:
 
<p>

North Carolina's supreme court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/north-carolina-supreme-court-redistricting-maps">rejected the Republican gerrymandering
attempt</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(UK_bill_to_check_all_postings)
title: UK bill to check all postings
uri: UK-bill-to-check-all-postings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(UK_bill_to_check_all_postings)
content:
 
<p>

The UK is considering a bill that would require communications
platforms to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/04/sending-threatening-posts-among-offences-in-revised-online-safety-bill">check all postings to make sure they are not prohibited</a>
before letting anyone see them.
<p>
These prohibited kinds of messages are very nasty, and I think posting
them is a crime already.  However, checking for those messages would
require either an enormous staff or a very reliable AI.  There are
platforms which, if this law applies, would be closed.  Wikipedia is
one example.  Any free software project with an unmoderated
development discussion list is another.
<p>
Perhaps the law excludes them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Legitimate_political_discourse)
title: "Legitimate political discourse"
uri: Legitimate-political-discourse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Legitimate_political_discourse)
content:
 
<p>

The Republican National Committee declared that the violent attack on
the Capitol was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/republicans-capitol-attack-legitimate-political-discourse-cheney-kinzinger-pence">"legitimate political discourse"</a>.
<p>
Does this mean that attacking a meeting of the RNC in a similar way
would be "legitimate political discourse"?
<p>
Pence stated that the idea that he could have personally overturned
the US election <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/mike-pence-rebukes-donald-trump-election-claims-florida">was wrong</a>, and the idea he should have done so was
"un-American".
<p>
I agree he should have done this long ago.  However, I think we should
recognize this as "better late than never".  After decades of loyalty
to an organization, it is difficult and painful to recognize that it
has been perverted into the enemy of principles it used to stand for.
Most Republicans abandon those principles instead.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Amir_Locke)
title: Amir Locke
uri: Amir-Locke
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Amir_Locke)
content:
 
<p>
  Minneapolis <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> burst into a home in which a black man, Amir Locke,
  was sleeping with a pistol that he lawfully owned.  As he began to wake up,
  the thugs saw he had a gun and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/us/minneapolis-police-shooting-no-knock-warrant-amir-locke/index.html">shot him immediately to death</a>.
<p>
  I wonder if a white man in the same circumstances would have gone
  unscathed.  It is possible, because unconscious racism is very common.
  Maybe a white man would have been allowed to drop his gun.
<p>
  In effect, the decision to mount a no-knock raid is a decision to risk
  killing anyone on the premises, based on anxiety.
<p>
  Is it possible for the first two <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> that enter in such a raid to
  wear armor that will protect them from bullets, so that they don't
  need to rush the decision of whether to shoot someone?
<p>
  It isn't directly relevant, but I wonder why Locke was sleeping with a
  gun in someone else's house.  Was he afraid someone was trying to kill
  him?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(2020_Election)
title: 2020 Election
uri: 2020-Election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(2020_Election)
content:
 
<p>
  Repordedly, some of the corrupter's staff <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/02/03/trump-allies-reportedly-wanted-to-use-nsa-data-to-overturn-2020-election-memo-shows/">made a plan to get data from
  the NSA</a> and try to "prove" there was foreign interference in the vote counting
  of the 2020 election.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Urgent:_Supreme_Court_Justice)
title: Urgent: Supreme Court Justice
uri: Urgent-Supreme-Court-Justice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Urgent:_Supreme_Court_Justice)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Biden and Congress to choose a Supreme Court justice who
  will defend Democracy.
<p>
  The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.

 


title: Plants operating under obsolete safety standards
uri: Plants-operating-under-obsolete-safety-standards
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Plants_operating_under_obsolete_safety_standards)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Plants_operating_under_obsolete_safety_standards)

content:
 
<p>
  The US has allowed a dangerous fertilizer plant to keep operating for
  decades without even a fire alarm system.  Now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/north-carolina-fertilizer-plant-fire-explosion-evacuation">a fire started there and
  it is only luck that the plant did not explode</a>.
<p>
  How many other dangerous plants are allowed to keep operating under
  obsolete safety standards?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Murder_of_captives)
title: Murder of captives
uri: Murder-of-captives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Murder_of_captives)
content:
 
<p>
  Two Australian soldiers have testified they saw a particular
  ex-soldier <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/04/serving-australian-sas-soldier-tells-court-ben-roberts-smith-brs-ordered-shooting-of-unarmed-afghan-man">order the murder of captives</a>
  on two different occasions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Amir_Locke's_apartment)
title: Amir Locke's apartment
uri: Amir-Locke-s-apartment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Amir_Locke's_apartment)
content:
 
<p>
  What I read yesterday suggested that the apartment where Amir Locke
  was killed was not his own.  This article, which is newer, said <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/06/amir-locke-police-shooting-hundreds-protest-minneapolis">it was
  his home</a>.
<p>
  If that is the case, it is fishy that the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> didn't know whose                                                                                                                                    apartment it was.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Supreme_Court_Ethics_Act)
title: Urgent: Supreme Court Ethics Act
uri: 2022-02-07-Urgent-Supreme-Court-Ethics-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Supreme_Court_Ethics_Act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/supreme-court-ethics-act/">call on Congress</a> to Support the Supreme Court Ethics
Act.


 


title: Urgent: Stop campaign contributions from Big Oil
uri: Urgent-Stop-campaign-contributions-from-Big-Oil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_campaign_contributions_from_Big_Oil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_campaign_contributions_from_Big_Oil)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.350.org/signup/exxon-greenwashing-contribution-pledge/">call on congresscritters</a> to stop taking campaign contributions
from Big Oil.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_supporting_Spotify)
title: Urgent: Stop supporting Spotify
uri: Urgent-Stop-supporting-Spotify
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_supporting_Spotify)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/spotify_podcasts_advertisers/">call on advertisers</a> to stop supporting Spotify.

<p>
The companies that advertise in Spotify include Zoom, Tushy, Athletic
Greens, MasterClass, Reebok, McDonald's, Jose Cuervo, Coca-Cola, GAP,
Old Navy, Fiat, Taco Bell, LinkedIn, Two Men and a Truck, Condé Nast,
Yahoo, Chuze Fitness, and Pepsico.


 


title: Urgent: Protecting Our Democracy Act
uri: Urgent-Protecting-Our-Democracy-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Protecting_Our_Democracy_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Protecting_Our_Democracy_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-senate-dont-let-donald-trump-topple-our-democracy?nowrapper=true">call on the Senate</a> to pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act.

<p>
This would make it harder for Republicans (or anyone else) to monkey
with the mechanics of US elections.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(State_censorship)
title: State censorship
uri: State-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(State_censorship)
content:
 
<p>
The UK culture minister advocates state censorship on the grounds that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/05/nadine-dorries-proposes-law-to-rein-in-streamers-after-shocking-jimmy-carr-joke">it could be used to prohibit a joke, transmitted on Netflix, that
insulted Gypsies</a>.

<p>
Meanwhile, the same government is pushing a law <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#15_January_2022_(UK_general_repression_bill)">to jail British Gypsies
if they spend the night in an unapproved place</a>.

<p>
Censorship is an offense against human rights.  We must tolerate expression
of opinions and beliefs that we condemn, or we will make a repressive society
like what China has become.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Repeated_vaccine_booster_shots)
title: Repeated vaccine booster shots
uri: Repeated-vaccine-booster-shots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Repeated_vaccine_booster_shots)
content:
 
<p>
EU medical authorities suspect that frequent repeated Covid-19 vaccine
booster shots <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/repeat-booster-shots-risk-overloading-immune-system-ema-says">might overstrain the immune system and cause other
immune problems</a>.

<p>
We simply don't know.  Scientists will observe what happens, when there is
time for it to happen.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Acknowledging_apartheid)
title: Acknowledging apartheid
uri: Acknowledging-apartheid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Acknowledging_apartheid)
content:
 
<p>
Many former Israeli ministers, and nonpolitical leaders, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/05/amnesty-israel-apartheid-israeli-politicians-agree">acknowledged
that Israel already was, or was becoming, an apartheid state</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Replication_of_Moderna_vaccine)
title: Replication of Moderna vaccine
uri: Replication-of-Moderna-vaccine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Replication_of_Moderna_vaccine)
content:
 
<p>
*South African Scientists <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/04/major-breakthrough-south-african-scientists-replicate-moderna-vaccine">Replicate Moderna Vaccine</a>.*

<p>
Now the question is, will Moderna sue them if they manufacture that
vaccine?


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(High_quality_fake_video)
title: High quality fake video
uri: High-quality-fake-video
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(High_quality_fake_video)
content:
 
<p>
The US claims that Russia is planning to make a high quality fake video
showing a Ukrainian attack of some sort.  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/04/i-remember-wmds-iraq-reporter-calls-out-us-official-russian-intel-claims">But it has no proof to offer</a>.

<p>
I am not surprised there is no proof.  For something like this, it
would be hard to get any.

<p>
I agree that we can't be sure the claimed US intelligence is honest.
If the US were presenting the accusation as a reason to preemptively
attack Russia, the analogy with the invasion of Iraq would be valid.

<p>
However, the US does not propose to attack Russia.  Quite the
contrary, it doesn't even commit to help Ukraine defend itself if
Russia attacks.  So the purported analogy is just an insignificant
coincidence.

<p>
I am not sure what purpose the US has in making this claim.  If the
claim is honest, perhaps the aim is that the world disbelieve the
Russian phony video footage, if such footage appears.  If it is not
honest, I can't see any point in it.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Reciting_questions)
title: Reciting questions
uri: Reciting-questions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Reciting_questions)
content:
 
<p>
(<a href="https://www.theonion.com/kavanaugh-gorsuch-recite-questions-in-perfect-unison-a-1848477024">satire</a>) *Kavanaugh, Gorsuch Recite Questions In Perfect Unison After
Accidentally Memorizing Same Lines From Federalist Society Script.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Unionization)
title: Unionization
uri: 2022-02-07-Unionization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Unionization)
content:
 
<p>
As the workers of the Bessemer warehouse vote on unionization for the
second time, Amazon <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/04/failure-pass-pro-act-makes-amazon-union-vote-alabama-even-harder-says-sanders">is still trying to bully them and surveil them</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Defending_climate)
title: Defending climate
uri: Defending-climate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Defending_climate)
content:
 
<p>
10 executive actions Biden should carry out <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/04/groups-give-biden-10-executive-actions-put-people-over-fossil-fuels">to defend Earth's climate</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Moderna)
title: Moderna
uri: Moderna
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Moderna)
content:
 
<p>
The Moderna vaccine <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/health/moderna-cdc-vaccine-advisers/index.html">has received regular approval</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Union_at_Congress)
title: Union at Congress
uri: Union-at-Congress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Union_at_Congress)
content:
 
<p>
The staff of Congress are trying to form a union, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/04/progressive-lawmakers-back-union-push-hill-staffers">and progressive
members of Congress support it</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Cover_up)
title: Cover up
uri: 2022-02-07-Cover-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Cover_up)
content:
 
<p>
The UK's housing ministry took only two days after the fatal housing
fire (caused by flammable materials) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/03/housing-ministry-started-rebuttal-operation-two-days-after-grenfell-fire">to start covering up its
responsibility</a>.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(data_surveillance_media)
title: How Major Media Outlets Profit From Your Data
uri: How-Major-Media-Outlets-Profit-From-Your-Data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(data_surveillance_media)
content:
 
<p>
*How CNN, the New York Times, and Other Major Media Outlets [profit from] 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/01/surveillance-data-collection-ads-news-media/">Your Data and Lobby Against Regulation.</a>*
<p>
I object to using the word "monetize" to mean "profit from".

 


title: Urgent: Quash subterfuges to evade the laws on payday lending
uri: Urgent-Quash-subterfuges-to-evade-the-laws-on-payday-lending
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Quash_subterfuges_to_evade_the_laws_on_payday_lending)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Quash_subterfuges_to_evade_the_laws_on_payday_lending)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the FDIC to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-fdic-stop-the-growing-threat-of-rent-a-bank-schemes-now">quash subterfuges to evade the laws
on payday lending</a>.
<p>
Payday lending is a form of exploitation to which workers become
vulnerable because they don't get paid enough.  We need to cure the
disease as well as prevent this symptom.

 


title: Urgent: End the wrecker's Medicare privatization scheme
uri: Urgent-End-the-wrecker-s-Medicare-privatization-scheme
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_End_the_wrecker's_Medicare_privatization_scheme)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_End_the_wrecker's_Medicare_privatization_scheme)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-president-biden-end-donald-trumps-medicare-privatization-scheme">end the wrecker's Medicare privatization scheme</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Require gun owners to carry liability insurance
uri: Urgent-Require-gun-owners-to-carry-liability-insurance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Require_gun_owners_to_carry_liability_insurance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Require_gun_owners_to_carry_liability_insurance)

content:
 
<p>

US residents: call on US cities to require gun owners to <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/require-gun-owners-to-carry-liability-insurance">carry
liability insurance</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Challenge state laws that repress protests
uri: Urgent-Challenge-state-laws-that-repress-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Challenge_state_laws_that_repress_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Urgent:_Challenge_state_laws_that_repress_protests)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the DOJ to <a href="https://act.freepress.net/go/51817">challenge the new state laws that
repress protests</a>. Some of these laws even encourage killing of protesters.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Farming_under_stress)
title: Farming under stress
uri: Farming-under-stress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Farming_under_stress)
content:
 
<p>

Farming is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/05/farms-breaking-point-worldwide">under great stress</a> globally, due to unsustainable farming
and <a href="/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> effects.
Ultimately, overpopulation is an <a href="https://stallman.org/puns.html#apocalypse">important factor</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(US_workers_to_get_the_shaft)
title: US workers to get the shaft
uri: US-workers-to-get-the-shaft
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(US_workers_to_get_the_shaft)
content:
 
<p>

*The Federal Reserve Is About to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/05/federal-reserve-about-give-us-workers-shaft">Give US Workers the Shaft</a>.*
<p>
Real wages of US workers are decreasing, but the Republican head of
the Federal Reserve blames wage increases for today's inflation.  That
shows which side he's on, and that has been obvious all along, which
is why I supported the campaign calling on Biden not to renominate
him.

 


title: Causing disturbance on an airplane
uri: Causing-disturbance-on-an-airplane
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Causing_disturbance_on_an_airplane)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Causing_disturbance_on_an_airplane)

content:
 
<p>

Proposing that for people convicted of causing a disturbance on an
airplane should <a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/delta-ceo-unruly-passenger-no-fly-list/index.html">not be allowed to fly as passengers on commercial
flights</a>. I am in favor of this: the punishment fits the crime and should
help to deter it.
<p>
The current US "no-fly" list is unjust because it is a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#28_March_2013_(No-Fly_List)">secret punishment
imposed without trial</a>.
This proposed punishment would be part of a sentence for a criminal
conviction &mdash; thus, not sharing that particular injustice at all.
<p>
Rather than lumping this sentence together with the unjust arbitrary
punishment that has existed for 20 years, we should contrast them
as much as possible.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Sanctions_waiver_for_Iran)
title: Sanctions waiver for Iran
uri: Sanctions-waiver-for-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Sanctions_waiver_for_Iran)
content:
 
<p>

Biden has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/politics/iran-civil-nuclear-waiver-restored/index.html">restored a sanctions waiver for Iran</a>, which had been
cancelled by the wrecker.
<p>
He should have done this a year ago, to get the best chance of
restoring the non-nuclear deal that the wrecker destroyed.

 


title: Solving public school staffing crisis
uri: Solving-public-school-staffing-crisis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Solving_public_school_staffing_crisis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Solving_public_school_staffing_crisis)

content:
 
<p>

*Economists Say <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/04/economists-say-raise-pay-solve-public-school-staffing-crisis">Raise Pay to Solve Public School Staffing Crisis</a>.*

 


title: Ways microplastics can harm animals
uri: Ways-microplastics-can-harm-animals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Ways_microplastics_can_harm_animals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Ways_microplastics_can_harm_animals)

content:
 
<p>

Every animal ingests substantial quantities of microplastics,
including humans.  Scientists have discovered <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/06/australians-ingest-a-credit-cards-worth-of-plastic-a-week-so-whats-it-doing-to-us">many ways they can
harm animals</a>.

 


title: Kashmiri news site editor arrested
uri: Kashmiri-news-site-editor-arrested
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Kashmiri_news_site_editor_arrested)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Kashmiri_news_site_editor_arrested)

content:
 
<p>

The editor of a Kashmiri news site, The Kashmir Walla, has been
arrested and charged with nasty-sounding crimes that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/06/editor-arrested-in-kashmir-as-press-crackdown-escalates">probably stand
for "journalism" and "criticizing the government</a>."
<p>
Although the universal repression imposed after Kashmir's government was
abolished has been reduced, repression of the press is increasing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Toxic_BPA_levels)
title: Toxic BPA levels
uri: Toxic-BPA-levels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Toxic_BPA_levels)
content:
 
<p>

*Americans exposed to toxic BPA at levels <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/06/americans-exposed-toxic-bpa-fda-study">far above what EU considers safe</a>.*
Research has found anatomically visible effects on developing brains
in some mammals from extremely low levels of Bisphenol A.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Outlaw_of_office_romance)
title: Outlaw of office romance
uri: Outlaw-of-office-romance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Outlaw_of_office_romance)
content:
 
<p>

*Sure, let’s be wary of abuse of power, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/06/little-can-top-the-frisson-of-an-office-romance-so-lets-not-rush-to-outlaw-them">do we really want to outlaw office romance?</a>*
<p>
If the claim is valid that the real reasons for firing Zucker <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#5_February_2022_(cnn_toobin)">had to
do with his work</a>, perhaps CNN's board would have overlooked his romance if he
had done his job well.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Spell_of_disinformation)
title: Spell of disinformation
uri: Spell-of-disinformation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Spell_of_disinformation)
content:
 
<p>

It's not easy for a scientist's knowledge and careful reasoning to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/06/instead-of-debunking-anti-vax-myths-question-time-gave-them-platform">win
a debate</a> (conducted like a political debate) against the invincible
ignorance of someone under the spell of disinformation.
<p>
This is why science doesn't use that method to reach conclusions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Butterfly_sanctuary)
title: Butterfly sanctuary
uri: Butterfly-sanctuary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Butterfly_sanctuary)
content:
 
<p>

*Texas butterfly sanctuary <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/06/texas-butterfly-sanctuary-far-right-threats">forced to close</a> after far-right threats.*
<p>
Each time these bullies force someone to bow down, they tout it as
proof of their strength, and use that to recruit more bullies so they
can do something more aggressive.  Having forced the sanctuary to
close, next they will vandalize any facilities, then burn them down.
<p>
The FBI should set a trap so as to arrest whoever tries.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Holocaust_research)
title: Most don't know about Holocaust facts
uri: Most-don-t-know-about-Holocaust-facts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Holocaust_research)
content:
 
<p>
Most Americans don't know even the most basic facts 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/02/whoopi-goldberg-holocaust-americans-research">about the Holocaust</a>
<p>
(the Nazis' systematic campaign to murder all the Jews they could get
their hands on).
<p>
If they don't know what was so evil about Nazis, that is likely to
make them more susceptible to recruitment by today's Nazi sympathizers
and neo-Nazi organizations, including the Republican Party.
<p>
When Whoopi Goldberg said that the Holocaust "was not about race,"
she was using the modern American conception of race. 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/entertainment/whoopi-goldberg-the-view-holocaust-race-cec/index.html">By that conception,
most Jews are white, although a few belong to other racial groups.</a>
<p>
Those who rebuked her cited the Nazis' conception of race, which was
different -- they described Jews collectively as a "race."  Going by
their definition of "race," the Holocaust was indeed about "race."
<p>
I don't think this disagreement was about morality, only the semantics
of the word "race."  Can we give Goldberg a break?
<p>
*Whoopi was Wrong [that is, mistaken] and 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/2/2078293/-Whoopi-was-Wrong-and-Wronged?_=2022-02-02T16:13:57.000-08:00">Wronged [that is, unjustly
punished].</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(koala_pledge)
title: Koala pledge
uri: Koala-pledge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(koala_pledge)
content:
 
<p>
Australia is letting its native animals be wiped out by the effects of
business.  It pledges funds to protect koalas, because everyone finds
them so cute, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/06/a-drop-in-the-ocean-governments-50m-koala-pledge-wont-tackle-root-cause-of-decline">but has not made a plan that can achieve this.</a>
<p>
The main threat to koalas is habitat destruction, due to human
activity either directly (cutting down native forests) or indirectly
(human-intensified fires that destroy entire forests). Unless
Australia makes a plan to end habitat destruction, koalas and many
other species will be extinct soon.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(iowa_camera_bill)
title: Iowa bill to require cameras in school
uri: Iowa-bill-to-require-cameras-in-school
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(iowa_camera_bill)
content:
 
<p>
Iowa is considering a bill to require a camera in every public school
classroom to monitor the 
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/iowa-bill-require-cameras-public-school-classrooms-rcna14789">teachers and ensure no forbidden education
occurs.</a>
<p>
It is not clear from the details in this article whether the cameras
would allow visual monitoring of the students, but if it contains
a microphone it would surely allow listening to all the students.
This would tear up their privacy.
<p>
The article 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 articles which promote it.  But I make
exceptions for some articles which give important information about
racism or the fight to eliminate racism.  That article is one of the
exceptions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(appeals_court_pipeline)
title: Federal court deals blow to pipeline
uri: Federal-court-deals-blow-to-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(appeals_court_pipeline)
content:
 
<p>
A US appeals court has blocked finishing the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/03/federal-court-deals-blow-noxious-fracked-gas-mountain-valley-pipeline">Mountain Valley Pipeline</a>
<p>
On the grounds that the Fish and Wildlife Service failed to properly
evaluate its impact on some endangered species.
<p>
This pipeline 
<a href="https://grist.org/article/mountain-valley-pipeline-and-indigenous-land/">was the object of protests.</a>
This is not a final decision, as there remain two stages of appeal.
<p>
I support protecting endangered species, and the most important
way to do that is to slow the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/18/scientists-decry-human-indifference-probable-sixth-mass-extinction">mass extinction that is now starting.</a>
<p>
The main cause of that mass extinction is extracting fossil fuels,
and that means we must stop projects such as oil pipelines that will
create more costs sunk in future extraction.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Telescope_and_religion)
title: Telescope and religion
uri: Telescope-and-religion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Telescope_and_religion)
content:
 
<p>
Which is more important: a telescope that could expand human knowledge
of the universe, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/hawaii-elders-awaiting-trial-for-protesting-worlds-largest-telescope-mauna-kea">or one of the thousands of religions that some humans
follow</a>?

<p>
We all have our emotional attachments to this or that, but an
emotional attachment is not enough reason to stop the telescope.  There
are few places where that telescope could be built and be effective.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Pardons_for_insurrectionists)
title: Pardons for insurrectionists
uri: Pardons-for-insurrectionists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Pardons_for_insurrectionists)
content:
 
<p>
*[The corrupter]'s promising pardons for insurrectionists and calling
for protests if indicted <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/07/donald-trump-incendiary-speech-texas-legal-troubles-experts">could help make a case for obstruction of
justice</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Dog_population)
title: Dog population
uri: Dog-population
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Dog_population)
content:
 
<p>
Europe's dog population is growing to the point that their urine and excrement are overfertilizing nature reserves, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/07/dog-pee-and-poo-harming-nature-reserves-study">screwing up the ecosystems</a>.


 


title: Excluding insurrectionists from public office
uri: Excluding-insurrectionists-from-public-office
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Excluding_insurrectionists_from_public_office)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Excluding_insurrectionists_from_public_office)

content:
 
<p>
Addressing moral concerns about enforcing the Constitution's rule
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/07/madison-cawthorn-backed-the-capitol-attack-will-he-be-barred-from-office">that insurrectionists are excluded from public office</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Federal_workers_unions)
title: Federal workers unions
uri: Federal-workers-unions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Federal_workers_unions)
content:
 
<p>
Biden has made an executive order <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/07/biden-union-labor-white-house-organizing">to make it easier for federal workers
to unionize</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Gig_drivers_unions)
title: Gig drivers unions
uri: Gig-drivers-unions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Gig_drivers_unions)
content:
 
<p>
Gig drivers in New York City <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/07/rideshare-delivery-app-workers-fight-to-unionize">are trying to unionize</a>.

<p>
I hope they succeed, but that would not eliminate the injustices that
<a href="https://stallman.org/food-delivery.html">these companies</a> do <em><a href="https://stallman.org/uber.html">to their customers</a></em>,
  so I will still absolutely refuse to use them.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Supporting_claim_on_islands)
title: Supporting claim on islands
uri: Supporting-claim-on-islands
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Supporting_claim_on_islands)
content:
 
<p>
China has supported Argentina's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/07/truss-says-falklands-part-of-british-family-after-china-supports-argentinas-claim">claim to the Falkland Islands</a>.

<p>
In 1982, when Argentina <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/16/mario-sandoval-france-approves-extradition-argentina-over-students-disappearance">was ruled by murderous generals</a>,
  supported by the US,
  they sent troops to seize the Falkland Islands, very much against
the wishes of the British-descended people who lived there.  The UK
sent a fleet to liberate them.

<p>
The generals had used nationalism as a tool to distract the Argentine
people from their crimes, but after losing the war, they couldn't hold
on and Argentina became a democracy.

<p>
China's motive for taking a side in this dispute is surely to win
Argentina's support in the new cold war.  However, comparing the
Falkland Islands to Taiwan is morally accurate.  China wants to do to
Taiwan the same thing that the Argentine generals did to the Falkland
Islands: conquer and permanently rule an unwilling people.


 


title: Chemical industry greenhouse gas emissions
uri: Chemical-industry-greenhouse-gas-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Chemical_industry_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Chemical_industry_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

content:
 
<p>
The chemical industry needs a complete overhaul <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/06/its-time-overhaul-chemical-industry">to reduce its
substantial greenhouse gas emissions</a>,
   to reduce its vulnerability to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#6_February_2022_(Plants_operating_under_obsolete_safety_standards)">local disasters</a>,
  and to reduce the air pollution that can poison people
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#7_February_2022_(Toxic_BPA_levels)">or interfere with children's development</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Manchin)
title: Manchin
uri: 2022-02-08-Manchin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Manchin)
content:
 
<p>
Manchin has come up with another insincere "reason" <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/06/joe-manchin-gives-new-reason-why-he-torpedoed-bbb">to reject the
Build Back Better (relief) bill</a>.

<p>
He is learning the Republican way of speaking: as long as you don't
contradict yourself within one sentence, people will accept it.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Playing_dolls)
title: Playing dolls
uri: Playing-dolls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Playing_dolls)
content:
 
<p>
*Playing with dolls helps children <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/06/playing-dolls-helps-children-talk-about-how-others-feel-study">talk about how others feel</a>, says study.*

<p>
I wonder whether the expectation and encouragement in our society for
girls to play with dolls explains why women tend to develop better
empathy and understanding of social interactions than men.  I wonder
if that is part of the cause of that expectation and encouragement.


 


title: Falling short on carbon cut promises
uri: Falling-short-on-carbon-cut-promises
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Falling_short_on_carbon_cut_promises)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Falling_short_on_carbon_cut_promises)

content:
 
<p>
*Amazon, Ikea, Nestlé and others <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/06/amazon-ikea-nestle-biggest-carbon-net-zero-claims">will fall [short] of promise to cut carbon
   by 100%</a>, says NewClimate Institute.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Death_cultists_exporting)
title: Death cultists exporting
uri: Death-cultists-exporting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#8_February_2022_(Death_cultists_exporting)
content:
 
<p>
Thousands of Covid death cultists have occupied Ottawa, blocking all
activity in the city.  The police say they cannot deal with so many.
Only a small fraction of truck drivers in Canada support this protest,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/07/ottawa-declares-state-of-emergency-as-canada-trucker-protest-paralyses-city">but the rest are not assembled to show they disagree</a>.

<p>
These Canadians have adopted the gang-of-bullies attitude of the
Republicans in the US.  The Canadian government must not be
intimidated by them.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Sanders_proposition_on_Ukraine)
title: Sanders proposition on Ukraine
uri: Sanders-proposition-on-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Sanders_proposition_on_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
Sanders proposes a direction <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/08/we-must-do-everything-possible-avoid-enormously-destructive-war-ukraine">for negotiations with Russia over the
Ukraine crisis</a>.

<p>
I more or less agree with Sanders, but there is a complication he
doesn't address.

<p>
Normally the deal we would propose is, "Russia won't invade Ukraine
and NATO will not invite Ukraine to join.  Everything else stays the
way it is now."

<p>
That is not acceptable because the current situation includes a
Russian-sponsored guerrilla rebellion in eastern Ukraine, as well as
its occupation of territory that Russia seized (the Crimea).  A real
peace would have to resolve these two conflicts.  An agreement that
lets them continue would not be peace.

<p>
It's not hard to envision a fair peace for eastern Ukraine -- though
negotiating agreement would be a challenge.  It is less obvious for
the Crimea.  But here is an idea.

<p>
The UN will hold a referendum among the people who lived in the Crimea
before 2014.  If they vote for Russia, the Crimea will remain Russian.
If they vote for Ukraine, the Crimea will return to Ukraine, but not
immediately.

<p>
Rather, Russia will have 5 years to build a replacement naval base in
Russian territory.  As it replaces each existing Crimea naval facility
and shifts naval operations to the replacement facility, it will sell
the existing Crimea facility to NATO.  The purchase price will pay the
cost to Russia of building the replacement facility.

<p>
The point is to make it painless and costless for Russia to move.
In emotional terms, it won't be a loss for Russia to move its fleet,
because NATO will be paying for the move.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Meat_and_dairy_output)
title: Meat and dairy output
uri: Meat-and-dairy-output
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Meat_and_dairy_output)
content:
 
<p>
*Cut meat and dairy output by a third to save climate, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/08/cut-meat-and-dairy-by-a-third-to-save-climate-british-farmers-told">British farmers
 told</a>.*

<p>
Dairy production is more efficient than meat production -- it would be better
to reduce the meat production more so as to maintain the dairy production.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Persecution)
title: Persecution
uri: 2022-02-09-Persecution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Persecution)
content:
 
<p>
Erin Brockovich explains Chevron's persecution of Steven Donziger, the
lawyer for the Ecuadorias <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/08/chevron-amazon-ecuador-steven-donziger-erin-brockovich">who sued Chevron/Texaco for polluting their
water</a>.

<p>
What enables Chevron to get away with using the US legal system as a
club to bash people who get in its way is that it has far too much
money.  We could fix this by chopping it into 100 companies, each much
smaller than Chevron is now, and then taxing them a lot more.


 


title: Blacklist companies that divest from fossil fuels
uri: Blacklist-companies-that-divest-from-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Blacklist_companies_that_divest_from_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Blacklist_companies_that_divest_from_fossil_fuels)

content:
 
<p>
ALEC is pushing right-wing state governments <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/08/rightwing-lobby-alec-blacklist-companies-boycott-oil-industry">to blacklist companies that
divest from fossil fuels or boycott fossil fuel companies</a>.

<p>
They are step by step declaring war on civilization's survival.


 


title: Keeping international terrorists out
uri: Keeping-international-terrorists-out
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Keeping_international_terrorists_out)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Keeping_international_terrorists_out)

content:
 
<p>
The Taliban have arrested people trying to cross the border into
Afghanistan <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/two-suspected-british-islamic-state-recruits-seized-by-taliban-at-afghanistan-border">and accused them of being terrorist recruits for PISSI</a>.

<p>
It seems the Taliban are sincerely trying to keep international
terrorists out of Afghanistan.


 


title: Anti-vax and anti-government organizations
uri: Anti-vax-and-anti-government-organizations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Anti-vax_and_anti-government_organizations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Anti-vax_and_anti-government_organizations)

content:
 
<p>
* Ottawa’s occupation was a result <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/canada-ottawa-trucker-protest-extremist-qanon-neo-nazi">of unrivaled coordination between
 anti-vax and anti-government organizations</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Cuban_Missile_Crisis_teachings)
title: Cuban Missile Crisis teachings
uri: Cuban-Missile-Crisis-teachings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Cuban_Missile_Crisis_teachings)
content:
 
<p>
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1963 suggests <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/07/what-cuban-missile-crisis-can-teach-us-about-ending-hostility-ukraine">ways for de-escalating the
Ukraine crisis of today</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Young_people_climate_lawsuit)
title: Young people climate lawsuit
uri: Young-people-climate-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Young_people_climate_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
The Montana young people's climate lawsuit <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/07/montana-plaintiffs-announce-first-childrens-climate-trial-us-history">will proceed to trial</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Pivot_to_good_presidency)
title: Pivot to good presidency
uri: Pivot-to-good-presidency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Pivot_to_good_presidency)
content:
 
<p>
(<a href="https://www.theonion.com/biden-administration-considering-pivot-to-good-presiden-1848443425">satire</a>) *Biden Administration Considering Pivot To Good Presidency.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Inflation)
title: Inflation
uri: 2022-02-09-Inflation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Inflation)
content:
 
<p>
The UK establishment responds to inflation, not mostly caused by pay
raises, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/07/bank-of-england-wage-restraint-cost-of-living-governor">takes it as an excuse to prevent pay raises</a>.

<p>
This as millions of UK workers have become newly poor and cannot
afford food even with some government support.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Movement_against_attacking_Iraq)
title: Movement against attacking Iraq
uri: Movement-against-attacking-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Movement_against_attacking_Iraq)
content:
 
<p>
The movement against attacking Iraq was very strong, at the start.
This is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/07/antiwar-movement-could-not-end-war">a look at how and why it faded away</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Maps_biased_against_Black_voters)
title: Maps biased against Black voters
uri: Maps-biased-against-Black-voters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Maps_biased_against_Black_voters)
content:
 
<p>
*Supreme court lets Alabama use maps <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/07/supreme-court-lets-alabama-use-maps-decried-as-biased-against-black-voters">decried as biased against Black
 voters</a>.*

<p>
It may be planning <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/08/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-alabama/">to approve them permanently, too</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(US_Oligarchs)
title: US Oligarchs
uri: US-Oligarchs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(US_Oligarchs)
content:
 
<p>
*The Dynastic Wealth of US Oligarchs <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/07/dynastic-wealth-us-oligarchs-threat-democracy">Is a Threat to Democracy</a>.*


 


title: Law to reduce damages for injuries
uri: Law-to-reduce-damages-for-injuries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Law_to_reduce_damages_for_injuries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Law_to_reduce_damages_for_injuries)

content:
 
<p>
ALEC is pushing a state law (in every state) <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/02/07/alecs-new-push-protect-corporations-damage-claims/">that would reduce how
much damages people get when suing for injuries</a>.

<p>
The lack of a national medical system in the US, combined with the
general poverty wages, means that many people who are injured have
medical bills they cannot pay.  They are desperate to sue someone for
damages to cover those bills.  Of course, this practice creates a
mindset which induces most injured people to sue for exaggerated sums,
even if they are not broke.

<p>
The way to fix the underlying problem is to establish a national
medical system and to raise wages, which includes promoting unions,
and welfare benefits.

<p>
Then it would be time to adopt measures that tend to bring injury
damages closer to the level of actual harms.




 


title: Terror designation for Yemen Houthis
uri: Terror-designation-for-Yemen-Houthis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Terror_designation_for_Yemen_Houthis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Terror_designation_for_Yemen_Houthis)

content:
 
<p>

*White House Discusses <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/08/yemen-terrorist-group-houthis-uae/">Reinstating [the saboteur in chief]'s Terror
 Designation</a> for Yemen’s Houthis.*
<p>
This would mean increasing support for a war that has no
justification.  The US should cease its support for the UAE's (and
<a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>'s) intervention in Yemen.

 


title: Trying to spread prosperity with tech sector
uri: Trying-to-spread-prosperity-with-tech-sector
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Trying_to_spread_prosperity_with_tech_sector)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Trying_to_spread_prosperity_with_tech_sector)

content:
 
<p>

The Tories propose to spread "prosperity" (for a fraction of society)
from London to the rest of the country by investing in the tech sector.
One city tried this, and the result was that a fraction became wealthy
and the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/08/manchester-levelling-up-doesnt-work-gentrification">city only gentrified</a>.
<p>
It's a repackaging of the same old trickle-down.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Banned_hijabs_in_school)
title: Banned hijabs in school
uri: Banned-hijabs-in-school
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Banned_hijabs_in_school)
content:
 
<p>

The Indian state of Karnatika has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/schools-shut-in-india-as-protests-grow-over-headscarf-ban">banned wearing hijabs</a> in high school,
supported by the ruling Hinduist party.
<p>
Oppressing non-Hindu Indians is that party's central goal,
It can be seen especially against <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#15%20August%202010%20(Pro-independence%20protestors%20killed%20in%20Kashmir)">Muslims in Kashmir</a>
and all Muslim Indians that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-may-aug.html#25_July_2021_(Tax_raids)">can't prove their Indian ancestry</a>.
However, it also <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_September_2014_(Hindu_fanatics)">targets Christians</a>.
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#12_March_2021_(Surveillance_and_censorship_on_the_internet)">Imprisonment of people that criticize the government</a>
is also included.

 


title: Lack of decarbonization plan in California
uri: Lack-of-decarbonization-plan-in-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Lack_of_decarbonization_plan_in_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Lack_of_decarbonization_plan_in_California)

content:
 
<p>

California never adopted a detailed decarbonization plan to limit global
heating to 1.5C.  And it looks like <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/07/california-backsliding-its-plan-reach-zero-carbon-emissions-mid-century">losing the courage to make one</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Exaggeration_and_distortion)
title: Exaggeration and distortion
uri: Exaggeration-and-distortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Exaggeration_and_distortion)
content:
 
<p>

The climate pledges of 25 giant corporations are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/07/study-exposes-how-worlds-biggest-corporations-embellish-climate-progress">more exaggeration
and distortion than reality</å>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Unprecedented_economic_transition)
title: Unprecedented economic transition
uri: Unprecedented-economic-transition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Unprecedented_economic_transition)
content:
 
<p>

Joseph Stiglitz: *Although it is anyone's guess what will happen next
   with inflation, the data show that there is no reason to react
   rashly with large across-the-board interest-rate hikes. The economy
   is working through an unprecedented transition that could
   ultimately be a boon for workers; but <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/07/across-board-rate-hike-fed-cure-worse-disease">only if policymakers let the
   process play out</a>.*
<p>
We <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#1_December_2021_(Urgent:_Vote_no_on_Jerome_Powell's_confirmation)">objected when Biden reappointed Powell as head of the Federal
Reserve because we knew Powell was likely to do things like this.
Now, instead of letting Powell be Biden's shield, we must blame Biden for
choosing the course that the Federal Reserve is now implementing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(The_pollution_paradox)
title: The pollution paradox
uri: The-pollution-paradox
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(The_pollution_paradox)
content:
 
<p>

*The pollution paradox. The paradox
   proposes that the most antisocial commercial interests have the
   greatest incentive to buy political favor, otherwise they would be
   regulated out of existence. So politics <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/09/costs-going-green-tories-energy-bills-environmental-levies-tax">comes to be dominated by them</a>.*
<p>
The result is that the UK allows fossil fuel companies to cheat the public
even as they prepare an early death for many of the public.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Pakistani_Islamist_terrorists)
title: Pakistani Islamist terrorists
uri: Pakistani-Islamist-terrorists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Pakistani_Islamist_terrorists)
content:
 
<p>

The Taliban are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/09/we-are-happy-to-fight-deadly-tension-on-the-afghanistan-pakistan-border-taliban">hosting Pakistani Islamist terrorist groups</a>
that attack Pakistan.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(UK_anti-porn_law)
title: UK anti-porn law
uri: UK-anti-porn-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(UK_anti-porn_law)
content:
 
<p>

The new UK anti-porn law may require British users of Twitter and
Reddit to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/09/reddit-and-twitter-users-face-age-checks-under-uk-porn-law-plans">identify themselves using government photo id</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Deportation_from_Turkey)
title: Deportation from Turkey
uri: Deportation-from-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Deportation_from_Turkey)
content:
 
<p>

*Iranian refugees face deportation from Turkey for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/09/iranian-refugees-face-deportation-from-turkey-for-attending-demonstration">attending demonstration</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Ladder_to_climb_down)
title: Ladder to climb down
uri: Ladder-to-climb-down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Ladder_to_climb_down)
content:
 
<p>
*   Instead of ramping up the threats, western nations <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/09/conflict-mediator-ukraine-vladimir-putin">should be offering
   Vladimir Putin a ladder to climb down</a>.*

<p>
This is made more difficult by his practice of saying, "You need to
offer me a way to climb down from the incipient tantrum that I've
talked myself into.  To do that, start by giving me the concessions I
have demanded."


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Walkout_over_Christian_revival)
title: Walkout over Christian revival
uri: Walkout-over-Christian-revival
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Walkout_over_Christian_revival)
content:
 
<p>
*West Virginia students <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/09/west-virginia-huntington-high-school-walkout-christian-revival">to stage walkout over Christian revival at
 high school</a>.*

<p>
I'm heartened that there are students in the school who recognize that proselytizing in a public school is intolerable.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Declining_bee_population)
title: Declining bee population
uri: Declining-bee-population
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Declining_bee_population)
content:
 
<p>
(<a href="https://www.theonion.com/declining-bee-population-linked-to-increase-in-bees-po-1848449586">satire</a>) *Declining Bee Population Linked To Increase In Bees'
Pornography [use].*

<p>
Using porn works, like other works of authorship, does not use them
up.  They remain and can be used by many other humans, or bees.
So please <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Consume.">do not call this "consuming" them</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Long_Covid_and_heart_diseases)
title: Long Covid and heart diseases
uri: Long-Covid-and-heart-diseases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Long_Covid_and_heart_diseases)
content:
 
<p>
Patients who had Covid-19, even if they were not hospitalized for it,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/08/covid-survivors-higher-long-term-risk-cardiovascular-damage-study">have an elevated probability of heart disease a year later</a>.
  This is on form or aspect of "long Covid".

<p>
This demonstrates the importance of protecting people from catching
Covid-19 at all, to the extent this is possible.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Stop_selling_fossil_fuel_leases)
title: Stop selling fossil fuel leases
uri: Stop-selling-fossil-fuel-leases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Stop_selling_fossil_fuel_leases)
content:
 
<p>
A campaign calls on the Interior Department <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/08/climate-coalition-calls-biden-cease-all-gulf-mexico-drilling-operations">stop selling fossil fuel
leases</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Local_Martian_Engineers)
title: Local Martian Engineers
uri: Local-Martian-Engineers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Local_Martian_Engineers)
content:
 
<p>
(<a href="https://www.theonion.com/nasa-slammed-for-selecting-u-s-company-to-build-rocket-1848501286">satire</a>) *NASA Slammed For Selecting U.S. Company To Build Rocket On
Mars Rather Than Local Martian Engineers.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Firing_workers_for_union_drive)
title: Firing workers for union drive
uri: Firing-workers-for-union-drive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Firing_workers_for_union_drive)
content:
 
<p>
Starbucks has fired workers <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/08/they-are-firing-entire-committee-memphis-workers-say-starbucks-targeting-union">participating in the union drive in a
store in Memphis</a>.
  The fired workers were 7 in number, out of a total of 21 workers at a
that store.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Carbon_offsets)
title: Carbon offsets
uri: 2022-02-10-Carbon-offsets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Carbon_offsets)
content:
 
<p>
Michael Mann debunks the fossil fools' arguments <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/08/climate-expert-debunks-big-oils-lies-about-carbon-capture-nature-based-solutions">for carbon capture
and for planting trees as "carbon offsets"</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Co-op_apartment_buildings)
title: Co-op apartment buildings
uri: Co-op-apartment-buildings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Co-op_apartment_buildings)
content:
 
<p>
Co-op apartment buildings in New York have the effect of enabling racism.
The co-op directors can reject blacks -- or reject short people -- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/feb/08/new-york-housing-co-ops-apartments-discrimination">and
it is hard to stop them</a>.



 


title: Arresting then murdering villagers
uri: Arresting-then-murdering-villagers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Arresting_then_murdering_villagers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Arresting_then_murdering_villagers)

content:
 
<p>
Burmese soldiers entered a village and arrested whoever they could
catch.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/10/myanmar-watches-a-mothers-grief-as-junta-soldiers-claim-another-victim">Then murdered them</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Anti-mine_protesters_arrested)
title: Anti-mine protesters arrested
uri: Anti-mine-protesters-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Anti-mine_protesters_arrested)
content:
 
<p>
Anti-mine protesters in Honduras have bee convicted of "criminal damage"
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/09/honduras-environmentalists-guilty-crimes-mining-company">after spending 2.5 years in jail awaiting trial</a>.

<p>
It is not clear what the "damage" refers to, since the prosecutors
never said, but the mine polluted the region's water supply and made
people sick.


 


title: Miscarriages prosecuted as abortions
uri: Miscarriages-prosecuted-as-abortions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Miscarriages_prosecuted_as_abortions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Miscarriages_prosecuted_as_abortions)

content:
 
<p>
In El Salvador, women who have miscarriages can be prosecuted for
(allegedly) having an abortion.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/09/el-salvador-woman-freed-abortion-law-10-years">They can be imprisoned for decades</a>.

<p>
A human rights organization has succeeded in freeing many of them
because their trials were bogus.  But little can be done for anyone
who really had an abortion.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Forbidden_to_harass_journalists)
title: Forbidden to harass journalists
uri: Forbidden-to-harass-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Forbidden_to_harass_journalists)
content:
 
<p>
After a settlement agreement, Minnesota thugs <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/us/minnesota-settlement-police-journalists-protests/index.html">are now forbidden to
harass journalists</a>.


 


title: Urgent: pardon possession of marijuana
uri: Urgent-pardon-possession-of-marijuana
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Urgent:_pardon_possession_of_marijuana)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Urgent:_pardon_possession_of_marijuana)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/petition-tell-president-biden-issue-pardons-for-marijuana-offenses?nowrapper=true">call on Biden</a> to pardon everyone convicted for possession
of marijuana.


 


title: Urgent: investigate the corrupter
uri: Urgent-investigate-the-corrupter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Urgent:_investigate_the_corrupter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Urgent:_investigate_the_corrupter)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/hold-donald-trump-accountable-for-his-document-destruction?nowrapper=true">call on the Department of Justice</a> to investigate the corrupter
for violating the Presidential Records Act.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Minsk_agreement)
title: Minsk agreement
uri: Minsk-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Minsk_agreement)
content:
 
<p>
The hastily-written Minsk agreement is either a framework for peace
between Ukraine and Russia, or a framework for Russia to mess with
Ukraine permanently, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/europe/minsk-agreement-ukraine-russia-explainer-intl/index.html">depending on how some vague provisions are
interpreted</a>.

<p>
If it is clarified, perhaps it would be acceptable for Ukraine to agree
not to join NATO as long as Russia follows the treaty provisions.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Communications_satellites)
title: Communications satellites
uri: Communications-satellites
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Communications_satellites)
content:
 
<p>
NASA is having doubts about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/feb/10/nasa-fears-spacex-plan-for-30000-satellites-could-hamper-space-missions">whether to permit SpaceX to launch 30,000
additional communications satellites</a>.
   They might spoil astronomical observations and block launches into
all but the lowest orbits.

<p>
There is no mention of the risk of creating more space junk.
Perhaps there is a reason that is not a danger here.  If
so, can anyone tell me why?


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Rights_abuses_for_head_of_police)
title: Rights abuses for head of police
uri: Rights-abuses-for-head-of-police
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Rights_abuses_for_head_of_police)
content:
 
<p>
*General accused of rights abuses <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/09/general-accused-of-rights-abuses-made-ugandan-head-of-police">made Ugandan head of police</a>.*


 


title: Opportunity to overturn climate policies
uri: Opportunity-to-overturn-climate-policies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Opportunity_to_overturn_climate_policies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Opportunity_to_overturn_climate_policies)

content:
 
<p>
Bogus Johnson's weakness in the Tory Party is giving planet-roaster
Tories <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/09/campaigners-fear-net-zero-could-be-a-casualty-of-boris-johnsons-weakness">an opportunity to overturn the agreed-on climate defense policies</a>.

<p>
Weak as they are (for instance, by talking about "net emissions", which
implies treating "offsets" as if they were real), they are a first step.
Cancelling them will make things worse.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Influencers)
title: Influencers
uri: 2022-02-11-Influencers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Influencers)
content:
 
<p>
Influencers are amazingly bland.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/09/influencers-online-social-justice-branding">The blander, the more successful</a>.

<p>
If a celebrity is someone famous for being famous, an influencer is
someone famous for having nothing to be famous for.

<p>
Since I don't use these antisocial networks, I have never actually seen
an influencer at work.


 


title: Other responses to terrorist attacks
uri: Other-responses-to-terrorist-attacks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Other_responses_to_terrorist_attacks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Other_responses_to_terrorist_attacks)

content:
 
<p>
A report studies the various ways that the US could have responded
to the September 2001 terrorist attacks, other than by war,
<a href="https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2022/BeyondWarParadigm">which could have done more good and less harm</a>.

<p>
It should be noted that the US actually won the war in Afghanistan:
the Taliban <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-may-aug.html#23_August_2021_(Unconditional_surrender)">offered complete surrender before the end of 2001</a>.
  The Bush regime inexplicably preferred to continue the war.

<p>
The US could also have secured the stated goals diplomatically without
a war.  The Taliban offered in the summer of 2001 <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-may-aug.html#23_August_2021_(Unconditional_surrender)">to kick out
al-Qa'ida</a>.

<p>
Apparently, <a href="/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> wanted that war for other reasons and,
having got an excuse, was not going to let it go.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Container_ships_sinking)
title: Container ships sinking
uri: Container-ships-sinking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Container_ships_sinking)
content:
 
<p>
When container ships sink, likely a few containers contain plastic that
will release endocrine disruptors that can cause ecological disaster
for sea life, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/09/cargo-ship-disasters-are-oil-spills-of-our-time-because-of-health-risk-from-plastic">also for land animals higher up the food chain
that will eat the sea life</a>.

<p>
That includes humans.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Big_Pharma_corruption)
title: Big Pharma corruption
uri: Big-Pharma-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Big_Pharma_corruption)
content:
 
<p>
Big Pharma companies' corruption of drug regulation and marketing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/09/covid-vaccines-lifesavers-big-pharma-mistrust">includes opioids</a>
   -- and it's not limited to Purdue Pharma.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Imprisoning_climate_activists)
title: Imprisoning climate activists
uri: Imprisoning-climate-activists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#11_February_2022_(Imprisoning_climate_activists)
content:
 
<p>
Vietnam is imprisoning climate activists on multi-year sentences,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/09/award-winning-vietnamese-environmentalist-arrested-as-rights-groups-fear-clamp-down">ostensibly because of tax issues</a>.

<p>
Vietnam is trying to sell more coal.




 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Deported_migrants_suffered_abuse)
title: Deported migrants suffered abuse
uri: Deported-migrants-suffered-abuse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Deported_migrants_suffered_abuse)
content:
 
<p>
  *A Human Rights Watch report found Cameroonian asylum-seekers forcibly
  flown back home <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/10/african-migrants-deported-trump-administration-suffered-abuse">suffered imprisonment, torture and rape</a>.*
<p>
  The wrecker seems to have instructed the deportation thugs to disregard
  the asylum-seekers' rights.  It ought to be a crime for governent
  issues to force people to waive their rights.
<p>
  All manegers who accepted these orders should be dismissed for doing
  so.  People inclined to obey illegal orders and then please "I was
  only obeying orders" are not fit to work in positions where they can
  send people to be tortured.

 


title: Target teaching how to spot unionizing
uri: Target-teaching-how-to-spot-unionizing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Target_teaching_how_to_spot_unionizing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Target_teaching_how_to_spot_unionizing)

content:
 
<p>
Target is teaching store managers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/10/target-directs-managers-prevent-workers-from-unionizing">how to recognize signs workers might be
organizing</a>.
If they detect any, they will work with expensive consultants to
quash the attempt.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Weaponized_felony_charges)
title: Weaponized felony charges
uri: Weaponized-felony-charges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Weaponized_felony_charges)
content:
 
<p>
*How <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/10/felony-charges-pipeline-protesters-line-3">felony charges are weaponized</a> against pipeline protesters.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Right-wing_extremists)
title: Right-wing extremists
uri: 2022-02-12-Right-wing-extremists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Right-wing_extremists)
content:
 
<p>
  British right-wing extremists <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/10/boris-johnson-savile-slur-far-right-conspiracy">fabricate and circulated many false
  accusations</a>.  Once in a while, the Tories adopt one and spread it
  further.
<p>
  Meanwhile, in Australia the right-wing government hints that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/10/peter-dutton-has-plumbed-new-and-dangerous-depths-by-suggesting-china-is-backing-labor">Labor
  is allied with China</a>.
<p>
  Labor is opposition in some details, but not so you'd notice on the
  biggest issues.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Lifting_mask_mandates)
title: Lifting mask mandates
uri: Lifting-mask-mandates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Lifting_mask_mandates)
content:
 
<p>
Some US states are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/09/us-mask-mandates-covid-omicron-democrats-cdc">lifting mask mandates while Covid transmission
remains high</a>.  This will increase transmission to avoid some
inconvenience.

 


title: English North Sea coast life dead
uri: English-North-Sea-coast-life-dead
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(English_North_Sea_coast_life_dead)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(English_North_Sea_coast_life_dead)

content:
 
<p>
  Off one part of the English North Sea coast, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/10/my-heart-is-broken-death-of-marine-life-is-devastating-englands-fishing-industry">the usual sea life has died</a>.
  Everything is gone.  Seals and seabirds, too.
<p>
  It is not clear what the cause is, but some suspect dredging a river has
  released industrial toxins from the sediment.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Texas's_power_grid)
title: Texas's power grid
uri: Texas-s-power-grid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Texas's_power_grid)
content:
 
<p>
A year ago, Texas's power grid delivered far insufficient electricity because
many gas-fueled power plants failed.  If Texas had more home solar power,
it would have avoided the problem.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(DeJoy_gaming_EPA_standards_quirk)
title: DeJoy gaming EPA standards quirk
uri: DeJoy-gaming-EPA-standards-quirk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(DeJoy_gaming_EPA_standards_quirk)
content:
 
<p>
  DeJoy is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/09/supervillain-stuff-dejoy-accused-exploiting-loophole-buy-gas-trucks">gaming a quirk in EPA standards for fuel efficiency</a>
  to excuse buying gas-powered trucks instead of electric ones.

 


title: Urgent: Fight against censoring and banning books
uri: Urgent-Fight-against-censoring-and-banning-books
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Urgent:_Fight_against_censoring_and_banning_books)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Urgent:_Fight_against_censoring_and_banning_books)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to use that
department's power to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-education-secretary-miguel-cardona-use-your-power-to-fight-against-efforts-to-censor-and-ban-books-now?nowrapper=true&amp;referrer=group-democracy-for-america&amp;source=group-democracy-for-america">fight against efforts to censor and ban books</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Censorship of 'uncomfortable' moral issues
uri: Urgent-Censorship-of-uncomfortable-moral-issues
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Urgent:_Censorship_of_'uncomfortable'_moral_issues)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#12_February_2022_(Urgent:_Censorship_of_'uncomfortable'_moral_issues)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: ask your state representative to oppose laws to impose
<a href="https://act.pfaw.org/letter/all-state-lawmakers-protect-freedom-learn/?utm_source=aa&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=freedomtolearn&amp;t=1009&amp;akid=24499%2E660322%2ETu1AqS">censorship of "uncomfortable" moral issues</a>, especially in US history.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Private_equity_wreckers)
title: Private equity wreckers
uri: Private-equity-wreckers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Private_equity_wreckers)
content:
 
<p>
Government loans are <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/when-private-equity-becomes-your-landlord">helping "private equity" wreckers buy up rental
housing and screw the tenants</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(EV_charging_network)
title: EV charging network
uri: EV-charging-network
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(EV_charging_network)
content:
 
<p>
*Biden administration plans to spend <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/11/biden-administration-plans-to-spend-5bn-to-build-ev-charging-network-across-us">$5bn to build EV charging network across
    US</a>.*
<p>
  That is basically a good plan, but if they are not careful, it will
  impose an unjust surveillance system.  Most commercial charging
  stations accept only credit-card payment.  The government should
  require these chargers accept cash payment given on the premises.
<p>
  Also they should not be put in places that charge for parking, unless
  it is possible to pay cash to park and the parking lot does not track
  who does so.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(New_York_evictions)
title: New York evictions
uri: New-York-evictions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(New_York_evictions)
content:
 
<p>
Interviews with five desperate New Yorkers who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/feb/09/rent-strike-new-york-evictions">lost their income
    and can't pay rent</a>.
<p>
  The accusation that the NYC Housing Authority is letting public housing
run down to create an excuse to privatize it is horrible corruption.
It would be interesting to pressure the new mayor about this and see
if he is on the people's side.

 


title: Urgent: Immigration prison contracts
uri: Urgent-Immigration-prison-contracts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Urgent:_Immigration_prison_contracts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Urgent:_Immigration_prison_contracts)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the US government to <a href="https://action.aclu.org/send-message/shut-down-ice-detention-machine">stop signing contracts for
new immigration prisons</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Pepsico funding anti-abortion candidates and parties
uri: Urgent-Pepsico-funding-anti-abortion-candidates-and-parties
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Urgent:_Pepsico_funding_anti-abortion_candidates_and_parties)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Urgent:_Pepsico_funding_anti-abortion_candidates_and_parties)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Pepsico to <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/Pepsi_abortionban/">stop funding antiabortion candidates
and parties</a>.

 


title: Urgent: The corrupter's next coup attempt
uri: Urgent-The-corrupter-s-next-coup-attempt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Urgent:_The_corrupter's_next_coup_attempt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Urgent:_The_corrupter's_next_coup_attempt)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on all government officials to be ready to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-trump-attempted-a-coup-on-january-6-he-will-try-again-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">defeat
the corrupter's next coup attempt</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(IRS_published_information)
title: IRS published information
uri: IRS-published-information
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(IRS_published_information)
content:
 
<p>

The IRS used to publish information on the 400 highest-income taxpayers
each year.  The corrupter <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/09/we-must-reinstate-irs-report-richest-400-americans-trump-axed">stopped it</a>.  Biden should restart it.

 


title: (satire) AI-Controlled bulletproof grizzly bears
uri: (satire)-AI-Controlled-bulletproof-grizzly-bears
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_((satire)_AI-Controlled_bulletproof_grizzly_bears)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_((satire)_AI-Controlled_bulletproof_grizzly_bears)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Tech Leaders Justify Project To <a href="https://www.theonion.com/tech-leaders-justify-project-to-create-army-of-ai-contr-1848402815">Create Army Of AI-Controlled
Bulletproof Grizzly Bears</a> As Inevitable Part Of Progress.*

 


title: Republicans knocking out Democratic officials with recall elections
uri: Republicans-knocking-out-Democratic-officials-with-recall-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Republicans_knocking_out_Democratic_officials_with_recall_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Republicans_knocking_out_Democratic_officials_with_recall_elections)

content:
 
<p>

Republicans are using recall elections to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/10/californias-recall-reform-now-anti-democratic-weapon-captured-right">knock out popular Democratic
officials</a>, hoping Democrats won't have money to campaign, and that most voters
(who elected the Democrats) won't notice there is an election outside the
usual schedule.

 


title: Bullying South Africa out of reverse-engineering vaccine
uri: Bullying-South-Africa-out-of-reverse-engineering-vaccine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Bullying_South_Africa_out_of_reverse-engineering_vaccine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Bullying_South_Africa_out_of_reverse-engineering_vaccine)

content:
 
<p>

A German organization connected with BioNTech and Pfizer is trying to
bully South Africa into <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/10/documents-expose-pharma-effort-kill-africas-covid-vaccine-project">abandoning its effort to reverse-engineer the
Moderna vaccine</a> and manufacture vaccines there.
<p>
The article digresses onto the topic of patents, but that's
a different issue.  It is purely an issue of legal threats;
morally, there <a href="media/1dcfd209.45_1_stallman.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/law/students/publications/llj/pdfs/45_1_stallman.pdf">should not be patents in the field of medicine</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Norway_develops_new_oil_fields)
title: Norway develops new oil fields
uri: Norway-develops-new-oil-fields
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Norway_develops_new_oil_fields)
content:
 
<p>

Norway talks a good game of climate defense leadership, but it continues
to develop <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/10/norway-claims-be-climate-leader-its-mirage">large new oil fields</a> that can cause global disaster.

 


title: Government pays to watch Faux News
uri: Government-pays-to-watch-Faux-News
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Government_pays_to_watch_Faux_News)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Government_pays_to_watch_Faux_News)

content:
 
<p>

The US government <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/10/its-time-pentagon-pulled-plug-fox-news">pays to watch Faux News</a> in the Pentagon and other
military facilities. It should cut that off.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_((satire)_Existing_IP_TBD)
title: (satire) Existing IP TBD
uri: (satire)-Existing-IP-TBD
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_((satire)_Existing_IP_TBD)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Hollywood Studios <a href="https://www.theonion.com/hollywood-studios-locked-in-massive-bidding-war-for-scr-1848494334">Locked In Massive Bidding War For
Screenplay</a> Entitled "Existing IP TBD."*

 


title: Premature end of school mask mandates
uri: Premature-end-of-school-mask-mandates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Premature_end_of_school_mask_mandates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Premature_end_of_school_mask_mandates)

content:
 
<p>

*Public Health Experts Warn Against <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/10/public-health-experts-warn-against-premature-end-school-mask-mandates">Premature End of School Mask Mandates</a>.*

 


title: Cop shot gun when intending to tase
uri: Cop-shot-gun-when-intending-to-tase
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Cop_shot_gun_when_intending_to_tase)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Cop_shot_gun_when_intending_to_tase)

content:
 
<p>

Last July, there was another case of a cop who <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/us/hollywood-florida-police-lawsuit-man-shot/index.html">shot someone with a gun
while intending to tase him</a>.

 


title: Progressive program for a livable society
uri: Progressive-program-for-a-livable-society
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Progressive_program_for_a_livable_society)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Progressive_program_for_a_livable_society)

content:
 
<p>

The 21st Century Bill of Rights states the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/10/progressives-call-democrats-endorse-21st-century-economic-bill-rights">progressive program
for a livable society</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_((satire)_'Don't_Say_Gay'_bill)
title: (satire) 'Don't Say Gay' bill
uri: (satire)-Don-t-Say-Gay-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_((satire)_'Don't_Say_Gay'_bill)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Florida Bullies Concerned ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Would Make It
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/florida-bullies-concerned-don-t-say-gay-bill-would-ma-1848517001">Tougher To Identify LGBTQ Students</a> To Torment.*

 


title: CIA secretly collecting private information in bulk
uri: CIA-secretly-collecting-private-information-in-bulk
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(CIA_secretly_collecting_private_information_in_bulk)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(CIA_secretly_collecting_private_information_in_bulk)

content:
 
<p>

*   The CIA has been secretly [and illegally] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/11/declassified-documents-reveal-cia-collecting-information-americans">collecting
   Americans’ private information in bulk</a>.*
<p>
This information comes from senators who are not allowed to state any more
details, because the details are secret.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Saving_the_endangered_koala)
title: Saving the endangered koala
uri: Saving-the-endangered-koala
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Saving_the_endangered_koala)
content:
 
<p>

*We know how to save the endangered koala &mdash; it starts with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/12/we-know-how-to-save-the-endangered-koala-it-starts-with-protecting-habitat">protecting habitat</a>.*

 


title: Democrat Gary Chambers shows his courage
uri: Democrat-Gary-Chambers-shows-his-courage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Democrat_Gary_Chambers_shows_his_courage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Democrat_Gary_Chambers_shows_his_courage)

content:
 
<p>

Democrat Gary Chambers, running for US Senate in Louisiana, showed his
courage by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/11/gary-chambers-louisiana-senate-candidate-confederate-flag">burning the Confederate flag in an campaign ad</a>.
<p>
In another ad, he smoked pot, to criticize the unjust effect of US
drug laws.  I wish I knew what he advocates for drug policy.

 


title: AI for identification and monitoring in surveillance cameras
uri: AI-for-identification-and-monitoring-in-surveillance-cameras
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(AI_for_identification_and_monitoring_in_surveillance_cameras)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(AI_for_identification_and_monitoring_in_surveillance_cameras)

content:
 
<p>

A new operating system for surveillance cameras makes it easy to sell
proprietary add-on modules for additional kinds of <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/11/surveillance-video-ai-bosch-azena/">AI for identification
and monitoring</a>.
<p>
In theory, this changes nothing about what sorts of video surveillance
people and companies can do.  In practice, it makes enforcement (by
law, or by social pressure) of any rules whatsoever more difficult.

 


title: Afghanistan's 7 billion dollars in assets
uri: Afghanistan-s-7-billion-dollars-in-assets
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Afghanistan's_7_billion_dollars_in_assets)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Afghanistan's_7_billion_dollars_in_assets)

content:
 
<p>

Biden has asked court to take Afghanistan's 7 billion dollars in
assets deposited in the US, give <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/11/biden-7bn-frozen-afghan-reserves-taliban">half to humanitarian aid to Afghanistan,
and half to relatives of victims of the September 2001 attacks</a>.
<p>
This plan to provide aid to Afghans might be a good idea, if it avoids
frittering away a substantial fraction on middlemen and if it gets
into operation fast enough to save people from starvation.  But I see
no justification for giving half to the American victims of an attack
carried out by a group of foreigners just because a few of its leaders
were hiding in Afghanistan.  It should all go to Afghans who need it.

 


title: A farm's beef contaminated with PFAS
uri: A-farm-s-beef-contaminated-with-PFAS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(A_farm's_beef_contaminated_with_PFAS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(A_farm's_beef_contaminated_with_PFAS)

content:
 
<p>

A Michigan farm's beef is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/11/michigan-beef-dangerous-levels-forever-chemicals">heavily contaminated with PFAS</a>.
<p>
The article does not say whether any action will be taken against selling
beef from that farm.

 


title: QAnon steered far-right candidates toward secretary of state contests
uri: QAnon-steered-far-right-candidates-toward-secretary-of-state-contests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(QAnon_steered_far-right_candidates_toward_secretary_of_state_contests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(QAnon_steered_far-right_candidates_toward_secretary_of_state_contests)

content:
 
<p>

*   As part of a calculated assault on democracy, QAnon <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/11/qanon-donald-trump-big-lie-elections-swing-states">steered far-right
   candidates toward secretary of state contests</a>.*

 


title: Bill against NDAs stopping testimonies against sexual harassment
uri: Bill-against-NDAs-stopping-testimonies-against-sexual-harassment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Bill_against_NDAs_stopping_testimonies_against_sexual_harassment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(Bill_against_NDAs_stopping_testimonies_against_sexual_harassment)

content:
 
<p>

Congress has passed a bill to stop nondisclosure agreements from being
used to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/10/us-congress-sexual-harassment-me-too">block workers from testifying about sexual harassment</a>.
<p>
Nondisclosure agreements magnify the power of the wealthy and powerful.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(ADL_and_apartheid)
title: ADL and apartheid
uri: ADL-and-apartheid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(ADL_and_apartheid)
content:
 
<p>
*   The ADL didn't utter a word of concern about the painstakingly detailed
   descriptions of Israel's apartheid system, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/11/pushing-back-adls-criticism-amnestys-classification-apartheid-israel">nor an ounce of
   self-reflection about the organization's own unequivocal support for
   Israel's unjust and discriminatory system</a>.*


 


title: Central bank needs funds to buy food
uri: Central-bank-needs-funds-to-buy-food
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Central_bank_needs_funds_to_buy_food)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Central_bank_needs_funds_to_buy_food)

content:
 
<p>
The Afghan central bank needs some funds <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/11/what-we-must-do-afghanistan">so that people in Afghanistan
can buy food</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Starbucks_and_unions)
title: Starbucks and unions
uri: Starbucks-and-unions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Starbucks_and_unions)
content:
 
<p>
70 Starbucks stores <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/11/starbucks-union-organizing-drives-across-us">are now trying to unionize</a>.


 


title: Extreme weather events and voting green
uri: Extreme-weather-events-and-voting-green
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Extreme_weather_events_and_voting_green)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Extreme_weather_events_and_voting_green)

content:
 
<p>
*Europeans more likely to vote green <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/12/europeans-more-likely-to-vote-green-after-extreme-weather-events">after extreme weather events</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Failed_hate_crime)
title: Failed hate crime
uri: Failed-hate-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Failed_hate_crime)
content:
 
<p>
A father and son team decided to murder a black FedEx driver, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/11/dmonterrio-gibson-black-fedex-driver-shot-white-men-ahmaud-arbery">but he
survived to tell what they did</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Law_to_protect_vaquita_porpoises)
title: Law to protect vaquita porpoises
uri: Law-to-protect-vaquita-porpoises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Law_to_protect_vaquita_porpoises)
content:
 
<p>
7 or 8 vaquita porpoises remain alive.  Mexico agreed to ban the gill
nets that kill them, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/11/tiny-vaquita-numbers-less-than-10-can-they-be-saved">but has not bothered to enforce the law</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Ending_corruption_and_bigotry)
title: Ending corruption and bigotry
uri: Ending-corruption-and-bigotry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Ending_corruption_and_bigotry)
content:
 
<p>
London's mayor says he is determined <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/12/sadiq-khan-i-recall-the-bad-old-days-of-the-metropolitan-police-never-again">to end the corruption and bigotry
in the London thug department</a>.

<p>
However, he supported the commissioner who failed to do this,
and continued his support until the last moment.


 


title: Re-erect status to topple it once a year
uri: Re-erect-status-to-topple-it-once-a-year
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Re-erect_status_to_topple_it_once_a_year)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Re-erect_status_to_topple_it_once_a_year)

content:
 
<p>
*Why not re-erect the statue of Edward Colston <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/12/why-not-reerect-statue-edward-colston-and-topple-once-a-year">and topple it once a year</a>?*

<p>
I like the idea of such a ceremony, but I wonder if there could be a
target more important and better known than Colston.  No one outside
Bristol had heard of Colston in recent times until his statue was
knocked down.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Hot_prisons)
title: Hot prisons
uri: Hot-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Hot_prisons)
content:
 
<p>
Some Texas prisons are hot enough to make people swelter while sitting
down.  People with certain medical conditions <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/07/prisons-texas-heat-air-conditioning-climate-crisis/">can die of it</a>.

<p>
Many Florida prisons are vulnerable to flooding during storms.
Sometimes flooding makes sewage rise inside the cells.  <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/12/prison-climate-crisis-flood/">People can
catch diseases that way</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Stopping_Clearview_AI)
title: Stopping Clearview AI
uri: Stopping-Clearview-AI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Stopping_Clearview_AI)
content:
 
<p>
Four progressive federal lawmakers have called for government agencies
to stop using Clearview AI facial recognition, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/09/democrats-urge-federal-agencies-abandon-use-facial-recognition">citing the dangers of
the use of that technology</a>.

<p>
I'm proud to have voted for Ayanna Pressley and Ed Markey, but this is
just a first step.  Activities such as Clearview AI's business <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">ought
to be illegal, pure and simple</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Third-party_trackers)
title: Third-party trackers
uri: Third-party-trackers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Third-party_trackers)
content:
 
<p>
Youtube and TikTok host third-party trackers, meaning that other companies
(or other entries) track users and keep dossiers <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/tiktok-shares-your-data-more-than-any-other-social-media-app-study.html">about what those users
watch and do in Youtube and TikTok</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Suing_fossil_fuel_authorizing)
title: Suing fossil fuel authorizing
uri: Suing-fossil-fuel-authorizing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Suing_fossil_fuel_authorizing)
content:
 
<p>
A group of young people in Virginia have sued the state for authorizing
fossil fuel infrastructure <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/09/13-youth-file-vital-constitutional-climate-lawsuit-against-virginia">that is expected to damage their health
and shorten their lives</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Resist_bank_mergers)
title: Resist bank mergers
uri: Resist-bank-mergers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Resist_bank_mergers)
content:
 
<p>
Calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/occupy-the-sec-to-doj-act-on-congressional-mandate-quit-rubber-stamping-bank-mergers.html">to start resisting
bank mergers</a>.


 


title: If a cryptocurrency exchange goes bankrupt
uri: If-a-cryptocurrency-exchange-goes-bankrupt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(If_a_cryptocurrency_exchange_goes_bankrupt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(If_a_cryptocurrency_exchange_goes_bankrupt)

content:
 
<p>
A legal analysis of what would happen if a cryptocurrency exchange in
the US goes bankrupt: customers would probably lose all their
"deposits", because the exchange is not a bank <a href="https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2022/02/what-happens-if-a-cryptocurrency-exchange-files-for-bankruptcy.html">and the coins are not
really a "deposit."</a>


 


title: Yanis Varoufakis on cryptocurrencies
uri: Yanis-Varoufakis-on-cryptocurrencies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Yanis_Varoufakis_on_cryptocurrencies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Yanis_Varoufakis_on_cryptocurrencies)

content:
 
<p>
An interview with Yanis Varoufakis, in which he rejects the idea
that cryptocurrencies <a href="https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/yanis-varoufakis-on-techno-feudalism/">can reduce the injustice of an oppressive
oligarchic economic system</a>.

<p>
He describes today's economy as techno-feudalist rather than
capitalist, because markets play less of a role than before.
(Capitalism, as he defines it, is based on extracting money from most
people through markets, whereas feudalism is based on extracting money
from most people outside of markets.)

<p>
One point he misses in his advocacy of central bank digital currencies
to dis-intermediate the commercial banks is the surveillance impact
and how dangerous that is.  I pay for all the goods I buy in cash, and
I would not switch to identifying myself for a central bank digital
currency just to screw a private bank.

<p>
Varoufakis endorses out-and-out socialism, in which there would
no longer be private business.  I am not in favor of that radical
leap into the unknown -- it could easily make things much worse.
However, I find his insights valid and important regardless
of that specific disagreement.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(US_supply_chains)
title: US supply chains
uri: US-supply-chains
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_February_2022_(US_supply_chains)
content:
 
<p>
After deregulation and mergers, the remaining US railroads became very
profitable by cutting employment, skimping on workers' safety, gouging
customers with fees, and maximizing efficiency with just-in-time operations.
They spent more on stock buybacks than on operating the line.
<p>
Covid taught them that <a href="https://prospect.org/economy/how-americas-supply-chains-got-railroaded/">just-in-time streamlining is a dangerous mistake
whenever something starts to go wrong</a>.
<p>
It's the frequent mistake of US industry -- optimizing the usual case
and assuming nothing will go wrong.
<p>
We don't need price regulation if we make more competition.  And we
won't need more regulation to improve the treatment of railroad workers
if we help workers make strong unions.

 


title: Oligarchic economics and racist, nationalist populism
uri: Oligarchic-economics-and-racist-nationalist-populism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Oligarchic_economics_and_racist,_nationalist_populism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Oligarchic_economics_and_racist,_nationalist_populism)

content:
 
<p>

*Beware of this deadly mix: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/13/us-republicans-oligarchs-economics-nationalism">oligarchic economics and racist,
nationalist populism</a>.*
<p>
The US has not reached the oligarchic stage, but oligarchy implies
plutocracy (which already exists in the US).
<p>
Plutocracy makes political improvements on the most important issues
very hard, and that might explain why people turn to twisted forms of
faith that attack various scapegoats (immigrants, Muslims, Jews,
blacks, vaccine companies, witches, &hellip;).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Methane_increase_since_2007)
title: Methane increase since 2007
uri: Methane-increase-since-2007
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Methane_increase_since_2007)
content:
 
<p>

Methane emissions have increased substantially since 2007.  Before that, they
were declining.  Scientists worry that this may due to a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/09/scientists-fear-soaring-methane-levels-show-climate-feedback-loop-has-arrived">positive feedback
loop</a> in which rising temperatures are releasing buried methane.
<p>
If that's true, we may be in for a catastrophic release of methane
and <a href="/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> of much more than 2C.

 


title: College student studying critical race theory
uri: College-student-studying-critical-race-theory
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(College_student_studying_critical_race_theory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(College_student_studying_critical_race_theory)

content:
 
<p>

A white Republican college student is studying critical race theory
in the University of Mississippi, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/11/us/mississippi-critical-race-theory-law-class/index.html">defends the subject</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Pine-borer_beetles)
title: Pine-borer beetles
uri: Pine-borer-beetles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Pine-borer_beetles)
content:
 
<p>

Global heating has facilitated a plague of pine-borer beetles that are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/12/us/lumber-prices-climate-change-beetles-weir/index.html">killing
millions of trees in Canada</a>.  The cost of lumber has gone up.

 


title: Protests against repression of protests
uri: Protests-against-repression-of-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Protests_against_repression_of_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Protests_against_repression_of_protests)

content:
 
<p>

Protesters against the UK bill to repress protests are being charged
with rioting, which indicates the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/12/kill-the-bill-surge-in-bristol-riot-charges-prompts-alarm-over-civil-liberties">intention to give them long prison
sentences</a>.
<p>
The charges refer to protests in which the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> violently attacked
protesters, and some protesters fought back.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Election_boards_in_Georgia)
title: Election boards in Georgia
uri: Election-boards-in-Georgia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Election_boards_in_Georgia)
content:
 
<p>

In Georgia, each county has its election board, which is locally
elected.  The state is <a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/the-new-vote-fixing-game-in-georgia/">removing Democrats from election boards
and appointing Republicans</a> to replace them.
<p>
The Republicans on the board will be in a position to kick lots
of black voters off the voter list.

 


title: The wrecker and the National Archive
uri: The-wrecker-and-the-National-Archive
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(The_wrecker_and_the_National_Archive)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(The_wrecker_and_the_National_Archive)

content:
 
<p>
  The corrupter, while president, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/11/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-documents-archives/index.html">tried to destroy many of the records
  of his conversations</a>, rather than hand them over to the National
  Archive as the law requires.  He may still be holding on to them.
<p>
  Some wondered if he was doing this out of madness, but I suspect it
  was a lifelong habit of silencing critics by being over the top.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Supreme_Court_justice)
title: Supreme Court justice
uri: Supreme-Court-justice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Supreme_Court_justice)
content:
 
<p>
  Biden should appoint a Supreme Court justice with experience representing
  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/11/biden-should-nominate-justice-beholden-people-not-corporate-power-thats-ketanji">people with no particular power</a>.

 


title: (Satire) MAGA cultural revolution
uri: (Satire)-MAGA-cultural-revolution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_((Satire)_MAGA_cultural_revolution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_((Satire)_MAGA_cultural_revolution)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *The coming <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/11/terrifying-world-2025">MAGA cultural revolution</a>?*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_((Satire)_Turbo_lever)
title: (Satire) Turbo lever
uri: (Satire)-Turbo-lever
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_((Satire)_Turbo_lever)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Inflation Jumps 7.5% Before Janet Yellen Realizes <a href="https://www.theonion.com/inflation-jumps-7-5-before-janet-yellen-realizes-she-l-1848517868">She
  Leaning Against "Turbo" Lever</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Bankrupt_student_debtors)
title: Bankrupt student debtors
uri: Bankrupt-student-debtors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Bankrupt_student_debtors)
content:
 
<p>
  Biden should have federal agencies <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/11/coalition-urges-biden-admin-stop-fighting-student-debtors-bankruptcy-court">completely stop arguing in court</a>
  against bankrupt student debtors that seek to escape their student
  loan debt.
<p>
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-jul-oct.html#21_October_2021_(Urgent:_cancel_student_debt)">Biden promised to cancel most of these debts</a>, and has not done so.
  Instead, his officials are doing the exact opposite.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Stadium_without_subsidy)
title: Stadium without subsidy
uri: Stadium-without-subsidy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Stadium_without_subsidy)
content:
 
<p>
  The new Los Angeles football stadium sets an example by <a href="https://reason.com/2022/02/11/the-super-bowl-will-be-played-in-the-most-expensive-stadium-ever-built-taxpayer-didnt-pay-a-dime/?utm_medium=email">having been built
  with no government subsidy</a>.
<p>
  The government should <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">use its funds to do things that the public needs</a>,
  not <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_March_2014_(Detroit_to_spend_hundreds_of_millions_on_new_sports_arena)">to subsidize rich sports team owners</a>.

 


title: (Satire) Moved to different universe
uri: (Satire)-Moved-to-different-universe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_((Satire)_Moved_to_different_universe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_((Satire)_Moved_to_different_universe)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Pope Quietly Moves God To Different Universe After Deity
  <a href="https://www.theonion.com/pope-quietly-moves-god-to-different-universe-after-deit-1848518930">Caught Molesting Altar Boy</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#15_February_2022_(Anti-vax_roadblock_donations)
title: Anti-vax roadblock donations
uri: Anti-vax-roadblock-donations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#15_February_2022_(Anti-vax_roadblock_donations)
content:
 
<p>
  More than half the money visibly donated to the anti-vax roadblocks in
  Canada <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/14/foreign-money-funding-extremism-in-canada-says-hacker">came from Americans</a>.  A little over 1/3 came from Canadians.
<p>
  In effect, these money-transfer sites have become a system for
  destabilizing Canada.  It would be wise to prevent their use for this
  purpose.
<p>
  I suspect that American right-wing billionaires are providing money
  secretly to be used to pay their parking tickets.
<p>
  If the protesters are being supportes by rich foreigners, it enables
  right-wing protesters to disregard fines the way megacorporations do.
  In both cases, this calls for increasing fines until they are
  too much to ignore.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#15_February_2022_(Rivers_polluted_by_medicines)
title: Rivers polluted by medicines
uri: Rivers-polluted-by-medicines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#15_February_2022_(Rivers_polluted_by_medicines)
content:
 
<p>
  Rivers around the world are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/14/drugs-have-dangerously-polluted-the-worlds-rivers-scientists-warn">polluted by medicines, including antibiotics</a>.
  In some cases the concentration is enough to be dangerous to
  wildlife.  The antibiotics can breed bacteria for resistance, and that
  can kill humans later.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#15_February_2022_(Afghanistan's_7_billion_dollars)
title: Afghanistan's 7 billion dollars
uri: Afghanistan-s-7-billion-dollars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#15_February_2022_(Afghanistan's_7_billion_dollars)
content:
 
<p>
  Several arguments why <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/14/the-guardian-view-on-a-kabul-heist-snatching-money-from-the-starving">Afghanistan's 7 billion dollars</a> should go to
  help Afghanistan begin trading again, and not be given to anyone else.
<p>
  The argument that "this money belongs to the government of
  Afghanistan" is weak, since that government ceased to exist.  But the
  other arguments are sufficient without that one.  I think using some
  of that money for immediate relief to Afghanistan is acceptable.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#15_February_2022_(Ivermectin_and_other_drugs)
title: Ivermectin and other drugs
uri: Ivermectin-and-other-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#15_February_2022_(Ivermectin_and_other_drugs)
content:
 
<p>
  Prison thugs in Arkansas <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/14/arkansas-prison-covid-19-ivermectin-experiment-minorities-medical-abuse">gave ivermectin in large doses (and other
  drugs)</a> to several prisoners without asking them, or even telling them.
  They started having serious symptoms that are not typical for
  Covid-19.
<p>
  The article doesn't say what the other drugs were.  Each one was an
  experiment without consent, and several others might also have been
  dangerous for all we know.
  
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Four-day_work_week)
title: Four-day work week
uri: 2022-02-16-Four-day-work-week
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Four-day_work_week)
content:
 
<p>
  *Belgium to give workers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/feb/15/belgium-to-give-workers-right-to-request-four-day-week">right to request four-day week</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(False_theft_accusations)
title: False theft accusations
uri: False-theft-accusations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(False_theft_accusations)
content:
 
<p>
  The UK post office <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/15/post-office-scandal-workers-computer-system">falsely accused 700 employees of theft</a>, and ruined
  their lives, based on a computer system known to be faulty.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Remington_Arms_agreed_to_pay)
title: Remington Arms agreed to pay
uri: Remington-Arms-agreed-to-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Remington_Arms_agreed_to_pay)
content:
 
<p>
  The relatives of students shot in Sandy Hook got Remington Arms to
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/15/sandy-hook-families-settlement-gun-manufacturer-remington">agree to pay to settle a lawsuit</a>  The company was potentially liable
  because it marketed the rifle based on the possibility of killing
  people with it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Sentenced_for_protesting)
title: Sentenced for protesting
uri: Sentenced-for-protesting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Sentenced_for_protesting)
content:
 
<p>
  Cuba has sentenced people to as much as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/cuba-protesters-sentenced-20-years-anti-government-july">20 years in prison for
  protesting</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Illegally_noisy_vehicles)
title: Illegally noisy vehicles
uri: Illegally-noisy-vehicles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Illegally_noisy_vehicles)
content:
 
<p>
  Paris is installing systems to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/noise-radar-in-paris-will-catch-raucous-cars-and-motorbikes">detect illegally noisy vehicles</a> and identify
  their license plate numbers so as to give them tickets.
<p>
  I think it is basically legitimate to do this, provided that the
  system recognizes the vehicle's license plate number only when it has
  detected a violation.  It is <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">wrong ever to track vehicles without a
  specific cause</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Online_dating_platforms)
title: Online dating platforms
uri: Online-dating-platforms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Online_dating_platforms)
content:
 
<p>
  Online dating platforms are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/feb/13/how-online-dating-has-changed-the-way-we-fall-in-love">screwing up the way people choose who they
  will date</a>.  Some reject a priori anyone they meet outside of a dating
  platform.
<p>
  These platforms collect lots of personal data, and I wouldn't reveal my
  identity to any of them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Obstacles_for_abortion_drugs)
title: Obstacles for abortion drugs
uri: Obstacles-for-abortion-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Obstacles_for_abortion_drugs)
content:
 
<p>
  Republicans are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/13/gop-curbing-access-medication-abortions-across-south">legislating obstacles to obtaining and using abortion drugs</a>.
<p>
  Can the federal government permit these drugs to be mailed from another state?

 


title: Right-wing and anti-vax bridge-blocking protest
uri: Right-wing-and-anti-vax-bridge-blocking-protest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Right-wing_and_anti-vax_bridge-blocking_protest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Right-wing_and_anti-vax_bridge-blocking_protest)

content:
 
<p>
  Canadian police shut down the Canadian right-wing & antivax
  bridge-blocking protest gently, with no violence.  Once <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/13/arrests-us-canada-border-finally-bring-end-anti-vax-blockade">they announced
  they would tow the trucks and arrest the drivers</a>, most drivers left.
<p>
  Future protests will be allowed, but not blocking the road.
<p>
  It surprised me how long officials permitted the protest to continue
  as long as they did.  They have not acted against <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/ottawa-truck-convoy-protesters-unfazed-by-emergencies-act">the occupation of Ottawa</a>
  but say they will do it soon.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_((Satire)_Vagrants)
title: (Satire) Vagrants
uri: (Satire)-Vagrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_((Satire)_Vagrants)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Los Angeles Bulldozes SoFi Stadium After Reports That
  <a href="https://www.theonion.com/super-bowl-los-angeles-bulldozes-sofi-stadium-1848523627">Thousands Of Vagrants Convening There</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Major_league_sports_teams)
title: Major league sports teams
uri: Major-league-sports-teams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Major_league_sports_teams)
content:
 
<p>
  Major league sports teams are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/13/super-bowl-sunday-can-nfl-be-more-playground-billionaires">a machine billionaires to extract money from
  the state</a>.  Allowing others to invest in them would not change much.
<p>
  My idea for a remedy is to prohibit any sort of public subsidy or tax
  incentives for the teas or the stadiums they will use.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Anti-Valentine's_Day_movement)
title: Anti-Valentine's Day movement
uri: Anti-Valentine-s-Day-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Anti-Valentine's_Day_movement)
content:
 
<p>
  The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/feb/14/its-very-commercialised-the-people-who-dont-buy-in-to-valentines-day">anti-Valentine’s Day movement</a> is catching on in Britain.
<p>
  Can we get it going in the US?  Let's fight the commercial pressure to
  make us feel an obligation to buy gifts for various people just
  because it is such-and-such day.
<p>
  To keep this on track, we must resist attempts to distort it into
  another excuse for obligatory spending.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Western_US_Megadrought)
title: Western US Megadrought
uri: Western-US-Megadrought
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Western_US_Megadrought)
content:
 
<p>
  *Climate Crisis Has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/14/climate-crisis-has-made-western-us-megadrought-worst-1200-years">Made Western US Megadrought Worst in 1,200 Years</a>.*
<p>
  The other droughts during that time period include those that wiped
  out ancient towns in Arizona and New Mexico.  Those towns were never
  reoccupied.
<p>
  Los Angeles County is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/us/west-megadrought-climate-wastewater-recycling/index.html">investing in recycling wastewater, and plans to
  get 70% of its water locally</a> (local rain and recycling, I suppose) by
  2035.
<p>
  That will help provide drinking water, but won't do much for
  California farms or California forests.  I fear they cannot survive if
  we don't stop global heating.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Thug_dismissed)
title: Thug dismissed
uri: Thug-dismissed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Thug_dismissed)
content:
 
<p>
  A commander in the London thug department, who drew up the policy for
  repression of drugs, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/14/senior-met-commander-julian-bennett-faces-sack-allegedly-taking-illegal-drugs">faces dismissal for taking marijuana and two psychedelic
  drugs</a> while on vacation outside the UK.
<p>
  When a person's conduct conflicts with a rule, at least one has to be
  wrong.  When the person has publicly defended the rule, at least one
  aspect of per conduct must be wrong.  But which one?
<p>
  Don't assume blindly that it was right to repress drugs and wrong to
  try them.  These drugs are not addictive and there should be lawful
  ways to get them and try them.  I think the commander's wrong was to
  participate actively in repression of these drugs.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Net-zero_goals)
title: Net-zero goals
uri: Net-zero-goals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Net-zero_goals)
content:
 
<p>
  *The largest 25 European banks -— all purportedly committed to
  "net-zero" goals -- have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/14/net-zero-europes-top-banks-have-pumped-400-billion-oil-and-gas-2016">provided more than $400 billion in
  financing to 50 corporations</a> expanding oil and gas production since
  2016, with no signs of slowing down.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(CIA_mass_surveillance)
title: CIA mass surveillance
uri: CIA-mass-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(CIA_mass_surveillance)
content:
 
<p>
  *We Need Answers About the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/14/we-need-answers-about-unconstitutional-mass-surveillance-cia">Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance of the CIA</a>.*
  And Congress must put an end to it.
<p>
  Sad to say, Congress is rushing to do the exact opposite, with the "EARN It"
  act that would prohibit services from offering end-to-end encryption.

 


title: (Satire) Intelligent Amazon supercomputer
uri: (Satire)-Intelligent-Amazon-supercomputer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_((Satire)_Intelligent_Amazon_supercomputer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_((Satire)_Intelligent_Amazon_supercomputer)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Artificially Intelligent Amazon <a href="https://www.theonion.com/artificially-intelligent-amazon-supercomputer-stuck-in-1848476527">Supercomputer Stuck In Dead-End Retail Job</a>.*

 


title: Centralizing network communication
uri: Centralizing-network-communication
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Centralizing_network_communication)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Centralizing_network_communication)

content:
 
<p>
  Cambodia plans to extend total repression of opposition views onto the
  internet by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/14/fears-cambodia-is-rolling-out-china-style-great-firewall-to-curb-online-freedom">centralizing network commuication</a>.
<p>
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#24_September_2017_(Censorship_in_China)">China</a> is not the only country to have done this -- <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#6_April_2017_(Russia_wants_to_follow_China)">Russia</a> has done it too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Disinformation_connections)
title: Disinformation connections
uri: Disinformation-connections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Disinformation_connections)
content:
 
<p>
  A nexus of trumpery is <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/14/covid-disinformation-americas-frontline-doctors-project-veritas/">a connection between Covid-19 disinformation</a>,
  profit from ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and the wrecker's
  claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Robot_dogs)
title: Robot dogs
uri: Robot-dogs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Robot_dogs)
content:
 
<p>
  The Department of Harshness and Sadism (DHS) is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/14/us-government-deploying-robot-dogs-to-mexico-border">studying the use of
  walking robots</a> to patrol the border with Mexico.
  They like to call these robots "dogs", but they have no actual
  relationship or resemblance to dogs, so that is PR.
<p>
  The robots being evaluated now are not armed, but since the US is in
  favor of deploying armed robots, that would tend to follow.

 


title: Urgent: Postal Service Reform Act
uri: 2022-02-16-Urgent-Postal-Service-Reform-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Urgent:_Postal_Service_Reform_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Urgent:_Postal_Service_Reform_Act)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on the Senate to pass <a href="https://act.aflcio.org/forms/hr3076?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-postal-service-reform-act">H.R. 3076, the Postal Service Reform Act</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Urgent:_Expand_the_Supreme_Court)
title: Urgent: Expand the Supreme Court
uri: 2022-02-16-Urgent-Expand-the-Supreme-Court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Urgent:_Expand_the_Supreme_Court)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-congress-expand-the-supreme-court-2?link_id=0&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-sign-the-petition-expand-the-supreme-court-to-save-voting-rights-2&email_referrer=email_1439611&email_subject=sign-the-petition-expand-the-supreme-court">expand the Supreme Court</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Urgent:_Houthis)
title: Urgent: Houthis
uri: Urgent-Houthis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Urgent:_Houthis)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Biden <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/biden_houthi_designation?source=em20220210&t=1006&akid=7570%2E223515%2EsgHdBa">not to designate the Houthis as terrorists</a>.
<p>
  The US should not support Salafi Arabia and the UAE (two repressive and cruel states) in this war.

 


title: Urgent: Edelman's oil, gas, and coal clients
uri: Urgent-Edelman-s-oil-gas-and-coal-clients
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Urgent:_Edelman's_oil,_gas,_and_coal_clients)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#16_February_2022_(Urgent:_Edelman's_oil,_gas,_and_coal_clients)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the PR agency Edelman to <a href="https://act.350.org/signup/edelman-petition-feb-22/?source=em20220209-1-30&akid=187527%2E1151744%2EAQyyvA">drop its oil, gas, and coal clients</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#15_February_2022_(UK_climate_activists)
title: UK climate activists
uri: UK-climate-activists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#15_February_2022_(UK_climate_activists)
content:
 
<p>
  UK climate activists are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/14/just-stop-oil-activist-direct-action-against-uk-oil-infrastructure-target-petrol-stations-depots-refineries">planning direct action against oil facilities</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#15_February_2022_(Speaking_against_Hindutva)
title: Speaking against Hindutva
uri: Speaking-against-Hindutva
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#15_February_2022_(Speaking_against_Hindutva)
content:
 
<p>
  *From politicians to academics, Americans who speak against Hindutva <a href="http://twocircles.net/2022feb14/445026.html">face harsh backlash, protests, and violent threats</a>.*
<p>
  The threats appear to be organized by powerful right-wing organizations
  in India.

 


title: Urgent: Reduce throw-away plastic
uri: Urgent-Reduce-throw-away-plastic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_Reduce_throw-away_plastic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_Reduce_throw-away_plastic)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://uspirg.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=48728">call on Whole Foods</a> to set an example by reducing use of
throw-away plastic.


 


title: Urgent: Not legitimate political discourse
uri: Urgent-Not-legitimate-political-discourse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_Not_legitimate_political_discourse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_Not_legitimate_political_discourse)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/tell-rnc-chair-not-legitimate-political-discourse/">Tell the Republican National Committee</a> that violent
insurrection is not "Legitimate Political Discourse."

<p>
I don't post petitions that only vent feelings.  They should have a
chance of influencing outcomes.  The RNC will not heed our complaints
about Republicans' betrayal of the US Constitution's letter and spirit,
but some Republicans may, and some may reject the Republican Party
over this.


 


title: Urgent: close the gap in inheritance tax
uri: Urgent-close-the-gap-in-inheritance-tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_close_the_gap_in_inheritance_tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_close_the_gap_in_inheritance_tax)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-stop-americas-wealthiest-family-dynasties-from-dodging-trillions-of-dollars-in-estate-and-gift-taxes-2?nowrapper=true">call on Congress</a> to close the gaps in inheritance tax
that billionaires use to pass on billions to their heirs.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_End_Child_Poverty_Act)
title: Urgent: End Child Poverty Act
uri: Urgent-End-Child-Poverty-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_End_Child_Poverty_Act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/become-a-grassroots-co-signer-of-the-end-child-poverty-act-today?nowrapper=true">support</a> the End Child Poverty Act.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_EARN-IT_Act)
title: Urgent: EARN-IT Act
uri: Urgent-EARN-IT-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_EARN-IT_Act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/earn-it-act-feb-2022">oppose</a> the anti-encryption "EARN-IT" Act.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_no-knock_warrants)
title: Urgent: Ban no-knock warrants
uri: Urgent-Ban-no-knock-warrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_no-knock_warrants)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-end-the-violence-of-no-knock-warrants?nowrapper=true">call on Congress</a> to ban "no-knock" warrants.  They are a recipe
for great damage.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Ukraine_situation)
title: Ukraine situation
uri: Ukraine-situation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Ukraine_situation)
content:
 
<p>
Greg Palast's take <a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/7-facts-about-ukraine/">on the Ukraine situation</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Escaped_pet_parrots)
title: Escaped pet parrots
uri: Escaped-pet-parrots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Escaped_pet_parrots)
content:
 
<p>
Escaped pet parrots in New Zealand, mostly brought from Australia, may
breed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/16/escaped-pet-parrots-pose-real-problem-to-native-new-zealand-birds">and increase the threat to many endangered native birds</a>.

<p>
Releasing a pet into the wild is a bad idea.
If that species lives wild in your area, it may not matter.
But if it doesn't. At best that pet will die.  At worst
it will destroy the ecosystem.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(War_on_pain_sufferers)
title: War on pain sufferers
uri: 2022-02-18-War-on-pain-sufferers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(War_on_pain_sufferers)
content:
 
<p>
The CDC is considering relaxing the harshest aspect of the war on pain
sufferers, which denied people strong painkillers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/15/us-could-loosen-opioids-guidelines-cdc">when they were suffering
from excruciating acute medical problems</a>.


 


title: Urgent: 4th Amendment Is Not for Sale Act
uri: Urgent-4th-Amendment-Is-Not-for-Sale-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_4th_Amendment_Is_Not_for_Sale_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_4th_Amendment_Is_Not_for_Sale_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sign-petition-tell-congress-pass-4th-amendment-not-sale-act/">call on Congress</a> to pass the 4th Amendment Is Not for
Sale Act,
  to stop "security" agencies from illegally snooping on Americans
without warrants.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_fire_DeJoy)
title: Urgent: fire DeJoy
uri: Urgent-fire-DeJoy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_fire_DeJoy)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/Fire_DeJoy_2022/?t=1001">call on the USPS Board of Governors</a> to fire DeJoy.

<p>
Why haven't they done so?  What's going on here?


 


title: Urgent: Stop selling neonicotinoids
uri: Urgent-Stop-selling-neonicotinoids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_selling_neonicotinoids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_selling_neonicotinoids)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=48729">call on Amazon</a> to stop selling neonicotinoids.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Reform_of_police)
title: Reform of police
uri: Reform-of-police
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Reform_of_police)
content:
 
<p>
*The fall of Cressida Dick [ex-commissioner of the London <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>
department] gives us the opportunity <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/15/cressida-dick-reform-britains-police-trust-policing-anti-racist">to truly reform Britain's
police</a>.*

<p>
Curing a pervasive problem of attitude in an organization will tend to
stir up resentment.  A person whose general approach is to try to be popular
with the staff is likely to turn away from tackling the problem.


 


title: Equity firms funding dirty energy
uri: Equity-firms-funding-dirty-energy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Equity_firms_funding_dirty_energy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(Equity_firms_funding_dirty_energy)

content:
 
<p>
*The US private equity firms <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/15/us-private-equity-firms-funding-dirty-energy-projects">funding dirty energy projects</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(More_prison_years_for_Navalny)
title: More prison years for Navalny
uri: More-prison-years-for-Navalny
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(More_prison_years_for_Navalny)
content:
 
<p>
Putin seems to be planning <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/alexei-navalny-faces-10-more-years-prison-focus-ukraine-crisis-russia">to add 10 more years to Alexei Navalny's
sentence</a>.

<p>
Court rulings like this in Russia are as arbitrary as they were in the
Soviet Union.  But that should be no surprise.

<p>
What horrifies me is that there is no way to prevent megacorporations
such as Chevron <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(Persecution)">from doing this to people in the US</a>.



 


title: Elon Musk comparing Trudeau to Hitler
uri: Elon-Musk-comparing-Trudeau-to-Hitler
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Elon_Musk_comparing_Trudeau_to_Hitler)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Elon_Musk_comparing_Trudeau_to_Hitler)

content:
 
<p>
  Elon Musk has endorsed the mad right-wing exaggeration of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/17/elon-musk-criticised-for-comparing-justin-trudeau-to-adolf-hitler-tweet-auschwitz">comparing Trudeau to Hitler.</a>
<p>
  Exaggerations like this enable right-wing extremists to vaunt their
  contempt for sense and truth, to shamelessly equate requiring
  life-saving measures is the moral equivalent of murder.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Voting_by_mail)
title: Voting by mail
uri: Voting-by-mail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Voting_by_mail)
content:
 
<p>
  The new Texas obstacles to voting by mail have been extremely effective.  In the county that includes Houston, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/15/gop-law-blamed-nearly-40-mail-ballots-rejected-houston-area">almost 40% of mailed-in ballots were missing what was necessary</a>.
<p>
  That doesn't count the people who didn't vote because they were no
  longer allowed to vote by mail and their responsibilities didn't let
  them go to vote on a Tuesday.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Four-day_work_weeks)
title: Four-day work weeks
uri: Four-day-work-weeks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Four-day_work_weeks)
content:
 
<p>
  *Belgian Workers <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/15/belgian-workers-win-right-request-four-day-week">Win Right to Request Four-Day Week</a>.*
  This right may depend on having a union contract in place which
  authorizes working 10 hours per day on each of the four working days.
  I am not sure.

 


title: UK thugs and Black Lives Matter activist group
uri: UK-thugs-and-Black-Lives-Matter-activist-group
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(UK_thugs_and_Black_Lives_Matter_activist_group)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(UK_thugs_and_Black_Lives_Matter_activist_group)

content:
 
<p>
UK thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/15/swansea-black-lives-matter-british-blm-group-closes-down-after-police-infiltration-attempt">destroyed a Black Lives Matter activist group</a> by trying to recruit one of its supporters as an informer.  She showed other members what was happening, and the rest got scared of persecution and the group collapsed.

 


title: Advertisements for political violence
uri: Advertisements-for-political-violence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Advertisements_for_political_violence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Advertisements_for_political_violence)

content:
 
<p>
  Some Republican candidates are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/15/republicans-sink-new-shameful-low-guns">using advertisements to encourage political violence</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Unsolved_murders)
title: Unsolved murders
uri: Unsolved-murders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Unsolved_murders)
content:
 
<p>
  The US passed a law in 2008 to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/15/american-reckoning-film-shines-light-civil-rights-era-cold-cases">investigate unsolved murders of civil
  rights acivists in the 1960s</a>, but the effort has not produced one
  single indictment.

 


title: Global heating and Australian ecosystems
uri: Global-heating-and-Australian-ecosystems
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Global_heating_and_Australian_ecosystems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Global_heating_and_Australian_ecosystems)

content:
 
<p>
  Global heating is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/15/flourishing-plants-antarctica-seen-possible-climate-tipping-point">changing Australian ecosystems</a>: more plants, fewer fur seals.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Sea_level)
title: Sea level
uri: Sea-level
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Sea_level)
content:
 
<p>
  Sea-level rise is accelerating: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/15/wake-call-noaa-predicts-one-foot-sea-level-rise-2050">scientists expect another foot by 2050</a>, if we don't rapidly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Gun_control)
title: Gun control
uri: 2022-02-19-Gun-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Gun_control)
content:
 
<p>
  US states with stricted gun control have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/us/everytown-weak-gun-laws-high-gun-deaths-study/index.html">lower rates of killings with guns</a>.
<p>
  The states with weak regulations have more than three times the
  gun killings per capita as states with strong gun control.

 


title: 'Net-zero' banks still fund coal mining
uri: Net-zero-banks-still-fund-coal-mining
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_('Net-zero'_banks_still_fund_coal_mining)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_('Net-zero'_banks_still_fund_coal_mining)

content:
 
<p>
*Major banks pledging "net zero" are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/15/business/energy-finance-climate-banks-coal-intl/index.html">pouring money into [coal mining]</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Undermining_religious_freedom)
title: Undermining religious freedom
uri: Undermining-religious-freedom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Undermining_religious_freedom)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/15/opinions/tennessee-adoption-struggle-religious-freedom-graves-fitzsimmons-siddiqi/index.html">Republicans are undermining religious freedom for Americans</a> by
  subcontracting state services to religious organizations that refuse
  to serve people who don't meet their religious characteristics.
<p>
  This extends a long-standing practice in which <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#9_May_2016_(Hospitals_following_rules_imposed_by_Catholic_Church_put_womens_lives_in_danger)">state-supported
  hospitals that are owned by religious organizations refuse to cooperate
    with abortion</a>.
<p>
  All levels of government should take a strict stand: when state-funded
  and state-licenses services are not allowed to impose any religious
  criteria on who they serve or what services they provide.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Immigration_prison)
title: Immigration prison
uri: 2022-02-19-Immigration-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Immigration_prison)
content:
 
<p>
  Australia keeps refugees in immigration prison <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/16/australia-holding-people-in-immigration-detention-for-record-689-days-on-average-report-finds">for almost two years</a>
  <em>on the average<em>. A few have been in immigration prison for ten years.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Urgent:_Challenge_Senator_Sinema)
title: Urgent: Challenge Senator Sinema
uri: Urgent-Challenge-Senator-Sinema
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Urgent:_Challenge_Senator_Sinema)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call for <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-now-we-need-to-replace-sinema-with-another-democrat-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-firstname-default-friend-you-have-a-few-options">a Democratic primary challenge to Senator Sinema</a>, to replace her with someone that won't support the filibuster.
<p>
  Alas, the chance to do this will not happen until 2024.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Biden_permits)
title: Biden Issues More Gas and Oil Drilling Permits
uri: Biden-Issues-More-Gas-and-Oil-Drilling-Permits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Biden_permits)
content:
 
<p>
*Biden Issues More Gas and Oil Drilling Permits [in his first year]
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/16/biden-issues-more-gas-and-oil-drilling-permits-trump-his-first-year">Than [the wrecker did] in His First Year.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Cali_pesticides_ban)
title: California considering neonics ban
uri: California-considering-neonics-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Cali_pesticides_ban)
content:
 
<p>
California is considering a ban on 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/16/protect-web-life-california-proposal-would-ban-bee-killing-neonics">neonicotinoid pesticides.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Pipeline_methane_leak)
title: A Louisiana pipeline is leaking tons of methane
uri: A-Louisiana-pipeline-is-leaking-tons-of-methane
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Pipeline_methane_leak)
content:
 
<p>
Some pipeline in Louisiana is leaking 100 tons of methane per hour,
but the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/16/monstrous-methane-plume-seen-space-highlights-invisible-fracking-dangers">pipeline owners all say "It's not our pipeline!"</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(pre_k_study)
title: Tennessee pre-kindergarten study
uri: Tennessee-pre-kindergarten-study
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(pre_k_study)
content:
 
<p>
Tennessee established gratis "pre-kindergarten" school for a number of
poor children, and chose by a lottery which children got in.  A study
found out that the children who were not admitted to the
pre-kindergarten were doing better, a few years later, 
<a href="https://letgrow.org/shocking-pre-k-study/">than the children who
the children who had gone through the pre-kindergarten.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(affordable_housing_crisis)
title: Affordable housing crisis
uri: Affordable-housing-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(affordable_housing_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
Suggestions for how to encourage rapid construction of 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/perspectives/affordable-housing-crisis/index.html">more low-income
housing.</a>
<p>
I have two more suggestions:
<ul>
<li>
<p>
Eliminate zoning limits on density of residential housing.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/31/california-housing-crisis-bill-failure-debate">Zoning creates scarcity,</a>
and with millions of homeowners looking
for a way to sell their homes for a higher price, they will always
find (or create) a way.
<p>
Without the artificial scarcity, construction will bring housing
prices down.  We will also be able to limit urban sprawl
and make mass transit more efficient.
</li>
<li>
<p>
Forbid corporations to own residential buildings with four or less
units.  An individual owner of many residences for rent will someday
get old, and perhaps infirm, and eventually die.  Some of per
properties will get sold, and might be bought by a new homeowner.  By
contrast, the corporations that make rental housing their business
will never sell.
</ul>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(trump_classified)
title: Trump improperly took away classified material
uri: Trump-improperly-took-away-classified-material
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(trump_classified)
content:
 
<p>
*[The corrupter] improperly took away classified material, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/18/donald-trump-classified-material-national-archives">National
Archives says.</a>*
<p>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(ny_removing_homeless)
title: New York City removing homeless from subway
uri: New-York-City-removing-homeless-from-subway
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(ny_removing_homeless)
content:
 
<p>
*New York City will begin removing 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/18/new-york-city-removing-homeless-from-subways-at-night">homeless people from subways at night.*</a>
<p>
The mayor said that this will not involve arresting them, but what
will actually happen to them?  Where will they be able to go?  That's
the crucial moral question which will determine whether making them leave
the subway is acceptable.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(ukraine_moscow_pretext)
title: Russian proxy pretext invasion
uri: Russian-proxy-pretext-invasion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(ukraine_moscow_pretext)
content:
 
<p>
The Russian proxy separatists in eastern Ukraine are increasing their
artillery attacks against neighboring areas, while spreading
disinformation 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/18/pro-russian-separatist-order-mass-evacuation-eastern-ukraine-fear-moscow-seeking-create-pretext-invasion">claiming that Ukraine is attacking them.</a>
<p>
They also claim that schools outside their zone, in areas controlled
by the Ukrainian state, were bombarded by the Ukrainian state.
<p>
A few weeks ago, the US warned that Putin was preparing to do
something like this.

 


title: US grabbed Venezuelan diplomat off plane
uri: US-grabbed-Venezuelan-diplomat-off-plane
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(US_grabbed_Venezuelan_diplomat_off_plane)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(US_grabbed_Venezuelan_diplomat_off_plane)

content:
 
<p>

The US grabbed Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab off of a plane (with the
help of Cabo Verde) and has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/15/it-cant-be-illegal-help-people-us-persecution-alex-saab">imprisoned him and brought charges against
him</a>.
<p>
This reminds me of what Belarus did to the dissident, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#25_May_2021_(Choking_independent_reporting)">Roman Protasevich</a>.
<p>
Saab stated in US court that he was also <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/16/maduro-ally-alex-saab-venezuela-bribes-miami-court-filing">working with the DEA as an
informer all the time.
<p>
If he presents evidence of this, it means the US violated diplomatic
immunity to arrest its own informant.

 


title: Charges dropped against San Francisco rape victim
uri: Charges-dropped-against-San-Francisco-rape-victim
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Charges_dropped_against_San_Francisco_rape_victim)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Charges_dropped_against_San_Francisco_rape_victim)

content:
 
<p>

*San Francisco DA <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/16/chesa-boudin-san-francisco-da-drops-charges-rape-kit-dna">drops charges against woman</a> whose rape kit DNA
linked her to a property crime.*
<p>
It is more important to encourage people to report grave crimes
than to prosecute them for minor offenses.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Hiding_wealth_in_the_UK)
title: Hiding wealth in the UK
uri: Hiding-wealth-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Hiding_wealth_in_the_UK)
content:
 
<p>

When Theresa May was prime minister, her staff pressured another minister
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/15/no-10-pressure-money-laundering-measures-lord-faulks">cancel plans for new systems to stop rich crooks from hiding their wealth
in the UK</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Major_oil_companies_greenwashing)
title: Major oil companies greenwashing
uri: Major-oil-companies-greenwashing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Major_oil_companies_greenwashing)
content:
 
<p>

Major oil companies' environmental claims are greenwashing &mdash; a study
finds that they are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/16/oil-firms-climate-claims-are-greenwashing-study-concludes">increasing their spending on extracting more
fossil fuels</a>.

 


title: Banks investing in cryptocurrencies
uri: Banks-investing-in-cryptocurrencies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Banks_investing_in_cryptocurrencies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Banks_investing_in_cryptocurrencies)

content:
 
<p>

As banks start investing in cryptocurrencies, they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/16/crypto-assets-market-global-financial-stability-board-report">create a risk of
financial crises</a>.

 


title: Ryan Zinke lied to ethics official
uri: Ryan-Zinke-lied-to-ethics-official
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Ryan_Zinke_lied_to_ethics_official)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Ryan_Zinke_lied_to_ethics_official)

content:
 
<p>

*[Interior Secretary] Ryan Zinke <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/16/ryan-zinke-trump-interior-secretary-misused-position-watchdog">lied to agency ethics official</a> about
his involvement with foundation to advance project in his Montana home
town.

 


title: Habitat destruction in New South Wales
uri: Habitat-destruction-in-New-South-Wales
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Habitat_destruction_in_New_South_Wales)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Habitat_destruction_in_New_South_Wales)

content:
 
<p>

New South Wales, a state in Australia, has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/17/land-clearing-in-nsw-triples-over-past-decade-state-of-the-environment-2021-report-reveals">accelerated the destruction
of habitats</a> for native species.
<p>
This is been a highly contested political issue, and the greedy bastards
have been winning.

 


title: Opinions on female genital mutilation in Mali
uri: Opinions-on-female-genital-mutilation-in-Mali
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Opinions_on_female_genital_mutilation_in_Mali)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Opinions_on_female_genital_mutilation_in_Mali)

content:
 
<p>

Local campaigns in Mali are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/16/how-10-radios-and-taxi-bikes-are-helping-to-end-the-mutilation-of-girls-fgm">changing social opinion about female
genital mutilation</a>.
<p>
Men are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/16/fgm-men-must-be-involved-in-the-fight-against-girls-being-cut-violation-of-human-rights">joining the campaign</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Paying_for_Covid_tests_in_the_UK)
title: Paying for Covid tests in the UK
uri: Paying-for-Covid-tests-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Paying_for_Covid_tests_in_the_UK)
content:
 
<p>

The UK plans to teach people not to worry about Covid by making them
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/16/scaling-back-free-covid-tests-could-hinder-uk-if-new-variant-strikes-say-health-chiefs">pay to get reliably tested</a>.

 


title: Complaint against universities investing in fossil fuels
uri: Complaint-against-universities-investing-in-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Complaint_against_universities_investing_in_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Complaint_against_universities_investing_in_fossil_fuels)

content:
 
<p>

*Students' [legal] complaint <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/16/us-universities-fossil-fuel-divestment-students-legal-complaint">argues it's illegal for US universities to invest
in fossil fuels</a>.*

 


title: Cost to stop new coal and gas facilities being exaggerated
uri: Cost-to-stop-new-coal-and-gas-facilities-being-exaggerated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Cost_to_stop_new_coal_and_gas_facilities_being_exaggerated)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Cost_to_stop_new_coal_and_gas_facilities_being_exaggerated)

content:
 
<p>

Australian planet-roaster business interests have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/17/how-much-would-a-coal-and-gas-project-moratorium-really-cost-nsw-and-queensland">published an
exaggerated estimate</a> of what it would cost to stop opening new
extraction facilities for coal and gas.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Subsidies_that_harm_environment)
title: Subsidies that harm environment
uri: Subsidies-that-harm-environment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Subsidies_that_harm_environment)
content:
 
<p>

*World spends <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/17/world-spends-18tn-a-year-on-subsidies-that-harm-environment-study-finds-aoe">$1.8tn a year on subsidies</a> that harm environment, study finds.*
<p>
Fossil fuel subsidies make up 1/3 of that total.  Other large parts
come from deforestation, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that
will take ages to refill, and pollution.

 


title: Accusations of racism and deception against far-right French candidate
uri: Accusations-of-racism-and-deception-against-far-right-French-candidate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Accusations_of_racism_and_deception_against_far-right_French_candidate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Accusations_of_racism_and_deception_against_far-right_French_candidate)

content:
 
<p>

The campaign of Zemmour, the far-right French candidate for president,
is found to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/17/french-reporter-infiltrates-campaign-of-far-right-presidential-candidate-eric-zemnour-france">racist and deceptive</a>, accuses someone who infiltrated it.
<p>
Right-wing extremists see nothing wrong with racism or lying,
so we should expect them to do those things.

 


title: Systemic use of violence during Indonesian war of independence
uri: Systemic-use-of-violence-during-Indonesian-war-of-independence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Systemic_use_of_violence_during_Indonesian_war_of_independence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Systemic_use_of_violence_during_Indonesian_war_of_independence)

content:
 
<p>

* The Dutch state <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/17/dutch-state-condoned-extreme-violence-in-indonesian-war-inquiry-concludes">condoned and concealed</a> a systematic use of extreme
   violence such as extrajudicial executions and torture during the
   1945-9 Indonesian war of independence.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Police_stop_brawl)
title: Police stop brawl
uri: Police-stop-brawl
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Police_stop_brawl)
content:
 
<p>

*Police stop brawl by letting white youth <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/17/new-jersey-brawling-teenagers-black-white">sit on sofa as black teen is
handcuffed</a>.*
<p>
The article 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 articles which promote it.  But I make
exceptions for some articles which give important information about
racism or the fight to eliminate racism.  That article is one of the
exceptions.
<p>
I corrected this bigotry in the title when I cited it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Excess_death_during_pandemic)
title: Excess death during pandemic
uri: Excess-death-during-pandemic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Excess_death_during_pandemic)
content:
 
<p>

*US has suffered more than <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/17/us-excess-deaths-pandemic-cdc">1m excess deaths</a> during pandemic, CDC finds.*
<p>
This exceeds the 900,000 deaths explicitly attributed to Covid-19.
Some of them are people who did not catch Covid-19, but died due
to the conditions of the pandemic &mdash; for instance, because hospitals
had no capacity to treat them for other conditions such as cancer.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Funding_Canada's_Freedom_Convoy)
title: Funding Canada's "Freedom Convoy"
uri: Funding-Canada-s-Freedom-Convoy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Funding_Canada's_Freedom_Convoy)
content:
 
<p>

*Oath Keepers, Anti-Democracy Activists,
 and Others on the Far Right Are <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/17/freedom-convoy-givesendgo-canada-oath-keepers-funding/">Funding Canada's "Freedom Convoy"</a>.*

 


title: Dangerous power of big Wall Street investment companies
uri: Dangerous-power-of-big-Wall-Street-investment-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Dangerous_power_of_big_Wall_Street_investment_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#19_February_2022_(Dangerous_power_of_big_Wall_Street_investment_companies)

content:
 
<p>

Bernie Sanders describes the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/02/17/chairman-sanders-senate-budget-committee-hearing-wall-street-greed-and-growing">dangerous power</a> that big Wall Street
investment companies have over all areas of business.
Also the way "private equity" investors buy up businesses people
depend on, and destroy them.
<p>
We need to prohibit those operations &mdash; I believe they were illegal
until the 1980s and that it was Reagan that authorized them &mdash; but today's <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> legislators won't help.

 


title: Urgent: Block enormous planned "Willow" oil field
uri: Urgent-Block-enormous-planned-Willow-oil-field
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Urgent:_Block_enormous_planned_Willow_oil_field)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Urgent:_Block_enormous_planned_Willow_oil_field)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Bureau of Land management to <a href="https://act.defenders.org/page/38141/action/1">block the enormous
planned "Willow" oil field</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Legal memo about power to cancel student debt
uri: Urgent-Legal-memo-about-power-to-cancel-student-debt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Urgent:_Legal_memo_about_power_to_cancel_student_debt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Urgent:_Legal_memo_about_power_to_cancel_student_debt)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-release-the-memo-and-cancel-student-debt">release the legal memo</a> advising him
about his power to cancel federal student debt.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Starbucks to halt its union-busting tactics
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Starbucks-to-halt-its-union-busting-tactics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Starbucks_to_halt_its_union-busting_tactics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Starbucks_to_halt_its_union-busting_tactics)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Starbucks to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-starbucks-halt-all-union-busting-tactics">halt its union-busting tactics</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Oppose state-level restrictions on the right to protest
uri: Urgent-Oppose-state-level-restrictions-on-the-right-to-protest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Urgent:_Oppose_state-level_restrictions_on_the_right_to_protest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Urgent:_Oppose_state-level_restrictions_on_the_right_to_protest)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Department of Justice to <a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/demand_DOJ_defends_protest/">oppose state-level
restrictions</a> on the right to protest.

 


title: Urgent: Regulate emissions of heavy-duty trucks
uri: Urgent-Regulate-emissions-of-heavy-duty-trucks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Urgent:_Regulate_emissions_of_heavy-duty_trucks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Urgent:_Regulate_emissions_of_heavy-duty_trucks)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-now-electrify-heavy-duty-trucks">regulate the emissions of heavy-duty trucks</a>
more strictly.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Spike_in_child_poverty)
title: Spike in child poverty
uri: Spike-in-child-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Spike_in_child_poverty)
content:
 
<p>

*Sanders Blasts GOP, Manchin Over <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/18/morally-obscene-sanders-blasts-gop-manchin-over-41-spike-child-poverty">41% Spike</a> in
 Child Poverty.*

 


title: Social democracy is possible and effective
uri: Social-democracy-is-possible-and-effective
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Social_democracy_is_possible_and_effective)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Social_democracy_is_possible_and_effective)

content:
 
<p>

The way the US treats members of the military demonstrates that
social democracy is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/18/american-social-democracy-possible">possible and effective</a> in the US.
<p>
All we need is to offer these benefits and services to the rest of
the population.

 


title: African countries to make mRNA vaccines
uri: African-countries-to-make-mRNA-vaccines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(African_countries_to_make_mRNA_vaccines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(African_countries_to_make_mRNA_vaccines)

content:
 
<p>

*Six African countries to begin <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/18/six-african-countries-to-begin-making-mrna-vaccines-as-part-of-who-scheme">making mRNA vaccines</a> as part of WHO scheme.*

 


title: Coal-fired power plant used to mine bitcoin
uri: Coal-fired-power-plant-used-to-mine-bitcoin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Coal-fired_power_plant_used_to_mine_bitcoin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Coal-fired_power_plant_used_to_mine_bitcoin)

content:
 
<p>

A bitcoin mining company bought a coal-fired power plant that was
about to be shut down permanently, and are keeping it running much more
than before, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/bitcoin-miners-revive-fossil-fuel-plant-co2-emissions-soared">releasing lots of CO2</a>.
<p>
We must not allow such a heavily polluting industry to continue
unless they make it cleaner.

 


title: Journalist threatened to hand over 30 year old interviews
uri: Journalist-threatened-to-hand-over-30-year-old-interviews
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Journalist_threatened_to_hand_over_30_year_old_interviews)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Journalist_threatened_to_hand_over_30_year_old_interviews)

content:
 
<p>

30 years ago. journalist Chris Mullin interviewed real Irish
terrorists confidentially as part of an effort to exonerate people
falsely convicted of a terrorist bombing.  (They were in fact exonerated.)
<p>
Now he faces the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/18/british-police-hounding-journalist-sources-chris-mullin-birmingham-six">threat of jail</a> if he does not hand over those
interviews.

 


title: Limits on "private equity" purchase
uri: Limits-on-private-equity-purchase
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Limits_on_private_equity_purchase)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Limits_on_private_equity_purchase)

content:
 
<p>

The SEC proposes to put <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/sec-set-to-lower-massive-boom-on-private-equity-industry.html">firm limits</a> on "private equity" purchase and
trashing of profitable companies.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Gator_companies)
title: "Gator" companies
uri: Gator-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Gator_companies)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://prospect.org/power/rollups-gators-defining-the-merchant-makeover/">"Gators"</a> are companies that buy many small manufacturers that sell on Amazon.
<p>
The gator is better placed to stand up to Amazon's bullying than a
small manufacturer, but the result is a second layer of oligopoly.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Uber_and_Lyft_incur_losses)
title: Uber and Lyft incur losses
uri: Uber-and-Lyft-incur-losses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Uber_and_Lyft_incur_losses)
content:
 
<p>

Uber and Lyft <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/hubert-horan-can-uber-ever-deliver-part-twenty-nine-despite-massive-price-increases-uber-losses-top-31-billion.html">lost billions</a> in 2021 despite raising prices.
<p>
I hope they won't be able to keep this up much longer.
Their surveillance systems must be eliminated.
Then we only need to make sure that we can use taxis without
identifying ourselves.

 


title: Cryptocurrencies are insecure and wasteful
uri: Cryptocurrencies-are-insecure-and-wasteful
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Cryptocurrencies_are_insecure_and_wasteful)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Cryptocurrencies_are_insecure_and_wasteful)

content:
 
<p>

Arguing that there are fundamental reasons why today's
cryptocurrencies are <a href="https://blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee380-talk.html">insecure and wasteful</a>, and they cannot yield the
benefits people hope to get from them.

 


title: Internet making people better informed
uri: Internet-making-people-better-informed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Internet_making_people_better_informed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Internet_making_people_better_informed)

content:
 
<p>

Arguing that the internet has <a href="https://www.slowboring.com/p/misinformation-myth">succeeded in making most people better
informed</a>, overall, and that the growing problems are due to increased
polarization rather than simple ignorance.
<p>
One specific claim is a confusion.  He claims that Republicans are
becoming less right-wing overall, and cites a few policy areas.  He
might be right about them; but Republicans have become far more
right-wing in the areas of banning abortions, supporting fossil fuels,
crushing immigrants, attacking elections, defending and imposing
racism, and undermining constitutional government.

 


title: Unclear wording on vaccination report
uri: Unclear-wording-on-vaccination-report
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Unclear_wording_on_vaccination_report)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Unclear_wording_on_vaccination_report)

content:
 
<p>

One news site's unclear redaction of another site's story about some
scientific research produced unclear wording, which appeared to report
that vaccination increased the amount of virus patients would
transmit.  Antivaxxers trump-eted this editorial mistake as <a href="https://thedispatch.com/p/how-misinformation-starts">supposed
"proof"</a> that vaccination could backfire.
<p>
This article compares the two stories and shows what the researchers
actually reported.
<p>
In effect, right-wing conspiritorialists play a million parallel games
of Telephone, and each time one yields words that seem to endorse their
cause, they play it for all they can get.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Britain_and_the_Kremlin)
title: Britain and the Kremlin
uri: Britain-and-the-Kremlin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Britain_and_the_Kremlin)
content:
 
<p>
  *To begin unravelling the Kremlin’s tendrils from Britain, the
  government [i.e., the Tory Party] must <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/20/will-the-tories-hand-back-russian-cash-as-putin-threatens-war">return millions in political donations</a>.*
<p>
  The royal family <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/20/fixer-tells-of-meeting-with-prince-charless-aide-to-discuss-saudi-honour">sells "honors" for large sums of money</a>,
  but this is not considered a bribe, because it is a centuries-old
  tradition and in the past was not hidden.

 


title: Fossil fuel companies in Parliament
uri: Fossil-fuel-companies-in-Parliament
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Fossil_fuel_companies_in_Parliament)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Fossil_fuel_companies_in_Parliament)

content:
 
<p>
  Fossil fuel companies in the UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/20/lobbyists-for-oil-and-gas-companies-shell-bp-exxonmobil">secretly provide personnel to help run some committees of Parliament</a>.
  In some cases they serve as the contact point for the committee,
  which gives them tremendous power.
<p>
  This arrangement is outright corruption, and ought to be prohibited absolutely.

 


title: US encouraging people to stop wearing masks
uri: US-encouraging-people-to-stop-wearing-masks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(US_encouraging_people_to_stop_wearing_masks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(US_encouraging_people_to_stop_wearing_masks)

content:
 
<p>
  The US is making a mistake by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/20/us-covid-coronavirus-mask-mandates-warning-experts">encouraging people to stop wearing masks now</a>. There are still many new cases.
<p>
  The only way it would be wise to stop insisting people wear masks
  indoors or close to other people is if protecting oneself with an N95
  mask is so reliable that one no longer needs to be concerned about
  whether the people around one are wearing masks themselves.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(X-Mode)
title: X-Mode
uri: X-Mode
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(X-Mode)
content:
 
<p>
  The data broker X-Mode bought <a href="https://themarkup.org/privacy/2022/01/27/gay-bi-dating-app-muslim-prayer-apps-sold-data-on-peoples-location-to-a-controversial-data-broker">location data about 20,000 people
    collected by around 100 different malicious apps</a>.
<p>
  This shows how much it has become true that you must expect all
  non-libre programs to mistreat their users.  There are surely a few
  exceptions, but that's no reason to allow this level of mistreatment
  to continue.
<p>
  The way to stop it reliably is to get rid of nonfree software.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Arrested_for_stealing_diapers)
title: Arrested for stealing diapers
uri: Arrested-for-stealing-diapers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Arrested_for_stealing_diapers)
content:
 
<p>
  The New York City thug department <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/18/aoc-denounces-nypd-bragging-about-arrests-over-stolen-diapers">boasted of arresting 23 people for stealing diapers</a>.  The average amount each stole was around 80
  dollars' worth -- which is not a large amount nowadays.  It looks
  like these people were stealing due to desperate poverty.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(National_Guard_at_polling_places)
title: National Guard at polling places
uri: National-Guard-at-polling-places
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(National_Guard_at_polling_places)
content:
 
<p>
  Nevada Republicans have proposed to scare away voters from
  disprivileged groups by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/18/nevada-dems-sound-alarm-over-single-most-vicious-suppression-attempt-yet-gop">stationing National Guard troops around polling places</a>,
  as well as more ordinary methods of rigging the election.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Jewish_National_Fund)
title: Jewish National Fund
uri: 2022-02-21-Jewish-National-Fund
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Jewish_National_Fund)
content:
 
<p>
  The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/18/we-need-talk-about-jewish-national-fund">Jewish National Fund</a> was established to acquire land in Palestine
  for Jews to settle.  Initially, with Turkey and then Britain ruling
  the area, it did this by buying land from its owners.  But under
  Israel's rule, it can fabricate excuses to cheat.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Ukrainian_resistance)
title: Ukrainian resistance
uri: Ukrainian-resistance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Ukrainian_resistance)
content:
 
<p>
NATO is planning <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/19/west-plans-to-arm-resistance-if-russian-forces-occupy-ukraine">how to arm the Ukrainian resistance</a> if Russia attacks.

 


title: Japanese-American internment camp survivors
uri: Japanese-American-internment-camp-survivors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Japanese-American_internment_camp_survivors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Japanese-American_internment_camp_survivors)

content:
 
<p>
  As the few survivors of the internment of the Japanese die, we
  Americans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/19/japanese-american-internment-camps">must not forget the lessons we ought to learn from that wrong</a>.

 


title: Thugs attack Black Lives Matter protesters
uri: Thugs-attack-Black-Lives-Matter-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Thugs_attack_Black_Lives_Matter_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Thugs_attack_Black_Lives_Matter_protesters)

content:
 
<p>
  19 Austin thugs have been charged with aggravated assault with a
  deadly weapon for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/19/austin-texas-police-officers-indicted-2020-protests">attacking Black Lives Matter protesters</a>.
<p>
  "Beanbag round" is a euphemism for a bag contaiing lead balls such as
  might be fired with a shotgun.  In fact, a shotgun is the way to fire
  it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Urgent:_Drop_Fox_(Faux)_News)
title: Urgent: Drop Fox (Faux) News
uri: Urgent-Drop-Fox-(Faux)-News
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#21_February_2022_(Urgent:_Drop_Fox_(Faux)_News)
content:
 
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/deplatform-fox-join-robert-reich-and-demand-cable-companies-including-comcast-charter-and-att-take-dangerous-disinformation-off-the-air-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-democracy-for-america&source=group-democracy-for-america">call on US TV cable companies to drop Fox (Faux) News</a>.</p>
<p>I prefer another form of this campaign which I've seen proposed before: to ask those cable companies to drop Fox from the basic minimum package.  That way, customers would still be able to get Faux News if they request it and pay extra for it.  But I support either one.</p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Abortion_Support_Network)
title: Abortion Support Network
uri: Abortion-Support-Network
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Abortion_Support_Network)
content:
 
<p>
  The Abortion Support Network <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/19/the-abortion-travel-agents-some-women-know-what-they-need-others-just-say-help-europe-margaret-atwood">helps women travel to another country where they can get abortions</a>. Even in Europe, this is necessary.

 


title: Pentagon permits vaccine exemptions
uri: Pentagon-permits-vaccine-exemptions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Pentagon_permits_vaccine_exemptions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Pentagon_permits_vaccine_exemptions)

content:
 
<p>
  Some twisted logic has convinced the Pentagon to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/politics/air-force-officer-vaccine-mandate/index.html">permit exemptions from vaccine requirements because of people's religion</a>.
<p>
  The idea of a "religious exemption" from public health requirements is
  absurd.  Your religion, whatever it may be, does not entitle you to
  violate public health precautions and put other people in danger.
<p>
  There is no telling how far these "religious exemption" will go after
  this.  Suppose your religion says that fire is an act of the fire god
  and people must not resist divine will.  Does that entitle you to a
  religious exemption to the building codes?
  

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_((Satire)_Shooting_self_in_foot)
title: (Satire) Shooting self in foot
uri: (Satire)-Shooting-self-in-foot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_((Satire)_Shooting_self_in_foot)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Biden <a href="https://www.theonion.com/biden-shoots-self-in-foot-in-hopes-of-getting-discharge-1848517279">Shoots Self In Foot</a> In Hopes Of Getting Discharged
  From Presidency.*

 


title: 55 million Covid-19 vaccine doses
uri: 55-million-Covid-19-vaccine-doses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(55_million_Covid-19_vaccine_doses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(55_million_Covid-19_vaccine_doses)

content:
 
<p>
  The EU is about to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/16/shameful-eu-set-trash-more-vaccine-doses-it-has-donated-africa">discard 55 million Covid-19 vaccine doses because they will be too old to use</a>.
  If governments had paid attention to vaccination of Africans,
  they could surely have sent some tens of millions of doses there while
  time remained to use them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Nixon's_treason)
title: Nixon's treason
uri: Nixon-s-treason
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Nixon's_treason)
content:
 
<p>
  President Lyndon Johnson's secret phone call recordings show that
  <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/politics/lyndon-b-johnson-secret-audio-origseriesfilms/index.html">Nixon, as a candidate, sabotaged peace negotiations with Vietnam</a>.
  Johnson considered this treason, and I agree.
<p>
  I've read that Reagan similarly sabotaged peace negotiations with Iran
  to defeat Carter's reelection.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Rigged_maps)
title: Rigged maps
uri: Rigged-maps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Rigged_maps)
content:
 
<p>
  *Just <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/17/just-6-us-house-seats-expected-be-competitive-thanks-rigged-maps">6% of US House Seats Expected to Be Competitive</a> Thanks to Rigged Maps.*
<p>
  The other 94% will be foregone conclusions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Covid-19_Death_Rate)
title: Covid-19 Death Rate
uri: Covid-19-Death-Rate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Covid-19_Death_Rate)
content:
 
<p>
  The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/17/who-says-covid-still-killing-far-far-too-many-pharma-hoards-vaccine-tech">rate of deaths from Covid is increasing, world-wide</a>, even though
  fewer new cases are being recorded.
  This suggests that perhaps the rate of new cases is actually increasing too,
  but governments don't notice because they are doing fewer tests.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Retaliation_against_union_voters)
title: Retaliation against union voters
uri: Retaliation-against-union-voters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Retaliation_against_union_voters)
content:
 
<p>
  A secret recording shows <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/17/leaked-audio-exposes-amazons-anti-union-scare-tactics">Amazon's threat of illegal retaliation against workers</a> that vote for a union.

 


title: Prosecutors against the death penalty
uri: Prosecutors-against-the-death-penalty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Prosecutors_against_the_death_penalty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Prosecutors_against_the_death_penalty)

content:
 
<p>
  Over 50 US prosecutors have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/17/55-us-prosecutors-join-inexorable-conclusion-death-penalty-must-end">signed a petition against the death penalty</a>.
<p>
  I support their stand, and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-sep-dec.html#17%20December%202006%20(Executing%20prisoners%20in%20Florida)">I've stated my reasons before</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Abolishing_poverty_wages)
title: Abolishing poverty wages
uri: Abolishing-poverty-wages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Abolishing_poverty_wages)
content:
 
<p>
  A campaign pushes for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/17/inside-campaign-abolish-poverty-wages-25-states-2026">initiative petitions to eliminate poverty wages</a>,
  especially for workers that currently depend on tips.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Abortion_rights)
title: Abortion rights
uri: 2022-02-21-Abortion-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Abortion_rights)
content:
 
<p>
*It's Time to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/17/its-time-get-loud-abortion-rights">Get Loud on Abortion Rights</a>.*

 


title: Ivermectin has no benefits compared to a placebo
uri: Ivermectin-has-no-benefits-compared-to-a-placebo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Ivermectin_has_no_benefits_compared_to_a_placebo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Ivermectin_has_no_benefits_compared_to_a_placebo)

content:
 
<p>
  A controlled study of somewhat vulnerable patients with Covid-19
  found that giving patents ivermectin <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/18/health/ivermectin-severe-covid-19/index.html">gave them no benefit</a> compared
  with a placebo, and sometimes it caused side effects.
<p>
  The article does not say whether the study was blinded.

 


title: Ottawa's right-wing occupation ended
uri: Ottawa-s-right-wing-occupation-ended
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Ottawa's_right-wing_occupation_ended)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#20_February_2022_(Ottawa's_right-wing_occupation_ended)

content:
 
<p>
  Canada has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/18/hundreds-police-make-arrests-ottawa-end-anti-government-siege">ended the right-wing occupation of central Ottawa</a>.
  Right-wing fanatics were involved in organizing the occupations,
  and at least a few brought guns.
<p>
  It is interesting to compare this with Occupy Wall Street, which went
  on for a long time, but stayed in a park rather than using trucks to
  block streets for weeks.

 


